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Posted on 04/12/2026 9:10:49 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump was non-committal on what could happen to the price of oil ahead of November’s midterm elections — even floating the prospect that they could go “a little bit higher.”
In an interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo quizzed Trump on whether his newly-announced naval blockade on ships going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.
“Is this all going to be enough, the blockade in the strait, the opening up capacity in the United States, is this going to enough to lower the price of oil and gas, sir?” Bartiromo said.
The president responded that oil prices will go down “eventually,” but his short-term forecast was less rosy.
“Well, it’s eventually going to be lower,” Trump replied. “No, it might not happen initially, but it’s gonna go down when this is all over.”
The president went to claim, “the gas hasn’t gone up as much as I thought.”
“But regardless, even if it did… we have to stop this group of people from having [a nuclear weapon],” Trump said. He added, “You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. So I just have the greatest economy ever, everything’s going along and … I tell my economic advisors, ‘I’m sorry, fellas, we’re in great shape. We have go and take a little journey down to Iran, and we have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon.’ They all said, ‘we agree.'”
Bartiromo tried to press Trump on a timeline for when prices might come down.
“So do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections?” Bartiromo asked.
But Trump seemed far from optimistic a price reduction would happen in time for the fall.
“I hope so,” Trump said. “I mean, I think so. It could be. It could be. Or the same. Or maybe a little bit higher. But it should be around the same. I think this won’t be that much longer.”
Oil traded as high as $115 per barrel last week prior to the announcement of a two-week ceasefire. It ended the week just over $89 per barrel, but seems highly likely to spike on Monday following the announcement of the blockade.
Consumers have been seeing those higher prices reflected at the pump. GasBuddy, a website which tracks gas prices, currently has the national average at $4.10 per gallon, up from just over $2.90 in early March.
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Are you staking your own credibility on the claim that Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing?
Can you tell the difference between having “no idea” and engaging in misdirection?
We won’t be able to keep him from being removed. And that’s a problem and Trump’s own fault.
I paid 96 dollars to fill my pickup yesterday. Thanks Donnie. But I guess as long as the neocons and Natanyahoo are happy, that’s all that matters.
14 GOP Senators are not going to vote for removal
And the hell we wouldn’t.
The dumbass is begging to lose the midterm elections. And when the Democrats take over, it’ll be sky high prices forever. That yahoo will toss him aside like a used Kleenex… and he can work easily with the Democrat party. He’s being used in these too stupid to see it. Meanwhile, the American middle class is going to pay the price for a decade under the Democrats take power.
Fetterman is now effectively an Independent
Cheap Arco gas where i live in $5.50 in my part of Northern CA.
If this continues the midterms are gonna be a BLOODBATH for republicans.
Trump
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Carry on Mr. President befuddling The Mullahs and FRAntifa. 😄
Who cares. Everyone only ever thinks of the next election. In reality Repukes control everything but they are afraid of their own shadows and won’t try to fix anything. Democrats, if they get elected will act crazy and Republicans will pretend that of they were still in power they would fix things. They haven’t supported Trump. I don’t support them.
Removal requires 2/3 of the Senate,,,,,no way.
The GOPe is doing all they can to make sure they lose.
“... Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo quizzed Trump on whether his newly-announced naval blockade of ships going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Are there no editors anymore ?
President Trump and his team were very clear that Iran's ability to make bombs was set back years after the June 2025 attack on Iran
From SECDEF / SECWAR Hegseth:
"...Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated."
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine Press Conference June 22, 2025
That statement is clear and unambiguous. And Hegseth made that claim multiple times.
TRUMP card coming.
Yes. I also thought that it was was useful to show that there were those in the Administration that talked about Iran’s nuclear ambitions as a whole.
SECDEF/SECWAR Hegseth was one who was very much out over his skis on that claim, if one concludes that in late February Iran was weeks away from having a nuclear weapon (President Trump stated that).
So, which is it? Was Iran’s nuclear ambition obliterated in late June 2025? Were they somehow able to reconstitute the program to the point that that were two weeks ago from having a nuclear weapon late February? Can both be true? If so, how was the US so off on their “obliteration” claim in June 2025?
So in other words Trump did not answer the question.
Iran doesn’t have a nuke. We ended their nuke program in 2025 when we bombed the hell out of it. We were told it was obliterated.
So quit using the nuke scary excuse. That said, we do have plenty of nukes.
Keep in mind there are also other muzzard nations with nukes.
Free Republic “axis of fear” bump
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