No, Trump did not make the prices go up! The ass$whole who wrote that should not be allowed to write ever again.
“We are pricing the expectation of a strike on Syria,” said Olivier Jakob, managing director of consultants Petromatrix GmbH in Zug, Switzerland.
“Then we need to reassess once it has been done to see how much of an escalation that we have.”
As a reminder, crude spiked in April 2017 when Trump fired the Tomahawks at Syria, then reversed... and then ran higher once again...
Looks like you have about 0.0% evidence for your claim
We’re already paying higher prices at the pump, for Trumps abandonment of his promise to keep US out of Mideast wars. What’s next, $4 a gallon?