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Posted on 05/19/2026 2:59:44 PM PDT by Kleon
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed rising gas prices as “peanuts,” even as new polling shows his economic approval rating falling to a new low.
The remarks highlight growing pressure on the White House as inflation and fuel costs remain high, weighing on voters and shaping political sentiment ahead of the midterms. The disconnect could have broad implications for U.S. households and the 2026 elections, with rising prices and the Iran war expected to remain central campaign issues.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed rising gas prices as “peanuts,” even as new polling shows his economic approval rating falling to a new low.
That’s a nice out of touch statement that will be used to beat him over the head repeatedly by Democrats.
Bomb the crap out of our enemies, Mr. Trump. They are stringing you along and playing you for an old fool.
NewsWEAK
So what? They're going to attack him no matter what he says.
I’ll have to look at the whole speech to make sure this wasn’t taken out of context.
Bomb the crap out of our enemies, Mr. Trump. They are stringing you along and playing you for an old fool.
And used to “beat him over the head” by people who fail to understand that nuclear weapons in the possession of a country that says repeatedly, day after day, that they intend to wipe you off the face of the Earth is something that takes precedence over a mid-term election.
It takes a special kind of stupid to fail to understand that, but we do see it.
I guess to a multibillionaire, it’s peanuts.
He’s a chump and saying that is his way of telling normal Americans he just does NOT care about them.
Once this is over gas prices are going to crash.
Here is the quote:
Trump on high gas prices: “This is peanuts. I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. But I don’t even think about. What I think about is you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
It is not peanuts. High energy costs have real problematic impacts on people and the economy.
However higher energy prices on a temporary basis is a worthwhile sacrifice to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Can you imagine the energy prices and effect on the economy if Iran detonated a nuke somewhere?
That’s true. But we have people who think Trump is an idiot because “he didn’t take the possible effects on a mid-term election into account” when he attacked Iran.
Uh huh. Didn’t take that at all into account. Right. I think I know who the idiots are, and it ain’t a Trump that “didn’t take the mid-terms into account”.
“And used to “beat him over the head” by people who fail to understand that nuclear weapons in the possession of a country that says repeatedly, day after day, that they intend to wipe you off the face of the Earth is something that takes precedence over a mid-term election.
It takes a special kind of stupid to fail to understand that, but we do see it.”
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Just a few months ago, Trump told us all of the Iranian nuclear sites had been “DECIMATED.”
Does “Decimated” mean our attacks weren’t really a success?
Sorry but people are childish.
Trump is out of touch and needs to go.
Gas prices are peanuts for him because he is wealthy.
Get a few oil pumping companies and refineries going and see the economy jump and gas prices drop. Then we can EXPORT oil.
He’s a chump and saying that is his way of telling normal Americans he just does NOT care about them.
He's not talking about literal peanuts—it's just an expression. He's saying that in context of the threat of nuclear war, it's not his biggest concern.
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