PresidentDonald Trumpblurted out a stunning dismissal of pain at the pump as his approval rating sinks, telling reporters, “This is peanuts,” and he doesn’t “even think about that.”
The presidentspoke to reporterson Tuesday morning against the backdrop of the massive and cacophonous East Wing construction project and took questions for about 45 minutes.
In one exchange, he praised CNN’sHarry Entennot long after Enten delivered a breathless report on a new round of sinking approval polls — all in the 30s.
But that didn’t stop Trump from delivering a new version of thegaffe he uncorkedbefore his China trip, insisting he doesn’t even think about gas prices in his pursuit of victory in Iran:
REPORTER: Mr. President, you’ve pushed to suppress the federal gas tax–.
REPORTER: Are there other initiatives that you’re thinking of (CROSSTALK) to try to lower costs–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there may be. It’s very temporary. Yeah, there may be. Anything to keep it down.
Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going to–. You know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 cents in Iowa. I was in Iowa and the stations had it at $1 and 85 cents. But I was down to– in many cases, less than $2 a barrel, a gallon.
And then I said to myself… This is great. We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything’s going good.
I’m sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to– we have to do something with Iran. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.
Source: Drudge Report
