‘Gas is over $4 a gallon’: Hakeem Jeffries has 1 clear message to America after Trump’s $200 billion war wastage
There’s a war in the Middle East, Hannah Montana is back, Fall Out Boy may be recording a new album, and gas prices have soared–welcome back 2006! It’s almost like we never left you. Of course, the war and the gas prices are one in the same, and we only have President Donald Trump to thank for this particular surge.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to X to comment on the surge in prices at the pump, saying, “Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice is making your life more expensive. You deserve better.”
And he’s right. Yet again Americans are paying the price–literally–for an unnecessary war. Predictably, though, people in the comments immediately pointed out that in 2022, under Biden, gas prices also soared. However, it is important to remember that prices increased then because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, causing global instability.
According to motor club AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now $4.02, over a dollar more expensive than before the war in Iran began. Some states were already seeing similar prices. Since the February 28 launch of the war, the price of crude oil–the main ingredient in gasoline–has spiked. It continues to be unstable because of supply chain disruptions along with cuts from major oil producers across the Middle East.
Simply put: Without Trump and Israel’s decree of war, the national gas price would not be where it is currently at. Let us also not forget Trump’s self-congratulatory pat on the back about keeping gas prices low just days before the war began. Are we still “winning so much”?
“No new wars” certainly did not age well
This rise in prices is also furthering supporters’ feelings of being lied to. On X, a user commented “we voted for trump to get prices down and become energy independent again. He ran on no new wars. We were all lied to.” They aren’t the only ones to share this sentiment.
“But why complain about this and not when prices rose under Biden?” you may ask. Biden did not start a war he promised he would not start. Trump chose to do this and mislead his supporters. The truth is that politics in its entirety is a convoluted, corrupted mess. If we don’t change everything it doesn’t matter.
However, that does not mean that Jeffries is necessarily wrong. The core truth of his logic is that we are here because of a decision Trump chose to make. We do deserve better. And unless we all do something about it, we will continue the cycle.
(featured image: CNN)
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