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    Trump brags Gas auf 1,98 US -Dollar pro Gallone in ein paar Staaten. Es ist nicht - irgendwo.
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    Trump brags Gas auf 1,98 US -Dollar pro Gallone in ein paar Staaten. Es ist nicht – irgendwo.

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    1. T_Shurt on

      As per [original article](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gas-1-98-fact-check-b2735919.html) 📰:

      – President Donald Trump bragged this week that gas is down to $1.98 a gallon in a “couple of states.”

      In fact it isn’t, anywhere.

      “No state had an average gas price even close to $1.98 per gallon [as of} Wednesday,” CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins posted on X after fact-checking by the network.

      “The two states that were tied with the lowest average gas price on Wednesday, Mississippi and Tennessee, were both at $2.70 per gallon, according to data provided” by Triple A.

      While gas prices are down, the national average was about $3.17 per gallon on Wednesday, according to the AAA data, wrote CNN’s chief fact-checker Daniel Dale. Drivers were unlikely to find even a single individual gas station selling a gallon for $1.98 or less.

      GasBuddy, a firm that tracks prices at tens of thousands of gas stations around the country, found zero stations selling for under $2.

      The White House was unable to substantiate Trump’s figures, though spokesperson Harrison Fields chided reporters to get out of their “big city bubble” and check the gas prices in “Middle America” — where they’re also not $1.98.

      Yet Fields claimed they’re at “record lows.”

      “Gas prices aren’t near record lows in a single state. Current prices are far above record lows,” Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy said in an email to Dale.

      Trump also claimed to reporters that the high price of eggs plummeted 92 percent, which is also not true.

      The day Trump took office, Grade A eggs in the U.S. were $5.81 a dozen. Last month they were up to a record high of $6.23 a dozen, according to the latest Consumer Price Index reported April 10.

      The president has also claimed that his tariffs — paid by American companies importing foreign goods and the U.S. consumers buying the products — were bringing in $2 billion a day.

      The federal agency that collects the tariffs says the country has collected $500 million on the levies since April 5.

    2. DifferenceAlarmed45 on

      I mean, in his defense, he probably hasn’t pumped his own gas in 40 years

    3. jediporcupine on

      If his name were Joe Biden, Republicans would be piling on and calling him senile.

      But because it’s Donald Trump, he is the almighty savior.

      Maybe Joe should get an orange spray tan.

    4. ComfortableAcadia252 on

      Someone posted $1.49 at a Texas station recently. But the others are around $2.19 being the lowest. If the $1.49 was accurate, probably had a lineup

    5. RamonaQ-JunieB on

      Cue the famous scene from “The Princess Bride” where the old woman (Carol Kane) screams, “Liar!”

    6. dman6877 on

      There’s not one redeeming, positive thing to be said about Donnie and his cult following. It’s just that simple. America really shit the bed this last election. Horrifying, to say the very least!

    10. EvoQPY3 on

      Currently cheapest gas is $2.66/gallon…Can Trump actually tell the truth ? Never met a human that doesn’t lie or make any mistakes
      Maybe he’s GOD in disguise and he forgot this isnt april 1st…?

    12. TXSTBobCat1234 on

      If it was that cheap, we’d be in big trouble. Especially out here in west Texas.

    14. DarthKevin on

      „But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.“

    15. Express_Ticket1699 on

      In little Donnie’s demented head it is, so it must be right. People, he hasn’t been wrong since June 14, 1946. /s

    17. stevenmacarthur on

      My question: why is anyone surprised by his lie? This is the same person that maintained that Haitian residents in Springfield, OH were killing and eating the towns pet dogs and cats, as well as the town’s „geessssssssssse.“

      He just says whatever pops into his head, because he’s either 1) so arrogant that he truly believes he’s the smartest person in the room, and the public will believe anything he says simply because he said it, or 2) he’s senile.

    19. catlessinKaiuma on

      poor lad is bound to be confused about such things, he has never bought gas in his life, or eggs! these are just theoretical concepts to him, not attached to anything real.

    20. leat22 on

      No one gives a shit about gas prices anymore when they are still getting royally fucked by their grocery bill. The difference between $2.50 and 3.50 a gallon is about 12 bucks. My grocery bill is up by $50+ more than it used to be.

    23. Matt3d on

      Why does no one ask him why he lying about this – an easily provable fact. I know he just kicks out people who ask direct questions. He would be so much more exposed if he had to personally answer questions. But somehow we are here where his people and the media just allow him to just never answer any questions. I think he should have to explain to us why he says gas is $1.98 when it definitely is not.

    24. Independent_Tie_4984 on

      His sycophants are telling him this and he chooses to believe them.

      He lives in a narcissistic bubble of constant flattery he feeds on – he needs it.

      That’s why he freaks out whenever a journalist questions him about actual reality.

    25. Blackbyrn on

      Well i’m starting to think this President Trump is some sort of confidence man.

    27. kooeurib on

      Oh so he just made it up off the top of his orange head? Crazy, he’s never done that before

    28. Junior-Addendum88 on

      knowing him he will have his goons go out and force a gas station to change their prices for a photo op.

    34. LemonFaceSourMouth on

      Probably saw something about $1.98 a liter in Canada and forgot it’s still not going to be a state because he’s an idiot

    35. palmerama on

      This seems like an obvious one his base can fact check for themselves. Even if they believed it, it would come as no comfort that someone else was getting gas that cheap.

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