Who Are "We?"

Trump made a comment "When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money." Now the country is divided by what he said. The conservatives say he meant the country while the rest of the country thinks he was talking about the billionaires and oil companies!

Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’

The Hill

by Julia Manchester

03/12/26

President Trump argued the U.S. benefits when oil prices go up on Thursday amid growing concerns over the impact of Washington’s operation in Iran on energy costs.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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Public opinion polling also shows growing concern about prices among Americans. A Reuters/Ipsos survey released Monday found 67 percent of respondents said they anticipate gas prices to rise over the next year, while only 11 percent said they would improve and 12 percent said they would stay the same.

The pump tells the truth. Every time they fill the tank they see through Trump lies.

Rising gas prices from Iran war imperil Trump's Republican majority in Congress

Reuters

By Joseph Ax and David Morgan

March 10, 2026

Summary

• Republicans fear gas price hikes threaten their congressional majority
• Trump's Iran war complicates his promise to lower living costs
• Democrats focus on affordability in campaigns amid rising gas prices

Minutes into Donald Trump's State of the Union address laying out his argument for why voters should keep Republicans in power in November's midterm elections, the president boasted that falling gasoline prices had ​solved a "disaster" left behind by his predecessor.

Two weeks later, gas prices have risen by nearly 60 cents a gallon, part of a burgeoning energy crisis that began when ‌Trump and Israel launched air strikes against Iran on February 28 and set off a regional conflict that has expanded well beyond Iran's borders.

The pain at the pump is quickly turning into a political headache for Trump and his fellow Republicans, whose narrow congressional majority looks increasingly fragile ahead of the midterms.

So when they when they hear Trump saying "When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money." it makes their blood boil.

"Every day that people pull into the gas station and pay what they're paying for fuel, I mean, it hurts, and we know it hurts," ​said Representative Austin Scott, of Georgia. "We're going to do what we can to fix it. They understand it's a short-term issue."

Trump doesn't even have a clue.