“Look, gas prices are not up, they’re down below $4 a gallon nationally; oil is trading at $71 a barrel,” Jennings said on “The Source.” “We don’t run the gas price tracker on the screen anymore for a reason, you know? I mean, it’s because it’s a non-story.”
Collins fired back at Jennings’ gas claim, stating that “the president doesn’t think they’re a non-story,” referring to Trump’s meltdown at big oil companies on Wednesday.
“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
Collins argued that Trump “was sounding like President Biden yesterday, saying that these companies are gouging people, saying the DOJ, he needs, he wants to look into it, as he was arguing yesterday, because he doesn’t think prices are coming down fast enough, so he’s been talking about that.”
CNN data chief Harry Enten noted earlier this month that Trump held an 80% disapproval rating on gas prices, and according to a five-day poll by Reuters/Ipsos, only 1 in 4 Americans believe his war with Iran was worth the costs.