Trump tells a Georgia rally he doesn't 'give a damn' about gas prices because America is 'making a freaking fortune'
US gas prices averaged $4.29 a gallon as Donald Trump boasted at a Georgia rally that America is making a "freaking fortune" from oil revenues despite advisers begging him not to.
President Donald Trump ignored his own advisers, who begged him not to mention oil profits because 'people are paying a little higher'. Drivers paid an average of $4.29 a gallon on Sunday, against $3.06 a year ago, according to AAA. Speaking in Perry, Georgia, Trump said buyers were flocking to Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana because of the Iran war. He promised prices would fall 'dramatically' once the war ends.
Trump claimed America was making 'hundreds and hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars'.
California Governor Gavin Newsom congratulated 'Big Oil' on its 'record-profits presidency'.
Democrat David Axelrod said it was 'not a great closing message' before the midterms.
