Trump ignores his own team’s advice, celebrates higher oil prices

President Donald Trump drew attention at a Georgia rally on Saturday by touting the profits of U. S. oil companies, even though his own advisers told him not to raise the subject. Oil prices had just climbed to their highest point since April, and affordability is a central worry for voters as the midterms approach. Trump said gas prices would fall sharply once he finds a way to end the war in Iran, which he started. He then said the American oil and gas industry was earning hundreds of billions of dollars, acknowledged that aides had urged him to stay quiet, and added that he did not care and would say it anyway, according to MS NOW.

MS NOW's Steve Benen notes that Trump first used this argument about two weeks into the war, on social media, saying the country profits when crude gets more expensive. Benen reports the White House dropped the message after it fell flat, yet Trump brought it back at an Arizona event, claiming the nation was earning more than ever.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →