In his State of the Union address last week, Donald Trump seemed eager to boast about gas prices. “Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states under my predecessor and was, quite honestly, a disaster, is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states, and in some places $1.99 a gallon,” the president claimed. “And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline, the lowest in four years, and falling fast.” To be sure, much of this was factually wrong, but just as notable was the underlying point: Trump presented himself to Amer
In his State of the Union address last week, Donald Trump seemed eager to boast about gas prices. “Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states under my predecessor and was, quite honestly, a disaster, is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states, and in some places $1.99 a gallon,” the president claimed. “And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline, the lowest in four years, and falling fast.” To be sure, much of this was factually wrong, but just as notable was the underlying point: Trump presented himself to Amer