Is this going to be enough to lower the price of oil and gas, Well, eventually it's going to be lower. No, it might not happen initially, but it's going to go down. When this is all over, look, the stock market, the Dow had 50,000. It was supposed to be in four or five years. [00:00:17] They said it won't happen during his term, but it'll be maybe four or five years. It hit 50,000 in my first year. So do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections? I hope so. mean, I think so. It could be, it could be, the same, or maybe a little [00:00:34] bit higher. Okay, okay, so is this going to be enough to get the gas price down? Nothing that he's saying in that interview about blockading it about more, none of that is going to lower the price of gas. How would it? More wars not going to lower the price of gas is only going [00:00:50] to go up. And there Donald Trump is telling you, it might not go down for months and months and months. He's already raised the price of gas 20 to 40%. He told you in one year, after being elected, he'll drop it by 50%. Instead, it's massively up and now he's telling you [00:01:08] another year into his presidency, it's still going to be up. Does this seem at all like what he promised when he was campaigning? And there he says, it's okay, don't worry about it. Stack market, Dow Jones hit 50,000 in my first year, which it didn't, it was in his second year and it lasted for that long. And now it's down to 46, 47,000 or whatever, which [00:01:30] is fine. that is slightly higher than it was on Election Day 2024. It's gonna take five years, it was nearly there before you were elected. Because again, regardless of who's in power, the decisions are always made in a way that's gonna benefit Wall Street and the Dow Jones, [00:01:47] so that's always going up. And so he's once again trying to take credit on just the inevitable progress we were already having, the same as he does with crime. And at the same time, trying to brush under the rug, the very real consequences of the specific actions that he's [00:02:03] taking. The Dow Jones was already going up. The Strait of Rameuse wasn't closing itself. That took Donald Trump and them potentially doing tolls on all the ships. That was never happening until you get Donald Trump. And this is bad for the Republican Party. Republican [00:02:24] strategists like Alex Conant are saying if gas prices are still $4 or $5 in November, going to be very challenging for incumbents, I would think so. He adds that the president would be wise to get out of the prediction business. I think he should get into the thinking business though. It's not the prediction, it's the lying business. This is not an accurate reflection [00:02:44] of what he thinks is going to happen. It's what he wants you to maybe imagine might happen to limit the political damage. But anyway, you can see that gas prices have already been a financial hardship for 51 % of the population. an inconvenience for 28 % more. And then 8%, [00:03:01] I don't know, priest drivers or billionaires, literally, almost nobody basically. And two out of three Americans believe that the condition of the US economy is bad. And look, I think it's a good question, Jared, to ask if the economy is good or bad. But I think a more accurate [00:03:18] one is, is it better or worse than when Donald Trump got elected? And it's just worse. It's other than a couple thousand points on the Dow, it's worse in basically every way that one can measure it. What do you think? Well, that's always the question, right? But the thing is [00:03:35] people who would have to answer that probably didn't know what it was before. They were listening to what Donald Trump said. I've seen these clips, these compilations of people that get asked why they supported him back when they did. And many times it was just regurgitation of everything that he said. So if he said it, it was true. And if you needed to explain yourself, [00:03:52] you just say what he said. It's how cults work. And that's why they got offended when people said stuff like that. But when gas hits you a certain way and you actually have to open up that wallet and then pay for it, it's hard to keep reciting the same stuff when your money is reciting something else. And this is where he's running into his walls with everything [00:04:10] because he's destroyed everything. All the promises that he made towards folks. I'm sure we'll get to the other things. But all these things that people have to now confront themselves with despite the talking points when they don't match up ends up then going back to man. How am I going to afford this? You can keep saying the gas is $1.99 a gallon, but until people [00:04:29] actually pay that, they can't keep that whole facade up. He's hitting these brick walls. That's why he's spiraling and screaming and having these long truth social tirades against folks and saying he's just going to keep killing more people to get to the bottom of it, because that's all they got. And it's running to brick walls. It's kind of lovely to see. It's bad [00:04:46] at the same time because we all have to experience it. at least they're waking up to in like, the 12th hour of the problem we've got. Yeah, you mentioned the $1.99. It was less than two months ago that he was lying and saying that it was $1.99 somewhere in America. But now [00:05:02] they're like, maybe in 2027, it'll be 399. That's fast degradation. And you spoke about the hypocrisy, so let's end on that. Let's compare the Republicans who are now all over, it's not a big deal, don't even worry about it or whatever. Let's flash back to how they were talking about it [00:05:20] when Joe Biden was in office. Would you like to have a $1.84 a gallon instead of $4? Today they had $4. And we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us. But Americans are feeling the effects in the interim. And they're also feeling a lot safer. [00:05:40] Gas prices are through the roof and people are now waiting in line. Prices have dropped dramatically. And look, I know we've seen a blip right now. I watched this growing up. I watched my mom who didn't have much money. When prices of things went up, like gas, it impacts your ability to do what you cared about. I grew up in a poor family, so I know this impact on gas and food [00:05:57] prices, all that, is really impacting people. And my heart goes out to them. But the president is doing the right thing. It's better to make sure we are not going to be destroyed by nuclear weapons. Gas prices have risen 40 % since President Biden took office. That takes a tremendous toll on family budgets. Things will start to stabilize, Dana. You'll start to see those [00:06:15] gas prices come down to a more normal range. Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station. If you think gas prices are high now, give the Ayatollah a nuclear weapon to terrorize the region, to threaten the streets of Hormuz. He will control gas prices forever. [00:06:33] First of all, he doesn't need a goddamn nuke to shut down the straight, what would you do with it in a straight-forward moose? This is your thing, being bloodthirsty is your thing, Lindsey Graham, and you're way too excited. So anyway, yeah, you can see uh lower gas [00:06:50] prices were a bigger problem under Biden than high prices are under Donald Trump. And JR, I had never known that if you're criticized or if you come up short, You just have to point to the fact that yeah, well, at least now you're not going to be nuked. If my wife has a problem with me not taking out the trash. Yeah, but have you been nuked recently? I don't think [00:07:09] so. That's the answer to all of our concerns.