The retailers? Wouldn't that be the gas stations? Is he targeting the small business / franchisee while giving the oil companies a free pass?

Trump promised $2/gal on 'day one' of his presidency. So where the fuck is our $2/gal? Liar!

Gas prices cut. BOOM! Government subsidies given to oil companies to offset their loss. BOOM! End users pays for it all yet again.

Gauging, is that how they say gouging in Yankee land, or is that a typo?

Sounds like communism to me.

What a fucking clown

So, they go out of business, monopolies buy them up, operated by price scalpers? Great plan....... For evil Nazi scumbags

He's buying in again before the price spikes. Lebanon still dooms any Iran deal.

I love vague threats like "big problems" or "consequences"

He didn't give a shit a little while ago, but I guess his handlers realize that's not winning any votes and with the elections coming up....

But don't worry, he'll stop caring the second he wins again.

I just drove across seven states in the US and the lowest gas prices were in the red states. I don’t know why that was unless there is some sort of state subsidy to keep Trump from looking stupid.

Generalissimo Trumpo says sell gas for free.

And I'm over here wondering why its still so cheap.

The fine art of the deal. The subtle maneuvering behind the scenes, the long term strategic thinking, the focus on the good of the country, the deft handling of challenges along the way. See the master do his work.

Oil may be $68 a barrel right now, but the gas they are currently selling wasn't made from it.

But you'd have to not be a moron to understand that.

EDIT: Found the morons.

Yeah! He might do a thing?!

Maybe bleat about it. Maybe start another fight somewhere. Maybe he will send out goons to the stations.

Do you think retailers need some freedom?

I just need to subsidize demand, I swear bro just one more subsidy man

Yeah, cmon!

Broken clock...

Lol, or you'll do what? Subsidize electric vehicle sales so that people stop buying gas altogether?

Is this the invisible hand of the free market at work?

"Old Man Yells into the Void"

My fear is that he will successfully pull some shit to temporarily drop the price of gas, and then fuckwits will vote against their own interests again as a result.

Someone pointed out that these demands sound like his real estate days, when he could just rant at whoever and maybe it worked.

So he actually believed the Obama had control over those things when he was president?

Slightly off topic, but even though this sounds unhinged, does it sound unhinged enough to believe it was actually Trump who wrote this? No typos/misspelling, annoying ALL CAPS in appropriate (if that's ever appropriate) locations. It does have the random capitalization of words thing going for it, though.

Jerry's final thought: there is an em dash, so it was probably run through an AI specifically told to sound like Trump. Although I was using em dashes long before AI. I'm guessing an intern got the job of helping Dementia Don sound less incoherent in his posts, or they added Grok into Truth Social to specifically intercept his posts and fix them before going live.

tbh prices are already way lower than I expected this far into the war

Aren't we close to running below levels needed to keep refineries running?

Sounds a bit desperate

So their current stock, they bought at a higher price, and are demanded to drop their prices now to match the price per barrel. Selling their inflated stock at a loss.

This man is definitely a business man.