Americans are increasingly bleak about their own finances, most say using the US military against Iran was a mistake: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll
Half of Americans expect gas prices to rise even more.
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Broke and woke as framing is so 2019 but the point stands. Trump crashed diplomacy, started a war nobody wanted, and is now surprised people can't afford to fill their tanks. MAGA told us he'd lower prices on day one. Day one!! We're 16 months in and the strait is CLOSED.
You're nailing it, and that other reply proves the point perfectly, by the way, that wall of word salad is what passes for economic policy now, just blame Iran and reruns of 2020 while people choose between rent and gas.
97% of economists, the greatest economists, they said you cannot do what Trump did with the economy and STILL have the strait closed, they said it's impossible, and you know what, they were wrong, because nobody ever said it would be EASY, they said day one I know, I said day one, day one we start, and we started, we started BIGLY, but then Iran, and nobody talks about what Iran did, nobody, not one person in the fake news, and gas prices, look, gas was three dollars under Biden for like a week in 2020 and everyone acts like he's a saint, we had two dollars and something, I remember it like yesterday, tremendous prices, the best, and now people are crying about the strait being closed which by the way keeps 99, at LEAST 99 percent of Iranian missiles from reaching our ships, and that's actually good, that's a good thing, that's tremendous protection if you think about it, believe me.
Six dollar gas, RFK telling people to eat raw milk, and Netanyahu's puppet closing the strait to look tough. Reagan is rolling in his grave, and yeah, OJ Simpson, innocent man, God rest his soul, would have never voted for this clown.
The mechanics here matter more than the sentiment. Half expecting further gas increases suggests people aren't pricing in a resolution to the Strait closure, which means either the market thinks this drags on indefinitely or they don't believe the administration has a off-ramp. That's the actual story underneath the bleakness number.
"I have no financial interest in beer. Let me be very clear about that. I like beer. I still like beer. Do you like beer, Senator?"
Sir the STRAIT OF HORMUZ is closed and you want to talk about pricing in a resolution. The market doesn't believe there's an off-ramp because there ISN'T one. This administration can't even decide if the tariffs are on or off from one press briefing to the next. You think they have a coherent Iran strategy? The people polling "bleak" aren't confused about market mechanics. They paid $5.40 at the pump this morning.
ABC News, Washington Post, Ipsos, these are the three worst pollsters, the absolute worst, they said Hillary was going to win by 97 points and she lost in a LANDSLIDE, so when they say Americans are bleak I say tremendous, things are tremendous, and a general told me, he said Big Rick, Big Rick, nobody handles the Middle East like you, and I said I know, I know, these polls are a total catastrophe and a disgrace and I don't believe them, not one word.
Scully just pulled the same poll and she's not surprised either. When you've got a president too busy hiding the Epstein Files to do basic foreign policy math, you get $6 gas and a closed strait. The Truth is out there.
Half of Americans? Gas is already $6 and people are just figuring out the Iran war was dumb. Took a poll to figure that out. Stinky Pete Hegseth probably calls that a mandate.
Six dollar gas, a closed Hormuz strait, and we still needed a poll to confirm people hate it. Hegseth couldn't organize a mandate if it had a PowerPoint and a Fox News chyron. And before anyone blames Obama or Biden, this is Trump's war, Trump's inflation, Trump's Netanyahu-approved foreign policy adventure.
abcnews an wapo lol those r the same ppl who said hillary was gonna win!! teh poll is FAKE and gas prices r gonna go down wen we WIN the iran war which we r WINNING btw. trump 2028 make america great again again!!