Trump Nearly Gave Himself A Heart Attack Over Gas Prices

Donald Trump nearly gave himself a heart attack this week after his attacks on Iran. Trump’s panic was not about the political ramifications of the attack – it was about the threat of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz that would have caused oil prices to skyrocket. The strait carries about 20% of the world’s oil through it, and after Iran’s threat to shut it down, a very panicked Trump got on Truth Social and warned oil companies to NOT raise their prices or else the enemy wins. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Donald Trump near gave himself a heart attack earlier this week after he suddenly realized that his missile strikes on Iran could absolutely send the global price of oil and of course, gasoline by extension skyrocketing, and it would all be his fault. Here's what happened. For those of you who may not have been paying attention at the time, after Donald Trump struck Iran, one of the first things that Iran said they were gonna do is close the strait of Hor Muse. And had they done that, which at least as of you know, this recording, they hadn't done, um, that basically would've halted about 20% of global oil supplies because 20% of oil on planet Earth that is going to market flows through the strait of hor use. And Iran said, well, you know what? We'll just close it. And it caused the administration to freak out, forcing Marco Rubio to get on the phone with Chyna, who is supposed to be our big enemy, right? We always hear about the Chinese Communist Party. Rubio like a little boy who got in trouble with his mommy, had to call up Chyna and begged them, don't tell Daddy, please tell Iran not to close the Strait of Home News.

After, you know, this administration has spent every day demonizing China. The second we get in trouble, we go cry into them like China, help us, save us. Oh, we messed up real bad and they did mess up real bad. But that phone call from Rubio wasn't the only, you know, outburst, I guess we'll call it, that this administration had, because Donald Trump also got on truth social at the time and posted this in all caps, everyone keep oil prices down. I'm watching You are playing right into the hands of the enemy. Don't do it. And then he put a separate post out after that said to the Department of Energy drill, baby drill, and I, me now, yeah, that doesn't sound panicked at all. It doesn't sound like you're crapping your pants in fear over what you did, but here's what this story tells me, and I'm kind of annoyed that, you know, the outlets didn't really report this. Um, Trump didn't think anything through. This is a man that has no plan for anything in his life. Nothing, certainly not with his presidential administration. He just does things without any forethought into what that thing could eventually do, right? Like, oh, I'm gonna send missiles into Iran, I'm gonna bomb a sovereign country, and, uh, that'll be fine. No, that's not how the world works. If you bomb somebody, there's going to be some kind of retaliation. A five-year-old knows that cause an effect for every action. There's an

Equal and opposite reaction, right? There's lots of different scientific principles you could apply to this, but Donald Trump doesn't ever think about that. He is this impetuous freak with a very low IQ to borrow his own phrase, and he is un just incapable, I guess, of thinking about the consequences of his actions. And there's a reason for that. The reason he does not ever think about the consequences of his actions is because for most of his life, there have not been consequences for his actions. Hell, even right now, this man would be in jail. But for the fact that he won the 2024 election, had he not won, he would be in jail. And he probably at this point would've already gone through several other criminal trials as well where he likely would've been found guilty and had years added onto his sentence. But because he won, he didn't face consequences.