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The Trump administration has started to panic about the spiking price of oil.
While senior Trump aides had anticipated some brief surge in oil prices in the first days of the war with Iran, the size and sustainability of the market reaction caught them off guard, people familiar with the internal discussions told CNN.
Now, as oil prices hover near $100 a barrel just over a week into the war and US gas prices are moving sharply higher, it’s prompted a belated rush to try to reassure investors and seek ways to tamp down the impact. But the administration is confronting the limits of its power — and the reality that Donald Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.
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He has no economic accomplishments
Now now, he made quite a pretty penny on that crypto rug pull.
No one reads…
I don’t know, bankrupting casinos is quite the accomplishment.
… context
Sure he does!
The man pissed through his $400 million dollar inheritance in just a few years, say what you want, that’s impressive!
LOL, I know, right? I find it hilarious that the RWAs think that CNN is “liberal”, LOL. Someone typed that up and expected people to take that sentence at face value.
… some of his key economic accomplishments.
Name one there asshat journalist.
Also, keep in mind that a fat ego wounded animal and his psycho pack will be lashing out with this kind of news and respond with stuff like passing the SAVE act to save their own skins.
The economic accomplishment of helping the Warner Bros Discovery buyout to change how CNN reports on him: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-cnn-sold-paramount-warner-bros-netflix
Regardless of what you think about him, gas prices have been great the last few months. That was like the only thing that was going well for him.
Gas prices affect literally everything else so we can expect costs for groceries to spike as well pretty soon.
Who would have guessed that invading another country with oil would help american oil prices…
$4.99 for 100ea on Etsy, showing as a ‘hot’ item and bestseller. I doubt we’ll see them in the quantities we saw the Biden stickers but it’s pretty funny.
I’d buy some if they added “along with many, many girls aged 12-14”
Christ, I hope we see a lot more, given it’d actually be accurate in this case.
Ooo, I have a few left from the grocery hike, time to go dig 'em out.
the reality that Donald Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.
Jesus fucking christ, name ONE. And by name one, I specifically mean a net positive that would actually be reversed by this new negative, instead of just adding to the colossal overdraft of negatives already accruing on all our accounts.
Here’s some advice…
STOP POINTLESS WARS ASSHOLES.
For a party that campaigned on no WARS, they sure have started lots of them in various ways over the past year. Fucking moron pedophiles.
It’s not pointless for Boeing, Northrup, Israel, and other “donors”. They will make a KILLING
Oh right, sorry. How could I forget about the poor military industrial complex. My bad! They gotta eat!
Hey don’t let Congress of the hook there, it’s the congressional military industrial complex, to quote Eisenhower.
In our industrial era, infrastructure and trade are generally much more effective investments into prosperity than war.
But selfish greed is gonna do as selfish greed does…
But selfish greed is gonna do as selfish greed does…
For sure. Wealth disparity keeps the control and power among the few.
Didnt he raid Venezuela to steal their oil? If so he WANTS prices to go up to sell that stolen oil for more $$$
It’ll be years before the US gets their hands on that oil, they can only sell the shipping containers they stole.
I wouldn’t be surprised, also the rising oil prices help his friend Putin.
Oh boy! My neighbor’s with their big ass truck are going to get a heart attack:
While I can appreciate the shock of the sudden increase to you guys, it does make me chuckle that even the most expensive there is at a price so low compared to the UK that I can’t recall the last time it was even close to that.
Yes, but it’s because of subsidies. Your taxes pay for healthcare; our taxes pay for fuel. Which we also then pay for.
Yeah I think I’ll stick with being able to stay alive.
As another European, it doesn’t make me chuckle, it makes me fucking furious. But not as furious as genocide and bombing little girls.
There is nothing plural about apostrophes.
Why are some Arcos capitalised and some not?
My best guess is it’s pulling in Google Business listings. A business, or SEO, either didn’t harmonize the naming schemes for all locations or there are duplicate listings with varied naming conventions that are still out there that get displayed.
Google’s data quality is shit. Even openstreetmap figured out how to (mostly) normalize names of chain establishments.
You mean Arco’s vs arco’s vs ARCO’s? I hope that’s plurally correct. Auto correct.
He didn’t have any economic accomplishments at home, so he doesn’t have to worry about wiping said accomplishments out.
Minimum wage is seven bucks and change an hour; each of those “reasonable” Tomahawk missiles cost two million
so, no school lunches, times are tight
Just what did these nine dimensional chess players think was going to happen by doing Israel’s bidding and attacking Iran?
you can bet Putin knew what would happen. Ca-chingski.
Well what the heck did ya think would happen dumdum
Bomb Exxon, you dumb twats.
Someone finally remembered the way through this president other than bribes is the stock market.
It’s not a “this President” problem, it’s the norm. See Citizens United and Super PACs for further details.
It’s not a bribe when it’s a legal “donation”!
both candidates had a billion dollars “donated”, and there’s so much that we don’t often get to see.
No healthy, functioning Republic would elect Trump. Twice. He’s the natural result of decades of corruption (legal though, so it’s not officially corruption, wink wink)
wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.
Would that be devastating the economy though tariffs? Or devastating the economy through unemployment? Or devastating the economy through imprisoning our inexpensive labor force? Or devastating the economy through outright theft?
I think the word being sought was exacerbate.
war abroad threatens to
wipe outexacerbate some of his key economic accomplishments at homeThat reads much more accurate.
It’s CNN; an Epstein-class owned propaganda operation. They are one of hundreds of domestic enemies Americans should do something about before their nazi party murders millions of people both at home and abroad.
Are the economic accomplishments on the room with us?
Well give him SOME credit, no other president has managed to cause this much economic damage to the US in this little time.
I know this is an edit but I could definitely see Scooby doo doing this as a skit at least once. Specifically the OG, a pup named Scooby doo, or Mystery Incorporated. Also shout out to the early aughts movies who did some similar gags.
Wow, big Scooby Doo nerd over here.
