Donald Trump Just Told A Huge Casual Lie And He’ll Get Away With It

Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that gasoline costs are a lot larger than they really are. (Watch the video beneath.)

The former president has misrepresented fuel costs earlier than to tug President Joe Biden, however Trump’s newest gasoline fib merited consideration for its mammoth exaggeration.

“Gasoline prices are now 5, 6, 7 and even 8 dollars a gallon,” the previous president stated. “By contrast, under the Trump leadership, my leadership, inflation was nonexistent and we had gasoline down to $1.87 a gallon.”

The common worth as of Thursday morning was $3.104 per gallon, in response to AAA. The low vary was $2.571 and the excessive vary was $4.703.

People on X (née Twitter) pushed again at Trump’s remark, however the Republican frontrunner will seemingly face no penalties for his lying.

In the previous, there have been cases of stations charging within the realm of $8. Trump selected to make his new declare at a time the place fuel costs have tumbled to their lowest in practically a yr, the New York Times reported. Sixty p.c of fuel stations are pumping at beneath $3 a gallon and 25% beneath $2.75, the newspaper famous in citing AAA stats.