Karoline Leavitt admits bombing Iran causes ‘short-term disruption’ however Trump is concentrated on higher objective

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shrugged off concerns about US gas prices amid the war with Iran during a Sunday appearance on Fox News.

Speaking with Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo, Leavitt stated that ‘with respect to what’s happening with gas prices right now, this is a short-term disruption for the long term gain of taking out the rogue Iranian terrorist regime.’

Crude oil closed about $90 a barrel on Friday, up from $65 a barrel on February 26, just two days before the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28. The prices are the highest since the start of the 2022 Russian war with Ukraine.

Leavitt added that Trump can ‘walk and chew gum at the same time,’ keeping tabs of conflicts abroad as well as the situation domestically.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright made his own rounds on the Sunday cable news shows, admitting to CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan that ‘Yes, we have a temporary period of elevated energy prices,’ before adding ‘it will not be long’ before the prices come back down again.

‘In the worst case, this is weeks. This is not months. And it leads to a much better place. It leads to an Iran that’s defanged, that can’t threaten its neighbors, can’t threaten American soldiers, and can’t continue to drive up energy prices by making a mess of the Middle East. They can move to commerce, not conflict,’ Wright added.

Speaking with CNN’s State of the Union host Jake Tapper, Wright noted that the administration wants to see gasoline ‘back below $3 a gallon. And it will be again before too long.’

The Energy Secretary also noted on Face the Nation that ‘there’s no energy shortage at all in the Western Hemisphere.’ Pressed by Tapper on a specific timeline, Wright doubled down on his ‘weeks, not months’ line.

‘The United States is a net exporter of oil, a large net exporter of natural gas, but refineries in Asia and Europe are seeing an interruption from the normal crude flows, but there is massive energy stores around the world,’ Wright concluded.

Trump’s White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, has reportedly demanded action to bring gas prices down as the war with Iran sends oil skyrocketing, sources have revealed.

Wright and other top officials, including a council led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, ‘are getting screamed at to find some good news’, industry executives said.

Iran has shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil flows, sending prices soaring more than 10 percent in a single week, with Brent crude jumping from $72 to more than $82 a barrel.

Energy bosses and Trump officials pitched ideas, including a temporary holiday on the gasoline tax or putting boots on the ground to defend oil infrastructure in Gulf states.

The White House is ‘looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices,’ one energy executive told Politico.

Karoline Leavitt dismissed the reporting as ‘sensationalist, unverified gossip for clicks. Nobody is panicking.’ A White House official told the Daily Mail that Wall Street is not anticipating inflation, with Treasury yields down 50 basis points since Trump took office and core inflation down to its lowest rate in almost five years.

But the pain at the pump lands at a delicate moment for Trump, who faces crucial midterm elections in November. A new Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll puts his approval rating at its lowest point ever, down four points to 44 percent since Friday.