Overview
- CNN analyst Harry Enten’s aggregate shows about 79 percent of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s handling of gas prices, the highest on record for any president.
- Enten’s breakdown finds a rare trifecta of majority disapproval with roughly 52 percent of Republicans, 85 percent of independents and 96 percent of Democrats saying they disapprove.
- At a Long Island rally on Friday, Trump said he would "never apologize" for higher pump prices tied to the Iran war and defended the military actions as necessary to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon.
- Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News the administration’s top goal is to keep oil and gas cheap for Americans, a public contradiction that critics and opponents say can be used as an attack line.
- Markets and advocates point to U.S. naval limits on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz that have tightened global oil flows, prompted volatile crude prices and helped fuel grassroots pushback such as an anti-Trump billboard in Georgia.