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Energy

National gasoline average $4.48

Call $4.48 gasoline 'a little higher'

Gas is only 'a little higher' if you aren't paying for it.

Executive owner
Donald J. Trump / Energy Narrative Management
Status
National gasoline average $4.48
Due
Before November 3
Paying for it
Drivers, delivery workers and every fuel-dependent business

ACTIVITY

Updated
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Energy6:00 AM

Energy reported higher pump prices. Communications called them 'a little higher.'

DJT
Donald J. Trump6:02 AM

Prices DOWN so far they need something else for that Big Sign!

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Household Finance6:09 AM

Households asked whether groceries can be called 'a little more' too.

DJT
Donald J. Trump6:18 AM

Nobody likes more at the Pump, I KNOW! Very important thing we're doing, Prices will come DOWN.

DJT
Donald J. Trump6:20 AM

Higher, nobody wants Higher, then ask if I personally filled the Gas Station's Tank?? Whole WORLD going on, very difficult World I inherited, I do the Fixing, they do Gallon-Counting...

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Communications6:27 AM

The hardship looks smaller when it sits at the bottom of the slide.

DJT
Donald J. Trump6:29 AM

I KNOW the Number, Four Forty-Eight.

SUGGESTED NEXT STEP

Quote gas prices in units of 'a little higher.' Do not print the dollar figure on the same slide.

PUBLIC RECORD

AP reported on September 20 that regular gasoline averaged $4.48 nationally on September 18, up $1.27 from a year earlier. Trump had called higher prices “a very inexpensive price to pay” for the Iran war. Interviews and polling showed broad voter concern.

Associated Press · 2026-09-20 ↗