"Donald Trump thinks gas prices are 'peanuts'"
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Gas is going to, you know, I had gas leaned down to $1.85 in Iowa. |
| 0:06.5 | I was in Iowa, and the stations added at it, $1.85. |
| 0:11.7 | But I was down to, in many cases, less than $2 a barrel, a gallon. |
| 0:16.7 | And then I said to myself, this is great. |
| 0:20.0 | We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything's |
| 0:22.7 | going good. I'm sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to we have to do |
| 0:28.8 | something with rent. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. You want to see the world |
| 0:34.3 | exploded? You want to see a problem? And this is peanuts. |
| 0:38.1 | And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. |
| 0:41.2 | It won't be much longer. |
| 0:44.5 | You could not make that up. |
| 0:47.2 | Calling the price of gas, quote, peanuts while he's standing in front of the construction |
| 0:51.4 | site for his new gold ballroom. That was Donald Trump, |
| 0:56.3 | mid, I don't know what you want to call it, vibing at a press gaggle this week, touting his |
| 1:02.4 | golden ballroom behind him and calling it peanuts for the family or man or woman whose net worth |
| 1:09.0 | has increased by more than $4 billion in two |
| 1:12.0 | years on Trump's part. But for everybody else, Donald Trump's economy is, by and large, |
| 1:18.8 | crushing the American family. And that pain is showing up nearly everywhere. 83% of Americans |
| 1:25.3 | say the economy is fair or poor. Only 16% of Americans say it's good or |
| 1:30.3 | excellent. Despite Donald Trump's unfounded claims, the things won't be like this much longer. |
| 1:37.5 | Voters don't believe him and they don't share his optimism. 76% of voters say that economic conditions |
| 1:43.2 | are getting worse, not better. |
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