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Donald Trump is effectively running a psyop to combat political headwinds of his own creation.<\/p>\n

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While campaigning for president in 2024, the president reportedly promised oil executives that he would grant their policy wishes and help them rake in massive profits if they gave to his campaign. Some of the executives made donations, and Trump has since broadly acted in the industry\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

But now, as polling shows widespread discontent with his deadly war with Iran, Trump is trying \u2014 unconvincingly \u2014 to portray himself as a foil to Big Oil while the industry makes a killing.<\/p>\n

Sitting in the Oval Office on Monday, the president told reporters he thought Exxon Mobil and Chevron have made \u201ctoo much money\u201d from the Iran war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to give some of that back to the public, and they better cut the retail price, the consumer price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to believe these remarks were about anything other than saving face as Trump\u2019s war with Iran rages on and devastates the global economy with no end in sight. After all, the president has openly touted the ability for corporations and the people running them to make money from his war \u2014 as his family has done.<\/p>\n

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In June, Trump said he was \u201cvery proud\u201d of launching the war, going on to tout the stock market and declare that \u201ceverybody\u2019s making a lot of money.\u201d He also recently responded to a Fox News reporter asking if he was concerned about the war\u2019s economic impact by again touting corporate profits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making a lot of money. The defense companies are doing great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For the record, Trump\u2019s two oldest sons have invested in defense companies. He has said these things while repeatedly dismissing Americans\u2019 worries about affordability, even going so far as to call the issue \u201cphony\u201d and a \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that even the \u201cFreedom Fuel\u201d network the White House has marketed as discounted gas at a small number of stations \u2014 effectively, a publicity stunt with minimal effect on national gas prices \u2014 has been shrouded in secrecy and marred by concerns of cronyism.<\/p>\n

So ask yourself: Is this the behavior of someone who legitimately cares about American consumers? And is it truly believable that Trump, of all people, is averse to corporate greed?<\/p>\n

Or is his fairly meek critique of Big Oil part of a populist charade designed to quell the political backlash he has conjured up with his warmongering ways?<\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s latest remarks condemning Big Oil for profiting from his war with Iran would be more believable if he hadn\u2019t already celebrated companies making money from the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump reportedly vowed to help oil executives \u2014 and now he\u2019s whining about their profits - Long Distance Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=597\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump reportedly vowed to help oil executives \u2014 and now he\u2019s whining about their profits - 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