$4 per Gallon Gasoline Is ‘Not Very High’

In the seventies when gasoline doubled in price from 30-35 cents per gallon to 60 and seventy cents per gallon, people were pretty angry with the Arabs. That was a big increase and vehicles were not terribly efficient. There were pickups. However, there was not so high a percentage of them on the road. Today there is quite a few more. They are not work-related vehicles as much as passenger vehicles. People know where the accelerator is on these and other vehicles. In the end most people burn more gasoline than they need to in going from plsce to place.

“As Americans Struggle with Soaring Prices, Trump Says $4 Gas Is ‘Not Very High,'” Common Dreams

President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off Americans’ concerns about paying $4 per gallon of gas, telling a group of reporters that this price is “not very high.”

While speaking with journalists on the White House lawn, Trump was asked by a reported from ABC News how long Americans should expect to be dealing with high gas prices, which have soared since the president launched an unconstitutional war of choice with Iran more than six weeks ago.

“They’re not very high,” Trump said.

“If you look at what they were supposed to be to get rid of a nuclear weapon, with the danger that entails, so the gas prices have come down very much over the last three or four days.”

Q: How much longer will American continue to see these high gas prices?

TRUMP: Well, they’re not very high

Q: $4 a gallon still

TRUMP: That’s what ABC says, but the stock market is up. Everything is doing really well. pic.twitter.com/yIxHXKqXII
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 16, 2026

In fact, Trump-appointed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said under oath during congressional testimony that Iran’s uranium enrichment program was “obliterated” by US airstrikes last year, and that there had been no effort by the Iranians no effor to rebuild their enrichment capability since.

Additionally, gas prices have not come down “very much” over the last four days. According to AAA, gas prices in the US currently average $4.09 per gallon, a slight decrease from the $4.16 they averaged the week prior.

After the reporter informed Trump that gas was still over $4 a gallon, he replied, “Well, that’s what ABC says, but the fact is, if you look at the stock market, it’s up. Everything’s doing really well.”

Shortly after Trump shrugged off concerns about high gas prices, he posted a message on Truth Social discussing the security features he wants to see in the luxury ballroom he’s been planning to build on White House grounds.

Among other things, Trump said he wanted the ballroom to have “Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass.”