Maggie Haberman Knocks Trump For Putting On A 'Front' With This Wild Price Fantasy
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The New York Times journalist said the president "seems to believe himself" after boasting figures that "just don’t comport with reality.”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Friday checked President Donald Trump’s wildly inaccurate claims about where gasoline prices stand in his second term.
“There is actually a limit to how much he can keep saying that and have his own voters believe him but he right now seems to believe himself,” Haberman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins of Trump’s boasts of falling prices.
Trump ― as part of his University of Alabama commencement address that he used to rant about politics on Thursday ― claimed that the price of gas hit $1.88 a gallon in three states.
“Can you believe it? It was at $3.50. It was at $4. We’re drilling, oh we’re drilling,” the president told the graduating class.
The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.18, per AAA, which is $1.30 more than Trump’s figure (and $1.20 more than another number he boasted about on his Truth Social platform).
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