MS NOW drops stinging supercut of Republican hypocrisy on gas prices

MS NOW assembled a devastating montage showing Republicans raging at high gas prices under former president Biden, but then contorting themselves to justify gas hikes after President Donald Trump’s arbitrary invasion and subsequent ceasefire deal with Iran.

“Think of that. Would you like to have $1.84 a gallon instead of $4,” Trump told a crowd at an October 2024 rally in the middle of his campaign.

“… But we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us in six months. … [Americans] are also feeling a lot safer,” Trump later said last March, after a reporter pointed out that gas prices hit $4 after his invasion.

“Gas prices are through the roof and people are now waiting in line,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Fox News in May 2021,” but followed that up last March with the argument that “prices have dropped dramatically,” and called the recent spiked “a blip.”

“Growing up, I watched my mom — who didn't have much money — when prices of things went up like gas, it impacts her ability to do what she cared about,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in 2021.

“I grew up in a poor family, so I know this impact on gas and food prices. All that is really impacting people and my heart goes out to them,” Scott then declared in March. “But the president is doing the right thing. It's better to make sure we are not going to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon.”

“Gas prices have risen 40 percent since President Biden took office. That takes a tremendous toll on family budgets,” said Sen. John Thune (R-SD) in 2021, before skewing optimistic in March and saying: “Things will start to stabilize. You'll start to see those gas prices come down to a more normal range.”

“Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Kent.) ranted in 2024, before reversing himself in March by saying: “If you think gas prices are high now, give the ayatollah a nuclear weapon to terrorize the region, to threaten the Straits of Hormuz. He will control gas prices forever.”

“The price of gas in my neighborhood was $1.70 a gallon,” griped Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO.) again, in 2024. “It shot up during the Biden administration to well over five and $6 a gallon.”

“In some parts of our nation, there may be some sacrifices to be made at the pump on a temporary basis,” Alford then admitted in March, while answering the question of whether people were willing to make a sacrifice for Trump’s war in Iran with: “I think the people in my district are.”

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