President Donald Trump keeps trying to convince Americans that gas costs $2 a gallon. That’s a tall task when it costs $3.
“We’re a little bit above $2 right now for gasoline,” Trump said Friday. “We’re going to be approximately $2 very soon.”
Trump and his administration have made that false claim repeatedly over the course of the year.
In April , Trump said, “You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.” The next day, Trump said gas was sub-$2 in “three states.”
During a commencement address at the University of Alabama in May, Trump falsely asserted that gas cost just $1.88 in three states.
In July, Trump claimed , “Gasoline just hit $1.99 today in five states,” and he later clarified, “$1.99, $1.98.”
In August, Trump said gas cost $2 in some places and “broke $2” in some locations in the South.
On Thursday, Tr
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