🔶 Trump called the gas price increase “the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons”

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, urged the people of this country to accept a small increase in the price of gasoline as the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He also said that “soon, the Strait of Hormuz will be declared U.S. territory.”

These remarks, according to some experts, indicate that Trump faces a political challenge; because higher fuel prices conflict with his election promise to reduce energy costs.

The Democrats, Trump’s rival, are trying to turn the economic consequences of the war with Iran into a political issue ahead of the November midterm elections.

Donald Trump, the U.S. president, on Friday, 23 Mordad (14 August), in a speech delivered in the U.S. state of New Jersey, said that Americans who have been forced to “pay a very small amount more for their gasoline” should remember that this cost is in order to ensure that “a very evil country” cannot obtain nuclear weapons.