President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally-style event in Garden City, NY, took responsibility for higher gas prices resulting from the Iran conflict, telling the audience, “‘ll never apologize. I did the right thing.” “I just say this: So for you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a country. Really, it’s the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. We don’t want to have them have a nuclear weapon.” “So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at four dollars. It’s okay,” Trump said. “I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So most things are down and I had you know before I started that I had to make a journey. I said to my guys. I said to Howard [Lutnick], Scott [Bessent], Marco [Rubio] — they’re all fantastic. What a great group we have. But I said fellas, we just had the best month ever anyone’s ever had as president. The numbers had just come out. I just got back I was in Iowa helping some people and I was in office and we’re looking at the pump and it’s $ 1.95 a gallon and another one was $ 1.85. I said $ 1.85 a gallon and I meet them the following day. I said I have bad news for you guys. We have to make a little journey to the Middle East because we have to put out a potential disaster, a potential very big fire, a fire like you’ve never seen. We can’t let Iran keep going. They would have had a nuclear. If we didn’t hit the B-2 bombers, if we didn’t hit them, you would have had a nuclear weapon and it would have been a very sad day for this country and for the entire world. So I said we’re gonna have to put out the fire in the Middle East and we’ve done that. They’re never gonna have a nuclear weapon. We have loaded up. [APPLAUSE] So I just say this: So for you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a country. Really, it’s the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. We don’t want to have them have a nuclear weapon. So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at four dollars. It’s okay. I mean, it’s I’m not. I’m not. I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing. But you could, you know, if you didn’t have, you’d be at. I mean, I had it down to below two dollars in many states. But in California, you can’t include because they keep taxing, taxing, taxing. You lower the oil price and they end up taxing you more than what you lower it. But you just have to remember that what we’re doing is a great service for the world, not only for ourselves, for the world. And we’re really doing a great job. Our military is unbelievable. The blockade is unstoppable. It’s a wall of steel. The blockade is a wall of steel.

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