The president posted that he deserves some credit for Chevron and other oil companies making more money, but he left out the major reason for their windfall profits: His war in Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices up to levels that enabled Exxon Mobil\u2019s quarterly profits to double and Chevron\u2019s to nearly quadruple.<\/p>\n
Trump said after watching Fox Business Network interview Mike Wirth, the chairman and CEO of Chevron, that
he\u2019s owed a debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Trump said Chevron\u2019s profits were made possible by his military incursion in Venezuela, and called on oil companies to lower prices for consumers, even though higher fuel prices have delivered the profitability gains Trump wants credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president posted that he deserves some credit for Chevron and other oil companies making more money, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[467,38,1770,10953,34,196,45009],"class_list":["post-234617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-immigration-policy","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-todd-blanche"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117033672857479963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}