“I’m going to say it,” the president said after revealing his advisers had urged him to keep quiet.
Donald Trump’s efforts to shore up support for Republicans backfired spectacularly after he admitted he “doesn’t care” about Americans’ affordability crisis.
The president, 80, came under fire after boasting that the United States was profiting from high oil prices – against the advice of his own advisers – during a campaign stop in Georgia on Saturday.
“We’re making hundreds and hundreds of billions, billions of dollars, but my staff said, ‘Please don’t mention that, sir,’ because people are paying a little more,” Trump told the crowd.
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They will say: President Trump brags about all the money he makes while people suffer at the pumps. I don’t care. We’re making a fucking fortune. pic.twitter.com/KZ2pYsTPyR
– Acyn (@Acyn) October 25, 2026
“But what we have done for this country, we are making money like this country has never made before.”
Trump acknowledged that “the headlines” would probably say “Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people suffer at the pumps,” but admitted “I don’t care.”
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“I’ll say it,” he conceded, “we make a fucking fortune.”
Trump’s comments come as high gas prices and inflation have caused U.S. consumer confidence to plummet to record lows – something critics have been quick to note.
“Congratulations to Big Oil on a very successful and record-profit presidency,” California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to Trump’s remarks in an X message.
“Give (POTUS) credit for leveling the American people,” former Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote in a post. “HE’S making money like he never has before. And he doesn’t care about high gas prices. (Not a good closing message, though.)”
“HE’S making money like he’s never made before,” Axelrod said of Trump.
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Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, compared the comment to Trump’s entire second term.
“It’s like the epigraph to the entire Trump 2.0 presidency,” she wrote.
Trump’s controversial remarks come at a time when many Americans view the president as out of touch with the cost of living crisis.
As he predicted, Trump’s comments were criticized as being out of touch with reality.
In September, data showed that inflation rose more sharply than expected. Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent last month from a year ago, up from 3.4 percent in August and above the 3.6 percent year-over-year increase expected by many economists.
Meanwhile, the president has traveled the country, insisting that affordability is a hoax concocted by Democrats, as voters point to rising prices and their struggles to make ends meet as the main issue in the election.
White House spokesperson Matthew Middleton previously told The Daily Beast that Trump “implemented an aggressive, pro-growth economic agenda that eased Biden’s inflationary crisis, spurred economic growth, raised wages, and created private-sector jobs in regions that had been gutted and shipped overseas.”
“The president has always been clear about the temporary disruptions resulting from the Iran conflict, but this administration will continue to deliver economic gains for the American people over the next two years,” Middleton said.
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