Trump Crows About His Economy, Falsely Claims Gas Is Below 2 Dollars In the South

President Donald Trump touted the success of his economic policy by falsely claiming gas prices have fallen under $2 per gallon.

Trump, on Tuesday afternoon, held his 7th cabinet meeting, allowing members of his administration to provide updates on the work being done to move his agenda forward. During his opening remarks, which lasted nearly an hour, the president touched on his efforts to combat inflation and claimed consumer costs had already started to come down.

He added:

I see you’re down close to $60 a barrel and you’ll be breaking that pretty soon, and that has a huge impact. And so, we have — groceries are down, energy is way down. Energy is way down. It was $4 and $5 for a gallon of gas. Think of that for gasoline, and now it’s probably $2.25. There are some places it’s $2. It’s even — it broke $2 in a couple of locations in the South. In places like California — where they charge such high taxes — it’s higher, but it’s still much lower than what it was a year ago.

Those statements, however, were demonstrably false. According to AAA’s database of nationwide gas prices, no state comes even close to the $2.25 figure Trump mentioned. At the time of writing, the average retail price of gas in the U.S. was $3.19. The state with the lowest average was Mississippi at $2.69.

Additional data pulled from GasBuddy — the app that helps users find the cheapest gas in their area — revealed that not a single individual station sold for under $2.

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