NCS’s resident MAGA pundit railed towards claims of simply how badly President Donald Trump’s warfare with Iran has hit fuel costs within the U.S. earlier than a community anchor knocked the bottom out from beneath him with a brutal final phrase.
“We’re not in a crisis,” Scott Jennings mentioned on the outset of an on-air feud with Democratic Party adviser Ashley Etienne over rising vitality prices throughout a broadcast of The Source with Kaitlin Collins on Thursday night time.
The adviser shortly shot again, telling the previous Bush administration official that “yes, we are,” and that “never in our nation’s history have we had such high distrust from our allies and our foes alike,” with “no sort of clarity on where this thing is headed.”
Trump’s warfare with Iran, launched on February 28 and at the moment topic to a tentative two-week ceasefire, has plunged the Middle East into chaos and despatched international oil costs skyrocketing.
U.S. fuel costs, amid large disruptions to worldwide provide ensuing straight from the president’s actions, have soared throughout that interval to a nationwide common of greater than $4.16 a gallon, representing an virtually 40 p.c improve over pre-conflict ranges.
Trump’s warfare with Iran has wrought havoc on vitality markets. / Evan Vucci/Reuters
Jennings rebuked the Democratic adviser for saying “I paid six bucks for gas just yesterday” by asking “were you in California?” and laughing sarcastically.
When Etienne knowledgeable him she had in reality made the acquisition in Virginia, he laughed once more and mentioned, “Oh! Another blue area!”
Collins then swooped in to level out that the typical price for the value of gasoline in Nevada—which swung for Trump within the 2024 polls and the place the president had, solely that afternoon, delivered a speech bigging up his tax cuts and different financial insurance policies—at the moment stands at $5 a gallon.
“Ashley Etienne, Scott Jennings, thank you both for being here,” Collins then mentioned, ending the section. Etienne thanked her in flip. Jennings, for his half, didn’t.