Oil Prices Rise As Middle East Conflict Intensifies, Trump Midterm Convention Gets Underway: Live Updates
A live-blog dispatch from a day when Trump predicted the Iran war ends right after the election, diesel hit a record, and his borrowed Air Force One's emergency slide deployed on the tarmac.
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Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward.”
Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward.
Trump ties a drop in oil prices to the midterm election outcome, framing economic relief as politically conditional.
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Americans should brace for higher costs ahead. Petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan said Wednesday that $6 a gallon is “days away” from reality. “It’s now in the pipeline, unavoidable,” said De Haan. President Donald Trump told reporters he expects oil prices will remain high as long as his war with Iran continues, then predicted everything will work out perfectly -- right after the midterm elections, two months away. “Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward,” Trump claimed. He also added that the war will also end “immediately after the election,” despite having already repeatedly declared victory.
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Trump predicted the Iran war would last four-to-five weeks; six months later, he now says it will end immediately after the election — and only if Republicans win.
A summary exposing the gap between Trump's original four-to-five week war forecast and his new election-dependent timeline.
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Read more: Trump Claims Iran War Will End ‘Immediately After The Election’ The Iran war that President Donald Trump predicted would last “four-to-five” weeks has stretched into its sixth month — but he’s now confident he’ll have it wrapped up “immediately after the election,” he told reporters Wednesday. However, in a transparent bit of politicking, he claimed the war would stretch on if Americans vote for anyone other than Republicans in the midterms. “Oh, I think the war is going to end immediately after the election,” he told reporters. Asked why, he repeated the claim. “I think the war will end immediately after the election.”
End ‘Immediately After The Election’ Trump predicted the Iran war that President Donald Trump predicted would last four-to-five weeks; six months later, he now says it will end immediately after the election — and only if Republicans win.
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The slide, now losing air and seemingly tangled on itself, drooped limply onto the tarmac.
The malfunctioning slide's deflation on the tarmac closes a minor but embarrassing incident surrounding the president's departure.
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For reasons that are unclear, the inflatable emergency slide on President Donald Trump’s Qatari-“gifted” Air Force One appears to have deployed Wednesday as Trump was preparing to leave for Dallas ahead of the RNC’s midterm convention. Video captured by reporters traveling with the president showed the brown slide protruding from the forward fuselage, opposite the stairs Trump would normally use to enter the aircraft. After about 15 minutes, the slide, now losing air and seemingly tangled on itself, drooped limply onto the tarmac.
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It's now in the pipeline, unavoidable.
An expert declares the march toward six-dollar gasoline already inevitable, removing any hope of a reprieve before it hits.
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That’s a steady rise from Sept. 3 record of $5.82 a gallon, which broke the previous, pandemic-era high of $5.819, set June 17, 2022. Americans should brace for higher costs ahead. Petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan said Wednesday that $6 a gallon is “days away” from reality. “It’s now in the pipeline, unavoidable,” said De Haan. President Donald Trump told reporters he expects oil prices will remain high as long as his war with Iran continues, then predicted everything will work out perfectly -- right after the midterm elections, two months away.
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The war in Iran is deepening and U.S. debt is at $40 trillion — and the RNC chair opened the convention by asking a cheering crowd if they love President Trump.
The contrast between mounting national crises and the convention's celebratory opener frames the GOP gathering as detached from reality.
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The war in Iran is deepening and U.S. debt is at $40 trillion. Diesel prices are soaring and President Donald Trump’s tariffs have hammered the nation’s manufacturers. Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future. But at the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas, RNC Chair Joe Gruters opened ceremonies Wednesday by asking a cheering crowd if they “love President Trump” and promised that the GOP is delivering “freedom, opportunity, security and common sense.” Democrats, Gruters, said, are being “taken over” by “radical socialists.” (Democratic Socialists have been winning primaries much to the party -- and especially Stephen Miller’s -- displeasure.)
The war in Iran is deepening and U.S. debt is at $40 trillion Diesel prices are soaring — and President Donald Trump’s tariffs have hammered the nation’s manufacturers. Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future. But at the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas, RNC chair Joe Gruters opened ceremonies Wednesday the convention by asking a cheering crowd if they love President Trump.
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