"They put out something, Say today, the costs are up,' the president continued. They feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS, and NBC, and a lot of other, CNN et etc. It's like a standard I'll never forget they used a word like manufactured.' Do you remember the word manufactured? It's a manufactured economy.' Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in, Manufactured.' They do exactly what they say."
"So, are you ready? Costs are way down, he insisted. Gasoline is gonna be hitting $2 pretty soon, or around $2. Gasoline is at $2.70 now. The average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. is $3.07, as of this writing. When gasoline comes down, when energy comes down and everybody agrees energy's down [sic] we've drilled, you know, drill baby, drill. We're going like, wild. We produced more gasoline, oil, and gasoline in the last month than we ever have before."
President Donald Trump dismissed talk of rising prices as a Democratic 'con job' and accused news networks of parroting that narrative. He asserted that overall costs are falling and predicted gasoline would drop toward $2 per gallon despite a higher current national average. He credited increased domestic oil and gasoline production, invoked 'drill baby, drill,' and claimed unprecedented recent output. He criticized anchors for using the word 'manufactured' about the economy and accused the system of being rigged. The exchange referenced voter economic concern and recent election results in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York.
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