The national gas price tracker at AAA shows that convicted felon President Trump has undeniably failed to uphold his campaign promise to immediately lower the cost of fueling American vehicles, that the average national price for a gallon of regular unleaded has actually gone up from $3.103 to $3.135 week over week since January 16th – also up from $3.129 on Wednesday.

“So, when I win, I will immediately bring prices down. Starting on day one, we will end Kamala’s war on American energy, and we will drill, baby, drill. We’re going to drill, baby, drill. That’s going to bring down prices of everything because energy brought it up. When they went away from my policy,” said Trump on August 15th, 2024 as he stood in front of tables covered in products bought from local grocery stores outside of his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Yet 70 hours and 17 minutes after he returned to power not only have prices not gone down, they’ve actually gone up.

“Oh stop, it’s only been three days,” Trump’s defenders will say, as if the sentence “I will immediately bring prices down” emphasized above is subject only to their interpretation of its meaning. Then they’ll try to segue into “Well it’ll take time to undo the damage Biden to did to America’s energy industry,” click “post comment,” take a swig of their Mountain Dew Code Red, and fold their arms contentedly. The heckling responses will begin to gnaw at them a bit, which may or may not end with an “at least Kommie Kamala lost”-type response before they retreat to Breitbart or Fox News.