In a Wall Street Journal exclusive printed on Sunday and headlined “Oil Industry Warns Trump Administration That Fuel Crunch Will Likely Worsen” there aren’t any direct quotes from anonymous source but a “senior administration official said that the administration knows prices are going to continue to rise but there isn’t a lot it can do at the moment,” which is interesting because Americans were told differently during 2021 through 2025, particularly in 2024, when the message was that it was a simple as voting to return convicted felon President Trump to power.
“The Pentagon has told the administration that options exist to open the strait, and the administration wants that to happen in a matter of weeks, not months,” the passage continued, emphasis on the expression of desire in place of “will make that happen,” or even a more contingent but still optimistic “expects to make that happen,” or an effort-focused “working tirelessly to make that happen.” It’s simply what they “want” rather than what they will do to unfuck this.