{"id":73077,"date":"2026-05-05T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-addresses-soaring-gas-prices-as-average-hits-4-48\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:56:10","slug":"trump-addresses-soaring-gas-prices-as-average-hits-4-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-addresses-soaring-gas-prices-as-average-hits-4-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Addresses Soaring Gas Prices as Average Hits $4.48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices in the United States have now reached $4.48 a gallon on average, up more than 30 cents in the last week and more than $1.50 since the Iran war began. A recent poll shows 44 percent of Americans have cut back on driving amid the rising costs but President Donald Trump has repeatedly assured that prices will come down when the war is over. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices in the United States have now reached $4.48 a gallon on average, up more than 30 cents in the last week and more than $1.50 since the Iran war began. A recent poll shows 44 percent of Americans have cut back on driving amid the rising costs but President Donald Trump has repeatedly &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Addresses Soaring Gas Prices as Average Hits $4.48\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-addresses-soaring-gas-prices-as-average-hits-4-48\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Addresses Soaring Gas Prices as Average Hits $4.48\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}