{"id":74653,"date":"2026-06-09T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/trump-claims-us-fuel-prices-not-very-high-as-costs-surge-amid-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:16","slug":"trump-claims-us-fuel-prices-not-very-high-as-costs-surge-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/trump-claims-us-fuel-prices-not-very-high-as-costs-surge-amid-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims US fuel prices \u2018not very high\u2019 as costs surge amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National average gas price stands at about $4.16 per gallon as Americans grapple with price hikes sparked by the war<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has claimed US fuel prices are \u201cnot very high, relatively speaking\u201d as his administration grapples with affordability concerns after the surge in costs sparked by his war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The national average gas price stood at about $4.16 per gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA \u2013 $0.37 lower than a month ago, but still about $1 more expensive than the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/09\/trump-gas-prices-not-very-high\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National average gas price stands at about $4.16 per gallon as Americans grapple with price hikes sparked by the war Donald Trump has claimed US fuel prices are \u201cnot very high, relatively speaking\u201d as his administration grapples with affordability concerns after the surge in costs sparked by his war on Iran. The national average gas &#8230; <a title=\"Trump claims US fuel prices \u2018not very high\u2019 as costs surge amid Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/trump-claims-us-fuel-prices-not-very-high-as-costs-surge-amid-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump claims US fuel prices \u2018not very high\u2019 as costs surge amid Iran war\">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-74653","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\/74653","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=74653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}