{"id":76947,"date":"2026-08-04T04:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/trump-accuses-oil-companies-of-making-too-much-money-from-his-war-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:56:19","slug":"trump-accuses-oil-companies-of-making-too-much-money-from-his-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/trump-accuses-oil-companies-of-making-too-much-money-from-his-war-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accuses oil companies of \u2018making too much money\u2019 from his war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should \u2018give some of that back to the public\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/aug\/04\/oil-profits-spike-middle-east-war-energy-prices-donald-trump-business-live-economy-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has criticised oil companies for \u201cmaking too much money\u201d from the global energy market disruption caused by his war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude had been trading at about $70 (\u00a352) a barrel before the first US-Israeli strikes at the end of February, but by the end of April it had soared as high as $126 and is now trading at about $85 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/04\/donald-trump-oil-companies-war-iran-us-exxonmobil-chevron\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should \u2018give some of that back to the public\u2019 Business live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump has criticised oil companies for \u201cmaking too much money\u201d from the global energy market disruption caused by his war on Iran. Brent crude had been trading at about $70 &#8230; <a title=\"Trump accuses oil companies of \u2018making too much money\u2019 from his war on Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/trump-accuses-oil-companies-of-making-too-much-money-from-his-war-on-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump accuses oil companies of \u2018making too much money\u2019 from his war on Iran\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76947","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\/76947","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=76947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}