Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took to social media this week to ridicule, mock, and criticize the recent surge in gas prices in the United States and to connect them to President Donald Trump. His social media accounts have blasted the president over the country’s soaring fuel costs, blaming the military conflict in Iran for the hikes.

While Newsom is not wrong about the reasons for the increase, he’s completely intellectually disingenuous because his state has the most expensive gasoline in the country, and it has been so for the majority of the time he has been governor. To go after Trump for high gas prices is utterly delusional.

Again, do not panic on oil prices

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