Trump says "not concerned" about rising gas prices

U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns about whether rising gas prices in the U.S. could hurt Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

He made the relevant remarks in a wide-ranging, nearly 30-minute telephone interview with NBC News.

Asked directly about whether gas prices could affect the midterms, Trump said, “I’m not concerned at all.

“I think they’ll go lower than they were before, and I had them at record lows,” Trump said about gas prices, promising that they would drop soon after the war in Iran ends.

On March 1, the day after the U.S. and Israel began attacking Iran, gas was averaging $2.94 a gallon in the U.S., per GasBuddy. 

“There’s so much oil, gas — there’s so much out there, but you know, it’s being clogged up a little bit. It’ll be unclogged very soon,” the president added.

By Khagan Isayev