'Perspective!' Fox News spins wartime gas prices by noting Trump not 'food rationing' yet

Fox News contributor Dagen McDowell attempted to spin higher gas prices caused by President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran by noting that Americans weren't yet experiencing "food rationing" as they did in World War II.

"According to AAA, the national average hit $3.22 today," Fox News host Martha MacCallum told McDowell on Friday. "That's a 30-cent increase since the strikes in the Middle East began."

She pointed out that Trump had told Reuters that he was not personally concerned about the price of gas.

"If they rise, they rise," the president said.

"I don't mean to belittle what people will experience when they go to fill up," McDowell said. "We are looking at nationwide gas prices running $3.50 a gallon to $3.90 a gallon."

"That being said, I will just repeat what my father would always say. People get upset about, you know, gas prices, and he would hold up the food rationing, the coupon book from World War II, and say, this is what we went through when our men and our boys were fighting for our freedom then," she added. "So perspective is much needed here."

"People went years without, nobody bought a new car for years during the war, and people would typically say, well, when the war is over, we'll do this, or we'll do that," MacCallum agreed. "But they, you know, understood the big picture importance."