Trump voter complains he misses 'Uncle Joe' Biden as he pumps pricey gas
Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.
As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.
“At this gas station just behind me, a gallon goes for about $3.79, diesel $5.19,” he reported. “Now, we've been chatting to two South Floridians who tell two very different stories of two very different Americas. One is Eric Silverman, he's a real estate investor. We chatted with him after he was filling up his luxury car with premium gas. And the other is Richard Stanley, he's a construction worker who we talked to right after he filled up his pickup truck with diesel. I want you to hear from both of these men about how they're processing this moment.”
“Oil prices go up and down, stock market goes up and down. Interest rates go up and down,” Silverman conceded. "The short run, it sucks, but I think that it's going to be short run.”
But construction worker Stanley said, “He [Trump] was bragging the other day on news, $1.90 or $2.90 somewhere — it's $5.50 a gallon.”
“I miss my Uncle Joe,” he said with a grimace. “I was bawling then, now I couldn't even tell you. I couldn't even show you $5 in my pocket.”
MS NOW’s Tabet added, “Eric and Richard come from two very different walks of life. But what these two men have in common is they both voted for President Trump in 2024. You heard from Richard there, the construction worker, that he misses his Uncle Joe.”
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