So the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline just blew past $4.08 — up 85 cents from this time last year — and if you’re experiencing a strange sense of déjà vu, that’s because we already lived through this movie once. Only last time, we were told by every fact-checker, cable news anchor, and blue-haired college professor that blaming the president for gas prices was “overly simplistic” and “not how economics works.”
Funny how that lesson evaporated faster than your paycheck at a California gas station. The DCCC just launched digital ads showing prices at the pump climbing with the caption “D.C. Republicans Did That!” — which is literally the same sticker campaign they spent two years calling disinformation when truckers put Biden’s face on gas pumps. Rules for thee, as always.
Let’s set the scene. Gas is $4.08 nationally. In California, it’s $5.87 — because of course it is. Hawaii is at $5.55. Brent crude is hovering around $110 a barrel. Oil analysts are whispering that $150 is possible if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. And the House Democrats’ campaign chairman went on TV to call rising gas prices “another broken promise” by Trump and congressional Republicans.
Now look — nobody’s thrilled about paying four bucks a gallon. We get it. It hurts. But here’s what makes this whole thing a masterclass in shamelessness: these are the same people who told us in 2022 that the president doesn’t control gas prices. Remember that? When Biden was in the White House and gas hit $5 nationally, every mainstream outlet ran explainers about “global supply chains” and “OPEC decisions” and “market forces beyond any president’s control.” PolitiFact was handing out “Mostly False” ratings to anyone who blamed Biden like they were candy on Halloween.
CBS News actually ran a segment — and God bless the internet for never forgetting — explaining to viewers in 2022 that “presidents have very little control over gas prices” and that blaming Biden was “misleading.” Fast forward to this week, and CBS is running segments titled “How Trump’s Iran War Is Driving Gas Prices Higher.” Same network. Same gas price. Completely opposite framing. If you wrote this in a novel, your editor would say it’s too on the nose.
The Democrats’ playbook here is so transparent it’s almost insulting. They know gas prices are the one kitchen-table issue that every voter — left, right, and center — feels in real time. You can spin jobs numbers. You can massage GDP. But you can’t gaslight someone who just watched forty bucks disappear for half a tank in their Honda Civic. So they’re weaponizing the pain, blaming the war with Iran entirely on Trump, and hoping nobody remembers that they spent the Obama and Biden years telling us that American energy independence was a pipe dream and that we needed to “transition” away from fossil fuels.
Here’s what they don’t want you to think about: the Strait of Hormuz crisis — which is the actual reason gas is spiking — is a direct consequence of decades of failed Iran policy. The same Iran Deal crowd that sent pallets of cash to Tehran, the same people who lifted sanctions and let Iran rebuild its military capabilities, are now pointing at the gas pump and saying “Trump did that.” The mullahs are blockading a waterway that carries 20% of the world’s oil supply, attacking commercial tankers, and firing missiles at Gulf neighbors — and Democrats think the problem is that Trump responded too forcefully.
Trump’s Energy Department projects gas won’t fall below $3 until 2027. That’s not great news. But here’s the difference between us and them: we’ll tell you the truth about it. We won’t pretend the president has a magic gas price dial when it’s convenient and then claim he’s powerless when it’s not. We won’t run attack ads using the exact same logic we called “dangerous misinformation” twenty-four months ago.
The Democrats have exactly one move, and they run it every single time: exploit whatever crisis exists, blame Republicans, and pray that voters have the memory of a goldfish. Usually the media covers for them. But this time the receipts are everywhere. The CBS clips are still online. The fact-checks are archived. The “presidents don’t control gas prices” tweets are all still up.
So the next time some blue-check pundit posts a photo of a gas pump with a frowny face and blames Trump, just reply with the screenshot of their 2022 post saying the exact opposite. They hate that. They absolutely hate that.
We’re not saying $4 gas doesn’t hurt. It does. But we are saying that the people screaming the loudest about it right now are the same people who told you to buy an electric car you can’t afford, blocked pipelines, killed drilling leases, and then acted shocked when energy got expensive. The Iran situation has made it worse — no question. But the hypocrisy of Democrats suddenly discovering that gas prices matter is so thick you could pour it into your tank and drive to work on it.
Remember: “I Did That” stickers were misinformation. “D.C. Republicans Did That” ads are democracy. Welcome to 2026.
