Trump's War on Iran Archives - Page 3 of 9

Gas Prices Top $4.50 Per Gallon

May 7, 2026 Buck Banks

$4.54

Bloomberg: “The nationwide average retail price for regular unleaded gasoline rose to $4.54 a gallon on Tuesday, according to the American Automobile Association, and is now around 50 cents off the record $5.01 set in June 2022. … On a seasonal basis, prices are already at an all-time high for this time of year.”

Short of a Full Deck

May 5, 2026May 19, 2026 Buck Banks

Donald Trump is finding that prosecuting a Mideast war is very hard,
Especially when you’re up against the ruthless Islamic Republican Guard.
Like he said from the beginning,
We’re not losing, we’re winning,
And as for the negotiations, Trump claims he holds “All the cards.”

Disapproval of Trump’s Iran War on a Par with Vietnam, Iraq

May 1, 2026 Buck Banks

61%

President Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. Sixty-one percent of Americans say that using military force against Iran was a mistake, with fewer than 2 in 10 Americans believing that the U.S. actions in Iran have been successful.

Inflation Guage, Prices Rose Sharply in March

April 30, 2026 Buck Banks

+3.5%

the AP reports. “An inflation gauge monitored by the Fed rose 0.7% in March from February, up sharply from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Compared with a year ago, prices rose 3.5%, the biggest increase in almost three years.”

Germans Appalled at Lack of Planning for Trump’s Iran War

April 28, 2026 Buck Banks

“It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever. And the fundamental problem with these kinds of conflicts is always the same: it is not enough to simply get yourself in—you must also figure out how to get yourself out.”

— German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking at an event on the war with Iran.

Khamenei Sees a KushWit
How much peace could a KushWit produce if a KushWit could produce peace ....

April 25, 2026 Buck Banks

Donald Trump created a diplomacy critter called the KushWit,
He made it from two moons within his Sun King inner orbit.
But he didn’t send KushWit to Islamabad —
The Iranians could see right through the charade.
So KushWit stayed home ’cause Trump didn’t like the “expense” of the trip.

Trading News for Booze

April 20, 2026April 29, 2026 Buck Banks

We read about the resignations of Gonzales and Swalwell,
And we’ve kept up with the cease-fires and damaged oil wells.
But about the Strait of Hormuz,
We were just fed up with the news,
So we went out on a binge with our old drinking buddy, Kash Patel.

Trump Has Lost $50 Billion in Crude Oil in 50 Days

April 19, 2026 Buck Banks

$50 billion

“The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran ?war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come,” Reuters reports.

Wholedsale Prices Rose 4% in March

April 15, 2026 Buck Banks

4%

“U.S. wholesale prices surged last month as the Iran war drove up the cost of energy,” the AP reports. “The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.5% from February and 4% from March 2025. The year-over-year gains was the biggest in more than three years. Energy prices surged 8.5% from February.”

Vance Says the Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time

April 14, 2026 Buck Banks

Tag: Trump’s War on Iran

Gas Prices Top $4.50 Per Gallon

$4.54

Short of a Full Deck

Disapproval of Trump’s Iran War on a Par with Vietnam, Iraq

61%

Inflation Guage, Prices Rose Sharply in March

+3.5%

Germans Appalled at Lack of Planning for Trump’s Iran War

“It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever. And the fundamental problem with these kinds of conflicts is always the same: it is not enough to simply get yourself in—you must also figure out how to get yourself out.”

— German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking at an event on the war with Iran.

Khamenei Sees a KushWit
How much peace could a KushWit produce if a KushWit could produce peace ....

How much peace could a KushWit produce if a KushWit could produce peace ....

Trading News for Booze

Trump Has Lost $50 Billion in Crude Oil in 50 Days

$50 billion

“The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran ?war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come,” Reuters reports.

Wholedsale Prices Rose 4% in March

4%

Vance Says the Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time

“What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”