Trump Says US Oil Companies Are Making a ‘Fortune’ Due to the Iran War

 

The president dismissed concerns over higher gas prices at a rally in Georgia

by Dave DeCamp | October 25, 2026 at 12:17 pm ET | Iran

President Trump on Saturday boasted that US oil and gas companies are making a “fortune” due to the shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz caused by his war with Iran, and dismissed the high gas prices that Americans are facing at the pump.

“While oil prices are temporarily high and will be falling dramatically in a short period of time … the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars,” the president told supporters at a rally in Georgia.

“Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happening in the Middle East because they’re coming to Texas, and they’re coming to Oklahoma, and they’re coming to Louisiana, and they’re taking that oil. They’re making hundreds of billions of dollars; our country is, and on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland,” he added.

The president said that he was advised not to make that point since Americans are paying higher gas prices. “My people said, ‘Please don’t mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher,'” he said, adding that he could picture the “fake news headlines” about his comments.

“I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: we’re making a freakin fortune. Our country is getting stronger and stronger all the time,” he said.

The increased energy costs for Americans are expected to be detrimental to the Republicans in the upcoming November 3 midterm elections, but Trump has expressed little concern and is speaking openly about how he may resume the bombing campaign against Iran either before or after the elections.

For their part, Iranian officials say that they’re ready to face another round of US-Israeli strikes and are warning that their retaliatory attacks will be much heavier and hit targets in the region that they previously spared.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/10/25/trump-says-us-oil-companies-are-making-a-fortune-due-to-the-iran-war/

So your argument against the Africanness of ancient Egypt is: the last dynasty, installed by a Macedonian conqueror, whose ruling family maintained its predominantly Greek bloodline, wasn't indigenous Egyptian.

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Cleopatra. You picked Cleopatra. Out of three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history, three thousand years of pharaohs, pyramids, medical texts, mathematical papyri, architectural achievements that engineers still study today, you reached for the one ruler whose dynasty wasn’t even Egyptian. The Ptolemaic dynasty was founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general of Alexander the Great. His descendants intermarried obsessively, and we mean obsessively, sibling-marriage-as-policy obsessively, within their own dynasty, while also marrying into the Seleucid royal family, founded by another Macedonian general, Seleucus I Nicator. What the Ptolemies were not, in their dynastic origins, was indigenous Egyptian. They were a Hellenistic foreign dynasty that ruled Egypt for its last 275 years before Roman annexation. At the very end. Before them came the Persian conquests. Before the Persians came over two and a half millennia of Egyptian civilization. So your argument against the Africanness of ancient Egypt is: the last dynasty, installed by a Macedonian conqueror, whose ruling family maintained its predominantly Greek bloodline, wasn't indigenous Egyptian. That's like arguing Britain was never Celtic because William the Conqueror was Norman. You have just independently confirmed that foreign conquerors took control of a civilization that had existed in Africa for millennia before they arrived. Thank you, Mike. You walked in to rebut the argument and handed it ammunition instead. The pyramids were not built by Macedonians. They were built by ancient Egyptians. Africans. More than 2,500 years before Cleopatra was even born.

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You sound like Netflix trying to make Cleopatra black when she was clearly White. They got denounced by Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Supreme Council of Antiquities for their nonsense.

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‘It’s a good thing we’re good at war because we’re not very good at anything else anymore.

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Still relevant today: After the first Gulf War, George Carlin mocks the military-industrial complex and the US’ constant need for war: ‘It’s a good thing we’re good at war because we’re not very good at anything else anymore. We can’t build a decent car, can’t make a TV set or a VCR worth a f***, got no steel industry left, can’t get healthcare to our old people, can’t educate our young people… But we can bomb the sh*t out of your country alright!’

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