Trump boasts of gas is $ 1.98 the gallon in a “couple of states”. It is not – anywhere

President Donald Trump boasted this week that the gas fell to $ 1.98 the gallon in a “couple of states”.

In fact, it’s nowhere.

“No state had an average gas price, even almost $ 1.98 Gallon (from} Wednesday,” said Kaitlan Collins, the chief correspondent for the White House of CNN, after the factory verification by the network.

“The two states that were tied with the lowest average gas price on Wednesday, the Mississippi and Tennessee, were both $ 2.70 per gallon, according to the data provided” by Triple A.

Although the gas prices are down, the national average was about $ 3.17 per Gallon on Wednesday, according to AAA data, wrote the main auditor of CNN facts, Daniel Dale. It was unlikely that drivers even find a single individual service station selling a gallon for $ 1.98 or less.

Gasbuddy, a company that follows prices at tens of thousands of service stations across the country, found zero stations selling less than $ 2.

The White House was unable to justify Trump’s figures, although spokesperson Harrison Fields reprimanded journalists to get out of their “Big City Bubble” and check gas prices in “intermediate America” ​​- where they are not $ 1.98 either.

However, Fields said they are in “low records”.

“The gas prices are not close to the low records in a single state.

Trump also told journalists that the high price of eggs had dropped 92%, which is not true either.

The day Trump took office, Grade A eggs in in the United States were $ 5.81 per dozen. Last month, they reached a record summit of $ 6.23 per dozen, according to the last consumer price index reported on April 10.

The president also said that his prices – paid by important American companies of foreign goods and American consumers bought the products – brought $ 2 billion per day.

The Federal Agency which collects the prices indicates that the country has collected $ 500 million on the samples since April 5.