


The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman noted to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins a rare instance of blowback against Donald Trump from his usually-loyal supporters who use his Truth Social platform.
Trump recently falsely claimed on the site, “Gasoline just broke $1.98 a gallon, lowest in years.” Collins noted the national average for gas is actually currently around $3.18 per gallon.
Haberman acknowledged that while recent job numbers and stock market gains offer some legitimate “good news” for the Trump White House, some of the president’s statements on lowered prices “just don’t comport with reality.”
And what is “interesting,” she continued in a video shared online, is how “a bunch of replies” to a similar post from Trump about prices said “essentially, ‘Not where I live,’ ‘Not where I live,’ ‘Not where I live.’”
The posts on the president’s platform are “normally very praising of” Trump, she noted. “So there is actually a limit to how much he can keep saying that and have his own voters believe him but he right now seems to believe himself.”
Collins agreed, telling Haberman: “That’s actually really interesting because I have a Truth Social account to obviously monitor what the president says but people who get Truth Social accounts typically are supporters of the president.”
Haberman responded: “I had never seen pushback on something he was saying before and there was still some praise in response but there were a number of comments of people saying, ‘That’s not happening where I am.’”