{"id":1530765,"date":"2022-06-28T14:50:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530765"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:50:56","slug":"trump-talks-energy-war-illinois-primaries-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-talks-energy-war-illinois-primaries-in-new-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Talks Energy, War, Illinois Primaries in New Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-talks-energy-war-illinois-primaries-in-new-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> criticized his successor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-energy\">energy<\/a> policies, predicted rolling blackout and brownouts this summer, and warned of the potential for another world war in an interview with The Center Square.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging telephone interview on topics such as Illinois\u2019 Tuesday primary, Chicago\u2019s gun violence, record gas prices and more, Trump told The Center Square that in less than two years under President Joe Biden, the country has lost the respect of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not respected as a country, he\u2019s [Biden] not respected, and this country is just not respected anymore,\u201d Trump said, pointing to 40-year high inflation, record gas prices and the war between Russia and Ukraine. \u201cThis took place in less than two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the average price of a gallon of gasoline at nearly $5 a gallon, Trump said Americans should only expect those prices to continue going up with Biden\u2019s green energy policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith inflation the way it is, with fuel prices now at $6, $7, $8 a gallon and more\u201d in some places, Trump said, \u201cit\u2019s going up higher, more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have blamed Biden\u2019s restrictions on the oil and gas sector for record high gas prices. Biden has blamed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February and oil companies\u2019 thirst for profits.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also predicted that the move to green energy at the expense of fossil fuels could mean widespread power outages this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were actually energy independent, energy independent, nobody thought that would be possible and soon to be energy dominant we would have been bigger that Saudi Arabia, Russia put together,\u201d he told The Center Square. \u201cBy far, actually. Making a fortune. And having energy like nobody\u2019s ever seen. \u2026 Now you\u2019re going to have, here\u2019s another prediction, brownouts and blackouts all over the country this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized his successor\u2019s energy policies, predicted rolling blackout and brownouts this summer, and warned of the potential for another world war in an interview with The Center Square. In a wide-ranging telephone interview on topics such as Illinois\u2019 Tuesday primary, Chicago\u2019s gun violence, record gas prices and more, Trump told The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}