I’m proud of President Donald Trump and his loyal Republican lawmakers. After years of pretending, it seems they’ve finally grown confident enough to flatly admit they don’t give a rip about regular Americans.

This is real progress!

Asked May 14 about how gas prices have soared since Trump dragged America into war with Iran, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio channeled his inner Frank Sinatra and said, “that’s life.”

Trump admits to not caring about anyone's financial situation

That came on the heels of the president himself saying that when it comes to Iran, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”

There it is. It’s the thing many Americans have known for so long, deep in their guts, but haven’t heard the man himself say out loud. Trump doesn’t think about anybody other than himself.

Republicans will gripe and moan and wail if gas prices are high when a Democrat like Joe Biden is in the White House, they will say the world is ending, but the minute a Republican parks his keister behind the resolute desk, high gas prices are just part of life.

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