Trump convenes secret meeting as 'voter backlash' surges over key issue: report

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By Alexander Willis
Published May 2, 2026 1:32 PM ET

In a “private meeting” on Tuesday, President Donald Trump met with several of his top officials to discuss ways to address a growing vulnerability that may prove politically toxic for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

"Gas prices are surging, voter backlash is building, and inside the White House, the options to lower prices at the pump are dwindling," the Post reported.

Attending the secret meeting was Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and multiple “energy executives,” with the purpose of the gathering being to discuss potential steps to combat soaring gas prices, sparked by the president’s war against Iran, according to an anonymous White House official.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676844180/

The public needs to be reminded that this was a failure from the maga controlled senate on impeachment votes and the John Roberts US Supreme Courts and what they did in Colorado ballot and the Espionage Act case against this guy...............end of story

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That's only one pocketbook issue amongst many other issues. And not so secret

if we're reading about it.

[yaesu]

2. Send every man, women and child in the us a $10,000 inflation check

and make bezos and musk pay for it. It wouldn't change my vote but it would put a smile on my face 🤗

[NCDem47]

3. It's too late ass wipe. 2026 is baked. You're not doing anything to buy votes at this point.

Have fun as a lame duck the last two years of your "Presidency."