The problem is that these two claims sit very uneasily together. Oil prices typically rise when geopolitical tensions escalate—especially tensions involving Iran and the Middle East. So celebrating higher oil prices while simultaneously presenting yourself as the defender of global stability sounds almost like satire. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a hospital administrator bragging that the emergency room profits whenever there are more car crashes, then solemnly declaring that their highest mission is preventing accidents. If accidents are the problem, you don’t celebrate the revenue they bring. If instability in the Middle East is dangerous, you don’t frame its economic side effects as a windfall.

More broadly, the post treats complex global security and energy economics like a bumper sticker: simple, triumphant, and internally inconsistent. Instead of clarifying policy, it produces a strange message—that turmoil is both a catastrophe to prevent and, conveniently, a payday.

Does Trump understand the intrinsic contradiction in his own post? If he does but posts it anyway, then this is just another sign that he is preaching to an audience he assumes is incapable of recognizing basic logical inconsistencies. And if he doesn’t, well, then we are dealing with an even bigger problem.

As always, thank you for your attention to this matter