President Donald Trump bragged this week that gas is down to $1.98 a gallon in a “couple of states.”.
“No state had an average gas price even close to $1.98 per gallon [as of} Wednesday,” CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins posted on X after fact-checking by the network.
“The two states that were tied with the lowest average gas price on Wednesday, Mississippi and Tennessee, were both at $2.70 per gallon, according to data provided” by Triple A.
No state had an average gas price even close to $1.98 per gallon on Wednesday.
While gas prices are down, the national average was about $3.17 per gallon on Wednesday, according to the AAA data, wrote CNN’s chief fact-checker Daniel Dale.
Drivers were unlikely to find even a single individual gas station selling a gallon for $1.98 or less.
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