Two Florida voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 voiced frustration over soaring gas prices on MS NOW Tuesday morning, with one reluctantly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he’s now struggling financially.
As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran and the resulting spike in oil prices, MS NOW correspondent Alex Tabet spoke with the men at a Lantana, Florida, gas station.
“At this gas station just behind me, a gallon goes for about $3.79, diesel $5.19,” Tabet reported. “Now, we’ve been chatting to two South Floridians who tell two very different stories of two very different Americas. One is Eric Silverman, he’s a real estate investor. We chatted with him after he was filling up his luxury car with premium gas. And the other is Richard Stanley, he’s a construction worker who we talked to right after he filled up his pickup truck with diesel. I want you to hear from both of these men about how they’re processing this moment.”
“Oil prices go up and down, stock market goes up and down. Interest rates go up and down,” Silverman conceded. “The short run, it sucks, but I think that it’s going to be short run.”
Construction worker Stanley, however, painted a bleaker picture: “He [Trump] was bragging the other day on news, $1.90 or $2.90 somewhere — it’s $5.50 a gallon.”
“I miss my Uncle Joe,” he said with a grimace. “I was ballin’ then, now I couldn’t even tell you. I couldn’t even show you $5 in my pocket.”
Tabet added, “Eric and Richard come from two very different walks of life. But what these two men have in common is they both voted for President Trump in 2024. You heard from Richard there, the construction worker, that he misses his Uncle Joe.”
