I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Iran War Live Updates: As Oil and Gas Prices Soar, Trump Seeks to Reassure Americans

President Trump said he would do whatever was necessary to lower oil prices, and his Treasury secretary said the government might even take the paradoxical step of lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil.

The New York Times
@SeanCasten Let's not forget that there are two other branches within the US federal government that could put an end to all this, but choose not to