'Insane' Trump policy set to hit Americans' finances with 'double-triple whammy': scholar

By Alexander Willis
Published May 2, 2026 12:44 PM ET

Political scientist and scholar Norman Ornstein warned of an impending “double-triple whammy” about to hit Americans’ finances on Saturday, one he attributed directly to what he described as an “insane policy” of President Donald Trump’s.

The policy in question was the Trump administration’s ongoing war against Iran, which has already sent gas prices skyrocketing to levels not seen since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ornstein warned, however, that the current price increases were only the beginning.

“As we go further on, and as demand for oil inevitably is going to have to drop because the supplies are going to be not there, then we're going to see gas prices go up even more,” Ornstein said Saturday in an appearance on MS NOW’s “Velshi.”

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