{"id":345632,"date":"2026-03-18T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-trump-voter-went-viral-for-cursing-out-the-president-over-gas-prices-the-real-story-is-the-3-voters-at-the-same-pump-who-didnt"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:25:21","slug":"a-trump-voter-went-viral-for-cursing-out-the-president-over-gas-prices-the-real-story-is-the-3-voters-at-the-same-pump-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-trump-voter-went-viral-for-cursing-out-the-president-over-gas-prices-the-real-story-is-the-3-voters-at-the-same-pump-who-didnt","title":{"rendered":"A Trump Voter Went Viral for Cursing Out the President Over Gasoline Costs. The Actual Story Is the three Voters on the Similar Pump Who Didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>A clip of a Pennsylvania woman cursing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Trump<\/a> at a gas station has been tearing across social media this week \u2014 and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Robbins, a self-described three-time Trump voter from Millersburg, Pennsylvania, was filling up at a local gas station when an NBC News reporter asked what she&#8217;d say to the president right now. Her answer was unprintable in full on a family website, but it ended with her calling herself &#8220;an idiot&#8221; for ever voting for him \u2014 three times \u2014 on national television.<\/p>\n<p>The clip has racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube alone. A dozen outlets have already written the same story: <em>angry voter turns on Trump at gas station.<\/em> It&#8217;s satisfying content. It&#8217;s shareable. And it&#8217;s the wrong story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cApparently I\u2019m an idiot.\u201d Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him \u201ca worthless pile of sh*t\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xR5RNvuBEk\">pic.twitter.com\/xR5RNvuBEk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSington\/status\/2034032401303945419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Other Three Voters Nobody&#8217;s Talking About<\/h2>\n<p>The segment aired Tuesday on NBC&#8217;s <em>Meet the Press NOW<\/em>. Senior politics reporter Jonathan Allen drove to a Penn Jersey Mart in Millersburg \u2014 a small town in Dauphin County, central Pennsylvania, in a congressional district that went for Trump by just five points in 2024 \u2014 to ask voters how they feel about the war in Iran and what it&#8217;s doing to the price of filling their tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins wasn&#8217;t the only person he talked to.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Purcell, another Millersburg resident, called the strikes on Iran a &#8220;great decision.&#8221; He told Allen he&#8217;s willing to &#8220;pay a little more&#8221; at the pump. Jim Matter said Trump has &#8220;done a good job&#8221; and that the nuclear threat from Iran makes the higher costs worth it. Kim Schaffner said she&#8217;d accept higher gas prices if it means keeping the country &#8220;safe.&#8221; She expects them to &#8220;eventually&#8221; go down.<\/p>\n<p>Same gas station. Same afternoon. Same reporter. Four Trump voters \u2014 and three of them are still all in.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Apparently I\u2019m an idiot\u2019: Three-time Trump voter in Pennsylvania sounds off on Iran war\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VgRRlUNmrWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nSo why should those three worry the White House more than the one who already walked away?<\/p>\n<h2>A Promise With a Price Tag<\/h2>\n<p>Because their loyalty has a condition attached to it, and the condition is getting more expensive every week.<\/p>\n<p>When Purcell says he&#8217;ll pay &#8220;a little more,&#8221; he&#8217;s repeating a promise the president made first. Trump has told Americans in multiple settings that gas prices will &#8220;drop like a rock&#8221; and &#8220;come tumbling down&#8221; once the war is over. His energy secretary said relief would arrive in &#8220;weeks, not months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was weeks ago. Gas hasn&#8217;t come down. It&#8217;s gone up.<\/p>\n<p>The national average hit $3.84 on Wednesday, according to AAA \u2014 a jump of nearly a dollar a gallon in roughly four weeks. Pennsylvania&#8217;s average is $3.80. Brent crude has topped $103 a barrel. Iran has escalated to targeting oil production infrastructure \u2014 a step beyond the storage tanks and refineries hit earlier in the conflict. The Strait of Hormuz \u2014 the waterway that carries roughly 20% of the world&#8217;s daily oil supply \u2014 has gone from roughly 100 ships a day to virtually zero.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump on gas prices and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: &#8220;I filled it up once, and I&#8217;ll fill it up again. But right now, we&#8217;ll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down. We have to get rid of the evil&#8230; somebody had to do it. 47 years of horror.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fi83EPIjbK\">pic.twitter.com\/fi83EPIjbK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unusual_whales\/status\/2033000479249281402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nEnergy analysts say reopening the strait to normal traffic could take one to three months under the best circumstances. That&#8217;s not &#8220;weeks, not months.&#8221; That&#8217;s the opposite of &#8220;weeks, not months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>The Distance Between &#8220;Pay a Little More&#8221; and &#8220;Apparently I&#8217;m an Idiot&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Robbins is already gone. She knows it. She said it on camera with a clarity most politicians can&#8217;t manage in a prepared speech. The White House doesn&#8217;t need to worry about Amanda Robbins because there&#8217;s nothing left to lose there.<\/p>\n<p>But Purcell, Matter, and Schaffner are standing on a number. They haven&#8217;t named it. They probably couldn&#8217;t if you asked them. But it&#8217;s there \u2014 the price per gallon where &#8220;a little more&#8221; becomes too much, where &#8220;eventually&#8221; starts to sound like a word someone sold them, where &#8220;keeping the country safe&#8221; stops feeling like a fair trade for what it costs to drive to work.<\/p>\n<p>Millersburg&#8217;s congressman, Republican Scott Perry, held his seat in 2024 by barely 5,000 votes. This isn&#8217;t deep red country. This is the kind of ground where a few thousand voters changing their minds changes everything.<\/p>\n<p>Every week, those voters pull into a gas station and see a number on the sign. Right now, that number is going up. And every time it goes up, the distance between &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to pay a little more&#8221; and &#8220;apparently I&#8217;m an idiot&#8221; gets a little shorter.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Robbins made for a great clip. But she&#8217;s not the story. The story is the three voters standing next to her who said they&#8217;re fine \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n<p>The question nobody&#8217;s asking is how many fill-ups they have left.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/a-trump-voter-went-viral-for-cursing-out-the-president-over-gas-prices-the-real-story-is-the-3-voters-at-the-same-pump-who-didnt\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clip of a Pennsylvania woman cursing out President Trump at a gas station has been tearing across social media this week \u2014 and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4557],"tags":[23161,23162,23158,1987,23160,7575,23164,609,23163,156,23159],"class_list":["post-345632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-central-pennsylvania","tag-dauphin-county","tag-day-oil","tag-information-reporter","tag-kim-schaffner","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-gasoline-station","tag-president","tag-similar-reporter","tag-social-media","tag-www-youtube-com-watchvvgrrlunmrwq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345634,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345632\/revisions\/345634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}