President Donald Trump invited a DoorDash driver to the White House on Monday to promote GOP tax policy, but the photo-op actually highlighted an issue the president would rather not talk about: soaring fuel costs for the working class.
Fuel prices have skyrocketed since the Trump administration made the decision with Israel to attack Iran in late February. Drivers now pay an average of $4.13 per gallon for gasoline, up roughly a dollar from before the invasion.
Those higher costs have put a squeeze on transportation gig workers like the one who delivered the president his McDonald’s on Monday. In fact, fuel prices have gotten so bad that DoorDash recently instituted an “emergency gas relief program” to help workers weather the Trump-induced energy crisis. It includes a weekly stipend for high mileage drivers.
Of course, that’s not what Trump was looking to promote with his DoorDash stunt. In a statement, the White House claimed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (rebranded as the Working Families Tax Cut Act) has helped the driver, Sharon Simmons of Arkansas, save big on her tax return this April due to the deduction for tips.
“Sharon is just one of the millions of American workers who are seeing the real results of President Trump’s signature Working Families Tax Cuts,” the White House said.
