President Donald Trump made this claim Tuesday morning about gasoline prices: “If you notice, the price is not very high, relatively speaking. I mean, it’s lower than during the Biden administration.” Referring to the war with Iran, Trump also told reporters that the price of gas is “lower during a military conflict than it was during the Biden administration.”
It’s true that the AAA national average gas price on both Monday and Tuesday, $4.16 per gallon, is lower than the peak national average gas price during the Biden administration, $5.02 per gallon in June 2022 – which occurred during the international spike that followed Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
But the current $4.16 per gallon national average is significantly higher than the national average when Biden left office in January 2025, which was $3.12 per gallon. And it’s higher than the national average was on 1,334 of Biden’s 1,460 full days as president, figures provided by AAA show.
In other words, the national average gas price is higher now than it was during 91% of Biden’s term.
It’s also higher now than it was every single day of Biden’s last 29-and-a-half months in office. The last time under Biden that it was higher than it is today was August 3, 2022, according to AAA, when it was a smidgen higher if you go to multiple decimal places.
