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Back in June, President Donald Trump justified the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Iran by making some alarming predictions.
“We run out of reserves at about four weeks,” Trump said during a press conference in France at the Group of Seven summit.
Running out of oil reserves would cause “bedlam,” he predicted, saying he feared being compared to Herbert Hoover, the Republican president who presided over a market crash that led to the Great Depression.
Trump does not want to be compared to Herbert Hoover.
