U.S. President Donald Trump on June 10 dismissed concerns about the latest inflation data, telling reporters in the Oval Office that the numbers "were great" and disclosing that the U.S. military had secretly seized 22 Iranian oil ships in a nighttime operation. Trump said the covert seizures explained why oil prices remained at $85 a barrel rather than spiking to $250 a barrel as experts had predicted after the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities. He said inflation would fall sharply once the conflict ended.

Donald Trump insisted that surging inflation, caused by his tariffs and war in Iran, is a great thing.

Donald Trump brought up the oil right after a report showed inflation surging.

It’s unclear how the ‘millions of barrels’ Trump spoke of would have been removed without Tehran’s knowledge

The president clarified comments he made on Wednesday about hundreds of millions of barrels of oil he claimed to have secretly taken from Iran.