Key facts
- President Donald Trump stated that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is the administration's top priority.
- Trump predicted that oil prices would fall once the conflict with Iran concludes.
- Trump claimed the US is winning the conflict with Iran 'very handily'.
- Vice President JD Vance had previously stated that keeping oil and gas prices low for Americans was the administration's top priority.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said both preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and keeping gas prices low are equally important to the president.
US President Donald Trump has defended higher oil prices as a necessary sacrifice to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, stating that "people don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon." He predicted that oil prices would fall once the conflict with Iran concludes, asserting that the US is winning the conflict "very handily" and that Iran will "never have nuclear weapons."