President Donald Trump on April 12 predicted that the current elevated gasoline prices could go higher or remain the same before the November midterm elections, after oil prices surged in the wake of the Iran conflict. Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo asked Trump whether his newly announced blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be enough to reopen the strait and lower prices. The strait carried about one-fifth of the world’s oil before the conflict. “Well, it’s eventually going to be lower,” Trump said. “No, it might not happen initially, but it’s going to go down.” Trump said that America has “got to stop this country from having a nuclear weapon,” referring to the Iranian regime....