Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Tuesday morning after a long, strange weekend trip through Trump’s weird and sociopathic imagination while the rest of us paid record prices for his failed war.
Trump sent us into the long holiday weekend with a gaffe that would have hit like a nuclear bomb if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had said it, describing the 18 American lives lost in his war as “small potatoes.”
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Pump Friction: Americans hit the road for Labor Day weekend with the average price of gasoline at $4.14 per gallon, crushing the previous Labor Day record of $3.82 in 2012.
And diesel fuel kept hitting new records, with GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan warning that the price in California could soon reach prices too high for pumps to display.
(D)iesel is closing in on a $6/gal national average as wholesale prices surge tonight 13c/gal with new attacks and threats. BUT the real story may be out West- California could blow past $8/gal, and some pumps aren't even built to display what could come next.
That sounds bad, doesn’t it?
Let Them Ride Horses: Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump went viral after she chose this moment to post a hype video of herself galloping up the beach on horseback.
That’s one way to beat Trump’s gas prices.
Hair Don’t: Speaking of social media insanity, Trump touched off a wave of mockery —
