Trump Official Says Americans 'Have To Offer The President Grace' On Rising Prices

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 22nd, 2026, 2:46 pm


Trump Transportation secretary Sean Duffy pleaded for “grace” for President Donald Trump Sunday as Americans continued to struggle with the high cost of living. Duffy appeared on ABC News’s This Week where Jonathan Karl asked if Americans should hold off on buying airline tickets now that oil prices are skyrocketing due to the Iran war.

United Airlines’s CEO said last week that he’s bracing for $175 a barrel for crude oil, which could make the cost of an airplane ticket prohibitive for average Americans.

“Well, we haven’t seen a significant spike in tickets because of this conflict,” Duffy said. “Now, Scott Kirby from United said he could see oil prices go up to $170. I think airlines do well when they plan for the worst and hope for the best. So, that’s what I think is happening there.” “But I think we have to offer the president grace,” Duffy said, continuing:

We know the president cares about the economy, gas prices for the American people. He’s talked about that frequently and often. He also cares about peace, and a lot of people don’t give him credit for that. But he’s proud of the conflicts that he resolves and he doesn’t want to see conflict. I hear him talk behind closed doors about the number of young men and women who are lost in battles around the world. He cares about that.

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The sudden "woe is me/have pity" "charm offensive" today.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

1. The hell we do!

I vote for guillotines instead.

[thomski64]

4. F T S !!!!

[IzzaNuDay]

71. Yep, party like it's 1789

we should be able to make it work!

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. GFY, Duffy.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's a con game every step of the way

Don't believe a word they say as they try to control your mind.

[BeyondGeography]

5. I hear the sound of Joe Biden laughing

[blue-wave]

66. Yeah, Joe is laughing and also likely

crying about the fate of our country at the same time.

[Whip-poor-will]

6. "But I think we have to offer the president grace,

No

[GreenWave]

7. Oh no honey bunny. He will just give us the tariff rebates and that will do for a while.

[Rebl2]

35. Rofl

🤣🤣🤣. Right.

[DBoon]

8. Should we also sacrifice a goat for him?

[Beartracks]

34. What, like he's worshipped as a false idol or something?

Oh, wait...





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[Lovie777]

9. Yes..............

let us steal your money.

[ananda]

10. Well.. what kind of grace comes from homeless and starving people...

I wonder.

[Blue Owl]

11. How about you go eat shit and die, Duffy?

[Cha]

54. Instead.

[ColoringFool]

12. Only If "Grace" Is A Synonym For "Cyanide."

[Deuxcents]

13. Earlier,Bessent said we needed to give him empathy. So, now it's grace and empathy..here ya go 🖕🖕

[vapor2]

50. Bessent, Hassett and Duffy

can all go to hell. Just sayin'

[sorcrow]

14. I'll say grace

I'll say grace when we put out his syphilitic carcass for the buzzards to eat. Amen

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[mdbl]

15. What a loon.

He's asking us to have grace for a big F-up who is wasting approaching trillions and is taxing the shit out of anyone not a billionaire?

[sop]

16. Yeah, because whenever anyone thinks of Trump the word that immediately springs to mind is "grace."

[Chasstev365]

17. Just like Republicans showed "Grace" to President Biden when he tried to clean up Trump's covid mess

Fuck off Republicans!

[FakeNoose]

18. Chump deserves the same amount of "grace" that he showed to Robert Mueller

None!

[sheshe2]

19. What a bunch of malarky!

[markodochartaigh]

20. The word "grace"

is an evangelical dog whistle.

[Cha]

55. Figured it was some shit

dog whistle.

[twodogsbarking]

21. What Trump deserves is ______________.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

24. Prison.

[twodogsbarking]

69. Flat line.

[catrose]

22. WHY

When has he ever offered anyone grace?

[BaronChocula]

23. Must not be the Biden economy anymore

[IronLionZion]

25. We'll all be saying grace when Orrex's daily threads come true

we'll be very thankful. Bless us O Lord.

[Talitha]

43. Yep, I no longer care how "it" happens. Just get it done.

[Bread and Circuses]

26. BOO! it's all B S. PEDOPREZ doesn't talk about the fallen soldiers

And Grace ! Grace is a GIFT given to those who show compassion and kindness or who are suffering .

They are twisting everything upside down.

I hope Hell is expanding ! All republicans will be there !

[LoisB]

27. Grace for IT is waaaaay above my pay grade.

[Spazito]

28. Geez...

What a babbling idiot. His Kool Ade must be spiked with Everclear.

[True Dough]

80. Happy 23rd DU anniversary!

[Spazito]

81. Thank You! I knew it was over 20 years but that was about it...

in some ways it seems like yesterday and in others it seems like forever.

[True Dough]

83. I know what you mean.

January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021 definitely felt like an eternity. And January 20, 2025 until January 20, 2029 will also feel like forever.

[Spazito]

85. Exactly!

[pwb]

29. Would he offer me grace?

No.

[Vinca]

30. We'll show him the same "grace" he shows us. It won't be pretty.

[SupportSanity]

63. Transactional grace

Love it!

[SergeStorms]

31. Bullshit.

I've been putting Trump "I Did That" stickers on every gas pump in western New York for the past 2 weeks. And the price just keeps going up, Up, UP, UP!

[Skittles]

32. yes, the way repukes did for Biden

DURING A FUCKING PANDEMIC

[patphil]

33. Grace? The guy wants grace?

I'll give him about as much grace as his ICE holes give to immigrants.

[live love laugh]

36. Worse is that thousands listened and believed that bullshit.

[JohnnyRingo]

37. How about the same "grace" they extended to Biden?

Or the bipartisanship when Obama was in the Oval Office.

[Baitball Blogger]

38. Who is he to ask us for anything, at all?

[CousinIT]

39. THE HELL THEY DO!

That economically illiterate sociopath doesn’t get ONE IOTA of grace from me.

EVER. For any reason, under any circumstance, at any time.

THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA AND THE ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY IS HIS FAULT!

ALL of it.

[Deminpenn]

40. No we don't

nt

[Norrrm]

41. What happened to the important issue of 'affordability'?

[MustLoveBeagles]

42. Were Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & other Democrats given any grace in 2024?

No? Well the RW's can fuck right off.

[cstanleytech]

44. Well starting a war to explain why prices are still rising is one way to cover your ass.

[Scarlet Begalas]

45. NO!

No we don't.

[Blasphemer]

46. Like the "grace" they gave Joe Biden? nt

[Grokenstein]

47. spraytan pigman doesn't care about anything but spraytan pigman. And he has NEVER shown "grace."

Who does Duffy think he's fooling?

[gohuskies]

48. Duffy is full of it

If this was President Biden, he and the rest of this fascist cabal would make impeachment their effing goal. Costing the lives and crashing the economy while begging and condemning our allies in favor of Putin is treason. This 'president' is breaking the country not to mention laws domestic and internationally. He is a global menace.

[Solly Mack]

49. Begging for grace and empathy? So now Trump is being pushed as an object of pity.

And now we are supposed to feel sorry for the billionaire president?

I don't think so.

[Cha]

51. Hey Fascist Fucks... We "have to" Do NO

such thing.

Have pity on the Der Furher Fuck face.

[johnnyfins]

52. Sorry, Elon says grace and empathy equal weakness

[Attilatheblond]

53. While most would likely be tolorant of a special needs child

We WILL NOT offer any grace or forbearance of a child rapist and decades long thief.

The man is nearly 80. If people had held him accountable for his behavior decades ago, we would not be in the mess he has created.

No means no and the Trump mob needs to accept that we will give no grace and no pardon to any of them.

[DallasNE]

56. What A Joke

Did this guy miss what Trump said about Mueller passing? He cares only about himself and his bank account.

[BidenRocks]

57. On day one!

Just fuck off!
Take gullible suckers with you!

[GoodRaisin]

58. Laughable.

[niyad]

59. May all involved receive everything they deserve.

[Keepthesoulalive]

60. Oh hell no

I will show him the same amount of grace he showed the Iranian school children. None.

[Multichromatic]

61. Fuck You! Where was the "Grace" from the media, the Republicans, and Trump for President Biden?

O... that's right you all had NONE!

The corrupt billionaire media just beat a drum for four years about Biden's "dementia", high gas prices, and the high cost of food. Trump has never fixed or even addressed ANY of these things. It's just crickets from the media.

I am SO sick of Trump getting a pass for everything!!!!!!

[modrepub]

62. LET'S GO TACO!

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[SupportSanity]

64. Yes, Trump needs grace.

While he re-loads.

[joshdawg]

65. duffy can suck eggs and pound sand!

Fuck him and the rest of the ugly bag of mostly bullshit's admin!!

[blue-wave]

67. What about offering the American people grace?

How about some grace for our allies?

[Danascot]

68. Grace!? Grace!?

I don t remember asking you a goddamn thing, mutherfer!

I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.



Edited to add gif.

[Javaman]

70. how about we counter offer a kick in the balls? nt

[LymphocyteLover]

72. Just like the grace Republicans gave Joe Biden as he worked his ass off to get us out of the previous disaster

trump and the Repigs left?

What fucking BS. The nerve of these sick people.

[samplegirl]

73. That's a big effing No!!!!

We listened to them cry over eggs forever!
They can eat shit!

[dlilafae]

74. The Resident deserves the same "grace"

that he extends to everyone else.

[republianmushroom]

75. In other words, what the hell did you expect, he lies. Suck it up.

[TBF]

76. New republican campaign slogan: "suck it up" - nt

[UpInArms]

77. fuck that

TFG is a graceless lump of inert fecal matter

there will be no "grace" offered

[Klarkashton]

78. Those republican bastards take a hard ass line

On anything related to the Democrats. Fuck that pice of shit.

[bucolic_frolic]

79. Who's Grace?

Where is she?

[Deep State Witch]

82. I Will Offer Him The Same Grace

That his minions did to Biden when prices were rising due to post-COVID inflation.

[thought crime]

84. Offer him a Graceful Exit

Resign and spend the next three years on the International Space Station - Banished from Earth

[RussBLib]

86. Ima Billionaire

That is so rich.

Too many layers of satire to comprehend. Must boot.

[Martin68]

87. Offer the graceless trump some grace for his inane, dangerous, and incoherent policies? Ha!

[City Lights]

88. I'll do no such thing!

He can eat the contents of his diapers!