AI Analysis
Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-08-05. Not written by the author of the post.
A supply-repair post triggered by omission rather than attack: a CEO explained his company's success without crediting the subject, and the phrase 'conveniently forgot to mention' recodes that silence as deliberate ingratitude. The injury threshold is notably low — the absence of criticism is insufficient; unprompted credit is required. Repair proceeds in the grandiose register, escalating rather than complaining: the industry 'and our Country itself, would be DEAD' absent the subject's 'genius, foresight, strength, and stability.' This contrasts with the vulnerable-persecutory tone of the same morning's polling post, indicating rapid intra-day oscillation between narcissistic poles. Two pathological distortions carry the argument. The counterfactual industry-death claim inverts a record of record production across multiple administrations. The Venezuela expulsion narrative is historically reversed — Chevron notably remained through the nationalizations that expelled ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and its curtailment was driven by US sanctions policy. Both distortions serve a redemption template (expulsion → triumphant return) applied to a third party as self-proxy. Mild devaluation of Wirth pairs with reflexive idealization of a friendly host. The post closes by ordering an entire industry to cut retail prices while congratulating it on expecting 'to make a fortune' — an unreconciled contradiction reflecting motivational rather than cognitive incoherence, since both halves demonstrate command over others. No danger indicators. Cognitive presentation is at baseline. Authorship authentic with high confidence.
- Real-time reaction to a named Fox Business host and guest segment ('the fabulous Maria Bartiromo'), timed to just after the morning broadcast window (09:50 ET)
- Signature closings: 'Thank you for your attention to this matter' and 'President DJT'
- Organic punctuation error: intrusive comma in 'strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration'
- Ellipsis-as-hinge pivot from third-person narration to direct imperative ('...and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW!')
- Emotional ALL CAPS (TRUMP, DEAD, DOWN, NOW) rather than stylistic emphasis
Strongest facet: Low agreeableness — absence of modesty (immodesty facet), paired with high assertiveness
Primary drive: validation
Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Chevron CEO Mike Wirth's Maria Bartiromo interview attributing company performance to factors other than the Trump administration)
Rage: Intensity 30% targeting Mike Wirth / Chevron leadership, for omitting credit to the administration
None
- Historical revisionism: 'they threw Mike and Chevron out of Venezuela' inverts the actual record in which Chevron uniquely remained through the Chávez-era nationalizations
- Counterfactual asserted as established fact: the oil industry and 'our Country itself, would be DEAD' absent the administration
- Imputation of concealed motive to a neutral omission ('conveniently forgot to mention')
- Claim that Chevron was expelled from Venezuela, when Chevron was the major US producer that stayed and its later curtailment stemmed from US sanctions policy
- Claim that the US oil industry would not exist without the current administration, contradicted by record production levels across preceding administrations
- Implicit claim that Chevron's Venezuelan operations are now 'far bigger and stronger than ever before'
Chevron was the notable exception among US majors in Venezuela — it remained through the Chávez-era nationalizations of the Orinoco Belt that drove out ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, retaining joint-venture stakes with PDVSA for decades. Chevron's operational restrictions in Venezuela stemmed from United States sanctions and licensing decisions, not from expulsion by the Venezuelan government. The framing reverses the agent of removal.
US crude oil production reached successive record highs across multiple administrations of both parties, including periods preceding and following the subject's terms, driven substantially by shale technology, private capital, and global price conditions. No credible energy-sector analysis attributes the industry's existence to a single administration. The claim is a causal counterfactual stated as established fact.
Deep research resolved this from unverifiable to half true. The production growth is real, but both the superlative and the profit expectation are overstated, and the framing of a "return" is inaccurate.
What is confirmed. On Chevron's Q2 2026 earnings call (July 31, 2026), management stated: "We've grown production over the last few years from 40,000 to 250,000. With the existing model that we have in place, we have grown the production from those 3 JVs, 15% over the last 6 months to 280,000 barrels of oil per day," and "We're anticipating that we will be able to grow up to 50% between now and the end of 2028." Chevron also strengthened its structural position in 2026: an asset swap raised its Petroindependencia working interest to 49 percent, and Petropiar gained rights to the adjacent Ayacucho 8 area. Venezuela's post-Maduro interim government amended the Organic Hydrocarbons Law (February 2026) and issued implementing regulations signed July 9, 2026, ending PDVSA's monopoly, lowering the state's minimum joint-venture stake, capping royalties at 30 percent and introducing an integrated hydrocarbons tax capped at 15 percent. So "bigger and stronger" than at any point in the sanctions era is defensible.
Why "far bigger than ever before" fails. The 280,000 bpd is gross joint-venture output — Chevron plus PDVSA's majority share — not Chevron's net entitlement. Chevron holds minority stakes: 30 percent of Petropiar, 39.2 percent of Petroboscan, 25.2 percent of Petroindependiente, and 35.8 percent (now 49 percent) of Petroindependencia. Comparable gross output existed before: Chevron's FY2008 disclosures show Petropiar averaging 159,000 bpd of liquids gross and Petroboscan 103,000 bpd gross, plus Petroindependiente — roughly 270,000–290,000 bpd gross, at or slightly above today's level. Chevron's FY2008 10-K reports its net share of Venezuelan production that year at 66,000 boe/d. Pre-2019-sanctions joint-venture output is generally cited at roughly 200,000 bpd (some sources up to 240,000). In the century-long frame Trump invokes, the comparison is far worse: Chevron's own legacy Venezuelan company, Mene Grande Oil Company (Gulf Oil's subsidiary; Gulf merged into Chevron in 1984, and Chevron publicly claims this 100-year Venezuelan heritage), hit peak production of 526,811 bpd in 1967 — nearly double the current gross figure. Chevron's FY2025 10-K also states that as of December 31, 2025, "no proved reserves are recognized" for its Venezuelan interests, and Venezuela does not appear as a line item in Chevron's net production table.
Why "expecting to make a fortune" fails. On May 29, 2026 — roughly two months before the post — Wirth told Bloomberg that Venezuela must lower its taxes and royalties to attract new investment, that existing fiscal terms are a barrier to investor returns, and that Chevron would not commit fresh capital the following year absent better terms. On the July 31, 2026 call he repeated that terms "have to be competitive and they have to compete in our portfolio." Chevron's current Venezuelan cash flow is dominated by recovering a PDVSA receivable, not by profit: CFO Eimear Bonner said "We expect that by early 2027, that will be fully recovered." Chevron's FY2025 10-K notes that other income decreased in 2025 "mainly due to ... lower income from Venezuela." Chevron's record Q2 2026 profit of $12.1 billion (its highest in about six years) was driven by record U.S. upstream production of nearly 2.1 million boe/d, record refinery throughput above 1 million bpd, the Hess integration and war-elevated prices — not Venezuela. CNBC and CNN reporting in January 2026 characterized Venezuela as a long-horizon opportunity requiring years and billions of dollars before any payoff, with OFAC licenses revocable at will.
Also relevant to the premise: Chevron was never expelled. It operated continuously in Venezuela for more than a century, stayed through the 2007 nationalizations that drove out ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and its curtailment came from U.S. Treasury licensing decisions, not Venezuelan expulsion. Multiple outlets covering the post noted Chevron was "the only major US oil company operating there throughout sanctions."
Deep research fully confirmed this claim, and located two separate Wirth–Bartiromo interviews in the 48 hours preceding the post.
First appearance: Fox News published an article on August 2, 2026 at 1:16 p.m. EDT reporting that Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth appeared on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Fox's own video archive carries the August 2 episode, and Fox News video clips from the segment include "Chevron eyes Iraq project to bypass Strait of Hormuz." In it Wirth touted Chevron's operational performance — production up 20 percent year over year and 5 percent from Q1 to Q2 2026, an all-time U.S. record of over 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day — while warning that "the risks to supply are very real," that inventories had been drawn down worldwide, and that "the situation remains somewhat fragile and uncertain" amid the Iran conflict. The interview was taped Friday (July 31, the day of Chevron's Q2 earnings release) and aired Sunday, August 2. This was independently recirculated by AOL and The Gateway Pundit.
Second appearance: Fox Business published a video dated August 3, 2026 — the morning of Trump's post — in which "Chevron CEO Mike Wirth joined 'Mornings with Maria' to discuss the company's record earnings, its 20-year AI power deal with Microsoft, rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East and why permitting reform is critical for U.S. energy." Bartiromo hosts Mornings with Maria on Fox Business on weekdays and Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News on Sundays, so both are hers. Trump's post was time-stamped 13:50 UTC / 09:50 ET on August 3, immediately after the Mornings with Maria window.
The substance matches Trump's characterization. Bloomberg's report on the post (carried by Yahoo Finance) described Wirth's interview on Fox Business Network and quoted him saying Chevron had record U.S. production and refining throughput in the second quarter "at a time when the world energy system has been stressed and the need for supplies to markets and customers has never been higher," and that "we're going to see some upward pressure on product pricing here into the third quarter." Chevron's underlying Q2 2026 results support the "doing so well" framing: earnings of $12.1 billion ($6.11/share), its highest quarterly profit in about six years, with Wirth stating on the earnings call, "In the U.S., we achieved a new upstream production record of nearly 2.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and record refinery throughput of over 1 million barrels per day." Al Jazeera, Reuters, Fox Business and BOE Report all covered Trump's August 3 post responding to the interview.
No contradictions with other posts detected yet.
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Post Analysis — Truth Social, 2026-08-03, 13:50 UTC
1. Authorship Attribution
Assessment: Authentic Trump (score 0.93, confidence high).
Timing converts to 09:50 ET — nominally "business hours," which in isolation would weakly favor aide authorship. That indicator is overridden by overwhelming structural and stylistic evidence:
- Real-time television reaction. The post is keyed to a named Fox Business host ("the fabulous Maria Bartiromo") and a specific guest segment, the single most reliable marker of authentic authorship. 09:50 ET falls immediately after the Mornings with Maria broadcast window.
- Signature closings. "Thank you for your attention to this matter" and the "President DJT" sign-off are idiosyncratic Trump formulae.
- Organic punctuation errors. "without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration" — an intrusive comma severing the prepositional phrase from its object; no aide-drafted release retains this.
- Ellipsis-as-hinge ("...and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW!") marking a mid-post pivot from third-person narration to direct imperative address to an unnamed industry.
- Vague attribution and round claims ("far bigger and stronger than ever before," "make a fortune") rather than the statistics or bill numbers characteristic of staff drafting.
- Grandiose self-referential insertion mid-sentence, with capitalization used emotionally (TRUMP, DEAD, DOWN, NOW) rather than stylistically.
The only aide-consistent features are correct spelling and generally complete sentences — which the framework explicitly notes are non-diagnostic.
2. Psychological State and Trigger
Trigger: narcissistic injury by omission, followed immediately by supply repair.
The precipitating stimulus is not an attack but an absence: a CEO explained his company's performance without attributing it to the subject. The phrasing "conveniently forgot to mention" encodes the omission as deliberate and self-serving — an attributional leap that reveals a schema in which non-mention is not neutral but hostile. This is a low-threshold injury: the subject requires not merely the absence of criticism but the active, unprompted presence of credit.
Narcissistic state: grandiose, with no vulnerable coloring. The repair is expansive rather than wounded — the injury is answered by escalating the claim ("the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD") rather than by complaint of persecution. This distinguishes the post from the persecutory register of the 2026-08-03 polling post ("Fake News Media... Crooked and Corrupt"), which appeared hours earlier and occupied the vulnerable pole. The rapid oscillation between vulnerable-persecutory and grandiose-expansive registers within a single morning is consistent with the mixed presentation documented longitudinally, though this individual post sits firmly in the grandiose quadrant.
Rage: present but low-intensity (0.3). Aggression is displaced into passive-aggressive framing ("conveniently forgot") and then converted into a coercive demand. Proportionality is low: a CEO's failure to thank a sitting president in a routine earnings-adjacent interview draws a public presidential rebuke plus a pricing directive. The disproportion is characteristic rather than acute.
3. Defense Mechanisms
- Distortion (pathological). The counterfactual "the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD" grossly reshapes causal reality to service self-concept. US crude production reached record levels across multiple prior administrations; no plausible model supports industry death absent one administration.
- Distortion / confabulated history (pathological). "They threw Mike and Chevron out of Venezuela" is factually inverted — Chevron notably remained in Venezuela through the Chávez-era nationalizations that expelled ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and its later curtailment was driven by US sanctions policy, not Venezuelan expulsion. The narrative is restructured so the subject rescues a victim from a foreign villain.
- Devaluation (immature), mild. "Conveniently forgot" imputes bad faith to Wirth while withholding overt attack — the target remains useful.
- Idealization (immature). "The fabulous Maria Bartiromo" — reflexive elevation of a friendly media figure, functioning as in-group marking.
- Rationalization (neurotic). The demand for lower retail prices is presented as the natural reciprocal obligation of a favor conferred, converting a coercive act into a fairness claim.
4. Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Agency motives dominate near-completely (0.95): control over private-sector pricing, status assertion over a Fortune 50 CEO, and credit-capture. Communion is near-absent (0.12); the only affiliative gesture, toward Bartiromo, is instrumental.
The governing schema is transactional debt: benefits conferred by the subject create standing obligations, and the failure to acknowledge them publicly is a default. Note the unreconciled contradiction inside a single sentence — oil companies are simultaneously congratulated for "expecting to make a fortune" and ordered to cut retail prices. This is not necessarily a cognitive lapse; it reflects the fact that both halves serve the same underlying motive (demonstrating command over others' behavior), so their economic incompatibility never surfaces as a problem to be resolved.
5. Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Protagonist role: Savior-Sovereign. The subject is the unacknowledged causal agent behind an entire industry's survival, and the issuer of binding instructions to it.
Narrative sequence: redemption. Explicitly staged — expulsion ("they threw Mike and Chevron out") → restoration under the subject's agency ("but now they're back, far bigger and stronger than ever before"). This is the canonical Trump narrative template applied to a third party as proxy for self.
Identity claims: possessor of "genius, foresight, strength, and stability"; guarantor of national survival; legitimate director of private commercial pricing. Note the continuity with the prior day's golf post ("It's called TALENT, and I have it, and they don't!") — trait-essentialist self-attribution is running high across this window.
Contrasting other: diffuse and comparatively soft — Mike Wirth as the insufficiently grateful beneficiary, with the Venezuelan expropriators as the offstage antagonist.
6. Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis
Devices: counterfactual credit-claiming; apophasis-adjacent framing (praising the interview in order to attack its omission); quadruple abstract-noun stacking ("genius, foresight, strength, and stability") as glittering generalities; hyperbolic catastrophizing ("DEAD"); emphatic capitalization; direct imperative with urgency intensifier ("DOWN, NOW!"); formulaic authoritative sign-off.
Propaganda techniques: card stacking (selective causal history of Chevron/Venezuela), transfer (attaching corporate success to personal virtue), appeal to authority via friendly-media validation, and glittering generalities.
No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No eliminationist framing.
7. Gaslighting and Reality Distortion
Present at moderate level, primarily historical revisionism rather than DARVO. The Venezuela expulsion narrative and the industry-would-be-dead counterfactual both invite the audience to accept a causal story contradicted by the public record. Epistemic closure is not strongly asserted here — no explicit loyalty test, no attack on the audience's perception — so this is better classified as reality distortion in service of self-inflation than as coercive gaslighting.
8. Cognitive Status
No marked deviation from baseline. Syntax is complex but tracked: the long central sentence with nested subordination is navigated without breakdown. Vocabulary is at baseline. Slight comma over-insertion and one topical pivot (Chevron praise → generalized pricing directive) are within long-established range. The dual demand (make a fortune / lower prices) is best read as motivational rather than cognitive incoherence. Complexity estimate 0.42 — typical for this platform and period. Longitudinal comparison against 2024–2025 energy-sector posts would sharpen this estimate.
9. Danger Assessment
None. No target identification, no mobilization language, no implied action against persons. The coercive element is directed at corporate pricing behavior and is institutional in character rather than violent.
Worth flagging for a separate register: public presidential direction of a private firm's retail pricing, delivered as a command with an implied reciprocal obligation, constitutes norm-erosive jawboning. This is a governance observation, not a violence indicator.
10. Archetypal and Order/Chaos Positioning
Archetypes: King (issuing directives to subordinate powers), Hero/Savior (industry rescued from death), with a trace of Victim in the unacknowledged-benefactor motif. Shadow projection is minimal here — "conveniently forgot" projects self-interested calculation onto Wirth, a trait more characteristic of the projector.
Order positioning: order restorer. Order is conferred on domestic producers and consumers; chaos remains assigned offstage to foreign expropriators. Hierarchy is explicitly restructured — the head of state placed above the head of a multinational, who is publicly instructed and publicly corrected.
Confidence Summary
Authorship: high. Trigger identification: high. Defense classification: medium-high. Cognitive assessment: medium (single post, no audio). Historical fact assessment on Venezuela: high.
Fact Verification
| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| "Chevron and CEO Mike Wirth were thrown out of Venezuela." | Mostly False | Chevron was the notable exception among US majors in Venezuela — it remained through the Chávez-era nationalizations of the Orinoco Belt that drove out ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, retaining joint-venture stakes with PDVSA for decades. Chevron's operational restrictions in Venezuela stemmed from United States sanctions and licensing decisions, not from expulsion by the Venezuelan government. The framing reverses the agent of removal. |
| "Without the Trump administration, the oil industry and the country itself would be dead." | Mostly False | US crude oil production reached successive record highs across multiple administrations of both parties, including periods preceding and following the subject's terms, driven substantially by shale technology, private capital, and global price conditions. No credible energy-sector analysis attributes the industry's existence to a single administration. The claim is a causal counterfactual stated as established fact. |
| "Chevron is now back in Venezuela 'far bigger and stronger than ever before, expecting to make a fortune.'" | Half True | Deep research resolved this from unverifiable to half true. The production growth is real, but both the superlative and the profit expectation are overstated, and the framing of a "return" is inaccurate. |
What is confirmed. On Chevron's Q2 2026 earnings call (July 31, 2026), management stated: "We've grown production over the last few years from 40,000 to 250,000. With the existing model that we have in place, we have grown the production from those 3 JVs, 15% over the last 6 months to 280,000 barrels of oil per day," and "We're anticipating that we will be able to grow up to 50% between now and the end of 2028." Chevron also strengthened its structural position in 2026: an asset swap raised its Petroindependencia working interest to 49 percent, and Petropiar gained rights to the adjacent Ayacucho 8 area. Venezuela's post-Maduro interim government amended the Organic Hydrocarbons Law (February 2026) and issued implementing regulations signed July 9, 2026, ending PDVSA's monopoly, lowering the state's minimum joint-venture stake, capping royalties at 30 percent and introducing an integrated hydrocarbons tax capped at 15 percent. So "bigger and stronger" than at any point in the sanctions era is defensible.
Why "far bigger than ever before" fails. The 280,000 bpd is gross joint-venture output — Chevron plus PDVSA's majority share — not Chevron's net entitlement. Chevron holds minority stakes: 30 percent of Petropiar, 39.2 percent of Petroboscan, 25.2 percent of Petroindependiente, and 35.8 percent (now 49 percent) of Petroindependencia. Comparable gross output existed before: Chevron's FY2008 disclosures show Petropiar averaging 159,000 bpd of liquids gross and Petroboscan 103,000 bpd gross, plus Petroindependiente — roughly 270,000–290,000 bpd gross, at or slightly above today's level. Chevron's FY2008 10-K reports its net share of Venezuelan production that year at 66,000 boe/d. Pre-2019-sanctions joint-venture output is generally cited at roughly 200,000 bpd (some sources up to 240,000). In the century-long frame Trump invokes, the comparison is far worse: Chevron's own legacy Venezuelan company, Mene Grande Oil Company (Gulf Oil's subsidiary; Gulf merged into Chevron in 1984, and Chevron publicly claims this 100-year Venezuelan heritage), hit peak production of 526,811 bpd in 1967 — nearly double the current gross figure. Chevron's FY2025 10-K also states that as of December 31, 2025, "no proved reserves are recognized" for its Venezuelan interests, and Venezuela does not appear as a line item in Chevron's net production table.
Why "expecting to make a fortune" fails. On May 29, 2026 — roughly two months before the post — Wirth told Bloomberg that Venezuela must lower its taxes and royalties to attract new investment, that existing fiscal terms are a barrier to investor returns, and that Chevron would not commit fresh capital the following year absent better terms. On the July 31, 2026 call he repeated that terms "have to be competitive and they have to compete in our portfolio." Chevron's current Venezuelan cash flow is dominated by recovering a PDVSA receivable, not by profit: CFO Eimear Bonner said "We expect that by early 2027, that will be fully recovered." Chevron's FY2025 10-K notes that other income decreased in 2025 "mainly due to ... lower income from Venezuela." Chevron's record Q2 2026 profit of $12.1 billion (its highest in about six years) was driven by record U.S. upstream production of nearly 2.1 million boe/d, record refinery throughput above 1 million bpd, the Hess integration and war-elevated prices — not Venezuela. CNBC and CNN reporting in January 2026 characterized Venezuela as a long-horizon opportunity requiring years and billions of dollars before any payoff, with OFAC licenses revocable at will.
Also relevant to the premise: Chevron was never expelled. It operated continuously in Venezuela for more than a century, stayed through the 2007 nationalizations that drove out ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and its curtailment came from U.S. Treasury licensing decisions, not Venezuelan expulsion. Multiple outlets covering the post noted Chevron was "the only major US oil company operating there throughout sanctions." | | "Chevron CEO Mike Wirth gave an interview with Maria Bartiromo discussing the company's strong performance." | True | Deep research fully confirmed this claim, and located two separate Wirth–Bartiromo interviews in the 48 hours preceding the post.
First appearance: Fox News published an article on August 2, 2026 at 1:16 p.m. EDT reporting that Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth appeared on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Fox's own video archive carries the August 2 episode, and Fox News video clips from the segment include "Chevron eyes Iraq project to bypass Strait of Hormuz." In it Wirth touted Chevron's operational performance — production up 20 percent year over year and 5 percent from Q1 to Q2 2026, an all-time U.S. record of over 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day — while warning that "the risks to supply are very real," that inventories had been drawn down worldwide, and that "the situation remains somewhat fragile and uncertain" amid the Iran conflict. The interview was taped Friday (July 31, the day of Chevron's Q2 earnings release) and aired Sunday, August 2. This was independently recirculated by AOL and The Gateway Pundit.
Second appearance: Fox Business published a video dated August 3, 2026 — the morning of Trump's post — in which "Chevron CEO Mike Wirth joined 'Mornings with Maria' to discuss the company's record earnings, its 20-year AI power deal with Microsoft, rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East and why permitting reform is critical for U.S. energy." Bartiromo hosts Mornings with Maria on Fox Business on weekdays and Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News on Sundays, so both are hers. Trump's post was time-stamped 13:50 UTC / 09:50 ET on August 3, immediately after the Mornings with Maria window.
The substance matches Trump's characterization. Bloomberg's report on the post (carried by Yahoo Finance) described Wirth's interview on Fox Business Network and quoted him saying Chevron had record U.S. production and refining throughput in the second quarter "at a time when the world energy system has been stressed and the need for supplies to markets and customers has never been higher," and that "we're going to see some upward pressure on product pricing here into the third quarter." Chevron's underlying Q2 2026 results support the "doing so well" framing: earnings of $12.1 billion ($6.11/share), its highest quarterly profit in about six years, with Wirth stating on the earnings call, "In the U.S., we achieved a new upstream production record of nearly 2.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and record refinery throughput of over 1 million barrels per day." Al Jazeera, Reuters, Fox Business and BOE Report all covered Trump's August 3 post responding to the interview. |
Overall Veracity: 48%
Post from Truth Social
Mike Wirth, Chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave, in an interview with the fabulous Maria Bartiromo, all of the reasons that his company is doing so well. The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD! As an example, they threw Mike and Chevron out of Venezuela, but now they’re back, far bigger and stronger than ever before, expecting to make a fortune! That goes for other Oil Companies as well…and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT