President Trump seems to have followed through on his word that he would step up to the plate and demand that Saudi Arabia keep oil prices low. Then real estate mogul and potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Trump addressed the Nevada Republican Party in a 2011 speech that many speculated was going to be his presidential campaign announcement. On the topic of oil prices, President Trump asserted that nobody in Washington has negotiated well enough with members of OPEC for the American people, but that he would be bold enough to make strong demands with nations such as Saudi Arabia.

"Did you see recently where a couple of days ago Saudi Arabia said ah let's, raise the price let's cut back production. Can you believe it you're going to be paying five and six dollars a gallon for gasoline pretty soon and they wanna they want to go in and raise he price of oil because we have nobody in Washington that sits back and said 'you're not going to raise that f***in' price."