President Trump said Thursday that Middle East countries should help push oil prices lower for the U.S., because the U.S. helps to protect nations in that region of the world.

“We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices! We will remember,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning. “The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!”

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