Trump misfires in tweet on OPEC and oil prices

Oil & Gas Journal: For US President Donald Trump, the tweeted blurt has become a signature tool of policy expression.

Trump thumb-lectured the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Sept. 21 before a weekend meeting in Algiers of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC), representing nations coordinating oil supply.

“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. The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!”

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