Schmitt interjected: “Yeah, we have $100 a barrel oil right now, or that’s what it hit today, though. And there’s a lot of great things to talk about, the convention is loaded with them. We’ve talked about it the whole show, but we’ve been trying to get gas cheaper.”
“And that’s more difficult than we thought,” Schmitt continued. “Are you worried that these oil prices will continue, as the secretary of the interior? I know you’re in your personal capacity, but that’s not a good thing, going into an election, to have gas this expensive.”
That’s when Burgum went in for what
one social media critic called “Pyongyang style” praise.
“Well, it isn’t, but it’s a much better thing to make sure that we don’t have a terrorist group with a nuclear weapon,” he told Schmitt. “The IRGC was so close to having a nuclear weapon. President Trump has basically stopped World War III, saved the world.”