Name: Enten runs all the numbers on Iran war: From Kharg to Trump
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Hey there, I'm Harry Enten, and today we're not just running the numbers on the war in Iran.

We are running all the numbers on the war in Iran, and you won't see this on television.

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Let's start off by talking about two key terms that, basically, before this war began, nobody was really talking about,

and you might not have even heard of them.

We're talking about Karg Island and the Strait of Hormuz, of course, very much having to do with oil that is exported by Iran.

And you can see here Google searches in March up like a rocket.

I mean, my goodness gracious, record high streets for Karg Island.

Look at this, Google searches up over 20,000%.

And then the Strait of Hormuz up 1,900% versus a month ago.

Again, record highs in Google dating all the way back since 2004.

So if you hadn't heard of either Karg Island or the Strait of Hormuz before the war in Iran, guess what?

That is why we're talking about Karg Island and the Strait of Hormuz,

and we're talking about gas prices here in the United States.

And we are talking about increases that, frankly, we have never seen, at least over the last 35 years.

Okay, now, right now, the largest four-week gas price increase since at least 1991.

You have to go all the way back since the Bills played in their first Super Bowl to find increases this high.

In fact, I went back through the record books.

We're talking about an increase of a dollar over just a four-week period for the first time ever.

That is why the Strait of Hormuz and Karg Island are so important, because essentially what has gone on, of course, is that the Strait of Hormuz has closed and it has choked off.

Choked off the oil supply that is heading out of Iran,

and that, of course, has driven up gas prices here in the United States of America.

But that is not all that's been going on.

This, I think, really sort of gives the game away.

Economic measures since the Iran war began.

Well, we spoke about gas prices, right, being up 33%.

That means, along with the downflow that we saw early Iran, just before the Iran war started, that the Dow Jones has actually entered correction territory.

So oil prices climb ever higher, but the rest of the economy has been suffering.

It has been suffering because of the war in Iran.

Of course, we had all those years, right?

All those years in which the stock market had been climbing, climbing, climbing.

But basically, what we've seen over the last month and change is that stocks are finally entering correction territory, which if you have a 401(k) like myself, that's not exactly welcome news.

Of course, if you own oil, it's actually quite welcome news that you've seen gas prices go up and oil prices climb ever higher.

Now, of course, one of the key things that folks have spoken about, right, that we've been hearing about is potentially ground troops entering Iran, specifically Karg Island, because of these gas prices climbing higher.

Well, that, that is not something that the American people want at all.

I mean, you rarely see polling data like this.

Of course, if you don't know, you get your bar mitzvah at age 13.

Three in five Americans already oppose ground troops in Iran, and even among Republicans.

Even among Republicans who stick through it with Donald Trump through thick and thin, just a fifth.

Just a fifth of Republicans right now support ground troops in Iran, about half opposed.

So even among Donald Trump's base, we see real opposition.

Real opposition to troops on the ground in Iran, even at places like Karg Island, to help open up that oil supply chain, right?

It obviously makes me beg the question, how has this war had an impact on Donald Trump,

and how are Americans viewing Donald Trump on the war in Iran?

I mean, look at these numbers, and I want you to take a look.

The Iraq War, of course, that was George W.

We're talking about April in 2003, and we're talking about the Iran War now with Donald Trump.

Look how popular Bush was when it came to the war in Iran a month in.

Now, of course, the war in Iraq, excuse me, not the war in Iran.

Look, his approval rating on the war would go way down, but

Plus 56 points with his net approval rating.

It gave him a real boost in his approval rating.

There really was a rally around the flag event for George W.

This is just, this isn't on another planet, folks.

This is an entirely other, different galaxy.

He's down there with the Titanic Donald Trump is when it comes to how people view him when it comes to the war in Iran.