Trump takes victory lap on hiring surge and stock rally vows gas will drop in 90 days when we come out of Iran

WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap Friday after a surprisingly strong monthly jobs report showed the economy added 172,000 jobs in May as major stock indices smashed records — while promising midterm voters that gasoline costs would drop soon.Trump touted the positive economic numbers during a farmer roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and said that good news would come within 90 days for fuel and fertilizer costs following the end of the Iran war, which he said would happen “one way or the other.”“Hopefully you’re going to be voting Republican,” Trump said as he campaigned for GOP candidates who joined him in the large tin farm building — addressing head-on economic concerns that are his party’s top perceived vulnerability.“I hope you people are really spiritized, because we’re at a point we’re going to come out of Iran very quickly, and it’s going to be very strong one way or the other, whether it’s a piece of paper or the very tough way,” said Trump, seated in front of a large green John Deere tractor.“We’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago.”Trump added: “I told [farmer] Ken [Custer], ’90 days, watch what happens, you could be better — better than you were four months ago!'”“Over the last couple of months since we went in for the military operation, you’ve seen fertilizer go up and you’ve seen the energy go up.It’s going to come down to where it was, or lower,” Trump vowed.“You’ll be very happy.”Farmers participating in the roundtable thanked Trump for policies that they said made it easier to sell whole milk, brew beer and transfer farm ownership to their children.

Trump told his audience that the economy was strong and only getting stronger — pointing to the unexpected May jobs data that nearly doubled economist expectations.“I’m delighted to report that for the third month in a row the jobs numbers — I gu...