Sanders: For Trump, the pockets of his fellow billionaires are important, not the increase in gas prices The independent senator from the state of Vermont, who criticized the policies of the American president, announced that Donald Trump does not care about the increase in the price of gasoline in the United States. Trump finally said in public what should have been kept secret. As long as Trump's billionaire friends are covering huge fortunes, he doesn't care if gas prices go up at all. Trump rarely tells the truth, but he did last night.