“Because of the Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.”

Honesty requires saying it plainly: this claim is largely accurate. PolitiFact rated it Mostly True on April 29, 2026. Counting all petroleum liquids, the United States produced about 23.6 million barrels per day in 2025, ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia's combined 21.7 million. The U.S. is unambiguously the world's largest oil producer. The catch is what the boast leaves out: America's lead is built on natural gas liquids like ethane, propane, and butane, plus biofuels and a refinery accounting adjustment, not on crude oil. On crude alone, the commodity that actually becomes gasoline, the U.S. produced 13.6 million barrels per day in 2025, well short of the 19.4 million Russia and Saudi Arabia pumped together. As one energy analyst put it to PolitiFact, "you can't run a car on butane."

The political sleight of hand is using the broadest possible statistic to imply Americans are insulated from a global crude shock, like the Strait of Hormuz crisis Trump invoked. They are not: U.S. gasoline prices are set by global crude markets, and America's record 2025 crude output (a record built across both the Biden and Trump administrations) still leaves it dependent on imported crude grades for its refineries.

"You can't run a car on butane." — Clark Williams-Derry, energy finance analyst, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, to PolitiFact