Gas price averages keep skyrocketing upward in line graphs resembling Mount Everest, and it’s astonishing in light of the rosy way President Joe Biden painted the state of our union just last week during his eponymous speech.

It’s almost comical to consider how Biden proudly and delusionally compared himself to his predecessor, under whom gas prices lived in the $2.00 territory — especially when you consider that Trump’s predictions about Biden being a presidential disaster have proved to be spot-on.

Donald Trump’s tax cuts only helped the rich, Biden said during his address, and now anyone earning less than $400,000 a year doesn’t have to pay any more in taxes. Buying American products is a priority, he added, and my tax plan will lower costs. Oh, and our economy has roared back since my administration took the reins.

Americans didn’t need Glenn Kessler fact-checking these statements to rightly conclude that they’re lies; they feel it at work, the grocery store, and the gas pump. The exorbitant price of fuel sure doesn’t feel like the result of a “made in America” pledge, nor does it feel like a tax cut or a roaring economy.

Even more laughable than Biden’s obvious Pinocchios, however, is how right our ex-president was about the realities of what a Biden presidency would bring. This was from a stereotypical Trump rally speech before Biden was elected in 2020:

We have more oil than anybody, OK? And it’s an incredible thing that’s happened over the last few years — a lot of great things. And you’re paying what? $2.00 a gallon for your gasoline? That’s OK. You know what that’s like? That’s like a tax cut. That’s bigger than a tax cut. If Biden got in, you’d be paying $7.00, $8.00, $9.00. Then they’d say, ‘Get rid of your car.’

Trump’s accuracy is a little spooky. Under Trump’s administration and thanks to their efforts toward achieving energy independence, the United States began exporting more petroleum than we imported for the first time in more than 70 years. These were strides Biden undid in his first hours in office, giving up crucial energy independence that has crippled our foreign policy capacity to devastating effects. Now the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that we’ll become a net importer once again in 2022.