Trump says Houthis trying to increase oil prices before US elections

US president suggests that Yemen-based group are ‘purposefully trying to drive up oil prices’ before November vote.Published On 13 Oct 202613 Oct 2026United States President Donald Trump has said that the Houthi rebel group in Yemen are stepping up attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia in a bid to increase energy prices in the run-up to the US midterm elections.Trump said on Tuesday that the Houthis were behaving “very badly” and repeated his threat that the US could step up military attacks across the Middle East after the November elections.“They’ve [the Houthis] been silent for a long time, but now they’ve emerged again, probably at the behest of Iran, which is a Failing Nation, with No Navy, No Airforce, the World’s Worst Economy, and 301 percent Inflation, in a very nasty way, hitting Saudi Arabia, and purposefully trying to drive up Oil Prices, probably prior to the US Elections,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “NOT NICE.”Trump’s decision to launch a war on Iran with Israel in February has caused surging energy prices and rising concerns about cost of living issues in the US, where voters will soon decide whether the president’s Republican Party maintains its major...