Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urged President Donald Trump Saturday night to take emergency action to combat the soaring cost of diesel fuel across the United States, in what Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill described as “another warning sign for the Iowa Senate race.”

“W diesel $6.57 in Iowa why doesn’t Pres Trump put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the 70s put embargoes on ag products bc food prices were inflated,” Grassley wrote in a social media post on X, using his characteristically casual writing style. “High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME.”

The average price of a gallon of diesel hit an all-time high in the United States on Saturday, reaching $6.49 — nearly $1 higher than a month ago and up 33 cents from a week earlier, according to AAA. In Iowa, diesel averaged $6.21 a gallon Saturday, having climbed at a similar pace over the past month.

As flagged by Lee Hill, Grassley’s plea could be seen as a dire sign for GOP Senate nominee Ashley Hinson, who’s running against Democratic nominee Josh Turek in a race that’s gone on to become “increasingly competitive.”

“Diesel prices are so high in Iowa that Chuck Grassley is calling for Trump to take 1970s style emergency actions,” Lee Hill wrote in a social media post on X.

“As Politico has reported - GOP lawmakers have been privately pressing Trump officials for weeks to take emergency actions to try to lower gas prices ahead of the midterms — including during the GOP convention in Dallas.”

Given Grassley’s senior role in Congress as Senate president pro tempore, journalist Molly Jong-Fast questioned out loud whether the 93-year-old lawmaker had better options for making such requests.

“There has to be a better way to communicate with the leader of your party,” Jong-Fast quipped. “Maybe you know a senator from the party in power? Oh wait,” she wrote in a follow-up post.

ABC News’ Ben Siegel warned that, should Trump oblige Grassley’s request, such an embargo could ultimately backfire.

“One analyst told ABC News banning diesel exports would bring prices down in some gulf and midwestern states for a few weeks, before refineries cut production in response, causing prices to spike again,” Siegel wrote in a social media post on X. “It could also cool foreign investment in U.S. energy industry & production.”

The Trump administration warned U.S. allies that shipments of key weapons could be delayed by as much as five years as the United States faces a “shortfall in ammunition” amid its war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, leading international law scholar Alonso Gurmendi to float a jarring theory.

According to Bloomberg, “multiple European nations” have been informed that deliveries of key weapons, including “missile and air defense capabilities,” will face severe delays. Japan was also told by the United States that a shipment of Tomahawk missiles would be “delayed by as much as two years.”

Gurmendi, a London School of Economics Fellow in Human Rights, argued that the development represented the end to US “military superiority” on the world stage, and blamed two key figures for the fallout: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s been increasingly accused of having “dragged” Trump into the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran.

“Netanyahu and Trump have ended US military superiority,” Gurmendi wrote in a statement published on social media. “It’s frankly a jarring level of incompetence driven by religious/ideological fundamentalism and male fragility, respectively.”

Trump has been scrutinized for years regarding what countless critics have described as his “fragile male ego,” with male fragility playing an outsized role in his first bid for the White House, according to social psychologists Eric Knowles and Sarah DiMuccio.

“The Pentagon’s decision to prioritize its own stockpiles is also straining Ukraine’s push for the U.S. to send it more Patriot air defense interceptors ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter for the war-torn nation,” Bloomberg’s report reads. “The issue of Ukraine’s badly needed air defense will be a key topic at next week’s United Nations meetings in New York.”

President Donald Trump abruptly cut short his weekend at Camp David and is returning to the White House for reasons that remain “unclear,” multiple journalists reported Saturday evening, sparking fears the sudden change could signal an impending "major escalation" in the Middle East.

Trump’s schedule change comes the same day the U.S. Embassy in Israel issued a security alert instructing Americans in the Middle East to “exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.” Also on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly cut his scheduled U.S. visit short.

“There’s a TON of very obvious signaling taking place right now for imminent massive escalation against Iran. President Trump, just after Camp David, is returning early to the White House. Bibi Netanyahu is cutting his U.S. Tour a day early, cancelling the Texas leg, and flying directly back to Tel Aviv from New York,” warned geopolitical expert Brett Erickson on Saturday.

“All Middle East US embassies have issued STEP alert warning to Americans in the region. This could certainly be a legitimate escalation… but this is a LOT of very public signaling that is textbook TACO Trump. That said… if it’s not, we’re looking at a MAJOR escalation inbound.”

Sophie Mokoena, a veteran South African journalist, came to a similar conclusion as Erickson, warning of an “imminent attack.”