Washington, Jan. 22 -- President Donald Trump will use the US oil reserves as a weapon to assert its power and prevent friends and foes from "pushing it around".

"We're not going to let all of our nations, our friendly and unfriendly nations, push us around from any standpoint, including the economy because we have something that they don't have," he said. "We have a power that they don't have -- liquid gold under our feet, the likes of which no other nation has," he said about his strength through energy policy.

He made exploiting the huge petroleum and gas reserves that the US has as an import plank of his election platform, both to bring down prices and to assert US power abroad. Trump was speaking to members of the military at the ...