{"id":344021,"date":"2026-03-13T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344021\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:17:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-hits-back-at-donald-trumps-gas-price-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Hits Back at Donald Trump’s Gas Price Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> had some choice words for Donald Trump<\/a> after the president suggested that the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran<\/a> will benefit Americans. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGas prices have gone up every day for the past 11 days,\u201d Kimmel recounted on last night\u2019s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>. \u201cBut our president, Ex-con Mobile, says there is nothing to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel shared a Truth Social post from Trump, which read: \u201cThe United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won\u2019t ever let that happen!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cHe\u2019s \u2018stoping\u2019 the evil empire. He really is the stupidest president of all time. He says when oil prices go up we make a lot of money. Maybe you and your buddies do, but we don\u2019t make a lot of money. We just pay more for gas when oil prices go up. He must think we\u2019re as dumb as he is. The man who campaigned on the promise he would get gas prices under $2 a gallon is now trying to convince us that higher prices are better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cYou know, you hear the term gaslighting a lot, but rarely when it comes to actual gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel continued, \u201cThis is a gem and it couldn\u2019t have come at a worse time. According to a new survey, a third of Americans say they are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities like heat to pay the rising cost of their health care premiums. Which makes me wonder what happened to that health care plan Trump announced two months ago. Remember that great health care plan he announced? That disappeared right along with our invasion of Greenland. They just went away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tElsewhere in his monologue Kimmel discussed Trump endorsing Jake Paul and Pete Hegseth<\/a> going after the press for taking bad photos of him. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho would have ever guessed the guy who spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on a makeup studio might be a little self-absorbed?\u201d Kimmel commented. \u201cTurns out our phony tough guy, our Secretary of War, is a sensitive little snowflake making a safe space for his beautiful face. I like that he thinks it\u2019s the photos that are making him look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel had some choice words for Donald Trump after the president suggested that the rising gas prices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,11829,60,3484,3488,13478,26574,282],"class_list":["post-344021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-late-night-tv","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}