President Trump will address the nation on Wednesday evening on the war in Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Why it matters: Leavitt’s Tuesday evening announcement on X came soon after Trump told reporters at the White House that U.S. forces could leave the Middle East in “two or three weeks.”
The address is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET. The big picture: Oil prices have soared since American and Israeli forces first struck Iran on Feb. 28. AAA said Tuesday that U.S. average gas prices had hit $4 per gallon nationwide for the first time since 2022.
Driving the news: A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday how he planned to bring oil prices down
“All I have to do is leave Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon,” Trump said, predicting prices would come “tumbling down.” U.S. forces are “finishing the job,” he said, giving varying estimates from “two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer,” to “maybe three,” adding: “We knocked out tremendous amounts of missile making facilities.” Of note: Trump said Tehran didn’t have to make a deal with the U.S. in order for American forces to leave the region.
And he said securing the throttled Strait of Hormuz is “not for us — that’ll be for France,” Trump said. "That’ll be for whoever’s using the strait
What could he possibly say that is so important all news networks are broadcasting it?
It’s unlikely and dumb, but I can’t shake the feeling this’ll be a draft announcement, where the draft is really just a means to send dissenters to their deaths.
50/50 the portion of speech about the ballroom will be over 10 minutes.
It won’t be a draft. It will be:
“Due to My Excellent Leadership™©® we have Successfully Won the War (not war, because I’m not supposed to admit I circumvented Congress) We will be leaving in 2 weeks. Your gas prices aren’t high, and if they are it’s Bidens fault. Thank me now. I have directed Congress to build 38 gold statues of me in my honor and will be receiving the new Trump Trophy of Peace that is way better than some stupid Nobel that no one cares about.”
I think the real creme de la creme of their bullshit about oil prices recently was hearing one of these choads - could have been that dickhead Kevin Hassett saying it while having that stupid grin on his face, but I don’t remember - saying people are only complaining about oil because of how good Donvict made things after the - repeat after me - the terrible, no good, just worstest economy evar that Biden gave us. 🙄
He’s gonna say some obvious lies to try and appease the market, which will work for no good reason, and then commence the ground invasion of Iran on Friday 4:30 PM
ESTEDTProbably that the war is only ongoing because Democrats are supporting Iran, blah blah blah, he has enormous hands, something about how Biden and Obama causing gas prices high because they are still President and then a dribble about how he pooped his pants or we will get an audible of him pooping his pants.