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This week, gas prices hit $4.48 a gallon according to AAA<\/a> \u2015 well over $3.16 a year ago, and far above the $2 he promised during the 2024 election, largely due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to give it to President Trump. He campaigned on $2 gas,\u201d Colbert pointed out. \u201cAnd now, he\u2019s delivering more than twice what he promised.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Colbert said one reason for the spike is that Wall Street traders have updated their acronym about the president. They\u2019ve gone from TACO<\/a> \u2015 short for \u201cTrump Always Chickens Out\u201d \u2015 to NACHO<\/a>, or \u201cNot A Chance Hormuz Opens.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n That led Colbert to his own acronym: CARNITAS. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWhich stands for: Can Anyone Recommend Nursing home? I Think his A-brain Sploded,\u201d he joked. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n See more in his Monday night monologue: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, gas prices hit $4.48 a gallon according to AAA \u2015 well over $3.16 a year ago, and far above the $2 he promised during the 2024 election, largely due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to give it to President Trump. He campaigned on $2 gas,\u201d Colbert pointed out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,447857,22653],"class_list":["post-2404152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-war","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stephen-Colbert-Taunts-Trump-With-8-Letters-For-His-Future.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404154,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404152\/revisions\/2404154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}