President Donald Trump and his officials have been claiming that gas prices are bound to go down, and a viral X video shows just how many times they have made the alleged false promise.

A 5-plus-minute-long montage posted by the X account Headquarters shows Trump and many of his officials, including JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Chris Wright, Scott Bessent, and Sean Duffy, promising that oil, gas, and energy prices will go down.

The clip runs a little over five minutes and is a compilation of the public comments made by these officials between March 10 and May 19, 2026.

A common theme across all messages was that the spike is temporary. Officials said gas prices will go down once the U.S.-Iran war ends.

On March 10, 2026, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt promised that U.S. military operations in Iran would result in “lower gas prices in the long term.” She added:

“Once the national security objectives of Operation Epic Fury are fully achieved, Americans will see oil and gas prices drop rapidly, potentially even lower than they were prior to the start of the operation. “

On March 18, 2026, Vice President JD Vance stated that the U.S. will “take care of business” in the Middle East, and that energy prices will come down when that happens.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright repeated that theme on March 23, 2026, and stated that energy prices “would go down quite a bit” as soon as the Strait of Hormuz opens.

During a press conference on April 8, 2026, a reporter questioned Trump about the gas prices hitting $4, to which Trump replied:

“And we have a country that’s not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us.”

When nudged by the reporter that Americans are feeling the “effects in the interim,” he plainly said that they’re also feeling “a lot safer.”

Trump kept pushing the same message through multiple press conferences and speeches.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made his own rounds in April 2026 and claimed, “Trump has shown that he is good at getting energy prices down and that our energy dominance agenda has the lowered prices.”

On May 4, he again called the price spike a temporary “aberration” and said it would be over “in a matter of weeks or a month.”

The montage suggesting the team kept making failed promises went viral on X, with many users chiming in with their own thoughts and opinions. While most were frustrated by the fake promises and rising inflation, some even sided with Trump. An X user labeled it a “montage of lies.”

One user said:

“When a “matter of weeks” becomes a 5-minute montage, the promise has already expired.”

Another added:

“How can a people clap their hands for a man who turns lies into theatre, fraud into pageantry, and his servants into heralds of deception?”

A third claimed that Trump started the war with no agenda on his mind and is now stuck. They wrote:

“Trump was fooled into starting this stupid war, and now there isn’t even a concept of a plan.”

This comes after gas prices reached their highest national level since 2022. According to a press release by Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, Americans have paid $29.2 billion more for fuel since the war began.