Overview
- A family at a gas station struggled with roughly $5-a-gallon fuel before James Austin Johnson’s Trump interrupted to address rising costs.
- He mocked past pledges of "lower gas prices" and "no more wars" and joked that prices stemmed from "The Epstein Files" via a "butterfly effect."
- He boasted of consulting Jake Paul and compared Iran to "ballet and opera" while casting the United States as Timothée Chalamet.
- Colin Jost appeared as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who admitted not knowing plans for Iran and told viewers, "The news is we won."
- The episode, hosted by Harry Styles, extended a recent run of cold opens focused on the Iran conflict and its domestic fallout.