Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday delivered a blunt reminder to Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) about the financial struggles Americans are enduring amid President Donald Trump's unpopular Iran war.
During an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," Ingraham told Sheehy, "I talk to a lot of people; people are sick of this."
As the president threatens to escalate attacks on Iran, undermining U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace deal and aiming to seize Kharg Island and other "oil infrastructure points," Americans are feeling the pinch. Rising gas prices have helped push inflation to a three-year high.
With the conflict now exceeding 100 days, Ingraham noted that many are questioning why the administration doesn't "just finish it" or why it wasn't ended "earlier."
"I mean, it is what it is; we are where we are. But those inflation numbers that came in today at 4.2%, the CPI, and there are some nuances with those numbers, but nevertheless, people are feeling this," she said. "And to minimize that is unwise for a Republican to do. People are hurting. They see a light at the end of the tunnel, a lot of folks, but they want these energy prices to come down."
Ingraham's comments came just hours after Trump expressed his "love" for the recent inflation numbers, a remark he tried to defend by claiming high inflation is positive because the administration is secretly seizing "millions" of oil barrels from Iran.
Trump's remarks followed his earlier dismissal of Americans' "financial situations" when asked if they motivated him to end the war.
"Do you think the Iranians thought, 'Oh, we got him now,' with the political situation on the ground in the United States? Are they looking at that?" Ingraham asked Sheehy.
"Of course they are," Sheehy responded. "And that's why it's been incredibly frustrated to have not just Democrats but some Republicans in the media, from the day this started, take this side of a murderous terrorist regime."
Sheehy later claimed the GOP was not dismissing inflation numbers, but then attributed current gas prices and inflation to the norm under Joe Biden, describing them as a "temporary bump" as America works to "solve" the Iran threat.
