🗞️ Story file #970
Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war
Oct 26, 11 AM ET to Oct 27, 8 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 21 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 28 minof TV captions
- 84people retold it online
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 26, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The New Republic
- Oct 26, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
- Oct 26, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 84 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire
💬 quoted: “We're making a freaking fortune” 2 “money”
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CBS News (2 wordings): “Trump's oil and gas stocks gained millions during Iran war” → “President's stocks gained millions during Iran war...”
- The Daily Kos (2 wordings): “Trump is happy you’re paying more for gas, literally” → “Trump is profiting off of your gas pump misery”
- The New Republic (2 wordings): “Trump Says Making a Fortune Is More Important Than Fixing Gas Prices” → “No Wonder Trump Doesn’t Care About Gas Prices. It’s Making Him Rich.”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Trump Brags U.S. Is Making A ‘Fortune’ Off High Gas Prices As Oil Hits Highest Price in Nearly 6 Months Oct 25, 12 AM ET
The Daily Kos
Trump is happy you’re paying more for gas, literally Oct 25, 2 PM ET
The New Republic
Trump Says Making a Fortune Is More Important Than Fixing Gas Prices Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Business Insider
Trump on high gas prices: 'We're making a freaking fortune' Oct 25, 3 PM ET
CBS News
Trump's oil and gas stocks gained millions during Iran war Oct 26, 10 AM ET
The Independent
Trump’s oil and gas investments have doubled since the Iran war Oct 26, 4 PM ET
Fortune
‘We’re making a freaking fortune’: Trump touts how much ‘money’ the U.S. is making from the Iran war as gas hits $4.29 a gallon and diesel tops $6 Oct 26, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP ON HIGH GAS PRICES: "WE'RE MAKING A FREAKING FORTUNE" CNN, 7 min
- TRUMP: "DON'T GIVE A DAMN" ABOUT GAS PRICES THAT NOW TOP BIDEN ERA CNN, 5 min
- TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT OIL PROFITS AS AMERICANS FACE HIGH GAS PRICES CNN, 5 min
- TRUMP WEALTH GROWS AS VOTERS PAY HIGHER COSTS MSNOW, 4 min
- TRUMP ON OIL PROFITS: "WE'RE MAKING A FREAKING FORTUNE" CNN, 2 min
- TRUMP SAYS HE DOESN'T "GIVE A DAMN" ABOUT GAS PRICES, TOUTS PROFITS CNN, 2 min
- U.S. DIESEL PRICES SPIKE 69% SINCE IRAN WAR CNN, 86 s
- VANCE BLAMES TANTRUMS OF "TINPOT DICTATOR" FOR HIGH GAS PRICES CNN, 43 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧩 How it's being told
The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.
- 🧩 Pain at the pump
🧶 online
“Donald Trump started an illegal war with Iran to increase his personal wealth through oil and gas stocks while Americans suffer from high gas prices.” - 🧩 The buck stops here
🧶 online
↔️ its answer: Taking credit
“Donald Trump started an illegal war with Iran to increase his personal wealth through oil and gas stocks while Americans suffer from high gas prices.” - 🧩 War profiteer
🧶 online
“Donald Trump started an illegal war with Iran to increase his personal wealth through oil and gas stocks while Americans suffer from high gas prices.”
🧶 Retold online
- Donald Trump started an illegal war with Iran to increase his personal wealth through oil and gas stocks while Americans suffer from high gas prices. Oct 27: told by 84 people; told before on Oct 28, Oct 14, Oct 9
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 287 likes, 30 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 131 likes, 51 reposts
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Iran Oil and gas stocks Gas prices
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Middle East oil tensions
Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions
Oct 23, 7 PM ET
Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war (this story)
Oct 26, 11 AM ET