🗞️ Story file #111
Trump blames Ukraine, not Iran war, for high gas prices
Oct 5, 3 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 1.2 dayson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 minof TV captions
👣 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 5, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
- Oct 6, 3 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
- Oct 6, 6 AM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Driving Up” “unsustainable” “all his fault”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump blames
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump Says Lack of Refineries, Not Strait of Hormuz, Is ‘Driving Up’ Gas” → “President Trump Says Lack of Refineries, Not Strait of Hormuz, Is ‘Driving Up’ Gas”
- Newsmax (3 wordings): “Trump: Russia, Calif. Refinery Chaos, Not Iran War, Pushing Gas Prices” → “Trump: Blown-Up, Closed Refineries Driving Gas Prices”
- Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump says Ukraine and blue states to blame for high gas prices rather than the Iran war” → “Trump says Ukraine and blue states to blame for gas prices”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating
MSNBC
Gas, diesel prices are ‘unsustainable’ as Trump’s unpopular war with Iran continues Oct 6, 6 AM ET
Raw Story
Trump just let slip a casual admission that high gas prices are 'all his fault': analysts Oct 5, 7 PM ET
The New Republic
Trump Finds a New Way to Blame Gas Prices on Anyone But Himself Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Mediaite
NEW: Trump Blames Ukraine, Not His War In Iran For Rising Gas Prices Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Independent
Trump blames war-ravaged Ukraine’s efforts to fight off Russia — for our sky-high gas prices Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Newsweek
Trump Blames Ukraine for Gas Prices: Where Diesel Costs Are Highest Oct 5, 7 PM ET
Reuters
As Iran war drives up gasoline prices in US, Trump blames Ukraine, Democrats Oct 5, 3 PM ET
The Hill
Trump: Refinery disruptions, not Hormuz, are driving gas prices Oct 6, 6 AM ET
Just the News
Trump again claims Ukraine war responsible for gas prices, not Iran war Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Trump says Ukraine and blue states to blame for high gas prices rather than the Iran war Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Breitbart
Trump Says Lack of Refineries, Not Strait of Hormuz, Is ‘Driving Up’ Gas Oct 5, 7 PM ET
Newsmax
Trump: Russia, Calif. Refinery Chaos, Not Iran War, Pushing Gas Prices Oct 5, 8 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- A mail-in ballot costs me a lot less than the cost of the gasoline it would take to drive to a polling place CNN, 2 min
- TRUMP PRICES ARE COMING DOWN, OIL WILL GO DOWN Fox News, 82 s
- Soaring fuel prices loom over US midterms BBC News, 45 s
- WAR WITH IRAN MSNOW, 39 s
- Trump: Iran. Prices Will Tumble CNN, 25 s
- Trump: Iran war ending "very soon. Prices Will Tumble" CNN, 11 s
- GAS PRICES COULD BE AT HISTORIC HIGHS ON ELECTION DAY MSNOW, 9 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Ukraine Iran Democratic Party Russia
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.