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Trump's oil and gas investments rose during the Iran war

Oct 26, 11 AM ET to Oct 27, 5 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏6 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
18 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
26 minof TV captions
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, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 26, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 11 AM to Oct 27, 5 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “We're making a freaking fortune” 3 “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

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN22 min

MSNOW3 min

BBC News2 min

TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT OIL PROFITS AMID HIGH GAS PRICES FOR AMERICANS CNN, 5 min
TRUMP ON HIGH GAS PRICES: "WE'RE MAKING A FREAKING FORTUNE" CNN, 4 min
WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS TRUMP'S BRAGGING ABOUT OIL PROFITS CNN, 4 min
AAA: AVERAGE PRICE OF GALLON OF GAS IN TRUMP’S SECOND TERM SURPASSES AVERAGE DURING BIDEN’S PRESIDENCY CNN, 3 min
WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS TRUMP BRAGGING ABOUT OIL PROFITS CNN, 3 min
TRUMP TOUTS OIL & GAS COMPANY PROFITS AS ELECTION NEARS MSNOW, 2 min
Trump: 'Pump prices are going to come down' BBC News, 2 min
TRUMP: "DON'T GIVE A DAMN" ABOUT GAS PRICES THAT NOW TOP BIDEN ERA CNN, 89 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Majority Report 🎙️ WSJ What's News

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 Iran Oil and gas stocks Gas prices

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump's Iran War Profits

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Oct 26, 11 AM ET

Trump's oil and gas investments rose during the Iran war

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🧵 Trump's Iran War Profits