{"id":2688492,"date":"2026-10-20T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncorporate-media-construct-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-bringing-down-diesel-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:02:01","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncorporate-media-construct-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-bringing-down-diesel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncorporate-media-construct-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-bringing-down-diesel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Construct Conspiracy Theories About Trump&#8217;s Diesel Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigncorporate-media-construct-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-bringing-down-diesel-prices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2688492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump explained he wants more diesel on the market to lower costs for American \u201cfarmers, ranchers, and truckers\u201d in announcing a new diesel deal with Russia. The propaganda press quickly responded to the affordability measure by rerunning the long-debunked \u201cTrump is a Putin puppet\u201d playbook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans,\u201d writes The Atlantic\u2019s David <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/10\/trumps-diesel-deal-sells-out-ukraine\/688964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the American truckers and farmers Trump claims to be serving, the deal means little or nothing. Trump may not know or may not care that his latest gambit will not reduce diesel prices,\u201d Frum wrote. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/18\/from-iraq-to-trump-david-frum-has-always-been-a-cancer-on-the-body-politic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frum himself<\/a> has done little to hide his open disdain for the president, going so far as to try and victim-blame Trump for nearly being assassinated in Butler two years ago. Nor has Frum tried to hide his bloodthirst for war, gloating in a National Review article that people who questioned the invasion of Iraq in the days after its launch were antisemites \u201cyearning for defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut while the deal will not benefit American consumers, it has immense consequences for others. For Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, the deal is a potential lifesaver. For war-ravaged Ukraine, it is the most outrageous and heartless Trump betrayal to date. For Trump\u2019s entourage, the deal promises corruption opportunities on a multibillion-dollar scale,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n<p>Frum goes on to provide readers with a familiar framework for understanding the announcement: Nancy Pelosi\u2019s baseless accusation that, with Trump, \u201call roads lead to Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questioning whether a fuel purchase will lower prices is one thing, but insinuating hidden loyalties and multibillion-dollar corruption is another. Frum suggested the rationale behind the deal is a sinister one, a convenient approach for Frum and the rest of the propaganda press to take since it continues their favorite narrative that they\u2019ve spent decades building: Whatever Trump\u2019s stated objectives, his actions are really because of a hidden loyalty to Moscow. <\/p>\n<p>The propaganda press has long peddled the Russia collusion hoax to undermine his presidency and the political objectives of those who elected him. One notable example is when Democrats and the legacy media falsely claimed that Trump negligently failed to act when Russia allegedly placed bounties on the heads of American troops (notably, both the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/16\/liz-cheney-was-a-primary-culprit-of-spreading-fake-news-on-russian-bounties-to-undermine-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-donald-trump-afghanistan-russia-vladimir-putin-928ebdf775268b10e121d3160af2da42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and Trump administrations\u2019<\/a> assessments of such claims showed little to no confidence in the intelligence). In a simliar fashion the legacy media have weaponized the diesel deal to spin a conspiracy theory about a president with allegiance to a foreign adversary who makes his stated concern for Americans merely a cover story.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Americans paying higher diesel prices to fuel their tractors and trucks \u2014 a direct result of the Ukraine-Russia war \u2014 were not the top consideration of Frum. Instead, they were people Trump only \u201cclaims to be serving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/117415109515983885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explicitly<\/a> identified how a deal would benefit those Americans. According to the announcement, Russia would make approximately 300,000 tons of diesel available to the United States and global markets, followed by another 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons afterward. But the possibility that the agreement might deliver relief is just a side note for the media, because the real point of the story is insinuating that Trump is really serving Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s US-Russia diesel deal draws bipartisan criticism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/11\/politics\/us-russia-diesel-deal-bipartisan-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a> announced, framing the deal not as an affordability win, but as Trump \u201cdefying a federal law meant to crackdown on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.\u201d (CNN cited Congress\u2019s ban on \u201cenergy imports from Russia in 2022 to \u2018prevent American dollars from financing Putin\u2019s brutal war against Ukraine.&#8217;\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the same article, CNN acknowledged how \u201cskyrocketing fuel prices\u201d are a major problem, before citing doubts about \u201cwhether Putin even has the amount of diesel that Trump cited to sell\u201d and whether the quantities will have major effects on energy prices. CNN\u2019s own description established the domestic problem while framing the administration\u2019s efforts to address the <em>real<\/em> problem as problematic.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm1dwgr666wno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a>\u2018s headline likewise framed the announcement as a problem: \u201cTrump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin.\u201d The headline emphasized Putin, rather than the truckers, farmers, and ranchers that Trump actually cited as the beneficiaries, to peddle the idea that the deal was struck to please Putin. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/goptrump-russian-diesel-deal-01119657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a> offered: \u201cTrump\u2019s Russian diesel deal draws GOP, European pushback \u2014 and industry shrug.\u201d Its coverage includes objections by Senate RINO\u2019s Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn, who called the deal a \u201cgift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article included objections from European leaders, with Politico writing: \u201cEuropean leaders from Ireland to Latvia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-rebukes-donald-trump-russia-diesel-imports-ukraine-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned that\u00a0Trump\u2019s\u00a0announcement<\/a> would undermine Ukraine\u2019s campaign against Russia. \u2018This deal doesn\u2019t help neither the price of oil products nor the unity of the transatlantic community,\u2019 said Lithuanian Foreign Minister\u00a0K\u0119stutis Budrys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Europe\u2019s leader may be quick to criticize Trump, Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/13\/europe-paid-russia-209bn-for-energy-since-2022-far-below-moscows-320bn-claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has continued<\/a> buying Russian energy throughout the war, further undermining the media narrative that buying fuel from Russia is allegiance to Putin. According to the European Commission\u2019s own figures, the EU has imported $209 billion \u201cworth of energy between March 2022 and July 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are foreign policy objections, and those objections would likely exist regardless of whether the deliveries were large enough to lower Americans\u2019 fuel bills. Increasing supply would not resolve the complaint from foreign nations that they dislike the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely touched on in any of these pieces \u2014 if at all \u2014 is that Trump\u2019s stated interest isn\u2019t our so-called \u201callies\u201d or Ukraine. Trump\u2019s stated interest \u2014 as it should be \u2014 is Americans struggling with rising fuel prices thanks to this seemingly never-ending war. <\/p>\n<p>Their bills do not become less important because European opposition is loud \u2014 or because corporate media want to rerun the Russia collusion hoax \u2014 nor should Americans be expected to pay to preserve Washington\u2019s preferred foreign policy toward Russia. Diesel deal or not, nothing will get in the way of the propaganda press\u2019s preferred narrative that Trump is a Putin puppet, even if Americans have to suffer for it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump explained he wants more diesel on the market to lower costs for American \u201cfarmers, ranchers, and truckers\u201d in announcing a new diesel deal with Russia. The propaganda press quickly responded to the affordability measure by rerunning the long-debunked \u201cTrump is a Putin puppet\u201d playbook. \u201cThe president\u2019s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2688493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/A_modern_BP_gas_station_or_filling_station_in_the_United_States_01-e1792517669887.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/A_modern_BP_gas_station_or_filling_station_in_the_United_States_01-e1792517669887.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}