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Whoops! This MAGA Blowhard Made a $1 Million Bet on Oil Prices Going Down

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Miller, T. (2026, October 31). Whoops! This MAGA Blowhard Made a $1 Million Bet on Oil Prices Going Down. The Bulwark. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/whoops-this-maga-blowhard-made-a

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MAGA podcaster Clay Travis made a $1 million bet that oil prices would decrease before the midterm elections. As the deadline approaches and oil prices have not fallen as predicted, another commentator, Tim Miller, is highlighting Travis's previous incorrect predictions regarding Trump’s Iran policy and his ongoing fixation on the Cheesecake Factory.

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MAGA podcaster Clay Travis lost a $1 million bet he made that oil prices would fall before the 2026 midterm elections. Tim Miller reported in The Bulwark on October 31, 2026, that with his prediction failing to materialize, Miller highlighted previous inaccurate predictions Travis had made about former President Trump's potential war with Iran and mocked his obsession with the Cheesecake Factory.

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Whoops! This MAGA Blowhard Made a $1 Million Bet on Oil Prices Going Down

left uses derogatory term 'Blowhard' to describe MAGA supporter
MAGA podcaster Clay Travis bet $1 million that oil prices would fall before the midterms.

left frames MAGA supporter's prediction as a foolish bet
With his deadline looming and prices nowhere near his prediction, Tim Miller brings the receipts on Travis’s spectacularly wrong calls about Trump’s Iran war, then revisits his increasingly ridiculous Cheesecake Factory obsession.

left describes MAGA supporter's predictions as 'spectacularly wrong' and 'ridiculous'

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69 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

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Topics

Cheesecake Factory Iran MAGA

Subjects

Clay Travis PERSON · 2× MAGA ORG · 2× Cheesecake Factory ORG · 1× Iran GPE · 1× Tim Miller PERSON · 1× Travis PERSON · 1× Trump PERSON · 1×

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This MAGA Blowhard Made a $1 Million Bet on Oil Prices Going Down MAGA podcaster Clay Travis bet $1 million that oil prices would fall before the midterms. MAGA podcaster Clay Travis bet $1 million that oil prices would fall before the midterms.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-11-01

2026-11-01 · The Bulwark

Whoops! This MAGA Blowhard Made a $1 Million Bet on Oil Prices Going Down · assertive framing

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prices → make → midterms

With his deadline looming and prices nowhere near his prediction, Tim Miller brings the receipts on Travis’s spectacularly wrong calls about Trump’s Iran war, then revisits his increasingly ridiculous Cheesecake Factory obsession. asserted

Miller → loom → obsession