🗞️ Story file #1154
Trump criticizes reporter for health and travel questions
Oct 29, 8 PM ET to Oct 30, 6 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 10 hourson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 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 29, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: PBS NewsHour
- Oct 29, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 29, 10 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “You look like hell”4
- “You are disgusting”2
- “Sick of Traveling”1
- “way out of shape”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled trip: ‘You look like hell’” → “Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled Kansas trip: ‘You look like hell’”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Trump, Sweating Profusely, Tells Reuters Reporter ‘You Look Like Hell’ Oct 29, 6 PM ET
Raw Story
Trump throws tarmac tantrum over health question amid cancellation: 'You look like hell!' Oct 29, 6 PM ET
The Bulwark
Trump Explodes at Reporter Over One Simple Question Oct 29, 9 PM ET
Mediaite
‘You Look Like Hell!’ Trump Launches Unhinged Attack on Reporter Who Asks Him if He’s ‘Sick of Traveling’ Oct 29, 5 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
WATCH: Trump calls reporter 'disgusting' when questioned about not traveling to Kansas Oct 29, 8 PM ET
USA Today
Trump erupts at reporter over canceled midterm trip to Kansas Oct 29, 7 PM ET
IJR
Trump Insults Reuters Reporter Over Kansas Trip Oct 29, 10 PM ET
New York Post
Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled trip: ‘You look like hell’ Oct 29, 7 PM ET
The National Desk
'You are disgusting': Trump slams reporter over health and travel questions Oct 29, 8 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
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- leans left
- right
📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🧶 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.
Donald TrumpReutersKansas
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump changes rally format
Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans phone-in campaign events
Oct 29, 3 PM ET
Trump criticizes reporter for health and travel questions (this story)
Oct 29, 8 PM ET