🗞️ Story file #155
Trump links French protests to immigration and Islam
Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
- 13outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 5 hourson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 3 of 3parts 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 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Wire
- Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “nothing less than out of control mass migration” 2 “takeover” “Taking Over” “This isn't about schools”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump makes 🐘 france riots 🐘 french riots 🐘 trump blames
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Blames French School Unrest on Islam, Migration” → “Trump Links French School Unrest to Islam, Migration”
- The New Republic (2 wordings): “Trump Pushes Deranged Conspiracy Theory About French School Protests” → “Trump Makes Unhinged Claim About French School Protests”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Donald Trump Makes Wild Claim About Student Protests In France Oct 6, 3 PM ET
Raw Story
Trump sees Muslim 'takeover' as French teens take to the streets over crumbling schools Oct 6, 1 PM ET
The New Republic
Trump Pushes Deranged Conspiracy Theory About French School Protests Oct 6, 3 PM ET
Newsweek
Trump Says Islam Is ‘Taking Over’ France in Migration Warning Amid Protests Oct 6, 1 PM ET
The Hill
Trump blames French student protests on Islam, ‘out of control mass migration’ Oct 6, 7 PM ET
Just the News
Trump blames immigration for French riots: 'This isn't about schools' Oct 6, 12 PM ET
The Washington Times
Trump links French riots for more educational funding to country’s immigration policies, Islam Oct 6, 6 PM ET
Fox News
Trump, Waltz link France riots to mass immigration as thousands are arrested Oct 6, 4 PM ET
IJR
Trump blames France protests on migration, Islam Oct 6, 6 PM ET
Newsmax
Trump Blames French School Unrest on Islam, Migration Oct 6, 1 PM ET- OAN Trump: Ongoing protests in France are ‘nothing less than out of control mass migration’ Oct 6, 6 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Trump Weighs In On France Mayhem With Warning Over Illegal Immigration And Islam Oct 6, 2 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
President Trump Reacts to France Riots as Islamo-Marxist Migrants Clash with Police (VIDEO) Oct 6, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM MASS PROTESTS IN FRANCE? Fox News, 52 s
- Who has gone out to play or gone to school BBC News, 42 s
- 6,000+ ARRESTS IN FRANCE SINCE START OF PROTESTS Fox News, 40 s
- MASS PROTESTS SPARKING CHAOS ACROSS FRANCE Fox News, 34 s
- Trump blames France unrest on 'Islam' BBC News, 28 s
- INTERIOR MINISTRY: 56,000 PROTESTERS IN PARIS. Fox News, 18 s
- INTERIOR MINISTRY: 256K PROTESTERS ACROSS FRANCE Fox News, 12 s
- INTERIOR MINISTRY: 56,000 PROTESTERS IN PARIS Fox News, 12 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 France Islam Illegal immigration French schools Muslims
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 French student protests
French students protest school conditions, leading to school closures and clashes
Oct 4, 1 PM ET
France closes up to 500 schools amid student protests
Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Trump links French protests to immigration and Islam (this story)
Oct 6, 2 PM ET