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🗞️ Story file #159

Trump announces $6.6 billion submarine facility in Maryland

Oct 6, 4 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 6, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: News Nation
  2. Oct 6, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 4 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PMNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 6, 10:00 AM ET: Live updates: Trump to announce a new submarine parts facility in MarylandScripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Military Trump to announce $6.6 billion submarine manufacturing project in Maryland Haley BullNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Trump to announce $6.6B US investment with Anduril for Baltimore sub facilityReutersReutersReuters, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: New Maryland defense shipyard gets $6.6 billion commitment and Trump visitWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: WATCH LIVE: Trump delivers remarks at Baltimore shipyardThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Live updates: Trump set to unveil sub investment in Baltimore; California ...The Hill, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Live updates: Trump unveils sub investment in Baltimore; California officials fume over Iran remarkThe Hill, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Watch live: Trump to unveil major investment in Baltimore submarine shipyardNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Live: Trump unveils new $6.6B Maryland shipyardNews Nation, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Trump unveils new $6.6B Maryland shipyardThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Trump to Tout $6.6 Billion Defense Investment During Baltimore VisitThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Touts $6.6 Billion Naval Shipyard Investment During Baltimore VisitThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Delivers Remarks on ‘Maritime Dominance’ in BaltimoreThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: WATCH LIVE: President Trump Announces New Navy Shipyard in Sparrows Point, Maryland – 4 PM ETJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Watch Live: President Donald Trump delivers remarks in Baltimore, MarylandPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: WATCH LIVE: Trump announces manufacturing site for submarine components in BaltimoreOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Md.: Trump visits Baltimore County, showcasing $3.7B investment led by Anduril Industries to strengthen U.S. naval fleet📺 TVBBC News, 4:01 PM ET: Trump arrives for campaign event in MarylandBBC News, 4:02 PM ET: Trump arrives for campaign event in MarylandFox News, 4:13 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDBBC News, 4:12 PM ET: Trump delivers remarks in MarylandFox News, 4:14 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDFox News, 4:16 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDFox News, 4:17 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDFox News, 4:17 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDFox News, 4:18 PM ET: NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLANDCNN, 5:01 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:02 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:02 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:03 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:04 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:04 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:05 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:05 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSCNN, 5:05 PM ET: TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLSFox News, 6:06 PM ET: ROCK THE BOAT. TRUMP SPEAKS AT SHIPYARD & CALIFORNIA REMARKS BACKLASHFox News, 6:07 PM ET: STAYING AFLOAT. TRUMP ANNOUNCES SHIPBUILDING EFFORT
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: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Maritime Dominance”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • News Nation (2 wordings): “Live: Trump unveils new $6.6B Maryland shipyard” → “Trump unveils new $6.6B Maryland shipyard”
  • The Epoch Times (3 wordings): “Trump to Tout $6.6 Billion Defense Investment During Baltimore Visit” → “Trump Delivers Remarks on ‘Maritime Dominance’ in Baltimore”
  • The Hill (3 wordings): “Live updates: Trump set to unveil sub investment in Baltimore; California ...” → “Watch live: Trump to unveil major investment in Baltimore submarine shipyard”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN6 min
Fox News6 min
BBC News89 s
  • TRUMP VISITS BALTIMORE SHIPYARD AS GOP SINKS IN MIDTERM POLLS CNN, 6 min
  • NOW TRUMP SPEAKS IN MARYLAND Fox News, 5 min
  • Trump arrives for campaign event in Maryland BBC News, 67 s
  • STAYING AFLOAT. TRUMP ANNOUNCES SHIPBUILDING EFFORT Fox News, 31 s
  • Trump delivers remarks in Maryland BBC News, 22 s
  • ROCK THE BOAT. TRUMP SPEAKS AT SHIPYARD & CALIFORNIA REMARKS BACKLASH Fox News, 14 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🃏 The Onion

🧶 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 Maryland Anduril Baltimore Haley Bull

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump's Baltimore shipyard visit

  1. Trump announces $6.6 billion submarine facility in Maryland (this story)

    Oct 6, 4 PM ET

  2. Maryland governor says he was blocked from speaking at Trump's Baltimore event

    Oct 6, 7 PM ET