BND - Naked golden statue of Donald Trump displayed in European Parliament

🗞️ Story file #204

Naked golden statue of Donald Trump displayed in European Parliament

Oct 7, 5 PM ET to Oct 9, 9 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

10outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 3🐘left · center · right
2.2 dayson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
2fact-checks

👣 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 7, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Kos
Oct 8, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 8, 5 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 5 PM to Oct 9, 9 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Orange Plague” “Trump” “What a Disgrace” “A Disgrace” “Disgrace”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (5 wordings): “'A Disgrace': Grotesque 'Trump' Statue Installed in European Parliament” → “‘What a Disgrace’: Grotesque Golden ‘Trump’ Statue Installed in European Parliament”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Nude statue of Trump 'Orange Plague' displayed at…” → “Nude statue of Trump 'Orange Plague' displayed at European Parliament”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating