🗞️ Story file #602
Trump hosts dinner with Maher, Smith, and Kid Rock
Oct 17, 11 PM ET to Oct 19, 3 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 10outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 1.7 dayson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
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- Oct 17, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
- Oct 17, 11 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “maniac” 2 “epic” “great” “He didn't run from any questions” “shocking” “Wouldn't let us leave” “Shocking”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Mediaite (2 wordings): “Stephen A. Smith Says This Is What He Found ‘Shocking’ About Dinner With Trump” → “‘He’s Cooked!’ Bill Maher Trashes ‘Maniac’ Trump in First Podcast After Latest Dinner”
Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating
Alternet
Maher says 'maniac' Trump is doomed as president muses about 'great' dinner Oct 19, 12 PM ET
Mediaite
Stephen A. Smith Says This Is What He Found ‘Shocking’ About Dinner With Trump Oct 17, 8 AM ET
The Hill
Stephen A. Smith calls dinner with Trump, Bill Maher, Kid Rock ‘shocking’ Oct 19, 8 AM ET
The Washington Times
Stephen A. Smith defends White House dinner with Trump: ‘He didn’t run from any questions’ Oct 17, 6 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Stephen A. Smith recounts four-hour White House dinner with Trump and Bill Maher: ‘Wouldn’t let us leave’ Oct 17, 11 PM ET
Fox News
Trump reveals White House dinner with Bill Maher, Stephen A Smith and Kid Rock Oct 17, 3 PM ET
New York Post
Kid Rock details ‘epic’ dinner with Trump, Stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher — and the issues they agreed on Oct 17, 1 PM ET
Red State
Trump Dishes on Dinner With Bill Maher, Two Other Big Guests, and Critical Topic They Agreed On Oct 16, 11 PM ET
Townhall
Stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher Had Dinner With Trump. Here's What They Agreed On. Oct 17, 8 AM ET
The Washington Sun
Trump Critic Stephen A. Smith Has Dinner at the White House Oct 16, 3 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Bill Maher Stephen A. Smith Kid Rock White House
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
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🧵 Trump attacks Maher
Trump hosts dinner with Maher, Smith, and Kid Rock (this story)
Oct 17, 11 PM ET
Trump criticizes Maher in 1,300-word post after White House dinner
Oct 26, 5 AM ET