BND - Trump endorses Netanyahu for Israeli reelection

🗞️ Story file #608

Trump endorses Netanyahu for Israeli reelection

Oct 18, 12 PM ET to Oct 18, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

27outlets carried it
🫏9 · 6 · 11🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
27front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
1radio newscast

👣 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 18, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 18, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 18, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 18, 5 PM ETpeak: on 27 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 18, 12 PM to Oct 18, 6 PM ET (peak 27), 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.

📡 wire copy: 4 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Epoch Times, The Washington Sun)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant” 2 “Great warrior” “Total Endorsement” “Will never let you down” “Complete and Total Endorsement” “Strong, Brave, and Brilliant” “wicked sense of humor,”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 trump backs netanyahu

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Axios (2 wordings): “Trump endorses Netanyahu 9 days before Israel election” → “Trump tells Axios why he endorsed Netanyahu's reelection”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection: ‘Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant’” → “Trump Endorses Netanyahu: 'Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant'”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Nine days before Israeli elections, Trump finally endorses Netanyahu” → “Nine days before Israeli elections, Trump finally endorses Netanyahu”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Netanyahu praises Trump's 'wicked sense of humor,' defends ironclad alliance ahead of historic Israel vote” → “Trump warns Israel against picking a leader other than Netanyahu in election”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “Trump Backs Netanyahu: ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ Ahead of Israeli Election” → “Trump Backs: Netanyahu: 'Total Endorsement'”
Red State (2 wordings): “Trump Gives Ringing Endorsement to Netanyahu for Re-Election Ward Clark” → “Benjamin Netanyahu Trump Gives Ringing Endorsement to Netanyahu for Re-Election Ward Clark”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Trump endorses Netanyahu in Israeli election” → “Trump endorses Netanyahu in close Israeli election”

Every outlet's first headline (27), left to right by AllSides rating