🗞️ Story file #610
Trump announces plan to close and renovate DC golf course
Oct 18, 2 PM ET to Oct 18, 6 PM ET
- 20outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 7 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 4 hourson the front pages
- 20front pages at once, at its peak
- 1fact-check
👣 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, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mother Jones
- Oct 18, 6 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Red State (3 wordings): “Fore! Trump Announces Major DC Golf Course Overhaul — With One Rather Awkward Legal Wrinkle” → “Donald Trump Fore! Trump Announces Major DC Golf Course Overhaul — With One Rather Awkward Legal Wrinkle Susie Moore”
Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating
Mother Jones
Trump Plows Forward With Plan to Build the Golf Course of His Dreams in DC Oct 18, 2 PM ET
CBS News
Trump says D.C. golf course construction will start next month Oct 18, 2 PM ET
New York Times
Trump Outlines Rapid Plan to Close and Overhaul D.C. Golf Course Oct 18, 4 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
Trump says he will close historic D.C. golf course for 15 months of renovations Oct 18, 1 PM ET
The Independent
Trump defies court order to close historic golf course for 15 months of renovations Oct 18, 2 PM ET
USA Today
Trump announces plans to close, renovate DC-area golf course amid legal fight Oct 18, 3 PM ET
Yahoo News
Trump to close popular D.C. golf course for 15 months after judge blocks tree removal Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Bloomberg
Trump Says DC Golf Course Project Moving Ahead Despite Suit Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Chicago Tribune
President Donald Trump says he will close historic DC golf course for 15 months of renovations Oct 18, 4 PM ET- Financial Times Trump to begin transforming historic golf course despite court order Oct 18, 4 PM ET
Forbes
Trump Shuttering Popular D.C. Golf Course For 15 Month Renovation Oct 18, 5 PM ET
Reuters
Trump says Washington golf course renovation to start in November, despite judge's order Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Scripps News
U.S. News Trump says he will close historic DC golf course for 15 months of renovations AP via Scripps News Group Oct 18, 4 PM ET
WSJ
Trump Presses Ahead With Plans to Remake Washington Golf Course Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Just the News
Trump announces plan to redevelop D.C. golf course Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Trump shares detailed plan of East Potomac Links golf course despite legal challenges Oct 18, 6 PM ET
IJR
Trump plans 15-month DC golf overhaul amid lawsuit Oct 18, 4 PM ET
New York Post
Tee time Trump unveils 15-month plan to renovate historic DC golf course Oct 18, 5 PM ET
Newsmax
Trump to Close Historic D.C. Golf Course for 15 Months of Renovations Oct 18, 4 PM ET
Red State
Fore! Trump Announces Major DC Golf Course Overhaul — With One Rather Awkward Legal Wrinkle Oct 18, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 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
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.