🧵 Saga file #92
Trump Michigan rally events
Oct 25, 4 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 3parts so far
- 37outlets carried a part
- 🫏16 · 8 · 12🐘left · center · right
- 2.6 daysrunning so far
- 119 minof TV captions
- 34radio newscasts
- 40people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 26, 11 AM ET · on the front pages 1 hourTrump praises Nicki Minaj at Michigan rally
- Oct 25, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 2.6 daysTrump criticizes Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as jihadist
- Oct 27, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 14 hoursAbdul El-Sayed campaign responds to Antisemitic ad controversy
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Trump praises Nicki Minaj at Michigan rally
Oct 26, 11 AM ET · 1 outlets · on the front pages 1 hour
“Trump Gives A Crude Shoutout To Nicki Minaj At Michigan Rally” first: HuffPost
2. Trump criticizes Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as jihadist
Oct 25, 4 PM ET · 36 outlets · on the front pages 2.6 days · 🔴 now
“Trump Tests Midterm Pull in Georgia With Second Rally in Eight Days” first: Newsweek
📺 CNN 68 min, Fox News 15 min, BBC News 4 min, MSNOW 65 s · 📻 34 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 17
3. Abdul El-Sayed campaign responds to Antisemitic ad controversy
Oct 27, 4 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 14 hours · 🔴 now
“‘Disgusting’: Pro-El-Sayed Ad Sparks Avalanche of Criticism As Campaign Distances” first: Mediaite
📺 CNN 20 min, Fox News 12 min · 🧶 retold by 23
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-27 ✨ Islamophobia ×1
- 2026-10-26 ✨ Brotherhood candidate ×2 ✨ Lampooning the leader ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Donald Trump and Mike Rogers are using Islamophobia and false claims of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to target Abdul El-Sayed. told by 17 people, on “Trump criticizes Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as jihadist”
- An America Next PAC ad aired during the World Series claiming liberals are the new racists is disgusting propaganda. told by 16 people, on “Abdul El-Sayed campaign responds to Antisemitic ad controversy”
- An individual is making racist and untrue claims that Arabs do not win scientific prizes. told by 7 people, on “Abdul El-Sayed campaign responds to Antisemitic ad controversy”