U.S. and Cuban officials engage in shouting match during UN debate

🗞️ Story file #1028

U.S. and Cuban officials engage in shouting match during UN debate

Oct 27, 3 PM ET to Oct 28, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

21outlets carried it
🫏5 · 2 · 13🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
16 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
9people retold it online

👣 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 27, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 27, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 27, 9 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 9 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 3 PM to Oct 28, 5 AM ET (peak 21), 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.

💬 quoted: “Back Up!” 4 “Back away! This isn't Havana!” 2 “Diplomats” “shoved and tried to assault” “This is America!” “Back away!” “You're lying”

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Cuban ‘Diplomats’ Form Mob Scene at U.N. as Ambassador Mike Waltz Exposes Castro Family Riches” → “Cuban 'Diplomats' Form Mob Scene at U.N. Against Mike Waltz”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Commie and get some Mike Waltz gets in shouting match with Cuban delegate at UN as American diplomat assaulted” → “The Cuban official who allegedly “shoved and tried to assault” an American diplomat recording Mike Waltz’s shouting match with Havana’s foreign minister on the floor of the UN is to be kicked out of the US, the Ambassador has confirmed.”
The New Republic (2 wordings): “Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Get Into Shout-Off at U.N.” → “Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Yell at Each Other at U.N.”
Townhall (2 wordings): “'Back Up!' Mike Waltz Faces Down Cuba’s Furious Foreign Minister in Intense Confrontation at the UN” → “'Back Up!' Mike Waltz Faces Down Cuba’s Furious Foreign Minister in Intense Confrontation at the UN Dmitri Bolt”

Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating

Raw Story ‘Back away!’ Trump’s UN ambassador erupts in shouting match with Cuban official Oct 27, 7 PM ET
The New Republic Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Get Into Shout-Off at U.N. Oct 27, 2 PM ET
ABC News 'This is America!' Waltz says as he and Cubans get into shouting match at UN Oct 27, 8 PM ET
Los Angeles Times U.S. and Cuban officials engage in shouting match during U.N. debate over economic embargo Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Mediaite WATCH: Trump Ambassador Gets Into Wild Shouting Match Over Cuba on UN Floor Oct 27, 3 PM ET
BBC 'You're lying' - US and Cuban officials get into shouting match at UN Oct 27, 5 PM ET
Scripps News U.S. News US and Cuban officials engage in a shouting match during a UN debate AP via Scripps News Group Oct 27, 5 PM ET
The Washington Times U.S. and Cuban officials engage in a shouting match during a U.N. debate over the economic embargo Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Breitbart Cuban ‘Diplomats’ Form Mob Scene at U.N. as Ambassador Mike Waltz Exposes Castro Family Riches Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Fox News Trump UN envoy tells Cuban foreign minister to 'back up' in fiery floor confrontation Oct 27, 4 PM ET
IJR Cuban minister accuses Waltz of lying during UN General Assembly speech Oct 27, 5 PM ET
New York Post Commie and get some Mike Waltz gets in shouting match with Cuban delegate at UN as American diplomat assaulted Oct 27, 3 PM ET
Newsmax US, Cuban Officials Engage in Shouting Match During UN Debate Over Economic Embargo Oct 27, 4 PM ET
PJ Media All Hell Breaks Loose at the United Nations: Waltz Spokesman Assaulted Oct 27, 3 PM ET
Red State ‘Back Up!’ Cuban Official Charges Mike Waltz at UN, Staffer Assaulted in Wild Scene Oct 27, 3 PM ET
The Blaze US ambassador shouts down Cuban officials trying to hijack UN speech: 'Back away! This isn't Havana!' Oct 27, 9 PM ET
The Daily Wire America Gets Into Shouting Match With Cuba On UN Floor Oct 27, 4 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit WHOA! “BACK UP, AMBASSADOR… This Isn’t Havana!” – UN Ambassador Mike Waltz Gets In Shouting Match with Cuban Foreign Minister at UN General Assembly Hall (VIDEO) Oct 27, 7 PM ET
The Western Journal Watch: UN Chaos - Mike Walz Has to Order Approaching Cuban Minister Back to Seat as Communist Officials Fly into Rage Oct 27, 9 PM ET
Townhall 'Back Up!' Mike Waltz Faces Down Cuba’s Furious Foreign Minister in Intense Confrontation at the UN Oct 27, 3 PM ET
The Washington Sun Mike Waltz Gets Into a Shouting Match With Top Cuban Official at the U.N. Oct 27, 5 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News15 min

CNN79 s

NIXON: "PEOPLE HAVE TOLD" ME CUBA IS DICTATORSHIP Fox News, 3 min
DSA DUMMIES. DEM CANDIDATE DOESN'T KNOW IF CUBA IS A DICTATORSHIP Fox News, 3 min
"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO INTIMIDATE ME" U.S. AMB. MIKE WALTZ UNLOADS ON CUBAN DELEGATION Fox News, 2 min
AMB. WALTZ: YOU'RE NOT GOING TO INTIMIDATE ME Fox News, 2 min
"PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME". DSA'S ANGIE NIXON MOCKED FOR CLUELESS ANSWER ON CUBA Fox News, 86 s
ANGIE: IS CUBA A DICTATORSHIP? DUNNO Fox News, 56 s
U.S. AND CUBAN OFFICIALS GET INTO HEATED EXCHANGE AT UN CNN, 53 s
UN AMBASSADOR WALTZ CLASHES WITH CUBAN DELEGATES Fox News, 51 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 27, 8:09 PM ET: story 3 of 7

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

US Ambassador Mike Waltz engaged in an unprofessional and abusive shouting match with Cuban officials at the United Nations. Oct 28: told by 9 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Mike Waltz Cuba United Nations Cuban Foreign Minister Cuban delegate American diplomat

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.