🗞️ Story file #1038
First Venezuelan oil shipment arrives in Texas
Oct 27, 5 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 14outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 13 hourson the front pages
- 14front pages at once, at its peak
- 82 sof TV captions
- 13people 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, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
- Oct 27, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 28, 12 AM ETpeak: on 14 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 13 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “51st state” 3 “gift.” 2 “I knew that oil would go up” “Oil for Ourselves” “gift” “Oil Prices Are Going to Be Dropping Very Sharply, Very Soon”
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump, Rubio to oversee shipment of 1 million barrels of venezuelan oil after deal with US” → “Trump brings 1 million barrels of oil from Venezuela to Texas ahead of rally as part of last push for GOP in midterms”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump, Rubio to Mark Venezuelan Tanker in Texas” → “First Venezuelan Oil Shipment Arrives Under US Deal”
- Reuters (3 wordings): “Trump says he will visit tanker in Texas with first oil from Venezuela deal” → “First Venezuelan oil from US-NABEP deal arrives in Texas, to be sold to Exxon, Citgo”
Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Trump, campaigning in Texas for Republicans, touts Iran war and ‘51st state’ Venezuela: ‘I knew that oil would go up’ Oct 27, 6 PM ET
AP
Trump floats Venezuela as 51st state while rallying to keep Texas Republican Oct 28, 12 AM ET
Mediaite
‘Oil for Ourselves’: Trump Floats Making Venezuela a ‘Prosperous 51st State’ Oct 27, 5 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
WATCH: Trump says Venezuela sent him 1 million barrels of oil as a 'gift' Oct 27, 3 PM ET
The Independent
Trump pitches a new country to be the ‘51st state’ of the US as he holds midterm rally in Texas Oct 27, 5 PM ET
The Washington Post
Trump to greet Venezuelan oil shipment, calling it a ‘gift.’ The U.S. paid for it. Oct 28, 12 AM ET
Bloomberg
Trump, Rubio Plan to Visit Tanker With Venezuelan Crude in Texas Oct 27, 1 PM ET
Reuters
Trump says he will visit tanker in Texas with first oil from Venezuela deal Oct 27, 5 PM ET
The Hill
Trump continues calls for Venezuela to be 51st state Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Just the News
Trump announces arrival of first 1M barrels of Venezuelan oil Oct 27, 5 PM ET
New York Post
Trump, Rubio to oversee shipment of 1 million barrels of venezuelan oil after deal with US Oct 27, 3 PM ET
Newsmax
Trump, Rubio to Mark Venezuelan Tanker in Texas Oct 27, 9 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit
WATCH: Trump Says He Will Visit Tanker With 1 MILLION Barrels of Oil from Venezuela Today – “Oil Prices Are Going to Be Dropping Very Sharply, Very Soon” Oct 27, 3 PM ET
The Washington Sun
Trump’s Texas Rally Comes With New Scenery: The First Tanker of Venezuelan Oil Oct 27, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP: VENEZUELA SENT 1 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL TO U.S.. Donald Trump | U.S. President CNN, 46 s
- TRUMP: VENEZUELA SENT 1 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL TO U.S CNN, 19 s
- RUBIO CRASHES THE RALLY Fox News, 17 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Donald Trump says Venezuela sent him a million barrels of oil as a gift to give to the United States. Oct 28: told by 13 people (same issue)
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Venezuela Donald Trump Mario Rubio Venezuelan crude oil Texas
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.