🗞️ Story file #1154
Trump criticizes reporter for health and travel questions
Oct 29, 8 PM ET to Oct 30, 7 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 11 hourson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 8 minof TV captions
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
👣 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 29, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: PBS NewsHour
- Oct 29, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 29, 10 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “You look like hell”4
- “You are disgusting”2
- “Sick of Traveling”1
- “way out of shape”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled trip: ‘You look like hell’” → “Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled Kansas trip: ‘You look like hell’”
- The Bulwark (2 wordings): “Trump Explodes at Reporter Over One Simple Question” → “Sam Stein Trump Explodes at Reporter Over One Simple Question Sam Stein on Trump’s bizarro distractions.”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Trump, Sweating Profusely, Tells Reuters Reporter ‘You Look Like Hell’ Oct 29, 6 PM ET
Raw Story
Trump throws tarmac tantrum over health question amid cancellation: 'You look like hell!' Oct 29, 6 PM ET
The Bulwark
Trump Explodes at Reporter Over One Simple Question Oct 29, 9 PM ET
Mediaite
‘You Look Like Hell!’ Trump Launches Unhinged Attack on Reporter Who Asks Him if He’s ‘Sick of Traveling’ Oct 29, 5 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
WATCH: Trump calls reporter 'disgusting' when questioned about not traveling to Kansas Oct 29, 8 PM ET
USA Today
Trump erupts at reporter over canceled midterm trip to Kansas Oct 29, 7 PM ET
IJR
Trump Insults Reuters Reporter Over Kansas Trip Oct 29, 10 PM ET
New York Post
Trump rips ‘way out of shape’ male reporter for asking about canceled trip: ‘You look like hell’ Oct 29, 7 PM ET
The National Desk
'You are disgusting': Trump slams reporter over health and travel questions Oct 29, 8 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
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📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to 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.
Donald TrumpReutersKansas
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump changes rally format
Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans phone-in campaign events
Oct 29, 3 PM ET
Trump criticizes reporter for health and travel questions (this story)
Oct 29, 8 PM ET