Norway's tourist board responds to trump's insult with toilet-themed promotion

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Norway's tourist board responds to trump's insult with toilet-themed promotion

Oct 30, 2 PM ET to Oct 31, 7 AM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
7people retold it online
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 30, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 30, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 31, 5 AM ETretold online by 7 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 30, 2 PM to Oct 31, 7 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word

Newsmax

💬 Quoted

“great again”1
“S**t House”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Norway’s Tourist Board Hits Back At Trump’s ‘S**t House’ Attack In The Most Fitting Way Oct 30, 6 AM ET
The Guardian Visit Norway makes shithouses ‘great again’ after Trump insult Oct 29, 4 PM ET
AP Norway turns to toilet humor after Trump bashes Scandinavian country Oct 30, 2 PM ET
The Independent Norway trolls Trump with toilet joke after his Nobel Prize meltdown Oct 30, 9 AM ET
Bloomberg Norway Turns Trump’s Toilet Insults Into a Tourist Ploy Oct 30, 12 PM ET
Newsmax Norway Turns to Toilet Humor After Trump Bashes Scandinavian Country Oct 30, 2 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Norway's tourism agency responded to Donald Trump calling the country a "shithouse" by showcasing its beautiful and spectacular public toilets. Oct 31: told by 7 people; told before on Oct 30, Oct 27

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

🗣️ Names in it

NorwayDonald TrumpVisit NorwayScandinavian countryToilet humor

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump criticizes Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub

Trump criticizes Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub
Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Norway's tourist board responds to trump's insult with toilet-themed promotion (this story)
Oct 30, 2 PM ET