Trump says he may become 'Mr. Veto' if Democrats control Congress

🗞️ Story file #1241

Trump says he may become 'Mr. Veto' if Democrats control Congress

Nov 1, 7 PM ET to Nov 2, 5 PM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏2 · 5 · 6🐘left · center · right
22 hourson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
6 minof TV captions
9people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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👣 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.

Nov 1, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Nov 1, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 2, 6 AM ETretold online by 9 people
Nov 2, 12 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 1, 7 PM to Nov 2, 5 PM ET (peak 13), 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.

💬 Quoted

“Mr. Veto”9

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Real Clear Politics · Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

New York Post (2 wordings): “President Trump reveals how he’ll still be able to get things done if Dems take over after midterms” → “exclusive Miranda Devine: Trump feeling confident ahead of midterm elections — as he issues stark warning if Dems win Congress”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “Trump: I'll Be Mr. Veto if Dems Control Congress” → “Trump: I'll Be 'Mr. Veto' If Dems Control Congress”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Trump White House maps path to govern without Congress if Democrats win” → “Trump White House maps path to govern without Congress if Democrats win - Reuters”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Trump says he'll become 'Mr Veto' if midterms don't go his way” → “‘Mr Veto:’ Trump maps a path to govern without Congress if Dems win”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump says he’ll become ‘Mr. Veto’ if Democrats control Congress” → “Trump says he’ll become ‘Mr. Veto’ if Democrats control Congress after midterms”

📰 Every outlet's headline 13left to right by AllSides rating

Mediaite🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET Trump Warns He’ll ‘Become Mr. Veto’ if Democrats Win Midterms
The Independent🕒 Nov 1, 7 PM ET Trump says he'll become 'Mr Veto' if midterms don't go his way
Bloomberg🕒 Nov 1, 12 PM ET Trump Says He May Be ‘Mr. Veto’ If Democrats Win Midterms
Forbes🕒 Nov 1, 3 PM ET Trump Says He May Become ‘Mr. Veto’ If Democrats Win Control Of Congress
Newsweek🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET Trump Says He’ll Become ‘Mr. Veto’ if Democrats Win Midterms
Reuters🕒 Nov 1, 8 AM ET Trump White House maps path to govern without Congress if Democrats win
The Hill🕒 Nov 1, 4 PM ET Trump says he’ll become ‘Mr. Veto’ if Democrats take Congress
The Sun🕒 Nov 2, 8 AM ET DON'S MASTERPLAN Trump reveals how he’ll stop Democrats from derailing his agenda if they seize Congress after midterms
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 1, 3 PM ET Trump says he’ll become ‘Mr. Veto’ if Democrats control Congress
New York Post🕒 Nov 1, 12 PM ET President Trump reveals how he’ll still be able to get things done if Dems take over after midterms
Newsmax🕒 Nov 1, 9 PM ET Trump: I'll Be Mr. Veto if Dems Control Congress
Red State🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET Trump: If Democrats Win, He Will Become 'Mr. Veto'
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET Trump Declares He’ll Become “Mr. Veto” to Block Radical Democratic Agenda If They Seize Congress in Midterms

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

left
leans left
center

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

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.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Donald Trump plans to become 'Mr. Veto' and use executive actions to govern without Congress if Democrats win the midterms. Nov 2: told by 9 people

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

🗣️ Names in it

Donald TrumpDemocratic PartyUnited States Congress

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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