🗞️ Story file #135
Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina
Oct 6, 7 AM ET to Oct 7, 6 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 23 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 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 6, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
- Oct 6, 10 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
- Oct 6, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 7, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump attacks Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews with anti-trans slur” → “Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur against South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews while endorsing Republican incumbent Darline Graham.”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina” → “Trump uses anti-transgender slur to attack South Carolina Senate nominee”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
Raw Story
Trump hurls slur at Democrat challenging Darline Graham in furious endorsement Oct 5, 6 PM ET
Mediaite
Trump Repeatedly Uses Anti-Trans Slur to Attack Democratic Candidate Oct 6, 7 AM ET
The Independent
Trump uses anti-trans slur to attack woman running against Darline Graham in South Carolina Oct 6, 10 AM ET
Yahoo News
Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina Oct 6, 1 AM ET
The Hill
Trump hurls anti-trans slurs at Graham’s opponent as South Carolina race tightens Oct 6, 7 AM ET
New York Post
Trump attacks Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews with anti-trans slur Oct 6, 7 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit
President Trump Blows Up Senator Darline Graham’s Opponent with New Nickname Oct 5, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP USES ANTI-TRANSGENDER SLUR TO ATTACK SC SENATE NOMINEE CNN, 2 min
- COLLINS ON TRUMP: "I'M NOT EXACTLY HIS FAVORITE SENATOR" CNN, 2 min
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur to attack Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews. Oct 7: told by 9 people
🧩 Transvestigation
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Annie Andrews Darline Graham South Carolina Democratic Party Senate
🔎 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.