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🗞️ Story file #155

Trump blames France protests on migration and Islam

Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 8, 1 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Wire
  2. Oct 6, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  3. Oct 7, 10 AM ETpeak: on 15 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 712 PMOct 812 PM815leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 2 PM to Oct 8, 1 PM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 712 PMOct 812 PMJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: Trump blames immigration for French riots: 'This isn't about schools'NewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Trump Says Islam Is ‘Taking Over’ France in Migration Warning Amid ProtestsNewsweek, Oct 7, 11:00 AM ET: Trump Says Islam Is ‘Taking Over’ France Amid ProtestsRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Trump sees Muslim 'takeover' as French teens take to the streets over crumbling schoolsNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Trump Blames French School Unrest on Islam, MigrationNewsmax, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Trump Links French School Unrest to Islam, MigrationThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: President Trump Reacts to France Riots as Islamo-Marxist Migrants Clash with Police (VIDEO)The Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Trump Weighs In On France Mayhem With Warning Over Illegal Immigration And IslamHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Donald Trump Makes Wild Claim About Student Protests In FranceThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Trump Pushes Deranged Conspiracy Theory About French School ProtestsThe New Republic, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Trump Makes Unhinged Claim About French School ProtestsFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Trump, Waltz link France riots to mass immigration as thousands are arrestedThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Trump links French riots for more educational funding to country’s immigration policies, IslamOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Trump: Ongoing protests in France are ‘nothing less than out of control mass migration’IJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Trump blames France protests on migration, IslamThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 6, 7:00 PM ET: Trump blames French student protests on Islam, ‘out of control mass migration’The BlazeThe BlazeThe Blaze, Oct 7, 10:00 AM ET: Trump blames violent rioting in France on Islam, ‘out of control mass migration’ — and a French official has respondedBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 7, 10:00 AM ET: …Trump: Riots Are Symptom of Mass Migration, Insurgent IslamBreitbart, Oct 7, 1:00 PM ET: Trump Says France Riots Symptom of Mass Migration, Insurgent Islam📺 TVCNN, 10:17 PM ET: TRUMP BLAMES MASS PROTESTS OVERSEAS ON MIGRATION & ISLAMFox News, 11:14 PM ET: TRUMP SAYS FRENCH PROTESTS DUE TO "MASS MIGRATION"CNN, 3:17 AM ET: TRUMP BLAMES MASS PROTESTS OVERSEAS ON MIGRATION & ISLAMFox News, 4:14 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS FRENCH PROTESTS DUE TO "MASS MIGRATION"Fox News, 11:18 AM ET: WALTZ: UNCHECKED IMMIGRATION, BIG GOVERNMENT POLICIES FUELING "FRUSTRATION" BEHIND FRENCH RIOTS
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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “out of control mass migration” “Taking Over” “takeover” “nothing less than out of control mass migration” 2 “This isn't about schools”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump makes 🐘 france riots 🐘 mass migration 🐘 trump blames

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “…Trump: Riots Are Symptom of Mass Migration, Insurgent Islam” → “Trump Says France Riots Symptom of Mass Migration, Insurgent Islam”
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Blames French School Unrest on Islam, Migration” → “Trump Links French School Unrest to Islam, Migration”
  • Newsweek (2 wordings): “Trump Says Islam Is ‘Taking Over’ France in Migration Warning Amid Protests” → “Trump Says Islam Is ‘Taking Over’ France Amid Protests”
  • The New Republic (2 wordings): “Trump Pushes Deranged Conspiracy Theory About French School Protests” → “Trump Makes Unhinged Claim About French School Protests”
Every outlet's first headline (15), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News55 s
CNN18 s
  • TRUMP SAYS FRENCH PROTESTS DUE TO "MASS MIGRATION" Fox News, 38 s
  • TRUMP BLAMES MASS PROTESTS OVERSEAS ON MIGRATION & ISLAM CNN, 18 s
  • WALTZ: UNCHECKED IMMIGRATION, BIG GOVERNMENT POLICIES FUELING "FRUSTRATION" BEHIND FRENCH RIOTS Fox News, 17 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Reuters World News

🧶 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.

🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump France Islam Illegal immigration French schools Muslims

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Greta Thunberg joins French protests

  1. French student protests continue amid escalating tensions and government response

    Oct 4, 1 PM ET

  2. France closes up to 500 schools amid student protests

    Oct 5, 7 AM ET

  3. Trump blames France protests on migration and Islam (this story)

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  4. Greta Thunberg joins French student protests

    Oct 13, 6 PM ET