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🗞️ Story file #1858

Trump says US does not need Iran deal

Nov 14, 5 PM ET to Nov 14, 7 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.

📰 read it at: SemaforThe Washington PostReutersThe American ConservativeThe SunBreitbart

  1. Nov 12, 11 AM ET

    first on a front page: The Washington Post

  2. Nov 13, 1 AM ET

    peak: on 6 front pages at once

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

36ThuFriSatpeak: 6 front pages, Fri 1 AMThu Nov 12, 11 AM ET: on 1 front pages (1 leans left) “Trump says no deal needed with Iran, closes down Vance negotiations” (The Washington Post)Thu Nov 12, 12 PM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 1 PM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 2 PM ET: on 2 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 3 PM ET: on 3 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 4 PM ET: on 3 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 5 PM ET: on 3 front pages (1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 6 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 7 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 8 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 9 PM ET: on 5 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 10 PM ET: on 5 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Thu Nov 12, 11 PM ET: on 5 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 12 AM ET: on 5 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 1 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 2 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 3 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 4 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 5 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 6 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 7 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 8 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 9 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 10 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 11 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 12 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 1 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 2 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 3 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 4 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 5 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 6 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 7 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 8 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 9 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 10 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Fri Nov 13, 11 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 12 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 1 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 2 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 3 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 4 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 5 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 6 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 7 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 8 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 9 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 10 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 11 AM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 12 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 1 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 2 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 3 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 4 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 5 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 6 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)Sat Nov 14, 7 PM ET: on 6 front pages (2 leans left, 2 leans right, 1 right, 1 center) “Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With Iran” (The American Conservative)
Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:leans leftcenterleans rightright. First: The Washington Post, Thu 11:00 AM ET.
Nov 13, 6 PMNov 146 AM12 PM6 PMThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Nov 12, 11:00 AM ET: Trump says no deal needed with Iran, closes down Vance negotiationsThe American Conser…The American ConservativeThe American Conservative, Nov 12, 12:02 PM ET: Iran War Day 258: Trump Says No Deal Necessary With IranReutersReutersReuters, Nov 12, 3:01 PM ET: Trump says US does not need Iran deal, directs Vance to focus on domestic corruptionSemaforSemaforSemafor, Nov 12, 6:00 PM ET: Trump says US doesn't need Iran dealThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Nov 12, 9:00 PM ET: TOUGH TALK We don't need a deal with Iran, Trump says despite election bloodbathBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Nov 13, 1:01 AM ET: Trump: ‘We Don’t Need a Deal with Iran’ — ‘Regime Is Collapsing’
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

  1. “Regime Is Collapsing”1
  2. “We Don't Need a Deal with Iran”1

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

📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ On the shows

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

  1. 🐘 The Megyn Kelly Show 1
  2. 🐘 Ben Shapiro 1
  3. 🐘 Morning Wire 1
  4. 🐘 Erick Erickson 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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

  1. 🃏 The Onion 1

🧶 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 TrumpIranJohn VanceIranian Regime

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

fact-checked 🔎 Snopes Did Trump say 'nobody has died' in Iran war? Here's the full story

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Midterm Fallout and Politics →

  1. 1

    Nov 7, 10 AM ET

    Trump weighs next steps in Iran conflict after midterm losses

  2. 2

    Nov 8, 10 PM ET

    Trump and Rubio defend Iran war amid GOP midterm losses

  3. 3

    Nov 14, 5 PM ET · 📍 this story

    Trump says US does not need Iran deal

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