🗞️ Story file #363
Trump defends Columbus Day amid state observance differences
Oct 12, 11 AM ET to Oct 12, 7 PM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏1 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 8 hourson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 44 sof TV captions
- 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 12, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: USA Today
- Oct 12, 4 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 12, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Days of Plunder Are Over” 4 “Hero” “Sail On” “Days of Plunder” 3
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsweek (3 wordings): “Map: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating in Each State on Columbus Day” → “Map Shows States That Observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
USA Today
Trump says 'days of plunder are over' in renewed push for Columbus Day Oct 12, 11 AM ET
Newsweek
Map: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating in Each State on Columbus Day Oct 12, 8 AM ET
Straight Arrow News
Columbus Day observance varies across US as Trump defends holiday Oct 11, 7 PM ET
Breitbart
Trump Says ‘Days of Plunder’ of Columbus Statues ‘Are Over’ Oct 11, 1 PM ET
New York Post
Trump claims ‘days of plunder’ are over in spicy Columbus Day post bashing Dems for statue hysteria Oct 11, 5 PM ET
PJ Media
‘Sail On’: Trump Administration Celebrates Columbus Day Oct 12, 4 PM ET- The Daily Signal Trump Brought Columbus Day Back After the Left Tried to Erase It Oct 11, 12 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
White House Remembers Christopher Columbus as a “Hero” – Trump Says Radical Left’s “Days of Plunder Are Over” Oct 12, 12 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- MAMDANI SKIPS NYC COLUMBUS DAY PARADE Fox News, 22 s
- MAMDANI IGNORES COLUMBUS DAY, CELEBRATES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY Fox News, 22 s
🧶 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 Columbus
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump defends Columbus Day
Trump holds Columbus Day celebration at White House before Syracuse rally
Oct 9, 1 PM ET
Trump defends Columbus Day amid state observance differences (this story)
Oct 12, 11 AM ET