Trump attacks Bill Maher in 1,300-word Social media post

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Trump attacks Bill Maher in 1,300-word Social media post

Oct 26, 5 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

20outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 9🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
20front pages at once, at its peak
19 minof TV captions
30people retold it online
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 26, 5 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Beast
Oct 26, 7 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
Oct 26, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 30 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 5 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 20), 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. 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 Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Coward” 2 “complete, total loser” “Don't call anymore” “Dumb SLEAZEBAG” “Bill: Don't Call Anymore” 2 “completely demented” “coward” 3 “total loser” 3

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 call anymore

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Fox News (4 wordings): “Bill Maher rejects criticism of second Trump dinner with two-word reply” → “Trump issues one of his longest-ever posts online with fiery message to Bill Maher”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “Trump Serves Up a Big Fat Scorching Rant on ‘Major POTHEAD’ Bill Maher: ‘A Coward Who Is Afraid to Tell the Truth’” → “Bill Maher Claims Trump ‘Way Less’ Threatening in Podcast Dropped Right After Prez’s Blistering 1,300-Word Screed”
New York Post (3 wordings): “Bill Maher fires back at liberal critics over second Trump dinner: ‘I did it again, bitches’” → “Trump blasts ‘complete, total loser’ Bill Maher in 1,300-word Truth Social post”
Raw Story (2 wordings): “‘Don’t call anymore’: Trump’s friendship with Bill Maher implodes in 1300-word meltdown” → “Trump’s ‘completely demented’ 1300-word meltdown at Bill Maher reverberates”
Red State (3 wordings): “Trump Lets Loose in a 1300+ Word Diatribe Against Bill Maher Nick Arama” → “Donald Trump Trump Lets Loose in a 1300+ Word Diatribe Against Bill Maher Nick Arama”
The Daily Beast (3 wordings): “Bill Maher, 70, Gets Ultimate Trump Mortification After White House Dinner” → “Bill Maher, 70, Addresses ‘Threat’ From Best Frenemy Trump”
The Independent (3 wordings): “Trump savages ‘total loser’ Bill Maher in 1,300 word rant after Karoline Leavitt appearance” → “Bill Maher fires back at 'lame duck' Trump following president's rant”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Something Set Off Trump to Post This 1,300+ Word Screed Against Bill Maher” → “Something Set Off Trump to Post This 1,300+ Word Screed Against Bill Maher Matt Vespa”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Trump unleashes on Maher after second White House dinner” → “'The View' mocks Trump's 1,300-word rant against Bill Maher”

Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Trump Rages At ‘Dumb SLEAZEBAG’ TV Host In Wild 1,300-Word Sunday Night Rant Oct 26, 2 AM ET
Raw Story ‘Don’t call anymore’: Trump’s friendship with Bill Maher implodes in 1300-word meltdown Oct 26, 9 AM ET
The Daily Beast Bill Maher, 70, Gets Ultimate Trump Mortification After White House Dinner Oct 26, 5 AM ET
The Guardian Trump calls Bill Maher a ‘total loser’ in 1,300-word Truth Social rant Oct 26, 7 PM ET
CNN Trump rails against Bill Maher in his longest Truth Social post ever Oct 26, 12 AM ET
Mediaite Trump Serves Up a Big Fat Scorching Rant on ‘Major POTHEAD’ Bill Maher: ‘A Coward Who Is Afraid to Tell the Truth’ Oct 25, 10 PM ET
The Independent Trump savages ‘total loser’ Bill Maher in 1,300 word rant after Karoline Leavitt appearance Oct 26, 10 AM ET
USA Today Trump unleashes on Maher after second White House dinner Oct 26, 1 PM ET
Forbes Trump Attacks Bill Maher In 1,300-Word Post Days After White House Dinner—Calls Him ‘Coward’ And ‘Pothead’ Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Newsweek Trump Unloads on Bill Maher in 1,300-Word Post After White House Dinner Oct 25, 11 PM ET
The Hill Trump: Maher a ‘coward who is afraid to tell the truth’ Oct 26, 7 PM ET
Just the News Trump unleashes screed against Bill Maher, says he won't appear on his show Oct 26, 10 AM ET
The Washington Times Trump lambastes comedian Bill Maher in wordy social media post Oct 26, 12 PM ET
Fox News Bill Maher rejects criticism of second Trump dinner with two-word reply Oct 24, 5 PM ET
New York Post Bill Maher fires back at liberal critics over second Trump dinner: ‘I did it again, bitches’ Oct 25, 3 AM ET
Red State Trump Lets Loose in a 1300+ Word Diatribe Against Bill Maher Nick Arama Oct 26, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire Trump Trashes Bill Maher After Promising Not To Be Mean Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit JUST IN: Trump PULVERIZES Bill Maher After Maher Trashes Him on Show – “Bill: Don’t Call Anymore” Oct 25, 11 PM ET
The Post Millennial 'Don’t call anymore': Trump SLAMS 'coward' Bill Maher in his longest Truth Social post ever after comic smeared president following WH dinner Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Townhall Something Set Off Trump to Post This 1,300+ Word Screed Against Bill Maher Oct 26, 7 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN19 min

TRUMP SPENDS 1,300 WORDS ON RANT ABOUT TV HOST BILL MAHER CNN, 9 min
TRUMP'S LONGEST EVER SOCIAL MEDIA RANT FOCUSES ON BILL MAHER CNN, 8 min
TRUMP DEVOTES LENGTHY SOCIAL SCREED TO "TOTAL LOSER" BILL MAHER CNN, 2 min
TRUMP BLASTS BILL MAHER IN RECORD LONG SOCIAL MEDIA POST CNN, 19 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Young Turks 📨 Erick Erickson

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Political retaliation 🧶 online
“Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Bill Maher after the comedian joked about his poll numbers during a White House dinner.”
🧩 Thrown overboard 🧶 online
“Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Bill Maher after the comedian joked about his poll numbers during a White House dinner.”

🧶 Retold online

Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Bill Maher after the comedian joked about his poll numbers during a White House dinner. Oct 27: told by 30 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 86 likes, 6 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 27 likes, 7 reposts

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🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Bill Maher Truth Social White House POTHEAD

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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