White House Claims to Solve Mystery of Trump’s Giggler
- Newsrooms
- 12
- Last 3 hours
- 9 reports
- Momentum
- Up 125%
4 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Still spreading. Likely 12 to 17 newsrooms by 11:09am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 3822 stories, and number 39 of 1623 in News.
1Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty A new explanation has emerged as to who the mystery giggler was on President Donald Trump’s phone call to C-SPAN. Trump had called into the network around 9 p.m. Monday, as host Mimi Geerges said, “It looks like we’ve got a call
In The Daily Beast’s words.2
The story so far
12 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
- 13
- Newsrooms and sources
- 12
- Last 3 hours
- 9
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (9 in the last three hours, 4 in the three before).
First with it: Semafor, 1 hr 32 min before anyone else.
Reported by 12 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 12
- Over
- 5.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.9 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:45pm AEDT | Semafor | 1 |
| 1:17am AEDT | Bloomberg | 2 |
| 1:39am AEDT | The Hill | 3 |
| 1:45am AEDT | Washington Examiner | 4 |
| 2:57am AEDT | The Washington Times | 5 |
| 3:00am AEDT | The Washington Post | 6 |
| 3:15am AEDT | The New York Times | 7 |
| 3:53am AEDT | CBS News | 8 |
| 3:54am AEDT | The Guardian | 9 |
| 3:57am AEDT | The Daily Beast | 10 |
| 4:06am AEDT | PBS News | 11 |
| 5:16am AEDT | Just the News | 12 |

