The Mug Shot, the Tweet, and Trump's Return to Prime Time

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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SentenceSentimentBias
"White nationalist Laura Loomer could be seen chasing down a man wearing Halloween-store jail stripes and accusing him of inciting violence, while Marjorie Taylor Greene declared to a gaggle of reporters, This is what communism looks like."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Trump's inescapability suggests that he's the closest thing American politics has to an elemental force, an entity that controls the weather and contorts everything around him."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The circus at the Fulton County Jail was a testament to how thoroughly Trump still has America in his thrall."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The queasy thrill that American audiences get from the sensationalistic crime coverage that plagues our evening news crescendoed to a fever pitch at the sight of Trump's mug shot, all golden hair and glowering eyebrows -- surely an instant contender for one of the most widely circulated images in history."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Even at what should be his weakest moment, personally and politically, it's hard to avoid the impression that Trump is in his element."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Minutes before Wednesday's debate aired on Fox News, Trump and Tucker Carlson released a 46-minute interview on Twitter (now rebranded as X), which promptly racked up more than 74 million views and counting."
Positive
0% Conservative
"This charming atmosphere rivaled that of the previous night's debate stage in Milwaukee, where Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy struggled to convince Republican voters that their personal brands of MAGA sociopathy were preferable to Trump's."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"This charming atmosphere rivaled that of the previous night's debate stage in Milwaukee, where Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy struggled to convince Republican voters that their personal brands of MAGA sociopathy were preferable to Trump's."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"By the time he returned to the Atlanta airport on Thursday, it was clear that Trump had surrendered in only the loosest sense of the word."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Hundreds of sweaty onlookers had converged on the press-and-protester pen on Rice Street in Atlanta -- 94-degree heat, flies attacking from every angle -- to witness Trump's arrest and share how they felt about it."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"But watching them tear into each other as Trump declined to show up was further proof that they're all still bit characters in his show."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Donald Trump arrived at the Fulton County Jail a little after 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, ready for his mug shot."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Trump did not address the reporters or supporters gathered outside, several of whom had waited nearly twelve hours to see him and were drenched and visibly exhausted, and left 20 minutes later using the same back door he'd entered."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"It's a remarkable turnaround after Trump was left for dead in 2021 and baed from his preferred social media platform."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The race -- against Joe Biden, against his numerous prosecutors, against the time it would take the legal process to run its course -- was on."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"His supporters were in the majority, in their dizzying array of Trump-branded merch, and ranged from disarmingly polite (Excuse me, so sorry, mind of I squeeze past?) to the rabid (Obama is a PEDOPHILE!)."
Positive
8% Conservative
"His supporters were in the majority, in their dizzying array of Trump-branded merch, and ranged from disarmingly polite (Excuse me, so sorry, mind of I squeeze past?) to the rabid (Obama is a PEDOPHILE!)."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The fact that the mug shot was produced at such a notoriously filthy and overcrowded detention facility, which Trump may never actually set foot inside, is another sign of the situation's perverse irony."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"White nationalist Laura Loomer could be seen chasing down a man wearing Halloween-store jail stripes and accusing him of inciting violence, while Marjorie Taylor Greene declared to a gaggle of reporters, This is what communism looks like."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"White nationalist Laura Loomer could be seen chasing down a man wearing Halloween-store jail stripes and accusing him of inciting violence, while Marjorie Taylor Greene declared to a gaggle of reporters, This is what communism looks like."
Negative
-66% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

30% : White nationalist Laura Loomer could be seen chasing down a man wearing Halloween-store jail stripes and accusing him of inciting violence, while Marjorie Taylor Greene declared to a gaggle of reporters, "This is what communism looks like."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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