HuffPost UK Article Rating

Donald Trump's Town Hall Takes Strange Musical Twist

Oct 15, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    7% Positive

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

14% Positive

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
Unlock this feature by upgrading to the Pro plan.

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Great song," Trump told supporters at a cavernous expo centre in suburban Philadelphia as Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" blared from the speakers.
69% : A staffer walked up to Trump at one point and handed him a card.
62% : "During the Q&A portion of the event, Trump was asked by a pair of supporters how he planned to make housing more affordable and how he would provide relief to small-business owners.
57% : "Nothing compares to you," Trump mouthed to the crowd as O'Connor's haunting vocals on "Nothing Compares 2 U" rang out in the room and her music video played on the screens.
53% : "How about this: We'll play 'YMCA,'" he said at another point to cheering supporters as the Village People song, a Trump crowd favourite, started up.Trump initially took several questions from attendees in the audience about affordable housing and the economy but seemed to grow bored with the format after two people fainted in the audience, causing lengthy interruptions in the program.
45% : Let's just listen to music," Trump said, directing his staff to play "a couple of really beauties.""Who the hell wants to hear questions?" he added.
43% : "We're going to drill, baby, drill," Trump said.
37% : After dedicating Schubert's "Ave Maria" to the father of a service member who died in Iraq, Trump then decided to keep the music going, swaying on stage and fist-pumping to supporters while songs from Sinead O'Connor, Elvis Presley, Guns N' Roses and others played.

*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.

Copy link