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Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy

Ford used analogies of theft to describe the former US president.

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What this story says

  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford described Donald Trump as untrustworthy.
  • Ford used analogies of Trump stealing lunch money, a toque, and running shoes.
  • The premier urged unity amid a trade war.
  • No centre or right-rated outlets reported on Ford's statements.

Who covered it

Left 56%(51)Centre 24%(22)Right 20%(18)

Percentages are shares of the 91 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 22 of the 113 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

30/100

Craft

45/100

Hype

61/100

113 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 18 of the 91 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford stated that President Trump is untrustworthy. Ford used the analogy that Trump would steal lunch money, a toque, and running shoes. The premier also urged unity in the face of a trade war.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports mentioned the specific context or location where Premier Ford made these statements. The reports also did not include any direct quotes from Donald Trump or any response from his representatives.

Tags:#DougFord#DonaldTrump#Politics#TradeWar#Ontario

Coverage settled. We checked this 270 times and stopped on 27 Aug 2026, 21:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

51 rated outlets

  • The left-rated reports focused on Ontario Premier Doug Ford's strong criticism of Donald Trump. All eight reports highlighted Ford's statement that Trump is "not to be trusted whatsoever." They also all included Ford's colourful analogies comparing Trump to someone who would steal lunch money, a toque, and running shoes. The call for unity in the face of a trade war was also present in all the left-rated reports.

Centre

22 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

18 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the right coverage of this story. The right-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy?
Of the 91 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 56% are rated left, 24% are rated centre, 20% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 113. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 91 rated outlets on this story, 56% are rated left, 24% are rated centre, 20% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy biased?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy is one event reported by 113 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls Trump untrustworthy?
113 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Ontario Premier Doug Ford say about Donald Trump?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford stated that Donald Trump is untrustworthy. He used analogies comparing Trump to someone who would steal lunch money, a toque, and running shoes.
What else did Doug Ford say?
In addition to his comments about Donald Trump, Premier Ford urged for unity in the face of a trade war. The specific context or location of these remarks was not detailed in the reports.
Which news outlets covered this story?
Eight news outlets covered this story, all of which were rated as left-leaning. No centre or right-rated outlets reported on Premier Ford's statements about Donald Trump.

Read it at the source

226 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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Centre

48
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Right

28
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Not rated

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