President Trump’s First 100 Days concluded on April 29, 2025. The Media Bias Detector Events page captures the most covered news events each day, along with which publishers choose to report these stories. The timeline below gives a breakdown of the top stories from those 100 days. Each event cluster on the timeline represents a GPT-generated group of semantically similar articles about the same news event, which are verified by human reviewers.

These were the five most covered stories from Trump’s inauguration day through his first 100 days:

And here are all of the events categorized by topic, with Trump Administration, Immigration, and Foreign Policy being the most covered topics in the first couple of months of Trump’s second term.

While the Media Bias Detector shows what the media covers the most, it also shows what gets ignored by certain publishers, as seen by Fox News’s silence on tariffs and protests. On April 2, 2025, just after the markets closed, Trump announced massive new taxes on imports from around the world. And on April 3, 2025, the stock markets began to crash on fears that Trump’s new taxes would crush US businesses and lead to an international recession.

What is notable is that the Media Bias Detector reviews the top 20 articles at five key points during the day, and Breitbart and Fox News had 0 articles on this economic fallout. Publications make editorial decisions about what to cover and how to cover it, and these two publications chose to ignore the top event of the day, one of the most critical events of the year, in favor of evergreen storylines they could have run at any time.

Two days later on April 5, 2025, the top event on the Media Bias Detector was the robust protests across the United States against Trump and Musk (Figure 3). Again the top news story was not there on Fox News (along with Wall Street Journal and Breitbart).

Fox News and Breitbart generally do cover the top stories from the other papers, as for the previous two days (April 1 and 2), the top stories were covered by all of the papers. On April 1st it was Senator Bookers’ 25-hour senate speech, and on April 2nd it was the death of Val Kilmer.

Much attention is often given to how the media covers something (their frame), but a lack of coverage is even more stark in many ways. When people consume news they are gauging what is important or not, as well as how they should feel about it. If the mainstream media does not deem an event critical enough to cover it, could the event still be called important? (the answer would be a resounding yes).