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How the coverage framed it

With a bias spread of just 1.5 points, coverage of this story was largely uniform, clustering in mildly left-leaning territory with no clearly right-leaning outlet represented. CNBC's headline leaned furthest left, using the contrast between Trump "promised a 'golden age'" and farmers "still waiting" to suggest broken commitments — a framing reinforced by anchoring expectations to Trump's own rhetoric. The Boston Globe similarly employed implicit contradiction, noting Trump "touted his tariffs" "despite rising costs," and added defection framing with "Even some of his supporters are worried." The closest thing to a neutral anchor was the *New York Times*, whose headline — focused on specific tariff exemption categories like "Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper" — used factual, descriptive language without ideological signals. The absence of any center-right or right-leaning coverage means the spread reflects a mild left tilt rather than a genuine ideological divide.