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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points across outlets. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times employed neutral, attributive framing, using phrases like "Trump says he called" and "Trump Says" to signal that the claims being reported originated with the president rather than being independently verified. This approach — grounding the story in attributed speech rather than editorializing — reflects a shared journalistic convention that neither amplifies nor diminishes the subject. The one minor distinction is topical rather than ideological: The Washington Post focused directly on the Atlantic Ocean renaming claim, while The New York Times framed its headline around a separate but related question about congressional approval and a historical precedent. Neither outlet used loaded language, charged verbs, or framing devices that would tilt the coverage toward any political interpretation.