# Post ts_108558738138878885 - Post ID: `ts_108558738138878885` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-06-29T03:54:46.230Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108558738138878885 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108558738138878885/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108558738138878885.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The New York Times and Washington Post failed to even mention that today’s Unselect witness lost all credibility when she got caught in a ridiculous lie. Our Country has lost all confidence in the media and our elections. Sad! ## Engagement - Likes: 35,424 - Reposts: 9,874 - Replies: 1,757 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T12:19:37.530Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 11:54 PM EDT following Cassidy Hutchinson's explosive J6 committee testimony, this compact post demonstrates Trump's characteristic defensive repertoire under severe narcissistic injury. Rather than engaging the substantive allegations (knowledge of armed crowd, desire to march to Capitol, pardon-seeking by associates), Trump pivots to media framing — claiming NYT and WaPo suppressed the witness's "credibility loss." The pivot accomplishes two goals: attacking the infrastructure supporting the testimony while redirecting audience attention from content to alleged process corruption. A single disputed secondary claim (the steering-wheel-lunge anecdote, reportedly contested by Secret Service) is grossly inflated into total witness annihilation — a severity of distortion that qualifies as pathological-level defense. The "Our Country has lost all confidence" universalization is classic grandiose projection: speaking as the nation's embodied voice while managing personal existential threat. The complete DARVO sequence (deny/attack/reverse victim-offender) is present in compressed form. Authorship is high-confidence authentic: late-night timing, "Sad!" signoff, "Unselect" coinage, and reactive syntax all converge. No direct eliminationist language, but the public targeting of a named private citizen witness elevates harassment risk. Danger level: elevated. Longitudinally, this post sits within an active hypomanic-range posting cluster showing elevated volume, rapid topic-shifting, and sustained grandiose framing across the evening. ## Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post (2022-06-29T03:54:46Z) ### Authorship Attribution **High confidence: Authentic Trump.** UTC 03:54:46 converts to 11:54 PM EDT on June 28, 2022 — firmly within Trump's documented late-night posting window. Convergent indicators: the proprietary neologism "Unselect" (Trump's own coinage for the J6 committee), the terminal "Sad!" signoff (his most recognizable rhetorical signature), compressed reactive syntax, and emotional tone consistent with an immediate response to the day's testimony. No aide-written indicators present (no polished grammar or formal announcements). --- ### Contextual Frame This post is the evening's coda following a multi-post volley responding to Cassidy Hutchinson's explosive J6 committee testimony. Hutchinson, former Mark Meadows aide, testified Trump knew the crowd was armed, attempted to join the march to the Capitol, and that both Meadows and Giuliani sought pardons. The most contested specific claim — Trump allegedly lunging for the presidential vehicle's steering wheel — was reportedly disputed by Secret Service agents. Trump leverages that single disputed claim to attempt wholesale invalidation of the entire testimony. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Neuroticism (marked):** Angry hostility directed at media and committee; impulsive generalization ("Our Country has lost all confidence") - **Agreeableness (very low):** Contemptuous dismissal of witness, no charitable reading of any claim - **Openness (very low):** Rigid, closed epistemic framing — testimony is a lie, period; media is corrupt, period - **Extraversion (moderate-high):** Assertive, dominant tone; speaking on behalf of the nation - **Conscientiousness (low):** No deliberation; reactive, compressed, no nuance --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate.** The post is almost entirely power/status defensive — there is no communion, no intimacy, no care for public weal. The gesture toward "Our Country" is rhetorical ventriloquism rather than genuine civic concern. **Operative schemas:** - *Self:* Unacknowledged truth-teller; the lone voice identifying media corruption - *Others (media):* Conspiratorially dishonest, actively suppressing exculpatory facts - *World:* Rigged ecosystem in which corrupt institutions (media, committee) coordinate against him and the country --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The truth-detector and exposer — not the defendant but the diagnostician of institutional rot - **Contamination sequence:** Country that once had free press and fair elections → now corrupted by dishonest media and partisan witch hunts - **Identity claims:** "I see what the media won't show you" — positioning as epistemically privileged outsider - **Contrasting other:** NYT and WaPo as dishonest gatekeepers; "Unselect" committee as illegitimate political apparatus --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) - **Narcissistic features:** Entitlement to favorable press treatment; grandiosity in speaking for entire nation's confidence; no empathy for witness or process - **Paranoid features:** Coordinated media suppression of exculpatory evidence — two separate outlets' editorial choices framed as unified conspiracy - **Antisocial features:** Contempt for congressional oversight as a legitimate institution; delegitimizing a sworn witness - **Ego-syntonic sadism (mild):** Pleasure in declaring the witness has "lost all credibility" — punitive dismissal with relish #### Narcissistic Trigger **Primary: Narcissistic injury via public exposure.** Hutchinson's testimony placed Trump proximate to the Capitol violence with agency and intent — among the most severe injury triggers, as it threatened not merely status but criminal accountability before a national audience. #### Narcissistic State **Grandiose with vulnerable substrate.** The pivot to media framing rather than substantive rebuttal is characteristic of the grandiose defense against underlying vulnerability. By making the story about media suppression, Trump simultaneously avoids engaging damaging facts and activates the audience's familiar anti-media schema. #### Narcissistic Rage **Present, moderate intensity.** Compressed rather than explosive — this is the fourth post of the evening; rage has partly discharged in the longer, more personally invested preceding post directly attacking Hutchinson. This closing post is contemptuous rather than enraged. Proportionality is severely distorted — a disputed secondary claim is treated as total witness annihilation. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Denial (pathological):** Complete refusal to engage testimony's substance; reality of the congressional proceeding is simply dismissed - **Distortion (pathological):** Single disputed claim (steering wheel anecdote) grotesquely reshaped into "lost all credibility"; media silence on one angle becomes coordinated suppression - **Projection (immature):** Attributing dishonesty and manipulation to media and witness while himself making demonstrably false claims about universal public confidence - **Displacement (neurotic):** Anger at existentially threatening testimony redirected to the safer, more familiar media target --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **DARVO pattern clearly present.** The congressional investigation of Trump's conduct on January 6 — the Deny/Attack/Reverse Victim-Offender structure — is here: Trump denies the substance (the testimony is lies), attacks the institutional credibility (media suppression), and reverses victim-offender positioning (the country is the victim of the corrupt committee and media, not of Trump's conduct). This is a compressed but complete DARVO sequence. The epistemic contamination strategy — one disputed claim used to invalidate the entire testimony — is a classic gaslighting maneuver deployed for public consumption. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis Compressed but efficient four-beat structure: 1. **Media suppression claim** — activates anti-media schema in audience, frames them as gatekeepers hiding truth 2. **"Lost all credibility"** — definitive verdict delivered without evidentiary elaboration, leveraging assertion authority 3. **Universal generalization** ("Our Country has lost all confidence") — elevates personal grievance to national crisis, speaks as nation's embodied voice 4. **"Sad!"** — dismissive closer signaling contempt while performing resigned disappointment; distances from rage visible in earlier posts The "Unselect" epithet serves dual in-group signaling: marks the post as authentic Trump and activates follower parsing that treats the committee as categorically illegitimate. No dehumanizing language or violent imagery in this specific post. Media-as-enemy framing is standard. --- ### Cognitive Assessment The post is syntactically simple (three sentences) but internally coherent. No word-finding difficulty, no paraphasia, no tangentiality. Complexity score is below average but consistent with Trump's established baseline for reactive, compressed posts rather than set-piece speeches or longer rally-style content. No markers of cognitive degradation detectable here; simplicity appears stylistic and reactive. --- ### Longitudinal/Hypomanic Context This evening's cluster of posts (election fraud claims, extended Hutchinson attack, multiple Illinois primary updates, this media attack) represents elevated posting volume consistent with mild hypomanic indicators: rapid topic-shifting, high output, emotionally reactive content, and grandiose framing across all posts. This is not unprecedented for Trump post-rally periods combined with perceived narcissistic injury. --- ### Danger Assessment **Elevated.** No eliminationist language present in this specific post. However: systematic delegitimization of a named congressional witness carries real-world risk of audience-directed harassment. The media-as-enemy framing has preceded documented harassment campaigns. The election-denialism extension ("our elections") continues a sustained false-reality narrative. Cumulative rather than acute risk profile. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The New York Times and Washington Post failed to even mention that today's Unselect witness lost all credibility when she got caught in a ridiculous lie" | **Mostly False** | Both outlets provided extensive coverage of Hutchinson's testimony. The Secret Service's reported dispute of the steering-wheel-lunge claim received coverage as well. The framing that they "failed to mention" credibility questions is inaccurate; the outlets' coverage prioritized the substantive allegations (armed crowd, pardon-seeking) over the contested secondary anecdote, which is an editorial judgment, not suppression. | | "Today's Unselect witness lost all credibility when she got caught in a ridiculous lie" | **Mostly False** | One specific claim — Trump allegedly lunging for the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle — was reportedly disputed by Secret Service agents. The substantive portions of Hutchinson's testimony (Trump's awareness of armed crowd, his desire to march to Capitol, Meadows and Giuliani seeking pardons) were not refuted by this dispute. Characterizing one contested secondary claim as total credibility destruction misrepresents the evidentiary record. | | "Our Country has lost all confidence in the media and our elections" | **False** | A sweeping universal claim not supported by any polling. While trust in media has declined in certain demographics, presenting this as universal national consensus is demonstrably false. The "our elections" claim extends the 2020 stolen-election narrative which has been adjudicated as false in 60+ court proceedings. | Overall Veracity: 13% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 11:54 PM EDT posting time — deep within Trump's documented late-night window - "Sad!" terminal signoff — Trump's most distinctive rhetorical signature - "Unselect" epithet — Trump's own coinage for J6 committee, never used by aides - Compressed reactive syntax consistent with impulsive emotional response - No polished grammar or formal event-announcement structure typical of Scavino drafts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Cassidy Hutchinson J6 committee testimony implicating Trump in Capitol violence with agency and intent) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting NYT, Washington Post, Cassidy Hutchinson, J6 committee - Proportionality: 10% Sentiment: -0.68 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated posting volume across this evening (6+ posts) - Rapid topic-shifting: election fraud → Hutchinson attack → primary results → media critique - Emotionally reactive content across all posts - Grandiose framing maintained across entire cluster - Pattern consistent with post-rally activation combined with narcissistic injury response ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 71% - Sadism: 38% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Speaking as nation's embodied voice ("Our Country has lost all confidence") - Epistemic privilege framing — I see what the media hides from you - In-group signaling via "Unselect" neologism activating follower parsing schema ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Named witness (Hutchinson) publicly declared dishonest to audience of millions — elevates harassment risk against private citizen - Media delegitimization framing contributes to documented pattern of journalist intimidation and harassment - Election-denialism extension maintains false-reality ecosystem that has previously motivated violence - Epistemic closure reinforcement: followers instructed to distrust any outlet not validating Trump's framing ### Gaslighting - DARVO sequence: deny testimony substance → attack media for suppression → reverse victim-offender (country victimized by corrupt process) - Epistemic contamination: one disputed claim weaponized to invalidate entire sworn testimony - Attacks on perception infrastructure: framing two major outlets' editorial choices as coordinated cover-up - Assertion-as-verdict: "lost all credibility" delivered without evidentiary elaboration, leveraging authority of bare repetition ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > The New York Times and Washington Post failed to even mention that today's Unselect witness lost all credibility when she got caught in a ridiculous lie **MOSTLY FALSE** Both outlets provided extensive coverage of Hutchinson's testimony. The Secret Service's reported dispute of the steering-wheel-lunge claim received coverage as well. The framing that they "failed to mention" credibility questions is inaccurate; the outlets' coverage prioritized the substantive allegations (armed crowd, pardon-seeking) over the contested secondary anecdote, which is an editorial judgment, not suppression. Sources: Known event: Cassidy Hutchinson's Bombshell J6 Testimony — pre-researched > Today's Unselect witness lost all credibility when she got caught in a ridiculous lie **MOSTLY FALSE** One specific claim — Trump allegedly lunging for the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle — was reportedly disputed by Secret Service agents. The substantive portions of Hutchinson's testimony (Trump's awareness of armed crowd, his desire to march to Capitol, Meadows and Giuliani seeking pardons) were not refuted by this dispute. Characterizing one contested secondary claim as total credibility destruction misrepresents the evidentiary record. Sources: Known event: Cassidy Hutchinson's Bombshell J6 Testimony > Our Country has lost all confidence in the media and our elections **FALSE** A sweeping universal claim not supported by any polling. While trust in media has declined in certain demographics, presenting this as universal national consensus is demonstrably false. The "our elections" claim extends the 2020 stolen-election narrative which has been adjudicated as false in 60+ court proceedings. Sources: General knowledge — polling on media trust Overall Veracity: 13% ## Tags - narcissistic_injury (92%) - DARVO (88%) - media_delegitimization (85%) - election_denial (75%) - witness_attack (82%) - epistemic_closure (80%) - gaslighting (78%) - grandiose_projection (77%) - hutchinson_testimony (95%) - j6_committee (88%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Triumph and Fury: Primary Wins Can't Drown Out Hutchinson Rage** Trump spent the day ricocheting between celebrating a clean sweep of endorsed candidates in Illinois primaries and mounting a sustained, multi-post attack on Cassidy Hutchinson following her blockbuster January 6th Committee testimony. The mood was split-screen: victory laps for Darren Bailey and Mary Miller alternated with furious character assassination of Hutchinson, who was called a liar, a "phony social climber," and dehumanized as simply "the woman." The most troubling pattern was the repeated targeting of a private citizen across at least four posts to millions of followers — creating conditions for harassment without any explicit call to action. By afternoon, the fury had cooled into a single staff-written endorsement, but the morning's rage over Hutchinson showed no sign of resolution. Full digest for 2022-06-29: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-29/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 29). The New York Times and Washington Post failed to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108558738138878885 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The New York Times and Washington Post failed to even..." Truth Social, 29 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108558738138878885. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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