# Post ts_108834642886977660

- Post ID: `ts_108834642886977660`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-08-16T21:20:58.511Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108834642886977660
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108834642886977660/analysis
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## Post text

> If Liz Cheney loses tonight, the Fake News Media will do everything within their power to play it down and pretend that it was not a referendum on the Unselects - That it was no big deal. Actually, it would be a very big deal, one of the biggest!

## Engagement

- Likes: 58,313
- Reposts: 12,467
- Replies: 2,807
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.437Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T22:16:54.611Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_108834642886977660

### Context
Posted on the evening of the Wyoming Republican primary where Liz Cheney was expected to lose badly to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman. Trump is preemptively framing the narrative before results come in.

### Authorship
Posted at 5:20 PM EDT (Trump likely at Bedminster, NJ in August 2022). Business hours, but the style is authentic Trump — the stream-of-consciousness phrasing, the capitalized "Unselects" (his derisive term for the January 6 Select Committee), the characteristic superlative ending ("one of the biggest!"). Mixed indicators lean toward personally authored or lightly assisted.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a **preemptive framing** post — a sophisticated media-management move. Trump anticipates the media's response to Cheney's loss and inoculates his audience against it before it happens. This reveals high social intelligence around narrative control.

The post operates as **supply-seeking** — setting up the Cheney loss as a personal victory and referendum on the January 6 Committee. The framing as "one of the biggest" reflects grandiose amplification of what is essentially a safely-predicted outcome in deep-red Wyoming.

The "Unselects" neologism is a perseverative branding device Trump uses consistently for the J6 Committee — devaluation through renaming.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Projection**: Attributes narrative manipulation to "Fake News Media" while engaging in precisely that activity
- **Splitting**: Media = bad/dishonest; his interpretation = truth

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Preemptive rebuttal (inoculation theory)
- Hyperbolic superlatives ("one of the biggest!")
- In-group signaling via "Unselects" terminology
- Framing a safe prediction as bold truth-telling

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Cheney's loss would be a referendum on the 'Unselects' (January 6 Committee)" | **Half True** | While Cheney's J6 role was central to her primary loss, Wyoming is deep-red with only ~250K registered Republicans — limited as a national referendum. Her loss was widely predicted. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Characteristic 'Unselects' neologism
- Superlative ending pattern ('one of the biggest!')
- Stream-of-consciousness feel
- Business hours posting (5:20 PM EDT) suggests possible aide involvement
- Dash usage for parenthetical is somewhat polished

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Anticipated Cheney primary loss)

Sentiment: +0.30

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose framing of predicted outcome
- Confident anticipatory energy

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- neologism

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inviting audience to share insider knowledge about media behavior
- Creating us-vs-them bond against media gatekeepers

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Preemptively telling audience what to believe about media coverage before it exists
- Framing any alternative interpretation as dishonest suppression

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Cheney's loss would be a referendum on the 'Unselects' (January 6 Committee)

**HALF TRUE**

While Cheney's J6 role was central to her primary loss, Wyoming is deep-red with only ~250K registered Republicans — limited as a national referendum. Her loss was widely predicted.

Sources: Known events: Cheney lost 66.3% to 28.9%

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- media_delegitimization (70%)
- preemptive_framing (90%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- liz_cheney (80%)
- january_6_committee (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Mar-a-Lago Siege Mentality Dominates as Cheney Falls and FBI Returns Passports**

Trump spent most of the day fixated on the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago eight days earlier, cycling between defiant claims and wounded grievance. A late-night post from the previous evening set the tone with a long, agitated denial of any justification for the search, and the afternoon brought more of the same -- including a claim that the FBI wanted security cameras turned off and a pointed remark about agents returning his passports. The one break from the FBI obsession was a pre-emptive victory lap over Liz Cheney's expected primary loss in Wyoming. Overall, a low-volume but emotionally charged day dominated by one wound that clearly hasn't scabbed over.

Full digest for 2022-08-16: https://trump.fm/date/2022-08-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, August 16). If Liz Cheney loses tonight, the Fake News Media... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108834642886977660
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If Liz Cheney loses tonight, the Fake News Media will do..." Truth Social, 16 Aug. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108834642886977660. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "If Liz Cheney loses tonight, the Fake News Media will do...," Truth Social, August 16, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108834642886977660.

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