# Post ts_112748099395560868 - Post ID: `ts_112748099395560868` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-07-08T00:44:25.871Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748099395560868 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748099395560868/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112748099395560868.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Donald Trump Jr: Joe Scarborough just months ago: “This is the best Biden ever!!!” Scarborough last week: “Uhhhh??“ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:41), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > us. Liberals have been telling us for years that Joe Biden is very much with it. Here was Joe Scarborough. Brilliant, brilliant orator, fake Republican or former Republican just a couple of months ago. This may have been even a couple of weeks ago, but check out for yourself. This is the finest Joe Biden we've ever seen. Of all the Joe Bidens that we've seen throughout the millennia. This is the finest. Check it out. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for 50 years. And, you know, I don't know if people know this or not, Biden used to be a hothead. Sometimes that Irishman would get in front of the reasoning. Sometimes you would say things he didn't want to say. This is, and I don't, you know what, I don't really, start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth and F you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Brzezinski's have known him for 50 years. But weren't the truth. I wouldn't say it. Sure. If it wasn't the truth, Joe Scarborough wouldn't say it, folks. Ask him about his intern. Scarborough was saying that Joe Biden is the smartest he's ever seen. Now, just so we're clear, everything is relative. But Joe Biden for decades, he's been in there for a long time, was literally for decades known as the dumbest man in the United States Senate, perhaps ever. That's not being mean or coming up with something that like, that was always the case. It just becomes a lot worse when you have dementia. But Scarborough with a straight face will say this is the smartest he's ever seen him again, that could still be really dumb. But it's not true. Just look at old recordings of Joe Biden, at least he could form a sentence. But then the debate happened, where Joe Biden talked about defeating Medicare and women getting raped by their sisters. I don't know, guys, I put together a little montage for you. So you can see for yourself, the greatest Joe Biden has ever been the smartest Joe Biden, perhaps in the centuries of having dealt with Joe Biden as America and as Americans. This is the best we've ever seen. Watch for yourself. Sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if we finally beat Medicare, thank you, President Biden, President Trump was right. He did beat Medicare, beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare because all of these people are coming in each state have a different role. Look, there's so many young women who have been including a young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered by by by an immigrant coming in. They talk about that. Here's the deal. There's a lot of young women to be raped by their by their in-laws, by their by their spouses, brothers and sisters by just it's just ridiculous and they can do nothing about it. Move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we can do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump, I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. I mean, even Scarborough himself had to admit that it was painful to watch. And he turned into performance like that. With any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America, keep him on as CEO. Guys, the Emperor has no clothes. The House of Cards is collapsing. Finally, everyone is admitting that Joe Biden is clearly not fit for duty. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/748/099/330/316/170/original/d89fe071ca29fc2c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 7,560 - Reposts: 2,155 - Replies: 243 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.345Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T10:19:54.492Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A repost of Trump Jr.'s mockery of Joe Scarborough's reversed Biden assessments, timed to capitalize on the post-debate Democratic crisis. The post operates in grandiose/vindication mode — gleeful and triumphant rather than wounded. Rhetorically, it employs "let them condemn themselves" juxtaposition plus derisive phonetic mimicry ("Uhhhh??"), delegitimizing media credibility and reinforcing in-group epistemic closure. Authorship is ambiguous: the repost-curation format and evening timing suggest possible aide facilitation, though the derisive register is tonally authentic Trump. The most clinically notable feature is the projection defense structure: Trump, himself subject to documented and ongoing cognitive fitness scrutiny, amplifies content specifically mocking Biden's cognitive decline and the media's complicity in denying it. By flooding attention toward the opponent's supposed deficits, any analogous concerns about Trump are implicitly pre-answered. The pattern — using Biden's visible cognitive struggles as both political weapon and psychological deflection — recurs across this period and merits longitudinal tracking. Danger level: none. No eliminationist language; target is a media figure; register is mockery. ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 8, 2024 (ts_112748099395560868) ### Overview This is a repost of Donald Trump Jr.'s commentary mocking MSNBC host Joe Scarborough for dramatically reversing his assessment of President Biden's cognitive fitness — posted squarely in the window of peak Democratic panic following the June 27 debate debacle and growing congressional calls for Biden to exit the race. The post is structurally simple: a "before and after" juxtaposition designed to humiliate both Biden and his media defenders simultaneously. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 2024-07-08T00:44:25Z → **EDT (UTC−4):** 2024-07-07 at 8:44 PM Trump was likely in the Miami/Doral area, preparing for his Tuesday July 9 rally at Trump National Doral (announced in the previous day's post). Local time of 8:44 PM is ambiguous — neither the classic late-night signal of authentic Trump posting nor clearly within business-hours aide territory. The format ("Donald Trump Jr: [content]") is a repost/amplification of his son's material, which slightly favors aide facilitation, as this type of curated content aggregation is consistent with Scavino-style curation. However, the derisive "Uhhhh??" mimicry is tonally authentic Trump. **Mixed indicators; moderate confidence toward aide-assisted.** --- ### Psychological State & Trigger **State:** Grandiose — vindication mode. No acute narcissistic injury is visible. This is triumphant schadenfreude, not wounded rage. The post positions Trump (via Don Jr.) as having been correct all along about Biden's decline, while the media establishment that mocked or dismissed that concern is now visibly reversing course. **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. The post requires minimal effort (a repost) but delivers high symbolic return: it delegitimizes a media critic (Scarborough has historically oscillated between Trump criticism and, at earlier periods, friendly access), reinforces in-group narratives about media dishonesty, and implicitly claims superior political prescience. --- ### Defense Mechanisms The clinically most notable element is **defensive projection**: Trump, himself the subject of sustained and documented cognitive fitness concerns raised by opponents, amplifies content specifically designed to mock Biden's cognitive decline and ridicule the media figures who denied it. The mechanism is structurally elegant from a psychological standpoint — by flooding attention toward the opponent's supposed cognitive deficits and the media's complicity in covering them up, any analogous concerns about Trump are implicitly pre-answered. "Look at *them*." This is a consistent pattern in Trump's media ecosystem and warrants longitudinal tracking. Secondary defense: **devaluation** (Scarborough reduced to "Uhhhh??"). --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The "before and after" juxtaposition is a rhetorically efficient device — no argument is made; the enemy's own words condemn them. The "Uhhhh??" mimicry is derisive phonetic mockery, a form of ego-syntonic sadism: pleasure derived not from defeating an opponent in argument but from mimicking their confusion and humiliation for audience amusement. The video attachment (presumably showing actual Scarborough clips) provides the evidentiary scaffolding, making the mockery feel "documented." The underlying propaganda function is epistemic closure reinforcement: mainstream media figures who once praised Biden are now confused, therefore the in-group's long-held skepticism was correct all along, therefore mainstream media cannot be trusted on any topic. --- ### Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The wise truth-teller who saw clearly what the corrupt media obscured. No redemption arc needed — this is pure vindication narrative. **Contrasting other:** Scarborough functions as the archetypal hypocritical media figure — sycophantic when it served his interests, stumbling when reality could no longer be denied. **Archetypal dimension:** Trickster-as-exposer. The post's pleasure is in revealing the gap between performed reality (Scarborough's Biden praise) and actual reality (Biden's decline). This trickster dynamic resonates with audiences who feel they have been lied to by institutional media. --- ### Cognitive Status No individual language production to assess here — the post is a repost quote. No markers can be drawn from this content alone. Stable relative to baseline. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Scarborough previously said words to the effect of 'This is the best Biden ever'" | **Half True** | Scarborough was a documented Biden defender and enthusiast pre-debate, consistent with the sentiment attributed. However, the exact quotation is a paraphrase by Trump Jr. and cannot be verified as a direct quote. The characterization of his pre-debate posture is directionally accurate. | | "Scarborough's post-debate reaction was confused/uncertain ('Uhhhh??')" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with documented events: Scarborough and MSNBC hosts visibly grappled with Biden's debate performance, with multiple public expressions of concern and uncertainty. The 'Uhhhh??' is mimicry/caricature but the underlying reversal in position is factually grounded. | Overall Veracity: 65% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Evening posting (8:44 PM EDT) — ambiguous, neither late-night authentic nor business-hours aide signal - Repost/curation format ('Donald Trump Jr: [content]') consistent with Scavino-style content aggregation - Derisive mimicry ('Uhhhh??') tonally consistent with authentic Trump sensibility - Low text complexity suggests aide-facilitated repost rather than composed Trump prose - Location context: likely Miami/Doral area pre-rally, aide staff would be active ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Biden post-debate crisis / media reversal) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 50% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vindication shared with in-group audience as collective triumph - Implicit 'we were right all along' communion with followers - Video 'evidence' framing to reinforce shared epistemic framework ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Scarborough previously said words to the effect of 'This is the best Biden ever' **HALF TRUE** Scarborough was a documented Biden defender and enthusiast pre-debate, consistent with the sentiment attributed. However, the exact quotation is a paraphrase by Trump Jr. and cannot be verified as a direct quote. The characterization of his pre-debate posture is directionally accurate. Sources: Known events context: growing Democratic calls for Biden to exit race following debate debacle; General knowledge of Scarborough's documented pre-debate Biden support > Scarborough's post-debate reaction was confused/uncertain ('Uhhhh??') **MOSTLY TRUE** Consistent with documented events: Scarborough and MSNBC hosts visibly grappled with Biden's debate performance, with multiple public expressions of concern and uncertainty. The 'Uhhhh??' is mimicry/caricature but the underlying reversal in position is factually grounded. Sources: Known events: Growing Democratic calls for Biden to exit race, post-debate crisis Overall Veracity: 65% ## Tags - Biden cognitive decline narrative (90%) - Media mockery / Scarborough (85%) - Projection defense mechanism (80%) - Vindication narrative (75%) - Supply-seeking / maintenance (60%) - Epistemic closure reinforcement (70%) - Post-debate crisis exploitation (80%) - Ego-syntonic sadism / schadenfreude (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Dual-Track Day: Coordinated Legal Grievance Campaign Collides With Triumphalist Biden-Collapse Harvesting** An unusually high-volume day split between two competing emotional registers. The evening hours were dominated by a staff-orchestrated campaign to delegitimize his criminal conviction through serialized legal essays, while the afternoon saw gleeful curation of hostile-source quotes confirming Biden's post-debate collapse. One authentic flash of rage emerged early morning — a terse command to Fox News to stop airing critics — before the day settled into disciplined, largely aide-managed messaging. The sheer volume (53 posts) reflects institutional mobilization more than personal agitation, with the legal defense series functioning as coordinated wound management ahead of September sentencing. Full digest for 2024-07-08: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 8). Donald Trump Jr: Joe Scarborough just months ago:... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748099395560868 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Donald Trump Jr: Joe Scarborough just months ago: “This is..." Truth Social, 8 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748099395560868. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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