# Post ts_112831747750361876

- Post ID: `ts_112831747750361876`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-07-22T19:17:18.476Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112831747750361876
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112831747750361876/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112831747750361876.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wow, just watching the Fake News, and they’re doing their very best to turn the Worst President in the History of our Country into a “Brilliant and Heroic Leader” (He was heroic because he quit!), and to turn “Dumb as a Rock” Kamala Harris from a totally failed and insignificant Vice President into a future “Great” President. No, it just doesn’t work that way!

## Engagement

- Likes: 28,900
- Reposts: 7,229
- Replies: 2,844
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.343Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T18:47:41.991Z (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_112831747750361876

## Context
Posted July 22, 2024 at ~3:17 PM ET, the day after Biden's withdrawal and endorsement of Harris. This is one of several rapid-fire posts that day, all responding to the seismic shift in the 2024 race.

## Authorship
High confidence authentic Trump. Real-time TV reactivity ("just watching the Fake News"), trademark devaluation nicknames, stream-of-consciousness parenthetical asides, and emotional charge all point to personal composition.

## Psychological Dynamics
The core trigger is **narcissistic injury via unfavorable comparison**: media is elevating his opponents at the exact moment he expected to be coasting to victory against a weakened Biden. The post reveals anxiety about narrative control — Trump senses the media successfully reframing what he views as Biden's failure into something heroic.

**Key defense mechanisms:**
- **Devaluation** (immature): Systematic diminishment of both Biden and Harris through superlative insults
- **Denial** (pathological): "No, it just doesn't work that way!" — asserting that media narrative shifts are impotent
- **Distortion**: Reducing Biden's strategic withdrawal to "he quit"

## Rhetorical Analysis
The scare-quote technique is particularly dense here — "Brilliant and Heroic Leader," "Great" — each set of quotes functions as a sneer, inviting the reader to share Trump's contempt. The parenthetical "(He was heroic because he quit!)" is a compact punchline designed for maximum dismissive impact.

## Personality Profile
Strong agency motivation with power as dominant motive. The post casts Trump as the reality arbiter who sees through media fabrication — a consistent narrative identity across his political career. Low agreeableness and high assertiveness dominate the trait profile.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden was the Worst President in the History of our Country" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective opinion. Historians' rankings vary; Biden has not been universally ranked worst. |
| "Kamala Harris was a totally failed and insignificant Vice President" | **Mostly False** | Harris cast a record number of tie-breaking Senate votes, led diplomatic engagements, and was assigned major policy portfolios including immigration. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness style
- Emotional reactivity
- Characteristic nicknames and capitalization
- 3:17 PM ET timing is ambiguous but content is clearly personal

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Media reframing Biden withdrawal as heroic and elevating Harris)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Media, Biden, Kamala Harris
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.70

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple posts in rapid succession on same day
- Real-time reactive posting to TV coverage

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Real-time TV watching creates shared experience with audience
- Scare quotes around media praise invite audience to share contempt

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Attacks media perception of Biden withdrawal as heroic
- Insists narrative reframing 'doesn't work that way' — attempting to dictate acceptable interpretations

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Biden was the Worst President in the History of our Country

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective opinion. Historians' rankings vary; Biden has not been universally ranked worst.

> Kamala Harris was a totally failed and insignificant Vice President

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris cast a record number of tie-breaking Senate votes, led diplomatic engagements, and was assigned major policy portfolios including immigration.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury_response (80%)
- opponent_devaluation (90%)
- media_attack (70%)
- biden_withdrawal (100%)
- harris_emergence (80%)

## That day

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

**Biden Drops Out, Trump Loses His Favorite Punching Bag — and Spends the Day Scrambling for a New One**

Trump spent the day processing Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race, cycling between mockery, grievance, and strategic repositioning. The late-night and early-morning posts focused obsessively on Biden's cognitive decline, treating the dropout as both a punchline and a personal affront. By afternoon, the tone shifted toward previewing Kamala Harris as the new target, attacking Fox News, and relitigating the classified documents case. The mood was energized and grandiose throughout — more a man denied his preferred opponent than one celebrating a political win.

Full digest for 2024-07-22: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 22). Wow, just watching the Fake News, and they’re... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112831747750361876
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, just watching the Fake News, and they’re doing their..." Truth Social, 22 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112831747750361876. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, just watching the Fake News, and they’re doing their...," Truth Social, July 22, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112831747750361876.

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