# Post ts_113103671323264675 - Post ID: `ts_113103671323264675` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-08T19:51:02.915Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113103671323264675 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113103671323264675/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113103671323264675.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you to Erin Burnett and CNN. Even they say Comrade Kamala Harris is a Phony! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW4AW4AqLC4 ## Engagement - Likes: 17,734 - Reposts: 5,569 - Replies: 1,659 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T03:56:51.324Z (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: Trump Truth Social Post — 2024-09-08 ## Overview A brief, low-intensity campaign attack post leveraging a CNN segment to amplify the pre-existing "Comrade Kamala Harris is a Phony" attack frame. The post is notable not for its psychological extremity — it shows no rage, no narcissistic injury, no cognitive irregularity — but for its rhetorical economy: maximum delegitimization of an opponent via minimum words, using an adversarial source as an unwitting weapon. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.65 (lean authentic)** | **Confidence: Medium** Posted at **3:51 PM Eastern Time** (Trump was in Charlotte, NC for the FOP meeting, or traveling from New York), placing this squarely in business hours — a mild indicator of aide involvement. Against this, the "Comrade Kamala" epithet, triumphant "Even they say" construction, and reactive emotional register are strongly Trumpian. The absence of grammatical errors is consistent with aide drafting, but the post is too short to weight this heavily. Most likely authentic or lightly touched by an aide who preserved Trump's voice wholesale. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is dominated by **low agreeableness** (immediate attack framing, derogatory epithet), **high extraversion** (assertive, bold, exclamatory), and **low openness** (rigid ideological labeling, no nuance). The "Comrade" label reflects entrenched schema application rather than fresh evaluation. Neuroticism is notably low in this instance — the affective register is triumphant, not anxious or wounded. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.78)** The post is not seeking intimacy or belonging with the audience; it is performing dominance — specifically the dominance of a person whose prior judgment is now externally confirmed. The instrumental use of CNN (a schema-coded "enemy") for purposes of validation reflects high agency motivation: extract resources from any available source, including adversaries, to advance the power narrative. **Schema revealed:** The world is divided into those who confirm Trump's assessments (temporarily useful, briefly praised) and those who contradict them (enemies). CNN's momentary utility does not revise the underlying schema; it is absorbed and exploited. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Vindicated prophet. The post enacts a micro-redemption arc: *I said Harris was a phony → even my enemies now agree → I was right all along.* This is a characteristic narrative move — not a claim to have learned something new, but a claim that the world has finally caught up to what Trump already knew. The "Even they" construction is grammatically minor but psychologically crucial: it positions Trump as epistemically prior to and independent of CNN's judgment. **Contrasting other:** Kamala Harris is simultaneously "Comrade" (ideologically alien) and "Phony" (inauthentic) — two attack vectors that work in combination to suggest she is both dangerously extreme and personally dishonest. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Splitting (immature):** CNN, normally all-bad, becomes momentarily all-good when it produces useful content. No reassessment of CNN occurs; it is instrumentally reclassified. This is textbook splitting — binary evaluation shifts entirely based on whether the object currently serves the self's needs. **2. Projection (immature):** "Phony" is among the most frequently leveled accusations against Trump himself (manufactured persona, shifting positions, performative authenticity). Directing this charge at Harris with evident satisfaction suggests projective dynamics. **3. Rationalization (neurotic):** Citing CNN as confirmation retroactively legitimizes the pre-existing attack label, lending it an air of independent verification it does not necessarily possess. The YouTube link serves as evidence that the rationalization has an external anchor. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The post deploys three interlocking techniques with notable efficiency: 1. **Red-baiting via epithet:** "Comrade Kamala Harris" — two syllables ("Comrade") do the work of an entire ideological argument. The word invokes Soviet associations, implies un-American sympathies, and subtly questions patriotic loyalty without a single substantive policy claim. This is McCarthyite rhetoric modernized for social media's attention economy. 2. **Appeal to unlikely authority / Source laundering:** "Even they say" is the rhetorical pivot. CNN's anti-Trump reputation is treated as established fact (serving Trump's broader media-distrust narrative), then used to amplify the attack: if even a hostile source confirms the charge, the charge must be devastating. This is a form of source laundering — using an adversary's credibility selectively while maintaining the broader delegitimization of that adversary. 3. **Repetition/Firehose:** "Comrade Kamala Harris is a Phony" appears verbatim across multiple posts on this date, consistent with the RAND Firehose model of repetition-based normalization. The label is being baked into the information environment through sheer frequency. --- ## Narcissistic Dynamics **State: Grandiose** **Trigger: Supply-seeking (opportunity-based, not injury-driven)** This post is not reactive to a narcissistic injury; Trump is not defending against attack. The trigger is an opportunity: a CNN segment that can be extracted from its context and used as a weapon. The narcissistic supply being sought is validation — not from CNN (the "thank you" is instrumental, not sincere) but from the audience, who are invited to share in the triumph of adversarial confirmation. **Malignant narcissism component scores:** - Narcissistic features: **0.60** (grandiosity, entitlement, exploitation of CNN segment) - Antisocial features: **0.20** (mild — derogatory labeling without direct call to action) - Paranoid features: **0.10** (implicit in "even they" framing, but not foregrounded) - Ego-syntonic sadism: **0.10** (pleasure in "exposing" Harris, but restrained) --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of concern. The post is syntactically clean, rhetorically intentional, and temporally coherent. The "Even they say" construction requires intact pragmatic reasoning (understanding that source credibility matters and can be weaponized). Post is too brief for meaningful baseline comparison. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "CNN / Erin Burnett said Kamala Harris is a 'Phony'" | **Unverifiable** | The word 'Phony' in the post may be Trump's interpretive paraphrase of CNN's coverage rather than a direct quote. Without viewing the linked YouTube segment, it is impossible to determine whether the characterization is accurate or a distortion. The construction 'Even they say' is consistent with selective framing of nuanced reporting as blunt confirmation. | | "Harris was hiding from the press at this point in the campaign" | **Mostly True** | Contemporaneous reporting from Axios and Fox News (cited in same-day Trump posts) documented that Harris was limiting unscripted press interactions and avoiding improvisational media moments during this campaign phase. This characterization had factual basis, though 'hiding' is evaluatively loaded. | Overall Veracity: 65% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. "Phony" and "Comrade" are political smears, not threat-adjacent language. The post identifies no specific grievance requiring action and issues no mobilization call. --- ## Archetypal Reading The post enacts the **King archetype** in its validation-seeking mode: *my judgment has been confirmed, even by my adversaries.* There is no Warrior mode here (no combat, no mobilization), no Trickster (no disruption). The brief gratitude to CNN mimics magnanimity — the king who can afford to acknowledge an enemy's useful contribution because his position is unassailable. The **Shadow projection** is onto Harris: "Phony" as a charged word carries Trump's own most-feared characterization (of his constructed, performed public self) and deposits it wholesale onto the opponent. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinically significant patterns or marked deviation from baseline. This is routine, low-intensity campaign attack rhetoric within normal parameters for this subject.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Posted at 3:51 PM ET (Charlotte, NC or New York — Eastern Time), which falls within business hours rather than the late-night window strongly associated with authentic Trump posts - However, the 'Comrade Kamala' epithet and exclamatory style are highly consistent with Trump's authentic voice - Short, reactive, punchy structure without aide-typical polish or event-announcement formatting - Emotional reactivity ('Even they say') and informal gratitude construction are Trumpian - Absence of grammatical errors or typos slightly favors aide involvement, but the post is too short to assess meaningfully ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (CNN/Erin Burnett segment on Kamala Harris) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience to share in the triumph of an enemy source confirming the narrative - Uses 'Even they' to position audience as in-group who always knew the truth, now vindicated ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._ > CNN / Erin Burnett said Kamala Harris is a 'Phony' **UNVERIFIABLE** The word 'Phony' in the post may be Trump's interpretive paraphrase of CNN's coverage rather than a direct quote. Without viewing the linked YouTube segment, it is impossible to determine whether the characterization is accurate or a distortion. The construction 'Even they say' is consistent with selective framing of nuanced reporting as blunt confirmation. Sources: Linked YouTube video (not fetched per tool-use policy) > Harris was hiding from the press at this point in the campaign **MOSTLY TRUE** Contemporaneous reporting from Axios and Fox News (cited in same-day Trump posts) documented that Harris was limiting unscripted press interactions and avoiding improvisational media moments during this campaign phase. This characterization had factual basis, though 'hiding' is evaluatively loaded. Sources: Axios reporting (cited in same-day Trump post); Fox & Friends Saturday segment (cited in same-day Trump post) Overall Veracity: 65% ## Tags - red-baiting (85%) - source-laundering (80%) - splitting (75%) - projection (60%) - supply-seeking (70%) - grandiose-state (65%) - attack-opponent (90%) - comrade-label (85%) - mccarthyism (80%) - firehose-repetition (60%) - vindication-narrative (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Quiet Pre-Debate Sunday Punctuated by Election Fraud Spike** A light posting day two days before the Harris-Trump debate, with only five posts. The morning was relaxed — a celebrity beer endorsement and a birthday greeting — before shifting to campaign attack mode in the afternoon. The sharpest moment came when Trump seized on an unverified claim of 20% mail-in ballot fraud in Pennsylvania, demanding FBI investigation and calling on the RNC to mobilize. The day closed with a calmer jab at Harris, leaving the overall mood mostly composed but with one notable flash of intensity around election integrity. Full digest for 2024-09-08: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 8). Thank you to Erin Burnett and CNN. Even they say... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113103671323264675 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you to Erin Burnett and CNN. Even they say Comrade..." Truth Social, 8 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113103671323264675. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you to Erin Burnett and CNN. 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