# Post ts_113285103794489369 - Post ID: `ts_113285103794489369` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-10T20:51:42.729Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113285103794489369 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113285103794489369/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113285103794489369.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats, probably did the same thing with the Crooked Joe Biden interviews as they did for Kamala - Changed his answers so that he looked intelligent, which he is not. With me they probably edit my answers to make me look as bad as possible. I have always felt that, but now, with the Kamala Scandal, the worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting, we have the PROOF that 60 Minutes, and CBS, play DIRTY. Real Creeps! ## Engagement - Likes: 15,858 - Reposts: 5,034 - Replies: 1,400 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.331Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T00:54:21.927Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post exhibits characteristic vulnerable narcissist discharge following media injury. The psychological engine is the phrase "I have always felt that, but now...we have the PROOF" — a retroactive validation of longstanding persecution narrative, achieved by instrumentalizing a genuine but modest 60 Minutes editing controversy. Defense structure is immature-to-pathological: splitting (CBS+Democrats as unified evil), projection (accusing media of the reality-distortion the subject practices), and rationalization (using one documented event as cover for two unsubstantiated extrapolations). Paranoid features are moderately elevated — the conspiracy attribution ("working with the Democrats") is stated as flat fact rather than hypothesis. Narcissistic state is mixed but tilts toward the vulnerable/victimized pole, with a compensatory contempt flourish ("Real Creeps!") providing brief grandiose re-stabilization. No cognitive deviations from baseline detected. Authorship is likely authentic Trump based on stylometric indicators despite business-hours timing. Primary clinical significance is the epistemic closure mechanism embedded in the post: ALL CAPS "PROOF" functions to foreclose inquiry within the audience, demanding acceptance of an unverified conspiracy as a condition of in-group membership — a routine but accumulating pattern of shared reality distortion. ## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-10-10 ### Authorship Attribution Post timestamp is 20:51 UTC. Trump was in Wisconsin for a Dodge County Airport rally on October 10, 2024; Wisconsin observes CDT (UTC−5), placing this at **3:51 PM local time** — solidly business hours, which normally favors aide authorship. However, stylometric evidence strongly cuts against that: the post contains multiple authentic-Trump fingerprints — the stream-of-consciousness digression ("which he is not"), the parenthetical self-vindication ("I have always felt that"), the dismissive epithet closer ("Real Creeps!"), ALL CAPS emphasis on "PROOF," and the emotionally reactive conspiracy extension from one documented event to two unproven ones. Critically, same-day posts about the auto industry speech are clearly speechwriter-polished and structurally distinct, suggesting that Trump interjected this post personally between or around formal remarks. **Assessment: likely authentic Trump authorship, medium-high confidence.** --- ### Psychological State and Trigger The "Kamala 60 Minutes edit" controversy — CBS airing a shorter version of Harris's Gaza answer than the full transcript showed — functions here as a **narcissistic trigger of the supply-seeking/vindication subtype**. The post does not merely attack CBS; it instrumentalizes the controversy to validate a pre-existing persecution narrative. The phrase "I have always felt that, but now…we have the PROOF" is the psychological center of gravity: the subject is not discovering new information but achieving *retrospective confirmation* of an injury he has long carried. This is a classic feature of the vulnerable narcissist state — grievances are stored indefinitely, awaiting external validation to be discharged publicly. The narcissistic state is **mixed** but tilts vulnerable: he positions himself as a target of institutional manipulation ("they probably edit my answers to make me look as bad as possible") rather than adopting the expansive grandiose posture visible in rally transcripts from the same period. The contempt delivery ("Real Creeps!") provides a grandiose flourish at the close, a brief re-stabilization into dominance after the victimhood sequence. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** The accusation that CBS distorts reality to serve partisan ends mirrors behaviors Trump himself has been extensively documented engaging in. The enemy is invested with the subject's own disowned impulses. 2. **Splitting (immature):** CBS and Democrats are fused into a single unified evil ("working with the Democrats") — no complexity, no gradation, no possibility of institutional independence. Trump's side = truth; media = corrupt conspiracy. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** One documented controversy (the Harris edit) is leveraged to assert two unsubstantiated parallel conspiracies (Biden interview editing; Trump interview sabotage), using the genuine event as logical cover for the speculative extensions. 4. **Denial (pathological, mild):** The framing presupposes as fact that Biden's interviews were edited to enhance apparent intelligence, for which no evidence exists — a soft denial of the evidentiary standard normally required. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Superlative hyperbole:** "the worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting" — no historical comparative is offered; the claim is purely rhetorical - **Conspiracy attribution:** "working with the Democrats" — institutional independence is denied by fiat - **Epistemic closure:** ALL CAPS "PROOF" signals to the in-group that the evidentiary question is closed; skepticism becomes disloyalty - **Extrapolation by analogy:** Documented Harris controversy → speculative Biden editing → speculative Trump sabotage; each step requires a faith leap the prior step is used to paper over - **Dismissive labeling:** "Real Creeps!" — dehumanization-lite; strips institutional credibility via contempt rather than explicit dehumanization - **Whataboutism:** Biden comparison deflects from the original controversy --- ### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) The post enacts a **contamination-then-redemption** sequence. The contamination arc: CBS (implicitly once viewed as legitimate) has been *revealed* as corrupt and partisan. The redemption arc: Trump, who always suspected this, now has PROOF and his suffering is validated. His protagonist role is **the persecuted truth-teller who is finally vindicated** — a narrative that psychologically requires ongoing enemies to sustain itself. --- ### Clinical Indicators **Paranoid features are moderately elevated.** The extension from one documented editing controversy to a comprehensive conspiracy (coordinated with Democrats, applied to Biden interviews, applied to Trump interviews) represents conspiratorial ideation significantly beyond available evidence. The phrase "working with the Democrats" is asserted as fact without hedging — the qualifier "probably" appears only in the less central Biden/Trump editing claims, while the core institutional conspiracy claim is stated flatly. **Narcissistic features: high** in this post — the entitlement to favorable media coverage, the inability to tolerate that editing choices might reflect something other than targeted persecution, and the vindication narrative all reflect chronic narcissistic injury patterns. **Cognitive status:** No notable deviations from Trump's established baseline. The syntax, while conversational and stream-of-consciousness, maintains coherent narrative flow. The tangential Biden pivot is consistent with baseline associative style. No word-finding difficulties, neologisms, or temporal confusion observed. --- ### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The post employs mild gaslighting of the news media and media consumers: by asserting that CBS "plays DIRTY" as established fact (via the PROOF framing), it attempts to foreclose legitimate institutional inquiry and establish a reality where media credibility is exhausted. This is consistent with the RAND Firehose model — not a single coordinated lie but cumulative erosion of trust in any source that could contest his claims. --- ### Danger Assessment **None to elevated.** No dehumanizing language meets the threshold for stochastic terrorism concern. "Real Creeps" is contemptuous but targets an institution, not individuals. No eliminationist language or mobilization calls. The primary risk vector is epistemic: epistemic closure techniques that insulate the audience from contradicting information. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats" | **Mostly False** | The 60 Minutes editing controversy regarding the Harris Gaza answer is real — transcript and broadcast versions differed. However, the claim of active coordination with the Democratic Party is unsubstantiated conspiracy attribution. | | "probably did the same thing with the Crooked Joe Biden interviews — Changed his answers so that he looked intelligent" | **Unverifiable** | No comparable editing controversy has been documented for Biden's 60 Minutes appearances. The claim is speculative extrapolation from the Harris controversy with no supporting evidence. | | "With me they probably edit my answers to make me look as bad as possible" | **Unverifiable** | No documented evidence of deliberate unfavorable editing of Trump's 60 Minutes appearances. Trump received extensive media coverage across many outlets. | | "the worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting" | **False** | Hyperbolic superlative with no historical comparative basis. Numerous documented cases of editorial misconduct in broadcasting history precede and likely exceed this controversy in severity. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - Stream-of-consciousness grammatical structure inconsistent with polished aide writing - Dismissive closing epithet 'Real Creeps!' is characteristic Trump register - ALL CAPS 'PROOF' — emotional emphasis consistent with authentic posts - Parenthetical intelligence insult '(which he is not)' — spontaneous digressive style - Self-vindication clause 'I have always felt that' — personal grievance disclosure unlikely from aide ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (CBS/60 Minutes coverage and perceived media bias) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting CBS, 60 Minutes, Democrats - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.58 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Rapid topic escalation (Kamala → Biden → Trump → 'history of broadcasting') - Superlative intensity ('worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting') - Triumphant discharge quality to 'we have the PROOF' - Emotionally pressured closing ('Real Creeps!') ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 68% - Sadism: 18% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 42% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared persecution narrative (media is against 'us') - Epistemic closure via ALL CAPS 'PROOF' — positions skepticism as disloyalty - Vindication framing invites audience to share in his relief and anger ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - PROOF in all-caps forecloses legitimate inquiry into whether evidence actually supports the claim - Asserts institutional coordination with Democrats as established fact without evidence - Attacks on media perception apparatus ('play DIRTY') designed to preemptively discredit contradicting sources - Extrapolation from documented controversy to unsubstantiated claims creates false evidentiary chain ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats **MOSTLY FALSE** The 60 Minutes editing controversy regarding the Harris Gaza answer is real — transcript and broadcast versions differed. However, the claim of active coordination with the Democratic Party is unsubstantiated conspiracy attribution. Sources: CBS 60 Minutes Harris interview controversy, October 2024 > probably did the same thing with the Crooked Joe Biden interviews — Changed his answers so that he looked intelligent **UNVERIFIABLE** No comparable editing controversy has been documented for Biden's 60 Minutes appearances. The claim is speculative extrapolation from the Harris controversy with no supporting evidence. > With me they probably edit my answers to make me look as bad as possible **UNVERIFIABLE** No documented evidence of deliberate unfavorable editing of Trump's 60 Minutes appearances. Trump received extensive media coverage across many outlets. > the worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting **FALSE** Hyperbolic superlative with no historical comparative basis. Numerous documented cases of editorial misconduct in broadcasting history precede and likely exceed this controversy in severity. Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - media_attack (95%) - CBS_60_Minutes (90%) - persecution_narrative (85%) - vindication_discharge (82%) - epistemic_closure (80%) - conspiracy_attribution (78%) - vulnerable_narcissism (75%) - splitting (72%) - projection (70%) - media_bias_grievance (88%) - Kamala_Harris (65%) - Biden (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **CBS Rage Spiral and Detroit Economic Pitch Define a Split-Screen Campaign Day** Trump spent the day split between two modes: an angry morning fixation on CBS's editing of a Kamala Harris interview, and a disciplined afternoon economic pitch at the Detroit Economic Club. The CBS grievance consumed at least six posts across the full day, escalating from complaints about one network to demands that all broadcast licenses be revoked and auctioned off. A late-night immigration post from the prior evening stood out for its extreme language, labeling all migrants as murderers, predators, and terrorists. Hurricane Milton made landfall during the day, drawing a few measured sympathy posts that contrasted with his recent pattern of spreading false claims about federal disaster response. Full digest for 2024-10-10: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 10). CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113285103794489369 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats, probably..." Truth Social, 10 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113285103794489369. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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