# Post ts_113955137991232105 - Post ID: `ts_113955137991232105` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-02-06T04:50:13.199Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113955137991232105 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113955137991232105/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113955137991232105.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Jesse Watters: “Wow…we finally got our hands on the raw CBS News interview with Kamala Harris that was deceptively edited. And it did not disappoint…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:28), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > We got our hands on the raw footage of Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes interview last October in the heat of the election. Harris hailed Mary with CBS, but the network was caught deceptively editing this answer. Watch. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. The Wall Street Journal said that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu. And in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administrations and treaties. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we're not going to stop doing that. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Trump sued CBS for 10 billion and it looks like they might settle. But before that happens, the FCC released the full interview unedited and we have the tape. They talked for an hour and left a lot out. Here's an answer that never made air. Watch. I'm trying to understand how it is that with this emphasis on the border, the numbers of crossings quadrupled under the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration. How did that happen? There are a variety of factors that relate to what we have seen globally and what we are not immune from at our own border in terms of what we have seen, in terms of surge of immigration, any regular migration. And there are solutions at hand, but we've got to have leaders who are solution oriented, which we've been and are. CBS also cut out their host pressing Kamala on how she's going to pay for all of her giveaways. If all of this makes so much sense, why has this not been done? You're dealing with a Congress that is divided, that many are in opposition to not only you, but your policies. So how are you going to make this come true? If I approached my life as though, well, it's never been done before, therefore it cannot be done. I wouldn't be sitting here in this interview with you. That's the truth. Then 60 Minutes tossed Kamala big fat softball, and she swung and missed. The most basic of questions. Why do you want to be president of the United States? There are many reasons, but probably first and foremost, I truly believe in the promise of America. I do. And I love the American people. You know, we are people who have ambition and aspirations and dreams and optimism and hope. That's why you want to run. That's why you want to be president. That's why I'm running. And some other reasons. But you're asking the American people to make you the most powerful person on the planet. Why do you deserve the American people's votes? Well, first of all, I have a career and a history of being very clear that I think of my role of leadership, and in particular now for the last four years as vice president and moving forward as president, if the voters will have me as being a leader on behalf of all Americans. Kamala wasn't the only one having a rough night. One of the crew guys misgendered Madam Vice President. Is that what you needed? Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. 30 seconds of sound space for each other. Michael Schellenberg is the founder of Public News. All right. Do you see anything scandalous about what CBS did here, Mike? Oh, yeah, a little bit. I mean, I just I kind of I just sort of forgot that that's how she talks, you know, and I was it was actually watching it again. I don't know why it was. I mean, it's like the easiest stuff to memorize. You would think she would have memorized it by them. But it feels like she's trying to figure out why she's running for president every time she's asked. I mean, it's like it's like a month before the election and you're on 60 minutes. She's like, why do you want to be president? Why am I running? Well, let's see. What? Amazing. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/955/137/905/161/405/original/df8cc2efef603209.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 26,224 - Reposts: 7,854 - Replies: 1,510 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.322Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T02:41:06.096Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Low-intensity maintenance post reflecting Trump's characteristic retroactive supply-seeking: amplifying perceived vindication of a months-old grievance against CBS News and Kamala Harris. UTC 04:50:13 converts to 11:50 PM EST (Washington DC), confirming late-night authentic posting. The psychological function is consolidation — the electoral victory over Harris is insufficient; her discrediting must be continuously renewed. The 'did not disappoint' phrasing reveals mild ego-syntonic satisfaction at the opponent's continued embarrassment. Splitting and projection are the operative defenses: CBS is cast as the deceptive institution while Trump's own prolific history of factual distortion goes unexamined. The post reinforces epistemic closure by embedding 'deceptively edited' as background assumption rather than arguable claim. No cognitive deviation from baseline detectable in the limited direct language sample. Danger level: none — targeting is institutional/political without eliminationist framing. No clinically novel features distinguish this post from established Trump behavioral baseline; it is a routine expression of his media-grievance narrative in a post-election triumphalist register. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2025-02-06T04:50:13Z ## Post Summary A repost of Fox News host Jesse Watters' commentary about the CBS News "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris, which Trump and allies alleged was deceptively edited during the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump functions as amplifier rather than primary author of the content. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 04:50:13 → **EST (Washington DC):** 11:50 PM, February 5, 2025 February 6 is a Thursday; Trump was almost certainly at the White House (inaugurated January 20, 2025). Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) places this post at 11:50 PM — squarely within Trump's documented late-night posting window. The format (brief verbatim quotation of a Fox News personality, implicit endorsement) is a highly characteristic authentic Trump pattern. No typos or structural idiosyncrasies are visible, but that is attributable to the quoted nature of the content rather than aide polish. **High confidence: authentic Trump.** --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post is low-affect relative to baseline but reveals characteristic facets: - **Low Agreeableness**: Institutional attack on CBS News, continued targeting of a defeated political opponent. - **Low Conscientiousness** (implicit): Late-night posting, reactive engagement with cable commentary. - **Neuroticism / Angry Hostility**: The framing "deceptively edited" channels residual hostility toward Harris and the mainstream media ecosystem. Mild activation. - **Extraversion**: Assertive amplification; Trump positions himself as exposing truth to a mass audience. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Motives) **Agency motive dominant:** This post is not about connection or community — it is about power and status confirmation. By continuing to relitigate Kamala Harris weeks after a decisive electoral victory, Trump signals a need to not merely defeat opponents but to fully discredit and humiliate them. The victory itself is insufficient; the narrative of the opponent's corruption must be permanently inscribed. **Schema activation:** The "deceptively edited" framing activates Trump's core schema: mainstream media = corrupt/dishonest, Fox/MAGA ecosystem = authentic/truth-telling. This is supply maintenance for the base while reinforcing epistemic closure. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Exposé agent / truth-revealer. Trump positions himself (via Watters as proxy) as the individual who finally extracted hidden, suppressed truth from a corrupt institution. - **Contamination sequence invoked:** The implicit story is that a fair democratic process was contaminated by CBS's deceptive editing — and now, retroactively, justice/truth is being restored. - **Contrasting other:** CBS News (corrupt institution), Kamala Harris (discredited opponent). Fox/Watters function as validators of Trump's long-held grievance narrative. - **Identity claim (implicit):** *I was right all along. I told you the media lies. Here is proof.* --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger type:** Retroactive narcissistic supply — amplification of perceived vindication of a months-old grievance. With Harris defeated and the election concluded, continuing to attack her and CBS serves no strategic electoral purpose. The motivation is purely psychological: extending the humiliation of the defeated opponent and extracting additional admiration from the base for having been "right" about media corruption. **Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose. The post carries a quiet triumphalism — "it did not disappoint" suggests ego-syntonic pleasure at the opponent's further embarrassment. **Rage:** Absent in this post. This is cool, satisfied grievance maintenance rather than acute rage. The ellipsis ("Wow…") and trailing structure suggest smug satisfaction rather than activation. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Projection (immature):** The "deceptively edited" attack on CBS occurs in the context of a subject with a well-documented prolific history of deception. The accusation projects Trump's own characteristic behavior onto the adversarial institution. - **Splitting (immature):** Structural. Fox News/Watters = honest/good; CBS = dishonest/bad. No nuance is possible within this schema. - **Rationalization (neurotic):** Retaliating against a defeated candidate is justified because she benefited from media corruption — the attack is framed as truth-telling rather than ongoing aggression. ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** Moderate activation (entitlement to ongoing retribution, need for public validation of grievance). - **Antisocial features:** Low in this post (no direct rule-breaking or explicit deceitfulness). - **Paranoid features:** Mild-moderate (CBS as hostile institution engaged in deliberate deception). - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild — "did not disappoint" implies pleasure at Harris's continued embarrassment. ### Cognitive Status No direct language production available for analysis; post consists entirely of a quotation from Watters. No cognitive markers assessable. Late-night reactive engagement with cable news is behaviorally consistent with baseline. **No deviation from established pattern.** --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis - **Appeal to in-group authority:** Watters functions as a validator within the Fox/MAGA ecosystem; his framing pre-digests the story for the audience. - **Framing/presupposition:** "Deceptively edited" is asserted, not demonstrated. The claim is embedded as background assumption rather than foregrounded argument, reducing audience scrutiny. - **Epistemic closure reinforcement:** The post advances the "fake news" meta-narrative — CBS joins the list of corrupt institutions whose outputs cannot be trusted. - **Ad hominem (institutional):** CBS News as institution is attacked rather than the specific editorial decision being examined on its merits. - **Triumphalist framing:** "Finally got our hands on" implies long-suppressed truth now liberated — a liberation narrative that flatters the in-group as truth-seekers. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Mild. The "deceptively edited" characterization of the CBS interview is contested; CBS maintained standard editorial practice. Trump's amplification of Watters' framing presents a disputed characterization as established fact, consistent with his broader pattern of asserting media dishonesty as axiomatic. **Epistemic closure:** Present. The post assumes the audience already shares the framework that CBS = dishonest, making the claim non-falsifiable within the in-group. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "CBS News 'deceptively edited' the Kamala Harris interview" | **Half True** | The 2024 '60 Minutes' controversy arose when the broadcast version of Harris's answer about Israel differed from a longer version aired on 'Face the Nation.' CBS maintained the edits were standard journalistic compression preserving meaning. Trump filed an FCC complaint and initiated legal proceedings. The edits occurred and were contested; the characterization of 'deceptive intent' is a political allegation, not an established finding. | | "Watters/Fox 'finally got our hands on the raw CBS News interview'" | **Unverifiable** | The claim of exclusive access to unaired raw footage cannot be assessed without reviewing the Watters segment. Whether this constitutes genuinely new footage or repackaging of previously available material is unclear from the post alone. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Archetypal Analysis - **Primary archetype: Trickster/Exposé agent** — revealing what was hidden, disrupting the "corrupt order" of mainstream media. - **Secondary: Warrior** — ongoing combat with media institutions even post-election. - **Shadow projection:** CBS is cast as the deceptive entity; Trump's own prolific relationship with factual distortion is externalized onto the adversarial institution. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics - **Position:** Order attacker (CBS = corrupt establishment order being dismantled) + Order restorer (Fox/MAGA ecosystem = proper truth-telling order being restored). - **Grievance:** Media corruption enabling corrupt politicians — mild intensity in this post. - **Hierarchy:** CBS/legacy media status diminished; Fox/Trump ecosystem elevated. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post targets institutions (CBS) and a defeated political figure (Harris) without eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization framing. This is grievance maintenance within normal (if corrosive) parameters for Trump's media behavior. --- ## Summary This low-intensity, maintenance-mode post reflects Trump's characteristic pattern of retroactive narcissistic supply-seeking — amplifying perceived vindication of an established grievance (media corruption narrative) against a defeated opponent and adversarial institution. Late-night timing (11:50 PM EST) confirms authentic authorship. The post's psychological function is not strategic communication but psychological consolidation: the electoral victory over Harris is insufficient; her discrediting must be continuously renewed. Mild ego-syntonic satisfaction ("did not disappoint") is observable. Splitting and projection are the operative defenses, consistent with Trump's dispositional baseline. No cognitive deviation from baseline is detectable in the (necessarily limited) direct language sample. The "deceptively edited" framing is a contested political characterization presented as established fact, functioning to reinforce epistemic closure within the base. Danger level: none. No clinically novel features distinguish this post from established Trump behavioral patterns. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 80%) ### Indicators - Late night timing: 11:50 PM EST on February 5, 2025, consistent with Trump's documented late-night posting window - Format (brief verbatim quotation of Fox News personality with implicit endorsement) is highly characteristic authentic Trump pattern - Reactive engagement with cable news content matching baseline behavior - Absence of professional polish attributable to quoted content rather than aide authorship ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (CBS News / Kamala Harris) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - In-group validation via Fox News authority figure - Shared grievance activation (media corruption narrative) - Triumphalist framing positioning audience as co-discoverers of suppressed truth ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'Deceptively edited' presented as established fact rather than contested political characterization - Epistemic closure: CBS dishonesty framed as axiomatic, making the claim non-falsifiable within in-group - Amplification of disputed narrative positions audience to distrust any CBS rebuttal as further evidence of deception ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > CBS News 'deceptively edited' the Kamala Harris interview **HALF TRUE** The 2024 '60 Minutes' controversy arose when the broadcast version of Harris's answer about Israel differed from a longer version aired on 'Face the Nation.' CBS maintained the edits were standard journalistic compression preserving meaning. Trump filed an FCC complaint and initiated legal proceedings. The edits occurred and were contested; the characterization of 'deceptive intent' is a political allegation, not an established finding. Sources: FCC complaint filed by Trump campaign, 2024; CBS News editorial statement regarding 60 Minutes interview editing > Watters/Fox 'finally got our hands on the raw CBS News interview' **UNVERIFIABLE** The claim of exclusive access to unaired raw footage cannot be assessed without reviewing the Watters segment. Whether this constitutes genuinely new footage or repackaging of previously available material is unclear from the post alone. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - media-grievance (90%) - retroactive-supply-seeking (80%) - epistemic-closure (80%) - post-victory-humiliation (75%) - fox-news-amplification (85%) - CBS-Harris-narrative (90%) - late-night-authentic (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning Rage Over CBS Gives Way to Divine Mandate Messaging as Trump Juggles Grievance, Policy Victories, and Geopolitical Fantasy** Trump's day split into two distinct halves. The morning opened with a rapid-fire burst of angry posts about CBS News and a sprawling conspiracy theory linking USAID funds to media payoffs, alongside a startling proposal to acquire the Gaza Strip for luxury redevelopment. The afternoon shifted dramatically to polished, staff-written messaging around the National Prayer Breakfast, framing his presidency as divinely ordained, before closing with a batch of ambassador and personnel announcements. The sharpest moment was a 38-minute early-morning window where he cycled through media rage, forced population transfer plans, and all-caps accusations of billion-dollar theft — the day's only real escalation. Full digest for 2025-02-06: https://trump.fm/date/2025-02-06/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, February 6). Jesse Watters: “Wow…we finally got our hands on... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113955137991232105 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Jesse Watters: “Wow…we finally got our hands on the raw CBS..." Truth Social, 6 Feb. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113955137991232105. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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