# Post ts_114710162640808420

- Post ID: `ts_114710162640808420`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-06-19T13:02:55.108Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by much more than they said I would, and have been biased against me for years. They are always wrong and negative. It’s why MAGA HATES FoxNews, even though their anchors are GREAT. This has gone on for years, but they never change the incompetent polling company that does their work. Now a new FoxNews poll comes out this morning giving me a little more than 50% at the Border, and yet the Border is miraculously perfect, NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH. 60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year. I hate FAKE pollsters, one of the Worst, but Fox will never change their discredited pollster!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.308Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:06:32.082Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post demonstrates a textbook narcissistic injury response to a Fox News poll showing approximately 50% approval on border policy. Despite this being a majority-approval figure, Trump perceives it as insufficient given his absolutist self-assessment ("Border is miraculously perfect"). The primary defense is splitting: Fox anchors are "GREAT" while polls are "Crooked"—the same organization divided into idealized and devalued components. Notable is the escalation from the previous day's Border Patrol Council claim of "zero releases into the interior" to the absolute "NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH," demonstrating how narcissistic grandiosity progressively inflates claims. The post reveals a core feature of pathological narcissism: the impossibility of satisfactory external validation. Even favorable data (50%+) triggers rage when it falls short of the subject's grandiose self-concept. The measurement itself must be delegitimized rather than the self-concept adjusted. Cognitively, the post is within baseline parameters—tangential but coherent, with characteristic perseveration on the grievance theme.

## Psychological Analysis: Fox News Poll Attack (2025-06-19)

### Overview
A classic Trump grievance post attacking Fox News polling methodology while simultaneously claiming perfect border performance. The post follows a well-established pattern: attack the measurement tool when the measurement is unfavorable, then assert reality is the opposite of what's being measured.

### Authorship
Posted at 9:02 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or back from G7). The post is clearly authentic: stream-of-consciousness structure, emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS emphasis, characteristic run-on sentences, and the encoding artifact "Itâs" (curly apostrophe rendering issue typical of his posting method). The content is reactive to a morning Fox News poll—real-time emotional response.

### Psychological Dynamics
The trigger is narcissistic injury: a Fox News poll showing "a little more than 50%" approval on border policy, which Trump perceives as insufficient given his claimed perfect performance. The post oscillates between grandiose ("Border is miraculously perfect, NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH") and aggrieved/vulnerable ("biased against me for years," "I hate FAKE pollsters").

The central cognitive distortion is the absolute claim "NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH"—an unfalsifiable hyperbole. The previous day's post cited the Border Patrol Council claiming "ZERO illegal aliens released into the interior," which is a narrower claim (released into interior ≠ nobody came in). Trump escalates the claim from "zero releases" to "nobody came in."

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion**: Transforming ~50% approval into evidence of bias rather than mixed public opinion
- **Splitting**: Fox anchors are "GREAT" but polls are "Crooked"—black-and-white compartmentalization
- **Projection**: Accuses pollsters of incompetence while making logically incoherent arguments
- **Externalization**: Any unfavorable data attributed to corrupt measurement, never to actual performance

### Rhetorical Techniques
The post deploys several propaganda techniques: the "rigged measurement" frame (delegitimize unfavorable data), appeal to in-group authority ("MAGA HATES FoxNews"), false precision ("60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe"), and hyperbolic absolute claims. The splitting of Fox News (good anchors, bad polls) is a sophisticated audience management technique—maintaining the Fox viewership pipeline while attacking institutional credibility.

### Cognitive Observations
Sentence structure is coherent but disorganized, with multiple grievances layered atop each other. The logical flow is: polls wrong → biased → MAGA hates Fox → polls still wrong → new poll today → but border is perfect → Biden comparison → I hate pollsters → Fox won't change. This tangential cascading is baseline Trump, not indicative of decline.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year" | **Mostly True** | His own previous day's post cited Border Patrol Council figure of 62,000 released in May 2024. The number is roughly accurate but 'came in' conflates releases into interior with total encounters. |
| "NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH" | **Mostly False** | The Border Patrol Council claimed zero releases into the interior in May 2025, not zero border encounters or entries. People were still encountered, detained, and processed. The absolute claim of nobody coming in is a significant escalation. |
| "I won by much more than they said I would" | **Mostly True** | Trump's 2024 victory margins exceeded most polling predictions, including Fox News polls. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness structure
- ALL CAPS emotional emphasis
- Encoding artifact (â for apostrophe)
- Morning reactivity to news cycle
- Run-on sentences with multiple grievances

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Fox News poll showing ~50% border approval)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Fox News pollsters
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.65

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured quality to writing
- Grandiose claims of perfection

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group flattery (MAGA)
- Shared enemy construction (Fox pollsters)
- Speaking for the audience ('MAGA HATES FoxNews')

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Escalates 'zero releases into interior' to 'NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN' - inflating a narrow claim into absolute perfection
- Attacks credibility of polling as measurement tool to reject unfavorable data

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> 60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year

**MOSTLY TRUE**

His own previous day's post cited Border Patrol Council figure of 62,000 released in May 2024. The number is roughly accurate but 'came in' conflates releases into interior with total encounters.

Sources: Previous post 2025-06-18 citing National Border Patrol Council

> NOBODY WAS ABLE TO COME IN LAST MONTH

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Border Patrol Council claimed zero releases into the interior in May 2025, not zero border encounters or entries. People were still encountered, detained, and processed. The absolute claim of nobody coming in is a significant escalation.

Sources: Previous post 2025-06-18

> I won by much more than they said I would

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump's 2024 victory margins exceeded most polling predictions, including Fox News polls.

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- fox-news-grievance (90%)
- border-policy (70%)
- polling-attack (80%)
- splitting (70%)
- narcissistic-injury (80%)

## That day

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

**Morning Grievances Give Way to a Day-Long Victory Lap, With a Strategic Swipe at Juneteenth**

Trump spent most of the day in high spirits, celebrating legislative wins, signing executive orders, and sharing economic boasts about wage growth and low inflation. The morning brought a flare of irritation — he attacked Fed Chair Powell twice with escalating language, lashed out at Fox News polls, and dismissed a Wall Street Journal report on Iran. By afternoon he had settled into a steady rhythm of governance announcements and fan engagement. The most notable post came in the evening: a complaint about "too many non-working holidays" posted on Juneteenth itself, never naming the holiday but clearly targeting it through economic framing.

Full digest for 2025-06-19: https://trump.fm/date/2025-06-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, June 19). The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114710162640808420
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by..." Truth Social, 19 Jun. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114710162640808420. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by...," Truth Social, June 19, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114710162640808420.

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