# Post ts_115961944680232406

- Post ID: `ts_115961944680232406`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-26T14:47:33.153Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a criminal offense. As an example, all of the Anti Trump Media that covered me during the 2020 Election showed Polls that were knowingly wrong. They knew what they were doing, trying to influence the Election, but I won in a Landslide, including winning the Popular Vote, all 7 of the 7 Swing States, the Electoral College was a route, and 2,750 Counties to 525. You can't do much better than that, and yet if people examined The Failing New York Times, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, Low Ratings CNN, or the now defunct MSDNC, Polls were all fraudulent, and bore nothing even close to the final results. Something has to be done about Fraudulent Polling. Even the Polls of FoxNews and The Wall Street Journal have been, over the years, terrible! There are great Pollsters that called the Election right, but the Media does not want to use them in any way, shape, or form. Isn't it sad what has happened to American Journalism, but I am going to do everything possible to keep this Polling SCAM from moving forward!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.284Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:16:25.066Z (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 is clinically significant for its seamless fusion of reality distortion with authoritarian threat. Trump claims to have won the 2020 election in a "Landslide" including the popular vote and all swing states—all false. He appears to conflate his 2024 victory metrics (county counts) with the 2020 context, creating a hybrid false narrative. The pathological defenses (distortion, denial) are well-established, but the escalation to calling for criminalization of unfavorable polling represents a meaningful intensification: the sitting president is publicly framing independent information-gathering as a criminal act warranting state suppression. The paranoid attribution of malicious intent ("knowingly wrong," "trying to influence") to pollsters reflects persecutory ideation channeled into policy threat. The gaslighting dimension is pronounced—demanding acceptance of a comprehensively false electoral narrative while threatening punishment for those who produce contradicting data. The spelling error "route" for "rout" is a minor language marker. The post's danger level is elevated not for violence but for democratic erosion: a president threatening to criminalize unfavorable polling represents a direct challenge to press freedom and democratic accountability mechanisms.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_115961944680232406

### Authorship: Highly likely authentic Trump (0.9)
Despite the ~9:47 AM ET timestamp (business hours), the post bears overwhelming stylistic markers of personal authorship: stream-of-consciousness structure, characteristic brand nicknames ("MSDNC," "Failing New York Times"), ALL CAPS emphasis, the spelling error "route" for "rout," and emotional grievance-driven content.

### Core Dynamic: Big Lie Maintenance + Authoritarian Escalation
The post serves dual functions: (1) routine maintenance of the 2020 election denial narrative, and (2) escalation toward criminalizing unfavorable information. Trump claims a 2020 "Landslide" including the popular vote—entirely false. He appears to unconsciously (or deliberately) conflate 2024 victory metrics with the 2020 context.

### Defense Architecture
Three pathological-level defenses operate simultaneously:
- **Distortion**: Complete reconstruction of 2020 as a sweeping victory
- **Denial**: Refusal to acknowledge documented electoral loss
- **Projection**: Accuses pollsters of "fraud" while making comprehensively fraudulent claims

### Danger Assessment: Elevated
The call to criminalize polling crosses from grievance into threatened state action against information production. This is not violent rhetoric but represents democratic erosion—a sitting president framing independent data-gathering as criminal.

### Cognitive Note
"Route" for "rout" is a homophone error. The post is rambling but coherent within Trump's established baseline. The 2020/2024 conflation may be strategic rather than confabulatory.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Won 2020 election in a Landslide including winning the Popular Vote" | **False** | Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden 306-232 in Electoral College and by ~7 million popular votes. He won the 2024 election. |
| "Won all 7 of the 7 Swing States" | **False** | In 2020 Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. In 2024 he won all seven swing states, but the post references 2020 polling. |
| "Won 2,750 Counties to 525" | **Mostly True** | In 2024, Trump won roughly 2,600-2,800 counties. This figure is plausible for 2024 but the post frames it as 2020 context. |
| "Electoral College was a 'route'" | **Half True** | In 2024 Trump won 312-226, a solid but not historic margin. The word intended is 'rout.' |

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness style
- ALL CAPS emphasis on SCAM
- Characteristic nicknames (MSDNC, Failing NYT)
- Multiple tangential asides
- 9:47 AM ET (Mar-a-Lago or travel) - but stylistically very authentic

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance — Defeat (Ongoing narcissistic need to relitigate 2020; possibly triggered by current polling or media coverage)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Media organizations, pollsters
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.60

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose claims
- Pressured quality to writing
- Expansive self-reference

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 90%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- semantic paraphasia
- perseveration
- confabulation

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance framing
- Rhetorical questions to create intimacy ('Isn't it sad')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Framing independent polling as criminal offense
- Threat of state action: 'going to do everything possible' to stop polling he dislikes
- Delegitimization of free press as 'fraudulent'

### Gaslighting

- Rewriting documented 2020 loss as comprehensive victory
- Framing accurate information sources as criminal fraud
- Demanding audiences accept demonstrably false election narrative

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Won 2020 election in a Landslide including winning the Popular Vote

**FALSE**

Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden 306-232 in Electoral College and by ~7 million popular votes. He won the 2024 election.

Sources: Federal Election Commission 2020 results

> Won all 7 of the 7 Swing States

**FALSE**

In 2020 Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. In 2024 he won all seven swing states, but the post references 2020 polling.

Sources: 2020 and 2024 certified election results

> Won 2,750 Counties to 525

**MOSTLY TRUE**

In 2024, Trump won roughly 2,600-2,800 counties. This figure is plausible for 2024 but the post frames it as 2020 context.

Sources: AP county-level results 2024

> Electoral College was a 'route'

**HALF TRUE**

In 2024 Trump won 312-226, a solid but not historic margin. The word intended is 'rout.'

Sources: 2024 Electoral College results

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Tags

- Big Lie (100%)
- press_freedom_threat (80%)
- 2020_election_denial (90%)
- polling_criminalization (85%)
- media_delegitimization (80%)

## That day

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

**Three Posts on Minnesota, Zero Mentions of a Dead Citizen**

Trump spent the day managing the Minneapolis crisis — where federal agents fatally shot a US citizen, triggering a 50,000-person general strike — through three carefully scrubbed posts that never once mentioned the killing. Between those, he claimed sole credit for recovering the last Gaza hostage, threatened to make unfavorable polling a criminal offense, and launched scathing attacks on two Republican officials for showing any independence. The mood was unbroken self-congratulation across every topic, from renaming the Kennedy Center after himself to praising his wife's new movie. What defined the day was the chasm between what was happening on the ground in Minnesota and the cheerful cooperation narrative constructed around it.

Full digest for 2026-01-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 26). Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115961944680232406
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a..." Truth Social, 26 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115961944680232406. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a...," Truth Social, January 26, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115961944680232406.

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