# Post ts_116461858227528789

- Post ID: `ts_116461858227528789`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-04-24T21:42:08.521Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen a long way. Her attack on the First Lady of France is despicable. I believe, in this case, without verification, she is an extremely Low IQ individual!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/461/809/827/207/754/original/694d27e339c17cc4.jpg

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-05-01T21:01:12.859Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-24T22:17:32.797Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Trump publicly attacks Candace Owens for her years-running conspiracy theory about Brigitte Macron's gender, calling Owens 'despicable' and 'extremely Low IQ.' The post is a clear public excommunication — devaluation and splitting deployed to recategorize a former in-group figure as out-group. Notably, Trump's stated grounds are 'belief... without verification,' a structural concession that the judgment is unfalsifiable. The trigger appears relational/diplomatic rather than principled: protecting rapport with Emmanuel Macron supersedes any ideological alignment with Owens. Authorship is high-confidence Trump (signature 'Low IQ' vocabulary, stock-market insult metaphor, idiosyncratic hedging, selective capitalization). Psychologically, the post showcases Trump's characteristic role as status-arbiter of the conservative ecosystem — declaring whose 'stock' is up or down. No danger indicators; the attack is directed at an aligned figure rather than dehumanized out-group target. Cognitive markers are within baseline. The episode is notable less for any deviation than for what it reveals about hierarchy maintenance: Trump can and will turn on aligned conspiratorial voices when their content collides with his personal relationships. Agency motive (status, power) dominates; communion is purely instrumental (signaling to Macron). Devaluation, splitting, and rationalization are the operative defenses.

## Analysis: Trump Post Attacking Candace Owens (2026-04-24)

### Context
The post defends Brigitte Macron against Candace Owens, who has spent years promoting the conspiracy theory that the First Lady of France was born male. Trump publicly siding against a prominent right-wing influencer to defend a foreign first lady is notable — likely motivated by personal relationship with Emmanuel Macron and/or diplomatic calculus rather than principled rejection of conspiracy thinking.

### Authorship
Multiple high-confidence authentic Trump markers:
- **Signature insult vocabulary:** 'Low IQ' is a vintage Trump construction, capitalized for emphasis
- **Stock metaphor:** 'her stock... has fallen a long way' — characteristic Trump business-frame insult
- **Idiosyncratic hedging:** 'I believe, in this case, without verification' — clumsy parenthetical typical of Trump dictation
- **Capitalization pattern:** 'First Lady,' 'Low IQ' — selective emphasis consistent with his style
- **Exclamation closer** — Trump signature

Time: 5:42 PM ET (assuming Mar-a-Lago/DC residence). Within business hours but tone is unmistakably personal.

### Psychological Dynamics
- **Devaluation defense:** Owens is reduced to a single dismissive trait ('Low IQ')
- **Splitting:** Owens moves from in-group to out-group; once-allies become 'despicable'
- **Status arbitration:** Trump positions himself as the authority who declares whose 'stock' is up or down — agency motive (power, status arbitration) is dominant
- **Triangulation:** Defending Brigitte Macron simultaneously punishes Owens, signals to Macron, and reasserts Trump's gatekeeper role over MAGA-aligned figures

### Rhetorical Techniques
Ad hominem (the entire post is one), devaluation, status downgrade, appeal to authority (his own).

### Danger
None — directed at an in-group figure being excommunicated, not eliminationist.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Candace Owens has attacked the First Lady of France (Brigitte Macron)" | **True** | Owens has publicly and repeatedly promoted the conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron was born male, including a multi-episode podcast series. The Macrons have pursued defamation litigation against her in connection with these claims. |
| "Candace Owens is a 'Low IQ individual'" | **Unverifiable** | After exhaustive deep research, this claim remains genuinely unverifiable as an empirical proposition. Key findings: (1) No documented IQ test score exists for Candace Owens. Multiple database searches, news archives, and biographical sources confirm no such psychometric record has ever been published. Celebrity IQ aggregator sites (ACIS, cogniDNA, free-iqtest.net) do not list Owens, and industry experts note that most celebrity IQ numbers circulating online are unverified recycled claims. (2) Industry consensus holds that IQ claims for public figures should be treated as speculative unless accompanied by independently verifiable, supervised test documentation (test type, date, administering body) — no such documentation exists for Owens. Snopes has recently debunked similar fabricated IQ claims targeting public figures. (3) Owens has documented academic and professional credentials that are inconsistent with clinically low cognitive functioning: graduated Stamford High School (Connecticut), attended University of Rhode Island for journalism (named to Dean's List, Fall 2007), completed bachelor's degree at URI in 2022, interned at Vogue, rose from administrative assistant to vice president of administration at a Manhattan private equity firm, founded marketing agency Degree180 (2015), served as communications director for Turning Point USA (2017-2019), hosted shows on PragerU and The Daily Wire, authored New York Times bestseller 'Blackout' (over 500,000 copies sold), and produced documentaries. These credentials don't constitute an IQ score but demonstrate professional achievement inconsistent with a literal 'low IQ' claim. (4) Trump himself explicitly hedges the assertion within the post ('I believe, in this case, without verification'), structurally conceding the judgment is unfalsifiable opinion rather than factual claim. (5) 'Low IQ' functions as Trump's signature rhetorical devaluation insult deployed against numerous figures (Maxine Waters, Don Lemon, Joe Biden, and in an April 2026 broader Truth Social post, also Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones) — it operates as status devaluation rather than empirical psychometric assessment. Because IQ is a specific quantitative measure that has never been publicly tested or documented for Owens, and because Trump himself frames the claim as belief without verification, no amount of research can verify or falsify it. It remains genuinely unverifiable. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Receipts (1)

### reversal — other (8 years earlier)

> "Candace Owens is a 'Low IQ individual'"

**vs.**

> "Candace Owens of Turning Point USA"

In 2018, Owens was praised as representing 'very smart thinkers' with a big positive impact; in 2026-04-24 (the source), she is called 'an extremely Low IQ individual.' Describing someone as a representative of 'very smart thinkers' is a direct reversal of calling that same person 'extremely Low IQ.' This is a clear before-and-after flip on intelligence.

[View contradicting post →](/post/x_994182263960162304)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Signature 'Low IQ' insult with capitalization
- Business/stock metaphor ('her stock... has fallen a long way')
- Clumsy parenthetical hedging ('without verification')
- Selective capitalization pattern (First Lady, Low IQ)
- Exclamation point closer

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 20%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: low agreeableness (antagonism)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** arbiter of conservative-movement status
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Candace Owens — the 'despicable,' 'Low IQ' attacker

**Identity Claims:**
- I judge who has 'stock'
- I defend the dignified (First Lady)

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (Candace Owens' conspiracy theory about Brigitte Macron's gender)

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Public arbitration of in-group status
- Loyalty signaling to foreign ally via attack on domestic dissenter

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-04-24; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-04-24._

> Candace Owens has attacked the First Lady of France (Brigitte Macron)

**TRUE**

Owens has publicly and repeatedly promoted the conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron was born male, including a multi-episode podcast series. The Macrons have pursued defamation litigation against her in connection with these claims.

> Candace Owens is a 'Low IQ individual'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

After exhaustive deep research, this claim remains genuinely unverifiable as an empirical proposition. Key findings: (1) No documented IQ test score exists for Candace Owens. Multiple database searches, news archives, and biographical sources confirm no such psychometric record has ever been published. Celebrity IQ aggregator sites (ACIS, cogniDNA, free-iqtest.net) do not list Owens, and industry experts note that most celebrity IQ numbers circulating online are unverified recycled claims. (2) Industry consensus holds that IQ claims for public figures should be treated as speculative unless accompanied by independently verifiable, supervised test documentation (test type, date, administering body) — no such documentation exists for Owens. Snopes has recently debunked similar fabricated IQ claims targeting public figures. (3) Owens has documented academic and professional credentials that are inconsistent with clinically low cognitive functioning: graduated Stamford High School (Connecticut), attended University of Rhode Island for journalism (named to Dean's List, Fall 2007), completed bachelor's degree at URI in 2022, interned at Vogue, rose from administrative assistant to vice president of administration at a Manhattan private equity firm, founded marketing agency Degree180 (2015), served as communications director for Turning Point USA (2017-2019), hosted shows on PragerU and The Daily Wire, authored New York Times bestseller 'Blackout' (over 500,000 copies sold), and produced documentaries. These credentials don't constitute an IQ score but demonstrate professional achievement inconsistent with a literal 'low IQ' claim. (4) Trump himself explicitly hedges the assertion within the post ('I believe, in this case, without verification'), structurally conceding the judgment is unfalsifiable opinion rather than factual claim. (5) 'Low IQ' functions as Trump's signature rhetorical devaluation insult deployed against numerous figures (Maxine Waters, Don Lemon, Joe Biden, and in an April 2026 broader Truth Social post, also Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones) — it operates as status devaluation rather than empirical psychometric assessment. Because IQ is a specific quantitative measure that has never been publicly tested or documented for Owens, and because Trump himself frames the claim as belief without verification, no amount of research can verify or falsify it. It remains genuinely unverifiable.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens; https://acisiq.com/famous-people-and-iq; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-leo-trump-wharton-iq-score/; https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/candace-owens; https://www.britannica.com/biography/Candace-Owens; https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/candace-owens-1989/; https://www.the-sun.com/news/1513629/candace-owens-conservative-commentator-college-rhode-island/; https://www.politifact.com/personalities/candace-owens/; https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/candace-owens; https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/candace-owens-45913.php; https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2026/04/18/candace-owens-tells-trump-maga-is-no-longer-committed-to-you-after-he-calls-her-low-iq-in-truth-social-attack/; https://www.cognidna.com/celebrity-iq-scores/

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Receipts (1)

### reversal — other (8 years earlier)

> Candace Owens is a 'Low IQ individual'

_Apr 24, 2026_

vs.

> Candace Owens of Turning Point USA

_May 9, 2018_

In 2018, Owens was praised as representing 'very smart thinkers' with a big positive impact; in 2026-04-24 (the source), she is called 'an extremely Low IQ individual.' Describing someone as a representative of 'very smart thinkers' is a direct reversal of calling that same person 'extremely Low IQ.' This is a clear before-and-after flip on intelligence.

[View contradicting post](/post/x_994182263960162304)

## Tags

- ad hominem (95%)
- devaluation (90%)
- in-group excommunication (85%)
- status arbitration (80%)
- Candace Owens (100%)
- Brigitte Macron (80%)
- Low IQ insult (90%)
- stock metaphor (70%)
- splitting (70%)

## That day

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

**He narrated the Reflecting Pool as "more than 2000 feet" on video, then wrote it up five hours later at 2,500**

Trump was up past midnight and posted a dozen times in under half an hour, almost all of it forwarding other people's material accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of treason and demanding arrests. The Southern Poverty Law Center, newly facing a fraud charge, carried him through the small hours and into the morning — at one point he argued the charge meant the 2020 election should be wiped from the books. The afternoon brought a Supreme Court tariff ruling forcing a roughly $159 billion refund, which he called ridiculous and blamed on one missing half-sentence. He spent the evening on the opposite note, claiming credit for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation and the Lafayette Park fountains, then reposting his own Reflecting Pool boast twice more within the hour. He also turned on Candace Owens, calling her low-IQ for attacking France's first lady, and used the exact same insult on Hakeem Jeffries seven minutes later.

Full digest for 2026-04-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-04-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, April 24). Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116461858227528789
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen..." Truth Social, 24 Apr. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116461858227528789. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen...," Truth Social, April 24, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116461858227528789.

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