# Post ts_117003098657536803

- Post ID: `ts_117003098657536803`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-07-29T11:46:42.077Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Many more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration. “Operation Warp Speed”  was a SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, in fact, many say, one of the most successful things ever done by an American President. I overrode Fauci on this. His ideas were CRAZY! Also, I said from the beginning that the Virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China. Fauci strongly disagreed, always trying to protect China. I Inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980’s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him. He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker. In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to. I went the Federalist way, and let the governors decide. The Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats. Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a “King!” I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn’t have a clue, or was dishonest. The call was well received, but sadly,
> not acted on. Biden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power. The rest is history! President DJT

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-07-29T12:19:42.870Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Authentic, self-authored Truth Social post (high confidence): early-morning local timing, stream-of-consciousness structure with mid-post drift into personal vendetta, ALL-CAPS emphasis, idiosyncratic coinages ('Dumocrats'), and abbreviated 'President DJT' sign-off distinguishing it from the day's staff-formatted posts. Psychologically, this is a stable-grandiose credit-claiming and blame-shifting maneuver rather than an acute injury response. Trump reconstructs a contested pandemic record into unambiguous personal triumph — Operation Warp Speed as 'SPECTACULAR SUCCESS,' self as prescient lab-leak advocate and Fauci-overrider — while externalizing failure onto a heavily devalued scapegoat (Fauci: 'phony,' 'no good') and a secondary foil (Biden). Defensive architecture centers on rationalization, denial of mortality responsibility, splitting ('Republican governors' vs 'Dumocrats'), and projection ('protecting China'). Reality-distortion/gaslighting is present through raw-count death framing and retroactive certainty claims, but the text is syntactically intact and internally coherent — this is motivated revisionism, not cognitive confabulation. No cognitive-decline flag; consistent with baseline. No violent, eliminationist, or dehumanizing content; danger level none. The post is clinically notable as a representative specimen of grandiose narcissistic self-aggrandizement with instrumental degradation of an out-group figure, and mild hypomanic-flavored expansiveness, but does not deviate markedly from established baseline. Longitudinal comparison against prior COVID/Fauci posts would strengthen trajectory assessment.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Authentic Trump (high confidence, score 0.9).**

Timestamp 2026-07-29T11:46 UTC converts to ~07:46 EDT (Washington/New York, UTC-4), an early-morning window consistent with authentic composition. Structural markers strongly favor first-person authorship: stream-of-consciousness syntax, escalating ALL-CAPS emphasis ("SPECTACULAR SUCCESS," "CRAZY!," "MASKS"), idiosyncratic pejorative coinage ("Dumocrats"), stock epithets ("Sleepy Joe"), unattributed authority appeals ("many say"), and an emotionally driven abrupt clause break ("but sadly,
not acted on"). The sign-off "President DJT" diverges from the polished "President DONALD J. TRUMP" of the same day's endorsement/diplomatic posts (likely staff-processed), reinforcing that this is a raw, self-authored grievance-and-credit narrative. Mid-post drift from self-credit into personal vendetta against Fauci is characteristic.

### Level 1–2: Traits & Motives
Dominant facets: low agreeableness (devaluation, contempt), high extraversion (assertive dominance), elevated neuroticism (angry hostility). Agency motivation is high — the post is a status/credit-claiming maneuver. Communion is near-absent; the deceased ("many more people died") are rhetorical instruments, not objects of concern.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
Trump casts himself as the vindicated, prescient leader (early lab-leak advocate, Fauci-overrider, defender of federalism) against a contaminating other (Fauci = "phony"/"no good") and a secondary foil (Biden, who "made Fauci a King"). This is a self-justification narrative reframing a contested record as personal triumph.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators
Grandiose narcissistic presentation with rationalization, denial (of pandemic mortality responsibility), splitting (Republican governors good / "Dumocrats" bad), and devaluation of Fauci. Historical revisionism functions as reality distortion / gaslighting rather than cognitive confabulation — the account is internally coherent and syntactically intact. No eliminationist or violent content; danger level none.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Many more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration." | **Mostly True** | In raw cumulative counts, more recorded US COVID-19 deaths occurred after January 20, 2021 than before it, so the numeric statement holds. However, the framing is misleading: the majority of Biden-term deaths occurred during 2021-2022 variant surges after vaccines became available, and mortality timing reflects the pandemic's natural course rather than a clean policy comparison. |
| "Fauci had been at NIH/NIAID since the 1980s." | **True** | Anthony Fauci became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and had worked at NIH since 1968, consistent with the 'since the 1980's' characterization of his leadership tenure. |
| "Fauci was initially an anti-masker who then switched to a super-masker." | **Mostly True** | In February-March 2020 Fauci publicly discouraged widespread mask-wearing by the general public (partly to preserve supplies for healthcare workers), then later strongly advocated masking. The reversal is documented, though Fauci attributed it to evolving evidence rather than deception. |
| "The virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China, and I said so from the beginning." | **Half True** | This is a compound claim, and the two parts land differently.

On the origin itself: as of 2025-2026 the source of SARS-CoV-2 remains scientifically and officially unresolved, so stating flatly that it 'came from the Wuhan Laboratory' overstates what is known. In January 2025 the CIA issued an assessment that a research-related (lab) origin is more likely than a natural one, but explicitly attached 'low confidence' to that judgment and stressed that both a lab leak and a natural zoonotic spillover remain plausible; the shift came from re-reviewing existing information, not new intelligence. Within the U.S. intelligence community the CIA joined the FBI (which holds this view with 'moderate confidence') and the Department of Energy ('low confidence') in leaning toward a lab-related incident, while four other agencies and the National Intelligence Council continued to assess a natural animal origin as more likely. There is no consensus and no conclusive proof, in part because China has not cooperated with investigators. So the lab-leak theory is a credible, still-open hypothesis that has gained institutional support — not an established fact as the post presents it.

On 'I said so from the beginning': this is misleading. At the genuine beginning of the pandemic (January-February 2020) Trump repeatedly praised China and Xi Jinping. On January 24, 2020 he tweeted that 'China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency... on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!' A CNN KFile review documented at least 12 occasions in January-February 2020 in which Trump praised or expressed confidence in China's coronavirus response. He did not begin publicly promoting the Wuhan-lab hypothesis until mid-to-late April 2020 — around April 18, then more forcefully on April 30, 2020 (claiming evidence he would not disclose), with 'high degree of confidence' remarks in early May 2020. Notably, on the same day he invoked the lab theory in April 2020, the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement casting doubt on it. Trump was therefore an earlier public proponent than the scientific and media mainstream (which warmed to the theory in 2021+), but the phrase 'from the beginning' is false — at the beginning he was thanking China for transparency. Because one part (origin) is genuinely unresolved rather than false, and the other part (timing of his advocacy) is partly true but overstated, the overall claim rates as half true. |
| "I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good; the call was well received but not acted on." | **Mostly False** | This account rests solely on Trump's own assertion, and it is contradicted by the well-documented record of when (and whether) the two men actually communicated.

After the 2020 election Trump never conceded to Biden, never placed a congratulatory or transition phone call, and left Washington before the January 20, 2021 inauguration — becoming the first outgoing president to skip his successor's swearing-in since Andrew Johnson in 1869. Multiple outlets reported that Trump and Biden had essentially no direct contact throughout Biden's 2021-2024 term. Their first known conversation since the 2020 election was in November 2024, after Trump won re-election, when Biden phoned to congratulate him; they reportedly spoke again around Thanksgiving 2024, described by NBC News as the only known times the two had spoken since Trump's November 13, 2024 visit to the Oval Office.

The chronology makes the claim implausible on its face. The post frames the call as happening after Biden 'made Fauci a King' — i.e., after Biden named Fauci chief medical adviser on January 20, 2021 — and says Biden failed to 'act on' the warning by keeping Fauci in power. But 2021, when such a warning could have been acted upon, is exactly the period in which Trump and Biden had no known contact whatsoever. By the time they did speak (November 2024), Fauci had already left all government positions on December 31, 2022, nearly two years earlier, and Biden was a lame-duck president days from leaving office, so there was nothing to 'act on.' The last documented Trump-Fauci-related exchange in this vein was Trump's own angry October/November 2020 phone call to Fauci (recounted in Fauci's memoir and public interviews), in which Trump disparaged Biden — not a call to Biden about Fauci. No transition record, no Biden-side account, and no contemporaneous reporting corroborates a Trump-to-Biden call warning about Fauci. Because the claim is uncorroborated and runs counter to the documented absence of Trump-Biden communication during the only period it could have mattered, it rates mostly false; it stops short of a flat 'false' only because the content of any private, undisclosed call cannot be affirmatively disproven. |

Overall Veracity: 66%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Early-morning local time (~07:46 EDT) consistent with authentic posting
- Stream-of-consciousness structure with mid-post drift into personal vendetta against Fauci
- Escalating ALL-CAPS emphasis (SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, CRAZY!, MASKS)
- Idiosyncratic coinages and epithets ('Dumocrats', 'Sleepy Joe')
- Unattributed authority appeal ('many say')

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 80%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: low-agreeableness/contempt-and-devaluation

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** vindicated prescient leader / winner
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Anthony Fauci (primary); Joe Biden (secondary)

**Identity Claims:**
- Architect of a historically successful vaccine program
- Early truth-teller on virus origins
- Defender of federalism who resisted lockdowns
- Superior judge of character who saw through Fauci

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance — Criticism (Ongoing self-credit/blame narrative around COVID record; adjacent same-day Fauci first-pitch mockery)

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Expansive superlative-laden self-praise
- Rapid multi-topic marshaling (deaths, Warp Speed, lab leak, masks, federalism, Biden call) toward a single self-glorifying thesis

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 20%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group flattery ('many say, one of the most successful things ever done by an American President')
- Shared-enemy construction against Fauci and Biden

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Raw-count death framing implying superior pandemic performance while omitting that vaccines and variant surges post-date his term
- Retroactive claim of consistent early lab-leak advocacy ('I said from the beginning')
- Reframing of a documented, contested record into unambiguous personal success

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-07-29._

> Many more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration.

**MOSTLY TRUE**

In raw cumulative counts, more recorded US COVID-19 deaths occurred after January 20, 2021 than before it, so the numeric statement holds. However, the framing is misleading: the majority of Biden-term deaths occurred during 2021-2022 variant surges after vaccines became available, and mortality timing reflects the pandemic's natural course rather than a clean policy comparison.

Sources: CDC WONDER provisional COVID-19 mortality data; Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 tracking archive

> Fauci had been at NIH/NIAID since the 1980s.

**TRUE**

Anthony Fauci became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and had worked at NIH since 1968, consistent with the 'since the 1980's' characterization of his leadership tenure.

Sources: NIAID official biography

> Fauci was initially an anti-masker who then switched to a super-masker.

**MOSTLY TRUE**

In February-March 2020 Fauci publicly discouraged widespread mask-wearing by the general public (partly to preserve supplies for healthcare workers), then later strongly advocated masking. The reversal is documented, though Fauci attributed it to evolving evidence rather than deception.

Sources: Fauci March 2020 60 Minutes interview; Later 2020 CDC/Fauci masking guidance statements

> The virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China, and I said so from the beginning.

**HALF TRUE**

This is a compound claim, and the two parts land differently.

On the origin itself: as of 2025-2026 the source of SARS-CoV-2 remains scientifically and officially unresolved, so stating flatly that it 'came from the Wuhan Laboratory' overstates what is known. In January 2025 the CIA issued an assessment that a research-related (lab) origin is more likely than a natural one, but explicitly attached 'low confidence' to that judgment and stressed that both a lab leak and a natural zoonotic spillover remain plausible; the shift came from re-reviewing existing information, not new intelligence. Within the U.S. intelligence community the CIA joined the FBI (which holds this view with 'moderate confidence') and the Department of Energy ('low confidence') in leaning toward a lab-related incident, while four other agencies and the National Intelligence Council continued to assess a natural animal origin as more likely. There is no consensus and no conclusive proof, in part because China has not cooperated with investigators. So the lab-leak theory is a credible, still-open hypothesis that has gained institutional support — not an established fact as the post presents it.

On 'I said so from the beginning': this is misleading. At the genuine beginning of the pandemic (January-February 2020) Trump repeatedly praised China and Xi Jinping. On January 24, 2020 he tweeted that 'China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency... on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!' A CNN KFile review documented at least 12 occasions in January-February 2020 in which Trump praised or expressed confidence in China's coronavirus response. He did not begin publicly promoting the Wuhan-lab hypothesis until mid-to-late April 2020 — around April 18, then more forcefully on April 30, 2020 (claiming evidence he would not disclose), with 'high degree of confidence' remarks in early May 2020. Notably, on the same day he invoked the lab theory in April 2020, the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement casting doubt on it. Trump was therefore an earlier public proponent than the scientific and media mainstream (which warmed to the theory in 2021+), but the phrase 'from the beginning' is false — at the beginning he was thanking China for transparency. Because one part (origin) is genuinely unresolved rather than false, and the other part (timing of his advocacy) is partly true but overstated, the overall claim rates as half true.

Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/; https://time.com/7210348/covid-19-cia-lab-leak-conclusion/; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/cia-shifts-assessment-covid-origins-saying-lab-leak-likely-caused-outb-rcna189284; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-trump-suspects-covid-19-came-from-china-lab.html; https://time.com/6051414/donald-trump-wuhan-laboratory-leak/; https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/trump-coronavirus-china; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/trump-thanks-chinas-xi-jinping-for-handling-of-coronavirus.html; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-china-transparency/; https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/05/24/trump-i-have-very-little-doubt-covid-came-from-wuhan-lab/

> I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good; the call was well received but not acted on.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This account rests solely on Trump's own assertion, and it is contradicted by the well-documented record of when (and whether) the two men actually communicated.

After the 2020 election Trump never conceded to Biden, never placed a congratulatory or transition phone call, and left Washington before the January 20, 2021 inauguration — becoming the first outgoing president to skip his successor's swearing-in since Andrew Johnson in 1869. Multiple outlets reported that Trump and Biden had essentially no direct contact throughout Biden's 2021-2024 term. Their first known conversation since the 2020 election was in November 2024, after Trump won re-election, when Biden phoned to congratulate him; they reportedly spoke again around Thanksgiving 2024, described by NBC News as the only known times the two had spoken since Trump's November 13, 2024 visit to the Oval Office.

The chronology makes the claim implausible on its face. The post frames the call as happening after Biden 'made Fauci a King' — i.e., after Biden named Fauci chief medical adviser on January 20, 2021 — and says Biden failed to 'act on' the warning by keeping Fauci in power. But 2021, when such a warning could have been acted upon, is exactly the period in which Trump and Biden had no known contact whatsoever. By the time they did speak (November 2024), Fauci had already left all government positions on December 31, 2022, nearly two years earlier, and Biden was a lame-duck president days from leaving office, so there was nothing to 'act on.' The last documented Trump-Fauci-related exchange in this vein was Trump's own angry October/November 2020 phone call to Fauci (recounted in Fauci's memoir and public interviews), in which Trump disparaged Biden — not a call to Biden about Fauci. No transition record, no Biden-side account, and no contemporaneous reporting corroborates a Trump-to-Biden call warning about Fauci. Because the claim is uncorroborated and runs counter to the documented absence of Trump-Biden communication during the only period it could have mattered, it rates mostly false; it stops short of a flat 'false' only because the content of any private, undisclosed call cannot be affirmatively disproven.

Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/biden-trump-spoke-phone-call-rcna183272; https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-congratulates-trump-phone-call-invites-meeting-white-house/story?id=115560662; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-has-invited-trump-to-the-white-house-trump-shunned-that-tradition-when-biden-won; https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/trump-biden-white-house-meeting; https://newrepublic.com/post/182832/fauci-trump-final-conversation-biden; https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anthony-fauci-step-down-december-rcna44217

Overall Veracity: 66%

## Tags

- authentic-trump (90%)
- covid-revisionism (95%)
- fauci-vendetta (90%)
- self-credit-claiming (85%)
- scapegoating (85%)
- grandiose-narcissism (80%)
- gaslighting (60%)
- hyperbole (70%)
- biden (50%)

## That day

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

**Trump shares a screenshot calling his own appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, "clearly terrified of the left"**

Trump's posts ran from one evening into the next, with a long break overnight. The first evening opened with him mocking Anthony Fauci's ceremonial first pitch, followed by short, staff-style notes on meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu, a House endorsement and a Senate budget push. The next morning he went back to Fauci, taking credit for the Covid vaccine program and saying he had overruled Fauci's "CRAZY" ideas. By afternoon he had moved on to the Supreme Court: he shared a screenshot calling Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom he appointed, "clearly terrified of the left," and that evening wrote that the Court's rulings on tariffs and birthright citizenship had cost the country "TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS." The Barrett post was the day's sharpest: it singled out a sitting Justice while his own requests are before the Court, though nothing he wrote urged anyone to act.

Full digest for 2026-07-29: https://trump.fm/date/2026-07-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, July 29). Many more people died of Covid under the Biden... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117003098657536803
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Many more people died of Covid under the Biden..." Truth Social, 29 Jul. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117003098657536803. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Many more people died of Covid under the Biden...," Truth Social, July 29, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117003098657536803.

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