# Post ts_117272045197172717

- Post ID: `ts_117272045197172717`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-14T23:43:20.591Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and completely wrong so often. He suffers from a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome primarily because, for almost 10 years, I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted and espoused. Why does FoxNews and the WSJ keep his RINO Voice alive. The guy is a stone cold loser!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T09:01:56.787Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A four-sentence attack on Karl Rove, dropped into a day about AI "hoaxes"

Every other post from September 14 in the record works the "Hoax Buster" theme on AI regulation. This one breaks from it to go after Karl Rove. The post doesn't say what set it off. Rove writes a weekly Wall Street Journal column and appears on Fox News, and the line "Why does FoxNews and the WSJ keep his RINO Voice alive" names both outlets. That points to a recent Rove column or TV segment critical of Trump or his midterm strategy, probably the thing that prompted the post. The historian record has no specific item, so the trigger is inferred with medium confidence.

### Who wrote it

The prose is plainly Trump's own. "Why does FoxNews and the WSJ keep" has a subject-verb agreement error, and the question ends with a period instead of a question mark. "FoxNews" is run together, "RINO Voice" is capitalized for no reason, and the last line is the stock insult "stone cold loser." The middle sentence also tangles itself: "I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted and espoused" pairs two verbs with two objects and never quite lands. The post also lacks the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off that closes several of the day's AI posts, a sign-off that may reflect staff formatting.

On timing: he had been at Doonbeg through September 13. If he was back in Washington by the 14th, as the White House heliport post suggests, the post went up around 7:43 pm Eastern. That is evening, outside business hours, which fits a quick reaction to something he read or watched. If he was still in Ireland, it was about 12:43 am local time.

### How the grievance is built

The post gives its own theory of Rove's criticism: Rove "suffers from a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome primarily because... I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted." In that account, criticism can only come from envy of Trump's wins, never from a real disagreement. This matches the DSM narcissism criterion of believing others envy you. It also works as a defense: a critic recast as a sore loser needs no answer on the substance. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" turns a political judgment into a pathology, so the reader is told to discount Rove's view before hearing it.

The self-image is grandiose and backward-looking. "For almost 10 years, I beat back and won" dates the story to the 2015–16 primary, when Rove, a Bush-era strategist, stood for the establishment Trump ran against. The winner's narrative leaves out the 2020 loss. This is selective memory more than denial of any specific event.

The split is total. Rove is "so bad," "completely wrong so often," a "RINO," a "stone cold loser." Nothing is conceded. "RINO" throws him out of the party, and "loser" puts him at the bottom of the win/lose ladder Trump uses to rank people. The anger is real but low-key: a few capitals, no exclamation run until the last line, and no threat.

The complaint about Fox and the WSJ is the sharper move. Asking why they "keep his RINO Voice alive," he pressures friendly conservative outlets to stop running a critic. Here he defends his standing inside the conservative media world rather than attacking outside enemies. The line works as a loyalty test aimed at Murdoch-owned outlets. It is a pressure tactic about who gets airtime. It is not a call for anyone to act against Rove personally.

### Rhetoric and risk

The devices are ad hominem (no Rove argument is named, let alone answered), the "TDS" label that treats disagreement as illness, the out-group tag "RINO," and absolute wording ("completely wrong," "stone cold loser"). The target is a political commentator, the language is a routine insult rather than dehumanizing, and nothing suggests anyone should do anything beyond media outlets dropping him. The risk comes down to reputational and editorial pressure.

### Compared with his baseline and the rest of the day

Attacks on Rove go back to at least 2012 ("Karl Rove is a moron," "a loser") and continued through 2015–2024, so this post matches his usual pattern. The syntax holds together apart from the agreement slip and the doubled "beat back and won." There are no name mix-ups, time confusion or neologisms. Against the day's output, where several near-identical AI "hoax" posts repeat the "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA" list almost word for word, this post reads as a separate reactive burst. That fits a pattern of high-volume posting that jumps between topics.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Karl Rove has a platform at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal" | **True** | Rove has long written a weekly Wall Street Journal op-ed column and appeared on Fox News as a contributor and analyst. |
| "For almost 10 years Trump beat back and won against the people and policies Rove favored" | **Half True** | Trump beat Rove-aligned establishment candidates in the 2016 primary, won the 2016 and 2024 general elections, and reshaped the party away from Bush-era positions. He lost the 2020 election, and several candidates he backed lost in 2022, so an unbroken winning record is overstated. |
| "Karl Rove is completely wrong so often and is bad for the Republican Party" | **Half True** | What set off the post: The post is real. Trump put it on Truth Social on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 7:43 pm EDT (trumpstruth.org). Hours earlier, at a private lunch at Austin's Headliners Club, Rove said he would vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal over Republican Bo French for the Texas Railroad Commission. He called French a "bigot" for a post calling South Asian University of Texas students "foreigners." The Texas Tribune reports that Republicans and Democrats alike criticized French's post. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had earlier called for French to resign as Tarrant County GOP chair over a poll asking whether Jews or Muslims were the bigger threat. Rove said the only Democrat he had voted for before was Bob Bullock in 1994. Days earlier he had also written a Wall Street Journal column titled "Trump Sticks With a Losing Midterm Plan" (Sept. 3).

The claim has two parts. Whether Rove is "bad for the Republican Party" is an opinion. Whether he is "wrong so often" can be checked against his record.

Big misses on record:
- 2000: He predicted about 320 electoral votes for Bush. Bush got 271 and lost the popular vote. He also said "We're going to win New Hampshire," and McCain beat Bush there by 18 points (Salon, ThinkProgress).
- 2006: On NPR on Oct. 24, 2006, he predicted a Republican House and Senate, telling Robert Siegel "you're entitled to your math, I'm entitled to the math." Democrats won both chambers.
- 2012: His Wall Street Journal column predicted Romney would win 51-48 "with at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more." Obama won 332 to 206, and Rove argued on air against Fox News's call of Ohio. The Sunlight Foundation found that only 1.29% of the $104.7 million his super PAC American Crossroads spent in the general election went to races that ended the way it wanted.
- 2015-16: He said Trump would get "creamed" by Clinton (Dec. 2015). In October 2016 he said he did not see Trump winning. Trump won.
- 2022: On election eve he predicted Republicans would hold 51 or 52 Senate seats and "the 230s" in the House. They ended with 49 and 222.
- 2024: On Election Day he and David Axelrod agreed the House was likely to go Democratic. Republicans kept it.
- 2025: On Nov. 3 he said New Jersey "could be an upset" and that Republicans would "hold on to" Virginia's attorney general seat. Sherrill won New Jersey by about 14 points, Jay Jones beat Jason Miyares 53% to 46%, and Democrats gained 13 seats in Virginia's House of Delegates.

Calls he got right:
- His Nov. 2020 column "This Election Result Won't Be Overturned" proved correct, against Trump's own position.
- In 2024 he correctly forecast a Republican Senate takeover.
- In 2025 he said New York's next mayor would win with "low 50s." Mamdani got 50.78%.
- Salon's 2012 review counted his 2008 and 2010 calls as right in direction.
- In 2014, Crossroads GPS got better than an 85% return among the top outside groups (CBS).

His own yearly scorecards:
- 2022: 23 right, 8 wrong (74.2%)
- 2023: 20 right, 12 wrong (62.5%)
- 2024: "a bit over 70%" right
- 2025: about 56% right, 42% wrong, 2% still to be decided

Rove grades these himself, and they mix political, economic and foreign-policy calls.

What this adds up to: "Wrong so often" has a real basis. Rove has several famous misses, and by his own count one in four to two in five of his yearly predictions fail. But "completely wrong" overstates it, since he is right more often than wrong. His current warnings about the 2026 midterms can't be graded until Nov. 3.

"Bad for the Republican Party" can't be measured, and his record cuts both ways. He ran strategy for Bush's 2000 and 2004 wins and his groups did well in 2014. But Republicans lost Congress in 2006 while he was a top White House adviser, and his super PAC failed badly in 2012. Trump has made the same attack for years, for example tweeting in 2015 that Rove "wasted $430 million on political campaigns and lost 100%." The 2012 part of that had some basis, but "100%" was false: Deb Fischer won. Crossing party lines in one down-ballot race to oppose a nominee many Republicans had condemned is a break with the party, but whether it hurts the party is a matter of opinion.

Overall, the claim mixes a partly supported point about Rove's mistakes with exaggeration and an opinion that can't be proven, so it rates half true. |

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Subject-verb agreement error: "Why does FoxNews and the WSJ keep"
- Question ends with a period instead of a question mark
- Run-together "FoxNews" and random capitalization of "RINO Voice"
- Doubled, loose verb phrase: "beat back and won against so many of the people and things"
- Signature insult "stone cold loser"

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 8%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 65%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism) with angry hostility

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** Unbeaten winner who defeated the establishment
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Karl Rove as an establishment RINO and loser

**Identity Claims:**
- I beat back and won for almost 10 years
- Critics are motivated by my victories over them

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Probable recent criticism from Karl Rove in the WSJ or on Fox News (inferred; not in the historian record))

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Karl Rove; secondarily Fox News and the Wall Street Journal
- Proportionality: 35%

Sentiment: -0.80

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid topic switch from repeated AI-hoax posts to a personal feud on the same day
- High same-day posting volume

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 25%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invites followers to share contempt for a named insider critic
- Signals to loyalists that Fox and the WSJ are complicit in platforming a "RINO"

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Recasting a critic's view as a mental condition ("Trump Derangement Syndrome") so readers discount his perception
- A winner narrative over "almost 10 years" that leaves out the 2020 loss

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-16._

> Karl Rove has a platform at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal

**TRUE**

Rove has long written a weekly Wall Street Journal op-ed column and appeared on Fox News as a contributor and analyst.

Sources: Wall Street Journal opinion archive; Fox News contributor listings

> For almost 10 years Trump beat back and won against the people and policies Rove favored

**HALF TRUE**

Trump beat Rove-aligned establishment candidates in the 2016 primary, won the 2016 and 2024 general elections, and reshaped the party away from Bush-era positions. He lost the 2020 election, and several candidates he backed lost in 2022, so an unbroken winning record is overstated.

Sources: FEC and state election results 2016, 2020, 2024

> Karl Rove is completely wrong so often and is bad for the Republican Party

**HALF TRUE**

What set off the post: The post is real. Trump put it on Truth Social on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 7:43 pm EDT (trumpstruth.org). Hours earlier, at a private lunch at Austin's Headliners Club, Rove said he would vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal over Republican Bo French for the Texas Railroad Commission. He called French a "bigot" for a post calling South Asian University of Texas students "foreigners." The Texas Tribune reports that Republicans and Democrats alike criticized French's post. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had earlier called for French to resign as Tarrant County GOP chair over a poll asking whether Jews or Muslims were the bigger threat. Rove said the only Democrat he had voted for before was Bob Bullock in 1994. Days earlier he had also written a Wall Street Journal column titled "Trump Sticks With a Losing Midterm Plan" (Sept. 3).

The claim has two parts. Whether Rove is "bad for the Republican Party" is an opinion. Whether he is "wrong so often" can be checked against his record.

Big misses on record:
- 2000: He predicted about 320 electoral votes for Bush. Bush got 271 and lost the popular vote. He also said "We're going to win New Hampshire," and McCain beat Bush there by 18 points (Salon, ThinkProgress).
- 2006: On NPR on Oct. 24, 2006, he predicted a Republican House and Senate, telling Robert Siegel "you're entitled to your math, I'm entitled to the math." Democrats won both chambers.
- 2012: His Wall Street Journal column predicted Romney would win 51-48 "with at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more." Obama won 332 to 206, and Rove argued on air against Fox News's call of Ohio. The Sunlight Foundation found that only 1.29% of the $104.7 million his super PAC American Crossroads spent in the general election went to races that ended the way it wanted.
- 2015-16: He said Trump would get "creamed" by Clinton (Dec. 2015). In October 2016 he said he did not see Trump winning. Trump won.
- 2022: On election eve he predicted Republicans would hold 51 or 52 Senate seats and "the 230s" in the House. They ended with 49 and 222.
- 2024: On Election Day he and David Axelrod agreed the House was likely to go Democratic. Republicans kept it.
- 2025: On Nov. 3 he said New Jersey "could be an upset" and that Republicans would "hold on to" Virginia's attorney general seat. Sherrill won New Jersey by about 14 points, Jay Jones beat Jason Miyares 53% to 46%, and Democrats gained 13 seats in Virginia's House of Delegates.

Calls he got right:
- His Nov. 2020 column "This Election Result Won't Be Overturned" proved correct, against Trump's own position.
- In 2024 he correctly forecast a Republican Senate takeover.
- In 2025 he said New York's next mayor would win with "low 50s." Mamdani got 50.78%.
- Salon's 2012 review counted his 2008 and 2010 calls as right in direction.
- In 2014, Crossroads GPS got better than an 85% return among the top outside groups (CBS).

His own yearly scorecards:
- 2022: 23 right, 8 wrong (74.2%)
- 2023: 20 right, 12 wrong (62.5%)
- 2024: "a bit over 70%" right
- 2025: about 56% right, 42% wrong, 2% still to be decided

Rove grades these himself, and they mix political, economic and foreign-policy calls.

What this adds up to: "Wrong so often" has a real basis. Rove has several famous misses, and by his own count one in four to two in five of his yearly predictions fail. But "completely wrong" overstates it, since he is right more often than wrong. His current warnings about the 2026 midterms can't be graded until Nov. 3.

"Bad for the Republican Party" can't be measured, and his record cuts both ways. He ran strategy for Bush's 2000 and 2004 wins and his groups did well in 2014. But Republicans lost Congress in 2006 while he was a top White House adviser, and his super PAC failed badly in 2012. Trump has made the same attack for years, for example tweeting in 2015 that Rove "wasted $430 million on political campaigns and lost 100%." The 2012 part of that had some basis, but "100%" was false: Deb Fischer won. Crossing party lines in one down-ballot race to oppose a nominee many Republicans had condemned is a break with the party, but whether it hurts the party is a matter of opinion.

Overall, the claim mixes a partly supported point about Rove's mistakes with exaggeration and an opinion that can't be proven, so it rates half true.

Sources: https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/41725; https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/bo-french-kal-rove-endorsement-jon-rosenthal/; https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2026-09-15/karl-rove-said-hell-break-30-years-of-only-supporting-republicans-to-vote-against-bigot-bo-french; https://www.rawstory.com/trump-karl-rove-2677858675/; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-karl-rove-stone-cold-loser_n_6aa8c521e4b03cde7fac3eac; https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/09/15/trump-torches-karl-rove-n2206931; https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-election-guru-karl-rove-goes-nuclear-on-trumps-midterm-plan/; https://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/shattering_the_rove_myth/; https://archive.thinkprogress.org/karl-roves-record-of-failed-predictions-95d0f75dd342/; https://www.npr.org/2006/10/24/6376549/rove-sees-no-gop-fall-in-the-2006-election; https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/will-media-acknowledge-they-were-too-credulous-touting-roves-pre-election-optimism; https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/133291-rove-predicts-romney-victory-with-at-least-279-electoral-college-votes/; https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2012; https://sunlightfoundation.com/2012/12/10/american-crossroads-analysis-roi/; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midterm-2014-ad-spending-how-karl-rove-nra-koch-brothers-fared; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-karl-rove_n_566c34e2e4b0e292150e19b7; https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/302416-karl-rove-i-dont-see-trump-winning-presidential-election/; https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/politics/karl-rove-axe-files-axelrod-electoral-map-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/index.html; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6315130203112; https://slate.com/business/2022/11/fox-news-midterms-republicans-red-wave-democrats.html; https://www.carolinajournal.com/experts-forecast-democratic-house-and-gop-senate-in-2024-congressional-races/; https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/karl-rove-predicts-election-will-come-down-to-whether-trump-can-control-himself-she-cant-win-it-but-he-can-lose-it/; https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4959787-rove-trump-win-white-house-georgia-pennsylvania-michigan/; https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/karl-rove-unveils-2025-election-predictions-could-be-an-upset/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election; https://www.vpm.org/elections/2025-11-04/election-2025-results-va-attorney-general-jay-jones-jason-miyares; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Virginia_House_of_Delegates_election; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_election; https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2020-election-result-overturned-karl-rove; https://accf.org/author/karl-rove/; https://www.rove.com/article/1-2-25-wsj; https://www.rove.com/article/1-08-26-WSJ; https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/donald-trump-karl-rove-fight/index.html; https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/664820082325893121

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Tags

- Karl Rove (100%)
- Trump Derangement Syndrome (80%)
- RINO (70%)
- Fox News (60%)
- Wall Street Journal (60%)
- intra-party feud (70%)
- loser insult (60%)

## That day

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

**Trump, "the Hoax Buster," spends Monday filing AI danger alongside Russia and climate change**

Trump spent Monday insisting that fears about artificial intelligence are a hoax, coming back to it from morning to evening and lumping AI worries in with climate change, the Russia investigation and his two impeachments. His harshest post came first, naming the head of Anthropic and reminding AI companies of the government's "CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power" over them, and by late afternoon he was calling critics "Bad and Evil" and dubbing himself "the Hoax Buster." Around midday he defended the Iran war's costs, blaming rising prices on the Russia-Ukraine war and on Biden and boasting of record weapons production despite reports of depleted missile stocks. The rest was bragging about a golfer's win at his Irish course, a new granite helicopter pad at the White House and a sold-out Republican convention in Dallas, plus a swipe at Karl Rove, and he posted nothing late at night. Anthropic, whose chief executive he named, makes the AI that wrote this summary.

Full digest for 2026-09-14: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 14). Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117272045197172717
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and..." Truth Social, 14 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117272045197172717. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and...," Truth Social, September 14, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117272045197172717.

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