# Post ts_117348516464234551

- Post ID: `ts_117348516464234551`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-28T11:50:59.524Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation & Heritage Action President, and also, a fabulous guy, was fantastic on FoxNews this morning. The topic was Fake Polls and how well the Republicans are going to do in the upcoming Midterms. Thank you, Kevin. I’ll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected. I won most of these places, often by a landslide. MAGA, pretend I am on the ballot. Don’t let them open your Borders, and allow crime to again flourish. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!! President DJT

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-29T00:41:36.473Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

The clinically interesting move is the instruction "MAGA, pretend I am on the ballot." The verb concedes what the Twenty-Second Amendment establishes while asking the audience to set the concession aside, which both restores his centrality to an election he is peripheral to and makes an act of imagination the price of group membership. It arrives in the same post that disposes of unfavorable survey data by category — "Fake Polls," never a number, never a pollster — and that restates a 1.5-point 2024 plurality as "often by a landslide." Denial and distortion are doing the work the confident register conceals: an incumbent near the low of his approval term is pre-writing a midterm outcome rather than contesting present numbers.

The surrogate structure is characteristic. Kevin Roberts is paid in adjectives ("a fabulous guy," "Thank you, Kevin") for having argued the case on television so that the subject does not have to, and the patron's offer follows — "spending money, and helping every one of them get elected" — status as dispensation.

No rage, no named target, no dehumanization; the fear appeal ("open your Borders, and allow crime to again flourish") is conditional and its requested remedy is a ballot. Authorship is unambiguous at 7:50 a.m. Eastern: self-interrupting appositive, comma splices, stray capitals, "President DJT."

## A borrowed voice for the polling problem

The post opens by routing its argument through somebody else: "Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation & Heritage Action President, and also, a fabulous guy, was fantastic on FoxNews this morning. The topic was Fake Polls and how well the Republicans are going to do in the upcoming Midterms." No number is cited and no pollster is named. The unfavorable data is handled at the level of category — "Fake Polls," capitalized into a proper noun, a standing bin that anything disconfirming can be dropped into without argument. Delegating the rebuttal to a think-tank president supplies institutional cover for a claim he does not make in his own voice, and the compensation is prompt and inflated: "a fabulous guy," "Thank you, Kevin." Idealization here is priced per service rendered; the archive of this subject's surrogate praise is full of figures who were fabulous on the morning they were useful.

## "MAGA, pretend I am on the ballot"

The instruction is the most informative clause in the post, and the verb carries it. He is not on the 2026 ballot and cannot be, and "pretend" concedes that while asking the audience to hold the concession off to one side. Two things follow. The request converts a midterm into a referendum on him personally, which keeps him at the center of an election he is structurally peripheral to; and it recruits the audience into an act of imagination as the condition of membership, which is how a supporter's vote for a stranger becomes a transaction with him. Around it sits the patron's offer — "I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected" — status expressed as dispensation. The confident register is doing work: an incumbent whose approval sits near the low of his term is pre-writing the outcome rather than defending the present.

## What "these places" has to carry

"I won most of these places, often by a landslide" is load-bearing for the ask that precedes it — the transfer only works if his own margin was overwhelming. He carried 31 states in 2024, several by more than thirty points, so the sentence is not fabricated; the national result was a 1.5-point popular-vote plurality, and the seats that decide a House majority are largely the ones he won narrowly or not at all. "Most of these places" and "often" are the kind of elastic quantifiers that let a true-in-part claim read as a rout, and the elasticity is not incidental — it is what "landslide" needs in order to stand.

## Crime and borders as the closing line

"Don't let them open your Borders, and allow crime to again flourish." The antagonist is a bare pronoun, never identified, and the harm is future-conditional — chaos as what returns if the audience fails to act. "KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!!" completes the frame: he holds the line, an unnamed they would breach it. What the post asks for is money and ballots. Nobody is named as a target and nobody is described as less than human, which is what keeps a fear appeal of this shape inside ordinary electioneering rather than at the edge of it.

## 7:50 in the morning, unmediated

Converted to Eastern time the post lands at 7:50 a.m., inside the Fox morning block it is reacting to (6:50 if he was still on Chicago time after Sunday at Medinah). Everything structural points the same way: the self-interrupting appositive "and also, a fabulous guy," the comma splice in "spending money, and helping," the possessive "your Borders" with its stray capital, "to again flourish," the elliptical address to "MAGA," the "President DJT" seal. An aide writing a Heritage shout-out would have produced a clean sentence and a segment title. Nothing here reads as word-finding trouble or lost thread — the appositive drift and idiosyncratic capitals are decades-old habits of this writer's hand, and the post's logic runs start to finish without derailing.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Kevin Roberts is president of both the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action" | **True** | Roberts has led the Heritage Foundation since December 2021 and concurrently heads its affiliated advocacy arm, Heritage Action for America, a dual title he has carried throughout his tenure. |
| "Roberts appeared on Fox News that morning discussing 'Fake Polls' and Republican midterm prospects" | **Mostly True** | The appearance is confirmed, dated, and matches the post's timing almost exactly; the only inaccuracy is the network name.

The segment: Kevin Roberts appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings with Fox Business" on Monday, September 28, 2026, in an interview with host Cheryl Casone. Fox Business' own video archive carries the clip under the title "Kevin Roberts on midterm predictions: House is a 'jump ball'" (video ID 6405739571112), described as the Heritage Foundation president analyzing the political landscape ahead of the midterms, covering Cook Political Report forecasts of Democratic House gains, conservative voter turnout, and swing-state Democrats distancing themselves from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The content matches Trump's characterization of the topic. Media Matters transcribed Roberts saying: "I think that this prognosticating is a psyop by so many of these polling firms in order to do what, to depress conservative turnout." On Republican midterm prospects he said he was "old enough to remember so many times that Charlie Cook and the chattering class in Washington have been wrong," that Cook was "outrageously wrong" on the Senate map, that "the Senate is not going to flip" while "the House is a jump ball," and that Republicans have "legitimate pickup opportunities in places you wouldn't expect, Cheryl: New Hampshire, Michigan, Minnesota." The exchange was prompted by Casone asking about Charlie Cook's Sunday prediction that Democrats would likely retake the House with a "very realistic" shot at the Senate. So both halves of the stated topic, polling skepticism and Republican midterm prospects, are confirmed.

Timing corroborates "this morning." The post's own timestamp in the trump.fm archive is 2026-09-28T11:50:59Z, which is 7:50 a.m. Eastern on the same day the segment aired, consistent with a real-time reaction to a morning-block Fox Business interview.

Independent corroboration spans the ideological spectrum: Media Matters covered it in two separate pieces dated 9/28/26 (one a standalone item on Roberts, one a roundup of right-wing figures calling midterm polls a "psyop," which also logged Steve Bannon on Real America's Voice the same day and Newsmax's Rob Finnerty on 9/25/26); Heritage's own outlet The Daily Signal published a same-day story reporting Roberts appeared on Fox Business Monday morning and quoting Trump's post back; and the progressive blog Joe.My.God. posted the video clip the same day. Fox Business hosts the primary video itself.

Why this is not rated fully true: Roberts was on Fox Business Network, a separate cable channel from Fox News Channel, though both are Fox Corporation properties. Every source that names the network, including Heritage's own Daily Signal, says Fox Business. Separately, "Fake Polls" is Trump's own capitalized relabeling; Roberts' word was "psyop," and he named Charlie Cook and the Cook Political Report rather than dismissing polling as a category. The substance is the same argument, but the quoted framing is Trump's, not Roberts'. |
| "Polls showing Republican difficulty heading into the midterms are fake" | **False** | His approval rating in late September 2026 stood at or near the low point of his second term across independent pollsters, and the president's party has lost House seats in nearly every modern midterm. No evidence supports the claim that the surveys are fabricated; the post cites no number, pollster, or methodological objection. |
| "'I won most of these places, often by a landslide'" | **Half True** | He carried 31 states in 2024, several by margins above thirty points, so the claim holds for solidly Republican terrain. The national result was a 1.5-point popular-vote plurality (roughly 49.8 to 48.3 percent), and the districts that decide House control are largely ones he won narrowly or lost. 'Landslide' does not describe the 2024 outcome overall. |
| "'I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected'" | **Half True** | This is a forward-looking pledge, but it splits cleanly into a documented half and a half that contemporaneous reporting contradicts.

What is supported. The spending is real and was already in motion when the post was written. On September 4, 2026, Trump publicly said he planned to spend $400 million to $500 million from his political operation to help Republicans. MAGA Inc. ended August with roughly $415.8 million on hand, with the broader Trump-aligned operation reported at around $850 million. Two super PACs created on September 1, No Going Back PAC Inc. and Safety & Affordability PAC Inc., had reserved roughly $126 million to $150 million in advertising by mid-September per AdImpact data and federal filings (about $98.5 million from No Going Back, $27 million from Safety & Affordability). No Going Back shares a treasurer, address, and phone number with MAGA Inc., and Safety & Affordability is financially backed by MAGA Inc. Disclosed buys include roughly $15 million in Texas since early September, $19.7 million in the Michigan Senate race, $14 million in Ohio, $10 million in New Hampshire, $6.8 million in Florida's 25th District, $4.5 million in Maine's 2nd District, and $3.4 million in New York's 17th. The "out there" part holds too: Trump rallied in Gastonia, North Carolina on September 16, his advisers including chief of staff Susie Wiles built an October calendar putting him on the trail most days, and rallies were scheduled for Durant, Oklahoma on October 1 and Mobile, Alabama on October 2.

What is contradicted. "Every one of them" does not survive the record. First, the support is selective by design: Bloomberg Government found the two PACs targeting battleground House and Senate races across more than a dozen states plus safe Republican territory, with strategists framing the safe-seat buys as hedges against redistricting and a shifting environment rather than universal candidate support, explicitly leaving candidates room "to decide how much distance they want between themselves and the president." No Going Back put two-thirds of its reservations on Senate races; Safety & Affordability booked 15 House races. Second, CNBC reported on September 21, a week before the post, that much of the promised spending still had not surfaced: MAGA Inc. spent only about $825,000 in August, all of it on a single South Carolina primary rather than any general-election race. Republicans in competitive races described it as a bait-and-switch; one vulnerable House Republican recalled being told "Don't worry, you're gonna have plenty of air cover," and another said "commitments were made over the last year and a half that people would be helped, and they're not showing up." Senate Majority Leader John Thune publicly pressed the operation to deploy funds. Some Republicans speculated the money was being held for future legal costs or 2028. Third, the operation has spent heavily against a sitting Republican: MAGA KY, formed by Trump campaign advisers, spent about $7.4 million on attack ads against Rep. Thomas Massie over nearly a year, helping Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein beat him by 10 points in the May 2026 primary, the most expensive House primary in history at $37 million. Fourth, Trump has withheld endorsements from Republicans his party wanted him to back, including remaining uncommitted on John Cornyn in Texas despite lobbying from Senate GOP leadership, and declining to endorse a Republican alternative in Georgia preferred by the state's governor.

The closest available test of the exact promise. Trump made a near-identical companion pledge, quoted by PBS News: "It's all about 35 races. I'm going to go to every one of those 35 places and we're going to see if we can get everyone elected." PBS documented that he instead opened his October schedule in Alabama and Oklahoma, two of the most Republican states in the country, rather than the competitive districts he had named. That is the same "every one of them" formulation, already measurably unmet on the travel side.

So the money and the campaigning are genuine and verifiable; the claim of universal support for every Republican is not borne out by either prior practice or the spending pattern in force the week the post was written. |

Overall Veracity: 56%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Self-interrupting appositive stacked mid-title: 'Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation & Heritage Action President, and also, a fabulous guy, was fantastic'
- Real-time reaction to a cable segment he had just watched ('on FoxNews this morning')
- Idiosyncratic capitalization of common nouns: 'Fake Polls', 'Midterms', 'your Borders'
- Comma splice in 'I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected'
- Adverb placement typical of his dictation habits: 'allow crime to again flourish'

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 85%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** patron and proxy candidate — the figure who funds, campaigns, and stands in for every name on the ballot
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** an unnamed 'them' who would 'open your Borders, and allow crime to again flourish', paired with the pollsters whose output is filed as 'Fake Polls'

**Identity Claims:**
- 'I won most of these places, often by a landslide'
- 'I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected'
- 'pretend I am on the ballot' — the election's true subject regardless of the printed names
- 'KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!!' — custodian of a condition already achieved

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (unfavorable approval and midterm polling, reframed as 'Fake Polls' via a Fox News surrogate segment)

Sentiment: +0.15

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Sixth post of the morning before 8 a.m. local time
- Expansive open-ended commitment: funding and campaigning for 'every one of them'
- Terminal all-caps slogan with triple exclamation
- Confident pre-declaration of a midterm result against current polling

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address to the base as a single addressee ('MAGA', 'your Borders')
- An explicit request for imaginative substitution that converts a vote for a stranger into a personal transaction with him
- Shared-media-diet framing that presumes the audience watched the same morning segment
- Patronage promise creating obligation in both directions: 'I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected'
- Personal seal 'President DJT' closing what is formally a party appeal

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'Fake Polls' capitalized into a standing category that disposes of unfavorable survey data without engaging any specific number or pollster
- 'often by a landslide' restating a 1.5-point popular-vote plurality as a rout
- Attribution of the poll-denial claim to a surrogate ('was fantastic on FoxNews this morning') so it arrives as reported consensus rather than assertion

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-29._

> Kevin Roberts is president of both the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action

**TRUE**

Roberts has led the Heritage Foundation since December 2021 and concurrently heads its affiliated advocacy arm, Heritage Action for America, a dual title he has carried throughout his tenure.

> Roberts appeared on Fox News that morning discussing 'Fake Polls' and Republican midterm prospects

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The appearance is confirmed, dated, and matches the post's timing almost exactly; the only inaccuracy is the network name.

The segment: Kevin Roberts appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings with Fox Business" on Monday, September 28, 2026, in an interview with host Cheryl Casone. Fox Business' own video archive carries the clip under the title "Kevin Roberts on midterm predictions: House is a 'jump ball'" (video ID 6405739571112), described as the Heritage Foundation president analyzing the political landscape ahead of the midterms, covering Cook Political Report forecasts of Democratic House gains, conservative voter turnout, and swing-state Democrats distancing themselves from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The content matches Trump's characterization of the topic. Media Matters transcribed Roberts saying: "I think that this prognosticating is a psyop by so many of these polling firms in order to do what, to depress conservative turnout." On Republican midterm prospects he said he was "old enough to remember so many times that Charlie Cook and the chattering class in Washington have been wrong," that Cook was "outrageously wrong" on the Senate map, that "the Senate is not going to flip" while "the House is a jump ball," and that Republicans have "legitimate pickup opportunities in places you wouldn't expect, Cheryl: New Hampshire, Michigan, Minnesota." The exchange was prompted by Casone asking about Charlie Cook's Sunday prediction that Democrats would likely retake the House with a "very realistic" shot at the Senate. So both halves of the stated topic, polling skepticism and Republican midterm prospects, are confirmed.

Timing corroborates "this morning." The post's own timestamp in the trump.fm archive is 2026-09-28T11:50:59Z, which is 7:50 a.m. Eastern on the same day the segment aired, consistent with a real-time reaction to a morning-block Fox Business interview.

Independent corroboration spans the ideological spectrum: Media Matters covered it in two separate pieces dated 9/28/26 (one a standalone item on Roberts, one a roundup of right-wing figures calling midterm polls a "psyop," which also logged Steve Bannon on Real America's Voice the same day and Newsmax's Rob Finnerty on 9/25/26); Heritage's own outlet The Daily Signal published a same-day story reporting Roberts appeared on Fox Business Monday morning and quoting Trump's post back; and the progressive blog Joe.My.God. posted the video clip the same day. Fox Business hosts the primary video itself.

Why this is not rated fully true: Roberts was on Fox Business Network, a separate cable channel from Fox News Channel, though both are Fox Corporation properties. Every source that names the network, including Heritage's own Daily Signal, says Fox Business. Separately, "Fake Polls" is Trump's own capitalized relabeling; Roberts' word was "psyop," and he named Charlie Cook and the Cook Political Report rather than dismissing polling as a category. The substance is the same argument, but the quoted framing is Trump's, not Roberts'.

Sources: https://www.mediamatters.org/kevin-roberts/heritage-foundation-president-kevin-roberts-tells-fox-midterm-election-polling-psyop; https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/psyop-right-wing-media-figures-claiming-midterm-polls-are-designed-suppress; https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6405739571112; https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/09/28/trump-praises-heritage-president/; https://www.joemygod.com/2026/09/heritage-president-election-polls-are-psyop-video/; https://www.foxbusiness.com/shows/mornings-with-fox-business; https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42015

> Polls showing Republican difficulty heading into the midterms are fake

**FALSE**

His approval rating in late September 2026 stood at or near the low point of his second term across independent pollsters, and the president's party has lost House seats in nearly every modern midterm. No evidence supports the claim that the surveys are fabricated; the post cites no number, pollster, or methodological objection.

> 'I won most of these places, often by a landslide'

**HALF TRUE**

He carried 31 states in 2024, several by margins above thirty points, so the claim holds for solidly Republican terrain. The national result was a 1.5-point popular-vote plurality (roughly 49.8 to 48.3 percent), and the districts that decide House control are largely ones he won narrowly or lost. 'Landslide' does not describe the 2024 outcome overall.

> 'I'll be out there spending money, and helping every one of them get elected'

**HALF TRUE**

This is a forward-looking pledge, but it splits cleanly into a documented half and a half that contemporaneous reporting contradicts.

What is supported. The spending is real and was already in motion when the post was written. On September 4, 2026, Trump publicly said he planned to spend $400 million to $500 million from his political operation to help Republicans. MAGA Inc. ended August with roughly $415.8 million on hand, with the broader Trump-aligned operation reported at around $850 million. Two super PACs created on September 1, No Going Back PAC Inc. and Safety & Affordability PAC Inc., had reserved roughly $126 million to $150 million in advertising by mid-September per AdImpact data and federal filings (about $98.5 million from No Going Back, $27 million from Safety & Affordability). No Going Back shares a treasurer, address, and phone number with MAGA Inc., and Safety & Affordability is financially backed by MAGA Inc. Disclosed buys include roughly $15 million in Texas since early September, $19.7 million in the Michigan Senate race, $14 million in Ohio, $10 million in New Hampshire, $6.8 million in Florida's 25th District, $4.5 million in Maine's 2nd District, and $3.4 million in New York's 17th. The "out there" part holds too: Trump rallied in Gastonia, North Carolina on September 16, his advisers including chief of staff Susie Wiles built an October calendar putting him on the trail most days, and rallies were scheduled for Durant, Oklahoma on October 1 and Mobile, Alabama on October 2.

What is contradicted. "Every one of them" does not survive the record. First, the support is selective by design: Bloomberg Government found the two PACs targeting battleground House and Senate races across more than a dozen states plus safe Republican territory, with strategists framing the safe-seat buys as hedges against redistricting and a shifting environment rather than universal candidate support, explicitly leaving candidates room "to decide how much distance they want between themselves and the president." No Going Back put two-thirds of its reservations on Senate races; Safety & Affordability booked 15 House races. Second, CNBC reported on September 21, a week before the post, that much of the promised spending still had not surfaced: MAGA Inc. spent only about $825,000 in August, all of it on a single South Carolina primary rather than any general-election race. Republicans in competitive races described it as a bait-and-switch; one vulnerable House Republican recalled being told "Don't worry, you're gonna have plenty of air cover," and another said "commitments were made over the last year and a half that people would be helped, and they're not showing up." Senate Majority Leader John Thune publicly pressed the operation to deploy funds. Some Republicans speculated the money was being held for future legal costs or 2028. Third, the operation has spent heavily against a sitting Republican: MAGA KY, formed by Trump campaign advisers, spent about $7.4 million on attack ads against Rep. Thomas Massie over nearly a year, helping Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein beat him by 10 points in the May 2026 primary, the most expensive House primary in history at $37 million. Fourth, Trump has withheld endorsements from Republicans his party wanted him to back, including remaining uncommitted on John Cornyn in Texas despite lobbying from Senate GOP leadership, and declining to endorse a Republican alternative in Georgia preferred by the state's governor.

The closest available test of the exact promise. Trump made a near-identical companion pledge, quoted by PBS News: "It's all about 35 races. I'm going to go to every one of those 35 places and we're going to see if we can get everyone elected." PBS documented that he instead opened his October schedule in Alabama and Oklahoma, two of the most Republican states in the country, rather than the competitive districts he had named. That is the same "every one of them" formulation, already measurably unmet on the travel side.

So the money and the campaigning are genuine and verifiable; the claim of universal support for every Republican is not borne out by either prior practice or the spending pattern in force the week the post was written.

Sources: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/trump-maga-inc-500-million-republicans-midterm-elections.html; https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/trump-maga-midterm-spending-war-chest.html; https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-election-ad-spend-maga-inc.html; https://www.ms.now/news/trump-maga-inc-midterms-republicans; https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trump-aligned-super-pacs-spend-in-safe-seats-plus-toss-ups; https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5971202/trump-super-pac-midterm-spending-republicans-democrats; https://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/g-s1-142192/trump-super-pac-midterms-spending; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-promised-to-campaign-in-midterm-battlegrounds-hes-starting-in-deep-red-states-instead; https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-07-17/a-record-shattering-37m-was-spent-on-kentuckys-massie-gallrein-race-heres-who-funded-it; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/rep-thomas-massie-confronts-full-force-trumps-wrath-republican-primary-rcna345257; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-aligned-super-pac-ads-spend-10-million-texas-senate-race-paxton-rcna596261; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-400-million-war-chest-how-will-he-spend-it/; https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4460164/trump-endorsement-tracker-gop-2026-election-primaries/; https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/trump-strategy-republicans-midterms; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_rallies_(2025%E2%80%93present)

Overall Veracity: 56%

## Tags

- denial (80%)
- distortion (70%)
- surrogate_testimonial (75%)
- fear_appeal (60%)
- patron_kingmaker (80%)
- power_retention (85%)
- imaginative_substitution_request (90%)
- fake_polls_frame (85%)
- morning_tv_reaction (90%)
- midterm_as_referendum_on_self (85%)

## That day

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**Trump calls Axios's Iran sanctions-relief story a hoax, a day after talking to Axios himself**

Trump spent Sunday at the Presidents Cup outside Chicago. Late that night his account posted a batch of clips from it: his arrival, a short speech in which he got ahead of any reports of a bad reception, and the winning captain giving him credit for the win. Monday morning was about the midterms and television, with links on noncitizen voting and a Supreme Court win, a call for supporters to "pretend I am on the ballot," and ratings jabs at Bill Maher and Joe Scarborough. After a long quiet afternoon, an Axios report that he had offered Iran sanctions relief and frozen funds drew the day's only angry post. He said he offered "NOTHING," called the story a hoax and demanded it be pulled, a day after giving Axios an interview himself, and nothing he posted touched the government funding deadline two days away.

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