# Post ts_117502572828225324 - Post ID: `ts_117502572828225324` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-25T16:49:33.086Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117502572828225324 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117502572828225324/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117502572828225324.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > FoxNews is spending far too much time putting on the OPPONENTS of Republican Party Candidates, people that love our Country, and have Great Policies and Ideas. These American Patriots are being absolutely “blurred out” by the Media, and Fox is doing little to help. That’s the only reason this Race is close, if it is indeed close. President DONALD J. TRUMP ## Engagement - Likes: 16,041 - Reposts: 4,319 - Replies: 2,122 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-11-01T16:02:28.685Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-25T17:04:15.772Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Nine days before the midterms, Trump blames Fox News for giving airtime to Democratic candidates and calls this "the only reason this Race is close." Then he immediately adds "if it is indeed close." The pairing gives a ready external cause for any Republican underperformance while denying there is anything to explain, so no outcome can disprove it. The target is an allied outlet, faulted as "doing little to help," which makes the post a loyalty demand. That same morning he praised a Newsmax program, ranking the two networks against each other. Other posts that morning called ranked choice voting a "SCAM" behind Murkowski's "win," and together they build a story in which setbacks come from rigged mechanisms and unhelpful media rather than from candidates or policy. The splitting is mild: Republicans are "American Patriots," and their opponents get no description. Anger stays low, with one capitalized word and no insults. A misplaced appositive briefly attaches the praise to the opponents, which is consistent with his usual syntax. This is an early, low-intensity instance of his recurring habit of blaming outside forces for election results in advance. ## Blaming the friendly network before the votes are counted The post went up at 12:49 p.m. Eastern on a Sunday, nine days before the November 3 midterms. Daylight time runs until November 1, and Washington and Mar-a-Lago are in the same zone, so the conversion holds either way. Trump faults Fox News for booking "the OPPONENTS of Republican Party Candidates" and ends on a causal claim: "That's the only reason this Race is close, if it is indeed close." That last sentence does two things at once. It names an outside cause for a weak result, then takes back the premise that the result is weak. "If it is indeed close" keeps the explanation ready without admitting the problem it explains. This is rationalization prepared before the event. If Republicans underperform, the cause has already been set as media coverage rather than candidates or policy. If they win, the hedge keeps open the claim that it was never close. No outcome can disprove the framing. ## Fox as the disloyal ally The target matters because it is friendly. Fox is not called fake or corrupt. It is "doing little to help." The complaint assumes a network's job is to help Republican candidates, and it treats booking their opponents as defection. That makes the post a loyalty demand on an allied institution, a pattern with a long record (the 2019-2020 complaints that Fox "isn't working for us anymore," and the praise for Newsmax and OANN as alternatives). The same morning he called "Rob Carson's WHAT IN THE WORLD, on NEWSMAX" "very cool," with "a certain street smarts quality." Praise for one outlet and a rebuke for the other on the same day ranks Newsmax above Fox in his media hierarchy. Displacement fits loosely here: frustration about competitive races lands on a media partner he can pressure, since he cannot pressure the electorate. Splitting shapes how he describes the candidates. Republicans are "people that love our Country, and have Great Policies and Ideas" and "American Patriots," set against unnamed "OPPONENTS" who get no description at all. The victim role goes to the candidates rather than to Trump: they are "absolutely 'blurred out' by the Media." The scare quotes around "blurred out" suggest a borrowed phrase or an image of censorship. The claim is erasure, which goes well beyond any booking imbalance. ## A morning of excuses for a loss not yet suffered Read with the morning's other posts, the Fox complaint is one of several advance explanations. Ranked Choice Voting is a "SCAM," after which Murkowski "won" (scare quotes again) when "Everyone thought she came in second or third." Obama's candidates "lost in all directions and ways." Together these build a story in which any Republican setback comes from rigged mechanisms and unhelpful media. Blaming outside forces for possible losses before an election recurs across his cycles, most fully in 2020. Today's version is milder: there is no fraud claim about the coming vote itself. The grievance carries little wounded self-reference. Trump does not cast himself as the injured party, and apart from the signature there is no self-aggrandizement. The anger is real but contained: one capitalized word ("OPPONENTS"), no insults, no named host. The remedy he wants is more airtime for his side, and nothing in the wording points toward harm to anyone. ## Voice and syntax The text reads as Trump's own. "FoxNews" is run together, capitals land on common nouns ("Race," "Candidates," "Great Policies and Ideas"), the closing hedge undercuts itself, and the post ends with the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off he puts on his personal posts. A Sunday-midday post fits a reaction to the Sunday political shows, though he names no program. One syntactic slip stands out: the appositive "people that love our Country" is meant for "Republican Party Candidates," but it comes right after "OPPONENTS," so a literal reading gives the praise to the opponents. Long appositive chains like this are part of his long-standing speaking style, and context makes the meaning clear. Nothing here departs from his baseline. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Fox News is spending far too much time putting on the opponents of Republican Party candidates" | **Mostly False** | The claim can be checked against data. This post continues a month of Trump attacks on Fox that outlets reported on Sept. 30, Oct. 4, Oct. 6 and Oct. 19, 2026. Those attacks were tied to specific bookings, and the record shows those bookings happened, but it does not support the idea that Fox is favoring the opponents. What is true: Fox did host some opponents of Republican Senate nominees. - Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed did a 25-minute one-on-one with Jesse Watters on Aug. 24. Fox said it drew nearly 3.4 million viewers, the top cable-news primetime telecast that month. - El-Sayed also appeared on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum' in early October. Trump called that a 'softball interview.' - Fox ran a long-form interview with Nebraska independent Dan Osborn, who is challenging Sen. Pete Ricketts (Newsweek via Yahoo, Oct. 6; Salon, Oct. 8). - Fox also discusses the opponents far more than the Republicans. Media Matters counted mentions on Ingraham, Watters and Hannity from Sept. 8 to Oct. 12. Democratic and independent nominees in 10 key Senate races got 473 mentions, against 154 for the Republican nominees. El-Sayed alone had 253 mentions to Mike Rogers' 57. - El-Sayed's paid ads also ran 129 times on Fox from Oct. 1 to 6 (Axios ad data). Those are purchased spots, not Fox's editorial choice. What undercuts the claim: the extra time on Democrats is mostly attack coverage, not a platform for them. - Media Matters describes the mentions as largely hostile segments on El-Sayed and Texas Democrat James Talarico, not promotion. - Guest bookings run heavily the other way. Media Matters counted 148 weekday Fox appearances in September 2026 by congressional Republicans and Trump administration officials, against 7 by congressional Democrats. - Republican Senate nominees did get on air: 7 appearances in those five weeks (5 by Rogers, 2 by Paxton). - Fox told Axios it had invited Rogers onto Watters' show and he did not respond. - Fox News Media president Jay Wallace defended the El-Sayed interview: 'Someone didn't necessarily like that. But that's what we do.' - Axios also reported that the White House and GOP operatives privately pressed Fox to cut back its El-Sayed coverage. That suggests the complaint is about a few high-profile segments, not overall airtime. Caveats: - 'Far too much' is a value judgment that no data can settle. - The counts come from Media Matters, a progressive watchdog. No independent study replicates them. - The Senate-race data stops at Oct. 12, so the 13 days before the post aren't measured. Verdict: there is a kernel of truth. Fox did book several Democratic and independent challengers and talks about them a lot. But the post's implication, that Fox is giving opponents' views more of a platform than Republicans', is contradicted by guest-booking data showing Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats on air. Most of the extra time on opponents is spent criticizing them. | | "Republican candidates are being absolutely "blurred out" by the media" | **Mostly False** | Fox's primetime and weekend opinion lineup routinely hosts Republican candidates and officials, and Trump himself gave a pre-taped Newsmax interview and held tele-rallies for candidates in the week before the post. Unequal coverage on some outlets is possible, but "absolutely blurred out" describes erasure, which goes well beyond any imbalance. | | "Fox's coverage is the only reason the race is close" | **Mostly False** | Midterm competitiveness has many documented drivers, above all the long-run tendency of the president's party to lose seats in midterms, along with presidential approval and economic conditions. Saying one network's guest booking is the sole cause has no evidentiary support. The claim also contradicts its own hedge about whether the race is close at all. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - "FoxNews" run together as one word - Capitals on common nouns: "Race," "Candidates," "Great Policies and Ideas" - Self-undercutting hedge "if it is indeed close" - Misplaced appositive attaching praise to "OPPONENTS" - "President DONALD J. TRUMP" personal sign-off ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 65% - Agreeableness: 20% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 60% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: Low trust (agreeableness), aimed at an allied institution **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Party leader and patron disciplining an ally on behalf of his candidates - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Fox News and the broader "Media"; unnamed Democratic opponents **Identity Claims:** - Champion of Republican candidates who "love our Country" - Judge of which media outlets are loyal ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Prospect of close midterm races nine days before the election; Fox airtime for Democratic candidates) **Rage:** Intensity 30% targeting Fox News - Proportionality: 40% Sentiment: -0.50 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positioning followers and candidates as a shared in-group ("American Patriots") - Inviting the audience to share his disappointment with Fox ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-10-25._ > Fox News is spending far too much time putting on the opponents of Republican Party candidates **MOSTLY FALSE** The claim can be checked against data. This post continues a month of Trump attacks on Fox that outlets reported on Sept. 30, Oct. 4, Oct. 6 and Oct. 19, 2026. Those attacks were tied to specific bookings, and the record shows those bookings happened, but it does not support the idea that Fox is favoring the opponents. What is true: Fox did host some opponents of Republican Senate nominees. - Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed did a 25-minute one-on-one with Jesse Watters on Aug. 24. Fox said it drew nearly 3.4 million viewers, the top cable-news primetime telecast that month. - El-Sayed also appeared on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum' in early October. Trump called that a 'softball interview.' - Fox ran a long-form interview with Nebraska independent Dan Osborn, who is challenging Sen. Pete Ricketts (Newsweek via Yahoo, Oct. 6; Salon, Oct. 8). - Fox also discusses the opponents far more than the Republicans. Media Matters counted mentions on Ingraham, Watters and Hannity from Sept. 8 to Oct. 12. Democratic and independent nominees in 10 key Senate races got 473 mentions, against 154 for the Republican nominees. El-Sayed alone had 253 mentions to Mike Rogers' 57. - El-Sayed's paid ads also ran 129 times on Fox from Oct. 1 to 6 (Axios ad data). Those are purchased spots, not Fox's editorial choice. What undercuts the claim: the extra time on Democrats is mostly attack coverage, not a platform for them. - Media Matters describes the mentions as largely hostile segments on El-Sayed and Texas Democrat James Talarico, not promotion. - Guest bookings run heavily the other way. Media Matters counted 148 weekday Fox appearances in September 2026 by congressional Republicans and Trump administration officials, against 7 by congressional Democrats. - Republican Senate nominees did get on air: 7 appearances in those five weeks (5 by Rogers, 2 by Paxton). - Fox told Axios it had invited Rogers onto Watters' show and he did not respond. - Fox News Media president Jay Wallace defended the El-Sayed interview: 'Someone didn't necessarily like that. But that's what we do.' - Axios also reported that the White House and GOP operatives privately pressed Fox to cut back its El-Sayed coverage. That suggests the complaint is about a few high-profile segments, not overall airtime. Caveats: - 'Far too much' is a value judgment that no data can settle. - The counts come from Media Matters, a progressive watchdog. No independent study replicates them. - The Senate-race data stops at Oct. 12, so the 13 days before the post aren't measured. Verdict: there is a kernel of truth. Fox did book several Democratic and independent challengers and talks about them a lot. But the post's implication, that Fox is giving opponents' views more of a platform than Republicans', is contradicted by guest-booking data showing Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats on air. Most of the extra time on opponents is spent criticizing them. Sources: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-rips-fox-news-over-230321807.html; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-nuclear-on-fox-news-in-seething-morning-meltdown; https://newrepublic.com/article/216445/transcript-trump-rage-fox-backfires-cringe-motive-leaks; https://newrepublic.com/post/216409/donald-trump-midterms-tantrum-abdul-el-sayed-fox-news; https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-fox-news-stars-are-covering-2026-senate-midterm-elections; https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/donald-trumps-insatiable-demand-fox-propaganda; https://www.mediamatters.org/media-matters-weekly-newsletter/media-matters-weekly-newsletter-october-23; https://www.salon.com/2026/10/08/abdul-el-sayed-is-the-democrat-who-keeps-dominating-fox-news/; https://www.axios.com/2026/10/08/trump-fox-news-tension-el-sayed; https://www.westernjournal.com/fox-news-president-issues-defiant-response-trumps-criticism/; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6131787-trump-rallies-fox-news-el-sayed-michigan-osborne-nebraska/; https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6121215-trump-attacks-fox-news-democrats/; https://www.tvinsider.com/1294306/donald-trump-lashes-out-at-fox-news-for-giving-democrats-air-time/; https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4654513/fox-news-favorite-democrat-fetterman-56-appearances/; https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/trump-fox-news-democrats-dan-osborn-abdul-el-sayed/; https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-attacks-fox-news-for-defending-dumocrats-in-early-morning-truth-social-storm-trying-too-hard-to-be-politically-correct/; https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-talarico-blames-rise-gop-extremism-prompting-his-god-non-binary-six-sexes-remarks > Republican candidates are being absolutely "blurred out" by the media **MOSTLY FALSE** Fox's primetime and weekend opinion lineup routinely hosts Republican candidates and officials, and Trump himself gave a pre-taped Newsmax interview and held tele-rallies for candidates in the week before the post. Unequal coverage on some outlets is possible, but "absolutely blurred out" describes erasure, which goes well beyond any imbalance. > Fox's coverage is the only reason the race is close **MOSTLY FALSE** Midterm competitiveness has many documented drivers, above all the long-run tendency of the president's party to lose seats in midterms, along with presidential approval and economic conditions. Saying one network's guest booking is the sole cause has no evidentiary support. The claim also contradicts its own hedge about whether the race is close at all. Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - Fox News (90%) - 2026 midterms (80%) - media loyalty (80%) - preemptive excuse (70%) - rationalization (60%) - Newsmax contrast (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump labels Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a "Jihadist" past midnight and again on his way to campaign against him** Nine days before the midterms, Trump spent Saturday night working the Senate races, and a cheerful plug for Ohio's Jon Husted turned within minutes into a furious attack on fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski. He called Alaska's ranked-choice voting a scam, cast a possible loss there as theft, named a private citizen as part of the plot, and warned that federal help to the state would stop if the seat fell. After midnight he called Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, a "Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist" with no evidence, and the next afternoon he repeated the label as he left to campaign against him. In between he blamed Fox News for making races close, then allowed they might not be close at all. The evening switched to official business in a calmer, staff-written voice, and while the Alaska anger burned out overnight, the Michigan attack came back after a night's break, which makes it look planned. Full digest for 2026-10-25: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 25). FoxNews is spending far too much time putting on... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117502572828225324 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "FoxNews is spending far too much time putting on the..." Truth Social, 25 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117502572828225324. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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