# Post x_1140065304019644400

- Post ID: `x_1140065304019644400`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2019-06-16T05:15:24.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1140065304019644400
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1140065304019644400/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1140065304019644400.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> .....ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our Corrupt News Media today. They will do, or say, whatever it takes, with not even the slightest thought of consequence! These are true cowards and without doubt, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 15,950
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.063Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T04:06:48.290Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 1:15 AM EDT — authentic Trump, late-night emotional venting. Follows dual narcissistic injury: NYT story on U.S. cyber operations (already called "treason" in preceding tweet) and media coverage of ABC interview in which Trump admitted willingness to accept foreign campaign intelligence. The post employs a classic DARVO structure — Deny ("NOT TRUE!"), Attack ("cowards," "corrupt"), Reverse Victim and Offender (journalists recast as enemies; Trump recast as truth's defender). Defense profile includes splitting (media uniformly corrupt, no exceptions), projection ("no thought of consequence" applied to those reporting his own consequence-laden statements), and pathological denial unanchored to any specific contested claim. The rhetorical apex, "THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" in ALL CAPS, is the most historically freighted phrase in Trump's lexicon — a Leninist formulation classifying journalists not as adversaries but as existential threats. This functions as stochastic terrorism: target (media as class) + grievance (corrupt cowards) + implied legitimacy of hostile response. Narcissistic state is mixed: grandiose warrior posture layered over vulnerability triggered by exposure. Cognitive markers show no significant baseline deviation. Danger level is elevated: no explicit incitement, but the cumulative deployment of this specific phrase correlates empirically with heightened threats against journalists.

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at 05:15 UTC on June 16, 2019. Trump was almost certainly in Washington, D.C. (White House), having just completed the extended ABC interview with Stephanopoulos. EDT = UTC−4, placing this post at **1:15 AM local time** — squarely within the authentic Trump late-night posting window. The leading ellipsis sequence (`.....ALSO`) marks this as a continuation tweet in an active thread. The raw emotional register, ALL CAPS climax, stream-of-consciousness flow, and absence of polished transitions all confirm authentic Trump authorship with high confidence.

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## Contextual Trigger

This post sits at the intersection of two simultaneous narcissistic injuries:
1. **The NYT cyber-attack story**: Trump had already called this "a virtual act of Treason" in a preceding tweet. The `.....ALSO, NOT TRUE!` opener appears to be a second volley in that thread.
2. **ABC interview coverage**: Trump expressed displeasure with how media was "dissecting and distorting" his Stephanopoulos interview, in which he acknowledged he would accept foreign opposition research — a statement producing bipartisan criticism.

Both injuries share a structure: Trump makes or is associated with a damaging disclosure, then attempts to discredit the reporting apparatus itself rather than address the substance.

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## Psychological Analysis

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits
The post loads heavily on **Neuroticism** (angry hostility, impulsiveness), extreme **low Agreeableness** (contempt, devaluation, aggression), and asserts high **Extraversion** through assertive, dominant tone. No evidence of Conscientiousness (deliberation, restraint). The rigidity of framing reflects very low Openness to alternative interpretation.

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Dominant motive is **power/agency**: the post seeks to destroy the epistemic authority of critical media. Communion is entirely absent. The schema at work is bifurcated: self = truth-bearing fighter; media = corrupt, cowardly enemy. The word "cowards" is significant — it is a dominance challenge, inverting the power dynamic by framing truth-tellers as weak.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: warrior-fighter against corrupt establishment
- **Contamination sequence**: legitimate reporting → corrupt distortion by enemies
- **Identity claims**: "I am the truth; they are the lie"
- **Contrasting other**: "Corrupt News Media" / "cowards" / "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE"
- No redemption arc offered; pure contamination narrative

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## Defense Mechanisms

- **Splitting** (immature): Media is uniformly, absolutely corrupt and cowardly — no gradation permitted. "Anything goes" and "whatever it takes" are totalizing constructions leaving no room for partial legitimacy.
- **Projection** (immature): The accusation of operating "with not even the slightest thought of consequence" is textbook projection. Trump had just admitted on ABC he would accept foreign electoral interference — a statement with profound consequences he appears to be deflecting.
- **Denial** (pathological): "NOT TRUE!" asserted without elaboration or specification of the claim being denied.
- **Delusional projection** (pathological, borderline): Classifying all critical journalism as deliberate enemy action exceeds normal suspicion and enters persecutory framing.

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## Narcissistic Dynamics

**State**: Mixed — simultaneously grandiose (righteous warrior naming enemies) and vulnerable (persecuted, unfairly targeted).

**Trigger**: Dual narcissistic injury — NYT story and media handling of the foreign-dirt admission.

**Rage**: Present, intensity ~0.78. The response is disproportionate: it pathologizes an entire profession rather than contesting specific claims. The pivot from content-dispute to wholesale character assassination of journalists is the rage marker.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Dehumanization**: "cowards" reduces journalists from adversaries to contemptible objects
- **Enemy of the people** (Leninist/Stalinist phrase): historically the most dangerous rhetorical move in this repertoire — classifying a group not merely as wrong, but as existential threats deserving consequences
- **ALL CAPS**: performative intensity, collective mobilization signal
- **RAND Firehose element**: high-volume assertion without evidence
- **Epistemic closure mechanism**: accusation pre-immunizes followers against any critical reporting

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The post exemplifies **DARVO**: Deny ("NOT TRUE!"), Attack ("cowards," "corrupt"), Reverse Victim and Offender (journalists who report factually recast as enemies; Trump, who admitted receptiveness to foreign interference, recast as aggrieved truth-defender).

Epistemic closure is operationally enforced: accepting media reports becomes coded as disloyalty.

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## Danger Assessment

"ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" directed at journalists as a class meets the threshold for **stochastic terrorism pattern**:
1. **Target identified**: journalists as a professional class
2. **Grievance articulated**: corrupt, cowardly, consequence-free liars
3. **Status assigned**: not merely wrong but enemy — connoting deserved consequences

Rated **elevated**: no explicit incitement appears, but the cumulative deployment of this specific phrase correlates empirically with documented threats against news organizations and reporters.

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## Cognitive Status

No notable word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality beyond Trump's established baseline. Syntax is simple but coherent. The emotional escalation pattern (building to ALL CAPS climax) is stylistically consistent with prior authenticated posts. No clinically significant deviation from baseline cognitive markers at this date.

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## Archetypal & Order/Chaos Analysis

**Archetypal mode**: Warrior + Shadow projection. The "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" framing invokes the collective Shadow — the disowned, dangerous Other that must be expelled for the community to be whole. Trump positions himself as the one who names and confronts this Shadow, generating potent parasocial identification among followers who feel similarly "lied to."

**Order/Chaos positioning**: Order attacker (targeting institutional press as corrupt order) + Order restorer (promising reality free of media distortion). This double positioning — chaos agent who promises order — is the defining rhetorical structure of the populist outsider archetype.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Implicit claim that media reporting on the ABC interview was fabricated or distorted ('NOT TRUE!')" | **Unverifiable** | The denial is unanchored — no specific claim is named. Trump's ABC statement about accepting foreign opposition research was recorded and aired; contemporaneous fact-checkers confirmed the quote was accurately reported. |
| "News media acts 'without the slightest thought of consequence'" | **Mostly False** | Major news organizations operate under legal, editorial, and reputational accountability structures including defamation liability. The claim is characterization not fact, but factually false as a description of how professional journalism operates. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 1:15 AM EDT — late-night posting consistent with authentic Trump window
- Leading ellipsis continuation (.....ALSO) indicating active emotional thread
- ALL CAPS climax ('THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE')
- Stream-of-consciousness escalation structure
- Absence of polished syntax or professional formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NYT reporting on U.S. cyber operations framing Trump as excluded from briefings; media coverage of ABC interview in which Trump admitted willingness to accept foreign opposition research)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting journalists and the press corps as a professional class
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.88

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 1:15 AM active posting
- Emotional escalation to ALL CAPS climax within short text fragment
- Thread continuation suggesting sustained high-activation state across multiple posts in rapid sequence

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 55%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- delusional projection (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective threat framing ('our Corrupt News Media') — audience positioned as co-victims
- Epistemic closure: accepting press reports coded as group disloyalty
- Enemy-naming ritual: followers rewarded for rejecting disconfirming information

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE' in ALL CAPS — historically the most dangerous phrase in Trump's rhetorical repertoire; associated with documented threats against journalists following use
- Dehumanization ('true cowards') immediately preceding enemy-classification — structurally preparatory step
- No specific claim contested — the attack is categorical, covering all critical journalism
- Eliminationist framing: enemies of the people are, by implication, deserving of removal from public life

### Gaslighting

- Preemptive global discrediting of media ('Corrupt News Media') before followers encounter specific reporting
- DARVO structure: Deny (NOT TRUE), Attack (cowards, corrupt), Reverse Victim-Offender (Trump as persecuted truth-teller, press as enemy)
- Epistemic closure enforcement: classifying all critical coverage as enemy action leaves no legitimate channel for disconfirming information

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> Implicit claim that media reporting on the ABC interview was fabricated or distorted ('NOT TRUE!')

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The denial is unanchored — no specific claim is named. Trump's ABC statement about accepting foreign opposition research was recorded and aired; contemporaneous fact-checkers confirmed the quote was accurately reported.

Sources: ABC News broadcast record; contemporaneous news coverage

> News media acts 'without the slightest thought of consequence'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Major news organizations operate under legal, editorial, and reputational accountability structures including defamation liability. The claim is characterization not fact, but factually false as a description of how professional journalism operates.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- enemy-of-the-people (100%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (90%)
- media-attacks (95%)
- stochastic-terrorism (75%)
- DARVO (85%)
- late-night-authentic (88%)
- dehumanization (80%)
- epistemic-closure (85%)
- splitting (82%)
- projection (78%)

## That day

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

**Father's Day Siege: Late-Night Rage Spiral Gives Way to Grandiose Reality Management Across 20-Post Blitz**

Trump spent Father's Day juggling multiple fires — fallout from his ABC interview admission about accepting foreign dirt, a New York Times report on U.S. cyber operations against Russia, leaked internal polls showing him trailing Biden, and leftover resentment toward London's mayor. The day opened with a late-night rage session labeling the Times "treasonous" and the press "the Enemy of the People," then shifted into a long stretch of self-congratulatory spin dismissing impeachment rallies and promoting his economic record. Even his Father's Day greeting couldn't resist a jab at critics. The overall mood was defensive grandiosity — a man insisting everything is fantastic while clearly rattled by the week's accumulating bad news.

Full digest for 2019-06-16: https://trump.fm/date/2019-06-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, June 16). .....ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1140065304019644400
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ".....ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our Corrupt News..." X (Twitter), 16 Jun. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1140065304019644400. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ".....ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our Corrupt News...," X (Twitter), June 16, 2019, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1140065304019644400.

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