# Post x_1173706388960239600 - Post ID: `x_1173706388960239600` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2019-09-17T01:13:04.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1173706388960239600 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1173706388960239600/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1173706388960239600.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “How many stories are wrong? Almost all of the stories the New York Times has done are inaccurate and wrong.” @greggutfeld The New York Times should close its doors and throw away the keys. The women mentioned in the Kavanaugh story said she didn’t even remember the event. ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 12,599 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.056Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-18T11:38:14.443Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post is triggered by the NYT's documented journalistic failure in its Kavanaugh coverage — an omission providing Trump a legitimately defensible hook for institutional attack. Operating from a grandiose-aggressive narcissistic state consistent with post-rally elevation after a high-stimulation day, Trump converts a specific editorial error into sweeping delegitimization via splitting and false generalization, culminating in an elimination prescription: the NYT "should close its doors and throw away the keys." Defense mechanism profile: splitting (NYT categorically all-bad), rationalization (one error justifies institutional closure), and projection (low-accuracy accuser charges institution with near-total inaccuracy). The call for institutional closure represents escalated eliminationist rhetoric in the ongoing press-targeting pattern, warranting elevated danger classification. Authorship is medium-high confident authentic: 9:13 PM EDT timing, syntactic error ("women...said she"), and Fox News consumption-to-amplification structure are all consistent with documented authentic Trump posting behavior. No cognitive deterioration from baseline. The post is clinically significant as an instance of the documented pattern of using legitimate grievances as rhetorical Trojan horses for disproportionate institutional delegitimization, with rage intensity markedly disproportionate (0.72 intensity, 0.15 proportionality) to the triggering event. ## Post Analysis: 2019-09-17 | NYT/Kavanaugh Institutional Attack ### Context & Timing Posted at 01:13 UTC = **9:13 PM EDT, September 16, 2019**. Trump had delivered a New Mexico campaign rally that same evening and presented Mariano Rivera the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier that day — a high-stimulation day bookended by two high-ego events. The NYT had just published new Brett Kavanaugh sexual misconduct allegations while omitting the critical fact that the alleged victim had no recollection of the incident — a significant journalistic failure that was corrected post-publication and confirmed by the known events record. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time: 9:13 PM EDT** falls squarely within the late-evening window consistent with authentic Trump posting behavior. Multiple stylistic markers corroborate authenticity: - Grammatical mismatch: "The **women** mentioned...said **she**" (plural subject, singular pronoun) — characteristic Trump syntax error - Structure mirrors his authentic media consumption loop: consume Fox News → absorb Gutfeld's framing → amplify with personal escalation - Rhetorical cadence escalates organically from quoted source to personal institutional call-to-close — unpolished enough to be organic - The absence of formal scheduling language or event promotion content rules out aide-written maintenance posts **Confidence: Medium-high for authentic Trump.** --- ### Trigger Analysis A compound trigger is evident: 1. **Narcissistic injury by proxy**: The Kavanaugh allegation attacks a Trump Supreme Court appointment — a legacy-level achievement Trump fought hard for during a bruising confirmation battle. An attack on Kavanaugh is effectively an attack on Trump's judgment and power. 2. **Media grievance maintenance**: The NYT's documented journalistic failure (omitting victim's lack of recollection) handed Trump a factually defensible hook from which to mount a sweeping delegitimization. This is an opportunistic exploitation of a legitimate error. 3. **Rally-state momentum**: A 95-minute New Mexico rally earlier in the evening likely left Trump in a heightened, expansive state — consistent with the escalating rhetoric here. --- ### Psychological State **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** The post is expansive, confident, and aggressive rather than wounded or defensive. Trump adopts a superior epistemological position ("How many stories are wrong? Almost all") — casting himself as a truth-detection authority over a major institution. The call to "close its doors and throw away the keys" signals not victimhood but dominance — the desire to eliminate, not merely rebut. This is characteristic grandiose-aggressive mode rather than the vulnerable-martyr mode seen in posts responding more directly to personal attack. The use of a Fox News personality as a ventriloquist device (quote @greggutfeld, then amplify) is a recurring authentic Trump pattern: outsourcing the initial claim to a friendly authority and then escalating it with his own voice, providing structural plausible deniability while maximizing rhetorical force. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Splitting (immature):** The NYT's single documented error is treated as representative of their entire output. "Almost all of the stories" is not a calibrated empirical claim — it is affective splitting: the NYT is all-bad, their work is entirely invalid. No nuance is permitted. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The legitimate journalistic failure (omission of key exculpatory detail) is converted into pseudo-logical grounds for sweeping institutional dismissal. The logic is: one error proves systemic dishonesty, therefore closure is warranted. The reasoning appears coherent on its surface while concealing motivated aggression. **Projection (immature):** Trump — whose public factual accuracy rate has been extensively documented as low — accuses the NYT of near-total inaccuracy. The charge of systematic falsehood maps precisely onto the documented behavior of the accuser. --- ### Rhetorical Structure The post deploys a **three-stage cascade:** 1. **Authority laundering**: Open with a Fox News personality quote to pre-validate the claim within the in-group epistemic framework 2. **Escalation and elimination**: Amplify from "many stories are wrong" to existential prescription: "should close its doors and throw away the keys" — a maximalist response to what a neutral observer would treat as a correction-worthy journalistic error 3. **Specific fact as rhetorical closure**: Deploy the victim's lack of recollection as the coup de grâce — technically accurate in the narrow sense (the specific individual reportedly had no memory of the incident) but misleading about the overall evidentiary picture (a separate named witness, Max Stier, made the allegation; victim's lack of recollection is one evidentiary problem, not a full exoneration) **False generalization** is the primary propaganda technique: one error → total institutional unreliability → institutional elimination. This follows the RAND Firehose model's "volume over verification" approach — the goal is not persuasion by logic but saturation of the audience with delegitimizing claims. --- ### Danger Assessment The phrase "should close its doors and throw away the keys" directed at a major press institution constitutes **anti-press eliminationist rhetoric**. While no violent language targets individuals, repeated presidential calls for closure of specific media outlets create a cumulative chilling effect on press freedom and normalize the elimination of critical institutions as a legitimate political goal. In the broader pattern of Trump's media targeting (labeling press "enemy of the people," "fake news," etc.), this post represents an incremental escalation: not merely inaccurate but *deserving of closure*. **Danger level: Elevated.** --- ### Cognitive Status No significant deviations from Trump's established baseline. The grammatical mismatch ("women...said she") is consistent with his documented speech pattern of pronoun-antecedent agreement errors and does not constitute a new cognitive marker. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with 2018–2020 baseline. No word-finding pauses, tangentiality, or temporal confusion detected. **Baseline deviation: None.** --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Almost all of the stories the New York Times has done are inaccurate and wrong" | **False** | No credible methodological evidence supports near-total NYT inaccuracy. While the NYT made a documented editorial omission in the Kavanaugh piece, sweeping generalization from a single error to 'almost all' stories is not empirically supportable. The NYT has a documented correction process and journalistic standards. This is affective hyperbole serving rhetorical delegitimization rather than empirical observation. | | "The women mentioned in the Kavanaugh story said she didn't even remember the event" | **Mostly True** | The NYT's piece on new Kavanaugh allegations by Max Stier initially omitted the critical exculpatory detail that the alleged victim reportedly had no recollection of the incident — confirmed by the historian event record as a significant editorial failure later corrected. Trump's use of plural 'women' for a single individual is a grammatical error. The factual core of the claim is accurate; the omission was real and significant. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - 9:13 PM EDT timing within authentic late-evening window - Grammatical mismatch 'women...said she' consistent with authentic Trump syntax errors - Fox News consumption-to-amplification structure (quote Gutfeld, then personally escalate) - Escalating rhetorical cadence without polished aide formatting - No event scheduling or formal announcement language ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (NYT Kavanaugh coverage attacking Trump Supreme Court legacy appointment; legitimate NYT journalistic error providing opportunistic hook) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting New York Times - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.84 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Post-rally elevated state consistent with heightened activity day (medal ceremony + rally) - Escalating rhetorical energy from quoted claim to institutional elimination call ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 52% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 38% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Fox News personality quote as in-group authority validation (Gutfeld) - Rally audience emotional state transferred to social media audience via shared grievance framing - Invitation to join institutional condemnation as group membership signal ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Eliminationist rhetoric toward press institution: 'should close its doors and throw away the keys' - Cumulative pattern of presidential delegitimization of named media outlets - Normalization of institutional elimination as political prescription - No violent language targeting individuals but anti-press rhetoric consistent with 'enemy of the people' pattern ### Gaslighting - Using NYT's legitimate single error to delegitimize entirety of institutional output - Final sentence deploys victim's lack of recollection as rhetorical closure suggesting fabrication, while omitting that a named witness (Max Stier) made the allegation independently - Framing 'almost all stories wrong' as established fact rather than assertion ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-18._ > Almost all of the stories the New York Times has done are inaccurate and wrong **FALSE** No credible methodological evidence supports near-total NYT inaccuracy. While the NYT made a documented editorial omission in the Kavanaugh piece, sweeping generalization from a single error to 'almost all' stories is not empirically supportable. The NYT has a documented correction process and journalistic standards. This is affective hyperbole serving rhetorical delegitimization rather than empirical observation. Sources: General knowledge of NYT editorial standards; Historian-provided event record confirming specific NYT omission > The women mentioned in the Kavanaugh story said she didn't even remember the event **MOSTLY TRUE** The NYT's piece on new Kavanaugh allegations by Max Stier initially omitted the critical exculpatory detail that the alleged victim reportedly had no recollection of the incident — confirmed by the historian event record as a significant editorial failure later corrected. Trump's use of plural 'women' for a single individual is a grammatical error. The factual core of the claim is accurate; the omission was real and significant. Sources: Historian-provided event: 'NYT Publishes Kavanaugh Allegations - omitted that the alleged victim had no recollection' Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - anti-press (85%) - media-attack (92%) - kavanaugh-defense (78%) - nyt-target (95%) - eliminationist-rhetoric (75%) - splitting (88%) - false-generalization (82%) - fox-news-amplification (72%) - grandiose-state (80%) - institutional-attack (90%) - authentic-trump (78%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **NYT Kavanaugh Story Triggers Sustained Institutional Rage That Bookends a New Mexico Rally** Trump spent the day ricocheting between attacking the New York Times over its flawed Kavanaugh story and basking in the glow of a large campaign rally in New Mexico. The evening began with escalating demands that the NYT shut its doors and staff resign, fueled by a legitimate editorial omission the paper had made. A successful rally in Rio Rancho temporarily calmed things, producing effusive patriotic rhetoric, but by afternoon the NYT attacks resumed at a slightly lower boil. The day's emotional throughline was a grievance that kept resurfacing despite the high of a packed arena — the Kavanaugh wound clearly cutting deeper than the rally could heal. Full digest for 2019-09-17: https://trump.fm/date/2019-09-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, September 17). “How many stories are wrong? Almost all of the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1173706388960239600 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“How many stories are wrong? Almost all of the stories the..." X (Twitter), 17 Sep. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1173706388960239600. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“How many stories are wrong? 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