# Post x_1261270084644896800

- Post ID: `x_1261270084644896800`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-05-15T16:19:56.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering, supremely, the greatest political scandal in the history of the United States, OBAMAGATE. Fake News @CNN and Concast’s own MSDNC are only trying to make their 3 year Con Job just go away. They are embarrassed and don’t know what to do....

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 33,936
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.832Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T07:40:31.104Z (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 displays a clinically significant constellation of malignant narcissism markers in grandiose phase, with strong paranoid overlay and complete DARVO structure. The Obamagate narrative serves multiple simultaneous narcissistic functions: transforming Trump from investigated subject to righteous exposer, retroactively delegitimizing Mueller findings producing 34 indictments, and redirecting follower attention from the COVID-19 death toll approaching 80,000 and concurrent Bright whistleblower testimony. Projection is prominent — the 'Con Job' epithet applied to legitimate journalism mirrors critics' characterization of Obamagate itself. Splitting is absolute: Fox alone perceives reality; CNN and MSNBC are criminal co-conspirators. Authorship is highly authentic despite midday posting, based on dense stylometric fingerprints (derogatory nicknames, trailing ellipsis, superlative stacking). No cognitive deterioration markers are detectable; patterns are consistent with 2020 baseline. Danger level is elevated: named media targets are designated criminal co-conspirators at 80M+ follower scale, creating hostile epistemic environment for named outlets and journalists. The post exemplifies the broader Obamagate saturation campaign — a textbook RAND Firehose deployment timed to displace coverage of acute governance failures.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Tweet, May 15, 2020

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Determination:** On May 15, 2020, Trump was in Washington, D.C. (White House), operating on Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). UTC 16:19:56 converts to **12:19 PM EDT** — midday, nominally within aide-writing hours.

Despite the timing, stylometric fingerprints strongly favor authentic Trump authorship:
- "Concast" — deliberate derogatory nickname for Comcast (pattern consistent with "Crooked Hillary," "Crazy Nancy")
- "MSDNC" — portmanteau mockery of MSNBC and DNC, a recurring Trump coinage
- Capitalizations ("OBAMAGATE," "Con Job") for rhetorical emphasis
- Trailing ellipsis ("....") — a signature Trump affect-leakage marker suggesting continuation of thought/emotion
- Superlative stacking: "supremely, the greatest... in the history of the United States"
- Stream-of-consciousness construction with mid-thought emotional escalation

During COVID lockdown (March-May 2020), Trump had significantly more unstructured time at the White House and was posting at elevated volume throughout the day. The style here is authentic; daytime timing is insufficient to override the weight of stylometric evidence.

**Authorship verdict: Authentic Trump, high confidence.**

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion:** High — dominant, assertive, attention-commanding. Fox is praised "supremely"; the scale of the scandal is planetary.
- **Agreeableness:** Very low — contemptuous derogation of named media entities; no empathy or acknowledgment of legitimacy in opposing views.
- **Conscientiousness:** Low — impulsive, no deliberation evident. The conspiracy is asserted without factual grounding.
- **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility):** Elevated — the trailing ellipsis and "they are embarrassed and don't know what to do" convey barely-contained satisfaction at perceived enemy distress.
- **Openness:** Very low — rigid binary epistemology (Fox = truth, all others = fraud). No tolerance for ambiguity.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency Motives (dominant):** Power, status, revenge. The post positions Trump as the one who has exposed a world-historic crime. The Russia investigation — which produced convictions of multiple Trump associates — is reframed as victimization of Trump, with him now triumphantly reversing the narrative.

**Communion Motives:** Absent.

**Schemas:**
- *Self:* Aggrieved truth-teller who has endured a historic injustice and is now vindicated
- *Allies (Fox):* Courageous, superior, epistemically correct
- *Enemies (CNN, MSNBC):* Corrupt, panicking, exposed, embarrassed
- *World:* Zero-sum information war; media either serves power or speaks truth

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** The Exposer — one who has suffered a "3 year Con Job" and is now watching the perpetrators squirm.

**Narrative Sequence:** Redemption — the contamination sequence (Russia investigation as corrupt attack on Trump) is now flipping to redemption (Obamagate as the real story breaking through).

**Identity Claims:**
- "I am the victim of the greatest political scandal in American history" — elevates his victimhood to historic scale
- "I am vindicated by the only honest network" — self-casting as truth-aligned

**Contrasting Other:** Obama (implied architect of "Obamagate"), CNN, "Concast's own MSDNC" — all cast as co-conspirators in suppression.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features:**
- Grandiosity: "greatest political scandal in the history of the United States" — superlative unbounded by evidence
- Excessive admiration-seeking: Thanking Fox "supremely" (receiving admiration for the coverage he claims credit for shaping)
- Entitlement: The assumption that media should validate his narrative, with those who don't labeled corrupt
- Envy inversion: Projects embarrassment onto CNN/MSNBC ("They are embarrassed and don't know what to do")

**B. Antisocial Features:**
- Deceitfulness: Promoting "Obamagate" despite being unable at press conference (May 13, 2020) to specify what crime Obama committed
- Disregard for epistemic harm: Labeling legitimate journalism as "Con Job"

**C. Paranoid Features:**
- "3 year Con Job" — sustained persecution narrative framing the Mueller investigation as a coordinated criminal conspiracy
- Preoccupation with media as enemy actors: CNN and MSNBC are not merely wrong but are *trying* to suppress truth

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (mild):** "They are embarrassed and don't know what to do" — relish at perceived enemy distress, though subdued compared to more explicit delight seen in other posts.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Compound — (1) *supply-seeking* (validating Obamagate narrative via Fox amplification), (2) *narcissistic injury maintenance* (Russia investigation as ongoing wound requiring counter-narrative), (3) *preemptive attack* (CNN/MSNBC framed as trying to suppress, neutralizing them before they can report critically).

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose — expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. The vulnerable state seen in more persecuted tweets is tempered here by the perceived triumph of Obamagate gaining traction.

**Rage:** Present but modulated. Not raw rage — more the cool satisfaction of watching enemies allegedly squirm. Intensity: ~0.4/1.0. Proportionality: dramatically disproportionate to any actual triggering event this day.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (Immature):** The "Con Job" Trump attributes to media and Obama maps almost precisely onto the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory Trump himself is promoting. The accusation mirrors the behavior.

2. **Splitting (Immature):** Fox = courageous truth-tellers; CNN/MSNBC = corrupt fraudsters. No gradation permitted.

3. **Denial (Pathological):** The Russia investigation produced 34 indictments, 8 guilty pleas/convictions, and documented Russian interference. All of this is denied by reframing the investigation itself as the crime.

4. **DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):** Trump — subject of the investigation — becomes the victim; investigators/Obama become the criminals. Classic DARVO structure.

5. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Enemy media silence/alternative coverage is not legitimate disagreement but "embarrassment" — rationalizing away the possibility of valid opposing perspective.

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## Cognitive Status

**Baseline Comparison:** Consistent with Trump's 2020 Twitter cognitive baseline. Vocabulary is simple but functional; syntax is paratactic but not incoherent; the emotional logic holds internal consistency even if epistemically untethered.

**Markers Present:**
- "Concast" and "MSDNC" are deliberate mockery coinages consistent with established Trump nicknaming patterns, not phonemic or semantic paraphasia
- No temporal confusion, name confusion, or significant tangentiality

**Complexity Assessment:** Low-to-moderate syntactic complexity, consistent with Trump's established written register on Twitter. No marked deviation from 2020 baseline warranting cognitive concern in isolation.

---

## Rhetorical and Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole/Superlative:** "greatest political scandal in the history of the United States" — no qualifier, no precedent cited
- **Ad Hominem + Derogatory Naming:** "Fake News @CNN," "Concast," "MSDNC" — nicknames function as thought-terminating cliches
- **False Dichotomy:** Fox covers truth "supremely"; all others are cover-up artists
- **RAND Firehose (Volume):** This post is one of many Obamagate tweets that day — the strategy is saturation, not precision
- **Whataboutism:** Obamagate serves to redirect from COVID-19 deaths approaching 80,000 and the Rick Bright whistleblower testimony that very day
- **Appeal to Conspiracy:** Framing silence or skepticism as evidence of guilt ("trying to make it just go away")

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## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

- **Attacks on perception:** "Fake News" as epistemic poison — pre-emptively discrediting any contrary reporting
- **DARVO:** Full structure present
- **Rapid revisionism:** The "3 year Con Job" retroactively reframes an investigation that produced documented criminal convictions as baseless persecution
- **Epistemic closure demand:** Following Obamagate requires accepting that the FBI, DOJ, and Mueller investigation were criminal enterprises

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## Danger Assessment

**Rating: Elevated**

No direct eliminationist or violent language. However:
- Named media targets (CNN, MSNBC specifically) are being designated as active criminal conspirators in a "3 year Con Job"
- "Fake News" construct empirically linked to physical threats against journalists
- The Obamagate narrative frames named individuals (Obama) as perpetrators of the greatest crime in American history — a framing with incitement potential

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "OBAMAGATE is the greatest political scandal in the history of the United States" | **False** | When pressed by reporters at May 13 press conference, Trump could not name a specific crime Obama committed. No legal proceedings resulted from Obamagate claims. The characterization as 'greatest scandal in history' is unsupported by evidence. |
| "CNN and MSNBC are trying to make their '3 year Con Job' go away" | **Mostly False** | The Mueller investigation resulted in 34 indictments, 8 convictions/guilty pleas, and documented Russian interference in the 2016 election. Characterizing legitimate coverage of documented criminal activity as a 'Con Job' inverts the factual record. |
| "Fox and Friends covered Obamagate 'supremely'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective quality claim about coverage quality; not susceptible to factual verification. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Deliberate derogatory nickname 'Concast' (Comcast mockery) consistent with established Trump pattern
- Deliberate portmanteau 'MSDNC' — recurring Trump coinage for MSNBC
- Trailing ellipsis ('....') — signature affect-leakage marker
- Superlative stacking ('supremely, the greatest... in the history of the United States')
- ALL CAPS emphasis on OBAMAGATE and Con Job

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Mueller investigation / ongoing media scrutiny)

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting CNN, MSNBC, Obama (implied)
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.45

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated posting volume throughout the day (multiple tweets this date)
- Grandiose framing unbounded by evidence or qualification
- Reduced deliberation — superlatives deployed without factual anchor
- Energized combative tone despite absence of acute triggering event

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 30%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Thanking 'Keyboard Warriors' in adjacent posts to activate and mobilize follower base
- Framing Fox coverage as validation of shared truth — rewards in-group epistemics
- Positioning followers as truth-knowers against embarrassed enemies

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Named media targets (CNN, MSNBC) designated as active participants in criminal conspiracy — creates threat environment for journalists
- 'Fake News' construct empirically linked to physical threats against journalists in this period
- Obama implicitly designated as architect of 'greatest political scandal in history' — inflammatory framing with incitement potential at scale
- Saturation posting strategy (RAND Firehose) amplifies narrative beyond proportional critical response

### Gaslighting

- 'Fake News' pre-emptively delegitimizes any contrary reporting before it is read
- DARVO: investigation subject recast as victim; investigators recast as criminals
- Retroactive revisionism: three-year investigation producing documented convictions reframed as baseless persecution
- Epistemic closure demand: accepting Obamagate requires believing FBI, DOJ, and Mueller were criminal enterprises

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> OBAMAGATE is the greatest political scandal in the history of the United States

**FALSE**

When pressed by reporters at May 13 press conference, Trump could not name a specific crime Obama committed. No legal proceedings resulted from Obamagate claims. The characterization as 'greatest scandal in history' is unsupported by evidence.

Sources: May 13, 2020 press conference reporting; Historian-provided event context

> CNN and MSNBC are trying to make their '3 year Con Job' go away

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Mueller investigation resulted in 34 indictments, 8 convictions/guilty pleas, and documented Russian interference in the 2016 election. Characterizing legitimate coverage of documented criminal activity as a 'Con Job' inverts the factual record.

Sources: Mueller Report public record

> Fox and Friends covered Obamagate 'supremely'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective quality claim about coverage quality; not susceptible to factual verification.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- obamagate (95%)
- media-attack (85%)
- splitting (80%)
- DARVO (82%)
- grandiose-state (78%)
- projection (75%)
- russia-investigation (70%)
- fox-news-amplification (65%)
- covid-deflection (72%)
- epistemic-closure (68%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Rage and Daylight Governance: A Split-Screen Presidency at 3 AM**

Trump spent the early hours of the morning—well past midnight—firing off thank-yous to supporters before spiraling into a conspiracy-fueled rant about the Flynn case and Obamagate around 3:30 AM. The afternoon brought a sharp tone shift, with official-sounding posts about transit funding, Space Force, and ventilator donations to India, most likely drafted by staff. The day's dominant mood was self-congratulatory bluster, punctuated by brief but intense flashes of paranoia and media hostility. The late-night posting cluster raises obvious questions about sleep.

Full digest for 2020-05-15: https://trump.fm/date/2020-05-15/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, May 15). Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1261270084644896800
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering, supremely, the..." X (Twitter), 15 May. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1261270084644896800. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering, supremely, the...," X (Twitter), May 15, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1261270084644896800.

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