Analysis: Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering, supremely, the gre...

6y ago May 15, 2020 at 4:19 PM

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....

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-19. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

Elevated

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Self-Written

Intensity

68%

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.

Authorship Analysis

Self-Written

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 qualificationReduced deliberation — superlatives deployed without factual anchorEnergized combative tone despite absence of acute triggering event

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

78%

Antisocial

55%

Paranoid

70%

Sadism

30%

Defense Mechanisms:

projectionsplittingdenialrationalization

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

32%

Parasocial Techniques:

Thanking 'Keyboard Warriors' in adjacent posts to activate and mobilize follower baseFraming Fox coverage as validation of shared truth — rewards in-group epistemicsPositioning 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 Detected:

'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

Reality Distortions:

Obamagate characterized as 'greatest political scandal in the history of the United States' without specifiable crime
Mueller investigation ('3 year Con Job') erases documented 34 indictments and 8 convictions
CNN and MSNBC framed as active co-conspirators rather than journalistic skeptics
Fox coverage framed as singular truth rather than one perspective

Fact Checks (3)

"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.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.
Splitting (Immature): Fox = courageous truth-tellers; CNN/MSNBC = corrupt fraudsters. No gradation permitted.
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.
DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): Trump — subject of the investigation — becomes the victim; investigators/Obama become the criminals. Classic DARVO structure.
Rationalization (Neurotic): Enemy media silence/alternative coverage is not legitimate disagreement but "embarrassment" — rationalizing away the possibility of valid opposing perspective.

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")

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

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

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%