# Post x_1315973257066152000 - Post ID: `x_1315973257066152000` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-10-13T15:10:48.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1315973257066152000 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1315973257066152000/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1315973257066152000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you Greg. You got their Hoax right from the beginning! https://t.co/3ql3nADDD9 ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 16,590 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.792Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T16:35:05.099Z (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 ten days after his COVID-19 hospitalization, the subject publicly thanks an unnamed media ally ("Greg") for recognizing "their Hoax right from the beginning" — almost certainly a reference to COVID-19 or its framing. The post's clinical significance lies entirely in its timing: pathological denial at scale, with the subject maintaining the "Hoax" label with no apparent integration of his own direct infection experience. This represents a textbook instance of Vaillant Level 1 denial — the political narrative is preserved in a hermetically sealed compartment impervious to experiential contradiction. The post also functions as a bidirectional narcissistic supply exchange, publicly rewarding an ally while harvesting validation from followers. The proprietary capitalization of "Hoax" is a rhetorical branding technique that transforms a contested characterization into a proper noun within the shared lexicon of his base. The unnamed "their" silently populates an adversarial collective — the pandemic's architects — without requiring evidence or specificity. Danger is elevated: the sitting president's COVID-skepticism framing, delivered from a platform of millions while hosting maskless campaign rallies, carries documented downstream public health risk through its contribution to vaccine and mask hesitancy. No violent or stochastic terrorism indicators present. Authorship appears authentic based on stylistic markers, despite business-hours timing. # Analysis: October 13, 2020 — "Thank you Greg. You got their Hoax right from the beginning!" ## Overview A brief, personalized validation post directed at an unnamed ally named "Greg" (likely a sympathetic media figure — possibly Greg Kelly of Newsmax, who was vocally skeptical of COVID severity, though the URL would confirm identity). The post is clinically notable less for its intensity than for its psychological timing: it appears ten days after the subject's COVID-19 hospitalization, while he was simultaneously claiming to feel "powerful" and resuming campaign rallies. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Low Agreeableness** (trust/deception facet): The "Hoax" framing implicitly accuses unnamed actors of deliberate deception — a chronic, cross-situational schema - **Low Neuroticism** (surface presentation): No distress, anger, or vulnerability is displayed; the post is breezy and validating — consistent with the grandiose narcissistic state - **Low Conscientiousness** (deliberation): The public health implications of the "Hoax" label are apparently not processed; impulsive reality-branding with no acknowledgment of contradictions --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Status via reality arbitration.** The subject is not merely expressing an opinion — he is publicly anointing the correct interpretation of events. The ability to declare what is and is not a "Hoax" is an act of epistemic dominance. **Schema: Zero-sum epistemology.** The world divides into those who "got it right" (Greg, Trump, followers) and those who perpetuated the Hoax. There is no middle ground, no complexity, no room for the subject's own COVID hospitalization to complicate the frame. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Wise vindicator — he and his allies saw through the deception while others were fooled or complicit - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc — the "Hoax" was perpetuated against him (contamination), but the truth is now emerging and those who knew all along are being recognized (redemption) - **Identity claim:** "I (and those who agree with me) have always known the truth" - **Contrasting other:** The unnamed "their" — the hoaxers, implicitly Democrats, mainstream media, public health establishment --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Pathological Denial The most clinically significant feature of this post is its timing. The subject was hospitalized with COVID-19 on October 2, received supplemental oxygen and multiple experimental treatments, and was discharged October 5. On October 12 he told thousands of unmasked supporters he felt "powerful." On October 13 he labels COVID a "Hoax." This is a textbook instance of **pathological denial** (Vaillant Level 1): the subject's public facing narrative shows no integration of the personal experience of COVID infection and hospitalization. The political label ("Hoax") is maintained in a hermetically sealed psychological compartment, impervious to the subject's own direct embodied experience. This is not strategic dishonesty in the conventional sense — it reflects a genuine motivated reality-construction in which narrative identity takes precedence over experiential learning. ### Narcissistic Supply Dynamics The post operates as bidirectional supply harvesting: (a) the subject receives validation from Greg, and (b) the public thank-you generates secondary supply from followers who enjoy watching the mutual affirmation of their shared belief system. This is a maintenance-level supply-seeking behavior in a grandiose state. ### Paranoid Schema Activation "Their Hoax" presupposes a coordinated deception by a group — a paranoid interpretive frame applied to one of the defining public health crises of the century. The lowercase casualness of "their" suggests this framework is so deeply schema-tized as to require no elaboration. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The post's rhetorical efficiency is remarkable: in eleven words (excluding the URL), it accomplishes: 1. Public reward of a loyal media ally (shaping future coverage) 2. Reactivation of the "Hoax" brand for followers 3. Construction of a vindication narrative ("right from the beginning") 4. Silent demonization of unnamed adversaries ("their") The capitalized "Hoax" is a proprietary reality-branding technique. By nominalizing the concept and capitalizing it, the subject transforms a debatable characterization into an established proper noun — a recognized phenomenon in his followers' shared lexicon. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present.** Labeling COVID-19 a "Hoax" 10 days post-hospitalization for COVID-19, during an active national outbreak with hundreds of thousands of deaths, constitutes deliberate attack on shared epistemic ground. The post implicitly asks followers to accept, as a condition of in-group membership, a claim that contradicts their own potential lived experiences, news consumption, and mortality statistics. --- ## Cognitive Status The post is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment. Syntax is simple but coherent. No word-finding lapses, perseveration, or temporal confusion evident. Vocabulary is sparse but intentional. Insufficient data to assess deviation from baseline. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely authentic (confidence: medium).** The "Thank you [first name only]" pattern, proprietary capitalization, exclamation mark usage, and emotional reactivity all match the authentic signature. The 11 AM EDT posting time is within business hours, which is a mild countervailing indicator, but the content register (reactive, personal, uncontextualized for new readers) is more consistent with the authentic pattern. --- ## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED The public "Hoax" framing of COVID-19 by the sitting President — during an active outbreak, 10 days post-hospitalization, on the eve of campaign rallies with unmasked crowds — carries documented public health risk. By validating COVID skepticism at the highest platform level, the post contributes to a media ecosystem in which public health guidance is systematically undermined. This constitutes a diffuse harm mechanism rather than a targeted threat. No stochastic terrorism indicators present. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "COVID-19 (or the public health response to it) is a 'Hoax' perpetrated by unnamed actors" | **False** | COVID-19 was a documented pandemic that had killed over 215,000 Americans by October 13, 2020. The subject himself was hospitalized for COVID-19 and required supplemental oxygen and multiple treatments just 10 days prior. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. No credible scientific or epidemiological basis for 'Hoax' characterization exists. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 'Thank you [first name only]' opener is a highly recurrent authentic Trump pattern - Capital-H 'Hoax' matches Trump's habit of nominalizing political labels into proper nouns - Exclamation mark after declarative praise is stylistically consistent with authentic posts - No comma after 'Thank you Greg' — minor punctuation lapse typical of unedited Trump - 15:10 UTC = ~11:10 AM EDT (Trump likely in DC or traveling from Florida after Oct 12 Sanford rally) — business hours, which moderately favors aide involvement ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Ally Greg (likely media figure) affirming Trump's 'Hoax' narrative) Sentiment: +0.25 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Breezy, upbeat tone 10 days post-hospitalization for a serious illness — affective presentation inconsistent with typical post-illness recovery experience - Rapid return to campaigning, public rallies, and social media activity at pre-illness pace suggests possible elevated energy state - Grandiose claims of feeling 'powerful' (Oct 12 rally) combined with reality-dismissing cognition in adjacent posts ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Personalized address ('Thank you Greg') creates warm in-group recognition for followers of Greg's media coverage - Validation loop: Trump affirms the validator, reinforcing the shared belief system among followers who trust both figures - Implicit reward signal: praising those who affirm his framing encourages further sycophantic media alignment ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Presidential COVID-skepticism framing during active national outbreak with 215,000+ deaths undermines public health guidance at maximum platform scale - Explicit validation of early COVID 'Hoax' framing normalized vaccine and mask resistance with documented mortality consequences - Post accompanies return to campaign rallies with maskless crowds, connecting the rhetoric to direct behavioral risk ### Gaslighting - Labels COVID-19 a 'Hoax' 10 days after personal hospitalization for the disease — attacks shared epistemic reality that followers may have personal experience of - Retroactive framing — 'right from the beginning' rewrites the history of COVID response to suggest the deception was always obvious to the discerning - Third-person 'their Hoax' attributes agency to unnamed conspirators, requiring followers to accept a conspiratorial framework as a precondition of engagement ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > COVID-19 (or the public health response to it) is a 'Hoax' perpetrated by unnamed actors **FALSE** COVID-19 was a documented pandemic that had killed over 215,000 Americans by October 13, 2020. The subject himself was hospitalized for COVID-19 and required supplemental oxygen and multiple treatments just 10 days prior. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. No credible scientific or epidemiological basis for 'Hoax' characterization exists. Sources: CDC COVID-19 mortality data October 2020; Trump hospitalization records October 2-5 2020; WHO pandemic declaration March 11 2020 Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - covid-hoax (90%) - denial-pathological (85%) - supply-seeking (70%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - ally-validation (65%) - public-health-risk (70%) - grandiose-state (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-COVID Superman Narrative Fuels Marathon 58-Post Day of Attacks and Election Pre-Seeding** Trump powered through a marathon day of nearly 60 posts, fueled by the adrenaline of his first campaign rally since being hospitalized with COVID. The dominant mood was triumphant aggression -- he hammered Biden repeatedly over verbal gaffes, claimed vindication on lockdowns, and broadcast his negative COVID test as proof of invincibility. Underneath the swagger, a thread of election anxiety surfaced in posts about "rigged" elections and California vote-counting, laying early groundwork for fraud narratives. He appeared to sleep fewer than six hours after posting past 4 AM, resuming by mid-morning with undiminished energy. Full digest for 2020-10-13: https://trump.fm/date/2020-10-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, October 13). Thank you Greg. You got their Hoax right from the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1315973257066152000 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you Greg. You got their Hoax right from the..." X (Twitter), 13 Oct. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1315973257066152000. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you Greg. 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