# Post x_1332065010135281700

- Post ID: `x_1332065010135281700`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-11-27T01:53:41.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Will go down much further. Weekend daytime even worse, dead. They still don’t get it. Fantastic alternatives! The late/great Roger Ailes is seriously missed, but I still won LEGAL VOTES by a lot!!! https://t.co/rm0ygRnW3S

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 21,303
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.777Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T18:21:24.590Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On Thanksgiving evening 2020, Trump composed an authentic, fragmented post that covertly attacks Fox News ratings while invoking deceased Fox founder Roger Ailes as an idealized lost ally, then pivots non-sequiturly to election fraud claims. The post reflects a narcissistic injury response to Fox News's withdrawal of unconditional validation — a primary supply source that had begun acknowledging Biden's victory. Splitting is prominent: Ailes-era Fox is idealized, current Fox is devalued. The perseverative "LEGAL VOTES" framing (fifth iteration in two sampled days) encodes an audience-activating enthymeme — implying Biden's votes were illegitimate without making the explicit claim. Displacement is evident: rage about electoral defeat is redirected toward a more manageable target (Fox News). The post's structural incoherence — absent grammatical referent, abrupt topic pivots, no logical connectors — is consistent with authentic Trump composition and with established baseline for this period. Syntactic complexity is very low but not acutely deviating from this era's pattern. The danger level is elevated not from this post in isolation but from its role in a documented, multi-day reality distortion campaign between state certifications and the Electoral College vote, contributing to the epistemic environment that preceded January 6, 2021.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Post — 2020-11-27T01:53:41Z

## Authorship Assessment
**High confidence: Authentic Trump** (8:53 PM EST, Thanksgiving evening)

The post was composed at approximately 8:53 PM Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving (November 26, 2020), placing it squarely in Trump's characteristic late-evening Twitter window. The stream-of-consciousness fragmentation, absent grammatical referent in the opening clause, abrupt non-sequitur topic pivots, and three-exclamation-point ALL CAPS finale are hallmarks of unmediated Trump composition. No aide would produce this structure.

## Contextual Interpretation
Without explicit identification, the opening lines ("Will go down much further. Weekend daytime even worse, dead.") most plausibly reference Fox News viewership ratings. Post-election, Trump was waging an aggressive campaign against Fox News for its early Arizona call and perceived insufficient support for his fraud narrative, while simultaneously promoting OAN and Newsmax as "Fantastic alternatives!"

The invocation of Roger Ailes (deceased May 2017) functions as an idealized transitional object: the "good Fox" of unconditional loyalty, against which current leadership is implicitly devalued through splitting. Ailes represents what Fox *was supposed to be* — a permanent amplification apparatus for Trump rather than an independent news organization.

The pivot to "I still won LEGAL VOTES by a lot!!!" is structurally non-sequitur, arriving after media criticism with no logical bridge. This represents the fifth iteration of election fraud framing across two sampled days, meeting clinical criteria for perseveration. Three exclamation points and ALL CAPS signal heightened affect even at low-to-moderate rage intensity.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
- **Extraversion** (high): Assertive, attention-commanding even in fragmented form
- **Agreeableness** (very low): Contemptuous of Fox News ("They still don't get it"), zero acknowledgment of legitimate critique
- **Conscientiousness** (low): Impulsive, unstructured, no editing evident
- **Neuroticism** (high): Angry hostility toward betraying institutions, emotional reactivity
- **Openness** (very low): Rigid grievance framework, no epistemic flexibility; disagreement framed as incomprehension

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominate**: Power and status maintenance through media ecosystem manipulation. The attempt to redirect audience loyalty from Fox to OAN/Newsmax is a power-preservation strategy — controlling the information environment that sustains the base and their belief in the fraud narrative.

**Schema**: Fox News has defected from its proper role as Trump amplification apparatus. This constitutes betrayal, not legitimate editorial independence. The entitlement schema is explicit: "They still don't get it" encodes the belief that Fox's institutional function is to validate Trump — failure to do so is incompetence or treachery, never legitimate judgment.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Wronged victor; legitimate winner denied his throne by treacherous institutions
- **Contamination sequence**: Fox News was loyal (under Ailes) → Fox News has betrayed him (current era)
- **Redemption frame**: "I still won LEGAL VOTES" positions the certified electoral loss as a temporary injustice awaiting rectification
- **Contrasting other**: Current Fox News leadership (betrayers) vs. Roger Ailes (idealized loyalist)
- **Identity claim**: "I won" — core self-narrative requiring constant reinforcement against encroaching objective reality

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)
**Narcissistic features (high)**: Grandiosity maintained against mounting contrary evidence (Pennsylvania, Michigan certified; courts rejecting challenges); entitlement — networks should serve him; belief detractors "don't get it" rather than legitimately disagree.

**Antisocial features (moderate)**: Systematic dismantling of public trust in legitimate electoral institutions; disregard for democratic norms evidenced in the contemporaneous Gettysburg call ("We have to turn the election over").

**Paranoid features (elevated)**: "LEGAL VOTES" framing encodes a conspiracy in which millions of certified votes were fraudulent — a claim uniformly rejected by courts, election officials, and the subject's own Justice Department.

**Sadism (low in this post)**: Pleasure in Fox News ratings decline is implied but subdued.

#### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Denial** (pathological): Rejects certified election results from multiple states despite official legal determinations
2. **Splitting** (immature): Fox/Ailes era = idealized; current Fox = devalued. LEGAL VOTES vs. implicitly illegal Biden votes
3. **Displacement** (neurotic): Anger about electoral defeat redirected toward Fox News as a more manageable target
4. **Rationalization** (neurotic): "LEGAL VOTES" provides pseudo-logical scaffolding for rejecting the outcome without engaging its substance

#### Cognitive Status
- **Absent referent**: "Will go down much further" — no grammatical subject
- **Tangentiality**: Ratings → Ailes → election fraud; no logical connectors
- **Perseveration**: "LEGAL VOTES" repeated across multiple posts without new evidence
- **Syntactic complexity**: Very low; short staccato clauses, no subordination
- **Assessment**: No acute deviation from this era's established baseline; pattern is internally consistent

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis
The post employs compact but effective propaganda: reality distortion ("LEGAL VOTES"), nostalgia manipulation (Ailes), and alternative media promotion ("Fantastic alternatives") simultaneously delegitimize the election, mourn lost Fox loyalty, and redirect followers toward more compliant channels. The enthymemic structure of "LEGAL VOTES" is rhetorically significant — it encodes the claim that Biden's votes were illegal while avoiding explicit assertion, leaving the inference to the audience and maintaining plausible deniability.

## Gaslighting Indicators
- "LEGAL VOTES" systematically delegitimizes certified Biden votes, requiring followers to accept a false category distinction
- Implicit claim that official certifications from multiple states are fraudulent — sustained attack on institutional reality perception
- Pattern consistent with DARVO: Trump as victim of fraud rather than loser of election

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I still won LEGAL VOTES by a lot" | **False** | Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden led popular vote by 7+ million votes. Pennsylvania certified for Biden (80,555-vote margin) and Michigan certified for Biden in the days immediately preceding this post. All substantive legal challenges had been rejected or were failing, including the Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster' dismissal. |
| "Roger Ailes is 'late' (deceased)" | **True** | Roger Ailes, founder and CEO of Fox News, died May 18, 2017 at age 77 following a subdural hematoma. |
| "Fox News weekend daytime ratings declining" | **Mostly True** | Post-election Fox News viewership measurably declined as portions of the MAGA audience shifted to OAN and Newsmax. Fox's weekend ratings in particular declined as the alternative channels gained traction. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Danger Assessment
**Elevated**: This post is one data point in a sustained, multi-day campaign of election fraud amplification occurring between state certifications and the Electoral College vote. The systematic reality distortion — characterizing certified results as fraudulent using the "LEGAL VOTES" framing — contributes to the epistemic environment that culminated in January 6, 2021. No direct incitement in this specific post. Danger derives from cumulative pattern, not isolated content.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- Posted 8:53 PM EST on Thanksgiving evening — within authentic Trump's late-evening window
- Stream-of-consciousness fragmentation with no identified subject ('Will go down much further' — referent absent)
- Abrupt non-sequitur pivots between topics (ratings → Ailes → election fraud) without logical bridging
- ALL CAPS deployment on 'LEGAL VOTES' — characteristic emotional emphasis
- Three exclamation points signal unmediated affect

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Fox News)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Fox News / current Fox leadership
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.35

Baseline Deviation: moderate

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid topic shifts within a brief post (ratings → Ailes → election fraud)
- Triple exclamation points and ALL CAPS signaling pressured affect
- Grandiose certainty ('I still won') maintained against accumulating contrary evidence

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 72%
- Sadism: 18%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address implying shared grievance ('They still don't get it' — 'they' excludes audience, pulling followers into in-group)
- Conspiratorial intimacy ('Fantastic alternatives!' — treats followers as co-participants in Fox News revolt)
- Nostalgic invocation of Ailes as shared signifier of a loyal golden age

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Part of documented multi-day election fraud amplification campaign between state certifications and Electoral College vote
- 'LEGAL VOTES' framing systematically delegitimizes certified results, contributing to epistemic environment preceding January 6, 2021
- Encourages audience defection from mainstream media toward alternative channels more receptive to fraud narrative — information ecosystem manipulation
- Contemporaneous 'turn the election over' statement (Gettysburg call) provides context for escalating pressure campaign

### Gaslighting

- 'LEGAL VOTES' framing implies Biden votes were illegal without explicit assertion — requires followers to accept false category distinction
- Characterizes official certifications from multiple states as fraudulent, attacking institutional reality perception
- Pattern consistent with DARVO: Trump cast as victim of fraud rather than loser of certified election

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> I still won LEGAL VOTES by a lot

**FALSE**

Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden led popular vote by 7+ million votes. Pennsylvania certified for Biden (80,555-vote margin) and Michigan certified for Biden in the days immediately preceding this post. All substantive legal challenges had been rejected or were failing, including the Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster' dismissal.

Sources: Pennsylvania Secretary of State certification; Michigan Board of State Canvassers certification; U.S. District Court (Brann) dismissal of Pennsylvania lawsuit

> Roger Ailes is 'late' (deceased)

**TRUE**

Roger Ailes, founder and CEO of Fox News, died May 18, 2017 at age 77 following a subdural hematoma.

Sources: Public record

> Fox News weekend daytime ratings declining

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Post-election Fox News viewership measurably declined as portions of the MAGA audience shifted to OAN and Newsmax. Fox's weekend ratings in particular declined as the alternative channels gained traction.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data, November 2020

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- election-fraud-narrative (92%)
- fox-news-attack (85%)
- legal-votes-framing (88%)
- roger-ailes-nostalgia (72%)
- narcissistic-supply-withdrawal (78%)
- splitting-defense (74%)
- perseveration (68%)
- alternative-media-promotion (80%)
- reality-distortion (85%)
- thanksgiving-2020 (55%)

## That day

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

**Thanksgiving Devoured by Denial: 22 Posts, Pre-Dawn Rage Spirals, and an Expanding Conspiracy Architecture**

Thanksgiving weekend was consumed by election denial. Trump posted 22 times — including a cluster between 3 and 4 AM — hammering fraud claims with escalating specificity, naming four majority-Black cities as fraud hotbeds and amplifying a fabricated story about missing USB drives in Pennsylvania. He praised Sidney Powell as "a brilliant woman of courage" hours after his own campaign publicly disavowed her, attacked Fox News and Twitter in tandem, and demanded the repeal of Section 230 as a national security imperative. The only breaks from election grievance were routine boasts about judges and the military. The mood whipsawed between dismissive contempt and wounded fury all day, with clear signs of disrupted sleep.

Full digest for 2020-11-27: https://trump.fm/date/2020-11-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, November 27). Will go down much further. Weekend daytime even... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1332065010135281700
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Will go down much further. Weekend daytime even worse,..." X (Twitter), 27 Nov. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1332065010135281700. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Will go down much further. Weekend daytime even worse,...," X (Twitter), November 27, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1332065010135281700.

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