# Post x_1335467992419889200

- Post ID: `x_1335467992419889200`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-12-06T11:15:55.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> And getting a total pass from the media! https://t.co/LyQBuhJq46

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.789Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T19:13:38.288Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A fragmentary early-morning post (6:15 AM EST, White House) functioning as a quote-tweet complaint about media suppression of election fraud coverage. Authentic Trump authorship is strongly indicated by timing and characteristic conjunction-opening syntax. The post reveals a vulnerable narcissistic state: the election loss represents acute narcissistic injury, and the paranoid explanatory framework — fraud compounded by media complicity — preserves the grandiose self-concept by converting defeat into persecution. Active defenses include pathological denial (refuting contemporaneous AG Barr findings), immature projection (assigning conspiratorial motive to media), and splitting (media as monolithically corrupt). Rhetorical impact derives from presupposition: beginning with "And" positions the audience as already inside the narrative, requiring no argument, only affirmation. Paranoid features score high (0.72) relative to baseline. This is one of many same-day posts constituting a high-frequency institutional delegitimization campaign. Danger is elevated not from this post alone but from its role in a sustained dual-track assault on electoral institutions and press credibility that would escalate over the following month toward January 6.

# Analysis: "And getting a total pass from the media!" (2020-12-06)

## Overview

A fragmentary, early-morning post that functions as a brief but psychologically dense grievance dispatch. The post is almost certainly a quote-tweet of election fraud content, with the subject appending a conspiratorial complaint about media suppression. Though brief, it is a representative unit of a sustained institutional delegitimization campaign occurring during a period of acute narcissistic injury — the certified loss of the 2020 election.

## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Authentic Trump (High-Medium Confidence)**

The UTC timestamp of 11:15 converts to **6:15 AM EST** at the White House — firmly within Trump's documented early-morning posting window. More tellingly, the post begins with **"And"** — a conjunction opening that signals reactive, mid-thought composition, the subject continuing an internal monologue rather than constructing a message. Aide-written posts do not begin with conjunctions. The casual, emotionally charged fragment quality reinforces this attribution.

## Psychological State

The subject is in a **vulnerable narcissistic state** during this period. The election outcome represents a catastrophic wound to grandiose self-concept, and the paranoid explanatory framework — election fraud compounded by media complicity — is psychologically ego-preserving. It converts defeat into persecution, maintaining internal coherence of the self-as-winner narrative.

**Active defenses:**
- **Denial (pathological):** The implied premise refutes AG Barr's contemporaneous finding of no widespread fraud
- **Projection (immature):** Media's alleged "pass" projects conspiratorial motive onto editorial institutions
- **Splitting (immature):** Media is monolithically corrupt; no differentiation acknowledged

**Paranoid features are prominent (0.72/1.0).** The "total pass" framing constructs a powerful, coordinated suppressor — consistent with the paranoid pattern documented across this period.

## Cognitive Markers

The post is too brief for meaningful cognitive complexity assessment. The fragment syntax ("And...") is more parsimoniously explained by reactive tweeting style than by any language production deficit. **No reliable cognitive markers extractable from this sample.**

## Rhetorical Analysis

The post's power is architectural: beginning with "And" presupposes a shared prior context, pulling the audience into an already-established narrative frame. "Total pass" is an idiomatic superlative — no scrutiny whatsoever, fully undeserved. The brevity signals casual certainty. This is one node in what the RAND Firehose model would recognize as a high-volume, high-frequency reality-distortion campaign — individual posts need not be elaborate; cumulative pressure does the work.

## Contextual Framing

This post appears on the same day as Gabriel Sterling's emotional press conference warning "someone's going to get killed," and shortly after AG Barr's public contradiction of Trump's fraud claims. Both constitute direct narcissistic injuries. The media-blame framing serves to neutralize Barr's statement by implication: if the media gives fraudsters a "total pass," it likewise gives Barr's contradicting statement undeserved amplification.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** Not individually alarming, but this post is a component of a sustained delegitimization campaign targeting both electoral institutions and press credibility simultaneously — the dual-track infrastructure of what would escalate toward January 6.

## Narrative Identity (Level 3)

- **Protagonist role:** Lone truth-teller, wrongly suppressed
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — legitimate victory corrupted by fraud and media complicity
- **Contrasting other:** Corrupt media establishment
- **Identity claim:** The one who sees what others are paid to ignore

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Media gave election fraud allegations 'a total pass'" | **Mostly False** | Major media outlets extensively covered election fraud claims, including investigations, court proceedings, and AG Barr's December 2020 statement finding no widespread fraud. Coverage was substantial; the claim inverts documented editorial record. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Early morning post (6:15 AM EST at White House)
- Fragment syntax beginning with 'And' — mid-thought, stream-of-consciousness
- Casual, unpolished quality typical of reactive posting
- Emotional grievance framing without polish
- Part of rapid-fire posting cluster across same day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Media institutions and broader establishment)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Media institutions
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 72%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Conspiratorial in-group signaling ('we know what they're hiding')
- Delegated outrage — post invites audience to share indignation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Component of dual-track delegitimization campaign targeting both elections and press
- Media framed as active conspiratorial suppressor — not merely biased but complicit
- Contributes to epistemic closure infrastructure enabling later mobilization
- Posted same day as documented death threats to GA election workers — paranoid grievance ecosystem

### Gaslighting

- 'Total pass from the media' implies legitimate fraud coverage is being suppressed — inverts documented reality (AG Barr found no widespread fraud same week)
- Positions audience to distrust any media reporting that contradicts fraud narrative
- Reality inversion: media's accurate coverage of no-evidence findings recast as dereliction

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Media gave election fraud allegations 'a total pass'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Major media outlets extensively covered election fraud claims, including investigations, court proceedings, and AG Barr's December 2020 statement finding no widespread fraud. Coverage was substantial; the claim inverts documented editorial record.

Sources: AG Barr public statement December 1, 2020; Documented media coverage of 60+ failed Trump lawsuits

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- election-fraud-claims (90%)
- media-delegitimization (85%)
- paranoid-features (72%)
- vulnerable-narcissistic-state (75%)
- contamination-narrative (80%)
- institutional-attack (70%)
- authentic-authorship (80%)
- early-morning-post (85%)

## That day

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

**Rally Night Splits Into 2 AM Rage Spiral as Republican Allies Become the New Enemy**

Trump rallied in Georgia for Senate runoff candidates, then spent the small hours of the morning bombarding social media with election fraud content and attacks on Republican governors who certified Biden's win. The most striking contradiction of the day was simultaneously urging supporters to vote by absentee ballot in the Georgia runoffs while insisting the presidential election was stolen through mail-in fraud. Fox News was formally demoted to enemy status alongside CNN and MSNBC, continuing the rapid expansion of the betrayal list. Sleep appeared minimal, with posting activity suggesting only fragmented rest between the rally, a frenetic 2 AM content blitz, and an early-morning thank-you cluster.

Full digest for 2020-12-06: https://trump.fm/date/2020-12-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, December 6). And getting a total pass from the media!... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1335467992419889200
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "And getting a total pass from the media!..." X (Twitter), 6 Dec. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1335467992419889200. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "And getting a total pass from the media!...," X (Twitter), December 6, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1335467992419889200.

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