# Post x_818134981344165900

- Post ID: `x_818134981344165900`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-01-08T21:39:14.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> ""@FoxNews: ""We certainly don’t want intelligence interfering with politics and we don’t want politics interfe... https://t.co/bwDjEg1d7S""

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 6,535
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.032Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T08:44:40.545Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Fox News Quote-Tweet on Intelligence and Politics (2017-01-08)

Trump retweets a Fox News quote about not wanting intelligence to interfere with politics and vice versa. This occurs during the height of the intelligence community's assessment of Russian election interference, which Trump was actively contesting.

### Context
January 8, 2017 — Trump is President-elect, 12 days before inauguration. The intelligence community had just briefed him on Russian interference findings. He was in a sustained campaign to delegitimize those findings. This is one of several posts that day pushing back on intelligence/media narratives.

### Authorship
4:39 PM EST (Trump Tower, NYC). Business hours, quote-tweet format with no original commentary beyond the quote. Could be either Trump or aide — the format is simple signal-boosting. The lack of added commentary and clean formatting lean slightly toward aide-assisted, but Trump frequently did simple quote-tweets himself.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a low-intensity post functioning as narrative reinforcement. By amplifying a Fox News voice making the argument for him, Trump employs **projection** — the implicit claim is that intelligence agencies are the ones "interfering with politics," when the concern from the IC was about foreign interference in elections. The framing inverts the actual dynamic.

### Rhetorical Function
Appeal to authority (Fox News), false equivalence (equating intelligence findings with "political interference"), and externalization of the intelligence community's legitimate function as illegitimate meddling.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Intelligence is interfering with politics (implied framing)" | **Mostly False** | The intelligence community was fulfilling its mandate by assessing foreign interference in the 2016 election. Multiple agencies concluded Russia interfered. This was not 'political interference' but standard intelligence function. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (4:39 PM EST)
- Clean quote-tweet format
- No original commentary or typos
- Simple signal-boosting pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Intelligence community assessment of Russian interference (perceived as delegitimizing his election victory))

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- appeal to authority via Fox News
- shared grievance framing

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframing legitimate intelligence findings as political interference inverts the actual concern

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-11._

> Intelligence is interfering with politics (implied framing)

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The intelligence community was fulfilling its mandate by assessing foreign interference in the 2016 election. Multiple agencies concluded Russia interfered. This was not 'political interference' but standard intelligence function.

Sources: ODNI Joint Assessment January 6, 2017

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- intelligence-community (80%)
- russia-investigation (90%)
- fox-news-amplification (70%)
- delegitimization (60%)

## That day

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

**President-Elect Pivots from Diplomacy to Intelligence Community Grievance**

Trump started the evening before with diplomatic niceties — welcoming a meeting with Britain's prime minister and congratulating a state party chair — before going quiet for the night. When he resumed late Sunday morning, the tone shifted sharply toward grievance: he attacked the media for editing a Kellyanne Conway interview and grew increasingly agitated about the classified Russia hacking report being leaked to NBC before he saw it. It was a low-volume, relatively calm day by his standards, but the intelligence community leak clearly got under his skin the most.

Full digest for 2017-01-08: https://trump.fm/date/2017-01-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, January 8). ""@FoxNews: ""We certainly don’t want... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_818134981344165900
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. """@FoxNews: ""We certainly don’t want intelligence..." X (Twitter), 8 Jan. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_818134981344165900. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, """@FoxNews: ""We certainly don’t want intelligence...," X (Twitter), January 8, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_818134981344165900.

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