# Post x_861713233786404864

- Post ID: `x_861713233786404864`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-05-08T22:43:39.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_861713233786404864
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_861713233786404864/analysis
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## Post text

> Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today --- she said nothing but old news!

## Engagement

- Likes: 53,342
- Reposts: 11,260
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.390Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T12:41:00.582Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Post x_861713233786404864 (2017-05-08)

### Context
Sally Yates testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on May 8, 2017, revealing she had warned the White House that Michael Flynn was compromised. This post is Trump's spin on that testimony. Posted at 6:43 PM ET (Trump at White House), this is a business-hours post but stylistically consistent with authentic Trump — the triple dash, dismissive tone, and "fake media" framing.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a classic narcissistic injury response. Yates's testimony was damaging — it confirmed the White House was warned about Flynn and ignored it. Trump's response deploys **denial** (nothing new) and **distortion** (reframing damaging testimony as vindicating). The claim that the "fake media" is "extremely unhappy" is pure **projection** — projecting his own displeasure onto the media, then inverting it so that bad news for him becomes bad news for them.

The framing "old news" is **rationalization** — even if elements were previously reported, Yates's sworn testimony carried new evidentiary weight. The post attempts to pre-empt narrative formation by declaring the testimony a non-event.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Reality inversion: damaging testimony recast as vindication
- Delegitimization of media ("fake media")
- Dismissal through minimization ("nothing but old news")

### Longitudinal Note
The earlier posts from the same day show Trump trying to redirect focus toward leaks rather than Flynn's compromise — a consistent pattern of attacking the messenger rather than addressing the message.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Sally Yates said nothing but old news" | **Mostly False** | Yates's sworn testimony provided new details about her January 2017 warnings to the White House about Flynn being compromised. While some elements had been reported, the sworn firsthand account carried significant new evidentiary weight. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Triple dash punctuation
- Dismissive emotional tone
- fake media phrasing
- Business hours but stylistically authentic
- No links or formal structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Sally Yates testimony on Flynn warnings)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 20%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Framing audience as insiders who see through media

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframing damaging sworn testimony as containing 'nothing but old news'
- Claiming media unhappiness when testimony was objectively damaging to the administration

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Sally Yates said nothing but old news

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Yates's sworn testimony provided new details about her January 2017 warnings to the White House about Flynn being compromised. While some elements had been reported, the sworn firsthand account carried significant new evidentiary weight.

Sources: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, May 8, 2017

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- russia-investigation (90%)
- media-attack (70%)
- denial (80%)
- sally-yates (90%)

## That day

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

**Day-Long Defensive Campaign Against Yates Testimony Sets Stage for Comey Firing**

Trump spent most of the day in damage-control mode after former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified that she warned the White House about Michael Flynn being compromised by Russia. The morning started with a light golf congratulations, but quickly shifted to a sustained effort to reframe the Yates testimony as a leak scandal rather than a Flynn scandal. By evening, a rapid burst of four posts in under ten minutes revealed growing frustration, with the final tweets showing cracks in the confident facade. Notably, this rhetoric served as groundwork for the firing of FBI Director James Comey the very next day.

Full digest for 2017-05-08: https://trump.fm/date/2017-05-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, May 8). Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_861713233786404864
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today ---..." X (Twitter), 8 May. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_861713233786404864. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today ---...," X (Twitter), May 8, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_861713233786404864.

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