# Post x_975341676297445377

- Post ID: `x_975341676297445377`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-03-18T12:02:31.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_975341676297445377
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_975341676297445377/analysis
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## Post text

> Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked “have you ever been an anonymous source...or known someone else to be an anonymous source...?” He said strongly “never, no.” He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.

## Engagement

- Likes: 102,211
- Reposts: 27,440
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.404Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-14T02:50:28.881Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post is clinically significant as a data point in a sustained activation episode. Over the 24-hour window of March 17–18, Trump produced at least five posts on the same thematic cluster — FBI corruption, Comey, McCabe, Mueller, Russia investigation — indicating elevated and persistent psychological arousal likely driven by the existential threat of the Mueller investigation combined with the McCabe firing (which Trump had publicly demanded). The Comey perjury accusation extends this pattern by attacking the credibility of a key potential institutional adversary using a cable television segment as evidentiary grounds.

The epistemological structure is the most clinically notable feature: the President of the United States cites a partisan morning cable program as sufficient basis to publicly accuse a former FBI Director of federal perjury. The 8:02 AM Sunday timestamp, 'Wow' opener, direct @foxandfriends citation, and stream-of-consciousness paraphrase together form a near-perfect documentary record of the TV-to-tweet pipeline operating with zero intermediation or deliberation interval.

The post's defense structure — projection, splitting, rationalization — is consistent with malignant narcissism operating under institutional threat. The grandiose-paranoid oscillation (uniquely positioned to expose truth AND persecuted by the deep state) is textbook narcissistic defensive organization. Danger level is elevated: not acutely violent, but the systematic delegitimization of named institutional adversaries creates durable conditions for follower-level hostility.

## Post Analysis: x_975341676297445377 — March 18, 2018

### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** March 18, 2018 fell after the Daylight Saving Time shift of March 11, 2018, placing the Eastern US on EDT (UTC−4). The UTC timestamp of 12:02:31 converts to **8:02 AM EDT**. Trump on a Sunday morning in this period was characteristically at the White House or Mar-a-Lago, almost certainly watching *Fox & Friends*, which airs 6–9 AM ET. The direct @foxandfriends citation and "Wow" exclamation opener are fully consistent with a live viewing reaction at exactly the right time.

**Style markers strongly suggesting authentic composition:** the exclamatory "Wow" opener (a habitual Trump TV-reaction lead), the "Senator G" casual abbreviation (shorthand for Grassley, suggesting stream-of-consciousness recall rather than drafted copy), the use of ellipsis to reproduce a paraphrased question, the direct-address construction "watch Comey lie," and the absence of polish or event-announcement formatting. This is a man reacting to a TV segment in real time.

**Assessment:** Extremely high confidence authentic Trump, composed while watching *Fox & Friends*. Authorship score: 0.93.

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### Psychological State and Triggers

**Primary Trigger — Narcissistic Injury (institutional/existential):** This post cannot be read in isolation. The surrounding 24-hour posting cluster (McCabe firing, Mueller probe attack, "Witch Hunt," FBI/DOJ corruption narrative) reveals a sustained activation state driven by the Mueller investigation's existential threat to Trump's presidency and self-concept. Accusing Comey of perjury functions as a **preemptive delegitimization** strategy: if the primary witness against Trump is a criminal liar, his testimony is inadmissible in the court of public opinion.

**Narcissistic State — Mixed (paranoid-grandiose):** The post oscillates between vulnerable positioning (persecution by the deep state, FBI, Comey) and grandiose certainty ("as shown clearly"). Trump positions himself as the perceptive revealer of hidden truth, inverting the investigator/investigated dynamic: he becomes the exposer, Comey the criminal.

**Rage:** Controlled but present. The "Wow" opener signals contained excitement at perceived enemy exposure rather than raw rage seen in other posts. Intensity is approximately 0.65. Target is Comey specifically. Proportionality is approximately 0.10 — the response (nationwide public perjury accusation) dramatically exceeds the stimulus (a cable segment).

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (Immature):** Trump accuses Comey of systematic lying in the very act of making a distorted factual characterization. The accusation of dishonesty is directed outward to the figure representing institutional accountability.

2. **Splitting (Immature):** Fox & Friends = truth / Comey = liar. The epistemological framework is total: the cable program is a more credible evidentiary source than the former FBI Director's sworn testimony. There is no middle ground.

3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Citing "shown clearly on @foxandfriends" imports the appearance of evidentiary grounding without its substance. A TV segment is presented as equivalent to a factual record sufficient to establish federal perjury.

4. **Denial (Pathological):** The Mueller probe is characterized as having no legitimate basis across the companion posts, requiring wholesale rejection of documented predicate facts.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Imperative viewing command ("watch Comey lie"):** Grammatically presupposes the lying as established fact before the viewer can evaluate it. This is a rhetorical trick — the subordinate clause "Comey lie" is not a question but an assertion dressed as an invitation.
- **Appeal to authority (inverted):** Fox & Friends is treated as definitive factual authority while the Senate testimony record is implicitly subordinated to it.
- **Ad hominem:** Comey's character (liar) is the argument; no substantive engagement with the institutional record.
- **Selective quotation:** The paraphrase "never, no" (with theatrical emphasis) is presented as damning without full context of the exchange or Comey's subsequent clarifications.
- **False certainty:** "Lied as shown **clearly**" — the adverb does significant rhetorical work, foreclosing ambiguity that actually exists.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Comey lied under oath to Senator Grassley when asked if he had ever been an anonymous source, answering 'never, no'" | **Half True** | At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Grassley did question Comey about being an anonymous source and Comey denied it. Subsequently it emerged Comey shared memo contents with Columbia law professor Daniel Richman, who conveyed them to the New York Times. Comey maintained Richman was a personal friend sharing non-classified personal documents, not a formal leak conduit. Whether this constitutes perjury about being 'an anonymous source' turns on definitional questions about what 'source' means legally and whether using an intermediary meets the threshold. This is a genuinely contested interpretive question, not a clear-cut lie 'shown clearly' by a Fox segment. |
| "The lie is 'shown clearly on @foxandfriends'" | **Mostly False** | A cable television morning program segment is not evidentiary grounds for establishing federal perjury. The claim conflates partisan editorial characterization with factual legal proof. Fox & Friends presenting a claim does not constitute it being 'shown clearly.' |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 93%)

### Indicators

- 'Wow' opener consistent with live TV reaction
- 8:02 AM EDT Sunday — prime Fox & Friends viewing window
- Direct @foxandfriends citation naming source in real time
- 'Senator G' informal shorthand suggesting stream-of-consciousness recall
- Ellipsis used to paraphrase remembered question rather than quoted record

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Mueller investigation / Comey as institutional adversary threatening presidency and self-concept)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting James Comey
- Proportionality: 10%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 'Wow' exclamatory opener suggesting elevated reactivity
- Five posts on same theme within 24-hour window — accelerated output rate
- Grandiose certainty ('shown clearly') about contested factual matter
- Reactive immediacy — TV-to-tweet pipeline with no apparent deliberation interval

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 62%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct command to 'watch' — converts followers into co-witnesses validating his interpretation
- Citing Fox & Friends by handle — activates shared media consumption as group identity marker
- Paraphrase of Comey quote presented as exact — invites followers to share his outrage at specific words
- Framing himself as investigator-exposer — positions followers as members of truth-finding movement

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sitting president publicly accuses named private citizen of federal perjury without due process or adjudication
- Part of sustained narrative delegitimizing law enforcement institutions — systemic rather than episodic
- Companion posts construct framework in which FBI/DOJ are enemy combatants, priming followers toward institutional hostility
- Pattern of targeting specific named former officials creates harassment vector even without explicit call to action

### Gaslighting

- DARVO pattern: subject of federal investigation positions himself as investigator of investigator
- Fox & Friends segment presented as definitive evidentiary record against sworn Senate testimony
- Companion posts: McCabe firing framed as corruption exposure rather than politically motivated dismissal Trump publicly demanded for months
- House Intelligence Committee's partisan conclusion (over Democratic objections) presented as authoritative finality

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-14._

> Comey lied under oath to Senator Grassley when asked if he had ever been an anonymous source, answering 'never, no'

**HALF TRUE**

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Grassley did question Comey about being an anonymous source and Comey denied it. Subsequently it emerged Comey shared memo contents with Columbia law professor Daniel Richman, who conveyed them to the New York Times. Comey maintained Richman was a personal friend sharing non-classified personal documents, not a formal leak conduit. Whether this constitutes perjury about being 'an anonymous source' turns on definitional questions about what 'source' means legally and whether using an intermediary meets the threshold. This is a genuinely contested interpretive question, not a clear-cut lie 'shown clearly' by a Fox segment.

Sources: Senate Judiciary Committee testimony record; Comey's subsequent public statements about the Richman memo disclosure

> The lie is 'shown clearly on @foxandfriends'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

A cable television morning program segment is not evidentiary grounds for establishing federal perjury. The claim conflates partisan editorial characterization with factual legal proof. Fox & Friends presenting a claim does not constitute it being 'shown clearly.'

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- comey-targeting (92%)
- mueller-delegitimization (88%)
- fox-news-epistemology (85%)
- deep-state-narrative (82%)
- tv-to-tweet-pipeline (90%)
- perjury-accusation (80%)
- witness-discrediting (78%)
- sustained-activation (75%)
- projection (72%)
- splitting (70%)

## That day

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

**McCabe Firing Aftermath: A Sunday Siege Against Witnesses, Evidence, and the Mueller Probe Itself**

Trump spent the day locked in a single-minded defensive campaign against the Mueller investigation and anyone connected to it. A Saturday evening broadside against the probe's legitimacy gave way to a focused Sunday morning barrage — triggered by Fox & Friends — targeting Comey as a liar, McCabe's memos as fabrications, and the Mueller team as hopelessly partisan. Every post carried real anger, but the intensity held steady rather than spiraling. Most striking was the complete silence on the day's biggest headlines — Cambridge Analytica and Putin's re-election — suggesting the Mueller threat consumed all available bandwidth.

Full digest for 2018-03-18: https://trump.fm/date/2018-03-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, March 18). Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_975341676297445377
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked..." X (Twitter), 18 Mar. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_975341676297445377. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked...," X (Twitter), March 18, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_975341676297445377.

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