🧩 BND Motif Index · M1788
Losing his filter
An aging leader's crude or strange outbursts are put down to his decline stripping away the filter, so what comes out is read as what he always thought and hid.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 8claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 6claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Senile leader
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (4 left-leaning, 0 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump holds midterm rally in Florida with Byron Donalds 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-24
- 📰 Trump uses antisemitic slur at Kansas rally 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 2
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-28 “Trump is losing his mind and having homoerotic meltdowns at his rallies.” 2
- 2026-10-22 “The President is losing his inhibitions and showing signs of dementia.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 6
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump is becoming increasingly gay or is expressing latent homosexual attractions.”
- 2026-10-22 “Donald Trump has dementia and is losing his filter.”
- 2026-10-22 “Donald Trump's dementia is progressing and causing him to lose inhibitions and act inappropriately.”
- 2026-10-20 “Donald Trump is bisexual and his recent unfiltered comments about men's bodies are a symptom of his dementia.”
- 2026-10-18 “Donald Trump's comments about men are a sign that he is gay or losing his mental faculties due to dementia.”
- 2026-10-14 “Donald Trump said he looked at Jon Husted's ass and hole.”
M1788 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works