🧩 BND Motif Index · M1018
Thrown overboard
A leader drops one of his own the moment they become trouble, the loyal aide, the old friend, the ambassador: he'll throw you overboard too.
📜 Plots🗂️ Modes of Resignation🗂️ Leader-Follower Dynamics
- 6claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Thrown under the bus
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 1
"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 donor files defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-17
- 📰 Trump attacks Bill Maher in 1,300-word Social media post 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Bill Maher after the comedian joked about his poll numbers during a White House dinner.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Trump often rearranges his staff after elections or midterms.”
🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes - 2026-10-23 “Trump wants his people to be honest and prosecuted if they are not.”
🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBC) - 2026-10-16 “Donald Trump suggested that Katie Zaharias should reconsider her position.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-14 “Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned because Trump did not like what he was reading.”
🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-14 “President Trump has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as U.S. ambassador to Greece due to allegations of improper conduct.” 🧶 people online
M1018 · first seen 2026-10-20 · what this is · how the index works