🧩 BND Motif Index · M380
Kicked upstairs
An official too troublesome or incompetent to keep is promoted out of the way: better he do his damage somewhere else than here.
📜 Plots🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Modes of Resignation
- 3claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 1claim 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
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Plum posting mirror of Plum posting: the post as exile, not reward
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Never interrupt your enemy 🧩 Thrown overboard
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-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 donor files defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-17
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “as long as he's out of the state, we're better off” “It was obviously given to her because the Trump family wanted to exile her.” “kind of pushed Kimberly Guilfoyle aside” “Trump made Kimberly Guilfoyle the ambassador to Greece to get her out of the way after Jr dumped her”
🧶 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 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
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.
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-15 “Kimberly Guilfoyle was appointed as the U.S. ambassador to Greece to push her out of the inner circle after a breakup with Donald Trump Jr.” 3
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-13 “Kimberly Guilfoyle knows things: the Greece ambassadorship was a consolation prize to keep her quiet about Trump family crimes after Don Jr. dumped her, and she may have enough on the Trumps to protect herself.”
Said by voters 1
claims voters made in The Focus Group
- 2026-09-12 “Some Republicans who dislike Ken Paxton are said to want him in the Senate just to get him out of Texas.”
M380 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-13 · what this is · how the index works