🧩 BND Motif Index · M730
I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue
A leader's followers are said to be so devoted that nothing he says or does could lose them, as Trump boasted in 2016 that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Leader-Follower Dynamics🗂️ Cult of personality
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
⚠️ 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: 🧩 Yellow dog
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"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.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-12 “Donald Trump expects his supporters to clap at whatever he says, even if it is stupid.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-05 “Donald Trump still maintains a massive and highly effective following.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-03 “MAGA GOP support for Trump remains extremely high and has not declined.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Benny Show
M730 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-03 · what this is · how the index works