🧩 BND Motif Index · M863
The famous fan
A beloved star is said to adore the leader, in words of praise that pass from star to star.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Cult of personality
- 5claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ 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:
- 🧩 The famous foe the mirror: the revered figure against him, not for him
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 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 so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “I've never met anyone braver, smarter, or who cares more about America than Donald Trump” “He's a great friend and an even better president.” “He's posting fake quotes from Denzel Washington that seems to endorse him” “never met anyone braver, smarter” “Tate Mcrae [sic] via Instagram. 'go out there and vote ❤❤'” “Tim Allen wrote...”
🧶 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 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump is posting fake quotes from celebrities to endorse him.” 1
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.
Fact-checked 4
claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link
- 2026-11-05 “Tate McRae posted a photo on Instagram wearing a 'Make America Great Again' cap and telling followers to go out and vote.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-26 “Tim Allen wrote a Facebook post criticizing Democrats, claiming they are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-17 “Denzel Washington said he's 'never met anyone braver, smarter' than Trump.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-10 “Denzel Washington said, 'I've worked with a lot of people in my life, and I've never met anyone braver, smarter, or who cares more about America than Donald Trump. He's a great friend and an even better president. I'm proud to be a steadfast supporter, and I'll never apologize for it. God Bless America and our president.'” 🔎 Snopes
M863 · first seen 2026-10-11 · last 2026-11-08 · what this is · how the index works