# Post ts_108388008534518922

- Post ID: `ts_108388008534518922`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-05-30T00:15:59.143Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108388008534518922
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108388008534518922/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108388008534518922.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Fake New York Times must have forgotten to write that we just won the Lieutenant Governor, Senate and all Congressional Races in Georgia. Overall in this cycle, 101 and 6. Other big races coming up over the next 7 weeks - My Endorsed Candidates are looking good!

## Engagement

- Likes: 34,007
- Reposts: 10,246
- Replies: 1,147
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.441Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T20:24:02.011Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post represents a psychologically significant response to narcissistic injury. The Georgia primaries delivered Trump's most consequential political defeat since leaving office — his personal vendetta candidates against Kemp and Raffensperger were crushed. The post employs pathological distortion by completely omitting these high-profile losses while highlighting down-ballot wins and inflating an aggregate endorsement record ("101 and 6"). The attack on the NYT as "Fake" serves the dual function of preemptive discrediting and externalization — the problem is not his losses but the media's coverage. The forward-looking pivot ("big races coming up") functions to redirect follower attention and maintain the grandiose self-narrative of political dominance. This pattern — defeat → omission → reframe → attack messenger → project forward — is a well-established defensive sequence in Trump's communications and is consistent with narcissistic personality organization where threats to grandiosity cannot be metabolized through normal self-reflection but must instead be expelled through reality distortion.

# Psychological Analysis: Post ts_108388008534518922

## Context
This post arrives days after the Georgia GOP primaries — Trump's most significant political test since leaving office. His hand-picked candidates to punish Kemp and Raffensperger for refusing to overturn the 2020 election were decisively defeated. Perdue lost to Kemp by ~50 points. This was a humiliating repudiation of Trump's kingmaker status in a state central to his election fraud narrative.

## Narcissistic Injury & Defense Response
The post is a masterclass in narcissistic reality distortion following defeat. Rather than confront the loss, Trump:
1. **Attacks the messenger** — labeling the NYT "Fake" preemptively discredits accurate reporting
2. **Cherry-picks wins** — highlights Lt. Governor, Senate (Walker), and Congressional races while completely omitting the Kemp and Raffensperger blowouts
3. **Deploys aggregate statistics** — "101 and 6" buries the qualitative significance of losses under quantitative noise
4. **Projects forward** — "big races coming up" shifts attention away from the injury

This is **distortion** at the pathological level: the most consequential Georgia results are simply erased from the narrative.

## Personality Levels
- **Level 1**: Low agreeableness (combative framing), high extraversion (assertive self-promotion)
- **Level 2**: Agency motive dominant — maintaining perceived political power and kingmaker status
- **Level 3**: Protagonist as **winner** who cannot lose; redemption narrative where apparent setbacks are reframed as triumphs

## Archetypal Pattern
King archetype maintaining legitimacy after a battlefield loss — emphasizing territorial gains elsewhere while ignoring the lost fortress.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Won the Lieutenant Governor, Senate and all Congressional Races in Georgia" | **Mostly True** | Trump-endorsed Burt Jones won Lt. Gov primary; Herschel Walker won Senate primary. Congressional endorsements largely won. However, framing omits the far more significant Kemp and Raffensperger victories over Trump-backed challengers. |
| "Overall record of 101 and 6" | **Unverifiable** | Trump's endorsement record claims varied by source and depended on how endorsements were counted (some included incumbents in safe races). The ratio is plausible but not independently verified here. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Late evening posting (8:15 PM ET)
- Mix of polished and informal elements
- Specific stats suggest aide input
- Exclamation and dashes are Trump style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Georgia primary losses of Perdue and Hice)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- sharing insider knowledge
- forward-looking optimism to maintain follower investment

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Accuses NYT of 'forgetting' to report wins while himself omitting major losses
- Implies media is distorting Georgia narrative when his own framing is the distortion

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Won the Lieutenant Governor, Senate and all Congressional Races in Georgia

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump-endorsed Burt Jones won Lt. Gov primary; Herschel Walker won Senate primary. Congressional endorsements largely won. However, framing omits the far more significant Kemp and Raffensperger victories over Trump-backed challengers.

Sources: Known events context

> Overall record of 101 and 6

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Trump's endorsement record claims varied by source and depended on how endorsements were counted (some included incumbents in safe races). The ratio is plausible but not independently verified here.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- narcissistic_defense (90%)
- reality_distortion (80%)
- georgia_primaries (90%)
- media_attack (50%)
- endorsement_record (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Georgia Defeats Haunt Memorial Day as Trump Rewrites the Scoreboard and Targets His Prosecutors**

Trump spent Memorial Day wrestling with the fallout from his Georgia primary losses, repeatedly touting a "101 and 6" endorsement record while conspicuously ignoring his biggest defeats. Late-night posts targeted the Fulton County district attorney investigating his election pressure call, and a morning rant demanded a judge step forward to overturn the 2020 election. The day's mood was mostly self-congratulatory on the surface, but a defensive edge ran through nearly every post — even the holiday message was laced with political subtext about "saving" the country.

Full digest for 2022-05-30: https://trump.fm/date/2022-05-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, May 30). The Fake New York Times must have forgotten to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108388008534518922
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Fake New York Times must have forgotten to write that..." Truth Social, 30 May. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108388008534518922. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Fake New York Times must have forgotten to write that...," Truth Social, May 30, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108388008534518922.

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