# Post ts_108476394206482031

- Post ID: `ts_108476394206482031`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-06-14T14:53:37.464Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Word out that the reason the Unselects have canceled Wednesday’s Kangaroo Court is a total lack of interest leading to very poor television ratings. Could this be so? Maybe they should try getting a more talented Hollywood producer than the former President of ABC Fake News. He didn’t do so well!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T20:37:28.020Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted on Trump's 76th birthday during the acute threat of the Jan 6 Committee hearings and Barr's "detached from reality" testimony, this post exemplifies his documented grandiose-state response to narcissistic injury via exposure. Rather than engaging the committee's evidentiary record, Trump deploys complete reality-substitution: the institutional process becomes a failed TV production, his investigators become incompetent producers, and the threat is converted into evidence of opponent failure. The claim of "very poor television ratings" contradicts documented viewership (~20M for the first hearing). The "Kangaroo Court" label represents pathological denial of an institution's legal legitimacy. Defense architecture is multilayered: denial, distortion, rationalization, and devaluation operate simultaneously, all oriented toward avoiding direct engagement with the substance of the hearings. The sadistic pleasure in Goldston's alleged failure ("He didn't do so well!") is characteristic ego-syntonic cruelty. Most psychologically revealing is what is absent: zero mention of Barr's damaging testimony, zero engagement with Caroline Edwards' police testimony, zero response to the evidentiary record. The post is one of at least five attacks on the hearings that day — a volume/saturation strategy consistent with high-threat baseline. Authorship appears largely authentic. Cognitive markers show no deviation from established baseline. Danger level: none in isolation, though the systematic delegitimization of the Jan 6 investigation warrants longitudinal monitoring.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, June 14, 2022 (14:53 UTC)

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** 10:53 AM EDT (Trump likely at Bedminster, NJ — his typical June residence). Business hours is a mild aide indicator, but the stylistic fingerprints are strongly personal: the colloquial opener ("Word out that"), mock-incredulous self-questioning, contemptuous nicknames, and the clipped terminal dismissal ("He didn't do so well!") are all documented Trump voice markers. Assessment: **authentic or lightly aide-polished**, confidence medium. Notably, this is Trump's 76th birthday — he was almost certainly emotionally activated.

## Context and Trigger

Posted the morning after the Jan 6 Committee's second public hearing and during ongoing coverage of Barr's damaging testimony calling Trump "detached from reality." This represents acute **narcissistic injury via exposure** — one of the most threatening trigger types, as it involves public airing of conduct that undermines the grandiose self-image. The post does not address Barr's testimony or the committee's evidence at all, which is itself psychologically significant: complete avoidance of substantive engagement.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Salience | Evidence |
|-------|----------|----------|
| **Extraversion** | High (0.80) | Assertive, dominant, expansive framing |
| **Agreeableness** | Very Low (0.10) | Contemptuous dismissal, mockery, zero trust |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low (0.30) | Impulsive framing, loose syntax |
| **Neuroticism** | Moderate-High (0.65) | Hostile reactivity masked by grandiose affect |
| **Openness** | Very Low (0.15) | Rigid categorical dismissal, no intellectual engagement |

**Dominant facet:** Angry hostility expressed through contemptuous devaluation.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant** (0.92): This post is entirely organized around protecting status, maintaining dominant positioning, and neutralizing a threat to power. There is no communion motive present.

**Schema revealed:** The self is an implicitly superior entertainer/executive; institutional processes are TV productions to be rated; legitimacy is measured in viewership. This is a consistent schema across Trump's documented communications — reducing political reality to entertainment competition where he is always the superior performer.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Knowing insider who sees through opponent failure; implicitly superior showman
- **Sequence type:** Contamination reversed — what appears to be a threat against him is recast as a failure by his opponents
- **Identity claim:** "I am the real television talent; these people can't match me"
- **Contrasting other:** James Goldston (failed producer) / "Unselects" (failed antagonists)

The narrative elegance here is worth noting: by framing the hearings as a failed TV production, Trump simultaneously (a) denies institutional legitimacy, (b) repositions himself as the dominant entertainer, and (c) converts his legal exposure into a story about his enemies' incompetence.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Defense Mechanisms

**Pathological (Level 1):**
- **Denial:** "Kangaroo Court" — wholesale categorical rejection of a formal congressional proceeding's legitimacy. No engagement with procedural basis, evidence, or constitutional authority.
- **Distortion:** The first Jan 6 hearing drew approximately 20 million viewers — a strong primetime number. The "very poor television ratings" characterization is not a misinterpretation; it is a wholesale distortion of documented reality.

**Immature (Level 2):**
- **Devaluation:** Goldston targeted via professional competence attack. The move bypasses the committee's evidentiary record entirely — symptomatic of the inability to engage threats directly.

**Neurotic (Level 3):**
- **Rationalization:** Constructing a causal narrative (poor ratings → cancellation) that transforms threatening exposure into evidence of opponent failure.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose (not vulnerable, despite the injurious context). Trump has converted a threatening situation into an occasion for contemptuous dismissal — consistent with his documented pattern of activating grandiosity as a defense against vulnerability.

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury via exposure (Jan 6 testimony, Barr characterization "detached from reality").

**Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.55), but modulated through contempt and mockery rather than raw aggression. The "He didn't do so well!" punchline carries sadistic pleasure in Goldston's supposed failure — ego-syntonic cruelty as dominance display.

**Proportionality:** Very low (0.25) — the institutional threat (congressional investigation with sworn testimony) receives a response calibrated entirely to TV production criticism.

### Malignant Narcissism Components

- **Narcissistic features** (0.78): Grandiosity, entitlement, contempt for institutional challenge, implicit claim of superior talent
- **Antisocial features** (0.45): Deceitfulness (ratings distortion), contempt for the committee's legal authority
- **Paranoid features** (0.60): "Unselects" framing implies coordinated persecution; conspiratorial "word out" framing
- **Ego-syntonic sadism** (0.50): Visible pleasure in Goldston's alleged failure

## Cognitive Status

No marked deviation from documented baseline. The syntax is loose but coherent; the logic, while motivated and distorted, follows an internally consistent structure. "Word out that" is a slightly unusual opener but within range. No phonemic paraphasia, neologism, or temporal confusion detected. **Complexity score: 0.38** (below average sophistication — short sentences, no subordinate clause complexity, but this is consistent with Trump's established register on Truth Social). Longitudinal comparison to 1980s-90s speech would be necessary before making decline claims.

## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis

The post operates entirely in the **meta-domain** — it addresses the production of the hearings rather than their substance. This is a sophisticated deflection: by discussing Goldston's role and TV ratings, Trump (a) keeps his audience focused on spectacle rather than evidence, (b) implicitly validates his own status as the superior entertainer, and (c) generates content that can be amplified without engaging the damaging testimony.

**Specific techniques:**
- *Contemptuous branding*: "Unselects," "Kangaroo Court," "ABC Fake News" — all deployed to activate in-group contempt rather than inform
- *Insider framing*: "Word out that" — false intimacy, positions audience as co-recipients of leaked intelligence, bypassing evaluation
- *Mock rhetorical question*: "Could this be so?" — invites audience to enjoy the supposed failure without committing to verifiability
- *Punch-line structure*: Short terminal dismissal is the emotional payoff of the post

**RAND Firehose element:** This is one of at least five posts on this single day attacking the Jan 6 hearings from different angles — a volume/saturation strategy consistent with documented Trump communication patterns during high-threat periods.

## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present.** The post contains at minimum one significant reality distortion:
- The claim of "very poor television ratings" contradicts documented viewership (first hearing ~20M viewers). Whether a Wednesday hearing was rescheduled for genuine logistics or ratings-related reasons is uncertain, but the ratings characterization itself is a distortion.
- "Kangaroo Court" denies the institutional legitimacy of a duly constituted House committee with subpoena power and sworn testimony — an attack on the audience's perception of institutional reality.

**Epistemic closure marker:** This post and its siblings on the same day form a closed information system. Followers receive five angles of attack on the hearings without any evidentiary engagement — a classic epistemic closure pattern.

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None** for this specific post. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist framing. The contempt is directed at institutional process and specific named figures (Goldston) in a professional rather than physical register. In the broader pattern of Jan 6 committee posts, the systematic delegitimization of the investigation is worth tracking longitudinally but does not reach stochastic terrorism threshold in this instance.

## Archetypal Analysis

Primary archetype activated: **Trickster/Anti-Hero** — subverting the established order (the congressional hearing) through irreverence, mockery, and reframing. The hearings are the institutional "King" archetype; Trump positions himself as the chaos agent who exposes their pretension. Secondary archetype: **Shadow projection** — what Trump disowns about himself (failed performance, exposure, embarrassment) is projected onto Goldston.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Wednesday's hearing was canceled due to poor television ratings" | **Mostly False** | The first prime-time Jan 6 hearing (June 9) drew approximately 20 million viewers across networks — a strong number. Any rescheduling of subsequent hearings had documented logistical and witness-availability reasons. No credible reporting supports a ratings-based cancellation. |
| "James Goldston was 'former President of ABC'" | **Mostly True** | Goldston was President of ABC News (the news division), not ABC Entertainment or the ABC network as a whole. The distinction is meaningful but Trump's shorthand is broadly recognizable. |
| "Goldston produced the Jan 6 hearings" | **True** | Goldston was retained as a production consultant for the committee's televised hearings. |
| "The hearings had very poor television ratings" | **False** | Documented viewership for the first hearing was approximately 20 million — competitive with major primetime programming and described by analysts as strong for a congressional proceeding. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 10:53 AM EDT (business hours, slight aide indicator)
- 'Word out that' — colloquial, casual opener authentic to Trump's voice
- 'Could this be so?' — rhetorical self-questioning consistent with Trump's stream-of-consciousness style
- 'He didn't do so well!' — clipped dismissive punch-line matching Trump's signature cadences
- Compound insult construction ('former President of ABC Fake News') is a Trumpian branding move

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee hearings directly implicating Trump in the Capitol attack; Bill Barr's televised testimony calling him 'detached from reality')

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting January 6 House Select Committee and James Goldston
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.62

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated output — at least five posts on the same day attacking the hearings from different angles
- Contemptuous dismissiveness disproportionate to threat level
- Grandiose affect maintained in face of acute institutional exposure
- Birthday activation may contribute to elevated emotional state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 50%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Insider framing ('Word out that') — positioning the audience as co-conspirators receiving leaked intelligence
- Mock rhetorical question ('Could this be so?') inviting audience to enjoy the apparent enemy failure
- Contemptuous nicknames as bonding ritual ('Unselects,' 'Kangaroo Court')

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'Very poor television ratings' — direct contradiction of documented ~20M viewership for first hearing
- 'Kangaroo Court' — attacks the audience's perception of institutional legitimacy of a duly constituted House committee with sworn testimony and subpoena power
- Reframing a scheduled logistical rescheduling as a ratings-driven cancellation — rapid revisionism of the public record
- Consistent with DARVO pattern: the investigating body (attacker) is recast as the failed party (victim of poor ratings)

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Wednesday's hearing was canceled due to poor television ratings

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The first prime-time Jan 6 hearing (June 9) drew approximately 20 million viewers across networks — a strong number. Any rescheduling of subsequent hearings had documented logistical and witness-availability reasons. No credible reporting supports a ratings-based cancellation.

Sources: General knowledge — Jan 6 hearing viewership figures widely reported

> James Goldston was 'former President of ABC'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Goldston was President of ABC News (the news division), not ABC Entertainment or the ABC network as a whole. The distinction is meaningful but Trump's shorthand is broadly recognizable.

Sources: General knowledge

> Goldston produced the Jan 6 hearings

**TRUE**

Goldston was retained as a production consultant for the committee's televised hearings.

Sources: General knowledge

> The hearings had very poor television ratings

**FALSE**

Documented viewership for the first hearing was approximately 20 million — competitive with major primetime programming and described by analysts as strong for a congressional proceeding.

Sources: General knowledge — widely reported viewership figures

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- Jan 6 Committee (95%)
- delegitimization (90%)
- ratings_obsession (85%)
- reality_distortion (85%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (88%)
- grandiose_defense (82%)
- contemptuous_branding (80%)
- Goldston (65%)
- gaslighting (78%)
- birthday_post (40%)

## That day

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

**Birthday Under Siege: Trump's 76th Consumed by Jan 6 Hearings Counteroffensive**

Trump spent his 76th birthday consumed by the Jan 6 Committee hearings rather than celebrating, firing off attacks on the investigation from midnight into the late morning. The bulk of the day's posts aimed to delegitimize the proceedings -- calling them a "Kangaroo Court," mocking TV ratings, and insisting the committee was afraid to debate election fraud. A messianic streak ran through the morning, with Trump declaring himself "the only one who can fix" the country and claiming his campaign predictions had all come true. He also dismissed a 3.5% unemployment rate as "FAKE" -- the same metric he once celebrated as his own achievement -- and closed with a pointed attack on Liz Cheney, calling her "angry and sick."

Full digest for 2022-06-14: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 14). Word out that the reason the Unselects have... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108476394206482031
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Word out that the reason the Unselects have canceled..." Truth Social, 14 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108476394206482031. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Word out that the reason the Unselects have canceled...," Truth Social, June 14, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108476394206482031.

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