# Post ts_108556569476775945 - Post ID: `ts_108556569476775945` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-06-28T18:43:15.012Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108556569476775945 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108556569476775945/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108556569476775945.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order to steer it to the Capitol Building is “sick” and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself - Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing. Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was? ## Engagement - Likes: 32,041 - Reposts: 8,956 - Replies: 2,514 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T20:55:34.807Z (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 constitutes a high-intensity narcissistic injury response to Cassidy Hutchinson's June 28, 2022 congressional testimony alleging Trump grabbed a steering wheel to redirect his vehicle to the Capitol and threw food when angered. Stylometric evidence strongly supports authentic Trump authorship despite business-hours timing. The post deploys a full DARVO sequence — denial, aggressive character attack, victim/offender reversal — against a named congressional witness during an active investigation, raising elevated-level stochastic harassment concerns. A critical intra-day contradiction is analytically significant: this post claims "I hardly knew who she was" while a same-day post states "I personally turned her request down" — mutually exclusive claims within a single posting session, suggesting either deliberate narrative flooding without consistency tracking or impulsive reactive posting. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial, devaluation, projection (labeling her story "sick"), and rationalization via impossibility claim. The coined label "Unselect Committee" achieves epistemic closure through nomenclature — the inquiry's illegitimacy is asserted definitionally, insulating followers from evidentiary engagement. Fact-checking yields false or mostly false verdicts on all three central empirical claims in the post. The narcissistic state oscillates between vulnerable (persecuted by sick fraud) and grandiose (Hutchinson is contemptible and discreditable), consistent with acute injury cycling. ## Overview This post is one of five rapid-fire responses on June 28, 2022 to Cassidy Hutchinson's surprise testimony before the January 6 Select Committee. Hutchinson, a former top White House aide, testified to two particularly damaging allegations: (1) that Trump attempted to redirect his presidential SUV toward the Capitol by grabbing the steering wheel, and (2) that he threw food and dishes in rage. This post addresses both claims through flat denial and aggressive witness delegitimization. --- ## Authorship Attribution Despite the 2:43 PM EDT posting time (business hours, nominally consistent with aide authorship), the stylometric fingerprint is strongly authentic Trump: - **Coined derogatory neologism:** "Unselect Committee" — an established Trump lexical invention, not aide-generated - **Quotation marks as mockery device:** "sick" in scare quotes - **Emphatic ALL CAPS:** "SHE" — emphasis through capitalization, classic Trump register - **Ellipses as breath/pause markers:** mid-sentence trailing - **Stream-of-consciousness mid-pivot:** transitions abruptly from steering wheel denial → food-throwing denial → motive imputation ("why would SHE have to clean it up") - **Associative rather than linear logic:** the rhetorical question about cleaning up is a non-sequitur as a rebuttal Location context: Trump was likely at Bedminster, NJ (summer residence), placing him at EDT (UTC-4) — 2:43 PM local. While daytime, the reactive, unpolished, emotionally pressured quality is inconsistent with professional aide drafting. The content is clearly reactive to live testimony occurring that same day. **Confidence: High (authentic Trump)** --- ## Critical Intra-Day Contradiction A significant analytical finding emerges from the same-day post cluster: this post asserts "I hardly knew who she was," while a contemporaneous post states "I personally turned her request down" (regarding Hutchinson's request to join the post-presidency Florida team). These statements are mutually exclusive — one cannot *personally* decline a request from someone one *hardly knew*. This contradiction within a single posting session suggests one of: (a) deliberate narrative flooding without tracking internal consistency (RAND Firehose model), (b) impulsive reactive posting in which each post constructs its own local logic without reference to prior claims, or (c) mild confabulation under acute stress. Explanations (a) and (b) are most parsimonious given the broader pattern. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger Classic narcissistic injury — the most acute available: public, televised congressional testimony alleging both impulsive aggression (food-throwing) and potentially criminal conduct (attempting to obstruct transfer of power). Both claims strike at the central self-construction as dominant, controlled, and powerful. The specificity and eyewitness quality of Hutchinson's account constitutes a high-severity exposure event. ### Narcissistic State Primarily **vulnerable** — persecuted, wounded, victimized by "sick" and "fraudulent" attack — with counter-attacking **grandiose** overlay. The post oscillates: "I am being falsely attacked" (vulnerable) → "the attacker is contemptible and I can destroy her credibility" (grandiose). This oscillation is characteristic of the grandiose/vulnerable cycling pattern. ### Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |-----------|-------|----------| | Denial | Pathological | Flat rejection: "Her Fake story," "also false" — no evidentiary engagement | | Rationalization | Neurotic | "Wouldn't even have been possible" — impossibility framing as substitute for counter-evidence | | Devaluation | Immature | "I hardly knew who she was" — repositions witness as peripheral, untrustworthy | | Projection | Immature | Labels the story "sick" — the adjective better describes the alleged conduct being denied | | DARVO | Immature | **D**eny (fake/false) → **A**ttack (phony, leaker, fraudulent) → **R**everse **V**ictim and **O**ffender (positioned as target of sick fraud) | | Splitting | Immature | Unambiguous good (Trump) vs. unambiguous evil (Hutchinson, the Committee) — no acknowledgment of complexity | ### Rage Assessment Narcissistic rage is present — intensity approximately 0.75. The reactive, pressured quality, the ALL CAPS emphasis on "SHE," and the rapid pivot between attack vectors suggest acute rather than calculated anger. The proportionality score is low: the response is dramatically escalated relative to what a non-threatened party would produce. The target is Hutchinson primarily, the Jan 6 Committee secondarily. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Preemptive labeling:** "Fake story," "fraudulent" before any substantive counter-argument — semantically forecloses engagement - **Derogatory neologism:** "Unselect Committee" — the label axiomatically delegitimizes; testimony before an "Unselect" body is ipso facto invalid, achieving epistemic closure through nomenclature alone - **Impossibility claim:** Appeals to alleged physical implausibility rather than evidence. Note that Secret Service agents disputed the *specific* steering-wheel account but not the broader confrontation; the impossibility framing overstates the rebuttal - **Witness character assassination via motive imputation:** "why would SHE have to clean it up" — implies Hutchinson's account is self-serving, shifting from substance to claimed motivation - **Delegitimizing via claimed unfamiliarity:** "I hardly knew who she was" — if credible, would undermine her proximity and thus her testimony; rendered non-credible by same-day self-contradiction - **Parenthetical asides as credibility attacks:** same-day cluster uses "(a total phony and 'leaker')" — parenthetical positioning implies these are established facts - **Question as rhetorical evasion:** "why would SHE have to clean it up?" — sounds like a substantive rebuttal but is actually a deflection; the answer is that staff routinely cleaned up after Trump regardless of who witnessed events --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion Multiple gaslighting vectors are active: - **Denial of documented events:** Food-throwing behavior is corroborated by multiple independent journalistic sources and White House staff accounts predating Hutchinson's testimony - **DARVO pattern:** Full sequence present — deny, attack Hutchinson's character aggressively, reverse victim/offender (Trump as victim of fraud) - **Epistemic closure via labeling:** "Unselect Committee" frames the entire inquiry as illegitimate, insulating followers from evidentiary engagement - **Rapid revisionism:** The "hardly knew her" claim revises the factual record in real time, contradicting her documented senior aide status --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "I hardly knew who she was" | **False** | Cassidy Hutchinson served as principal aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, documented as attending Oval Office meetings and present during significant January 6 deliberations. Same-day post by Trump states 'I personally turned her request down' — mutually exclusive with 'hardly knew her.' | | "Wouldn't even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing (grab steering wheel)" | **Half True** | Multiple Secret Service agents disputed the specific mechanics of Hutchinson's account, noting she received it second-hand from Agent Tony Ornato and was not in the vehicle. However, the broader confrontation about redirecting to the Capitol was not uniformly denied. 'Impossible' overstates the rebuttal; the account is disputed, not physically impossible. | | "Her story of me throwing food is also false" | **Mostly False** | Multiple independent journalistic sources (Bob Woodward, Carol Leonnig reporting; multiple White House staff accounts) documented a pattern of Trump throwing objects — plates, dishes, condiment bottles — when angered by news coverage, corroborated before Hutchinson's testimony. | Overall Veracity: 23% ## Danger Assessment No explicit threat language is present. However, the coordinated five-post same-day assault on a congressional witness during an active investigation — attacking her credibility, motives, character, and prior employment — constitutes witness intimidation dynamics with plausible deniability. The combination of (1) public denunciation of a specific named witness, (2) characterization as a "leaker" and "phony" (social punishment signals to Trump's community), and (3) publication to millions of followers creates a stochastic harassment vector even absent explicit direction. **Danger Level: Elevated** --- ## Archetypal Analysis The primary archetypes active in this post: - **Victim/Martyr:** Persecuted by a "sick" conspiracy, fraudulently attacked by someone he "hardly knew" - **Trickster:** "Unselect Committee" reframes the official government inquiry as the illegitimate actor - **Shadow projection:** The deception being attributed to Hutchinson ("fraudulent," "fake," "phony") mirrors the behavioral patterns the testimony describes in Trump The mythological narrative: *The Good King unjustly accused by disloyal courtiers and a corrupt inquisition.* --- ## Cognitive Status Baseline comparison would require earlier speech sample analysis, but within this post cluster, note: - Slightly tangential pivot structure (steering wheel → food → "why would SHE clean it up" → "I hardly knew her") - The non-sequitur rhetorical question as apparent rebuttal - Internal contradiction with same-day post suggests reduced working memory for cross-post consistency or deliberate inconsistency No discrete cognitive markers (paraphasia, confabulation, temporal confusion) are clearly present. The style is consistent with prior reactive posting patterns. Complexity score is moderate-low, consistent with post-2015 baseline rather than indicating acute decline. --- ## Summary This post represents a high-intensity narcissistic injury response to Cassidy Hutchinson's June 28, 2022 congressional testimony. Trump employs a full DARVO sequence — denial, aggressive character attack, and victim reversal — across five same-day posts. The stylometric evidence strongly supports authentic authorship despite business-hours timing. A critical intra-day contradiction (claiming to "hardly know" Hutchinson while also claiming to "personally" deny her travel request) reveals either deliberate narrative flooding without internal tracking or impulsive reactive posting that constructs local consistency without cross-post coherence. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial, devaluation, projection, and rationalization via impossibility claims. The "Unselect Committee" neologism achieves epistemic closure through nomenclature — the committee's illegitimacy is asserted definitionally, insulating followers from evidentiary engagement. The coordinated five-post witness attack on a named congressional witness constitutes elevated-level danger via stochastic harassment dynamics. Fact-checking yields false or mostly false verdicts on the post's central empirical claims. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - 'Unselect Committee' is an established Trump-coined neologism not used by aides - Quotation marks deployed as mockery device ('sick') - ALL CAPS emphasis on 'SHE' — characteristic Trump register - Ellipses as mid-sentence breath markers - Stream-of-consciousness pivot from steering wheel to food to 'why would SHE clean it up' ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Cassidy Hutchinson's congressional testimony alleging steering wheel grab and food-throwing) **Rage:** Intensity 75% targeting Cassidy Hutchinson; January 6 Select Committee - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.78 Baseline Deviation: slight **Mildly Hypomanic** - Pressured, reactive posting quality — five posts in rapid succession on single topic - ALL CAPS emotional emphasis mid-sentence - Reduced cross-post consistency monitoring (intra-day contradiction) - Escalating attack vectors within single post (steering wheel → food → 'why would she clean it → I hardly knew her') ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 73% - Sadism: 42% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - passive aggression (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% Cognitive Markers: - tangentiality **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address to follower base as witnesses to injustice - Validation-seeking through shared outrage at 'sick' accusations - Positioning followers as insiders who can see through the fraud the mainstream misses ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Five-post coordinated same-day attack on named congressional witness during active investigation - Public denunciation of witness to millions of followers constitutes stochastic harassment vector - Characterization as 'leaker' and 'phony' signals social punishment to community without explicit direction - Pattern of witness delegitimization across multiple posts may constitute intimidation dynamics with plausible deniability ### Gaslighting - Denial of food-throwing behavior corroborated by multiple independent journalistic sources predating testimony - DARVO sequence fully deployed: Deny → Attack Hutchinson → Reverse victim/offender positioning - 'Unselect Committee' framing achieves epistemic closure — any testimony before illegitimate body is ipso facto invalid - Intra-day contradiction ('hardly knew her' vs. 'personally turned down her request') constitutes rapid revisionism of own prior statement - Attacks on Hutchinson's perception and motive ('why would SHE have to clean it up') rather than substantive rebuttal ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > I hardly knew who she was **FALSE** Cassidy Hutchinson served as principal aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, documented as attending Oval Office meetings and present during significant January 6 deliberations. Same-day post by Trump states 'I personally turned her request down' — mutually exclusive with 'hardly knew her.' Sources: Congressional testimony record; Same-day Truth Social post ts_108556569476775945 cluster > Wouldn't even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing (grab steering wheel) **HALF TRUE** Multiple Secret Service agents disputed the specific mechanics of Hutchinson's account, noting she received it second-hand from Agent Tony Ornato and was not in the vehicle. However, the broader confrontation about redirecting to the Capitol was not uniformly denied. 'Impossible' overstates the rebuttal; the account is disputed, not physically impossible. Sources: Jan 6 Committee testimony record; Subsequent Secret Service agent statements > Her story of me throwing food is also false **MOSTLY FALSE** Multiple independent journalistic sources (Bob Woodward, Carol Leonnig reporting; multiple White House staff accounts) documented a pattern of Trump throwing objects — plates, dishes, condiment bottles — when angered by news coverage, corroborated before Hutchinson's testimony. Sources: Peril (Woodward/Costa); I Alone Can Fix It (Leonnig/Rucker); Multiple contemporaneous White House staff accounts Overall Veracity: 23% ## Tags - narcissistic_injury (95%) - DARVO (92%) - witness_delegitimization (88%) - january_6_committee (95%) - cassidy_hutchinson (95%) - epistemic_closure (85%) - intra_day_contradiction (82%) - devaluation (88%) - authentic_trump (87%) - denial (90%) - vulnerable_narcissistic_state (80%) - fact_check_false (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Hutchinson Testimony Triggers Sustained Defensive Barrage: 11 Posts in 105 Minutes** The day started quietly with late-night self-promotion and a morning victory lap on a Supreme Court ruling, but the mood shattered in the early afternoon when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson delivered bombshell testimony to the January 6 Committee. What followed was a prolonged, intense burst of attacks on Hutchinson's character, credibility, and motives — 11 posts in under two hours — cycling through denial, insults, and victimhood. The overall tone was defensive and reactive, with one notable self-contradiction: claiming not to know Hutchinson while also recounting personally rejecting her request to join his post-presidency staff. Full digest for 2022-06-28: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 28). Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108556569476775945 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of..." Truth Social, 28 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108556569476775945. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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