# Post ts_108560759613983127

- Post ID: `ts_108560759613983127`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-06-29T12:28:51.419Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108560759613983127
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108560759613983127/analysis
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## Post text

> The last thing that J.B. Pritzker, considered by many to be the worst Governor in the Country, wanted, was to run against Darren Bailey, a very popular State Senator with a big, beautiful and powerful base, who won the Republican nomination in a landslide last night. With all the Crime and Lockdowns going on in Illinois, with people fleeing to other States, Bailey will WIN!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T12:19:52.553Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2022-06-29T12:28:51Z

### Contextual Frame

This post is one of several election-night victory-lap posts published on June 29, 2022, the morning after Illinois Republican primaries in which Trump-endorsed candidates Darren Bailey (governor) and Mary Miller (Congress) prevailed. Trump had personally campaigned at a Quincy, Illinois rally days prior in extreme heat, making this a direct investment of his political capital. The post functions primarily as a supply-acquisition maneuver: claiming kingmaker status through association with Bailey's win.

The broader context is notable: Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell January 6 testimony had just concluded the previous day, delivering what may have been the most damaging direct-witness account of Trump's conduct to date. The simultaneous posting pattern — attacking Hutchinson's credibility aggressively in one post while flooding Truth Social with Illinois victory content — is consistent with a classic narcissistic defensive strategy: overwhelm the information environment with positive supply to counteract narcissistic injury.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (very high):** The post is assertive, declarative, and energized — "Bailey will WIN!" is an exclamatory statement of certainty. Positive affect is dominant throughout.

**Agreeableness (very low):** Pritzker is summarily devalued — "worst Governor in the Country," "obnoxious" (in the companion post). No acknowledgment of complexity or opposing perspective.

**Conscientiousness (moderate-low):** The post shows goal-directed behavior (promoting endorsed candidate, claiming credit) but the style is impulsive and superlative-laden rather than deliberate.

**Neuroticism (low in this post):** Unlike the adjacent Hutchinson-rebuttal posts, this post exhibits low anxious hostility. The grandiose state is ascendant here.

**Openness (low):** Conventional political attack framing; rigid us/them schema with no nuance.

**Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (extraversion sub-facet), combined with low agreeableness producing the characteristic blend of expansive self-promotion and opponent devaluation.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives (dominant):** Power and status are the driving forces. The post positions Trump as the decisive political force — Pritzker *feared* Bailey, implicitly because Bailey carries Trump's backing. The kingmaker role is being claimed, not merely implied.

**Communion motives (minimal):** The "base" is invoked instrumentally ("big, beautiful and powerful base") as evidence of Trump's power rather than as genuine communal identification.

**Core schemas visible:**
- *Self-schema:* The indispensable endorser; without Trump's backing, Bailey's win is incomplete or less meaningful. Political success flows through him.
- *Other-schema (ally):* Bailey is "very popular," has a powerful base — valued insofar as he wins, validating Trump's endorsement.
- *Other-schema (enemy):* Pritzker is the worst, feared, and obnoxious — pure devaluation with no complexity.
- *World-schema:* Illinois is a state in crisis (crime, lockdowns, flight) requiring rescue, which only Trump-aligned candidates can provide.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Kingmaker and prophet. Trump frames the race as one in which his endorsed candidate poses an existential threat to an incumbent governor who *did not want* to face him — the subtext being that Trump's choice of Bailey was strategically devastating to the opposition.

**Redemption sequence:** The J6 testimony (contamination event) is being narratively counterweighted in real time. These parallel posts construct a redemption arc: while political enemies attack him, his endorsed candidates sweep primaries, proving his continuing power and relevance.

**Identity claims:**
- "I choose winners"
- "My endorsement is feared by establishment Democrats"
- "I correctly read the electorate"

**Contrasting other:** Pritzker serves as a symbol of failed Democratic governance — crime, lockdowns, population exodus. Bailey becomes the vehicle through which Trump's political philosophy is vindicated.

**Narrative sequence:** Redemption — the post participates in a broader arc where attacks (Hutchinson testimony) are absorbed and countered by demonstrations of continuing power.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic features (moderate-high):** Grandiosity is present in the kingmaker framing. The use of weasel-phrase credentialing ("considered by many to be the worst") is characteristic — it asserts a claim while maintaining plausible deniability about its source. Entitlement to credit for Bailey's win is implied throughout.

**B. Antisocial features (low in this post):** No overt deceit or rule-violation content here; this is a relatively benign political boosterism post.

**C. Paranoid features (minimal):** The Hutchinson post from the same session carries the paranoid load; this post is in the grandiose register.

**D. Ego-syntonic sadism (mild):** The pleasure in informing Pritzker that his "last thing" (fear) has come to pass has a mild triumphalist/taunting quality — Pritzker's anxiety is invoked and enjoyed, not merely noted.

#### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking combined with supply-generation. The Illinois primary win provides external validation of Trump's political influence, which is urgently needed given the Hutchinson testimony injury occurring simultaneously.

**Narcissistic rage:** Absent in this specific post. Rage is being discharged in the adjacent Hutchinson post; here the grandiose pole is active.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. The oscillation between vulnerable (Hutchinson post) and grandiose (this post) within the same posting session is diagnostically notable as a real-time display of narcissistic state cycling.

#### Defense Mechanisms

**Devaluation (immature):** Pritzker is not merely criticized but categorically dismissed as "the worst" — no specific policy critique is offered, only rank ordering in a hierarchy of failure.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The narrative logic ("Bailey has a powerful base + Pritzker feared him = Bailey will win") provides a quasi-logical frame for what is essentially wishful/supply-generating declaration.

**Displacement (neurotic):** The Hutchinson-triggered narcissistic injury is being managed by flooding the information environment with unrelated political victories — redirecting attention and self-focus away from the threatening content.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local time calculation:** UTC 12:28 → EDT (UTC-4) = 8:28 AM. Trump's location on June 29 was most likely New York (Trump Tower) or possibly en route from his Illinois rally travel. Either way, 8:28 AM Eastern is morning hours — within the plausible range for both Trump (known to consume morning news and post reactively) and aide-authored content.

**Authentic Trump markers present:**
- "big, beautiful and powerful" — classic Trump triple-adjective alliterative construction
- "considered by many to be the worst" — signature weasel-phrase credentialing
- Declarative certainty: "Bailey will WIN!" with exclamation
- Superlative stacking throughout

**Aide markers (weak):**
- Relatively complete sentence structure
- No misspellings
- Coherent argumentative flow

**Assessment:** Leans authentic Trump, confidence medium-high. The "big, beautiful" formulation is a near-fingerprint; the emotional energy and declarative certainty are consistent with an endorsing candidate's morning-after triumph post. The absence of typos is notable but not disqualifying — Trump's posts are occasionally clean. The morning timing is consistent with his documented habit of posting during cable news consumption.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Hyperbole and superlatives:** "worst Governor in the Country," "big, beautiful and powerful base," "landslide," "WIN!" — saturation of superlatives eliminates nuance and substitutes emotional intensity for evidence.

**False certainty:** "Bailey will WIN!" stated as fact. *Note: Bailey lost the November 2022 general election to Pritzker by approximately 13 percentage points — making this confident prediction empirically false.*

**Weasel-phrase credentialing:** "considered by many to be" provides asserted authority without named source. This is a consistent Trump rhetorical pattern allowing him to assert claims while being technically non-falsifiable.

**Grievance enumeration:** "Crime and Lockdowns," "people fleeing to other States" — stacking grievances to construct a crisis narrative that demands a corrective champion.

**Preemptive narrative framing:** Framing the general election as already won ("Bailey will WIN!") attempts to manufacture inevitability — a propaganda technique that shapes perception by asserting a foregone conclusion.

**Ad hominem:** Pritzker is characterized personally ("obnoxious," "worst") rather than critiqued on policy.

**Propaganda techniques:** Appeal to fear (crime, lockdowns), appeal to populist grievance (people fleeing the state), false certainty, bandwagon implication (Bailey has a "powerful base").

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Minimal in this specific post. No documented reality denial, DARVO, or epistemic manipulation targeted at followers. The false certainty ("Bailey will WIN!") may retrospectively constitute a form of reality distortion, but at time of posting it reads as motivated optimism rather than deliberate gaslighting.

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### Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** This is a political endorsement post with no violent imagery, eliminationist language, dehumanizing content, or mobilization signals. The Pritzker criticism is robust but falls within normal political attack parameters.

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### Cognitive Status

**Complexity:** Moderate-low. Sentence structure is complete but syntactically simple. Vocabulary is within Trump's documented baseline (superlatives, epithets, declarative assertions). No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or significant tangentiality observed.

**Baseline deviation:** None. This post is fully consistent with Trump's documented rhetorical baseline for endorsement victory posts.

**Perseveration note:** "Big, beautiful" and superlative stacking are habitual rather than indicative of perseveration in a clinical sense — these are Trump's standard stylistic tics.

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### Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning:** Order restorer. Trump presents Bailey as the corrective force for Illinois's governance failures (crime, lockdowns, outmigration). The implicit frame: Democratic governance = chaos; Trump-endorsed Republican governance = restoration of proper order.

**Grievance mapping:** Illinois's crime rate, COVID-era lockdown policies, and population loss are invoked as conditions requiring correction. Intensity is moderate — this is campaign rhetoric rather than acute grievance.

**Hierarchy dynamics:** Pritzker's status is diminished (worst governor); Bailey's is elevated (popular, powerful base); Trump's is reinforced as the kingmaker whose choice is feared by incumbents.

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### Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: King/Kingmaker.** Trump is not positioning himself as the fighter or warrior in this post — he is the sovereign whose endorsement confers legitimacy and power. The phrasing "the last thing Pritzker wanted" invokes the king's ability to shift the political landscape by choosing champions.

**Secondary archetype: Prophet/Oracle.** "Bailey will WIN!" is delivered with prophetic certainty — not argued but declared. The prophet speaks truth before it is manifest.

**Shadow projection:** Pritzker carries the projected shadow — incompetence, overreach (lockdowns), association with urban decay (crime). What Trump disowns about governance failure is attributed entirely to the Democratic incumbent.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Bailey won the Republican nomination in a landslide last night" | **Half True** | Bailey won the Illinois GOP gubernatorial primary with approximately 57% of the vote. A solid win, but 'landslide' is hyperbolic for a multi-candidate primary where the runner-up received meaningful support. |
| "J.B. Pritzker [is] considered by many to be the worst Governor in the Country" | **Unverifiable** | A subjective characterization without attribution. Pritzker had low approval ratings among Illinois Republicans but no credible ranking of 'worst Governor' is cited. The weasel-phrase 'considered by many' obscures the claim's source. |
| "people fleeing to other States [from Illinois]" | **Mostly True** | Illinois has experienced consistent net domestic outmigration for multiple consecutive years. U.S. Census data confirms Illinois loses population to other states annually, though the framing implies panic-level exodus rather than a gradual trend. |
| "Bailey will WIN [the general election]" | **False** | Retrospectively false. Pritzker defeated Bailey in the November 2022 general election by approximately 13 percentage points (54.5% to 41.7%), a decisive margin well outside polling error. The confident prediction was substantially wrong. |

Overall Veracity: 45%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 'big, beautiful and powerful' — near-fingerprint Trump triple-adjective construction
- 'considered by many to be' — signature weasel-phrase credentialing pattern
- Declarative exclamatory certainty: 'Bailey will WIN!'
- Superlative stacking throughout consistent with Trump's rhetorical baseline
- 8:28 AM EDT timing is plausible for morning news-reaction posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Illinois primary victory for endorsed candidates)

Sentiment: +0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- displacement (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victory association — followers share in the win and feel validated through Trump's endorsement success
- Grievance validation — Illinois residents' concerns about crime and outmigration are named and legitimized
- Certainty provision — 'Bailey will WIN!' offers followers confident resolution amid political uncertainty

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> Bailey won the Republican nomination in a landslide last night

**HALF TRUE**

Bailey won the Illinois GOP gubernatorial primary with approximately 57% of the vote. A solid win, but 'landslide' is hyperbolic for a multi-candidate primary where the runner-up received meaningful support.

Sources: Illinois State Board of Elections, June 28 2022 primary results

> J.B. Pritzker [is] considered by many to be the worst Governor in the Country

**UNVERIFIABLE**

A subjective characterization without attribution. Pritzker had low approval ratings among Illinois Republicans but no credible ranking of 'worst Governor' is cited. The weasel-phrase 'considered by many' obscures the claim's source.

> people fleeing to other States [from Illinois]

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Illinois has experienced consistent net domestic outmigration for multiple consecutive years. U.S. Census data confirms Illinois loses population to other states annually, though the framing implies panic-level exodus rather than a gradual trend.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates; Illinois Policy Institute outmigration data

> Bailey will WIN [the general election]

**FALSE**

Retrospectively false. Pritzker defeated Bailey in the November 2022 general election by approximately 13 percentage points (54.5% to 41.7%), a decisive margin well outside polling error. The confident prediction was substantially wrong.

Sources: Illinois State Board of Elections, November 2022 general election results

Overall Veracity: 45%

## Tags

- endorsement-victory (90%)
- supply-seeking (85%)
- kingmaker-narrative (85%)
- devaluation (70%)
- illinois-primary-2022 (90%)
- grandiose-state (75%)
- false-certainty (70%)
- state-oscillation (65%)
- grievance-enumeration (60%)

## That day

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

**Triumph and Fury: Primary Wins Can't Drown Out Hutchinson Rage**

Trump spent the day ricocheting between celebrating a clean sweep of endorsed candidates in Illinois primaries and mounting a sustained, multi-post attack on Cassidy Hutchinson following her blockbuster January 6th Committee testimony. The mood was split-screen: victory laps for Darren Bailey and Mary Miller alternated with furious character assassination of Hutchinson, who was called a liar, a "phony social climber," and dehumanized as simply "the woman." The most troubling pattern was the repeated targeting of a private citizen across at least four posts to millions of followers — creating conditions for harassment without any explicit call to action. By afternoon, the fury had cooled into a single staff-written endorsement, but the morning's rage over Hutchinson showed no sign of resolution.

Full digest for 2022-06-29: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 29). The last thing that J.B. Pritzker, considered by... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108560759613983127
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The last thing that J.B. Pritzker, considered by many to be..." Truth Social, 29 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108560759613983127. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The last thing that J.B. Pritzker, considered by many to be...," Truth Social, June 29, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108560759613983127.

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