# Post ts_108631861306985870 - Post ID: `ts_108631861306985870` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-12T01:50:57.152Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108631861306985870 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108631861306985870/analysis ## Post text > https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2022/07/11/americans-want-trump-back-n2610005 ## Engagement - Likes: 27,868 - Reposts: 6,555 - Replies: 1,387 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:22:41.147Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: ts_108631861306985870 — URL-Only Post, July 12, 2022 ### Overview This post consists solely of a hyperlink to a Townhall opinion column by Jeff Crouere titled *"Americans Want Trump Back"* (July 11, 2022). The absence of any authored text renders conventional linguistic and cognitive analysis impossible. The post functions entirely as **passive supply-seeking** — the headline itself performs the psychological work, implicitly asserting Trump's indispensability and popular demand without requiring Trump to state it directly. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Location determination:** Trump held a major rally at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on July 12. Given rally logistics, he was likely in Alaska or en route on the evening of July 11. - **UTC posted:** 2022-07-12T01:50:57Z - **Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT = UTC−8):** July 11, 5:50 PM - **Eastern Daylight Time (EDT = UTC−4):** July 11, 9:50 PM If Trump was already in Alaska, 5:50 PM AKDT falls squarely in **business hours** — a moderate indicator of aide authorship. If still on the East Coast, 9:50 PM EDT is within the marginal zone between authentic late-evening posts and aide hours. The **absence of any personal commentary** is the more decisive signal. Authentic Trump posts — especially those affirming his popularity or attacking rivals — almost invariably contain emotional annotation: exclamation points, superlatives, ALL CAPS, or parenthetical editorializing. A bare URL with no text commentary is structurally more consistent with aide (Scavino) amplification protocols, where favorable media content is shared cleanly without personal editorializing. **Authorship confidence: low** — insufficient text evidence; lean toward aide-authored (score ~0.25). --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Insufficient text for confident trait assessment. The *selection* of this article reveals: - **Extraversion/Surgency**: consistent with dominant self-promotional orientation — choosing content that centers his own importance - **Agreeableness (low)**: absent here (no attack content either) - The choice of a validation-affirming article is consistent with documented **high neuroticism/negative affectivity** driving a compensatory need for supply --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Goals **Primary motive expressed: Agency/Power maintenance via validation** Sharing "Americans Want Trump Back" is a textbook **supply-seeking** maneuver — importing external validation to service the chronic admiration deficit characteristic of narcissistic personality organization. The headline does the grandiose claiming; Trump merely amplifies it. This provides plausible deniability (he didn't *say* he was wanted; the article says it) while still delivering the supply. **Schema revealed:** Self as indispensable national figure, passively confirmed by popular sentiment. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The Absent Hero — one whose absence is itself a wound to the nation - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination-to-pending-Redemption (America suffers without me; return is implied) - **Contrasting other:** Implicitly Biden, whose low approval ratings (documented in adjacent posts) frame Trump's desired return - **Identity claim (implicit):** *I am wanted. I am missed. The nation calls.* This is consistent with the **Hero/Savior archetype** operating in passive register — the savior whose return is anticipated rather than announced. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics:** - **Trigger:** Supply-seeking, possibly with secondary maintenance of relevance narrative - **State:** Grandiose (implicit; affirmed through third-party headline) - **Rage:** Absent in this post - **Defense mechanisms:** *Externalization* (having others make the grandiose claim); consistent with pattern of using media proxies to voice self-aggrandizement **Malignant narcissism components visible here:** - Narcissistic features: mild (supply-seeking) - Antisocial/paranoid/sadistic: absent in this post --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Technique:** Proxy grandiosity — letting a third-party headline perform the self-aggrandizing work - **Propaganda:** Implied false consensus ("Americans" = all Americans want this) - No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators - **Hyperbole**: embedded in article title ("Americans Want Trump Back" — sweeping generalization) --- ### Contextual Pattern (Longitudinal) The surrounding posts on this date form a coherent cluster: 1. Biden's approval at historic 29% low (Breitbart) 2. Wisconsin court ruling on drop boxes (electoral fraud grievance maintenance) 3. This post: "Americans Want Trump Back" Together they construct a **triptych narrative**: Biden is failing → the system was rigged → I am wanted back. Each post is a piece of the returning-savior mythology. The sequencing appears coordinated, suggesting aide involvement in the overall day's posting strategy. --- ### Cognitive Assessment **Insufficient data.** A URL-only post provides no language sample for cognitive analysis. No assessment of complexity, word-finding, or coherence is possible. Baseline comparison is not applicable here. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no targeting, no violent imagery, no mobilization language. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Americans want Trump back (implied universal sentiment)" | **Mostly False** | Mid-2022 aggregate polling showed deeply split public opinion on Trump return; no majority desire documented in reputable polls. Headline overstates one poll or opinion framing as national consensus. | | "Adjacent post: Biden approval at historic low of 29%" | **Half True** | Major polling aggregators placed Biden in high-30s approval range in July 2022. A 29% figure represents an outlier single poll, almost certainly from a Republican-leaning pollster. Aggregate low was approximately 36-38%. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - No personal text or commentary — bare URL only - Post time converts to 5:50 PM AKDT if Trump already in Alaska (business hours, aide-consistent) - Clean link-share format consistent with Scavino amplification protocol - Authentic Trump URL shares almost always include emotional annotation or superlatives - Counterpoint: 9:50 PM EDT if still on East Coast — marginal authentic zone ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (favorable media coverage affirming his political indispensability) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - proxy validation — importing external affirmation to bond audience to shared belief in his indispensability ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Americans want Trump back (implied universal sentiment) **MOSTLY FALSE** Mid-2022 aggregate polling showed deeply split public opinion on Trump return; no majority desire documented in reputable polls. Headline overstates one poll or opinion framing as national consensus. Sources: FiveThirtyEight polling aggregates, mid-2022 > Adjacent post: Biden approval at historic low of 29% **HALF TRUE** Major polling aggregators placed Biden in high-30s approval range in July 2022. A 29% figure represents an outlier single poll, almost certainly from a Republican-leaning pollster. Aggregate low was approximately 36-38%. Sources: FiveThirtyEight presidential approval tracker, July 2022 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - supply-seeking (80%) - proxy-grandiosity (70%) - returning-hero-narrative (70%) - aide-authored (60%) - url-only-post (90%) - coordinated-messaging (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Besieged by J6 Testimony and Musk's Defection, Trump Launches Multi-Front Devaluation Campaign** Trump spent the day in reactive mode, pushing back against the January 6 Committee's seventh hearing and Cassidy Hutchinson's damaging testimony with personal attacks and blanket denials. He repeatedly seized on a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling about ballot drop boxes, casting it as proof his stolen-election claims were right all along. The evening brought a sharp turn toward Elon Musk, who received a blistering four-post takedown after pulling out of the Twitter deal — including claims that Musk once begged on his knees for subsidies. The overall mood swung between vindication and victimhood, with anger flaring in the morning over January 6 and again in the evening over Musk. Full digest for 2022-07-12: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 12). https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2022/0... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108631861306985870 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2022/07/11/ameri..." Truth Social, 12 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108631861306985870. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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