# Post ts_108669847725391188 - Post ID: `ts_108669847725391188` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-18T18:51:23.897Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108669847725391188 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108669847725391188/analysis ## Post text > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/rep-ronny-jackson-we-used-to-have-a-president-who-could-do-5-rallies-a-day/ ## Engagement - Likes: 17,949 - Reposts: 4,478 - Replies: 599 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:37:03.285Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2022-07-18 (URL Share, ts_108669847725391188) ### Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to an RSB Network article headlined *"Rep. Ronny Jackson: 'We Used to Have a President Who Could Do 5 Rallies a Day.'"* No original text accompanies the share. Psychological analysis must therefore be inferred entirely from content selection and context, with significant caveats about the limited signal available. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing**: 18:51 UTC → approximately **2:51 PM EDT**. In July, Trump customarily resides at Bedminster, NJ (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). Mid-afternoon is firmly within business hours. **Formal indicators**: No original text, no typos, no emotional punctuation, no ALL CAPS — the hallmarks of authentic Trump composition are entirely absent. A bare URL share is consistent with aide-mediated posting (Scavino or equivalent), likely acting on a general directive to amplify favorable coverage. **Caveat**: While execution is probably aide-assisted, the *content selection* perfectly mirrors Trump's documented preoccupations (physical stamina, proxy comparison with Biden, rehabilitation of former White House allies). The post may reflect Trump's instruction to share, with the aide simply dropping the link. **Confidence**: Medium. Timing and absence of original voice strongly suggest aide involvement; directive-level intent is likely Trump's own. --- ### Psychological Function: Proxy Narcissistic Supply This is a textbook instance of **proxy supply-seeking**. Rather than directly asserting his own physical vitality, Trump circulates a third party's claim on his behalf. The maneuver achieves narcissistic inflation (assertion of exceptional stamina) while preserving deniability about self-aggrandizement. This pattern — sharing laudatory material from loyalists, former officials, or friendly media — recurs throughout the Truth Social archive and represents a characteristic ego-maintenance routine. The source is notable: Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House physician and the official who provided Trump's laudatory health assessment in 2018. Jackson remains a reliable supplier of public flattery. Amplifying his voice serves a dual function: reinforcing the stamina-contrast narrative *and* rewarding loyalty, which functions as a public modeling of supply relationships. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity The article title does substantial narrative work on Trump's behalf: - **"We used to have"** — frames Biden's presidency as a diminished present, Trump's as a vigorous, competent past. This is a **contamination sequence** inverted: the contamination belongs to the successor; Trump represents the uncorrupted prior state. - **"5 rallies a day"** — hyperbolic but anchored in genuine behavior during the 2020 campaign's final days, when 2–4 events per day occurred. The figure reinscribes the **warrior/athlete protagonist** identity: boundless energy, physical mastery, dominance over circumstances. - **Contrasting other**: Biden is the unnamed, implied deficiency — the present against which the past heroic self is measured. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive**: **Agency/status** — the post is entirely about power-comparative standing. There is no communion content whatsoever. **Schema revealed**: Self as uniquely capable physical specimen; current leadership as inferior replacement; supporters as audience for this comparison. The "5 rallies" figure functions as a **dominance display** — stamina as proxy for fitness to lead. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five Facets) Indirect inference only: - **Extraversion (high)**: Performance of vitality; public assertion of stamina as leadership credential. - **Agreeableness (low)**: Implicit attack on successor's capacities via flattering contrast. - **Neuroticism**: Absent from this post's surface; no overt anxiety. However, the timing — the seventh Jan. 6 hearing was imminent (July 21), Ivana Trump had recently died — suggests underlying pressure. Supply-seeking often intensifies under threat. - **Openness**: Rigid (sharing a single, congruent media outlet; no engagement with competing frames). --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Projection (immature)**: Weakness and decline are implicitly attributed to Biden; Trump's own aging (76 years old, the same age Biden was when Trump's surrogates were discussing *Biden's* cognitive decline) is not engaged. - **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Framing the stamina comparison as factual, politically neutral observation rather than self-serving propaganda. - **Idealization (immature)**: Ronny Jackson — a figure of some controversy regarding the accuracy of his 2018 Trump health assessment — is implicitly positioned as a credible, objective authority. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The article title (not Trump's original words) employs: - **Implied false dichotomy**: Competent past vs. incapable present; no middle ground acknowledged. - **Appeal to nostalgia**: "We used to have" invokes loss and longing. - **Ad hominem by omission**: Biden is attacked not by name but by implication — the nameless, enfeebled contrast. - **Ethos by proxy**: A physician/congressman lends apparent credibility to what is functionally a campaign talking point. - **Hyperbole**: "5 rallies a day" likely exceeds documented reality (see fact check below). **Dehumanizing language**: Absent. **Violent imagery**: Absent. **Stochastic terrorism**: Absent. --- ### Cognitive Status **Assessment precluded.** The post contains no original language. No vocabulary, syntactic complexity, coherence, or production anomalies can be assessed. This limitation is itself worth flagging for longitudinal tracking: URL-only posts provide no cognitive signal and may represent a deliberate or incidental gap in the observational record. --- ### Context and Situational Dynamics On this date, the January 6 committee was preparing its seventh hearing (held July 21), focused specifically on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack. Steve Bannon's contempt trial had begun. Ivana Trump died around this period. Trump had announced his return to Washington for July 26. The sharing of a stamina-praising article in this environment is consistent with **defensive supply-seeking under threat**: political pressure (Jan. 6 hearings, Bannon trial) activating reassertion of physical/political vitality. The post does not directly engage any of these threats — which is itself notable. Rather than counter-punch, it offers a positive contrast frame. This may reflect aide-level judgment about messaging discipline, or Trump's own preference to stay on favorable terrain. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "A former president could do 5 rallies a day" | **Mostly False** | Trump held 2-4 events per day during the 2020 campaign's final stretch, which is documented and notable. No public record confirms 5 discrete rallies in a single calendar day. The figure inflates a factual core of high event volume into an undocumented extreme. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Posted at 2:51 PM EDT — business hours, consistent with aide-mediated posting - No original text, typos, emotional punctuation, or ALL CAPS — all absent - Bare URL format consistent with Scavino-style amplification - Content selection perfectly mirrors Trump's documented preoccupations (stamina, Biden contrast, Ronny Jackson loyalty reinforcement), suggesting Trump directive-level intent ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Ronny Jackson / RSB Network article) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - idealization (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Proxy validation through loyal surrogate (Jackson) - Implied inclusion of audience in 'we used to have' nostalgic framing ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > A former president could do 5 rallies a day **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump held 2-4 events per day during the 2020 campaign's final stretch, which is documented and notable. No public record confirms 5 discrete rallies in a single calendar day. The figure inflates a factual core of high event volume into an undocumented extreme. Sources: General knowledge of 2020 campaign schedule; no specific source required Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - proxy_narcissistic_supply (90%) - stamina_vitality_narrative (85%) - biden_implicit_contrast (80%) - aide_authored_likely (75%) - nostalgic_framing (70%) - ronny_jackson_loyalty_amplification (65%) - supply_seeking_under_pressure (60%) - url_only_no_original_text (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Quiet deflection day as Jan 6 hearings and Bannon trial loom** An unusually quiet day with just four posts, all mild in tone and none showing any anger. The morning opened with a lengthy pitch for LIV Golf — a league that pays his golf clubs hosting fees — framed as friendly advice to holdout players. The afternoon brought two quick shares: one amplifying a Breitbart story about Starbucks closures in Democrat-run cities, and another boosting a former White House physician praising his rally stamina. Most notable was what he didn't talk about — the January 6 committee held a major hearing that day focused on his 187 minutes of inaction during the Capitol attack, and Steve Bannon's contempt trial was underway, yet neither topic was mentioned at all. Full digest for 2022-07-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-18/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 18). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/rep-ronny-jackson-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108669847725391188 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/rep-ronny-jackson-we-used-to..." Truth Social, 18 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108669847725391188. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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