# Post ts_108685115915257787 - Post ID: `ts_108685115915257787` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-21T11:34:18.057Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108685115915257787 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108685115915257787/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108685115915257787.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > So the Democrats, RINOS, and almost ALL others said that Mike Pence, or any V.P., had absolutely no right to do anything but send the “Votes” to the Old Broken Crow, Mitch McConnell, even if they were fraudulent, corrupt, or highly irregular. The V.P. was merely a “human conveyer belt” and could do nothing. BUT NOW, the DEMS & RINOS are working to pass a Bill that stops the V.P. from doing what he was not allowed, according to them, to do. It was all a “Big Lie.” Should have sent back to States! ## Engagement - Likes: 29,058 - Reposts: 9,723 - Replies: 1,474 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:41:56.410Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Published the morning of Ivana Trump's funeral, this post pivots without segue from bereavement to a sophistic defense of the January 6 electoral subversion strategy. Trump constructs a reversed-burden argument: Congress passing the Electoral Count Reform Act (clarifying the VP's ministerial role) is reframed as an admission that the VP actually possessed discretionary power, thereby proving he was right all along. This is rationalization operating at notable structural sophistication: institutional opposition becomes retroactive vindication. The centerpiece rhetorical maneuver is a DARVO inversion of "Big Lie" — a term coined specifically to describe Trump's election fraud claims — applied here to opponents' characterization of January 6. The derogatory epithet "Old Broken Crow" for McConnell reflects mild sadistic pleasure in diminishing adversaries through mockery. Post timing (7:34 AM ET) and stylistic markers (misspelling "conveyer," scare quotes, ALL CAPS, invented nickname) confirm authentic authorship. The grief compartmentalization — political grievance content on the morning of his first wife's funeral — suggests the electoral injury operates as a persistent, near-autonomous preoccupation overriding situational affect. Most clinically notable is the terminal declarative: "Should have sent back to States!" — retroactive advocacy for the mechanism at the core of January 6, normalized and expressed without apparent awareness of its gravity. Danger level elevated; no immediate incitement but continued legitimization of anti-democratic procedures within a still-active grievance ecosystem. ## Post Analysis: ts_108685115915257787 — July 21, 2022 ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 11:34 UTC = **7:34 AM Eastern Time**. Trump was in New York City for Ivana Trump's funeral, confirmed by the prior post sequence ("I will be leaving shortly for the funeral service"). Early-morning local time is consistent with authentic Trump authorship. Corroborating stylistic indicators: invented derogatory epithet "Old Broken Crow" (novel variation on his established "Old Crow" nickname for McConnell), misspelling "conveyer" (standard: conveyor), scare quotes throughout, ALL CAPS pivot ("BUT NOW"), and stream-of-consciousness logical construction. **Assessment: Authentic Trump. High confidence.** --- ### Context and Occasion This post was published on the morning of Ivana Trump's funeral — hours after "REST IN PEACE IVANA!!!" The absence of any emotional bridge between the two posts is psychologically striking. The pivot to a dense electoral-procedural grievance on this personally significant day suggests either profound compartmentalization or that the January 6 injury now functions as a near-autonomous cognitive preoccupation that overrides situational affect regulation. --- ### Core Argument and Rhetorical Structure Trump deploys a **sophistic syllogism**: 1. The establishment said the VP had no power to do anything but transmit votes. 2. Congress is now passing a bill explicitly constraining that power. 3. Therefore, the establishment lied — there was power to be exercised. This argument has superficial logical coherence but is materially false: the Electoral Count Reform Act was designed to codify explicitly what was already considered implicit constitutional convention — the VP's purely ministerial role — specifically to close the ambiguity that Trump's legal team had tried to exploit. Clarification of existing law does not equal admission of previously concealed discretionary authority. The **"Big Lie" inversion** is the centerpiece rhetorical maneuver. The term was coined precisely to describe Trump's election fraud claims. He re-appropriates it and applies it to his opponents' characterization of January 6, completing a DARVO cycle: Deny the wrongdoing, Attack the narrative, Reverse Victim and Offender. The term is inverted, weaponized, and returned to the accuser. The closing declarative — "Should have sent back to States!" — is not rhetorical; it is sincere retroactive advocacy for the mechanism at the core of the January 6 plot, expressed casually and without apparent awareness of its gravity. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, attention-seeking, combative register throughout. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Contemptuous labeling, adversarial framing of bipartisan consensus. - **Conscientiousness (low-moderate):** Somewhat structured argument for Trump, but built on a distorted premise. - **Neuroticism (high):** Angry hostility is the dominant affective tone; grievance-driven content. - **Openness (low):** Rigid, ideologically sealed worldview; counter-factual interpretations treated as settled truths. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate overwhelmingly.** Power, status, and control are the operative drives. The post constructs a world in which Trump's authority was illegitimately constrained by a conspiratorial establishment. There is no communion motive evident. **Schema:** Self = righteous actor whose correct judgment was suppressed by lying elites. Others = an undifferentiated conspiratorial mass. World = a system rigged against legitimate authority. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Wronged prophet — the one who knew the correct course of action and was prevented by institutional liars. - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination. A potential victory (the chance to challenge certification) was betrayed and suppressed by the establishment; now the legislative record "proves" the betrayal. - **Identity claims:** "I was right about VP constitutional power"; "The real Big Lie belongs to my opponents"; "I should have acted more decisively." - **Contrasting other:** "Democrats, RINOs, and almost ALL others" — a deliberately expansive coalition of enemies that includes nominal allies, intensifying the persecution narrative. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic State: Mixed grandiose/vulnerable.** Grandiose pole: retroactive self-vindication ("Should have sent back to States!"). Vulnerable pole: surrounded by liars, even his own party conspired against him. **Trigger:** The Electoral Count Reform Act represents an institutional response that forecloses the exact mechanism Trump's team deployed — a **narcissistic injury of the exposure type**. **Narcissistic Rage:** Present at moderate intensity. Cold and litigious rather than explosive — characteristic of the grievance-processing phase following injury. Proportionality is low. **Defense Mechanisms:** - **Rationalization (neurotic):** ECRA reframed as proof of original correctness. - **Projection (immature):** "Big Lie" attributed to opponents. - **Reaction formation (neurotic):** Institutional opposition becomes evidence of his righteousness. - **Splitting (immature):** All others collapsed into a unified conspiratorial mass. **Malignant Narcissism Assessment:** - Narcissistic features: 0.75 — grandiosity, entitlement, zero empathy for democratic norms. - Antisocial features: 0.55 — retroactive advocacy for procedures bypassing rule of law. - Paranoid features: 0.65 — near-universal enemy coalition; legislation read as persecution. - Sadism: 0.30 — "Old Broken Crow" carries mild delight in diminishing McConnell. --- ### Cognitive Assessment Within baseline parameters. The argument maintains internal coherence. "Conveyer" is a minor production misspelling. No word-finding difficulties, confabulation, or temporal confusion. **No baseline deviation.** --- ### Danger Assessment: ELEVATED No explicit violent imagery. However: retroactive legitimization of J6 electoral subversion strategy; "Should have sent back to States!" is unambiguous advocacy for the J6 procedural mechanism; continued delegitimization of institutional responses sustains the grievance ecosystem from which political violence has previously emerged. --- ### Archetypal Reading **Primary: Trickster/Warrior hybrid.** The Trickster exploits logical ambiguity in the legislative record to construct an inversion of meaning. The Warrior frames in perpetual combat terms. "Old Broken Crow" is pure Trickster energy — ridicule as dominance. Shadow projection: Trump's own procedural manipulation attributed entirely to the "liars" now seeking to close the loophole. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Democrats, RINOs, and almost ALL others said the VP had absolutely no right to do anything but send votes to Mitch McConnell" | **Mostly True** | The broad bipartisan consensus including constitutional scholars, congressional leadership, and the VP's own counsel held that the VP's role in certifying electoral votes is purely ministerial. The framing of votes going to McConnell is informal and inaccurate: votes go to Congress as a whole, with the VP presiding. The underlying legal claim about the ministerial role is accurate. | | "DEMS and RINOS are working to pass a Bill that stops the VP from doing what he was not allowed according to them to do" | **Mostly False** | The Electoral Count Reform Act was designed to codify in explicit statutory language what was previously considered implicit constitutional convention, specifically to prevent future exploitation of ambiguity that Trump's legal team had tried to exploit. Passing a clarifying law is not logically equivalent to admitting the prior position was wrong. The distortion frames codification as contradiction. | | "It was all a Big Lie" | **False** | Trump appropriates the term Big Lie which was coined specifically to describe his election fraud claims. Applying it to the January 6 accountability narrative inverts its established meaning. January 6 occurred and was extensively documented on live television and in congressional record. The bipartisan legislative and investigative response to it is not a fabrication. | Overall Veracity: 33% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - 7:34 AM Eastern time in local timezone consistent with authentic Trump early-morning posting window - Misspelling conveyer (standard: conveyor) - Invented derogatory epithet Old Broken Crow as novel variation on established Old Crow nickname for McConnell - Pervasive scare quotes around Votes, human conveyer belt, Big Lie - ALL CAPS pivot BUT NOW mid-post ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Electoral Count Reform Act bipartisan legislation codifying VP ministerial role, institutionally foreclosing the strategy deployed on January 6) **Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Democrats, RINOs, Mitch McConnell, bipartisan establishment - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.58 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Early morning posting on a day of personal family bereavement with no emotional decompression between grief post and political grievance post - Pressured argumentative quality with dense procedural content compressed into a single continuous rhetorical thrust - Affect override on day of Ivana funeral consistent with mild pressured preoccupation state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - reaction formation (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - shared grievance framing against bipartisan establishment - us-vs-them coalition construction - validation-seeking through conspiracy narrative inversion - epistemic closure where ECRA is offered as proof of prior deception ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Retroactive legitimization of January 6 electoral certification subversion strategy - Should have sent back to States is unambiguous advocacy for the procedural mechanism at the core of the J6 plot expressed without apparent awareness of gravity - Continued delegitimization of 2020 outcome, bipartisan legislative response, and J6 investigation sustains grievance ecosystem from which political violence has previously emerged - DARVO framing of J6 accountability as the real Big Lie normalizes rejection of democratic oversight ### Gaslighting - Big Lie term appropriation and inversion: term coined to describe Trump election fraud claims redirected at opponents - Electoral Count Reform Act reframed as admission of hidden VP power rather than codification of existing consensus - Bipartisan clarifying legislation characterized as conspiracy and lie - January 6 accountability narrative characterized as fiction via term inversion ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Democrats, RINOs, and almost ALL others said the VP had absolutely no right to do anything but send votes to Mitch McConnell **MOSTLY TRUE** The broad bipartisan consensus including constitutional scholars, congressional leadership, and the VP's own counsel held that the VP's role in certifying electoral votes is purely ministerial. The framing of votes going to McConnell is informal and inaccurate: votes go to Congress as a whole, with the VP presiding. The underlying legal claim about the ministerial role is accurate. Sources: Constitutional law consensus pre-January 6; Pence counsel Greg Jacob analysis; DOJ Office of Legal Counsel > DEMS and RINOS are working to pass a Bill that stops the VP from doing what he was not allowed according to them to do **MOSTLY FALSE** The Electoral Count Reform Act was designed to codify in explicit statutory language what was previously considered implicit constitutional convention, specifically to prevent future exploitation of ambiguity that Trump's legal team had tried to exploit. Passing a clarifying law is not logically equivalent to admitting the prior position was wrong. The distortion frames codification as contradiction. Sources: Electoral Count Reform Act S 4573 117th Congress; Bipartisan Senate negotiations July 2022 > It was all a Big Lie **FALSE** Trump appropriates the term Big Lie which was coined specifically to describe his election fraud claims. Applying it to the January 6 accountability narrative inverts its established meaning. January 6 occurred and was extensively documented on live television and in congressional record. The bipartisan legislative and investigative response to it is not a fabrication. Sources: Congressional Record January 6 2021; J6 Committee documented evidence; Multiple court proceedings confirming the events Overall Veracity: 33% ## Tags - january-6 (92%) - electoral-count-reform-act (88%) - election-denial (87%) - DARVO (82%) - big-lie-inversion (85%) - narcissistic-injury (72%) - grief-compartmentalization (68%) - mike-pence (75%) - mitch-mcconnell (62%) - ivana-trump-funeral (35%) - rationalization (78%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grief for Ivana eclipsed within minutes as January 6 preoccupation dominates funeral-week posting** The day opened with a brief, raw expression of grief over Ivana Trump's death, but within an hour Trump had pivoted to defending his actions around January 6 and promoting political allies. The morning cluster of posts mixed bereavement with endorsements and election grievances, while an afternoon post returned to January 6 with increased intensity -- likely anticipating that evening's prime-time committee hearing on his 187 minutes of inaction. The speed with which personal loss gave way to political combat was the day's most striking feature. Full digest for 2022-07-21: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 21). So the Democrats, RINOS, and almost ALL others... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108685115915257787 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "So the Democrats, RINOS, and almost ALL others said that..." Truth Social, 21 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108685115915257787. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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