# Post ts_108688705754022840 - Post ID: `ts_108688705754022840` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-22T02:47:14.583Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688705754022840 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688705754022840/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108688705754022840.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108677593396833263 The Unselects are embarrassed by their “performance” tonight! ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108677593396833263 (2022-07-20T03:41:13.468Z (UTC)) > Dershowitz: “Never seen anything like January 6th Panel.” It is a Fraud and a disgrace to America. No due process, no cross examinations, no opposing witnesses, no nothing! ## Engagement - Likes: 19,055 - Reposts: 4,815 - Replies: 993 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:36:58.170Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Composed at 10:47 PM EDT immediately following the January 6 Committee's 8th prime-time hearing — which documented Trump's 187-minute inaction — this brief post is a compressed narcissistic injury response executed with characteristic efficiency. The hearing constitutes a significant exposure event threatening Trump's self-narrative as a decisive leader; the response deploys three simultaneous defenses (denial, projection, devaluation) without engaging any substantive testimony. The neologism "Unselects" strips institutional legitimacy before the committee's evidence can be processed; scare-quoted "performance" repositions the hearing as theater rather than evidentiary record; and the DARVO reversal attributes embarrassment to the exposing party rather than the exposed. Authorship is highly likely authentic: late-night local timing, reactive brevity, signature lexical coinage, and a malformed URL from hasty composition all align with established Trump posting behavior. The post does not deviate markedly from his baseline injury-response template — it is a well-worn pattern executed reflexively. No danger indicators are present; the posture is contemptuous dismissal rather than mobilization. Clinically, the complete avoidance of substantive rebuttal — when the entire post could have been a factual counter-argument — is itself diagnostic: the grandiose self-structure cannot risk engagement with the content of the wound, so it erases the wound's legitimacy instead. # Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2022-07-22 (02:47 UTC) ## Situational Context This post was composed at approximately **10:47 PM EDT** on July 21, 2022, the night of the January 6 Committee's 8th prime-time hearing — focused on Trump's **187-minute inaction** during the Capitol attack. The hearing featured live testimony from Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews, both former senior White House officials, documenting Trump's refusal to call off rioters despite repeated pleas. Trump was in New York at the time, likely having attended Ivana Trump's funeral service earlier that day. The post is a retruth (RT) of an earlier same-day post (ID 108677593396833263), appended with a dismissive one-sentence comment. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is extremely brief but rich in trait signal: - **Low Agreeableness** (high): Contemptuous dismissal of a congressional proceeding; zero concession to the gravity of testimony - **High Neuroticism / Angry Hostility** (moderate): The post is controlled in tone, but the reactive timing and neologistic attack language signal underlying distress - **Low Conscientiousness / Deliberation**: Malformed URL (concatenated "The") indicates hasty composition without review - **Extraversion / Assertiveness**: Confident public stance despite exposure event --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive dominates**: The post is a pure status-preservation move. Rather than acknowledging the hearing's content, Trump reasserts dominance by repositioning the committee as the embarrassed party. The power schema is evident: the committee cannot embarrass him; therefore they have embarrassed themselves. **Schema of others**: The committee is delegitimized via neologism before any engagement with substance — consistent with a schema where institutional authority derives only from Trump's recognition of it. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Unassailable victor — watching from above as his accusers humiliate themselves - **Contrasting other**: "The Unselects" — a collectively dehumanized, institutionally illegitimate opposition - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination-reversal — what should be a contamination event (exposure hearing) is rhetorically reframed as a redemption beat (they failed, not me) - **Identity claim**: Implicit — I am unaffected; I am watching them fail The narrative violence here is structural: a hearing documenting 187 minutes of inaction is converted, in one sentence, into evidence of the committee's failure. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics The trigger is unambiguous: **narcissistic injury via exposure**. The 8th hearing focused specifically on Trump's failure to act — the opposite of the decisive, powerful self-image he projects. The response follows a predictable injury-response sequence: 1. **Devaluation of the exposing agent** ("Unselects," "performance") 2. **Projection of the negative affect** (they are embarrassed, not him) 3. **Complete avoidance of substantive engagement** (no counter-argument, no factual rebuttal) This is consistent with **Kohut's narcissistic rage model**: the response is not proportionate to a rational threat assessment but to a wound to the grandiose self-image. The brevity is not confidence — it is the structural inability to engage with the content of the wound. ### Defense Mechanism Hierarchy Three defenses operate simultaneously: - **Denial** (pathological level): The hearing's evidentiary content is simply erased — it becomes a "performance" - **Projection** (immature level): Embarrassment is attributed to the committee rather than processed internally - **Devaluation** (immature level): "Unselects" strips institutional authority before engagement This triple-layer stack is characteristic of the malignant narcissistic defensive structure: reality is not engaged but **replaced**. ### DARVO Pattern The post executes a compressed DARVO: - **Deny**: The hearing is a "performance," implying it lacks evidentiary standing - **Attack**: "Unselects" — the committee itself is illegitimate - **Reverse Victim and Offender**: They are embarrassed; he is the one with the audience watching their failure --- ## Cognitive Status Language is coherent and simple. "Unselects" is a perseverative neologism used repeatedly across posts — not indicative of acute cognitive disruption but of a fixed rhetorical habit. No word-finding difficulty or tangentiality evident. Syntactic complexity is low but within Trump's established baseline for brief reactive posts. The malformed URL is attributable to hasty platform mechanics (RT with comment) rather than cognitive error. --- ## Authorship Attribution **High confidence: authentic Trump.** Late-night local timing (10:47 PM EDT), reactive to a live broadcast event, signature neologism, malformed URL from hasty composition, and contemptuous brevity all point to authentic authorship. Aide-written posts from this period are grammatically complete, scheduled, and lack idiosyncratic lexical inventions. --- ## Rhetorical / Propaganda Analysis The single most significant rhetorical move is **delegitimization by naming**. "Unselects" is a persistent campaign waged across dozens of posts — each use trains the audience to perceive the committee as institutionally illegitimate before encountering any of its evidence. This is a textbook **epistemic closure** technique: the audience is pre-equipped with a dismissive frame that neutralizes incoming information. The scare-quoted "performance" reinforces this by repositioning the hearing in the theatrical rather than evidentiary register — it is entertainment, not testimony. --- ## Danger Assessment No violence indicators in this post. The rhetorical posture is contemptuous dismissal rather than mobilization. The committee is mocked, not targeted. **Danger level: none** for this specific post. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Unselects are embarrassed by their 'performance' tonight" | **Unverifiable** | This is a subjective characterization of the committee's internal emotional state and public reception. The 8th hearing featured credible former senior White House officials (Pottinger, Matthews) testifying under oath and was broadly covered as substantively significant. The claim of committee embarrassment is contradicted by public reception but not falsifiable as stated. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Longitudinal Note This post fits cleanly within Trump's established pattern of reactive late-night dismissal following adverse news events. The "Unselects" neologism is perseverative — appearing across multiple posts in this period. The defense stack (denial + projection + devaluation) is consistent with prior injury-response posts. No deviation from established baseline is present; this is a textbook specimen of his post-exposure response template. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - Posted at 02:47 UTC = approximately 10:47 PM EDT (Trump was in New York for Ivana's funeral services) — late-night window strongly consistent with authentic Trump posting behavior - Signature neologism 'Unselects' is a recurring, idiosyncratic Trump coinage not replicable by aides without deliberate mimicry - Reactive brevity following a prime-time televised event (Jan. 6 8th hearing) — highly consistent with impulsive, emotionally driven posting pattern - Malformed URL concatenation ('...263The') suggests hasty composition without editorial review - Scare quotes around 'performance' reflect characteristic contemptuous register ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee 8th prime-time hearing (187 minutes of inaction)) **Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting January 6 Select Committee - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 18% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective framing ('they are embarrassed') invites audience to share the contemptuous in-group perspective - Brevity signals confidence — modeling for followers that the hearing is unworthy of serious engagement ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Characterizing a documented congressional evidentiary hearing as a 'performance' attacks the audience's ability to trust the proceedings as legitimate - Projecting embarrassment onto the committee inverts the emotional reality of the hearing's findings about Trump - The neologism 'Unselects' is a persistent campaign to make followers distrust the committee's institutional authority before encountering its evidence ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > The Unselects are embarrassed by their 'performance' tonight **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a subjective characterization of the committee's internal emotional state and public reception. The 8th hearing featured credible former senior White House officials (Pottinger, Matthews) testifying under oath and was broadly covered as substantively significant. The claim of committee embarrassment is contradicted by public reception but not falsifiable as stated. Sources: January 6 Committee 8th Hearing record, July 21 2022 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - January 6 Committee (95%) - narcissistic_injury_response (88%) - DARVO (85%) - neologism_Unselects (80%) - delegitimization (78%) - epistemic_closure (75%) - projection (82%) - denial (80%) - devaluation (78%) - authentic_authorship (87%) - late_night_post (85%) - hearing_reaction (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **J6 Hearing Detonates 13-Post Midnight Barrage as Trump Targets Witnesses, Allies, and Institutions** Trump spent the evening glued to the January 6 Committee's prime-time hearing — the one that detailed his 187 minutes of inaction during the Capitol attack — and responded with a sustained late-night barrage targeting Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, a testifying former aide, and Jake Tapper. The mood was combative but visibly rattled, cracking open briefly with a raw "Am I supposed to be happy?" before snapping back to attack mode. The next morning brought a reset: favorable polls, legal arguments, and promotion of his Arizona rally. One notable slip stood out — he quoted a legal expert favorably, then hours later called the same man a "Rat" and a "coward." Full digest for 2022-07-22: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 22). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688705754022840 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 22 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688705754022840. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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