# Post ts_108709669681083624 - Post ID: `ts_108709669681083624` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-25T19:38:38.718Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108709669681083624 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108709669681083624/analysis ## Post text > https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-gave-explicit-order-about-jan-6-rally-make-sure-it-was-safe-event-dod ## Engagement - Likes: 20,381 - Reposts: 6,758 - Replies: 687 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.438Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:42:24.010Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A bare-URL repost to a Just the News article claiming Trump gave DOD explicit orders to make January 6 a safe event. Posted at 3:38 PM EDT (business hours) with no original text — high-confidence aide-curated content, not authentic Trump voice. Psychologically significant as a counter-narrative response to the January 6 Committee's prime-time 187-minutes hearing aired days earlier, representing legitimacy repair following a severe narcissistic injury. Defense mechanisms include denial and rationalization, laundered through a favorable outlet to preserve deniability. The central factual claim is mostly false per the documentary and testimonial record. No danger indicators. The post is best understood as a node in a systematized communications operation rather than unmediated psychological expression. ## Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2022-07-25T19:38:38Z ### Overview This post consists entirely of a hyperlink to a *Just the News* article (John Solomon's conservative outlet), with no original text authored by the poster. The article's slug encodes its thesis: Trump gave DOD an explicit order to keep the January 6 rally a "safe event." The post is a pure counter-narrative artifact, directly responsive to the House January 6 Select Committee's 8th hearing (the "187 minutes" hearing), which aired in prime time and focused squarely on Trump's documented inaction during the Capitol breach. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timestamp analysis:** 19:38 UTC on July 25, 2022. Trump's likely location was the New York–New Jersey corridor (Bedminster, NJ is his summer residence; Ivana Trump's funeral at St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan was July 20, placing him in the area). Eastern Daylight Time = UTC−4, yielding **3:38 PM EDT** — solidly mid-afternoon business hours. **Stylistic indicators:** The post contains zero original text — no preamble, no commentary, no emotional punctuation, no ALL CAPS. This is atypical of authentic Trump posts, which characteristically include at minimum an exclamatory frame ("So TRUE!", "READ THIS!", "WITCH HUNT!"). The surrounding posts that day show the same pattern of bare-URL shares from right-wing outlets (Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial), consistent with a curated content queue managed by a communications aide (most plausibly Dan Scavino or a similar social media director). **Verdict:** High confidence this is **aide-curated/posted**, not authentic Trump. The business-hours timing, absence of any original voice, and clean single-link format are all Scavino-pattern indicators. --- ### Psychological State and Trigger Analysis Although the post lacks Trump's own language, the *selection* of this specific article at this specific moment is psychologically informative. **Trigger:** The January 6 Committee's 8th hearing ("187 minutes") had aired approximately 72 hours prior and dominated news coverage through the weekend. The hearing presented testimony from Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews documenting Trump's refusal to call off rioters despite direct appeals from family and senior aides. This constitutes a severe, ongoing **narcissistic injury** — public exposure of passivity and dereliction framed as moral failure and possible criminal culpability. **Dynamic:** This repost is a textbook **counter-supply injection** — introducing favorable "evidence" into the information environment to disrupt the dominant negative narrative. The DOD sourcing (however contested) is rhetorically valuable because it invokes institutional authority against the committee's witness testimony. **Narcissistic state:** Vulnerable/defensive. The post does not project grandiosity but rather engages in **legitimacy repair** — attempting to reconstruct the "safe, orderly" narrative of January 6 that the hearings had systematically dismantled. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (pathological, Level 1):** The article's framing — and the act of sharing it — implicitly denies the documented 187 minutes of inaction, asserting instead proactive safety orders. 2. **Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3):** Marshaling an institutional source (DOD) to provide logical cover for conduct the committee characterized as reckless abdication. 3. **Projection (immature, Level 2):** The counter-narrative reframes the committee as the distorting party — those inventing a false record — while positioning Trump as having acted responsibly. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Laundered assertion:** By sharing rather than asserting, the poster achieves plausible deniability. The claim is made, but Trump is not on record making it. This is a sophisticated rhetorical maneuver — the outlet does the work, the repost amplifies it. - **Institutional authority appeal:** The headline foregrounds "DOD" as the source, invoking military/governmental credibility against the (civilian) committee witnesses. - **Firehose model (low-volume instance):** In the context of the day's other bare-URL reposts, this contributes to a pattern of rapid counter-narrative seeding across multiple topics — Huawei espionage, Space Force, celebrity validation, Jan. 6 exculpation — consistent with the RAND Firehose model's volume-and-scatter approach. - **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery** (absent original text). --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump gave an explicit order to DOD to make the January 6 rally a safe event" | **Mostly False** | Pentagon leadership including Acting SecDef Chris Miller and Chairman Milley testified Trump gave no direct orders to mobilize the National Guard on Jan 6. Guard deployment was delayed and contested. Multiple committee witnesses (Pottinger, Matthews, Hutchinson, Ivanka Trump) testified Trump repeatedly refused to intervene. Just the News selectively elevates a narrow claim omitting the full evidentiary record. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - 3:38 PM EDT — mid-afternoon business hours, Scavino-pattern timing - Zero original text — no authentic Trump framing, exclamation, or ALL CAPS - Clean single-link format consistent with aide-scheduled content queue - Surrounded by other bare-URL reposts across multiple topics same day, suggesting batch curation - No typos, emotional reactivity, or stream-of-consciousness elements ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee 8th hearing (187 minutes of inaction)) Sentiment: -0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Laundered assertion via repost — claim made without Trump being on record making it - Institutional authority appeal (DOD) to reinforce tribal counter-narrative ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Article and repost contradict documented evidence of 187-minute inaction - Frames favorable counter-source (DOD) as authoritative while implicitly dismissing multiple direct witnesses - Inserts favorable fact into information ecosystem timed to disrupt negative post-hearing coverage ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Trump gave an explicit order to DOD to make the January 6 rally a safe event **MOSTLY FALSE** Pentagon leadership including Acting SecDef Chris Miller and Chairman Milley testified Trump gave no direct orders to mobilize the National Guard on Jan 6. Guard deployment was delayed and contested. Multiple committee witnesses (Pottinger, Matthews, Hutchinson, Ivanka Trump) testified Trump repeatedly refused to intervene. Just the News selectively elevates a narrow claim omitting the full evidentiary record. Sources: January 6 Committee 8th hearing testimony; Pentagon official congressional testimony; House Select Committee documentary record Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - january-6 (100%) - counter-narrative (90%) - aide-posted (90%) - narcissistic-injury-response (80%) - legitimacy-repair (80%) - just-the-news (70%) - dod-sourcing (60%) - committee-hearing-response (80%) - bare-url-post (70%) - fact-check-mostly-false (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning media grievance gives way to afternoon power flex as Jan. 6 shadow looms** Trump started the day irritated at Fox & Friends for highlighting unfavorable poll numbers, calling the show "terrible" and accusing it of going to the "dark side." He recovered his mood by mid-morning, amplifying a Dick Morris claim that God spared Morris to help get Trump re-elected. The afternoon was dominated by aide-posted links pushing vindication narratives — including a January 6 defense piece responding to recent damaging committee hearings. The day ended with a striking twelve-word post boasting about his power over people's fates, a notable flex likely aimed at reasserting dominance after a bruising week of congressional testimony. Full digest for 2022-07-25: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 25). https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108709669681083624 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-gave-expli..." Truth Social, 25 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108709669681083624. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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