# Post ts_108743741050512893 - Post ID: `ts_108743741050512893` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-31T20:03:26.675Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108743741050512893 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108743741050512893/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108743741050512893.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108336236723485338 The Fake News just won’t move on this, as usual. Fear not, we will win! ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108336236723485338 (2022-05-20T20:49:43.994Z (UTC)) > Robby Mook just admitted that the Campaign Fraud was committed by Hillary Clinton together with her same cast of characters. It’s the biggest story on the internet, but the Fake News refuses to report it! They have lost all credibility with the People. We can’t have a great Country without a free and respected Media! ## Engagement - Likes: 36,224 - Reposts: 12,041 - Replies: 1,509 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.438Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T22:58:48.474Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_108743741050512893 **Date:** July 31, 2022 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **UTC:** 20:03 --- ### Contextual Notes This is a Retruth of Trump's own earlier post (status 108336236723485338, dating to approximately early June 2022 based on Truth Social's snowflake ID range), with a brief appended addendum. Without fetching the referenced post, the specific controversy is not recoverable from text alone, but given the known events for this period — particularly the DOJ-FBI classified document standoff at Mar-a-Lago — persistent media coverage of document-related matters is the most probable referent. The URL is malformed: the word "The" is directly appended to the URL string with no intervening space, a characteristic Trump typing error and a significant authentic authorship indicator. --- ### Authorship Attribution UTC 20:03 converts to **4:03 PM EDT** (Trump's likely location: Bedminster, NJ — his summer residence in late July). This falls squarely within business hours, which ordinarily favors aide-written attribution. However, the URL malformation (text run into the URL with no space) is a strong authentic Trump indicator — aides proof-read before posting. The emotional register — brief, dismissive, rallying — lacks the polished completeness of Scavino-attributed posts. Lean: **authentic, possibly with minimal oversight**. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Low Agreeableness**: Dismissive characterization of media without substantive engagement - **High Extraversion (assertiveness facet)**: Rallying, forward-projecting "we will win" - **Mild Neuroticism (angry hostility)**: "As usual" encodes suppressed exasperation; barely surfaced here - **Low Conscientiousness** (URL malformation, brevity): Consistent with impulsive posting pattern --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant agency motive (power/control)**: "We will win" reasserts future dominance - **Schema (world as hostile/persecutory)**: Media as relentless antagonist, not dispassionate institution - **Supply-seeking**: Rally cry solicits audience validation and solidarity response — a classic maintenance function --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Fighter-survivor — persecuted by institutional power but ultimately victorious - **Contamination sequence (implicit)**: Legitimate record/actions being tainted by fraudulent coverage - **Redemption assertion**: "We will win" promises future reversal of contamination - **Identity claims**: Persecuted truth-teller; embattled winner; collective leader ("we") - **Contrasting other**: "Fake News" as monolithic adversarial collective --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger**: Ongoing media coverage consistent with narcissistic injury through exposure/criticism. The retruthing of a ~2-month-old post (rather than a fresh response) suggests the coverage has persisted long enough to warrant repeated defensive engagement. **State**: **Mixed** — vulnerable dismissal ("just won't move on") oscillating immediately into grandiose assertion ("we will win"). This oscillation within a single sentence is a characteristic feature of narcissistic defensive processing. **Rage**: Absent or minimal. Tone is controlled, almost performatively confident. Suppression of affect is itself notable — contrast with same-day posts calling Pelosi "crazy as a bedbug" (overt hostility) and mocking Biden's cognition (sadistic humor). The relative restraint here may indicate either that the topic is genuinely concerning (requiring affect suppression) or that it is routine maintenance messaging. **Defense mechanisms**: - *Denial*: Media coverage characterized as irrational persistence rather than legitimate inquiry - *Rationalization*: "As usual" normalizes the pattern, foreclosing need to engage with substance - *Projection (mild)*: Implicitly attributes obsession/irrationality to media rather than acknowledging personal salience of the coverage #### Malignant Narcissism Subconstructs Narcissistic features are mildly present (grandiosity in victory assertion, dismissal of critics). Paranoid features are mild (media as coordinated persistent antagonist). Antisocial and sadistic features are not evident in this brief post — sharply contrast with same-day Biden dementia mockery where sadistic pleasure is explicit. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Label attack**: "Fake News" — delegitimizes coverage without engaging substance; activates pre-existing audience schema - **"As usual"**: Normalizing anaphora — invokes entire prior grievance narrative without recounting it; high rhetorical efficiency - **"Fear not"**: Quasi-biblical, quasi-martial register; positions Trump as calm authority reassuring anxious followers - **"We will win"**: Group identity coalescence; assertive futurity; simple binary framing (we vs. them, winning vs. losing) - **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric** — notably restrained compared to same-day posts **Propaganda techniques**: Epistemic delegitimization (labeling the source); us-vs-them framing; appeal to in-group solidarity. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **Mild, routine**: "Fake News" framing is a standing invitation to discount media coverage as institutionally fraudulent without addressing specific claims. Not an acute gaslighting episode — this is maintenance-level epistemic management of the audience. No DARVO pattern, no revisionism of specific prior statements. --- ### Epistemic Closure Present. "Fake News" pre-labels any coverage as untrustworthy regardless of its content, constituting a standing epistemic firewall for the base. Consistent with chronic epistemic closure pattern. --- ### Cognitive Status Very brief post; complexity is low but consistent with Trump's baseline for short-form platform content. The URL malformation (no space before "The") is a typing error, not a cognitive marker — semantically coherent text is simply attached to the URL without proper line-breaking. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration, temporal confusion, or name confusion observed. **No deviation from baseline.** --- ### Danger Assessment **None**. Routine media dismissal with victory rally framing. No target articulation, no grievance escalation, no mobilization language. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Fake News just won't move on this" | **Unverifiable** | Pure characterization and framing; not a falsifiable factual claim. Functions as epistemic delegitimization of coverage rather than an assertion about any specific verifiable fact. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - URL malformation: 'The' appended directly to URL with no space — characteristic Trump typing error - Brief, emotionally reactive register inconsistent with polished aide copy - Familiar 'Fake News' label in characteristic imperative construction - 4:03 PM EDT (Bedminster) falls within business hours, introducing ambiguity - No polish, no event announcement, no scheduling content — argues against Scavino attribution ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (ongoing media coverage (likely document-related given period context)) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - rally cry ('Fear not, we will win') — positions Trump as reassuring authority for anxious followers - collective identity ('we') — audience incorporated into victory narrative ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'Fake News' label preemptively delegitimizes media coverage without addressing content — standing epistemic firewall for audience ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > The Fake News just won't move on this **UNVERIFIABLE** Pure characterization and framing; not a falsifiable factual claim. Functions as epistemic delegitimization of coverage rather than an assertion about any specific verifiable fact. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - media-dismissal (90%) - maintenance-post (80%) - fake-news-label (85%) - victory-assertion (70%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - narcissistic-injury-response (50%) - authentic-authorship-likely (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Multi-Front Dominance Display: Kingmaker Posture Amid Loyalty Tests and Geopolitical Dismissals** Trump posted from Bedminster starting at nearly 3 AM, then fired off a rapid cluster of attacks across the morning targeting Pelosi, Republican officials, and Biden. The mood was combative and scattershot — no single topic dominated, but a general posture of punishing disloyalty and asserting control ran through the day. A dismissive crack about World War III over Pelosi's Asia trip stood out for its casualness, as did a mock diagnosis of Biden with dementia. By afternoon, things had cooled to a single low-energy repost. Full digest for 2022-07-31: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-31/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 31). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108743741050512893 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 31 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108743741050512893. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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