# Post ts_108993180439356764

- Post ID: `ts_108993180439356764`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-09-13T21:19:09.582Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Another, “I told you sooo.” The Stock Market is now, on top of everything else, CRASHING!!! One of the worst seven days in history, one of the worst years in history - and it will only get worse. Wasteful Green New Deal, and other, SPENDING! Interest rates will have to go way up in order to combat record INFLATION. The Fed no longer has a choice. This was all self inflicted, no rhyme or reason. See what difference a Rigged Election can make? Like much else (Ukraine), should never have happened!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T22:56:46.422Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post demonstrates classic narcissistic supply-seeking through vindication. Triggered by a significant stock market drop (S&P -4.3% on CPI data), Trump employs a cascading grievance structure linking market performance, inflation, government spending, and the Ukraine war into a unified narrative of decline caused by his removal from power. The "I told you sooo" opening establishes the prophetic frame, while hyperbolic claims ("one of the worst seven days in history") distort reality to maximize contrast with his tenure. The post's structural climax — "See what difference a Rigged Election can make?" — reveals its true psychological function: not economic commentary but reinforcement of the stolen-election narrative and the subject's indispensability. Defense mechanisms include pathological distortion (exaggerating market severity), splitting (binary Trump-good/Biden-catastrophic framing), and projection (labeling problems "self inflicted" while implying his own infallibility). The parenthetical Ukraine reference is notable given Ukraine's concurrent counteroffensive successes — reframing a Ukrainian victory as something that "should never have happened" reveals the subject's priorities center on self-narrative rather than geopolitical outcomes. Cognitively unremarkable; the loose associative chaining is characteristic baseline style serving rhetorical ends.

## Psychological Analysis: Stock Market Crash / "Rigged Election" Post (2022-09-13)

### Context
Posted at 5:19 PM ET (Trump likely at Bedminster or Mar-a-Lago in September 2022). The S&P 500 dropped ~4.3% on September 13, 2022 following a hotter-than-expected August CPI report. This was one of the worst single-day drops since June 2020.

### Authorship
Timing (late afternoon ET) is ambiguous. However, the stylistic markers are strongly authentic: "I told you sooo" (theatrical spelling), ALL CAPS for emphasis on CRASHING/SPENDING/INFLATION, stream-of-consciousness structure linking multiple grievances, parenthetical aside "(Ukraine)," and the emotionally charged exclamation marks. The post reads as reactive commentary triggered by market news.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a textbook **vindication-seeking** post. The opening "I told you sooo" establishes the narcissistic supply framework — the subject positions himself as a prophet whose warnings went unheeded. The post chains multiple national problems (market crash, inflation, spending, Ukraine) into a single narrative whose resolution is: this wouldn't have happened under me.

The parenthetical "(Ukraine)" reference is notable given the concurrent Ukrainian counteroffensive successes. Trump frames the entire war as something that "should never have happened," implicitly claiming his presidency would have prevented it — a counterfactual grandiose fantasy.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion**: "One of the worst seven days in history" — hyperbolic framing
- **Splitting**: Clear good (Trump era) vs. bad (Biden era) with no nuance
- **Projection/externalization**: All problems are "self inflicted" by others, never by policies he initiated

### Rhetorical Techniques
The post employs a cascading grievance structure — each sentence adds another problem, building emotional momentum toward the "Rigged Election" conclusion. This is classic **problem-agitation-solution** rhetoric where the implied solution is Trump's return.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "One of the worst seven days in history for the stock market" | **Mostly False** | Sept 13, 2022 saw a ~4.3% S&P drop, the worst day since June 2020. Significant but far from 'worst in history' territory (Black Monday 1987: -22.6%) |
| "One of the worst years in history for the stock market" | **Half True** | S&P 500 was down ~17% YTD by mid-September 2022. A bad year but not historically unprecedented — 2008 (-38.5%), 1931 (-43.8%) were far worse |
| "Rigged Election" | **False** | No credible evidence of election rigging found by any court, audit, or investigation. Over 60 legal challenges dismissed. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 'I told you sooo' theatrical spelling
- ALL CAPS on multiple words
- Stream-of-consciousness chaining of grievances
- Parenthetical aside '(Ukraine)'
- Multiple exclamation marks

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Stock market drop providing vindication opportunity)

Sentiment: -0.75

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose self-positioning as prophet
- Rapid topic-chaining across multiple domains
- Elevated exclamatory tone

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Prophetic vindication framing
- Shared grievance construction
- Implicit savior positioning

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Repeated assertion of 'Rigged Election' as established fact
- Framing all economic problems as consequences of illegitimate election outcome

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> One of the worst seven days in history for the stock market

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Sept 13, 2022 saw a ~4.3% S&P drop, the worst day since June 2020. Significant but far from 'worst in history' territory (Black Monday 1987: -22.6%)

> One of the worst years in history for the stock market

**HALF TRUE**

S&P 500 was down ~17% YTD by mid-September 2022. A bad year but not historically unprecedented — 2008 (-38.5%), 1931 (-43.8%) were far worse

> Rigged Election

**FALSE**

No credible evidence of election rigging found by any court, audit, or investigation. Over 60 legal challenges dismissed.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- vindication-seeking (90%)
- rigged-election (80%)
- economic-commentary (70%)
- prophetic-self-framing (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**A Quiet Day of Self-Praise Punctuated by Market-Crash Vindication**

A light day by Trump's standards, split between a late-evening burst of retweeting supporters' praise and a quieter afternoon. The mood was uniformly self-congratulatory, capped by a lengthy "I told you so" post gloating over a sharp stock market sell-off. He folded the market crash, inflation, government spending, and the Ukraine war into one grand narrative of decline caused by his absence from power. Notably absent: any mention of Queen Elizabeth's funeral preparations or the looming railroad strike, both dominating the news cycle.

Full digest for 2022-09-13: https://trump.fm/date/2022-09-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, September 13). Another, “I told you sooo.” The Stock Market is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108993180439356764
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Another, “I told you sooo.” The Stock Market is now, on top..." Truth Social, 13 Sep. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108993180439356764. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Another, “I told you sooo.” The Stock Market is now, on top...," Truth Social, September 13, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108993180439356764.

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