# Post ts_109367316501672202

- Post ID: `ts_109367316501672202`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-18T23:06:52.832Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367316501672202
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367316501672202/analysis

## Post text

> https://spectator.org/yes-trump-2024-presidential-run/

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,849
- Reposts: 2,007
- Replies: 180
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.429Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:27:27.380Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Shared Link to Spectator Article Supporting 2024 Run

This post is a bare URL share to an American Spectator article endorsing Trump's 2024 presidential bid. No original commentary is provided, making psychological analysis necessarily limited.

### Context
Posted on the same day Jack Smith was appointed special counsel. The post fits into a broader pattern on this date: book promotion, attack on National Review, grievance about the special counsel appointment, and now sharing supportive media. The Spectator link serves as supply-seeking — curating favorable coverage to validate the recently announced 2024 campaign.

### Authorship
Posted at ~6:07 PM ET (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago per his own earlier post about an 8:30 PM statement). Business hours, bare link share with no commentary, proper URL formatting — all consistent with aide/staff posting. This is likely a Scavino or social media team post curating favorable press coverage.

### Rhetorical Function
The post functions as social proof — sharing third-party validation of the 2024 decision. By letting the article speak for itself, it avoids the appearance of self-promotion while achieving exactly that. This is a routine supply-maintenance post amid a day of higher-intensity content.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- bare URL with no commentary
- business hours posting (~6 PM ET)
- clean formatting
- curated favorable press — typical staff behavior

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (2024 campaign announcement validation)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- social proof via third-party endorsement

## Tags

- supply-seeking (60%)
- link-share (90%)
- 2024-campaign (80%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Launch Afterglow Shattered by Special Counsel Appointment**

Trump spent the day oscillating between celebrating his recent 2024 campaign announcement and reacting to mounting legal threats. The morning started with positive media shares, shifted into anxious defensiveness about the Trump Organization fraud trial, and then took a sharp turn when Jack Smith was named special counsel. An afternoon attack on the National Review appeared to be displaced aggression over the legal news, and the evening ended with a rapid-fire dump of supportive links -- an apparent attempt to shore up the narrative before a planned public statement at Mar-a-Lago.

Full digest for 2022-11-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 18). https://spectator.org/yes-trump-2024-presidential-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367316501672202
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://spectator.org/yes-trump-2024-presidential-run/" Truth Social, 18 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367316501672202. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://spectator.org/yes-trump-2024-presidential-run/," Truth Social, November 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367316501672202.

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