# Post ts_109367318288579573

- Post ID: `ts_109367318288579573`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-18T23:07:20.098Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367318288579573
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367318288579573/analysis

## Post text

> https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/17/elites-disdain-for-trump-is-thinly-veiled-hatred-for-you/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,588
- Reposts: 4,128
- Replies: 410
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.429Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:27:42.555Z (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 — "Elites' Disdain for Trump Is Thinly Veiled Hatred for You"

This post is a bare URL share of a Federalist article with no original commentary. The article's headline frames elite criticism of Trump as proxy contempt for his supporters — a classic populist identification strategy.

### Context
Posted 6:07 PM ET on November 18, 2022, from Mar-a-Lago. This follows Jack Smith's special counsel appointment and Trump's 2024 announcement. The day's posts show a pattern of grievance and victimization mixed with supply-seeking (sharing favorable coverage).

### Authorship
Evening timing, bare link share with no commentary — consistent with either Trump or an aide curating favorable media. The lack of emotional embellishment or typos leans slightly toward aide-assisted curation, though Trump does share bare links.

### Psychological Function
The article selection is psychologically significant even without original text. It performs narcissistic fusion — merging Trump's identity with his followers so that any attack on him becomes an attack on them. This is a well-established parasocial bonding technique.

### Rhetorical Function
The headline does the rhetorical work: false equivalence (criticism of Trump = hatred of ordinary people), in-group/out-group framing, and appeal to grievance. Sharing without comment implies endorsement and lets the headline speak.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- bare URL with no commentary
- evening timing (6:07 PM ET)
- part of a curated media-sharing pattern this day
- no typos or emotional language to assess

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith special counsel appointment)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- identity fusion — 'hatred for YOU' makes follower and leader one target
- shared victimhood narrative

## Tags

- media-share (100%)
- populism (80%)
- victimhood (60%)
- identity-fusion (70%)

## 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://thefederalist.com/2022/11/17/elites-disdai... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367318288579573
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/17/elites-disdain-for-trum..." Truth Social, 18 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367318288579573. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/17/elites-disdain-for-trum...," Truth Social, November 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109367318288579573.

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