# Post ts_109391647102814200

- Post ID: `ts_109391647102814200`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-23T06:14:28.411Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do! It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns, & it creates terrible precedent for future Presidents. Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond. The Supreme Court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing, & has become nothing more than a political body, with our Country paying the price. They refused to even look at the Election Hoax of 2020. Shame on them!

## Engagement

- Likes: 53,956
- Reposts: 14,049
- Replies: 4,072
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.428Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:26:11.859Z (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 1:14 AM post from Mar-a-Lago is a reactive response to the Supreme Court's November 22 decision allowing the House Ways and Means Committee to obtain Trump's tax returns. The post exhibits a textbook narcissistic injury response cycle: minimization of surprise, externalization, whataboutism, institutional devaluation, and grievance stacking. Most clinically notable is the wholesale delegitimization of the Supreme Court—an institution partly composed of his own appointees—the moment it fails to serve his interests. The mixed grandiose-vulnerable narcissistic state oscillates between victimhood ("they always do!") and moral authority ("Shame on them!"). Four distinct reality distortions appear: the Court "always" rules against him (false), tax return disclosure is "unprecedented" (false), Biden made money "illegally" (unsubstantiated), and the Court "refused to even look" at 2020 election cases (they reviewed and rejected them). The institutional delegitimization pattern—stripping "honor, prestige, and standing" from the judiciary—warrants elevated concern not for direct violence but for erosion of democratic norms among followers. The grievance-stacking from tax returns to Biden corruption to 2020 election reveals how discrete events are metabolized into a unified persecution narrative, characteristic of paranoid cognitive style.

## Psychological Analysis: Supreme Court Tax Returns Post (2022-11-23)

### Context
On November 22, 2022, the Supreme Court declined to block the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining Trump's tax returns, ending a years-long legal battle. This post, timestamped 1:14 AM EST from Mar-a-Lago, is a reactive outburst.

### Authorship
The 1:14 AM local time, emotional reactivity, stream-of-consciousness structure, rhetorical questions, and the grammatically awkward "Has Joe Biden paid taxes" (should be "has...paid") all point to authentic Trump authorship. The "&" encoding is platform-level, not indicative of aide formatting.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a textbook narcissistic injury response. The Supreme Court—including three justices he appointed—ruled against him, constituting a betrayal by figures he expected loyalty from. The post cycles through the classic injury response sequence: (1) minimize surprise ("Why would anybody be surprised"), (2) externalize blame, (3) whataboutism pivot to Biden, (4) devalue the source of injury ("lost its honor"), (5) invoke a separate grievance (2020 election).

The devaluation of the Supreme Court is notable given Trump appointed a third of its members. The willingness to delegitimize institutions that fail to serve his interests is consistent with antisocial features of the malignant narcissism construct.

### Defense Mechanisms
Multiple immature defenses operate simultaneously: **projection** (accusing the Court of being "political" while demanding politically favorable rulings), **devaluation** (stripping the Court of "honor, prestige, and standing"), **displacement** (pivoting to Biden), and **denial** (continued characterization of 2020 election concerns as legitimate via "Election Hoax").

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post employs whataboutism (Biden pivot), ad hominem (institutional attack), appeal to precedent ("terrible precedent for future Presidents"), and grievance stacking (tax returns → Biden corruption → 2020 election in a single post). The closing "Shame on them!" is a moralistic framing that positions Trump as the ethical arbiter judging the Court—a role reversal from subject-of-ruling to judge-of-judges.

### Cognitive Markers
The sentence "Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond" is syntactically garbled—mixing a question without a question mark, vague reference to "beyond," and the assumption of illegality as established fact. This is consistent with Trump's baseline impulsive writing style rather than evidence of decline, though the incoherence of "from Hunter & beyond" is worth tracking.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do" | **Mostly False** | The Supreme Court ruled in Trump's favor in Trump v. Vance (partial), Trump v. Mazars (partial), and other cases. This specific ruling was against him but 'always' is false. |
| "It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns" | **Mostly False** | Congress obtained Nixon's tax returns in 1974. The IRS has statutory authority under 26 USC 6103 to provide returns to congressional tax committees. |
| "Joe Biden made money illegally from Hunter" | **Unverifiable** | As of November 2022, no legal proceedings had established illegal income by Joe Biden connected to Hunter Biden's business dealings. |
| "They refused to even look at the Election Hoax of 2020" | **Mostly False** | The Supreme Court considered and rejected multiple 2020 election challenges, declining certiorari after review. They did 'look at' the cases. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### Indicators

- 1:14 AM EST posting time
- Stream-of-consciousness grievance stacking
- Rhetorical question opening
- Missing question mark
- Emotional escalation pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Supreme Court ruling against him on tax returns)

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting Supreme Court
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.75

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 1:14 AM posting time
- Rapid topic shifting across multiple grievances
- Elevated emotional intensity

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question creating shared indignation
- Us-vs-them framing against institutional authority
- Moral outrage invitation via 'Shame on them!'

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Delegitimization of Supreme Court as institution
- Framing judicial rulings as political persecution
- Erosion of institutional authority to followers

### Gaslighting

- 'Election Hoax of 2020' reframes settled legal/democratic outcome
- 'They always do' distorts mixed judicial record
- Implies Court is corrupted political body for following law

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> The Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Supreme Court ruled in Trump's favor in Trump v. Vance (partial), Trump v. Mazars (partial), and other cases. This specific ruling was against him but 'always' is false.

> It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Congress obtained Nixon's tax returns in 1974. The IRS has statutory authority under 26 USC 6103 to provide returns to congressional tax committees.

> Joe Biden made money illegally from Hunter

**UNVERIFIABLE**

As of November 2022, no legal proceedings had established illegal income by Joe Biden connected to Hunter Biden's business dealings.

> They refused to even look at the Election Hoax of 2020

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Supreme Court considered and rejected multiple 2020 election challenges, declining certiorari after review. They did 'look at' the cases.

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- supreme_court (90%)
- tax_returns (80%)
- narcissistic_injury (85%)
- institutional_delegitimization (80%)
- 2020_election (50%)
- biden_attack (50%)

## That day

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

**Supreme Court Tax Ruling Triggers Multi-Front Institutional Assault on Day Before Thanksgiving**

Trump spent the day before Thanksgiving lashing out at the Supreme Court after it cleared the way for Congress to obtain his tax returns. A late-night posting session from Mar-a-Lago attacked the Court's legitimacy, accusing it of cowardice and corruption despite its conservative supermajority including three of his own appointees. The grievance expanded through the day to encompass the January 6 Committee, Arizona election officials, and the Manhattan DA. The evening's most intense moment was a demand that Arizona "DO THE ELECTION OVER" — echoing the pressure campaigns of 2020. Scattered between the attacks were low-effort retweets seeking praise, a pattern of alternating between victimhood and self-congratulation that defined the day's mood.

Full digest for 2022-11-23: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 23). Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109391647102814200
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has..." Truth Social, 23 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109391647102814200. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has...," Truth Social, November 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109391647102814200.

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