# Post ts_109445608497118015

- Post ID: `ts_109445608497118015`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-02T18:57:33.875Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109445608497118015
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109445608497118015/analysis

## Post text

> https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/30/if-you-really-wanted-to-destroy-the-united-states-then/

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,636
- Reposts: 5,535
- Replies: 648
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.427Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:36:10.082Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Link Share — "If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then…"

### Overview
A bare URL share to an American Greatness article by Victor Davis Hanson, a conservative classicist, arguing that Biden administration policies are systematically destroying America. This post is part of a rapid-fire series of conservative article shares on December 2, 2022, all advancing the same narrative: the Biden administration is deliberately weakening the United States.

### Authorship
Posted at 1:57 PM ET (Mar-a-Lago local time), squarely in business hours. No commentary, no typos, no emotional editorializing — just a clean URL. This is consistent with aide-managed content curation (likely Dan Scavino or social media staff). The pattern of multiple link-only shares in sequence is a hallmark of scheduled/batched posting.

### Psychological Context
The post arrives during a period where Trump faces significant political pressure from the Fuentes dinner controversy. The barrage of "Biden is destroying America" articles serves as deflection — redirecting attention from Trump's own negative news cycle to attacks on the current administration. The article's framing ("if you REALLY wanted to destroy...") implies intentional sabotage rather than policy disagreement, which aligns with paranoid attributional style.

### Rhetorical Function
The article headline itself does the rhetorical work: it frames Democratic governance as deliberate destruction, invoking conspiracy thinking and appeal to fear. By sharing without comment, the post lets the provocative headline speak for itself — a common amplification technique.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (1:57 PM ET)
- Bare URL with no commentary
- Part of batch link-sharing pattern
- Clean formatting, no emotional markers

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (Fuentes dinner controversy / Republican criticism)

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- content curation as agenda-setting
- letting provocative headlines do persuasion work

## Tags

- link-share (100%)
- deflection (80%)
- Biden-attack (90%)
- aide-posted (85%)

## That day

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

**A Day of Displacement: Link Dumps and Escalating Rage Mask the Fuentes Fallout**

Trump spent the day flooding his feed with shared links rather than original commentary, a pattern consistent with deflection during uncomfortable news cycles — in this case, the ongoing backlash over his dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The morning was quiet link-sharing, but as afternoon turned to evening, he latched onto newly surfacing FBI-Big Tech testimony and worked himself into genuine anger, culminating in his one original post of the day: a furious demand that someone "DO SOMETHING" about the "rigged" 2020 election. The elephant in the room — the Fuentes controversy — went entirely unaddressed.

Full digest for 2022-12-02: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 2). https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/30/if-you-really-w... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109445608497118015
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/30/if-you-really-wanted-to-d..." Truth Social, 2 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109445608497118015. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/30/if-you-really-wanted-to-d...," Truth Social, December 2, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109445608497118015.

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