# Post ts_109474409435756887

- Post ID: `ts_109474409435756887`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-07T21:02:01.365Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109474409435756887
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109474409435756887/analysis

## Post text

> https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/trump-picks-early-2024-endorsements-gop-lawmakers-and-other-political

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,374
- Reposts: 3,246
- Replies: 369
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.427Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:40:17.656Z (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-Only Post Sharing Endorsement News (2022-12-07)

This post is a bare URL share linking to a Just The News article about Trump picking up early 2024 endorsements from GOP lawmakers. No commentary is provided.

### Context
This is one of several link-only posts on this date, all sharing favorable media coverage. The pattern suggests a curated media-sharing session — likely aide-managed — designed to project momentum and support during a difficult period (Trump Organization conviction, Warnock defeating Walker, fallout from "terminate the Constitution" remarks).

### Authorship
Posted at 4:02 PM ET (Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago, making this 4:02 PM local). Business hours, no commentary, professional link-sharing pattern — strongly suggests aide (likely Scavino) operation.

### Psychological Function
The post serves as narcissistic supply maintenance and narrative counter-programming. While Trump faces significant legal and political setbacks, this curates a stream of validating content. The endorsement article specifically counters the narrative that Trump's influence is waning after Walker's loss.

### Defense Mechanisms
The overall pattern of the day's posts (five link-only shares of favorable coverage) constitutes **denial** through selective information curation — flooding the feed with positive narratives while ignoring the Trump Organization conviction and Georgia runoff loss.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (4:02 PM ET)
- Link-only with no commentary
- Professional curation pattern
- Part of batch of similar posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Multiple setbacks: Trump Org conviction, Walker loss, Constitution remarks backlash)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- selective information sharing
- momentum projection

## Tags

- link-share (100%)
- endorsements (80%)
- supply-seeking (60%)
- narrative-management (70%)

## That day

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

**Besieged on All Fronts, Trump Floods the Zone With Defensive Link Barrages**

Trump spent the day under siege from multiple directions — his company's criminal conviction, Herschel Walker's Georgia runoff loss, and bipartisan backlash over his call to "terminate" the Constitution. He opened the evening before with an all-caps "witch hunt" outburst that included a veiled warning that people "aren't going to take it much longer." The next afternoon brought a frantic barrage of shared links: first gloating over media industry layoffs, then curating sympathetic conservative outlets to rewrite the Constitution controversy as fake news. The day closed with a cherry-picked claim about his midterm endorsement record and an attack on RINOs. The overall mood was embattled and compulsively defensive, with staff-assisted link dumps doing the heavy lifting.

Full digest for 2022-12-07: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 7). https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109474409435756887
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/trump-pick..." Truth Social, 7 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109474409435756887. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/trump-pick...," Truth Social, December 7, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109474409435756887.

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