# Post ts_109531932540891300

- Post ID: `ts_109531932540891300`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-18T00:50:54.255Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109531932540891300/analysis
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## Post text

> They say that the Unselect Committee of Democrats, Misfits, and Thugs, without any representation from Republicans in good standing, is getting ready to recommend Criminal Charges to the highly partisan, political, and Corrupt “Justice” Department for the “ PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICLY” speech I made on January 6th. This speech and my actions were mild & loving, especially when compared to Democrats wild spewing of HATE. Why didn’t they investigate massive Election Fraud or send in the Troops? SCAM!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:04:33.297Z (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 post represents a significant narcissistic injury response to the January 6th Committee's impending criminal referrals. The subject deploys multiple layered defenses simultaneously: pathological distortion (recharacterizing documented events as "mild & loving"), devaluation of the investigating body ("Misfits and Thugs"), projection of hatred onto political opponents, and whataboutism deflecting to election fraud claims. The post contains three verifiably false or misleading claims: that the committee had no Republican members (Cheney and Kinzinger served), that January 6 was purely about peaceful protest (selective quotation omitting combative rhetoric), and the recurring election fraud claim rejected by courts and officials. The mixed narcissistic state — oscillating between grandiose dismissal ("SCAM!") and vulnerable victimhood — is characteristic of a subject facing genuine legal jeopardy. The continued delegitimization of the DOJ and congressional oversight, combined with reinforcement of the election fraud narrative that originally motivated the January 6 events, warrants an elevated danger assessment. The gaslighting pattern of rewriting documented history ("mild & loving") while demanding followers accept this revision functions as an epistemic closure mechanism, maintaining in-group cohesion through shared rejection of documented reality.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109531932540891300

### Context
Posted December 17, 2022 at 7:50 PM EST (Trump at Mar-a-Lago). The January 6th Select Committee was preparing its final report and criminal referrals to the DOJ.

### Authorship
Evening timing, emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS passages, neologism ("Unselect"), characteristic nicknames and scare quotes — strongly authentic Trump.

### Psychological Dynamics
This post is a textbook response to narcissistic injury: the threat of criminal referral. Multiple defense mechanisms fire simultaneously:

1. **Devaluation** of the committee ("Misfits and Thugs," "Unselect")
2. **Distortion** of the January 6 speech as "mild & loving"
3. **Projection** — attributes "HATE" to Democrats while his own rhetoric drips with contempt
4. **Whataboutism** — deflects to "Election Fraud" and failure to "send in the Troops"

The characterization of the January 6 speech as "PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY" is a selective quotation defense — cherry-picking one line while omitting the broader context of the rally rhetoric. Describing his actions as "mild & loving" represents significant reality distortion.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post follows a classic Trump rhetorical arc: delegitimize the source → minimize the conduct → counterattack with whataboutism → dismiss with a single-word verdict ("SCAM!"). The passive construction "They say" creates distance from the threat while allowing him to address it.

### Cognitive Notes
"Unselect" is a deliberate neologism (consistent pattern, not word-finding difficulty). "PATRIOTICLY" is a misspelling of "patriotically" — consistent with authentic, unedited posting rather than cognitive decline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Select Committee had no Republican representation" | **False** | Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) served on the committee. Trump's qualifier 'in good standing' is a No True Scotsman fallacy. |
| "His January 6 speech was 'PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY'" | **Half True** | He did say 'peacefully and patriotically' once, but the full speech contained much more combative language including 'fight like hell' repeated multiple times. |
| "Massive Election Fraud occurred" | **False** | No evidence of widespread fraud was found by courts, DOJ, state officials, or Trump's own appointees. Over 60 legal challenges failed. |

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Evening posting (7:50 PM EST)
- ALL CAPS passages
- Neologism 'Unselect'
- Misspelling 'PATRIOTICLY'
- Stream-of-consciousness emotional reactivity

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6th Select Committee criminal referral)

**Rage:** Intensity 70% targeting January 6th Committee, DOJ
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

Cognitive Markers:
- neologism

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- victimhood framing
- in-group solidarity via shared grievance

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued delegitimization of DOJ and congressional oversight
- Reinforcement of election fraud narrative that motivated January 6
- Framing legal accountability as political persecution

### Gaslighting

- Recharacterizing January 6 speech as 'mild & loving'
- Selective quotation of 'peacefully and patriotically' while omitting broader context
- Framing congressional investigation as illegitimate persecution

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The Select Committee had no Republican representation

**FALSE**

Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) served on the committee. Trump's qualifier 'in good standing' is a No True Scotsman fallacy.

> His January 6 speech was 'PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY'

**HALF TRUE**

He did say 'peacefully and patriotically' once, but the full speech contained much more combative language including 'fight like hell' repeated multiple times.

> Massive Election Fraud occurred

**FALSE**

No evidence of widespread fraud was found by courts, DOJ, state officials, or Trump's own appointees. Over 60 legal challenges failed.

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Tags

- january-6 (100%)
- legal-threat-response (90%)
- institutional-delegitimization (80%)
- reality-distortion (85%)
- election-fraud-claim (70%)
- victimhood-narrative (75%)

## That day

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

**On Eve of Criminal Referrals, a Daylong Defensive Siege Reveals Deep Narcissistic Injury**

Trump spent the day in a sustained defensive posture as the January 6th Committee prepared to vote on criminal referrals against him. The evening before began with a long, layered attack on the committee, followed by a rapid-fire morning burst of nine posts in under three hours -- nearly all focused on delegitimizing the investigation, the FBI, and the DOJ. The mood swung between defiant grandiosity and wounded victimhood, with repeated returns to the 2020 election fraud narrative now 25 months old. Several posts contained outright false claims, including that the committee had no Republican members and that the FBI shut down his Twitter account.

Full digest for 2022-12-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 18). They say that the Unselect Committee of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109531932540891300
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "They say that the Unselect Committee of Democrats, Misfits,..." Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109531932540891300. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "They say that the Unselect Committee of Democrats, Misfits,...," Truth Social, December 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109531932540891300.

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