# Post ts_109548564276466178

- Post ID: `ts_109548564276466178`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-20T23:20:34.477Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109548564276466178
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109548564276466178/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109548564276466178.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109529028482982758 Worse now than EVER in the history of our Country!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109529028482982758 (2022-12-17T12:32:21.856Z (UTC))

> Our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer. The Crooked FBI, the so-called Department of “Justice,” and “Intelligence,” all parts of the Democrat Party and System, is the Cancer. These Weaponized Thugs and Tyrants must be dealt with, or our once great and beautiful Country will die!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,520
- Reposts: 2,858
- Replies: 372
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.425Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:10:30.633Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Self-Repost with Catastrophizing Commentary (2022-12-20)

This post is a repost of Trump's own earlier Truth Social post with the addendum "Worse now than EVER in the history of our Country!" The referenced post (ID 109529028482982758) appears to be from a few days prior. The URL is malformed, concatenating the post URL with "Worse" — suggesting hasty composition.

### Context
This falls during a period of intense legal/political pressure: the Jan. 6 Committee had just voted to refer Trump for criminal prosecution, and the House Ways and Means Committee voted to release his tax returns. His other posts that day consist entirely of sharing sympathetic media articles dismissing the Jan. 6 referral and highlighting the Hunter Biden/Twitter suppression story.

### Authorship
Posted at 6:20 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). The brevity, hyperbole, and malformed URL suggest authentic composition, though the timing is within business hours.

### Psychological Pattern
The vague catastrophizing ("Worse now than EVER") without specifying what is worse serves as a generalized grievance container — listeners can project their own dissatisfactions. This is a routine maintenance/supply-seeking post during a period of narcissistic injury from the criminal referral.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Country is worse now than ever in its history" | **False** | By most objective metrics (GDP, life expectancy, poverty rates, civil rights), conditions in late 2022 were not historically unprecedented in negativity. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Malformed URL suggests hasty/careless composition
- Hyperbolic ALL CAPS style
- Brief, unpolished quality
- But posted during business hours ~6:20 PM ET

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jan 6 criminal referral and tax return release)

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance
- vague catastrophizing inviting projection

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Country is worse now than ever in its history

**FALSE**

By most objective metrics (GDP, life expectancy, poverty rates, civil rights), conditions in late 2022 were not historically unprecedented in negativity.

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- catastrophizing (80%)
- self-repost (60%)
- jan6-referral-response (50%)

## That day

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

**Criminal Referral Day: Trump Unleashes 20-Post Defensive Barrage as Jan. 6 Committee Votes to Prosecute**

Trump spent the day in sustained defensive mode after the January 6 Committee voted to criminally refer him to the Department of Justice. He posted 20 times, with two intense bursts -- four posts in an hour that morning and five more in just fifteen minutes that afternoon -- all hammering the same message: the FBI rigged the 2020 election, January 6 was a justified protest, and his accusers are the real insurrectionists. By mid-afternoon the original posts gave way to a rapid dump of six supportive news links, and the evening wound down with a pair of gloomy retweets. The mood was angry and defensive throughout, with flashes of grandiosity when he found arguments he believed vindicated him.

Full digest for 2022-12-20: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 20). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109548564276466178
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 20 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109548564276466178. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, December 20, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109548564276466178.

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