# Post ts_109564840596953012

- Post ID: `ts_109564840596953012`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-23T20:19:51.382Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564840596953012
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564840596953012/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-root-christmas-understand-appreciate-president-trump-braveheart/

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,427
- Reposts: 3,262
- Replies: 337
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.425Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:09:23.820Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: URL Share — Gateway Pundit "Trump as Braveheart" Article

## Post Overview
A URL-only share of a Wayne Allyn Root op-ed from The Gateway Pundit comparing Trump to the character William Wallace from *Braveheart*—a martyred freedom fighter.

## Context
This post appears on a day of intense activity. Earlier posts include ALL-CAPS claims about "catching" the government cheating in the 2020 election and declarations of "TRUMP WON!!!" The Jan. 6 committee had just issued criminal referrals, and Trump's tax returns were about to be released. This is a period of significant narcissistic injury from multiple institutional sources.

## Psychological Function
The post serves a classic supply-seeking function: amplifying third-party content that casts the subject in maximally heroic terms. The Braveheart comparison is particularly telling—Wallace is a figure who fights a corrupt establishment, is ultimately martyred, but whose sacrifice inspires ultimate victory. This maps precisely onto Trump's preferred victim-hero narrative identity.

By sharing rather than writing, the subject achieves self-aggrandizement while maintaining plausible distance from the grandiose claims. This is a well-established pattern: outsourcing narcissistic supply through curated reposting.

## Archetypal Analysis
The Braveheart framing activates Warrior and Victim archetypes simultaneously—the heroic fighter who is persecuted by illegitimate authority. The shadow projection places corruption and tyranny entirely onto institutional opponents.

## Epistemic Closure
Sharing from Gateway Pundit, a far-right outlet with documented history of misinformation, reinforces in-group epistemics and reality construction.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- URL-only post typical of both Trump and aides
- Business hours (3:19 PM ET, likely Mar-a-Lago)
- No original text to assess style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Wayne Allyn Root / Gateway Pundit)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party validation
- heroic narrative amplification

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- third-party-validation (90%)
- hero-narrative (70%)
- url-only (100%)

## That day

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

**Besieged by Jan. 6 Referrals, Trump Mounts an All-Caps Counteroffensive Built on Election Fraud Obsession**

Two days before Christmas, Trump spent his morning in a sustained fury over the Jan. 6 Committee's criminal referral, firing off escalating posts insisting the 2020 election was stolen and the government itself was the real criminal. The intensity peaked with an all-caps declaration that the U.S. government had been "caught" cheating, complete with a fabricated statistic and calls for prosecutors to root out a national "cancer." By afternoon, the storm had passed and he pivoted to rapid-fire link sharing and a plug for his coffee-table book -- a familiar cool-down pattern after a rage-heavy morning.

Full digest for 2022-12-23: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 23). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-roo... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564840596953012
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-root-christma..." Truth Social, 23 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564840596953012. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-root-christma...," Truth Social, December 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109564840596953012.

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