# Post ts_109678840486297526

- Post ID: `ts_109678840486297526`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-12T23:31:31.598Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109678840486297526
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109529028482982758 So Sad!

## 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: 23,696
- Reposts: 5,932
- Replies: 1,117
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:46:50.948Z (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-Retweet with "So Sad!" Commentary (2023-01-12)

### Overview
This post is a retweet of Trump's own prior Truth Social post (from late December 2022 based on the status ID) with the brief editorial addition "So Sad!" The URL appears malformed, with "So" concatenated to the URL — likely a formatting artifact. This is a low-content post consisting of self-amplification with minimal emotional commentary.

### Authorship
Posted at 6:31 PM EST (Trump at Mar-a-Lago in January). Business hours timing. The brevity and self-RT format could be either Trump or an aide. The "So Sad!" exclamation is a classic Trump verbal signature, but self-RTs are also a routine aide activity. Mixed signals — slight lean toward aide-assisted.

### Psychological State
This post is part of a high-volume day featuring attacks on Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, and grievance about the 2020 election. The "So Sad!" framing is characteristic vulnerable-grandiose oscillation — positioning as observer lamenting decline while implicitly blaming others.

### Context
The Biden classified documents scandal was breaking this same day, which Trump was clearly leveraging across multiple posts. This self-RT likely references that parallel or another grievance topic from late December.

### Clinical Significance
Minimal. This is routine self-amplification behavior — a maintenance post in a high-volume grievance cycle. No novel patterns or escalation observed.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (6:31 PM EST)
- Self-RT format common for both Trump and aides
- 'So Sad!' is signature Trump phrase
- Minimal original content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- performative emotion to invite audience sympathy

## Tags

- self-retweet (100%)
- maintenance (80%)
- low-content (90%)

## That day

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

**Three-Page Assault on Jack Smith as Biden Documents Parallel Fuels Persecution Siege**

Trump spent most of the day consumed by the Jack Smith special counsel investigation, publishing a rare three-page written attack in the morning before pivoting to demands that the Attorney General fire Smith and appoint an equally hostile prosecutor to investigate Biden. The appointment of Special Counsel Robert Hur to probe Biden's classified documents — potentially validating Trump's grievances — paradoxically deepened his persecution narrative rather than producing triumphalism. By evening, the mood shifted to lighter self-promotion and political commentary, but the day's center of gravity was unmistakably the legal threat.

Full digest for 2023-01-12: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 12). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109678840486297526
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 12 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109678840486297526. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, January 12, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109678840486297526.

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