# Post ts_109824842540493819

- Post ID: `ts_109824842540493819`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-07T18:21:46.154Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109824842540493819.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers, fought me incessantly and rather viciously during my presidential run in 2016. They said I couldn’t win, I did, and won even bigger in 2020, with millions of more votes than ‘16, but the Election was Rigged & Stollen. They asked to get together on Endorsements of candidates, we did, and had MANY WINS & NO losses. Relationship broke up over my Endorsement of certain great people in Alabama & Ohio. I won them all!

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,894
- Reposts: 3,490
- Replies: 464
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.421Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:07:11.859Z (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 preemptive strike against Club for Growth, likely motivated by their anticipated support for Ron DeSantis in the 2024 primary. The psychological structure is revealing: Trump constructs a narrative in which every chapter ends with his victory, even the 2020 election loss (reframed as stolen). The Club for Growth is subjected to classic splitting — reduced from a complex political organization to "misfits, globalists, and losers." The post embeds two significant reality distortions: the stolen election claim (now functioning as casual axiom rather than argued position) and the "NO losses" claim on joint endorsements. The relationship breakdown is attributed entirely to the other party's reaction to Trump's endorsement choices, with no acknowledgment of mutual disagreement. Psychologically, this is supply-maintenance behavior — reassuring followers of Trump's infallibility while discrediting a potential source of legitimacy for rivals. The grandiose state is dominant throughout, with mild rage directed at the organization. The "Stollen" misspelling continues a persistent pattern across posts. No danger indicators or cognitive concerns beyond baseline.

## Psychological Analysis: Attack on Club for Growth

### Context
Post dated February 7, 2023, 1:21 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours posting with relatively structured argumentation suggests possible aide involvement, though the emotional content, misspelling ("Stollen"), and stream-of-consciousness quality point toward authentic Trump authorship.

### Personality Analysis

**Level 1 – Traits:** Low agreeableness dominates (devaluation of former allies as "misfits, globalists, and losers"). High extraversion (assertive, combative). Neuroticism facet of angry hostility present but controlled.

**Level 2 – Motives:** Pure agency/dominance. The post constructs a narrative of total victory: "I won," "won even bigger," "MANY WINS & NO losses," "I won them all!" The motive is to reframe a relationship breakdown as the other party's loss.

**Level 3 – Narrative Identity:** Classic redemption arc — doubted → proved doubters wrong → betrayed by ungrateful allies. Protagonist role: the winner who generously collaborated but was let down. Club for Growth cast as the contrasting other who needed Trump, not vice versa.

### Clinical Indicators
The "Stollen" misspelling (for "Stolen") is a recurring error in Trump's posts — likely a perseverative spelling habit rather than acute cognitive issue. The Big Lie claim is embedded casually mid-narrative, functioning as established axiom rather than argued point.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting**: Club for Growth = all-bad ("misfits, globalists, losers")
- **Distortion**: "won even bigger in 2020" and "NO losses" are demonstrable exaggerations
- **Rationalization**: Relationship failure reframed as their fault over his endorsement choices

### Rhetorical Devices
The post follows a clear narrative arc (opposition → triumph → collaboration → betrayal → final triumph) designed to preemptively discredit Club for Growth, likely in anticipation of their supporting a 2024 rival (DeSantis).

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Won even bigger in 2020 with millions of more votes than 2016" | **Mostly True** | Trump received ~74.2M votes in 2020 vs ~63M in 2016, an increase of ~11M. However he lost the election. |
| "The Election was Rigged & Stollen" | **False** | No credible evidence of fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 election outcome. Exposed to over 60 court challenges, all failed. |
| "Had MANY WINS & NO losses on joint endorsements with Club for Growth" | **Mostly False** | While the collaboration produced wins, the claim of zero losses is not supported. Several jointly endorsed candidates lost primaries or generals. |

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Stollen misspelling (recurring Trump error)
- Stream-of-consciousness narrative arc
- Emotional labeling (misfits, globalists, losers)
- ALL CAPS for emphasis
- Business hours posting at ~1:21 PM ET tempers confidence slightly

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Abandonment (Club for Growth (likely supporting DeSantis for 2024))

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Club for Growth
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose self-assessment
- Rapid narrative covering years of events in single post

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance narrative
- winner framing to maintain follower confidence

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Casual assertion of stolen election as established fact
- Rewriting collaborative history to claim zero losses

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Won even bigger in 2020 with millions of more votes than 2016

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump received ~74.2M votes in 2020 vs ~63M in 2016, an increase of ~11M. However he lost the election.

Sources: FEC election results

> The Election was Rigged & Stollen

**FALSE**

No credible evidence of fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 election outcome. Exposed to over 60 court challenges, all failed.

Sources: Federal and state court rulings; DOJ findings

> Had MANY WINS & NO losses on joint endorsements with Club for Growth

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While the collaboration produced wins, the claim of zero losses is not supported. Several jointly endorsed candidates lost primaries or generals.

Sources: 2018-2020 election results

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Tags

- preemptive-attack (80%)
- big-lie (70%)
- splitting (80%)
- club-for-growth (90%)
- 2024-primary (70%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Legal Paranoia Gives Way to Grandiose Denial and Primary Rival Attacks**

Trump spent the first half of the day consumed by the Mark Pomerantz book and the Manhattan DA investigation, posting a string of increasingly agitated late-night responses that wove prosecutors, Clinton, and the Schumer family into a single conspiracy. After sleeping, he pivoted to flatly denying that Chinese spy balloons ever entered U.S. airspace during his presidency -- contradicting his own Pentagon officials -- then settled into an afternoon of sharing flattering articles about himself, taking shots at Ron DeSantis, and announcing a live counter-broadcast of Biden's State of the Union address. The mood shifted from genuine distress overnight to confident showmanship by the afternoon.

Full digest for 2023-02-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 7). The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits,..." Truth Social, 7 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits,...," Truth Social, February 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819.

## For agents

- Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt
- API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth)
- This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_109824842540493819
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_109824842540493819
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_109824842540493819
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-07
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109824842540493819.md?analysis=false

_Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._