# Post ts_109830233989202997 - Post ID: `ts_109830233989202997` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-08T17:12:53.129Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109830233989202997 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109830233989202997/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109830233989202997.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Prior to deplatforming me, Twitter would not send out my Tweets, or would limit them very substantially. That would be Google and Facebook also? They took away our (my) Voice! ## Engagement - Likes: 25,017 - Reposts: 6,808 - Replies: 1,180 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.421Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T00:06:13.145Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post ts_109830233989202997 is a compact grievance statement about pre-deplatforming Twitter suppression, extended speculatively to Google and Facebook. Its primary clinical significance lies in a single parenthetical self-correction — "our (my)" — which provides an unguarded window into the narcissistic dynamics beneath the populist framing. The collective "our" is a practiced rhetorical move to recruit the MAGA audience into the injury; the immediate self-correction to "(my)" reveals the wound as fundamentally personal. The capitalized "Voice" functions as a near-sacred narcissistic object whose removal is experienced as an attack on identity. A trailing rhetorical question — "That would be Google and Facebook also?" — plants a multi-platform suppression conspiracy under ostensibly speculative framing, providing deniability while asserting coordination. Mild DARVO pattern: deplatforming is framed as unprovoked political silencing with the January 6 incitement trigger fully omitted. Cognitively within baseline; no acute markers. Assessed as authentic Trump composition despite noon posting time. Danger level: none. Affects intensity is low-moderate — simmering grievance rather than acute rage, contrasting with the adjacent "SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!" post from the same session. ## Analysis: ts_109830233989202997 — "They Took Away Our (My) Voice" ### Overview A brief but psycholinguistically rich grievance post about pre-deplatforming suppression, notable less for its political content than for a single parenthetical self-correction — "our (my)" — that functions as an involuntary window into narcissistic dynamics beneath the populist framing. Posted into a cluster of high-affect SOTU commentary posts, this is one of five verified Truth Social posts from the same day. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time analysis:** UTC 17:12:53 on February 8, 2023. Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL) in this period, placing his local time at **12:12 PM EST** — solidly within business hours. This timing weakly suggests aide involvement. **Stylistic countervailing evidence is stronger:** 1. The **parenthetical self-correction** "our (my)" is a real-time stream-of-consciousness edit — an aide would have resolved this before posting, not left the seam visible. 2. The **trailing rhetorical question** with uncertain syntax — "That would be Google and Facebook also?" — is an impulsive, unresolved thought characteristic of authentic Trump. 3. The **exclamatory close** ("They took away our (my) Voice!") is emotionally raw, not formatted for persuasion. 4. Surrounding same-day posts are similarly unpolished, with similar rhetorical fingerprints. **Assessment:** Noon posting time is the only aide-consistent marker. All stylistic evidence points to authenticity. Rated **high confidence, authentic Trump**, possibly dictated or typed impulsively mid-afternoon during his SOTU debrief day. --- ### Psycholinguistic Highlight: The "(my)" Correction This is the most analytically significant element of the post. The original word choice — "our" — is a practiced populist move: collectivize the grievance, make it about the movement, the forgotten Americans, the millions who follow him. But the immediate parenthetical revision to "(my)" undermines this completely, exposing the wound as fundamentally personal. From a narcissistic dynamics standpoint, this is textbook: the *collective* framing is rhetorical scaffolding; the narcissistic injury is about *his* voice, *his* reach, *his* specialness. The Voice (capitalized in the closing sentence) is not a metaphor for political speech generally — it is His particular Voice, the loss of which constitutes an existential grievance. This slip-and-correct pattern is distinct from cognitive confusion; it reads as an honest real-time negotiation between political instinct and personal affect, resolved in favor of honesty by the parenthetical. --- ### Contextual Framing (Event-Driven) The post appears the day after Biden's State of the Union (February 7, 2023). The immediately adjacent posts from this same day show Trump: - Celebrating "Millions and Millions" of Truth Social viewers for his SOTU play-by-play - Touting his poll numbers - Invoking the "Weaponization of Law Enforcement" narrative - Screaming "Remember, they SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!" The deplatforming post arrives inside this high-activation cluster. The paradox is striking: Trump is simultaneously celebrating massive Truth Social reach and grieving the suppression of his Twitter voice. This is not contradictory — it reflects a characteristic narcissistic two-track: *I am enormously powerful AND I have been wrongfully diminished.* Both claims serve the same psychological function of maintaining an exceptional identity. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Trait Signatures:** - **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility):** Dominant. The post is grievance-organized. - **Extraversion (Assertiveness):** Elevated. The "Voice" is the central organizing metaphor — loss of audience access registers as a core wound. - **Agreeableness:** Very low. Adversarial stance toward tech platforms with no acknowledgment of rule violations that prompted restrictions. - **Conscientiousness:** Low in communication. The self-correction and unresolved question indicate low deliberation. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - **Agency motive (power/autonomy):** Maximally activated. The "Voice" metaphor frames deplatforming as a removal of power, not merely a policy decision. Recovery of voice = recovery of dominance. - **Schemas:** Self as exceptional communicator whose reach is naturally massive; Others (tech platforms) as malicious suppressors; World as a rigged system in which outsized talent is deliberately hobbled. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - **Protagonist role:** Martyr/Silenced Prophetic Figure — the one whose Truth was suppressed before the world was ready. - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination arc — had the Voice, it was taken. The MAGA movement is invoked as collective witness to this theft. - **Identity claim:** "I am someone of such reach and importance that powerful institutions had to actively suppress me before removing me entirely." - **Contrasting other:** Big Tech (Twitter, Google, Facebook) as the coordinated silencing apparatus. --- ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury (ongoing). The SOTU cycle has refreshed awareness of Biden's current platform advantages — national broadcast, presidential authority, institutional amplification. In contrast, Trump's platform is a proprietary alternative that, while celebrating large numbers, remains smaller in institutional reach. Deplatforming trauma is re-activated by contrast exposure. **Narcissistic state:** Vulnerable-grandiose oscillation. The opening grievance frames victimhood; the closing "They took away our (my) Voice!" recasts it as theft from greatness — i.e., only someone of extraordinary stature would need to be actively silenced. **Rage:** Present but low intensity (0.3). This is simmering rather than acute. No ALL CAPS, no explicit epithet — compared to the adjacent "SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!" post, this reads as muted. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization (neurotic):** The implicit claim is that reduced engagement or reach during his presidency was suppression, not organic — this rationalizes away evidence of limits on his actual popularity without suppression. - **Projection (immature):** Tech companies are framed as hostile actors with coordinated intent. This attributes a level of malicious agency to platforms that, for at least some restrictions, were following their own evolving content policies. - **Denial (pathological, mild):** The framing denies that deplatforming was a response to documented policy violations (incitement on January 6), recasting it as politically motivated silencing. --- ### Paranoid Extension: The Rhetorical Question "That would be Google and Facebook also?" — this construction deserves specific attention. The question mark signals ostensible uncertainty, but the rhetorical frame implies certainty: *of course* Google and Facebook did the same. This is a characteristic technique: float a conspiratorial claim under the guise of speculation, thereby planting the idea without fully committing to it. This pattern recurs across Trump posts — the question form provides deniability while the context conveys assertion. The extension to Google is also notable: Google is not a social platform in the same sense as Twitter or Facebook, so the claim is imprecise. It likely refers to YouTube (which restricted Trump's channel) or possibly search suppression theories. The vagueness serves the expansion: all major tech = coordinated suppression apparatus. --- ### Cognitive Status No acute markers. The syntax is simple but coherent. The self-correction is real-time self-monitoring, not confusion. The rhetorical question is stylistically consistent with his baseline. No word-finding difficulty, no temporal confusion, no semantic paraphasia. The question format and impulsive self-correction are **consistent with baseline Trump writing style** and should not be interpreted as cognitive decline. Baseline deviation: **none**. --- ### Rhetorical and Propaganda Techniques 1. **Victimhood framing:** The entire post is organized around theft and suppression of voice. 2. **Collective-to-personal oscillation:** "our (my)" — attempts populist collectivization, breaks down to personal grievance. 3. **Implied coordination without evidence:** The extension to Google/Facebook implies a coordinated multi-platform suppression campaign. 4. **Floating assertion via question:** Conspiratorial claim delivered as rhetorical question. 5. **Capitalization for emphasis:** "Voice" — elevating personal platform access to near-sacred status. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Gaslighting Assessment Mild. The claim that suppression preceded deplatforming has documentary basis (Twitter did apply labels, reduce algorithmic amplification on some flagged content), but the framing omits that these were responses to specific violations — converting policy enforcement into political persecution. This is DARVO-lite: the suppressor is recast as the victim of suppression. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Purely grievance-based, no targets identified for action, no eliminationist language, no mobilization cues. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Prior to deplatforming me, Twitter would not send out my Tweets, or would limit them very substantially" | **Mostly True** | Twitter documented applying content labels, reducing algorithmic amplification on flagged content, and restricting engagement features on specific Trump tweets before the January 8, 2021 ban. These were contested but documented practices. | | "Prior to deplatforming [framing deplatforming as the unprovoked endpoint]" | **Half True** | Twitter did deplatform Trump on January 8, 2021, but in direct response to the January 6 Capitol riot and associated incitement tweets. Framing the deplatforming without this context is materially misleading. | | "That would be Google and Facebook also [implying equivalent suppression]" | **Half True** | Facebook/Meta suspended Trump's account (initially indefinitely; later reinstated in 2023). YouTube temporarily suspended Trump's channel after January 6. However, 'Google' does not operate a social posting platform; the claim imprecisely aggregates distinct platform decisions under a coordinated suppression frame. | | "They took away our (my) Voice" | **Mostly False** | Trump retained Truth Social (millions of followers), extensive earned media coverage across all major outlets, ongoing rally speech, and legal platforms throughout. Institutional amplification was reduced; his voice was not eliminated. Truth Social was actively celebrating massive reach in adjacent same-day posts. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Self-correcting parenthetical '(my)' would be resolved by an aide pre-posting - Trailing rhetorical question with unresolved syntax: 'That would be Google and Facebook also?' - Stream-of-consciousness structure with impulsive capitalization of 'Voice' - Noon EST posting time (12:12 PM) is the sole aide-consistent indicator - Surrounding same-day posts show similar unpolished stylistic fingerprints ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Big Tech deplatforming and suppression narrative; SOTU cycle re-activating platform comparison with Biden) **Rage:** Intensity 30% targeting Twitter, Google, Facebook - Proportionality: 40% Sentiment: -0.52 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collectivizing personal grievance ('our') before self-correcting to personal frame ('my') — invites audience to share wound - Validating Truth Social audience as beneficiaries of 'restored voice' - Positioning self as martyr whose Voice required active institutional suppression ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - DARVO-lite: omits January 6 incitement as the proximate cause of deplatforming; reframes policy enforcement as political persecution - Implies suppression was pre-existing and politically motivated rather than responsive to documented rule violations - Attacks on others' perception implied: 'They took away our Voice' positions any alternative account as complicit in the suppression ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Prior to deplatforming me, Twitter would not send out my Tweets, or would limit them very substantially **MOSTLY TRUE** Twitter documented applying content labels, reducing algorithmic amplification on flagged content, and restricting engagement features on specific Trump tweets before the January 8, 2021 ban. These were contested but documented practices. Sources: Twitter's own enforcement transparency reports; Congressional testimony on platform moderation practices 2020-2021 > Prior to deplatforming [framing deplatforming as the unprovoked endpoint] **HALF TRUE** Twitter did deplatform Trump on January 8, 2021, but in direct response to the January 6 Capitol riot and associated incitement tweets. Framing the deplatforming without this context is materially misleading. Sources: Twitter's January 8 2021 public statement on permanent suspension > That would be Google and Facebook also [implying equivalent suppression] **HALF TRUE** Facebook/Meta suspended Trump's account (initially indefinitely; later reinstated in 2023). YouTube temporarily suspended Trump's channel after January 6. However, 'Google' does not operate a social posting platform; the claim imprecisely aggregates distinct platform decisions under a coordinated suppression frame. Sources: Meta's Oversight Board review of Trump suspension; YouTube's enforcement actions January 2021 > They took away our (my) Voice **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump retained Truth Social (millions of followers), extensive earned media coverage across all major outlets, ongoing rally speech, and legal platforms throughout. Institutional amplification was reduced; his voice was not eliminated. Truth Social was actively celebrating massive reach in adjacent same-day posts. Sources: Trump's own same-day posts celebrating Truth Social traffic Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - deplatforming (90%) - big-tech-grievance (85%) - narcissistic-injury (80%) - self-correction-slip (90%) - victimhood-narrative (80%) - paranoid-extension (65%) - voice-metaphor (75%) - DARVO (60%) - authentic-authorship (72%) - contamination-narrative (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Couch Presidency: Trump Live-Trolls Biden's SOTU, Then Pivots to Full Persecution Mode** Trump spent the evening glued to Biden's State of the Union address, firing off dozens of real-time reactions from Mar-a-Lago that ranged from mild performance critiques to racial slurs and homophobic jabs at named politicians. The morning after, he celebrated his own Truth Social traffic before spending the afternoon amplifying election fraud claims tied to the House Twitter Files hearings. The mood was overwhelmingly combative and grandiose — the exiled king grading his successor — with flashes of genuine persecution anxiety surfacing around his mounting legal exposure. It was one of his highest-volume posting days of the year, driven by the competitive sting of watching a rival command the national stage he considers rightfully his. Full digest for 2023-02-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 8). Prior to deplatforming me, Twitter would not send... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109830233989202997 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Prior to deplatforming me, Twitter would not send out my..." Truth Social, 8 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109830233989202997. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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