# Post ts_109894951949055687

- Post ID: `ts_109894951949055687`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-20T03:31:30.872Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109894951949055687/analysis
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## Post text

> Thank you Gavin Wax, very much. The problem is, many of the people that get elected to office know what to do (that’s the easy part), but they have no idea how to pull it off. They don’t know how to talk to the other side, they can’t cajole, be jovial or be, perhaps, angry. As an example, President Putin of Russia would have never gone into Ukraine! https://townhall.com/columnists/gavinwax/2023/02/19/there-is-no-trumpism-without-trump-n2619606

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:01:54.537Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109894951949055687

### Context
Trump thanks Gavin Wax for a Townhall column titled "There Is No Trumpism Without Trump," then pivots to a self-aggrandizing claim about his unique negotiating abilities, culminating in the assertion that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine under his presidency.

### Authorship
Posted at 10:31 PM ET (Trump was based at Mar-a-Lago during this period). This is within his typical late-evening posting window. The post has a conversational, stream-of-consciousness quality—thanking Wax, then pivoting mid-thought into a broader philosophical claim about political skill, then jumping to the Putin/Ukraine claim. The tone is authentic Trump: self-referential, grandiose, with an abrupt topic shift that serves narcissistic supply.

### Psychological State
This is a **supply-seeking/maintenance** post. Trump is amplifying flattering media ("There Is No Trumpism Without Trump") while using it as a springboard for grandiose self-positioning. The core claim—that he alone possesses the interpersonal skills (cajoling, joviality, anger) to prevent geopolitical catastrophe—is classic grandiose narcissistic presentation.

### Key Observations
- **"They don't know how to talk to the other side, they can't cajole, be jovial or be, perhaps, angry"** — Trump positions himself as uniquely possessing the full emotional range needed for deal-making. The word "perhaps" before "angry" is an interesting hedge suggesting awareness that anger-as-tool is controversial.
- **Putin/Ukraine claim** — Unfalsifiable counterfactual presented as certainty. This is a recurring theme (perseveration) across months of posts.
- The post implicitly contrasts Trump with all other politicians ("many of the people that get elected"), reinforcing his narrative of singular competence.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Putin would have never gone into Ukraine under Trump's presidency" | **Unverifiable** | Unfalsifiable counterfactual. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and initiated military buildup during Trump's term. Trump's relationship with Putin was unusually accommodating, but no causal claim about deterrence can be verified. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Context
This post sits amid an intense anti-DeSantis campaign. The relative restraint here (no ALL CAPS, no nicknames, no direct attacks) suggests a brief shift to grandiose-mode self-promotion rather than the devaluation cycle dominating the surrounding posts.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Late evening posting (10:31 PM ET)
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from thanks to grandiose claim
- Conversational parenthetical style ('that's the easy part')
- Slight hedging ('perhaps, angry') characteristic of spoken-style Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Gavin Wax column praising Trump's indispensability)

Sentiment: +0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address thanking supporter by name
- Inclusive framing of political skill as relatable concept before asserting unique possession of it

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Putin would have never gone into Ukraine under Trump's presidency

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Unfalsifiable counterfactual. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and initiated military buildup during Trump's term. Trump's relationship with Putin was unusually accommodating, but no causal claim about deterrence can be verified.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- grandiosity (80%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- Ukraine-Russia (50%)
- self-as-sole-solution (80%)
- unfalsifiable-claim (60%)

## That day

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

**Mar-a-Lago Presidents' Day: Rival Destruction, Legal Deflection, and Strategic Silence on Kyiv**

Trump spent Presidents' Day at Mar-a-Lago in full campaign mode, hosting supporters at Club 45 and basking in crowd energy. The day was bookended by pointed attacks on Ron DeSantis — mocking his crowd sizes, poll numbers, and establishment allies. A brief mid-morning dip into legal defensiveness over DOJ investigations was quickly papered over with media-ally endorsements and a shout-out to Tiger Woods. The most striking feature of the day was what went unsaid: Biden's dramatic surprise visit to Kyiv drew absolutely no response, suggesting the DeSantis primary threat looms far larger in Trump's mind than the sitting president.

Full digest for 2023-02-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 20). Thank you Gavin Wax, very much. The problem is,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109894951949055687
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you Gavin Wax, very much. The problem is, many of the..." Truth Social, 20 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109894951949055687. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you Gavin Wax, very much. The problem is, many of the...," Truth Social, February 20, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109894951949055687.

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