# Post ts_109937374060024862 - Post ID: `ts_109937374060024862` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-27T15:20:00.873Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109937374060024862 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109937374060024862/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109937374060024862.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109827325036509923 THE NUMBERS HAVE GOTTEN EVEN WORSE SINCE THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH! ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109827325036509923 (2023-02-08T04:53:06.029Z (UTC)) > Look, he worked hard tonight, it’s not a natural thing for him, it never was, and never will be, but you’ve got to give him credit for trying. I disagree with him on most of his policies, but he put into words what he felt, and he ended up the evening far stronger than he began. Give him credit for that. Many things weren’t mentioned that should have been, but that’s for another time. I’ve done a little clip, perhaps you’d like to watch it. Good night everybody, and God Bless America! - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/109/827/324/628/967/784/original/8e08997614cfa9eb.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 11,814 - Reposts: 3,043 - Replies: 363 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.419Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:16:32.068Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-02-27 (ts_109937374060024862) ## Overview This is a retruth of an earlier Trump post (ID ending ...036509923), with the addendum: **"THE NUMBERS HAVE GOTTEN EVEN WORSE SINCE THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH!"** The post is brief, celebratory, and parasocially competitive — a schadenfreude signal about Biden's post-SOTU polling. The malformed URL (where "THE" is directly concatenated to the hyperlink without a space: `...036509923THE`) is a formatting artifact worth noting for authorship purposes. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time Assessment:** At 15:20 UTC on February 27, 2023, Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL, EST = UTC−5), placing local time at **10:20 AM** — solidly within business hours. This timing pattern alone would suggest aide involvement. However, the **malformed URL concatenation** ("...036509923THE") strongly suggests authentic Trump posting: an aide would have caught this elementary formatting error before publishing. The ALL CAPS construction, single exclamation point, and telegraphic brevity are further authentic stylistic indicators. Competing signals resolve slightly toward authentic — this reads like Trump tapping out a quick celebratory note on his phone, resulting in the URL/text collision. Confidence: **medium**. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive tone, broadcasting a competitive win-signal to the audience. Consistent with the day's adjacent golf posts showing genuine enthusiasm and positive affect. - **Agreeableness (low):** Zero empathy for Biden's difficulties; purely devaluing framing. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Malformed URL, impulsive brevity, no caveats or sourcing. - **Neuroticism (low–moderate):** Mood here is triumphalist rather than anxious or rageful — a contrast to the same day's election grievance posts ("Crooked Democrat Prosecutors..."). - **Openness (low):** No curiosity or nuance; binary framing (Biden bad → numbers confirm). --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive:** Agency/power — specifically the *status comparison* sub-motive. This post derives its psychological energy not from Trump's own performance but from the *diminishment of a rival*. This is a classic narcissistic supply-by-proxy mechanism: Biden's weakness is experienced as Trump's strength. **Schema revealed:** The world is a zero-sum arena where polling numbers serve as scoreboard. Biden's SOTU — a formal presidential moment — is reframed as an event that *harmed* Biden, inverting the normal expectation that presidential addresses boost approval. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Silent scorekeeper / vindicated predictor. Trump is not the actor here — he positions himself as the one watching the scoreboard update in his favor. - **Contamination sequence:** Biden's SOTU (normally a moment of presidential legitimacy) → contaminated outcome (numbers worsen). The subtext: the office itself is now soiled by its occupant. - **Identity claim:** "I track these things. I know the real numbers. I told you so." - **Contrasting other:** Biden, implicitly positioned as a failed communicator whose speech backfired. - **Narrative arc:** Redemption in motion — the bad actor is being revealed; the numbers don't lie (though they are not specified). --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking through rival devaluation. Biden's SOTU (February 7, 2023) provided a high-profile event against which Trump can benchmark — and celebrate — relative decline. No direct narcissistic injury here; this is *opportunistic* supply extraction. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The mood across the day's posts oscillates between grandiose (LIV Golf congratulations, TRUMP NATIONAL self-promotion, this celebratory post) and paranoid/aggrieved (election prosecution posts, "The whole system is RIGGED"). This post sits in the grandiose register. **Rage:** Absent in this post specifically. The emotional valence is gleeful, not enraged. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Devaluation (immature):** Biden's major presidential address is reduced to a polling liability. The mechanism is smooth and automatic — no argument is made; the devaluation is simply asserted. - **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Numbers" are invoked as objective external validation for what is fundamentally a partisan attack. ### Malignant Narcissism Subscore (this post only) - Narcissistic features: moderate (grandiosity, entitlement to pronounce on Biden) - Antisocial features: low (no deception, no rights violations signaled) - Paranoid features: low (absent here; paranoia appears in adjacent posts) - Ego-syntonic sadism: mild (pleasure in rival's decline is evident but not elaborated) --- ## Cognitive Status **Complexity:** Very low — a single exclamatory sentence fragment. However, brevity is baseline-consistent for this posting style; not diagnostically significant. **Formatting error:** The URL/text concatenation ("...036509923THE") is notable. This type of posting error — where the text immediately follows the URL without whitespace — is consistent with mobile posting without proofreading. It may reflect mild inattention but is a weak signal at best. **Baseline deviation:** None. This level of brevity and ALL CAPS celebration is well within established Trump posting norms. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis - **Superlative escalation:** "EVEN WORSE" — implies a prior claim (numbers already bad) now superseded. Escalating rhetoric without new evidence. - **Implied authority:** Presents numbers as known fact without citing source, poll, or timeframe. - **Appeal to momentum:** "SINCE THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH" frames the SOTU as a causal agent of Biden's decline — post hoc reasoning. - **ALL CAPS emphasis:** Standard Trump amplification device; functions as a visual shout. - No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion This specific post makes a polling claim without evidence. Whether Biden's numbers genuinely declined post-SOTU is ambiguous — his approval ratings were persistently low (low-to-mid 40s) throughout this period, and the SOTU received relatively neutral-to-positive immediate reactions in snap polls. The framing of SOTU as a polling *liability* may be selective or misleading, but it is not a direct denial of documented reality — it is an unsubstantiated spin. **Gaslighting present:** No (not in this isolated post). --- ## Danger Assessment No danger indicators. Routine political rivalry content. No dehumanization, no mobilization language, no stochastic terrorism pattern. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden's numbers have gotten even worse since the State of the Union speech" | **Mostly False** | Biden's approval ratings were persistently in the low-to-mid 40s throughout February 2023 — largely unchanged before and after the SOTU (February 7, 2023). Snap polls of SOTU viewers showed net positive reactions (CBS, CNN). No documented post-SOTU meaningful polling decline supports the causal framing. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Summary Not clinically significant as a standalone post. Routine grandiose-phase content: brief, celebratory rival devaluation with authentic stylistic markers (ALL CAPS, exclamation, malformed URL suggesting unmediated mobile posting). The post contributes to the longitudinal pattern of oscillation between grandiose supply-extraction and paranoid aggrieved posting visible across the same day's content. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 68%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS construction consistent with authentic Trump style - Malformed URL concatenation ('...036509923THE') — formatting error an aide would likely catch - Single exclamatory sentence fragment consistent with impulsive mobile posting - 10:20 AM local time (Mar-a-Lago EST) is business hours, suggesting possible aide involvement - Brevity and celebratory tone match authentic Trump posting patterns ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Biden's State of the Union address (February 7, 2023)) Sentiment: +0.25 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated positive affect across day's posting corpus (golf enthusiasm, LIV Golf congratulations, self-promotion of TRUMP NATIONAL) - Rapid multi-topic posting across the day (sports → political grievance → celebratory rivalry → golf results) - Exclamatory punctuation across multiple posts ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 18% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared rival-devaluation as audience bonding mechanism - Implied insider knowledge ('the numbers') positioning Trump as informed observer ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden's numbers have gotten even worse since the State of the Union speech **MOSTLY FALSE** Biden's approval ratings were persistently in the low-to-mid 40s throughout February 2023 — largely unchanged before and after the SOTU (February 7, 2023). Snap polls of SOTU viewers showed net positive reactions (CBS, CNN). No documented post-SOTU meaningful polling decline supports the causal framing. Sources: CBS News SOTU snap poll (Feb 2023); FiveThirtyEight Biden approval tracker (Feb 2023) Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - rival_devaluation (80%) - grandiose_phase (70%) - schadenfreude (75%) - polling_claim (60%) - biden_targeting (70%) - supply_seeking (65%) - authentic_posting (60%) - formatting_error (55%) - post_hoc_reasoning (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Jack Smith Dehumanization Spike Anchors Day of Legal Siege Rhetoric** Trump spent the day cycling between legal grievances and self-promotion, with one particularly aggressive post standing out. He called Special Counsel Jack Smith a "Psycho," "Thug," and "Monster," extending the attack to Smith's wife and family — the most hostile moment of the day by a wide margin. Around that, he took shots at Fox News for boosting DeSantis, dismissed Nikki Haley with a shared hit piece, congratulated a golfer on the LIV tour, and promoted his trade agenda. The morning was relatively calm, but the afternoon turned combative fast. Full digest for 2023-02-27: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-27/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 27). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109937374060024862 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 27 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109937374060024862. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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