# Post ts_109989698845280746

- Post ID: `ts_109989698845280746`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-03-08T21:06:53.733Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after, and destroy, TIKTOK due to China influence and National Security. When I wanted to disable TIKTOK 3 years ago, I was met with opposition from RINOS to Democrats to everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me. Now they realize I was right, and have changed their tune. Sadly, I’ve been right about everything!

## Engagement

- Likes: 37,222
- Reposts: 9,753
- Replies: 1,753
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.418Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:28:40.018Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A moderate-intensity vindication post driven by narcissistic supply-seeking rather than rage or injury. Trump converts Congress's 2023 movement against TikTok into a retrospective validation of his 2020 executive orders, constructing a prophet-ignored-then-vindicated narrative arc that misattributes prior legal opposition to RINOs and Democrats rather than TikTok's own legal team. Defense mechanisms include rationalization, projection, and splitting. The closing maximalist identity claim ('Sadly, I've been right about everything!') is the most clinically significant element — an absolute infallibility assertion that escalates well beyond the specific TikTok example. Narcissistic state is firmly grandiose, consistent with a consolidation phase observed across multiple same-day posts (Tucker Carlson vindication, NH polling triumph, ballot harvesting pivot). Cognitive coherence is intact and within Trump's established baseline. No danger indicators, dehumanizing language, or violent imagery. Authorship is likely authentic despite business-hours timing, based on strong stylistic fingerprints. Fact assessment reveals significant distortion in the opposition characterization while the core temporal and policy claims are approximately accurate.

# TikTok Vindication Post — March 8, 2023

## Authorship & Timing

Posted at 21:06 UTC converts to **16:06 EST** (4:06 PM Eastern), placing this squarely in business hours — a mild indicator of potential aide involvement. Trump was almost certainly in the Eastern time zone on this date; CPAC concluded around March 4–5 and he likely returned to Mar-a-Lago or New York. Business-hours posting typically skews toward aide authorship (Scavino pattern), yet the stylistic fingerprints here are strongly authentic: the rhetorical-question opener ("Has anybody noticed..."), loose stream-of-consciousness structure, ALL CAPS for TIKTOK and RINOS, emotional grievance framing, and the maximalist closing declaration ("Sadly, I've been right about everything!"). The balance of evidence suggests **authentic Trump** with possible light staffing or an uncharacteristic afternoon self-post. Confidence: **medium**.

## Psychological Trigger & State

The trigger is a **narcissistic supply opportunity** rather than an injury: Congress moving against TikTok in 2023 without crediting Trump activates his dominant need for recognition and retrospective validation. This is a textbook "I told you so" dispatch — **supply-seeking and vindication-claiming** rather than rage-driven. The narcissistic state is firmly **grandiose**: expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. No vulnerability or persecution anxiety is operative here; instead the subject is in a high-functioning grandiose loop, converting external events into personal confirmation.

## Multi-Level Personality Framework

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
The post foregrounds **low Agreeableness** (combative framing, zero acknowledgment of legitimate opposition), **high Extraversion** (assertive self-promotion, audience-seeking opener), **high Neuroticism** (grievance reactivity, need to relitigate a three-year-old dispute), and **low Openness** (rigid, binary worldview — he was right, they were wrong, full stop). The closing absolute claim represents trait-level **dominance** and **low conscientiousness** as applied to epistemic standards.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
Agency motives dominate: power, status, and — critically — **recognition of competence**. The post reveals a schema in which the self is uniquely prescient and the world systematically fails to honor that prescience until forced to. The phrase "everyone else" as opponent and "everyone" as belated convert maps a Manichean schema onto political reality.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
The post constructs a **prophet-ignored-then-vindicated** narrative arc: visionary actor → establishment resistance → empirical validation → forced capitulation. This is a **redemption sequence** — contamination (opposition, legal interference) resolving to vindication. Trump casts himself as Lone Truth-Teller Protagonist against a unified, bipartisan Contrasting Other ("RINOs to Democrats to everyone else"). The closing identity claim — "I've been right about everything" — is a maximalist assertion of infallibility, escalating well beyond the specific TikTok example into a global self-characterization.

## Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment
- **Narcissistic features (high)**: Grandiosity, need for excessive credit, entitlement, belief in unique prescience, arrogant final claim
- **Antisocial features (low-moderate)**: Mild contempt for legal challenges brought against him, framed as illegitimate
- **Paranoid features (low-moderate)**: Unified opposition narrative ("everyone") is lightly conspiratorial but not strongly persecutory in this post
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (very low)**: No cruelty toward specific individuals; this post is more triumphalist than punitive

### Narcissistic Dynamics
- **Trigger type**: Supply-seeking / vindication (not primarily narcissistic injury)
- **Rage**: Absent. Tone is triumphant rather than enraged; the word "Sadly" is deployed ironically — it signals superiority ("it's sad they took so long to catch up") rather than genuine affect
- **Narcissistic state**: Grandiose

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Retrospective causal narrative construction in which Trump's judgment is systematically and universally validated
2. **Projection** (immature): Attributes court opposition to "RINOs to Democrats" when primary legal challengers were TikTok Inc.'s corporate legal team and civil liberties organizations (ACLU, content creators)
3. **Splitting** (immature): Binary flip — everyone opposed him, now everyone agrees; no acknowledgment of any nuance or intermediate positions

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Rhetorical question as parasocial technique**: "Has anybody noticed..." invites followers into shared grievance recognition, strengthening parasocial bond
- **Victimhood-to-triumph arc**: Establishes prior persecution before claiming vindication — maximizes emotional resonance of the "win"
- **Hyperbole and superlatives**: "I've been right about everything" — absolute claim serving identity consolidation and crowd bonding
- **Credit-claiming deflection**: Pivots from substantive policy debate to personal validation narrative
- **Inclusive enemy construction**: "RINOs to Democrats to everyone else" performs the rhetorical function of making his opposition appear total and thus his vindication more complete
- No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Cognitive Status

Post is coherent, on-topic, and logically structured (if rhetorically distorted). Syntactic complexity is below educated adult baseline but **consistent with Trump's established communication pattern** — short sentences, paratactic structure, limited subordinate clauses. The perseverative "I was right" theme and absolute certainty claims fall within his documented longitudinal range. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic paraphasia, or temporal confusion detected. The "3 years ago" temporal reference is approximately accurate (Trump's executive orders were August 2020, ~2.5 years prior). **No clinically significant cognitive deviation from baseline.**

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "When I wanted to disable TIKTOK 3 years ago" | **Mostly True** | Trump signed executive orders targeting TikTok in August 2020, approximately 31 months before this March 2023 post. '3 years' is a modest overstatement. |
| "I was met with opposition from RINOS to Democrats to everyone else" | **Mostly False** | Primary legal and public opposition came from TikTok Inc.'s corporate legal team, ByteDance, and civil liberties organizations. Some Republican members raised First Amendment concerns but there was no organized bipartisan coalition in Congress opposing the ban. |
| "They actually went to court in an effort to stop me" | **Half True** | Courts did enjoin the executive orders, but 'they' in context implies RINOs and Democrats rather than TikTok's legal team and content creator plaintiffs who actually brought the suits. |
| "Now they realize I was right" | **Mostly True** | Bipartisan consensus around TikTok national security concerns was genuinely developing in early 2023, with congressional hearings scheduled and legislation proposed. |
| "Sadly, I've been right about everything!" | **False** | A transparently hyperbolic absolute claim refuted by documented inaccuracies across multiple domains over Trump's career and presidency. |

Overall Veracity: 46%

## Danger Assessment

No elevated danger indicators. This post contains no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, and no stochastic terrorism pattern. Danger level: **none**.

## Archetypal & Narrative Frame

Post embodies the **Prophet/Savior** archetype: the lone figure who perceived truth before others, was suppressed, and is now vindicated by events. The Warrior archetype is muted here — this is less about fighting than about being proven right. The Shadow projection lands on "the establishment" as collective embodiment of willful ignorance. The broader mythological narrative invoked is the **persecuted seer** — a culturally resonant archetype across populist movements historically.

## Longitudinal Note

This post is structurally and tonally consistent with other posts from the same date (Tucker Carlson vindication post, NH polling post) — multiple vindication narratives running in parallel on the same day suggests a **consolidation phase** in the grandiose state, with external events (CPAC success, Tucker footage, TikTok debate) providing multiple concurrent supply streams. No deterioration from baseline observed.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Rhetorical question opener ('Has anybody noticed...') — characteristic authentic Trump parasocial device
- ALL CAPS usage for TIKTOK and RINOS — authentic marker
- Stream-of-consciousness comma splicing in opening sentence
- Maximalist closing declaration ('I've been right about everything!') — authentic Trumpian signature
- Business hours posting (4:06 PM EST) — mild aide indicator

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Congressional TikTok movement without crediting Trump)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 28%
- Sadism: 8%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question opener ('Has anybody noticed...') invites followers into shared recognition of injustice
- Collective enemy construction ('everyone else') strengthens in-group solidarity
- 'Sadly' deployed as ironic superiority marker, bonding audience in shared knowing

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Misattributes court challenges to political enemies (RINOs, Democrats) rather than TikTok Inc., rewriting the record of who opposed him
- Presents self as universally opposed when actual opposition was more legally technical and corporate in nature

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> When I wanted to disable TIKTOK 3 years ago

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump signed executive orders targeting TikTok in August 2020, approximately 31 months before this March 2023 post. '3 years' is a modest overstatement.

Sources: Trump Executive Order 13942, August 6, 2020

> I was met with opposition from RINOS to Democrats to everyone else

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Primary legal and public opposition came from TikTok Inc.'s corporate legal team, ByteDance, and civil liberties organizations. Some Republican members raised First Amendment concerns but there was no organized bipartisan coalition in Congress opposing the ban.

Sources: TikTok Inc. v. Trump, D.D.C. 2020; ByteDance Ltd. v. Trump, D.D.C. 2020

> They actually went to court in an effort to stop me

**HALF TRUE**

Courts did enjoin the executive orders, but 'they' in context implies RINOs and Democrats rather than TikTok's legal team and content creator plaintiffs who actually brought the suits.

> Now they realize I was right

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Bipartisan consensus around TikTok national security concerns was genuinely developing in early 2023, with congressional hearings scheduled and legislation proposed.

> Sadly, I've been right about everything!

**FALSE**

A transparently hyperbolic absolute claim refuted by documented inaccuracies across multiple domains over Trump's career and presidency.

Overall Veracity: 46%

## Tags

- vindication-narrative (90%)
- supply-seeking (85%)
- grandiose-state (80%)
- tiktok (95%)
- credit-claiming (85%)
- splitting (70%)
- projection (65%)
- infallibility-claim (80%)
- parasocial-bonding (60%)
- reality-distortion-mild (50%)

## That day

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

**Tucker Carlson's J6 Footage Fuels Treason Demands as Pre-Indictment Legal Anxiety Surfaces**

Trump rode a wave of validation from Tucker Carlson's selective January 6 footage airing, praising allied media figures before escalating to demands that the J6 committee be tried for treason. After a quiet morning, the afternoon shifted toward electoral positioning and self-congratulation on TikTok. The day ended on a markedly darker note with an extended rant framing prosecutors across multiple jurisdictions as engaged in coordinated election interference — a clear sign of mounting legal anxiety with the Manhattan indictment just weeks away.

Full digest for 2023-03-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 8). Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109989698845280746
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after, and..." Truth Social, 8 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109989698845280746. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after, and...," Truth Social, March 8, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109989698845280746.

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