# Post ts_110147852376946255

- Post ID: `ts_110147852376946255`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-04-05T19:27:25.107Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110147852376946255/analysis
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## Post text

> Daniel Kelly of Wisconsin just lost his Supreme Court Election. He bragged that he won’t seek Trump’s Endorsement, so I didn’t give it—which guaranteed his loss. How foolish is a man that doesn’t seek an Endorsement that would have won him the Election?

## Engagement

- Likes: 27,703
- Reposts: 5,945
- Replies: 1,644
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.415Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:56:36.327Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On the day after his historic criminal arraignment, Trump pivots to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to reassert personal power. He claims Daniel Kelly's 11-point loss was "guaranteed" by the absence of Trump's endorsement—a demonstrably false attribution given the race was driven by abortion rights and redistricting. This post functions as displacement from the arraignment (where Trump is powerless) to endorsement politics (where he claims omnipotence). The rhetorical structure serves dual purposes: self-soothing grandiosity and a public warning to Republican candidates that disloyalty carries electoral consequences. The devaluation of Kelly as "foolish" and the framing of endorsement-seeking as mandatory supplication reveal the transactional loyalty schema central to Trump's political operation. The post employs pathological distortion (rewriting electoral causation) and immature devaluation (public humiliation of a non-loyalist). While not dangerous in isolation, the loyalty enforcement pattern—punish defectors publicly to ensure future compliance—is a significant feature of authoritarian political psychology.

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Post on Daniel Kelly's Wisconsin Loss

### Context
This post was made on April 5, 2023, the day after Trump's historic arraignment on 34 felony counts. Despite this being the dominant story, Trump pivots to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to construct a narrative of personal power. Janet Protasiewicz defeated Dan Kelly by 11 points.

### Authorship
Posted at ~3:27 PM EDT (Trump back at Mar-a-Lago after arraignment). The post has authentic Trump markers: rhetorical question structure, capitalized "Endorsement" and "Election," personal grievance framing, and the characteristic pattern of rewriting electoral outcomes as stories about himself.

### Core Psychological Dynamic
This is a classic **narcissistic supply maintenance** post. On a day when Trump faces criminal charges—a massive narcissistic injury—he selects an unrelated electoral loss to reassert his sense of omnipotence. The implicit claim: my endorsement is so powerful that withholding it *caused* Kelly's defeat. This transforms someone else's loss into proof of Trump's kingmaker status.

The post performs a remarkable inversion: Kelly lost by 11 points in the most expensive judicial race in US history, driven by abortion rights and redistricting. Trump's endorsement was likely irrelevant to the outcome. Yet Trump claims sole causal agency.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion**: Reshaping Kelly's loss (driven by substantive issues) into a story about Trump's endorsement power
- **Projection/Devaluation**: Kelly is "foolish" for not supplicating—projecting Trump's own need for validation onto the relationship
- **Displacement**: Redirecting from the arraignment (where he is powerless) to an arena where he can claim power

### Rhetorical Devices
The closing rhetorical question ("How foolish is a man...") functions as a warning to all Republican candidates: fealty to Trump is mandatory. This is dominance maintenance through public humiliation of a non-loyalist.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Daniel Kelly bragged that he won't seek Trump's Endorsement" | **Mostly True** | Kelly did not seek Trump's endorsement, though 'bragged' is editorializing |
| "Not giving endorsement guaranteed Kelly's loss" | **False** | Protasiewicz won by 11 points in a race driven by abortion rights and redistricting. Trump's endorsement was unlikely to close that gap. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Capitalized common nouns (Endorsement, Election)
- Rhetorical question structure
- Personal grievance framing
- Stream-of-consciousness causal logic

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Criminal arraignment (displaced onto Kelly's disloyalty))

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting Daniel Kelly
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose self-attribution of electoral power
- High post volume on arraignment day suggests elevated energy

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 50%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- displacement (neurotic)
- devaluation (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Demonstrating kingmaker power to audience
- Implicit threat to disloyal Republicans

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Daniel Kelly bragged that he won't seek Trump's Endorsement

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Kelly did not seek Trump's endorsement, though 'bragged' is editorializing

> Not giving endorsement guaranteed Kelly's loss

**FALSE**

Protasiewicz won by 11 points in a race driven by abortion rights and redistricting. Trump's endorsement was unlikely to close that gap.

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- loyalty enforcement (90%)
- endorsement power (80%)
- displacement from arraignment (70%)
- Wisconsin Supreme Court (50%)

## That day

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

**The Morning After: Trump Converts Historic Arraignment Into Persecution-to-Triumph Mythology**

The day after becoming the first former U.S. president arraigned on felony charges, Trump flooded his feed with 16 posts oscillating between raw defiance and forced triumph. A morning burst of rage peaked with a demand that Congress defund the DOJ and FBI, despite the case being a state prosecution with no federal involvement. By afternoon, he was calling his arrest "perhaps the Best Day in History" and sharing polls showing a post-indictment surge. The evening brought a jarring shift to normalcy -- a book promotion and warnings about China -- as if the arraignment had never happened.

Full digest for 2023-04-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, April 5). Daniel Kelly of Wisconsin just lost his Supreme... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110147852376946255
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Daniel Kelly of Wisconsin just lost his Supreme Court..." Truth Social, 5 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110147852376946255. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Daniel Kelly of Wisconsin just lost his Supreme Court...," Truth Social, April 5, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110147852376946255.

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