# Post ts_110384051064378318

- Post ID: `ts_110384051064378318`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-17T12:35:51.062Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384051064378318/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110384051064378318.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the “shock” of everyone, and for the first time put the Pro Life movement in a strong negotiating position over the Radicals that are willing to kill babies even into their 9th month, and beyond. Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 22,698
- Reposts: 5,828
- Replies: 1,061
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.411Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:46:19.455Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post is a high-purity grandiose supply-seeking event driven by Trump's need to assert singular causal ownership over the Dobbs decision. The primary clinical marker is the closing self-apostrophe — "Thank you President TRUMP!!!" — in which Trump generates, directs, and performs his own admiration in the third person, completing an internally closed narcissistic supply loop. The dominant defense is pathological distortion: a 49-year multi-institutional legal movement, three Senate confirmations, six justices, and decades of Federalist Society strategy are collapsed into one man's personal achievement. A secondary rationalization insulates his current electoral moderation (supporting gestational-limit deals) from pro-life purist criticism by positioning that moderation as the natural fruit of his decisive foundational victory. The post exists within a same-day session that also contains an extreme paranoid-register post about FBI persecution (ALL CAPS), illustrating the oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic states characteristic of the subject's baseline pattern. The dehumanizing "and beyond" addendum — extending the opponent's alleged willingness to kill past the ninth month into implicit post-birth infanticide — reflects deliberate enemy-maximization rather than factual representation. No cognitive markers of concern; no danger indicators. Clinically significant primarily for the self-congratulatory apostrophe, which represents one of the more structurally pure narcissistic supply-loop constructions in the documented corpus.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — May 17, 2023

## Authorship Attribution
**High confidence: authentic Trump.** Published at 08:35 EDT — within Trump's documented early-morning posting window. The post's defining stylometric features — third-person self-congratulation ("Thank you President TRUMP!!!"), sardonic scare-quotes, dangling stream-of-consciousness enumeration, and triple exclamation marks — constitute a fingerprint unlikely to be replicated by aide authorship. Scavino-drafted posts consistently avoid self-thanking constructions that carry reputational risk.

## Psychological State & Triggers
The post is in a **grandiose narcissistic state**, functioning primarily as supply-seeking. The probable trigger is dual: (1) ongoing Republican internal tension over abortion as a 2024 electoral liability, with some pro-life advocates criticizing Trump's emerging deal-making posture on gestational limits; (2) general baseline supply maintenance. There is no narcissistic rage — the affect is triumphant, not aggrieved — though this post exists in temporal proximity to a highly rage-saturated post about FBI/DOJ persecution posted the same day, suggesting oscillation between grandiose and paranoid-vulnerable states within a single session.

## Defense Mechanisms
The dominant defense is **distortion (Level 1/Vaillant)**: the reductive collapse of a 49-year, multi-institutional, multi-generational legal movement — including the Federalist Society's judicial pipeline and six Supreme Court justices — into a single-person achievement. A secondary **rationalization** is present: his current electoral pragmatism (supporting gestational-limit deals) is reframed as the logical product of his decisive foundational victory, preemptively neutralizing hardline pro-life criticism.

## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)
Trump casts himself as the **singular historical savior** who accomplished what the entire pro-life movement could not across 50 years. The narrative sequence is a **redemption arc**: sustained collective failure → Trump arrives → decisive, world-historical victory. The contrasting other is split: (a) the hapless prior pro-life movement (implicitly incompetent without him), and (b) the "Radicals" who serve as the irredeemably evil enemy. The closing self-congratulatory apostrophe ("Thank you President TRUMP!!!") is among the most clinically notable self-referential gestures in the public corpus: Trump generates his own admiration, addresses it to himself in the third person, and publishes it — a complete narcissistic supply loop that requires no external validation.

## Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
- **Extraversion:** 0.88 — extreme assertiveness and positive self-affect
- **Agreeableness:** 0.08 — contempt for opponents, zero modesty, no acknowledgment of others' contributions
- **Conscientiousness:** 0.38 — achievement-striving framing but impulsive, unstructured delivery
- **Neuroticism:** 0.62 — reactive framing, though affect is more triumphant than anxious here
- **Openness:** 0.18 — rigid moral binary; no intellectual complexity admitted

## Motivational Profile
Dominant motive: **power/status** (agency). The post is not about policy outcomes for American women or governance — it is entirely about the establishment of Trump's singular causal role in history. Communion motives are instrumentalized: the pro-life movement is a prop validating his indispensability, not a community of shared values.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques
The anaphoric "Without me... Without me..." construction is a dependency-installation device: each repetition deepens the cognitive architecture in which Trump is the indispensable variable. The "and beyond" addendum to "9th month" extends the dehumanization claim past the 9th month into implied infanticide, a position no mainstream legislative or advocacy actor holds, manufacturing a more extreme enemy than actually exists. Hyperbole ("nobody coming even close," "50 years of failure") functions as historical revision.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "After 50 years of failure [to overturn Roe v. Wade]" | **Mostly True** | Roe v. Wade was decided January 22, 1973; Dobbs was decided June 24, 2022 — 49 years, 5 months. '50 years' is a colloquial rounding, defensible as approximation. |
| "I was able to kill Roe v. Wade" | **Half True** | Trump appointed three of the six justices in the Dobbs majority (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett), and these appointments were necessary for the outcome. However, the Federalist Society's decades-long judicial pipeline, Senate Majority Leader McConnell's confirmation strategy, the legal briefs, and the justices' own reasoning produced the decision. The singular causal claim is an overstatement of a materially significant but not sufficient contribution. |
| "Radicals that are willing to kill babies even into their 9th month, and beyond" | **Mostly False** | Abortions after 21 weeks account for approximately 1% of all U.S. procedures; those occurring in the third trimester are overwhelmingly for severe fetal anomalies or serious maternal health risks. 'And beyond' implies post-birth infanticide, a position supported by no mainstream legislative or medical advocacy body. This characterization misrepresents both the statistical reality and the policy positions of mainstream pro-choice advocates. |
| "Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing" | **Unverifiable** | Counterfactual claim about what would have occurred absent Trump's presidency and judicial appointments. While structural analysis suggests Trump's appointments were pivotal for the Dobbs outcome, alternative timelines cannot be empirically established. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
No classic gaslighting (DARVO, denial of documented events) is present. The reality distortion is narcissistic-grandiose rather than manipulative-interpersonal: it reshapes a collective achievement into a personal one, which serves self-aggrandizement more than it serves to destabilize a specific target's reality.

## Cognitive Status
No significant markers of cognitive concern in this post. The enumeration ("6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks") and hedging ("or whatever is finally agreed to") suggest flexible pragmatic thinking rather than perseveration. Syntax, while loose, is coherent. No word-finding gaps, phonemic paraphasias, or temporal confusion detected. **Baseline-consistent.**

## Longitudinal Note
This post appears in a session that also includes the highly rage-saturated ALL CAPS FBI/DOJ persecution post ("I WAS BEING FRAMED BY THE FBI AND THE DOJ..."). The juxtaposition illustrates the oscillation pattern between grandiose supply-seeking (this post) and paranoid-vulnerable narcissistic injury responses (the FBI post) that characterizes Trump's posting behavior. The same-day presence of both modes is consistent with documented patterns.

## Danger Assessment
**None.** No stochastic terrorism indicators, eliminationist language, or mobilization calls. The dehumanizing "kill babies" framing is a standard political rhetoric deployment in the abortion debate context; while inflammatory, it does not identify targets or imply action beyond electoral opposition.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- 8:35 AM EDT — early morning, consistent with Trump's early rising pattern
- Third-person self-congratulation ('Thank you President TRUMP!!!') is a signature authentic Trump device, unlikely to be drafted by aide
- Triple exclamation points, sardonic scare-quotes around 'shock', and stream-of-consciousness enumeration ('6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to') are all hallmarks of unmediated Trump composition
- Mild syntactic loose-threading ('and beyond' as a dangling addendum) consistent with unedited authentic posts
- No event announcement or schedule formatting; purely expressive/egocentric content aides tend to avoid ghostwriting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Ongoing Republican internal debate about abortion as electoral liability; pro-life base criticism of Trump's emerging moderate positioning on abortion timelines)

Sentiment: +0.62

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated self-concept ('nobody coming even close' in 50 years of human history)
- Pressured, expansive tone — single paragraph covering historical sweep without pause
- Triple exclamation marks and third-person self-congratulation suggest elevated affective state
- Grandiose inflated self-reference consistent with hypomanic coloring, though within Trump's established baseline range

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 92%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 18%
- Sadism: 42%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to audience as witnesses to his historic achievement
- Manufactured collective memory: 'much to the shock of everyone' positions followers as co-experiencers of his triumph
- Third-person self-congratulation invites the audience to join in praising him

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> After 50 years of failure [to overturn Roe v. Wade]

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Roe v. Wade was decided January 22, 1973; Dobbs was decided June 24, 2022 — 49 years, 5 months. '50 years' is a colloquial rounding, defensible as approximation.

Sources: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973); Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022)

> I was able to kill Roe v. Wade

**HALF TRUE**

Trump appointed three of the six justices in the Dobbs majority (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett), and these appointments were necessary for the outcome. However, the Federalist Society's decades-long judicial pipeline, Senate Majority Leader McConnell's confirmation strategy, the legal briefs, and the justices' own reasoning produced the decision. The singular causal claim is an overstatement of a materially significant but not sufficient contribution.

Sources: Dobbs majority opinion; Federalist Society judicial selection history

> Radicals that are willing to kill babies even into their 9th month, and beyond

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Abortions after 21 weeks account for approximately 1% of all U.S. procedures; those occurring in the third trimester are overwhelmingly for severe fetal anomalies or serious maternal health risks. 'And beyond' implies post-birth infanticide, a position supported by no mainstream legislative or medical advocacy body. This characterization misrepresents both the statistical reality and the policy positions of mainstream pro-choice advocates.

Sources: CDC Abortion Surveillance data; Guttmacher Institute statistics on late-term abortion

> Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Counterfactual claim about what would have occurred absent Trump's presidency and judicial appointments. While structural analysis suggests Trump's appointments were pivotal for the Dobbs outcome, alternative timelines cannot be empirically established.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic_grandiosity (95%)
- supply_seeking (88%)
- third_person_self_reference (92%)
- credit_maximization (90%)
- enemy_dehumanization (72%)
- abortion_policy (95%)
- dobbs_roe (90%)
- pathological_distortion (85%)
- savior_archetype (88%)
- authentic_trump (87%)
- grandiose_state (92%)

## That day

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

**Durham Report Vindication Soured by Legal Walls Closing In — DeSantis Becomes Punching Bag for Displaced Anxiety**

Trump's day split between two fixations: raging against the legal investigations tightening around him and gleefully savaging Ron DeSantis over a string of endorsement losses. The morning opened with an all-caps tirade about FBI framing, quickly followed by claiming sole credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and a bitter attack on former Attorney General Bill Barr. DeSantis dominated the rest of the day, with Trump returning to the rivalry at least five times to crow over lost races in Jacksonville and Kentucky. The evening brought a burst of curated link shares mixing legal defense talking points with anti-DeSantis media hits, suggesting a coordinated communications push running alongside the genuine emotional outbursts of the morning.

Full digest for 2023-05-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 17). After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384051064378318
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I..." Truth Social, 17 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384051064378318. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I...," Truth Social, May 17, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384051064378318.

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