# Post ts_110398764002913846

- Post ID: `ts_110398764002913846`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-20T02:57:32.759Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110398764002913846
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110398764002913846/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110398764002913846.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Thank you to Leo 2.0 Terrell, who always gets it right!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/398/763/493/907/824/original/80fe491ca13b437c.qt

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,192
- Reposts: 3,967
- Replies: 462
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.411Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:46:33.254Z (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: Truth Social Post — May 20, 2023 (02:57 UTC)

## Overview

A brief, warm endorsement post amplifying Leo Terrell ("Leo 2.0"), a civil rights attorney turned Fox News commentator and prominent Trump supporter since ~2020. The attached `.qt` video file is presumably a clip of Terrell's commentary — likely praising the Durham Report (released May 18, 2023), which sharply criticized the FBI's origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. This is a low-activation maintenance post requiring limited analytical elaboration.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Likely authentic (medium confidence)**

- **Timing:** UTC 02:57 converts to **10:57 PM EDT** on May 19 — squarely within Trump's documented late-night posting window, consistent with activity from Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower.
- **Nickname usage:** "Leo 2.0" is Terrell's adopted self-branding for his political reinvention; Trump's use of it reflects the informal, personalized register characteristic of authentic posts.
- **Stylistic markers:** No policy language, no event announcement, no polished prose — the casual gratitude tone is inconsistent with aide-drafted content.
- **Limitation:** Extreme brevity limits stylometric confidence; the post could theoretically be an aide-facilitated video share with Trump-authored caption.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Activation | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Extraversion | Moderate-high | Public affirmation, positive affect toward ally |
| Agreeableness | Low-moderate | Selective warmth restricted to loyalists; implied critique of others embedded in "always gets it right" |
| Conscientiousness | Low | Minimal deliberation; reactive, brief |
| Neuroticism | Very low | No distress markers evident |
| Openness | Very low | Absolutist framing ("always gets it right") reflects cognitive closure |

**Dominant facet:** Extraversion (positive affect, social dominance via in-group credentialing)

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Motives)

- **Dominant motive: Validation/supply acquisition via proxy.** Rather than directly claiming vindication over the Durham Report, Trump amplifies a loyalist who delivers the message on his behalf. This achieves the supply without the optics of direct self-praise.
- **Agency:** Mild — maintaining status as arbiter of who "gets it right" asserts epistemic authority.
- **Communion:** Moderate — the post performs in-group solidarity, signaling to followers who the approved interpreters are.
- **Schema:** World divided into those who "get it right" (loyalists, converts like Terrell) and those who don't (implicit: mainstream media, political opponents). Classic splitting schema operating at low intensity here.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Gracious recognizer of truth-tellers; the one who attracts talented converts.
- **Contrasting other:** Implicit — the media and political class who "don't get it right."
- **Identity claim:** "I am surrounded by credible people who validate my worldview, which proves that worldview is correct."
- **Narrative sequence:** Neutral/maintenance. However, within the Durham Report context, there is a mild **redemption echo**: the narrative of "I was right all along, now even the official record confirms it" runs beneath the surface without being stated explicitly.
- **Redemption by proxy:** Leo Terrell's "2.0" identity is itself a redemption narrative — a Democrat who converted. Trump endorsing this narrative implicitly endorses the story that seeing Trump clearly leads to political enlightenment.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose (stable, low-activation)
**Trigger:** Supply-seeking/maintenance — no injury evident. This is comfortable, confident posting.
**Rage:** Absent.
**Defense mechanism:** Mild **rationalization** — framing selective agreement as "always getting it right" converts an ally's loyalty into a universal epistemic endorsement.

**Narcissistic supply loop (structural observation):**
Terrell praises Trump → Trump thanks Terrell and calls him always correct → Followers receive the message that Terrell (and by extension Trump's worldview) is reliable → Loop closes. The post creates a closed validation circuit that is self-referential.

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

All four Kernberg dimensions are at baseline or absent in this post:
- Narcissistic features: minimally activated (supply-seeking, no grandiosity beyond implied)
- Antisocial features: none
- Paranoid features: none
- Sadism: none

### Cognitive Status

**Assessment: Insufficient data for meaningful cognitive evaluation.** Post is too brief (12 words) to assess vocabulary sophistication, syntactic complexity, or logical coherence. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or tangentiality detectable. Consistent with stable baseline. No deviation noted.

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## Contextual Framing

The Durham Report (released May 18, one day prior) is the almost certain catalyst. The report concluded the FBI should never have launched the Trump-Russia probe — a finding Trump and his media ecosystem treated as comprehensive vindication. Leo Terrell, as a Fox News regular, would have delivered this message with characteristic intensity. Trump's amplification is a low-effort, high-reward supply acquisition: he outsources the victory lap to a loyalist, receives the validation, and the clip does the rhetorical work.

Also notable in the period: Trump's lawyer Timothy Parlatore had just resigned (May 17) amid reported dysfunction and tensions with adviser Boris Epshteyn. The Jack Smith classified documents probe was intensifying. The brevity and positive tone of this post may reflect deliberate contrast-maintenance — projecting calm confidence while legal pressures mount. This is speculative without stronger longitudinal comparison.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

1. **Endorsement by proxy:** Achieves self-praise through praising the praiser.
2. **Absolutist framing:** "Always gets it right" is a zero-error, binary claim that forecloses nuance and frames Terrell as an infallible validator.
3. **In-group credentialing:** Signals to followers which voices are approved and reliable.
4. **Social proof via convert narrative:** "Leo 2.0" (former Democrat turned Trump supporter) is the most compelling validator type — someone who "crossed over" carries implicit argument that the evidence for Trump's correctness is so overwhelming it converts even opponents.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no targets identified, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Benign maintenance post.

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## Summary

*Not generated — post does not meet threshold of clinical significance for standalone summary. The patterns observed (supply acquisition via endorsement of loyalist, mild splitting in absolutist praise language, stable grandiose baseline) are consistent with Trump's documented behavioral baseline and require no summary-level elaboration. Longitudinal significance is limited.*

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Leo Terrell 'always gets it right'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective evaluative claim, not empirically testable. Leo Terrell (born 1957) is a civil rights attorney and Fox News contributor who publicly switched from Democratic to Trump support around 2020. The 'Leo 2.0' nickname refers to this political reinvention. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Late-night post: UTC 02:57 converts to ~22:57 EDT (May 19), consistent with authentic Trump late-night pattern at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower
- Use of 'Leo 2.0' nickname — Trump is fond of self-coined or adopted monikers for loyalists
- Informal, brief, warm endorsement tone — not polished event announcement style
- No complex formatting, no policy content, no event promotion

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Leo Terrell (Fox News loyalist commentator))

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 12%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group credentialing: amplifying a loyalist signals to followers who the trusted interpreters of reality are
- Social proof by proxy: Terrell's approval of Trump is rebroadcast as Trump endorsing Terrell's approval, creating a closed validation loop

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Leo Terrell 'always gets it right'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective evaluative claim, not empirically testable. Leo Terrell (born 1957) is a civil rights attorney and Fox News contributor who publicly switched from Democratic to Trump support around 2020. The 'Leo 2.0' nickname refers to this political reinvention.

Sources: General knowledge — Fox News public record

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- supply-seeking (70%)
- loyalist-amplification (80%)
- proxy-validation (75%)
- durham-report-context (65%)
- convert-narrative (60%)
- late-night-authentic (70%)
- splitting-mild (30%)

## That day

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

**Durham Vindication Poisoned by Prosecution Anxiety as Trump Cycles Between Triumph and Siege**

Trump spent the day toggling between claiming vindication from the Durham Report and expressing intense anxiety about the Jack Smith documents investigation closing in. A late-night burst included alarming FBI-as-oppressor rhetoric and a lengthy attack on Jack Smith that extended suspicion to the prosecutor's family. A rapid-fire morning dump of links celebrated polling leads and Durham coverage, but was laced with calls for retribution and the prosecution of DA Alvin Bragg. The afternoon brought a pointed personal attack on former aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, complete with factual distortions and a threatening "more to follow" sign-off. What should have been a clean victory lap on Durham was repeatedly contaminated by persecution narratives tied to the approaching indictment.

Full digest for 2023-05-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 20). Thank you to Leo 2.0 Terrell, who always gets it... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110398764002913846
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you to Leo 2.0 Terrell, who always gets it right!" Truth Social, 20 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110398764002913846. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you to Leo 2.0 Terrell, who always gets it right!," Truth Social, May 20, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110398764002913846.

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