# Post ts_110494791970487388 - Post ID: `ts_110494791970487388` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-06T01:58:43.181Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110494791970487388 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110494791970487388/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110494791970487388.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RINO Chris Sununu stated in his Fake Opinion published in The Washington Compost, “I’m not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.” No, he’s not running for President because he’s polling at Zero, and has no chance of winning. The people of New Hampshire have gotten wise to Chris Sununu, and they no longer like or respect him. I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked for the State, because I wanted to help New Hampshire, and I did! ## Engagement - Likes: 15,737 - Reposts: 3,776 - Replies: 543 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.410Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:31:44.039Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at ~9:58 PM EDT on June 6, 2023 — the same evening Christie formally launched his anti-Trump presidential campaign — this authentic post is a reactive injury response to Sununu's Washington Post op-ed declaring that "Beating Trump is more important" than seeking the presidency himself. The central narcissistic injury is precise: Sununu's framing positions Trump as a problem to be solved rather than a legitimate political actor, threatening the grandiose self-concept. Trump's counter-narrative immediately strips Sununu of his stated moral motivation, substituting electoral incompetence ("polling at Zero") as the true explanation — a classic rationalization-devaluation cascade that restores grandiosity by rendering the critic irrelevant. The retroactive disclosure "I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked" is psychologically notable: it simultaneously claims the moral high ground (benevolent patron) while neutralizing the betrayal sting (animus was always private). This patron-betrayal contamination narrative is a recurring Trump identity schema. Reality distortions are present but focused: Sununu's documented NH approval strength is inverted without evidence. The companion post published shortly after ("Many say don't punch down") reveals unusual meta-awareness of the power asymmetry, overridden by rationalization. With Christie's launch, Trump is absorbing simultaneous Republican attacks on June 6 from multiple directions, elevating ambient reactive pressure across the evening's posting cluster. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 6, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (confidence: high)** The UTC timestamp of 01:58:43 converts to approximately **9:58 PM EDT**, placing this post in Trump's documented late-evening window — one of the strongest single indicators of authentic authorship. Stylometric fingerprints reinforce this: "Washington Compost" is a recurring pejorative Trump coinage absent from aide-written posts; "RINO" labeling is a first-person ideological reflex; the syntax is chain-associative with a characteristic abrupt exclamatory close ("and I did!"). Most diagnostically, the disclosure "I never liked him" is the kind of emotionally raw, self-undermining admission that aide-drafted copy systematically avoids. --- ## Triggering Context This post appears at the convergence of two narcissistic stressors on June 6, 2023: 1. **Sununu's Washington Post op-ed** — The op-ed's central phrase, "Beating Trump is more important," operates not as electoral commentary but as an identity negation: it reframes Trump as a problem requiring elimination rather than a legitimate competitor. This is a potent narcissistic injury. 2. **Christie's same-day campaign launch** — Christie announced his 2024 run in Manchester, NH, with explicit anti-Trump attacks ("lonely, self-consumed mirror hog"), adding a second simultaneous injury from within the Republican coalition. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility, N2)**: The reactive, personalized quality of the attack reflects high angry hostility. Emotional flooding visible in contradictory disclosure ("I never liked him, but..."). - **Extraversion (Assertiveness, E3)**: Forceful, dominating register throughout; no hedging. - **Agreeableness (Antagonism)**: Near-zero. No acknowledgment of Sununu's perspective. - **Conscientiousness (low)**: Impulsive, reactive composition rather than deliberated messaging. - **Openness (low)**: Rigid interpretive schema — critics are motivated by failure, not principle. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas **Dominant motive: Status/Power (agency: 0.91; communion: 0.06)** The post's operative logic is entirely status-protective: Sununu's stated moral frame must be destroyed because it implies a hierarchy in which Sununu occupies the position of principled actor and Trump the position of problem. **Schema of self**: Benevolent patron of New Hampshire — a powerful figure who dispensed favor despite private contempt. **Schema of others**: Transactional. Loyalty is owed. Criticism is betrayal. **Schema of world**: Zero-sum. Political criticism is motivated by failure or envy, never principle. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: Magnanimous patron betrayed by an ungrateful inferior. **Narrative sequence**: Contamination. The implicit story: *I was generous to a man I privately disliked, doing everything he asked for his state. He repaid this with public attack.* **Contrasting other**: Sununu as electorally impotent RINO — the foil defining Trump by opposition. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (immature)**: "RINO," "polling at Zero," "no chance of winning" — systematic diminishment. 2. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Reframes Sununu's principled motivation as cover for electoral failure. 3. **Distortion (pathological)**: Inverts Sununu's documented NH approval into public rejection. 4. **Projection (immature)**: "They no longer like or respect him" — Trump's private animus projected outward. ### Narcissistic Injury → Rage Cascade **Rage intensity**: Moderate (0.62). Contemptuous dismissal rather than incandescent fury. **Proportionality**: Low (0.3). Sununu's mild op-ed meets annihilatory response. --- ## Companion Post Meta-Commentary The companion post ("Many say don't punch down") reveals unusual self-awareness: Trump acknowledges the power asymmetry before constructing permission to proceed. This rationalization sequence — awareness of norm → self-issued exemption → action — suggests recognition of retaliatory motivation, then authorization on grounds of reciprocity. --- ## Gaslighting Assessment **Present (moderate)**: Systematic motivation substitution — asserting Sununu's stated reason is wrong and replacing it with Trump's preferred frame. Combined with inversion of documented NH approval data, this constitutes audience-directed reality distortion. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or eliminationist rhetoric. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Chris Sununu is 'polling at Zero'" | **Mostly False** | Sununu was polling at 1-3% in national Republican primary polls in mid-2023 — extremely low, but not literally zero. | | "The people of New Hampshire no longer like or respect Chris Sununu" | **Mostly False** | Sununu maintained relatively high in-state approval ratings throughout his gubernatorial tenure in NH, finishing with approval well above 50%. | | "Sununu said 'I'm not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important'" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with public statements Sununu made in his Washington Post op-ed, though exact wording may be a paraphrase. | | "Trump 'always did whatever Sununu asked for the State'" | **Unverifiable** | Self-serving retrospective claim about private interactions with no independent documentation. | Overall Veracity: 43% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - UTC 01:58 = ~9:58 PM EDT, firmly within authentic late-evening posting window - Pejorative neologism 'Washington Compost' is a recurring Trump coinage, not aide vocabulary - RINO labeling and stream-of-consciousness sentence chaining - Abrupt emotionally charged closing exclamation ('and I did!') - Contradictory self-disclosure ('I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked') is raw and unpolished ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Chris Sununu's Washington Post op-ed) **Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Chris Sununu - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 28% - Paranoid: 38% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 42% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective voice appropriation ('The people of New Hampshire have gotten wise') — enlisting NH voters as proxy validators - Patron narrative: positions self as magnanimous benefactor, inviting audience identification with the betrayed party ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Substitutes a fabricated motivation ('polling at Zero') for Sununu's publicly stated, documented reason for not running - Inverts Sununu's relatively strong NH approval record into 'they no longer like or respect him' - Framing implies Sununu's critique is illegitimate because of electoral weakness, deflecting from substance ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Chris Sununu is 'polling at Zero' **MOSTLY FALSE** Sununu was polling at 1-3% in national Republican primary polls in mid-2023 — extremely low, but not literally zero. Sources: National Republican primary polling aggregates, May-June 2023 > The people of New Hampshire no longer like or respect Chris Sununu **MOSTLY FALSE** Sununu maintained relatively high in-state approval ratings throughout his gubernatorial tenure in NH, finishing with approval well above 50%. Sources: NH gubernatorial approval polling, 2022-2023 > Sununu said 'I'm not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important' **MOSTLY TRUE** Consistent with public statements Sununu made in his Washington Post op-ed, though exact wording may be a paraphrase. Sources: Washington Post, June 2023 > Trump 'always did whatever Sununu asked for the State' **UNVERIFIABLE** Self-serving retrospective claim about private interactions with no independent documentation. Overall Veracity: 43% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury (90%) - devaluation (85%) - RINO-labeling (75%) - patron-betrayal-narrative (80%) - motivation-substitution (72%) - intra-party-attack (85%) - 2024-primary (80%) - authentic-authorship (88%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Legal Siege, Trump Oscillates Between Persecution Fury and Grandiose Self-Congratulation on Christie Launch Day** Trump spent the day fielding attacks from multiple directions — Chris Christie launched his presidential campaign with sharp personal insults, the Jack Smith classified documents probe neared indictment, and former lawyer Ty Cobb criticized him publicly. His morning burst of posts was the most intense stretch, with four rapid-fire posts in under 20 minutes branding the DOJ investigation as "election interference" and calling followers to "FIGHT." The midday hours brought a striking mood shift as he pivoted to self-congratulatory posts about the LIV Golf–PGA Tour merger, claiming prophetic credit. By evening he circled back to Christie, mocking his weight and speech in a post dripping with projection about "SIZE." The day's pattern — grievance, alarm, rage, grandiose pivot, then back to grievance — was characteristic of someone under sustained psychological pressure. Full digest for 2023-06-06: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-06/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 6). RINO Chris Sununu stated in his Fake Opinion... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110494791970487388 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RINO Chris Sununu stated in his Fake Opinion published in..." Truth Social, 6 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110494791970487388. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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