# Post ts_110606129755402643 - Post ID: `ts_110606129755402643` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-25T17:53:22.956Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606129755402643 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606129755402643/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110606129755402643.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Remember when Democrats used to love whistleblowers?! They don’t like them so much anymore! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:20), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -A very respected IRS whistleblower. Used to be very much that -- Remember when the Democrats used to love whistleblowers? They don't like the whistleblowers now. Revealed that Crooked Joe sat in a room while his son, Hunter, messaged a Chinese Communist Party official and said to this Chinese Party official, "I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled." This is cash he's talking about. Tell the director -- And it doesn't get reported in the newspapers. Tell the director that, "I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means right now. It means tonight." You believe this? I didn't know he was that tough. [ Laughter ] And if I get a call or a text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zang or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me -- my father -- right next to me -- pop. Hi, pop. And every person he knows, you will regret not following my direction. Now, can you imagine that this paper is not reporting this? Not a word of it. In any of them. In any of them, mainstream. "I'm sitting here waiting for the call," he said, "with my father. I'm sitting here with my father, waiting for the call." In other words, sending us money. Within 10 days, the Bidens got $5.1 million from China, for absolutely no reason. They got $5.1 million. In fact, they've taken tens of millions of dollars from China. And that's probably why maybe he's not complaining about the fact that they're building military bases in Cuba. Maybe that's the reason, I guess. Mike, what do you think? It's not even believable. This stuff isn't even believable. The worst part of the whole story is that the press doesn't want to report it, because, you know, there was a dime like 15 years ago, 10 years ago, you would have gotten a Pulitzer Prize. Of course, they've been totally discredited because they gave Pulitzer Prizes for the accurate and wonderful reporting on Russia, Russia, Russia. Then it turned out to be a hoax. I said, "You have to withdraw the prizes." They said, "Well, we don't know that, and we don't want to do that. We've never done that before." I said, "That's okay. Do it or I'm suing you." They said, "We're not going to do it." And I sued them. You know, we're in court. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/606/129/633/673/930/original/a9ff31809a044cde.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,837 - Reposts: 3,382 - Replies: 236 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:59:50.070Z (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 brief, rhetorically efficient whataboutism post exploiting the Hunter Biden plea deal news cycle to reframe Democrats as hypocritical on whistleblower protections. Trump inverts the emotional charge of the Ukraine impeachment whistleblower era, redeploying base grievance in a new news cycle. Psychologically, the post reflects a grandiose-triumphant state — the sardonic Trickster scoring a point rather than defending a narcissistic wound. The 'Remember when' construction weaponizes collective memory; the omission of specifics is deliberate, allowing audiences to self-complete the argument with their own stored grievances. Defense mechanisms include projection (Trump's own administration aggressively prosecuted national security leakers, an inconsistency elided here), splitting, and rationalization. No cognitive concerns are detectable in this brief sample. Danger level is none. The primary clinical interest lies in the post's manipulation efficiency: 17 words activate emotional memory, bypass analytical scrutiny, and deliver a self-completing message. Authorship is ambiguous; daytime posting and video production support suggest aide involvement, but the casual register and reactive quality point toward authentic Trump sentiment, possibly lightly polished. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-06-25 ## Contextual Frame Posted the same day as the Hunter Biden plea deal announcement (misdemeanor tax charges, pretrial diversion on felony gun charge). IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler had recently testified before Congress alleging DOJ preferential treatment in the Hunter Biden case. The post is a pointed rhetorical exploit of that news environment, inverting the whistleblower frame Democrats used effectively during Trump's Ukraine impeachment inquiry. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Most salient facets in this post:** - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, performative rhetorical mode. The rhetorical question is a dominance display, not genuine inquiry. - **Agreeableness (very low):** No modesty, zero tender-mindedness toward outgroup. Pure adversarial framing. - **Conscientiousness (moderate):** The post is structured and purposeful — more deliberate than impulsive rage posts. - **Neuroticism (low in this post):** Affect is sardonic and confident rather than anxious or wounded. This is Trump in winning mode. - **Openness (very low):** Rigid binary framing — Democrats were hypocrites then, are hypocrites now, full stop. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominant.** Power through exposé — positioning self as the one who sees through Democratic inconsistency. No communion elements present. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self:* Savvy observer who catches opponents in their own contradictions - *Others (Democrats):* Fundamentally opportunistic and unprincipled — will adopt any position that serves their immediate power interest - *World:* Political arena where principles are tactical props, not sincere commitments The trigger aligns with **supply-seeking through shared mockery** rather than narcissistic injury. Trump is drawing on the base's stored grievance about the Ukraine impeachment whistleblower (Eric Ciaramella, whose identity was widely speculated about in right-wing media) and reactivating that emotional memory to position IRS whistleblowers as righteous and Democrats as exposed. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Knower — the one who sees through the performance and names it. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination implied (good-faith whistleblower protections were corrupted by Democratic partisanship) with a redemption sub-note (now exposed, the hypocrisy is visible). **Identity claims:** - Consistent champion of true accountability regardless of political direction - Possessor of memory Democrats hope voters lack **Contrasting other:** A monolithic "Democrats" who shift principles based on convenience. **Archetypal analysis:** This post embodies the **Trickster** archetype — not attacking from a position of established order, but puncturing the pretense of Democratic principle with a gleeful reversal. The Trickster's power lies in exposing that the emperor has no clothes. The brief, knowing tone ("They don't like them so much anymore!") is quintessential Trickster energy: disruptive, mocking, self-amused. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Cognitive status:** No markers of concern. The post is brief but coherent, rhetorically purposeful, and appropriately responsive to the news environment. No word-finding issues, perseveration, or tangentiality detectable in this sample. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (mild). This is the confident, sarcastic register Trump adopts when he perceives he holds rhetorical advantage. Not the wounded, paranoid register of vulnerable narcissism. **Malignant narcissism sub-components:** - Narcissistic features: moderate (entitlement to moral superiority, implicit grandiosity) - Antisocial features: low (no rule-breaking implied) - Paranoid features: low-moderate (implicit suspicion of Democratic motives) - Sadism: minimal (mocking tone present but not cruel) --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** Implicitly positions Trump as consistent whistleblower supporter — erasing his administration's aggressive prosecution of national security leakers (Reality Winner sentenced 5+ years, multiple Espionage Act cases). The inconsistency being attributed to Democrats mirrors Trump's own record. 2. **Splitting (immature):** Democrats as a bloc are uniformly positioned across time — no allowance for different individuals holding different views on different whistleblowers in different contexts. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The framing treats contextual political judgment as proof of principled hypocrisy, converting a debatable interpretive claim into an obvious truth. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Positioning:** Order attacker (against Democratic establishment's claimed principles) combined with chaos introduction (destabilizing the normative narrative that whistleblowers = heroes). **Asymmetric application:** The IRS whistleblowers (aligned with Republican interests) are implicitly legitimized as genuine; the Ukraine whistleblower (who triggered Trump's impeachment) is implicitly delegitimized by the comparison. **Grievance intensity:** Low-moderate. This is not a high-affect grievance post — it's a scoring post. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Democrats used to love whistleblowers" | **Mostly True** | Democrats broadly championed the Ukraine whistleblower complaint (2019) that triggered Trump's first impeachment. Democratic-era Dodd-Frank legislation expanded whistleblower protections. Edward Snowden received mixed Democratic support, complicating the uniformity claim. | | "They don't like them so much anymore" | **Half True** | Democrats were notably skeptical of IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who alleged DOJ preferential treatment in Hunter Biden prosecution. However, framing all Democrats as uniformly hostile to whistleblowers overstates consistency and elides individual variation. | Overall Veracity: 65% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification, no mobilization rhetoric. Standard partisan point-scoring. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Posting time:** 17:53 UTC → 1:53 PM EDT. Trump was likely in the New York/New Jersey corridor (Bedminster) or returning from the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington DC (June 23–24). In any case, this is daytime hours. **Assessment (38% authentic):** Daytime posting, clean grammar, and tight rhetorical structure favor aide involvement. However, the casual double punctuation ('?!'), reactive tie to breaking news, and spare 17-word construction are consistent with authentic Trump. Most probable: authentic sentiment either lightly polished before posting or Trump himself in an unusually disciplined afternoon moment. The video attachment (MP4) suggests production support, pointing toward aide coordination. --- ## Summary A brief, rhetorically efficient whataboutism post exploiting the Hunter Biden plea deal news cycle to reframe Democrats as hypocritical on whistleblower protections. The post inverts the emotional charge of the Ukraine impeachment whistleblower narrative, redeploying base grievance in service of a new news cycle. Psychologically, Trump is in grandiose-triumphant mode — the sardonic Trickster scoring a point rather than defending a wound. Defense mechanisms include projection (his own administration's whistleblower prosecutions are elided), splitting, and rationalization. Cognitive markers are unremarkable for this brief sample. Danger level is none. The primary clinical interest is the efficiency of the manipulation: 17 words activate stored emotional memory, bypass analytical scrutiny, and deliver a fully self-completing message requiring no argument — the audience supplies the referents themselves. Authorship is ambiguous; daytime posting and production elements suggest aide involvement, but the casual register and reactive quality are consistent with authentic Trump. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 38%) ### Indicators - 17:53 UTC = 1:53 PM EDT (business hours, consistent with aide-assisted posting) - Grammatically clean, no misspellings or incomplete thoughts - Tight rhetorical structure with clean setup/punchline format - Counter-indicators: '?!' double punctuation is authentic Trump fingerprint, casual conversational register, reactive quality tied to same-day Hunter Biden news cycle - Brief post length consistent with authentic impulsive reaction ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Hunter Biden plea deal announcement exposed asymmetric legal treatment narrative; IRS whistleblowers championed by Republicans created opportunity to reframe Democrat hypocrisy as injury to Trump's own whistleblower-persecuted narrative) Sentiment: +0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective memory appeal ('Remember when') creates shared nostalgia with base - Conspiratorial 'we know something they don't' framing invites audience into privileged insight - Sarcastic rhetorical question solicits knowing agreement without requiring argument ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - False equivalence between different whistleblowers in different legal/political contexts presented as self-evident hypocrisy - Implicit erasure of Trump administration's own whistleblower prosecutions while claiming Democrats are uniquely inconsistent - Attacks on opponents' credibility/consistency without acknowledging symmetric patterns in own record ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Democrats used to love whistleblowers **MOSTLY TRUE** Democrats broadly championed the Ukraine whistleblower complaint (2019) that triggered Trump's first impeachment. Democratic-era Dodd-Frank legislation expanded whistleblower protections. Edward Snowden received mixed Democratic support, complicating the uniformity claim. Sources: General political knowledge — pre-researched events confirm IRS whistleblower context > They don't like them so much anymore **HALF TRUE** Democrats were notably skeptical of IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who alleged DOJ preferential treatment in Hunter Biden prosecution. However, framing all Democrats as uniformly hostile to whistleblowers overstates consistency and elides individual variation. Sources: Hunter Biden Plea Deal context provided by historian process Overall Veracity: 65% ## Tags - whataboutism (90%) - whistleblower_inversion (85%) - hunter_biden (80%) - trickster_archetype (75%) - projection (70%) - supply_seeking (55%) - grandiose_triumphant (60%) - collective_memory_activation (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Indictment Sunday: Morning Gratitude Ritual Yields to Afternoon Persecution-Policy Blitz from Faith & Freedom Clips** A quiet Sunday morning of retweeting supporter praise gave way to an intense afternoon burst — eight posts in 22 minutes — built from clips of his Faith & Freedom Coalition speech the day before. The afternoon content mixed grievance about his federal indictment with promises of sweeping Day One policy action on immigration and ideological exclusion. Two posts carried real anger, both aimed at Biden, framing the independent prosecution as a personal political hit job. The day ended with a book bundle ad, the rage fully spent. Full digest for 2023-06-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 25). Remember when Democrats used to love... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606129755402643 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Remember when Democrats used to love whistleblowers?! They..." Truth Social, 25 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606129755402643. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Remember when Democrats used to love whistleblowers?! 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