# Post ts_110706697563201779

- Post ID: `ts_110706697563201779`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-13T12:09:05.920Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706697563201779
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706697563201779/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110706697563201779.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/statuses/110673877481356947 Mark Levin’s book is GREAT, and so is he!

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,490
- Reposts: 1,587
- Replies: 204
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:13:20.302Z (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 — 2023-07-13 08:09 ET

## Overview

This is a minimal-content retweet of a Breitbart News item with a brief appended endorsement of conservative media figure Mark Levin. In isolation it carries little clinical weight; its significance emerges primarily from the **longitudinal contrast** with the preceding 24 hours of high-intensity Carroll case posts.

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## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits

The post expresses **high positive affect** toward an in-group ally, consistent with the extraversion facet of warmth selectively directed at perceived loyalists. No agreeableness toward outgroups; no neuroticism markers detectable. The brevity prevents reliable trait-level inference beyond baseline ally-signaling.

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## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motive (status maintenance):** Endorsing Levin — a high-profile MAGA media figure — serves reciprocal status reinforcement within the conservative media ecosystem. Trump elevates Levin; Levin's platform amplifies Trump. Classic supply-maintenance behavior.

**Supply-seeking function:** After a day of grievance-heavy posts, a positive celebrity endorsement resets audience emotional tone and maintains parasocial warmth in followers.

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## Level 3 — Narrative Identity

Minimal narrative content. The post implicitly casts Trump as **tastemaker and authenticator** — his endorsement confers legitimacy on Levin's work. Protagonist role: **king bestowing favor** rather than warrior or victim. This is a brief but meaningful shift from the prior day's victimized narrator stance.

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## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

No clinically significant indicators in this post. No rage, no splitting, no dehumanization, no paranoia.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Lean: Aide-assisted (Scavino).** Posted at 08:09 AM Eastern Time — well within standard business hours. The July 12 Carroll posts showed authentic Trump's late-night reactive pattern. This morning retweet with clean grammar and no affect-laden content fits the managed-content template used to maintain audience engagement between Trump's own posts.

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## Defense Mechanisms

None active. The post is purely affiliative; no defensive operation required when addressing an unconditional ally.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Superlative** ("GREAT") — trademark Trump endorsement rhetoric
- **In-group solidarity signal** — Breitbart + Levin = core MAGA media triangle reinforced
- **Parasocial warmth** — "and so is he!" personalizes the endorsement beyond the book

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** No threatening language, no targets, no mobilizing content.

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## Longitudinal Note

The whipsaw between the July 12 Carroll rage-spiral (three consecutive grievance posts with DARVO, narcissistic injury response, and repeated victimhood assertions) and this cheerful 8 AM endorsement illustrates the **supply-cycling pattern**: emotional discharge via grievance posts, followed by aide-managed positive content to maintain audience cohesion and prevent alienation of casual followers. This oscillation is consistent with prior observed patterns and requires no special explanation beyond routine content management.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 08:09 ET (business hours) — consistent with aide-managed scheduling
- No typos or misspellings
- Grammatically complete sentence
- Retweet format with brief, clean endorsement tag — classic Scavino pattern
- However, 'GREAT' in all-caps and 'and so is he!' have a Trumpian rhetorical fingerprint

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Breitbart/Levin ally ecosystem)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- warmth extension to followers via endorsement of trusted media figure
- tastemaker positioning

## Tags

- ally_endorsement (90%)
- supply_maintenance (80%)
- aide_written_likely (65%)
- maga_media_ecosystem (70%)
- tonal_whipsaw (75%)
- mark_levin (85%)
- breitbart (80%)

## That day

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

**Morning Calm Gives Way to Afternoon Martyrdom as Indictment Looms**

Trump posted from Bedminster in two distinct bursts -- a breezy morning round of allied media retweets and a more charged afternoon stretch that grew steadily hotter. The morning was all casual confidence, endorsing allies and mocking Ben & Jerry's, but the afternoon shifted toward legal grievance as he anticipated another indictment and reframed his legal troubles as patriotic sacrifice. He took shots at DeSantis along the way, relishing a Financial Times article about his rival's struggling campaign. The day's emotional peak came when he declared that being arrested by "sick government Thugs" would be his "great honor" -- converting legal jeopardy into a rallying cry before briefly pivoting to the White House cocaine investigation, which he quickly looped back to his own persecution narrative.

Full digest for 2023-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 13). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/st... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706697563201779
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/statuses/110..." Truth Social, 13 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706697563201779. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/statuses/110...," Truth Social, July 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706697563201779.

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