# Post ts_110706712692470798 - Post ID: `ts_110706712692470798` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-13T12:12:56.777Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706712692470798 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706712692470798/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110706712692470798.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/statuses/110663665080092155 Two Radical Left jerks, and their ice cream is TERRIBLE! ## Engagement - Likes: 8,164 - Reposts: 2,148 - Replies: 658 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:13:07.618Z (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, high-confidence authentic Trump retweet of a Breitbart post targeting (inferred) Ben & Jerry's founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Psychologically significant primarily in longitudinal context: this post represents a grandiose rebound following two days of sustained narcissistic injury expression around the Carroll civil verdict. The devaluation defense is operative — total categorical dismissal of targets across political identity, personal character, and commercial product in a single sentence. The rhetorical core is category collapse: "Two Radical Left jerks, and their ice cream is TERRIBLE!" fuses political contempt with consumer-review mockery, a distinctly Trumpian move that trivializes opponents while positioning the author as blunt cultural arbiter. Parasocial intimacy is established through casual, opinionated delivery. No rage, no violence, no eliminationist language — this is contempt-as-dominance in maintenance mode. The malformed URL concatenation artifact supports authentic rapid composition. Cognitive markers are unremarkable; low syntactic complexity is intentional rather than indicative of impairment. Danger level: none. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 13, 2023 (ts_110706712692470798) ## Overview A brief retweet of a Breitbart News post, appended with the comment: *"Two Radical Left jerks, and their ice cream is TERRIBLE!"* The malformed URL (Breitbart link concatenated directly with post text, no space separator) suggests either a formatting error in the client or hasty, manual composition — a minor but notable authenticity indicator. Based on contextual inference (Breitbart article + ice cream reference), the target is almost certainly Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's, who have been consistently active in progressive/left political causes and were involved in renewed controversy in mid-2023 over their stance on Israel. --- ## Authorship Attribution Trump spent summers at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, NJ. On July 13, 2023, he was almost certainly at Bedminster. EDT = UTC−4, placing this post at **8:12 AM local time** — early morning business hours. While this falls in aide-range, several stylistic markers strongly indicate authentic composition: the use of ALL CAPS "TERRIBLE!"; the punchy "Two Radical Left jerks" formulation (idiomatic Trump vocabulary with the signature noun phrase structure); the exclamatory, dismissive close; and the generally unpolished, concatenated-URL artifact suggesting a rapid, manual RT. No aide would produce "their ice cream is TERRIBLE!" — the deliberate descent into product-criticism as political devaluation is a distinctly authentic Trumpian rhetorical move. Confidence: **high authenticity**. --- ## Longitudinal Context The two preceding days were dominated by three-page Carroll civil case posts (July 12) expressing sustained narcissistic injury, victimhood framing, and intense grievance (judge as "hostile," verdict as "TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE"). This post represents a tonal whipsaw: from wounded vulnerability back toward contemptuous grandiosity. The same-day pattern (multiple Breitbart RTs with brief editorial comments — "They know who it is!", "Mark Levin's book is GREAT") suggests a mode-shift to routine supply-seeking and audience engagement after the emotional expenditure of the Carroll grievance cycle. The playful contempt here ("ice cream is TERRIBLE!") is a grandiose rebound — re-establishing the dominant, dismissive persona after a period of expressed vulnerability. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Traits:** Extraversion (assertive, expressive), very low agreeableness (contempt, antagonism), low conscientiousness (impulsive, unedited), moderate neuroticism (hostility present but low-key), low openness (categorical dismissal, no nuance). **Level 2 — Motives/Schemas:** Pure agency motive — power and status assertion through devaluation of ideological out-group. No communion. Schema: world divided into dominant winners (us) and contemptible losers (them). The product criticism ("ice cream is TERRIBLE!") extends political devaluation into the commercial/aesthetic domain, signaling total rejection of the target as a human being with any redeemable quality. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** Protagonist as cultural arbiter and anti-left warrior. Contrasting other: "Radical Left jerks." The identity claim is implicit: *I am the kind of person who sees through these frauds — their politics AND their product are both failures.* Short contamination-adjacent move: these people presented themselves as beloved ice cream entrepreneurs while secretly being radical agitators. --- ## Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics:** Grandiose state (rebound from previous day's vulnerable/injured state). Trigger: maintenance/supply-seeking. Defense mechanism: **devaluation** (classic narcissistic defense — total dismissal of target across all dimensions). No rage detectable; this is contempt-as-dominance, not hot anger. Proportionality: low stakes, casual. **Malignant narcissism sub-scores:** Narcissistic features (devaluation, contempt) are salient; antisocial and paranoid features minimal in this post; sadism mild (pleasure in dismissal). **Cognitive markers:** Sentence is syntactically simple but coherent, idiomatic, and purposeful. No word-finding issues, confabulation, or temporal confusion detectable. Complexity is low by design (rhetorical punch), not impairment. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Ad hominem + devaluation**: "jerks" — dismisses subjects as persons, not arguments - **Hyperbolic superlative**: "TERRIBLE!" — categorical condemnation with trademark Trump ALL CAPS intensifier - **False dichotomy/tribal signaling**: "Radical Left" positions subjects as existential enemies, priming audience contempt - **Category collapse**: Conflates political identity with commercial product quality — an absurdist but effective move that trivializes opponents - **Parasocial rapport**: Casual, opinionated delivery ("their ice cream is TERRIBLE!") creates intimacy with audience — positions Trump as the blunt friend who tells you the truth - **No violent imagery, no dehumanization beyond "jerks," no eliminationist language** --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** Mockery and contempt, no eliminationist language, no mobilization call, no identified grievance+target+implied action pattern. Stochastic terrorism: absent. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Two Radical Left jerks" | **Unverifiable** | Refers almost certainly to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's. Both are documented progressive activists who have publicly supported numerous left-wing causes. Characterization as 'radical left' is a political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. | | "their ice cream is TERRIBLE" | **Unverifiable** | Pure subjective opinion and taste claim. Ben & Jerry's is a commercially successful brand with broad consumer approval; the claim has no factual basis beyond personal preference. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary A brief, characteristically authentic Trump retweet offering contemptuous mockery of (inferred) Ben & Jerry's founders. Psychologically, this post is best understood in longitudinal context: it follows two days of intense narcissistic injury expression (Carroll verdict) and represents a rebound to the grandiose, contemptuous state. The devaluation defense is operative — total dismissal of targets across political, personal, and commercial dimensions. Rhetorical technique is efficient and parasocially effective: the casual "their ice cream is TERRIBLE!" recruits audience alignment through shared contempt framed as plain-speaking honesty. No clinical alarm indicators are present; this is routine maintenance-mode posting. The concatenated URL artifact is a minor authenticity marker. Authorship is assessed as high-confidence authentic Trump based on stylistic fingerprints (ALL CAPS intensifier, "Radical Left" formulation, product-contempt extension, exclamatory close). No danger indicators. Cognitive functioning within expected baseline for this period. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS 'TERRIBLE!' consistent with authentic Trump intensifier pattern - Idiomatic 'Two Radical Left jerks' formulation matches Trump noun-phrase style - Malformed URL concatenation suggests hasty manual composition - Product-contempt extension ('ice cream is TERRIBLE!') is distinctly Trumpian rhetorical move unlikely from aide - 8:12 AM EDT — early morning, borderline authentic/aide window, but style overrides timing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield / Ben & Jerry's brand) Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Casual opinion delivery ('their ice cream is TERRIBLE!') creates intimacy as blunt friend telling hard truths - Audience alignment through shared contempt of progressive brand ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Two Radical Left jerks **UNVERIFIABLE** Refers almost certainly to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's. Both are documented progressive activists who have publicly supported numerous left-wing causes. Characterization as 'radical left' is a political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. Sources: General knowledge — Ben & Jerry's founders' documented activism > their ice cream is TERRIBLE **UNVERIFIABLE** Pure subjective opinion and taste claim. Ben & Jerry's is a commercially successful brand with broad consumer approval; the claim has no factual basis beyond personal preference. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - devaluation (90%) - grandiose_rebound (75%) - authentic_trump (82%) - maintenance_post (80%) - ben_and_jerrys (85%) - tribal_signaling (70%) - ad_hominem (80%) - low_intensity (85%) ## 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_110706712692470798 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/breitbartnews/statuses/110..." Truth Social, 13 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706712692470798. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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