# Post ts_110809893889686732 - Post ID: `ts_110809893889686732` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-31T17:33:16.944Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110809893889686732 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110809893889686732/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110809893889686732.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RINO Chris Sununu recently stated that, “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: 21,615 - Reposts: 5,328 - Replies: 1,340 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.404Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:58:19.784Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post represents a compressed narcissistic injury-response cycle triggered by Sununu's statement that defeating Trump is more important than seeking the presidency himself. The reframe — that Sununu isn't running due to zero polling rather than strategic choice — is a textbook rationalization neutralizing perceived threat. Most diagnostically significant is the self-contradicting admission 'I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked,' which exposes the transactional relational schema while inadvertently undermining Trump's own judgment. Devaluation ('people of New Hampshire have gotten wise') is deployed to convert a principled political rival into a contemptible nonentity. The post occurs on a high-volume posting day dominated by legal threat messaging; the Sununu attack functions as lateral status restoration — reasserting dominance in a lower-stakes arena during a period of elevated existential threat. Defense mechanisms are characteristic (rationalization, devaluation, projection, denial) and within expected range. No danger indicators. Cognitive markers within baseline. Authorship assessed as highly authentic despite midday timing, based on idiosyncratic stylistic fingerprint. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 31, 2023 (Sununu Attack) ## Authorship Attribution **Likely Location:** Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his summer residence) in late July 2023. EDT = UTC−4, placing this post at **1:33 PM local time** — solidly business hours. Despite the midday timing (which typically suggests aide authorship), the stylistic fingerprint is strongly authentic: - First-person emotional disclosure ("I never liked him") - Self-contradicting structure within the same sentence - Trailing triumphant declaration ("and I did!") - Stream-of-consciousness rhetorical pivot mid-paragraph - Punchy, reactive tone without polished sentence variety Assessment: **Authentic Trump**, possibly with light copy-editing. The emotional leakage is too idiosyncratic for a communications aide. The admission "I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked" is a self-revealing contradiction no aide would draft. --- ## Trigger & Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury via unfavorable comparison and implied threat. Sununu's quote — *"Beating Trump is more important"* — is a direct assault on Trump's inevitability framing. It reframes Trump not as a towering figure to be defeated but as a *problem to be solved*, positioning Sununu as a civic actor rather than a rival. This is among the more psychologically precise ways to threaten a narcissistic subject: it denies the grandiosity without attacking it head-on. **Response pattern:** Classic narcissistic injury → rapid reframe → devaluation → self-justification. The post moves through all four stages in four sentences. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (High):** Dominant, assertive, commanding tone throughout. "RINO" label deployed without hesitation. - **Agreeableness (Very Low):** No softening language; openly contemptuous ("no chance of winning," "polling at Zero"). The "I never liked him" disclosure is unusually raw even for Trump — typically he performs warmth retroactively when devaluing former allies. - **Conscientiousness (Moderate):** Organized argument structure (quote → reframe → devaluation → self-praise), though logic is internally inconsistent. - **Neuroticism (High):** Emotional reactivity evident; the post is triggered by a minor Republican political figure declining to run. Proportionality is notably off. - **Openness (Low):** Rigid zero-sum framing; no capacity to model Sununu's perspective charitably. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Schemas) - **Agency motive:** Power and dominance are paramount. Sununu's statement is treated as an existential challenge rather than a minor political maneuver. - **World schema:** Relationships are transactional. The admission "I always did whatever he asked... because I wanted to help New Hampshire" is framed as largesse from a powerful patron, not political alliance. The implication: Sununu is an ingrate. - **Self schema:** Trump as benefactor whose generosity was not reciprocated — a contamination narrative embedded within a single paragraph. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Magnanimous patron-king betrayed by an ungrateful subordinate. - **Contamination sequence:** *I helped him → He turned on me* — a micro-contamination arc completing in one sentence. - **Contrasting Other:** Sununu as polling-at-zero lightweight, ungrateful, and now repudiated by his own constituents. - **Redemption element:** "I did!" — the triumphant closing asserts the good work survived Sununu's betrayal. - **Identity claim:** "I wanted to help New Hampshire" — positions self as self-sacrificing public servant even while attacking. --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Rationalization** | Neurotic | Reframes Sununu's decision not to run as inability ("polling at Zero") rather than strategic choice | | **Devaluation** | Immature | "The people of New Hampshire have gotten wise to Chris Sununu" — converts threat into contemptible figure | | **Projection** | Immature | Attributes unlikeability to Sununu ("they no longer like or respect him") while disclosing his own dislike | | **Denial** | Pathological | Refuses to accept the validity of Sununu's framing; rewrites the narrative entirely | The most psychologically revealing moment is the near-simultaneous devaluation and self-disclosure: "I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked." This violates basic social logic — why do favors for someone you dislike? — and exposes the transactional, performance-based nature of the underlying relational schema. The post aims to devalue Sununu but partially devalues Trump's own judgment in the process. --- ## Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** High. Grandiosity, entitlement, exploitation framing ("did whatever he asked"), devaluation. - **Antisocial features:** Low-moderate. No pattern of outright deceit here, though the "polling at Zero" claim is rhetorical hyperbole presented as fact. - **Paranoid features:** Low. Absent in this specific post — the perceived threat is real, not imagined. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Low-moderate. Pleasure in humiliating Sununu ("has no chance of winning") is present but mild compared to posts targeting perceived major enemies. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **RINO label:** Tribal purification mechanism; delegitimizes Sununu's Republican standing before argument begins - **Quote-then-reframe:** Strategic deployment of opponent's words followed by immediate recontextualization - **Appeal to popular repudiation:** "The people of New Hampshire have gotten wise" — invokes democratic validation without evidence - **Hyperbole as fact:** "polling at Zero" — almost certainly false literally; Sununu had measurable if marginal support - **Tricolon climax:** "I wanted to help New Hampshire, and I did!" — emotional payoff disguised as civic virtue - **Whataboutism (light):** Implies Sununu's stated motivation is cover for inability, not principle **Dehumanizing language:** Absent **Violent imagery:** Absent **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** None --- ## Cognitive Status Post is within expected baseline range. Syntactically coherent with characteristic impulsive emotional disclosure. The self-contradiction ("never liked him, but always did whatever he asked") is not a cognitive error — it is a structural feature of Trump's relational and rhetorical style, present in speeches and interviews from the 1980s onward. No markers of deterioration from prior posts in today's thread. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This is an intra-party status competition post. No eliminationist language, no mobilization calls, no dehumanization. The target is a rival politician who has made himself politically irrelevant in this context. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Chris Sununu stated 'I'm not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.'" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with Sununu's documented public positioning throughout mid-2023, though exact quote wording requires primary source verification. | | "Sununu is 'polling at Zero'" | **Mostly False** | Sununu had marginal but non-zero polling numbers as a potential 2024 candidate. 'Zero' is rhetorical hyperbole. | | "The people of New Hampshire no longer like or respect Sununu" | **Mostly False** | Sununu maintained significant approval ratings in New Hampshire as governor; claim lacks evidential basis and contradicts available polling. | | "Trump always did whatever Sununu asked for New Hampshire" | **Unverifiable** | Consistent with general pattern of Trump directing attention and resources toward allied governors, but specific claim is not independently verifiable from this post. | Overall Veracity: 43% ## Contextual Note This post occurs on an extremely active posting day (at least five posts in the thread) marked by heightened legal threat (superseding indictment in classified docs case) and anticipation of a Jan. 6 indictment. The Sununu attack is a relatively low-stakes lateral move — attacking a non-candidate who posed minimal threat — possibly functioning as emotional discharge between higher-stakes legal messaging. The pivot from existential legal peril to punching at a marginal political figure is characteristic of the defensive narcissistic need to restore dominance perception across all domains simultaneously. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - First-person emotional disclosure ('I never liked him') - Self-contradicting admission within single sentence - Triumphal trailing declaration ('and I did!') - Stream-of-consciousness rhetorical pivot - Punchy reactive tone inconsistent with aide drafting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Chris Sununu) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Chris Sununu - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.58 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 80% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Validating in-group contempt for RINO label - Positioning self as New Hampshire's benefactor to win audience alignment - Invoking popular repudiation ('people of New Hampshire have gotten wise') to manufacture consensus ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Chris Sununu stated 'I'm not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.' **MOSTLY TRUE** Consistent with Sununu's documented public positioning throughout mid-2023, though exact quote wording requires primary source verification. Sources: Public statements by Sununu, summer 2023 > Sununu is 'polling at Zero' **MOSTLY FALSE** Sununu had marginal but non-zero polling numbers as a potential 2024 candidate. 'Zero' is rhetorical hyperbole. Sources: 2024 Republican primary polling, mid-2023 > The people of New Hampshire no longer like or respect Sununu **MOSTLY FALSE** Sununu maintained significant approval ratings in New Hampshire as governor; claim lacks evidential basis and contradicts available polling. Sources: NH gubernatorial approval polling 2023 > Trump always did whatever Sununu asked for New Hampshire **UNVERIFIABLE** Consistent with general pattern of Trump directing attention and resources toward allied governors, but specific claim is not independently verifiable from this post. Overall Veracity: 43% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury-response (85%) - devaluation (80%) - intra-party-attack (75%) - RINO-labeling (70%) - transactional-relational-schema (65%) - rationalization (70%) - lateral-status-restoration (60%) - contamination-narrative (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Bracing for the Storm: A Day of Preemptive Legal Defense and Rival Demolition on the Eve of Indictment** Trump spent the day in a defensive crouch, cycling between attacks on Special Counsel Jack Smith and attempts to reassert dominance over his Republican rivals. The looming January 6 indictment -- which would land the very next day -- cast a shadow over everything, with two posts explicitly pre-framing it as a Biden cover-up before charges were even filed. Between legal salvos, he dismissed the upcoming Republican debate as a VP audition and attacked Fox News for giving airtime to candidates he considers already defeated. The mood was combative but controlled, more strategic siege preparation than spontaneous rage. Full digest for 2023-07-31: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-31/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 31). RINO Chris Sununu recently stated that, “I’m not... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110809893889686732 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RINO Chris Sununu recently stated that, “I’m not running..." Truth Social, 31 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110809893889686732. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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