# Post ts_111031396196564431 - Post ID: `ts_111031396196564431` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-08T20:24:13.965Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031396196564431 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031396196564431/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111031396196564431.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > PAGE 2: Crew also sued me on emoluments at my recently sold, and very beautiful, D.C. hotel, and LOST BIG. These are bad Radical Left people and groups that use the Injustice Department as though it were their own. Lisa Monaco does whatever they tell her to do. They play her like a fiddle. So bad for our once great Country. They will have major liability for what they are doing to America! It is, working with Deranged Jack Smith & others, ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before. MAGA! ## Engagement - Likes: 20,102 - Reposts: 5,512 - Replies: 1,298 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:26:53.127Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary PAGE 2 of a coordinated same-day multi-post grievance dump, triggered by converging narcissistic injuries: CREW's Colorado ballot disqualification effort, the Georgia arraignment, and the active Special Counsel prosecution. The post exhibits classic acute narcissistic stress response — grandiose/vulnerable state oscillation within a single short text, DARVO structure, and projection of the subject's own documented DOJ-weaponization behavior onto opponents. Paranoid features are prominent: legally independent actors (CREW, Monaco, Smith) are fused into a unified conspiratorial cabal without documented basis. A textbook self-aggrandizing parenthetical ('my recently sold, and very beautiful, D.C. hotel') inserted mid-legal-grievance illustrates supply-seeking behavior that persists even under conditions of acute threat. The 'Injustice Department' rebranding, the Monaco-as-puppet framing, and the vague counter-threat ('major liability') constitute a three-part institutional delegitimization sequence. Danger level is elevated: named individuals receive target-plus-grievance framing consistent with stochastic terrorism precursor structure, mitigated by legalistic rather than violent threat language. Authorship is assessed as likely authentic despite business-hours timing, based on the density of idiosyncratic stylistic markers. No cognitive deterioration indicators detected; post is consistent with established Trump baseline. # Analysis: ts_111031396196564431 — September 8, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Post timing:** UTC 20:24 → Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) = **4:24 PM ET**. In September 2023, Trump was most likely at Bedminster, NJ (his customary late-summer residence before the seasonal Mar-a-Lago return). This is mid-afternoon — solidly business hours — which normally skews aide-written. However, the *content* is replete with authentic-Trump markers: the conspicuous parenthetical self-compliment ("my recently sold, and very beautiful, D.C. hotel"), the "PAGE 2" pagination that mirrors his truth-bombing multi-part posting pattern, the colloquial idiom ("play her like a fiddle"), emotional escalation in caps, unpolished clause-chaining, and the closing "MAGA!" This is best read as Trump composing, possibly with light logistical facilitation from staff (posting/pagination). **Confidence: medium-high authentic.** --- ## Contextual Framing This post is PAGE 2 of a connected two-part salvo (PAGE 1 = previous post about CREW's Colorado ballot challenge). Together they constitute a sustained, multi-target grievance dump triggered by converging legal threats: the Georgia arraignment (August 2023), the active Special Counsel prosecution, and the novel Section 3 disqualification effort via CREW in Colorado. The subject is responding to an extraordinary cluster of narcissistic injuries simultaneously. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Observed Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | Very High | Assertive, dominating tone; self-referential throughout | | **Agreeableness** | Very Low | "slime balls," "bad Radical Left people," derogatory epithets | | **Conscientiousness** | Low | Impulsive, reactive; no deliberative hedging | | **Neuroticism** | Very High | Angry hostility, catastrophizing ("once great Country") | | **Openness** | Very Low | Rigid us/them worldview; zero acknowledgment of opposing validity | **Dominant facets:** Angry hostility (N6), Assertiveness (E3), Low Modesty (A5 reversed). --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives (dominant):** Power and autonomy threatened simultaneously on multiple legal fronts. The post is an effort to re-establish dominance through rhetorical counter-attack when institutional power has been stripped. **Schemas operative:** - *Self:* Chronic winner against overwhelming odds ("I have been beating them for years, including Impeachments") - *Others:* Bifurcated — persecutors (CREW, Monaco, Smith) vs. supporters (implied MAGA audience) - *World:* A zero-sum battlefield where malevolent conspirators weaponize legitimate institutions **Goal:** Reframe legal accountability as political persecution, discrediting the mechanism before verdicts can arrive. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Persecuted champion — simultaneously victimized and triumphant ("beating them for years") - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination (America was "once great" → corrupted by Radical Left) nested inside a redemption arc ("MAGA" signals promised restoration) - **Identity claims:** Unconquerable fighter; defender of the nation; victim of unprecedented political assault - **Contrasting others:** CREW, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith — cast as agents of a coordinated coup against American democracy - **Redemption coda:** "MAGA!" functions as a promise/rallying cry that the contamination arc will be reversed --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment **A. Narcissistic Features:** Grandiosity explicit ("I have been beating them for years"); entitlement ("major liability" threat); contempt for opponents as categorically inferior ("slime balls," "bad...people"); the parenthetical hotel compliment mid-grievance is a textbook moment of self-aggrandizing intrusion. **Score: 0.88** **B. Antisocial Features:** Repeated contempt for legal process as illegitimate; frames lawful prosecution as criminal act without evidence. **Score: 0.60** **C. Paranoid Features:** Conspiracy framing (CREW → Monaco → Smith as integrated cabal); reading independent legal actors as coordinated persecutors without documented basis. **Score: 0.78** **D. Ego-syntonic Sadism:** Mild. Pleasure in labeling ("Deranged Jack Smith," "slime balls") suggests some enjoyment of the contempt display, though this post is more defensive than sadistically triumphant. **Score: 0.40** ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Multi-vector narcissistic injury — the Colorado disqualification effort (constitutional exposure), ongoing Special Counsel prosecution, and the emoluments suit history converge. The CREW entity links them narratively, allowing a single target to absorb compound rage. **Narcissistic state:** *Mixed* — oscillating within a single post. Grandiose ("LOST BIG," "beating them for years") and vulnerable ("Radical Left people," "what they are doing to America," "once great Country") alternate. This oscillation is characteristic of the grandiose/vulnerable cycling documented in narcissistic personality literature (Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010). **Rage assessment:** Present. Intensity: 0.74. Proportionality: low (legal challenges to ballot eligibility, however novel, are treated as existential civilizational assault). Target: diffuse — CREW, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, unnamed "groups." ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (Immature):** Accusing opponents of weaponizing DOJ as "their own" — a projection of Trump's own documented efforts (2017-2021) to direct DOJ toward personal and political ends. *High confidence.* 2. **Denial (Pathological):** The entire "election interference" framing denies the legal legitimacy of prosecutions, refusing to engage with evidentiary reality. 3. **Splitting (Immature):** Absolute moral bifurcation — "bad Radical Left people" vs. MAGA patriots. No ambiguity tolerated. 4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** "ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before" provides a logical-sounding framework for what is, at base, legal accountability. 5. **DARVO:** Deny (these are invalid cases), Attack (Monaco, Smith, CREW are criminals), Reverse Victim and Offender ("They will have major liability for what they are doing to America"). --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Epithet campaign:** "Deranged Jack Smith," "slime balls," "bad Radical Left people," "Injustice Department" — systematic dehumanization of institutional actors - **Hyperbole:** "ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before" — superlative framing that makes proportionate response impossible to calibrate - **Conspiratorial linkage:** Connecting CREW → Monaco → Smith as a coordinated cabal without documented evidence - **Appeal to loss/nostalgia:** "our once great Country" — contamination narrative triggering nostalgic grievance - **Threat rhetoric:** "They will have major liability" — vague but implied legal/political counter-strike; simultaneously a dominance signal and an audience-mobilizing rallying cry - **In-group solidarity cue:** "MAGA!" as tribal closing — cements parasocial bond with audience - **False dichotomy:** Legal accountability vs. election interference; no middle ground offered - **Dehumanization:** "slime balls" applied to named civic/legal actors **Violent imagery:** Absent in explicit form. **Dehumanizing language:** Present ("slime balls"). --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - **DARVO structure** fully present (see above) - **Institutional delegitimization:** "Injustice Department" rebranding attempts to destabilize audience's trust in DOJ as a fact-finding institution - **Reality reframe:** Prosecutions arising from documented conduct (emoluments, election interference in Georgia) are recast as the *actual* interference — the very definition of reality inversion --- ## Shared Psychosis Dynamics The post advances epistemic closure: CREW/Monaco/Smith constitute a unified enemy; accepting prosecutions as legitimate = complicity with "bad" people. This is a loyalty test dressed as political commentary. Followers who accept the frame are epistemically sealed from the evidentiary record that drives the prosecutions. --- ## Cognitive Status **Baseline comparison:** No marked deviation from established Trump posting patterns. Syntactic complexity is at Trump's characteristic mid-low range. Idiom ("play her like a fiddle") is correctly deployed. The self-congratulatory hotel parenthetical is stylistically continuous with years of documented posting behavior. No word-finding pauses, semantic paraphasias, or confabulatory sequences detected in this post's text. **Complexity score:** 0.42 (within Trump's established lower-middle range — consistent, not deteriorating) --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** Rationale: The post names specific individuals (Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith) and organizations (CREW), articulates intense grievances against them, frames them as enemies of America committing crimes, and issues a vague counter-threat ("major liability"). This is the classic stochastic terrorism precursor structure — target identification + grievance articulation + implied legitimacy of counter-action — without an explicit call to violence. Classified elevated rather than high because the threat is legalistic in framing and the named individuals are institutional actors with security protection. However, the pattern of audience priming through dehumanization and threat rhetoric directed at named individuals warrants monitoring in longitudinal context. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "CREW sued Trump on emoluments at his DC hotel" | **True** | CREW v. Trump emoluments litigation is a documented matter of public record; the Old Post Office building Trump hotel was the subject of emoluments challenges | | "The DC hotel was recently sold" | **True** | Trump International Hotel Washington DC sold to CGI Merchant Group in May 2022 | | "CREW 'LOST BIG' on the emoluments suit" | **Half True** | Emoluments cases were largely dismissed as moot after Trump left office; no substantive ruling against plaintiffs on the merits occurred. Trump characterizes mootness dismissal as a win, which overstates the outcome. | | "Lisa Monaco serves at DOJ ('Injustice Department')" | **True** | Lisa Monaco is the Deputy Attorney General of the United States under Attorney General Garland, as of September 2023 | | "CREW, Lisa Monaco, and Jack Smith are working together" | **Mostly False** | No documented coordination between CREW (private nonprofit), DAG Monaco (DOJ senior official), and Jack Smith (independent Special Counsel) has been established. Smith operates independently from DOJ political leadership by design. | | "Election interference at a level never seen before" | **Unverifiable** | Opinion and characterization; not a factual claim subject to objective verification | Overall Veracity: 70% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - PAGE 2 multi-part pagination consistent with authentic Trump truth-bombing pattern - Parenthetical self-compliment mid-grievance ('my recently sold, and very beautiful, D.C. hotel') — classic authentic marker - Colloquial idiom correctly deployed ('play her like a fiddle') - Emotional escalation and ALL CAPS passages - Unpolished clause-chaining and stream-of-consciousness structure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (CREW Colorado ballot disqualification effort + ongoing Special Counsel prosecution + emoluments case history) **Rage:** Intensity 74% targeting CREW, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, unnamed Radical Left groups - Proportionality: 22% Sentiment: -0.82 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 60% - Paranoid: 78% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - passive aggression (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 42% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Tribal closing rallying cry (MAGA!) - Shared enemy construction binding audience to subject's grievance - Conspiratorial framing creating insider epistemic community - Victimhood appeal activating protective instincts in followers ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Named individual targeting: Lisa Monaco and Jack Smith identified as enemies committing crimes against America - Vague counter-threat with implied legitimacy ('They will have major liability for what they are doing to America') - Grievance-plus-target structure consistent with stochastic terrorism precursor pattern - Institutional delegitimization of DOJ reduces perceived legitimacy of law enforcement protection for named targets - Audience priming through dehumanization ('slime balls,' 'bad...people') of named actors ### Gaslighting - DARVO structure: Deny (cases are invalid), Attack (Monaco/Smith/CREW are criminals), Reverse Victim and Offender (prosecutors are committing the actual crime) - Institutional rebranding: 'Injustice Department' attempts to destabilize audience trust in DOJ fact-finding - Reality inversion: legitimate prosecutions arising from documented conduct reframed as the actual 'election interference' - Puppet-master framing for Monaco: displaces agency from documented DOJ processes onto unnamed Radical Left controllers **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (6) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > CREW sued Trump on emoluments at his DC hotel **TRUE** CREW v. Trump emoluments litigation is a documented matter of public record; the Old Post Office building Trump hotel was the subject of emoluments challenges Sources: Public court records > The DC hotel was recently sold **TRUE** Trump International Hotel Washington DC sold to CGI Merchant Group in May 2022 Sources: Public transaction records > CREW 'LOST BIG' on the emoluments suit **HALF TRUE** Emoluments cases were largely dismissed as moot after Trump left office; no substantive ruling against plaintiffs on the merits occurred. Trump characterizes mootness dismissal as a win, which overstates the outcome. Sources: Federal court dockets > Lisa Monaco serves at DOJ ('Injustice Department') **TRUE** Lisa Monaco is the Deputy Attorney General of the United States under Attorney General Garland, as of September 2023 Sources: DOJ public records > CREW, Lisa Monaco, and Jack Smith are working together **MOSTLY FALSE** No documented coordination between CREW (private nonprofit), DAG Monaco (DOJ senior official), and Jack Smith (independent Special Counsel) has been established. Smith operates independently from DOJ political leadership by design. Sources: Special Counsel regulations; public DOJ organizational structure > Election interference at a level never seen before **UNVERIFIABLE** Opinion and characterization; not a factual claim subject to objective verification Overall Veracity: 70% ## Tags - narcissistic_rage (88%) - legal_grievance (95%) - election_interference_claim (90%) - institutional_delegitimization (85%) - DARVO (87%) - paranoid_cabal_construction (80%) - named_target_grievance (72%) - projection (85%) - CREW_Colorado_ballot (90%) - Jack_Smith (85%) - Lisa_Monaco (80%) - emoluments (75%) - MAGA_audience_activation (80%) - victim_champion_oscillation (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Sleepless at 2 AM, Besieged by Noon: A Multi-Front Legal Defense Day Dominated by Persecution Narrative** Trump's day began with a burst of anxious posting around 2:30 AM, sharing legal defense videos about the 14th Amendment ballot threat before pivoting to familiar attacks on Biden's border and energy policies. By mid-morning the tone shifted sharply as he unleashed a sustained barrage defending Peter Navarro's contempt conviction, attacking the Georgia grand jury report, and targeting the CREW organization's Colorado ballot lawsuit -- calling prosecutors "Fascist Monsters" and "lunatic Marxists." The day's most alarming moment came in an immigration post using "invasion" and "Death Wish for America" language, representing the sharpest danger signal. Across 14 posts spanning nearly 14 hours, legal persecution was the overwhelming obsession, with every other topic serving mainly as a brief pressure valve between grievance eruptions. Full digest for 2023-09-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 8). PAGE 2: Crew also sued me on emoluments at my... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111031396196564431 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "PAGE 2: Crew also sued me on emoluments at my recently..." 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