# Post ts_111049639084747499

- Post ID: `ts_111049639084747499`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-12T01:43:38.267Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Because of the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election, just look at our Nation, and indeed the World, NOW! It is all a shadow of its former self. Ukraine, Inflation, Bad Economy, Woke Military, No World Standing, No Respect, and today, 6 Billion Dollars for hostages. Where is the call from Republicans for the 25th Amendment?

## Engagement

- Likes: 20,176
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:32:21.567Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post exemplifies Trump's mature contamination narrative operating at full deployment. The stolen election functions as an originating cosmological rupture — every global ill (Ukraine, inflation, the Iran deal) is positioned as downstream of Trump's fraudulent displacement. The psychological engine is a mixed grandiose-vulnerable narcissistic state: grandiose in that his absence is presented as causing civilizational decline; vulnerable in that he frames himself as the wronged sovereign whose legitimate rule was stolen. The 25th Amendment invocation is the post's most revealing element — a projective DARVO reversal of a genuine threat Trump himself faced, now redirected at Biden. Defense mechanisms include pathological distortion (monocausal attribution of world events to one election), immature splitting (total binary between eras), and projection (25th Amendment). The $6 billion Iran characterization misrepresents frozen Iranian sovereign funds as U.S. ransom, deliberately exploiting the September 11 announcement date. Authorship is high-confidence authentic: late-evening local timestamp, signature "Stollen" misspelling, and stream-of-consciousness grievance structure. Mild hypomanic indicators are present (fifth-plus post in a single evening session, escalating intensity). Cognitive status shows no acute deviation from established baseline. Danger is elevated via institutional delegitimization infrastructure rather than direct incitement.

## Post Analysis: ts_111049639084747499 | 2023-09-11 ~9:43 PM EDT

### Authorship Attribution

The UTC timestamp of 01:43:38Z converts to approximately **9:43 PM EDT** on September 11, 2023. In mid-September, Trump typically resided at Bedminster, NJ (his summer estate, generally open through late September) or Trump Tower in Manhattan. Either way, 9:43 PM local time falls squarely within his documented late-evening posting window.

Authentic Trump markers are dense: the persistent misspelling "Stollen" (the German Christmas bread, not the past participle of "steal") is a signature Trump error appearing across dozens of verified posts over multiple years. The comma-separated grievance list, emotional escalation structure, abrupt rhetorical-question close, and absence of polish are all stylistic fingerprints inconsistent with aide-drafted content. **High confidence: authentic Trump.**

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### Psychological State & Triggers

**Primary trigger: Convergent narcissistic injuries.** Three concurrent stressors are visible:

1. **The Iran prisoner deal announced on September 11** — Trump had addressed this in an earlier post the same evening, making this a second, angrier iteration. The September 11 date appears to intensify his outrage, which he frames as either deliberate Biden provocation or catastrophic incompetence.
2. **The ongoing Georgia indictment proceedings** — the prior post explicitly addresses co-defendants' legal strategies, indicating active preoccupation with the legal apparatus he is embedded in.
3. **Implicit comparison to his own presidency** — the grievance list (Ukraine, inflation, bad economy, etc.) functions as an implicit counter-factual: *none of this would exist under me.*

**Narcissistic state: Mixed grandiose-vulnerable.** The post oscillates. The contamination framing ("look at our Nation NOW…a shadow of its former self") carries unmistakable vulnerable-persecutory coloring: everything good has been destroyed by an injustice done to the author. But the implicit self-contrast — all problems arose *after* his displacement — is grandiose, positioning Trump as the absent indispensable sovereign whose removal caused civilizational collapse. This oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states is consistent with the "mixed" presentation in malignant narcissistic personality organization.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**1. Distortion (pathological-level).** The causal chain from one contested election to Ukraine, global inflation, "No World Standing," and the totality of geopolitical decline represents a gross reshaping of external reality to serve internal needs — specifically, the need to locate the source of all suffering in Trump's displacement. The election functions as a cosmological event; everything after it is its consequence.

**2. Splitting (immature).** The binary is total: the pre-election world = strength, respect, economic vitality, global standing; the post-election world = complete civilizational shadow. No continuity, complexity, or confounding variables are acknowledged. This all-good/all-bad structure is classic Kernbergian splitting.

**3. Projection (immature), with DARVO overlay.** The 25th Amendment invocation is the post's most psychologically revealing element. Following January 6, Trump was the subject of documented cabinet-level discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment (per Woodward/Costa reporting and others). He now redirects this exact constitutional framework against Biden. This is not coincidental rhetorical strategy — it is textbook Deny-Attack-Reverse Victim and Offender: *I am not the unfit president; he is.* The specific instrument of the reversal (25th Amendment) betrays its projective origin.

**4. Rationalization (neurotic).** The election fraud narrative functions as an all-purpose explanatory schema. Any negative development can be rationalized as downstream of "Rigged and Stollen." This schema requires no updating because it is unfalsifiable.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **False causation:** One contested election → Ukraine war, global inflation, loss of international standing, civilizational decline.
- **Grievance enumeration:** The comma-delimited list builds rhetorical momentum through accumulation — each item individually challengeable, but the aggregate volume creates an impression of overwhelming evidence.
- **Temporal framing exploitation:** The September 11 announcement date for the Iran deal is foregrounded to maximize its symbolic register — Biden releasing money to Iran *on* 9/11.
- **Appeal to fear + nostalgia:** The "shadow of its former self" construction invokes collective loss and longing.
- **Whataboutism:** The rhetorical question pivoting to the 25th Amendment deflects from substantive policy critique toward delegitimizing the current president.
- **Rhetorical question activation:** "Where is the call from Republicans for the 25th Amendment?" is a directive disguised as a question — attempting to mobilize the Republican base through constitutional framing.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election" | **False** | Adjudicated in 60+ courts across multiple jurisdictions; reviewed by Republican election officials in contested states including Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan; Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated there was no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome; DHS Cybersecurity agency called it 'the most secure election in American history' |
| "$6 Billion for hostages" | **Mostly False** | The $6 billion figure accurately references frozen Iranian sovereign funds held in South Korean banks, released as part of a prisoner exchange. These were Iran's own assets frozen under sanctions — not U.S. Treasury expenditures or direct ransom payments. The 'paying for hostages' framing misrepresents the mechanism, though the deal is legitimately controversial on foreign policy grounds. |
| "Paying for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail (from prior post)" | **Unverifiable** | This is a predictive claim about future behavior by state and non-state actors. While a contested policy argument made by critics of such agreements, it is not empirically assessable at time of posting. |
| "I freed many dozens of our people from various unfriendly countries and never paid a dime" | **Half True** | Trump did secure notable prisoner releases (e.g., Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Otto Warmbier family notification from North Korea, various others). However, some releases involved sanctions relief, diplomatic concessions, or prisoner swaps that represented forms of consideration. The 'never paid a dime' claim oversimplifies the diplomatic exchanges involved. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Signature 'Stollen' misspelling (persistent multi-year error)
- 9:43 PM EDT posting time — within documented late-evening authentic window
- Comma-delimited grievance list structure consistent with authentic posts
- Abrupt rhetorical-question close
- Emotional reactivity and unpolished urgency

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Iran prisoner deal announced on September 11; ongoing Georgia indictment proceedings; implicit unfavorable comparison to current presidency)

**Rage:** Intensity 68% targeting Joe Biden / the 2020 election outcome / Republicans perceived as insufficiently resistant
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.74

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Fifth or sixth Truth Social post within same evening window
- Escalating emotional intensity across same-day posts (Iran deal addressed twice with increasing agitation)
- Pressured, list-driven urgency
- Multiple concurrent targets across same session (Biden, Democrats, Republicans perceived as insufficiently oppositional)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 74%
- Sadism: 22%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective grievance framing ('our Nation')
- Rhetorical question mobilization ('Where is the call from Republicans?')
- Shared victimhood construction (we were robbed together)
- Us-vs-them binary positioning

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic delegitimization of current government as product of fraud — foundational infrastructure for future mobilization
- Constitutional 25th Amendment invocation against sitting president functions as legitimacy-stripping mechanism
- Election denial axiom maintained as unfalsifiable schema — closes epistemic system against corrective input
- No direct violent imagery or eliminationist language in this specific post

### Gaslighting

- 'Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election' stated as axiom — denial of adjudicated electoral outcome
- DARVO structure: Trump (actual 25th Amendment subject) redirects that framework against Biden
- Causal revisionism: all current world problems attributed to single prior event, collapsing complex geopolitics into monocausal narrative
- Implicit reality test for audience: acceptance of election fraud premise required to 'understand' all subsequent claims

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election

**FALSE**

Adjudicated in 60+ courts across multiple jurisdictions; reviewed by Republican election officials in contested states including Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan; Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated there was no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome; DHS Cybersecurity agency called it 'the most secure election in American history'

Sources: Federal and state court records (60+ cases dismissed or ruled against); AG William Barr public statements December 2020; CISA joint statement November 2020

> $6 Billion for hostages

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The $6 billion figure accurately references frozen Iranian sovereign funds held in South Korean banks, released as part of a prisoner exchange. These were Iran's own assets frozen under sanctions — not U.S. Treasury expenditures or direct ransom payments. The 'paying for hostages' framing misrepresents the mechanism, though the deal is legitimately controversial on foreign policy grounds.

Sources: U.S. Treasury Department statements on Iranian asset freeze; State Department prisoner exchange announcement September 2023

> Paying for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail (from prior post)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a predictive claim about future behavior by state and non-state actors. While a contested policy argument made by critics of such agreements, it is not empirically assessable at time of posting.

> I freed many dozens of our people from various unfriendly countries and never paid a dime

**HALF TRUE**

Trump did secure notable prisoner releases (e.g., Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Otto Warmbier family notification from North Korea, various others). However, some releases involved sanctions relief, diplomatic concessions, or prisoner swaps that represented forms of consideration. The 'never paid a dime' claim oversimplifies the diplomatic exchanges involved.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- election-denial (95%)
- contamination-sequence (90%)
- 25th-amendment-projection (85%)
- Iran-hostage-deal (82%)
- September-11-symbolism (78%)
- mixed-narcissistic-state (80%)
- DARVO (83%)
- monocausal-attribution (87%)
- institutional-delegitimization (72%)
- splitting (88%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Legal Siege Drives Pre-Dawn Grievance Spiral as McCarthy Impeachment Delivers Evening Vindication**

Trump started the day with a burst of pre-dawn posting focused on defending himself against the looming New York civil fraud trial, arguing at length that banks were happy and no one was harmed. As the morning progressed, he pivoted to attacking Biden over the Iran hostage deal and a false 9/11 claim, with his sharpest language reserved for accusing Biden of receiving "kickbacks." The middle of the day was dominated by aide-posted link shares reinforcing legal persecution and polling strength narratives. The mood shifted noticeably toward triumphant grandiosity by evening, likely buoyed by Kevin McCarthy's announcement of a formal Biden impeachment inquiry, culminating in a three-word victory lap: "TRUMP WAS RIGHT."

Full digest for 2023-09-12: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 12). Because of the Rigged and Stollen 2020... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111049639084747499
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Because of the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential..." Truth Social, 12 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111049639084747499. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Because of the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential...," Truth Social, September 12, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111049639084747499.

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