# Post ts_111093651447054813

- Post ID: `ts_111093651447054813`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-19T20:16:33.615Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093651447054813
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093651447054813/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111093651447054813.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I was able to do something that nobody thought was possible, end Roe v. Wade. For 52 years, people talked, spent vast amounts of money, but couldn’t get the job done. I got the job done! Thanks to the three great Supreme Court Justices I appointed, this issue has been returned to the States, where all Legal Scholars, on both sides, felt it should be. Now the Pro Life Community has TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER…

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:41:26.585Z (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 a concentrated grandiose achievement proclamation triggered by supply-seeking needs in a politically conflicted context. The 2022 midterms established that the Dobbs outcome — Trump's most claimed achievement — was simultaneously a political liability, creating a narcissistic tension resolved here by doubling down on the boast while reframing consequences as strategic "TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER."

The post's central rhetorical move is historical erasure: 49 years of systematic conservative institutional effort (Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, Senate confirmation strategies, prior Republican judicial appointments) is compressed into "people talked, spent vast amounts of money, but couldn't get the job done" — a collective failure backdrop that exists solely to make Trump's "I got the job done!" resonate as heroic. This is textbook comparison-based grandiosity: others failed; I alone succeeded.

The false consensus claim — "all Legal Scholars, on both sides, felt it should be" returned to states — constitutes mild gaslighting, manufacturing fictional expert unanimity to preemptively delegitimize dissent. The numerical error (52 years vs. ~49-50) is consistent with Trump's established baseline imprecision and does not warrant a cognitive flag.

Authorship is assessed as likely authentic Trump (probability 0.72), based on ALL CAPS usage, echo-construction rhetoric ("couldn't get the job done / I got the job done"), and thread structure, despite the 4:16 PM EDT posting time at Bedminster. No danger indicators. Clinically, the post represents stable grandiose narcissistic functioning within Trump's documented baseline.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-09-19

## Contextual Frame

This post is the opening segment of a multi-part thread on abortion policy, appearing the same week Trump gave his first major network television interview (NBC Meet the Press at Bedminster). The prior midterm elections had demonstrated that the abortion issue damaged Republican candidates — creating a political paradox for Trump: his most-claimed achievement had become a liability. This structural tension shapes the post's psychological architecture throughout.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Dominant facets:** Assertiveness and dominance expressions are maximally elevated. The post opens in the first person and maintains that orientation throughout. Agreeableness is near-floor — there is no modesty, qualification, or acknowledgment of shared credit. Conscientiousness presents as achievement-striving but without the deliberation facet; the argument contains a factual error (see Fact Checks) consistent with impulsive composition over careful verification. Neuroticism appears mild — this is a triumphant rather than a threatened register. Openness is low; the framing is rigid and unambiguous.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals, Motives, Schemas

**Agency motive dominance (0.92):** The post is almost purely about power and achievement attribution. The word "I" or possessive "my/I" appears in almost every sentence: "I was able to," "I got the job done," "I appointed." Communion motives are nominally invoked (the "Pro Life Community") but function as audience rather than genuine relational investment.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self-schema:* Unique world-historical achiever; the one who can do what no one else could
- *Other-schema:* Others are divided between grateful beneficiaries and failed predecessors
- *World-schema:* Achievement is the result of individual will, not institutional process; history is a story of personal accomplishments

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** "The Sole Achiever" — the figure who accomplished what 52 years of collective effort could not.

**Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc with a compressed structure: [52 years of collective failure] → [Trump's decisive action] → [restored order / TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER]. This arc is designed to transform a political liability (abortion cost Republicans the midterms) into a demonstration of individual historical achievement.

**Identity claims:**
- "I am capable of the impossible"
- "My judicial appointments are personal achievements, not institutional ones"
- "I delivered for the movement when it had no deliverer"

**Contrasting other:** Explicitly, "people" who tried for 52 years. Implicitly, the broader political establishment — a recurring Trump narrative of the uniquely capable outsider against the failing insider class.

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## Level 4: Clinical Analysis

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment (Kernberg)

| Component | Rating | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Narcissistic Features | 0.82 | "Nobody thought possible," "I got the job done," solo credit for institutional achievement |
| Antisocial Features | 0.18 | Not prominent in this post |
| Paranoid Features | 0.08 | Minimal; this is a grandiose rather than persecutory post |
| Ego-Syntonic Sadism | 0.05 | Not present |

The profile here is narcissistic grandiosity without significant paranoid or antisocial activation — this is the "winning register," not the threatened register.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking maintenance, with a secondary trigger of narcissistic injury repair. The midterm losses on abortion represented a real-world challenge to Trump's claim of achievement credit — this post is partly a preemptive response, reclaiming the narrative before it can be used against him in the primary.

**Narcissistic rage:** Absent. This is the expansive, grandiose pole of narcissistic functioning.

**State:** Grandiose. No vulnerability-state markers present.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Distortion (pathological):** "Nobody thought was possible" — gross reshaping of historical reality to satisfy the internal need for unique achievement status. The overturning of Roe was the explicit, anticipated goal of a systematic decades-long conservative legal project. Transforming this into "the impossible" requires significant distortion of documented history.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The political liability of the Dobbs decision is reframed as "TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER" — a logical repackaging of what was empirically a costly political outcome into a strategic asset.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**False consensus manufacturing:** "All Legal Scholars, on both sides, felt it should be" returned to states is among the post's most analytically significant claims. It is demonstrably false (see Fact Checks), but functions rhetorically to preemptively delegitimize any dissent — if all experts already agreed, opposition is redefined as bad faith rather than substantive disagreement. This is a gaslighting technique at the societal level.

**Historical erasure:** The Federalist Society's decades of judicial pipeline development, Mitch McConnell's strategic blocking of Merrick Garland, Heritage Foundation legal strategy, prior Republican presidents' appointments — all erased in favor of "I got the job done."

**Anaphoric contrast structure:** "couldn't get the job done... I got the job done!" The repetition-with-reversal is rhetorically effective and stylistically authentic to Trump's oratorical patterns.

**Credit capture through possessives:** "the three great Supreme Court Justices I appointed" — by grammatically subordinating the justices to his appointment act, he absorbs their constitutional authority into his personal achievement column.

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## Cognitive Status

No markers requiring flagging. The "52 years" figure is numerically inaccurate (Roe: January 1973; Dobbs: June 2022 = ~49 years; to posting date = ~50 years), but this is consistent with Trump's documented baseline pattern of approximate historical figures and round-number preference. Language complexity is typical of his established profile: simple syntactic structures, first-person dominance, repetitive echo constructions. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or temporal confusion observed.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Likely authentic Trump (confidence: medium, score: 0.72).** Posting time 4:16 PM EDT at Bedminster is ambiguous (business hours, but not peak aide-authorship window). Strong authentic markers include: ALL CAPS terminal emphasis, echo-construction rhetoric, stream-of-consciousness ellipsis continuation, and the characteristically immodest first-person structure. Aide-written posts tend toward event announcements and polished professional language; this post is self-referential and emotionally charged in a way inconsistent with aide composition.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, no mobilization language, no stochastic terrorism markers, no violent imagery. This is a political achievement claim and campaign-positioning post.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Nobody thought ending Roe v. Wade was possible" | **False** | Overturning Roe was the explicit, systematic goal of the conservative legal movement for decades. The Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, National Right to Life Committee, and successive Republican administrations all structured their judicial strategies specifically toward this outcome. It was widely anticipated following the confirmation of Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch. |
| "For 52 years people tried but couldn't end Roe v. Wade" | **Mostly False** | Roe v. Wade was decided January 22, 1973. The Dobbs decision was June 24, 2022 — a span of 49 years and 5 months. From 1973 to the posting date of September 2023 is approximately 50 years. '52 years' is factually inaccurate by 2-3 years. Additionally, framing prior efforts as failures erases significant incremental restrictions achieved through Casey, Gonzales v. Carhart, and hundreds of state-level restrictions. |
| "All Legal Scholars on both sides felt the issue should be returned to the states" | **Mostly False** | This is a significant overstatement. Many constitutional law scholars argued Roe and Casey were correctly decided on Due Process and privacy grounds. While some liberal scholars (including Ruth Bader Ginsburg) had critiqued Roe's reasoning, this did not constitute support for overturning it. The claim of scholarly unanimity across ideological lines is demonstrably false. |

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis ('TREMENDOUS NEGOTIATING POWER') is a signature Trump stylistic marker
- Exclamation point usage and 'I got the job done!' rhythm is authentic Trump cadence
- Post time 4:16 PM EDT at Bedminster — business hours, neither late-night nor peak-aide window; ambiguous
- Part of a multi-post thread, a pattern consistent with Trump composing extended thoughts
- Stream-of-consciousness structure with ellipsis suggesting continuation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (2022 midterm losses on abortion; 2024 primary positioning; Meet the Press interview week)

Sentiment: +0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 18%
- Paranoid: 8%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 26%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to 'Pro Life Community' as grateful audience
- Achievement testimonial inviting parasocial validation ('Thanks to the three great... I appointed')
- Collective 'we' pivot in companion posts while keeping 'I' as protagonist here

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'All Legal Scholars, on both sides, felt it should be' returned to states — manufacturing false scholarly consensus to delegitimize dissent
- 'Nobody thought was possible' — erases the decades of deliberate, optimistic conservative legal strategy that made Dobbs achievable

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Nobody thought ending Roe v. Wade was possible

**FALSE**

Overturning Roe was the explicit, systematic goal of the conservative legal movement for decades. The Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, National Right to Life Committee, and successive Republican administrations all structured their judicial strategies specifically toward this outcome. It was widely anticipated following the confirmation of Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch.

Sources: Established historical record of conservative legal movement

> For 52 years people tried but couldn't end Roe v. Wade

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Roe v. Wade was decided January 22, 1973. The Dobbs decision was June 24, 2022 — a span of 49 years and 5 months. From 1973 to the posting date of September 2023 is approximately 50 years. '52 years' is factually inaccurate by 2-3 years. Additionally, framing prior efforts as failures erases significant incremental restrictions achieved through Casey, Gonzales v. Carhart, and hundreds of state-level restrictions.

Sources: Supreme Court records

> All Legal Scholars on both sides felt the issue should be returned to the states

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This is a significant overstatement. Many constitutional law scholars argued Roe and Casey were correctly decided on Due Process and privacy grounds. While some liberal scholars (including Ruth Bader Ginsburg) had critiqued Roe's reasoning, this did not constitute support for overturning it. The claim of scholarly unanimity across ideological lines is demonstrably false.

Sources: Legal academic record

Overall Veracity: 13%

## Tags

- grandiosity (90%)
- achievement-attribution (88%)
- false-consensus (85%)
- abortion-framing (82%)
- supply-seeking (78%)
- credit-capture (80%)
- 2024-campaign-positioning (75%)
- history-erasure (72%)

## That day

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

**A Managed Communications Day Punctuated by Biden's UN Appearance and a Strategic Abortion Repositioning**

Trump spent most of the day in a stable, confident mode, with his team flooding Truth Social with over a dozen curated article links covering everything from border policy to golf. The main flare-up came when Biden took the stage at the UN General Assembly — Trump fired off two personal attacks calling the speech a "surrender" and falsely claiming nobody attended. The day's most significant move was a carefully constructed three-part thread on abortion, where Trump simultaneously used graphic anti-Democrat rhetoric and positioned himself as a pragmatic moderate with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Overall, a strategically managed day with more calculation than chaos.

Full digest for 2023-09-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 19). I was able to do something that nobody thought... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093651447054813
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I was able to do something that nobody thought was..." Truth Social, 19 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093651447054813. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I was able to do something that nobody thought was...," Truth Social, September 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093651447054813.

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