# Post ts_111112790899272670 - Post ID: `ts_111112790899272670` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-23T05:23:58.485Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111112790899272670 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111112790899272670/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111112790899272670.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/JackPosobiec/statuses/111109332231284969 It would be nice if we won first. They Rigged and Stole the Election! ## Engagement - Likes: 5,167 - Reposts: 1,769 - Replies: 799 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:33:19.686Z (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 late-night Truth Social repost (1:23 AM EDT) appends a compact election-denial grievance to a Jack Posobiec post, yielding: "It would be nice if we won first. They Rigged and Stole the Election!" The post is almost certainly authentic Trump, evidenced by the posting time, ALL CAPS emotional marking, and a URL-text collision artifact indicating hasty composition. Psychologically, it exemplifies the vulnerable-narcissistic state: a perceived defeat or loss activates the totalizing election-theft schema as a defensive maneuver against narcissistic injury. The brief wistful opener ("It would be nice if we won first") provides a rare window into wounded entitlement before the defensive apparatus — denial, projection, distortion — reasserts itself. The claim itself is factually false by every documented legal and electoral record. Rhetorically, the post relies not on argument but on accumulated repetition; "Rigged and Stole" functions as a tribal signal rather than an evidenced assertion. The vague "They" is structurally significant: it cannot be refuted because it names no specific actor, while inviting followers to project their own adversary into the role. Cognitive status is consistent with low-baseline complexity and no neurological markers, though election-schema perseveration remains marked. Danger level is elevated, not acutely but cumulatively: the sustained election-delegitimization pattern constitutes ongoing legitimation infrastructure for political violence, as documented in January 6 actor statements. # Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post (2023-09-23 01:23 AM EDT) ## Overview This is a brief repost-with-comment, appending Trump's editorial gloss to Jack Posobiec's original post. The appended text — *"It would be nice if we won first. They Rigged and Stole the Election!"* — is compact but psychologically dense, functioning as a rapid activation of the election-denial grievance schema in response to an implied political loss or setback in Posobiec's content. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High — Authentic Trump** Posting at **1:23 AM local time (EDT)** places this squarely in Trump's documented late-night posting window. The URL artifact — where the word "It" bleeds into the hyperlink string ("111109332231284969**It**") — is a formatting error consistent with hasty, unedited mobile composition. The ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional reactivity, and brevity reinforce authentic authorship. No aide-written characteristics (business hours, polished grammar, event announcements) are present. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post activates two dominant facets: - **Angry hostility (N2)**: "Rigged and Stole" as capitalized accusatory phrase; indignation is immediate and unmodulated - **Low agreeableness**: Hostile, oppositional framing; no acknowledgment of opposing evidence or complexity The overall trait profile is consistent with the established baseline: high extraversion-assertiveness, very low agreeableness, high neuroticism-hostility, minimal openness. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** dominate entirely. The post is organized around a power/winning schema in which: - Winning is the normative, expected, *deserved* state - Any failure to win is by definition the result of external illegitimate interference - The self is therefore never actually defeated — only defrauded **Communion motives** are absent. The "we" in "if we won first" functions as a collective political identity marker, not an affiliative expression. The **power schema** operating here is notable: victory is conceptualized not as earned but as *owed*. Defeat cannot exist as a legitimate outcome within this schema — it must always resolve as theft. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: The rightful winner perpetually denied his earned victory by corrupt adversaries. **Contamination sequence**: *We won → They stole it*. This is the foundational contamination narrative of the post-2020 Trump identity — a pristine victory (as he constructs it) permanently contaminated by the act of theft. **Identity claim**: I am someone who should be winning, and when I am not, it is because of criminal interference, never legitimate defeat. **Contrasting other**: The anonymous "They" — amorphous, powerful, conspiratorial — who function as the permanent antagonist of the Trump narrative. The vagueness of "They" is structurally important: it cannot be refuted because it has no specific referent, and it invites each follower to project their own adversary into the role. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism **Narcissistic features (high)**: The assertion that losing requires a conspiratorial explanation reflects the grandiosity-entitlement complex — competitive loss is an intolerable narcissistic wound, resolved by externalizing causation entirely. **Paranoid features (high)**: "They Rigged and Stole" encodes a persecutory schema: a powerful, coordinated, malevolent out-group actively working to deny Trump what is rightfully his. This is not presented as a hypothesis but as established fact. **Antisocial features (moderate)**: The repeated assertion of a claim comprehensively rejected by courts, election officials (including Republican officials), and the DOJ constitutes sustained deceitfulness with disregard for institutional authority. ### Narcissistic State: Vulnerable The opener — *"It would be nice if we won first"* — is a rare moment of wistful, almost plaintive affect before the rage-pivot to election theft. This brief window of wounded longing is consistent with the vulnerable-narcissistic pole: the entitled self momentarily exposed before the defensive apparatus (denial, projection, blame externalization) reasserts control. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (pathological)**: Total rejection of the documented electoral outcome across three years of litigation and investigation 2. **Projection (immature)**: The wrongdoing — fraud, rigging — is attributed entirely to "They," with no self-referential accountability 3. **Distortion (pathological)**: Democratic electoral process is reshapen into a personal act of theft against Trump specifically --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post is rhetorically minimal but relies on accumulated cultural weight. "They Rigged and Stole the Election" has been repeated so frequently across years that it no longer functions as an *argument* — it functions as a **tribal signal** requiring no evidence, only activation. This is the RAND Firehose model operating at the individual post level: not persuasion, but saturation. The structural move — wry understatement (*"It would be nice if we won first"*) followed immediately by maximalist accusation (*"They Rigged and Stole the Election!"*) — is an effective emotional sequence: the understatement creates momentary identification (who wouldn't want to win?), and the accusation channels that affective opening into grievance. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The election theft claim represents sustained reality distortion. Sixty-plus court cases, including before Trump-appointed judges, rejected this claim on the merits. Attorney General Barr, the CISA director, and Republican election officials in contested states confirmed the election's integrity. The repeated assertion of the contrary as established fact is a documented pattern of reality manipulation, not good-faith political disagreement. **DARVO pattern**: Trump is positioned as victim (they stole from us) rather than agent (he and allies attempted to reverse a legitimate result). --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of acute cognitive deterioration. The perseveration of the election-theft schema is a **motivational-psychological** phenomenon (ideologically and narcissistically driven repetition) rather than a neurological one at this stage of observation. The malformed URL is a formatting/technological artifact, not a language production error. Complexity is at low-baseline consistent with prior similar posts. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** This post does not contain explicit violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or direct stochastic terrorism markers. However, it is part of a sustained pattern of election delegitimization that has been empirically linked to political violence (January 6, 2021, and subsequent threats against election officials). The claim functions as ongoing *legitimation infrastructure* for future violence — establishing the grievance narrative that bad actors have repeatedly cited as justification. The danger is structural and cumulative rather than acute and immediate. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "They Rigged and Stole the Election" | **False** | 60+ post-2020 election legal challenges dismissed or ruled against on merits. AG Barr: DOJ found no widespread fraud sufficient to change outcome. CISA (Trump appointee Chris Krebs): 'most secure election in American history.' Republican election officials in AZ, GA, PA, MI certified results. No court at any level found credible evidence of outcome-determinative fraud. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Longitudinal Pattern Note The surrounding post activity shows a heavy reposting day (Kari Lake, Posobiec ×2, StormRider_USMC, realLizUSA, his own earlier post). This clustering pattern — high-volume reposting with brief, reactive editorial insertions — is a recurring mode during periods of political stimulation (rally aftermath, news cycle activity). The Dubuque rally on this same day likely elevated his activation level, consistent with the late-night posting window. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - 1:23 AM EDT local time (UTC-4) — strongly consistent with authentic Trump late-night posting pattern - Emotionally reactive, unpolished phrasing appended to repost - ALL CAPS 'Rigged and Stole' — signature Trump emotional emphasis - Malformed URL ('111109332231284969It') where the word 'It' bleeds into the URL, suggesting hasty, unedited composition - Short declarative grievance sentence matching his established repost-comment style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Implicit reference to unspecified political defeat or loss in Posobiec's post) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Unnamed political adversaries ('They') - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Late-night posting (1:23 AM) consistent with reduced sleep threshold - High-volume reposting activity across the day (5+ reposts logged in context) - Emotional reactivity without proportionate triggering stimulus visible in post ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 80% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared victimhood construction — reader is implicitly included as co-victim of 'They' - Grievance amplification — frames electoral loss as collective injustice demanding ongoing outrage - Validation loop — ally's post used as launch point to reactivate and reinforce base grievance ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Sustained repetition of election-theft narrative that has been cited as justification by actors involved in political violence (Jan. 6, 2021) - Legitimation infrastructure: establishes grievance framework that bad actors have historically activated - No acute immediate threat markers, but cumulative delegitimization of electoral processes poses systemic elevated risk ### Gaslighting - Presents a claim comprehensively rejected by courts, including Trump-appointed judges, as self-evident established fact - DARVO pattern: positions Trump as theft-victim rather than agent of post-election pressure campaign - Attacks on institutional reality: 'They Rigged' frames documented democratic process as criminal conspiracy ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > They Rigged and Stole the Election **FALSE** 60+ post-2020 election legal challenges dismissed or ruled against on merits. AG Barr: DOJ found no widespread fraud sufficient to change outcome. CISA (Trump appointee Chris Krebs): 'most secure election in American history.' Republican election officials in AZ, GA, PA, MI certified results. No court at any level found credible evidence of outcome-determinative fraud. Sources: U.S. federal and state court rulings 2020-2021; AG William Barr December 2020 AP interview; CISA November 2020 joint statement; Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger statements Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - election-denial (100%) - narcissistic-injury (80%) - paranoid-schema (75%) - reality-distortion (85%) - gaslighting (70%) - late-night-authentic (90%) - vulnerable-narcissistic-state (75%) - perseveration (70%) - tribal-signal (80%) - DARVO (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **After-Midnight Rage Spiral and Evening Election Alarm Bracket a Day of Grandiose Self-Validation** Trump's day unfolded in three distinct phases: a late-night burst of increasingly angry posts attacking Howard Stern, Biden, and the 2020 election results, followed by a quiet afternoon of sharing flattering articles and claiming he predicted aerospace disasters. The day closed with a furious all-caps post accusing Democrats of stealing Pennsylvania through automatic voter registration. The mood swung between self-congratulatory calm and bursts of genuine anger, with economic populism around the UAW strike serving as the through-line connecting the grievances. Full digest for 2023-09-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 23). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/JackPosobiec/sta... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111112790899272670 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/JackPosobiec/statuses/1111..." Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111112790899272670. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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