# Post ts_111116123917995823

- Post ID: `ts_111116123917995823`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-23T19:31:36.304Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123917995823
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123917995823/analysis

## Post text

> https://dcenquirer.com/reed-cooper-were-witnessing-a-repeat-of-2016-and-trump-is-set-to-win-by-a-landslide

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,555
- Reposts: 3,030
- Replies: 352
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:35:13.161Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_111116123917995823

## Overview

This post contains no original text — it is a bare URL share to a DC Enquirer article headlined *"We're witnessing a repeat of 2016 and Trump is set to win by a landslide."* Psychological and linguistic analysis is therefore heavily constrained; observations are necessarily inferred from content selection and posting context rather than original language.

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## Authorship Attribution — High Confidence: Aide-Written

Trump was in **Dubuque, Iowa** on September 23, 2023, for a campaign rally. The UTC timestamp (19:31) converts to **14:31 CDT** — mid-afternoon, firmly within business hours. The post contains no original text, no emotional punctuation, and no reactive commentary. It is one of several URL-only drops on the same day (Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, DC Enquirer), consistent with a curated social media queue managed by Dan Scavino or equivalent staff. **Authentic Trump posts at this hour with original content are vanishingly rare in the established behavioral record.**

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## Psychological Function: Supply-Seeking via Proxy

The core psychological operation is **narcissistic supply harvesting through media laundering**. The post outsources a grandiose electoral claim — "I will win by a landslide" — to a third-party source, achieving the same self-aggrandizing function while maintaining the appearance of independent journalistic validation. The DC Enquirer is a minor partisan outlet; its invocation as an authority is itself a persuasion technique.

The **2016 frame** is psychologically significant and recurrent in Trump's narrative identity. It anchors his self-concept to a validated triumph, immunizes him against current polling challenges (2016 polls were famously wrong), and activates a redemption-arc identity narrative: the misunderestimated outsider who prevails against all predictions.

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## Rhetorical Technique

The post employs **narrative laundering** as its primary device: grandiose self-claims are presented as third-party conclusions. The implied syllogism is: *independent observers predict a landslide → therefore it is not self-promotion, merely signal-boosting truth*. This is reinforced by the **Firehose amplification** pattern — the same-day queue from multiple partisan outlets saturates followers with favorable narratives without any single post being falsifiable as boastful.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

The shared headline casts Trump in two converging protagonist roles: **the inevitable winner** and **the misunderstood underdog vindicated by history** (2016 echo). The redemption sequence is implicit: *I was dismissed before → I won then → it will happen again*. The contrasting other is not named but implied — the establishment, the pollsters, the doubters who were wrong before and are wrong again.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "We are witnessing a repeat of 2016" | **Unverifiable** | Polling comparisons to 2016 are contested; Trump did lead Republican primary polls strongly at this point, but 'repeat of 2016' general election dynamics is a narrative claim, not an empirical one |
| "Trump is set to win by a landslide" | **Unverifiable** | September 2023 general election polling showed a close race; 'landslide' framing is promotional, not data-supported at this date |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Clinical Significance

**Below threshold for summary generation.** The post is a routine aide-amplification operation with no original language, no cognitive markers assessable, no rage or threat signals, and no danger indicators. Epistemic closure is flagged — the post feeds closed-loop favorable information to an audience that has been primed to distrust contrary sources — but this is characteristic baseline behavior for this account's social media operation, not a deviation from it.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Post is a bare URL with zero original text — strongly consistent with Scavino/aide operation
- Posted at 14:31 CDT (Iowa, where Trump held a Dubuque rally this date) — mid-afternoon business hours, not Trump's typical late-night posting window
- No emotional punctuation, no ALL CAPS, no reactive commentary appended
- Pattern matches surrounding posts on same day (Gateway Pundit, Breitbart URL drops), suggesting a curated social media queue

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (external favorable media coverage predicting 2024 electoral dominance)

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Vicarious supply: followers absorb the landslide narrative as their own anticipatory reward
- Third-party validation: framing favorable prediction as independent journalistic conclusion rather than self-claim

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> We are witnessing a repeat of 2016

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Polling comparisons to 2016 are contested; Trump did lead Republican primary polls strongly at this point, but 'repeat of 2016' general election dynamics is a narrative claim, not an empirical one

> Trump is set to win by a landslide

**UNVERIFIABLE**

September 2023 general election polling showed a close race; 'landslide' framing is promotional, not data-supported at this date

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- aide_authored (90%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- electoral_grandiosity (50%)
- media_amplification (80%)
- 2016_nostalgia (60%)
- partisan_outlet_laundering (70%)

## 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). https://dcenquirer.com/reed-cooper-were-witnessing... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123917995823
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://dcenquirer.com/reed-cooper-were-witnessing-a-repeat-..." Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123917995823. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://dcenquirer.com/reed-cooper-were-witnessing-a-repeat-...," Truth Social, September 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123917995823.

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