# Post ts_111131210490969982 - Post ID: `ts_111131210490969982` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-26T11:28:19.225Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111131210490969982 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111131210490969982/analysis ## Post text > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-vows-victory-were-not-going-to-allow-them-to-rig-the-presidential-election-of-2024/ ## Engagement - Likes: 6,319 - Reposts: 1,594 - Replies: 197 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T09:07:25.336Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-26T11:28:19Z ## Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to RSB Network coverage of Trump "vowing victory" and pledging to prevent rigging of the 2024 presidential election. The absence of any appended text makes standard linguistic analysis impossible; analysis therefore focuses on (1) authorship signals from format and timing, (2) the contextual significance of the content given known events, and (3) the post's function within a longitudinal rhetorical and psychological pattern. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-written (confidence: medium)** Local time at posting: approximately **7:28 AM EDT**. Trump was in South Carolina the prior evening (per contemporaneous RT post) and was likely in transit or still on-site. While 7:28 AM falls within Trump's known waking hours, the **bare URL format with zero personal commentary** is the clearest stylometric signal available. Trump's authentic posts — even brief ones — virtually always include some form of annotation: emphasis in ALL CAPS, personal superlatives, emotional punctuation, or truncated stream-of-consciousness prose. A clean URL share of favorable coverage is the canonical pattern for Scavino/comms-team amplification operations: monitor friendly media → extract positive framing → post without annotation. --- ## Contextual Significance The timing is notable: this post appears **one day after Judge Engoron issued summary judgment** finding Trump and his organization liable for persistent fraud by inflating asset values by up to $2.6 billion — among the most damaging single-day legal developments of the 2023 cycle. The shift to forward-looking election-rigging narrative on the heels of that ruling is consistent with a well-documented pattern: following major narcissistic injury (legal defeat, humiliation), the subject's communications pivot rapidly toward (a) future victimhood framing or (b) preemptive delegitimization of future adverse outcomes. This post accomplishes the latter. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits Insufficient original text for reliable trait inference. The *content* of the amplified article implies low agreeableness (oppositional, adversarial framing), high agency/dominance assertion, and elevated neuroticism-paranoid facet (persecution schema). ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/control**. The election rigging frame is fundamentally a power schema: external agents are subverting rightful outcomes; the subject alone can prevent this. Agency motives are paramount. Communion motives are faint but present in the "we" construction — recruiting followers into the struggle. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Hero-Defender / potential Victim-turned-Victor - **Narrative sequence**: Pre-contamination — seeding the premise that a good thing (legitimate election) will be made bad by adversaries, establishing the conditions for either a future redemption narrative (if he wins) or a future contamination/betrayal narrative (if he loses) - **Contrasting other**: "Them" — deliberately unspecified, maximally projectable - **Identity claim** (implicit): "I am the rightful winner whom they are trying to stop" ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators - **Paranoid features** (high): Unnamed adversarial "them" with organized capacity to rig a national election — consistent with Kernberg's paranoid component of malignant narcissism - **Projection** (immature defense): Attributing electoral manipulation to opponents while subject faces legal accountability for his own documented fraud - **Preemptive delegitimization**: Statistically, pre-election claims of rigging function to immunize the subject's base against accepting adverse outcomes — an epistemically antisocial act regardless of conscious intent --- ## Rhetorical Function The post's primary rhetorical function is **preemptive narrative inoculation**: by introducing the election-rigging frame 14 months before Election Day, it begins constructing the interpretive lens through which followers will understand a 2024 loss if it occurs. This is consistent with the RAND Firehose model — not a single dramatic claim but one more data point in a sustained, high-volume, repeated narrative that crowds out competing interpretations. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection** (immature): Own fraudulent behavior (just legally established) displaced onto electoral adversaries 2. **Denial** (pathological): Implicit rejection of legitimacy of legal findings and prior electoral outcome 3. **Displacement**: Audience attention redirected from present defeat (NY fraud ruling) to future threat (2024 election) --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated.** Election denial rhetoric directed at a future election, pre-seeded with "they are going to rig it" framing, has documented downstream risk: it motivates motivated actors to "prevent" a perceived theft through extralegal means. While this single post does not rise to high/critical danger on its own, it is one data point in a sustained pattern that preceded the January 6 events. The "we're not going to allow them" construction carries implicit mobilization potential. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion The election rigging frame applied to 2024 (and implicitly to 2020) contradicts findings of 60+ courts, the Department of Homeland Security, Republican secretaries of state in contested states, and the subject's own Attorney General. Presenting this narrative as settled truth to followers constitutes an ongoing epistemic closure operation — followers who accept the frame cannot access falsifying information within the in-group epistemic ecosystem. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The 2024 presidential election will be rigged by unnamed adversaries" | **Unverifiable** | Future claim at time of posting; however, the narrative premise derives from a false foundational claim (2020 was stolen), which was rejected by 60+ courts and bipartisan election officials | | "Implicit: Electoral rigging is an organized, ongoing threat to presidential elections" | **Mostly False** | No court, election security agency (CISA), or bipartisan review found evidence of systematic coordinated electoral fraud in 2020; DHS called it 'most secure election in American history' | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Cognitive Status *Insufficient original text* to assess language production, syntactic complexity, or cognitive markers. No basis for deviation-from-baseline scoring on this post. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - URL-only post with no added commentary — atypical for authentic Trump who nearly always annotates shares - Clean, unadorned format consistent with aide curation of favorable media coverage - 7:28 AM EDT (UTC-4) on a travel/return day from South Carolina — early morning but not the late-night impulsive window; falls in ambiguous zone - RSB Network (Right Side Broadcasting) is a preferred Trump media outlet regularly amplified by comms staff - No capitalization bursts, no ellipsis-truncated rage prose, no self-referential superlatives — hallmarks of authentic posts are absent ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Legal losses (NY fraud ruling, ongoing indictments) combined with Biden's Michigan picket-line political maneuver) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Mobilization framing ('we' are not going to allow it — inclusive pronoun draws followers into agency) - Grievance pre-loading: seeding 2024 election fraud narrative 14 months before election day - Validation-seeking via favorable media amplification ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Pre-seeding 2024 election rigging narrative 14 months before Election Day — establishes interpretive frame that motivates extralegal 'prevention' of perceived theft - 'We're not going to allow them' construction carries implicit collective mobilization signal - Continues unbroken post-Jan 6 pattern of election denial rhetoric directed at future elections - Consistent with documented pre-violence rhetorical escalation trajectory from 2020-2021 ### Gaslighting - Implicit denial of 2020 election outcome despite 60+ court rejections of fraud claims - Preemptive framing of 2024 as already-threatened-by-rigging forecloses followers' ability to accept adverse outcomes as legitimate - Directing audience to in-group media ecosystem (RSB Network) reinforces epistemic closure ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > The 2024 presidential election will be rigged by unnamed adversaries **UNVERIFIABLE** Future claim at time of posting; however, the narrative premise derives from a false foundational claim (2020 was stolen), which was rejected by 60+ courts and bipartisan election officials Sources: Known events context; General knowledge of 2020 post-election litigation outcomes > Implicit: Electoral rigging is an organized, ongoing threat to presidential elections **MOSTLY FALSE** No court, election security agency (CISA), or bipartisan review found evidence of systematic coordinated electoral fraud in 2020; DHS called it 'most secure election in American history' Sources: General knowledge of CISA November 2020 statement; General knowledge of 60+ court rulings 2020-2021 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - election_denial (95%) - projection (75%) - paranoid_features (65%) - preemptive_narrative_inoculation (85%) - aide_authored (65%) - post_legal_defeat_displacement (80%) - mobilization_potential (55%) - epistemic_closure (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **On the Day Courts Called It Fraud, Trump Attacked Everyone But the Ruling** Trump spent most of September 26 performing triumphant normalcy -- sharing rally highlights from South Carolina, blasting out fundraising links, and celebrating a 10-point polling lead over Biden -- while studiously ignoring the biggest legal blow of the day: a judge ruling he was liable for massive financial fraud. When he wasn't broadcasting strength, he was nursing a sustained grudge against Fox News, attacking the network across four posts for insufficient loyalty. A fiery response to Biden's historic UAW picket-line visit and a combative post about Jack Smith's prosecution team were the day's angriest moments. It wasn't until nearly 7 PM Eastern that he finally addressed the Engoron fraud ruling directly, dismissing it with a "done business perfectly" defense and pivoting to New York crime statistics. Full digest for 2023-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 26). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-vows-victory... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111131210490969982 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-vows-victory-were-not-..." Truth Social, 26 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111131210490969982. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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