# Post ts_111471973784525238

- Post ID: `ts_111471973784525238`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-11-25T15:48:54.349Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Tremendous cheating going on in a State that I love, Wisconsin. Republicans must do something to stop it!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/471/973/749/239/782/original/107746bf3f2f811a.jpg

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:07:09.153Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A brief but psychologically dense post activating a persistent narcissistic injury: Wisconsin's 2020 electoral outcome. The opening superlative ("Tremendous cheating") substitutes magnitude for evidence — a characteristic epistemic shortcut that insulates the grandiose self from legitimate defeat. The rhetorical maneuver "a State that I love" is studied: it repositions a self-interested electoral grievance as paternal concern for a wronged people, preemptively foreclosing accusations of self-interest. The contamination narrative (loved state betrayed by cheating) is consistent with Trump's broader election mythology. Primary defenses are projection, distortion, and denial — all operating to maintain a psychological reality in which electoral loss is structurally impossible. The mobilization close ("Republicans must do something to stop it") is an open-ended action frame that, in longitudinal context following January 6, carries elevated danger by leaving the modality of "something" undefined. Posted mid-morning on Thanksgiving Saturday at Mar-a-Lago; moderate confidence authentic Trump. Core factual claim (widespread cheating in Wisconsin) is false per multiple audits and court rulings. Psychological state: grandiose-aggrieved hybrid with active paranoid overlay. No cognitive decline markers visible in this brief sample.

# Analysis: Truth Social — 2023-11-25 | "Tremendous cheating going on in Wisconsin"

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at **10:48 AM EST** on Thanksgiving Saturday (Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach). This timing falls in the ambiguous zone — neither the late-night/early-morning signature of authentic Trump nor standard business-hour aide activity. The brevity, affect-laden superlative, and accusatory register are consistent with authentic Trump stylometry. The attached media (likely a framing news screenshot) introduces a minor aide-coordination signal. A same-day parallel post ("POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!") confirms emotional arousal on this date. **Assessment: Moderate confidence authentic Trump, possibly formatted or prompted by staff.** Score: ~0.62.

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## Trigger & Psychological State

Wisconsin is a **persistent locus of narcissistic injury** — Trump lost the state in 2020 by ~20,000 votes, and his legal challenges were uniformly rejected. This post reactivates that grievance, likely prompted by Wisconsin news not specified in the historian notes (possibly a judicial or local election result). The psychological state is a **grandiose-aggrieved hybrid**: the "tremendous" superlative signals grandiose self-importance (only the greatest cheating could defeat someone of his stature), while the aggrieved pathos ("a State that I love") signals vulnerable-narcissistic wounding.

The present-progressive framing — "cheating **going on**" — is diagnostically significant: it sustains an **active crisis frame** rather than a historical grievance, priming the audience for ongoing mobilization rather than retrospective complaint.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

**Contamination sequence**: Wisconsin, a beloved state, has been corrupted by cheating. The speaker is the one who perceives and names this corruption, positioning himself as the **aggrieved patriot-leader** whose love for the state makes the betrayal especially acute. The rhetorical move "a State that I love" forecloses accusations of self-interest — reframing a purely electoral grievance as paternal concern for a wronged people.

**Protagonist role**: Wronged father-figure + summoning authority. "Republicans must do something" positions him not as a voter or litigant, but as the **commanding force** who names the enemy and directs the response of his political faction.

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## Defense Mechanisms

| Defense | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Projection** | Immature | Attributing cheating to opponents with zero evidentiary threshold |
| **Distortion** | Pathological | "Tremendous" substitutes magnitude for proof; superlative asserted without qualification |
| **Denial** | Pathological | Multiple Wisconsin audits and court rulings finding no fraud are simply absent from psychological reality |
| **Acting out** | Immature | Rage translated directly into mobilization imperative ("must do something"), bypassing deliberation |

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## Rhetorical Techniques

The post deploys a compressed propaganda structure in two sentences:

1. **Assert fraud as observable present fact** ("Tremendous cheating going on") — the presuppositional framing is the key move: stating fraud as perception-data rather than claim forces the audience to either accept it or challenge the speaker's reality-contact, converting skepticism into apparent disloyalty.
2. **Establish emotional stake** ("a State that I love") — pathos inoculates against the charge of self-interest.
3. **Issue vague mobilization directive** ("must do something to stop it") — the undefined modality of "something" maximizes audience projection space while maintaining plausible deniability about what action is invoked.

Additional devices: hyperbole ("Tremendous"), false dichotomy (Republican wins = legitimate; non-Republican wins = cheating), Firehose model (fraud repeated as ongoing fact regardless of evidence), epistemic closure induction (accepting fraud as established is prerequisite for in-group membership).

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Tremendous cheating going on in Wisconsin" | **False** | Wisconsin's 2020 election was reviewed by the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, multiple federal courts, and a Republican-led Legislative Audit Bureau. All found no evidence of systematic fraud sufficient to alter results. Trump's legal team filed and lost multiple Wisconsin lawsuits. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED**

The vague mobilization close ("must do something to stop it") without specifying lawful means is below the stochastic terrorism threshold in isolation but sits within a **documented longitudinal pattern** — structurally identical rhetoric preceded January 6 mobilization. Key concern: the undefined action space allows audiences with varying levels of radicalization to project their own interpretation of "something." No dehumanizing language or direct violent imagery present.

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## Cognitive Status

Post is too brief (two declarative sentences) for meaningful complexity assessment. Syntax is simple but consistent with baseline Twitter/Truth Social register for short declarative posts. No word-finding anomalies, paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration visible. **Insufficient sample for decline assessment**; no deviation from baseline noted.

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## Summary (≤240 words)

A brief but psychologically dense post activating a persistent narcissistic injury: Wisconsin's 2020 electoral outcome. The opening superlative ("Tremendous cheating") substitutes magnitude for evidence — a characteristic epistemic shortcut that insulates the grandiose self from legitimate defeat. The rhetorical maneuver "a State that I love" is studied: it repositions a self-interested electoral grievance as paternal concern for a wronged people, preemptively foreclosing accusations of self-interest. The contamination narrative (loved state betrayed by cheating) is consistent with Trump's broader election mythology. Primary defenses are projection, distortion, and denial — all operating to maintain a psychological reality in which electoral loss is structurally impossible. The mobilization close ("Republicans must do something to stop it") is an open-ended action frame that, in longitudinal context following January 6, carries elevated danger by leaving the modality of "something" undefined. Posted mid-morning on Thanksgiving Saturday at Mar-a-Lago; moderate confidence authentic Trump. Core factual claim (widespread cheating in Wisconsin) is false per multiple audits and court rulings. Psychological state: grandiose-aggrieved hybrid with active paranoid overlay. No cognitive decline markers visible in this brief sample.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 62%)

### Indicators

- 10:48 AM EST on Thanksgiving Saturday — ambiguous timing, neither late-night authentic nor standard business hours
- Brevity and punchy accusatory register consistent with authentic Trump
- Affect-laden superlative ('Tremendous') without evidentiary scaffolding — authentic Trump pattern
- Attached media suggests possible staff coordination or prompting
- Relatively clean grammar with no typos — slight aide indicator

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Wisconsin electoral outcomes (2020 ongoing grievance, likely reactivated by current Wisconsin news))

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Wisconsin election officials / Democratic electoral machinery
- Proportionality: 12%

Sentiment: -0.68

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 58%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 12%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared victimhood framing ('a State that I love' — his love mirrors audience's love)
- Summoning authority — positions self as leader who names enemy and directs response
- Epistemic closure induction — states fraud as observable fact requiring acceptance

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Vague mobilization call ('do something to stop it') without specifying lawful means
- Pattern: identical rhetorical structure preceded January 6 mobilization
- Active-tense fraud framing ('going on') sustains ongoing crisis state that can be leveraged for future mobilization
- No specific target named — leaves action space undefined and open to audience projection

### Gaslighting

- 'Tremendous cheating going on' stated as observable present fact despite multiple contrary audits and court rulings
- Framing requires followers to accept documented falsehood as condition of in-group membership
- Attacks implied legitimacy of Wisconsin electoral institutions without naming specific mechanism

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Tremendous cheating going on in Wisconsin

**FALSE**

Wisconsin's 2020 election was reviewed by the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, multiple federal courts, and a Republican-led Legislative Audit Bureau. All found no evidence of systematic fraud sufficient to alter results. Trump's legal team filed and lost multiple Wisconsin lawsuits.

Sources: Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau 2021 election review; Multiple federal court rulings on Wisconsin 2020 election challenges; Wisconsin Elections Commission post-2020 reports

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election-denialism (95%)
- wisconsin-grievance (85%)
- mobilization-rhetoric (70%)
- paranoid-projection (80%)
- contamination-narrative (75%)
- false-factual-claim (92%)
- presupposition-rhetoric (78%)

## That day

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

**Thanksgiving Weekend Grievance Cascade: Legal Anxiety Fuels Scattershot Attacks from Mar-a-Lago**

Trump spent the Saturday after Thanksgiving on a sustained posting session from Mar-a-Lago, firing off 17 posts across about four and a half hours in the late morning and afternoon. The day opened with sharp attacks on the New York civil fraud trial and false claims of election cheating in Wisconsin, then broadened into a wide-ranging grievance tour hitting Forbes, The Atlantic, an Iowa evangelical leader, and the Biden administration's hostage negotiations. Notably, he falsely claimed Hamas had not returned any American hostages, when two had been released weeks earlier. The mood was predominantly combative but controlled — more of a holiday content dump than a meltdown — and wound down with poll-boosting links and plans to attend a college football game in South Carolina.

Full digest for 2023-11-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 25). Tremendous cheating going on in a State that I... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471973784525238
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Tremendous cheating going on in a State that I love,..." Truth Social, 25 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471973784525238. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Tremendous cheating going on in a State that I love,...," Truth Social, November 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471973784525238.

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