# Post ts_111495844394761372 - Post ID: `ts_111495844394761372` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-29T20:59:30.968Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111495844394761372 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111495844394761372/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111495844394761372.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Another from Judge Engoron’s Wife, who is almost as out of control as he is. How low can you get? ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/495/844/370/204/213/original/6783e33a3787215b.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 7,136 - Reposts: 2,643 - Replies: 653 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.389Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:11:12.438Z (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 27-word post represents a clinically significant escalation during the NY civil fraud trial: Trump extends his attack from Judge Engoron (a public figure) to the judge's wife, a private citizen, sharing what appears to be a screenshot of her social media content with the characterization that she is "almost as out of control as he is." The post almost certainly violates the trial's gag order — a fact underscored by the known-events record noting "multiple Trump gag order violations" during this period. Psychologically, the post reflects a vulnerable narcissistic state (persecution framing, DARVO positioning) combined with active antisocial features (explicit disregard for court authority, targeting of a private individual). The defense structure layers devaluation, projection, and acting-out: Trump attributes "out of control" behavior to judge and wife while his own documented conduct — gag violations, inflammatory Thanksgiving posts — fits that description more precisely. The stochastic terrorism dimension is elevated: the combination of target identification, behavioral characterization, attached image as visual evidence, and mass-audience rhetorical question ("How low can you get?") constitutes a mobilization pattern directed at a private person. The authorship signature leans authentic (raw, reactive, characteristic rhetorical question) despite the business-hours timestamp. The "Another from..." framing implies systematic monitoring of the target's posts — a detail suggesting preoccupation consistent with paranoid features of malignant narcissism. # Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2023-11-29T20:59:30Z ## Post Text > "Another from Judge Engoron's Wife, who is almost as out of control as he is. How low can you get?" --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 20:59 = **3:59 PM EST** (Trump was in New York for the civil fraud trial proceedings) **Assessment:** Leaning authentic (score: 0.65, medium confidence). The business-hours timing introduces some uncertainty, but the stylistic evidence strongly favors direct Trump authorship: the terse, emotionally reactive phrasing, the characteristic rhetorical question ("How low can you get?"), and the absence of polished structure are all consistent with his documented posting patterns during legal proceedings. The most plausible reading is that Scavino located and surfaced the attached media while Trump composed the brief caption himself — a collaborative model consistent with other trial-period posts. --- ## Contextual Framing This post occurs within a dense same-day sequence attacking Judge Engoron. The immediately preceding post read: *"This is the Judge's Wife saying this, and many things much worse. At what point do High Court Officials step in, and end this Witch Hunt?"* — establishing this post as a second installment in a deliberate targeting campaign. The word "Another" is not incidental; it signals ongoing surveillance of the target's public statements and frames the posts as evidence accumulation in a counter-narrative. This trajectory — from attacking the judge, to attacking the judge's wife, to framing her posts as evidence of systemic corruption — represents a classic lateral escalation pattern consistent with the paranoid features of malignant narcissism. When the primary threat object cannot be neutralized, the field of perceived persecutors expands. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals, 2006) ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post activates the angry hostility facet of neuroticism at high intensity (0.79), combined with the assertiveness facet of extraversion. Agreeableness is effectively absent. No deliberation or restraint is evident (low conscientiousness), and the binary framing ("out of control" as singular characterization) reflects low openness. The dominant trait signature is hostile dominance — a pattern stable across Trump's trial-period posting. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations The dominant motive is **power/control** (agency: 0.88). The trial represents a direct threat to Trump's sense of dominance and invulnerability. His response — attacking the judge and his wife — is a counter-dominance move: an assertion that even within the legal system's constraints, he retains the power to define reputations and direct public attention. Communion motives are effectively zero; no empathic consideration of the private individual being targeted is evident. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Persecuted fighter exposing judicial corruption. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — what should be a legitimate legal proceeding has been "contaminated" by a biased, "out of control" judge and his spouse. **Contrasting other:** Judge Engoron and wife are cast as a unified corrupt force. **Identity claim:** "I am the one who sees and exposes what others won't." The rhetorical question ("How low can you get?") invites followers into the narrative as co-witnesses to the injustice. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):** - *Narcissistic features* (0.82): Grandiose victimhood; sense of entitlement to freedom from legal accountability - *Antisocial features* (0.78): Active disregard for gag order; targeting a private citizen; no evidence of remorse - *Paranoid features* (0.65): Perceived persecution expands to include judge's private spouse as co-conspirator - *Ego-syntonic sadism* (0.55): The public exposure of the target is not reluctant — the post takes evident satisfaction in the rhetorical question's implied judgment --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Devaluation** | Immature | "Out of control" reduces a private individual to a single pejorative | | **Projection** | Immature | Trump, who had multiple documented gag order violations, attributes "out of control" behavior to the judge | | **Acting out** | Immature | Direct public exposure of a private citizen's social media posts during active legal proceedings | | **Splitting** | Immature | Judge and wife rendered as a unified malevolent system; no differentiation between public official and private spouse | --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post achieves outsized impact through economy of language: 1. **"Another from"** — implies pattern, prior offenses, ongoing surveillance; primes followers to view the image as one installment in a series 2. **Comparative scale** ("almost as out of control as he is") — leverages already-established devaluation of the judge to calibrate judgment of wife 3. **Rhetorical question** ("How low can you get?") — the classic Trump mobilization device; recruits audience as co-aggrieved witnesses without issuing explicit instruction 4. **Visual evidence** (attached image) — operationalizes the targeting; followers are given visual material enabling further sharing and comment The post deploys DARVO with precision: the defendant facing fraud charges positions himself as the victim of judicial misconduct perpetrated by the judge *and his wife*, inverting the power relationship between a sitting judge and a private citizen facing court-ordered accountability. --- ## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED** The stochastic terrorism threshold is met here with moderate confidence: - **Target identification:** Specific private citizen named and surfaced to mass audience - **Behavioral characterization:** "Out of control" — a phrase that, in Trump's rhetorical universe, implies threat and illegitimacy - **Visual amplification:** Attached image provides followers with additional material about the target - **Mobilization cue:** Rhetorical question invites outrage without explicit instruction - **Documented gag order violation:** The court had specifically restricted attacks on judicial staff and related individuals; Trump's disregard for this order is itself an antisocial act The danger is not that this post contains explicit threats; it does not. The danger is the combination of mass-audience targeting of a private individual with emotionally primed followers who have been consistently told that the legal system is an illegitimate persecution apparatus. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The post's most significant reality distortion is structural rather than factual: it frames Trump — the defendant under a gag order who had violated that order multiple times — as the party being wronged by an "out of control" judicial family. The phrase "How low can you get?" performs this inversion efficiently, positioning Trump's own boundary-crossing behavior as a defensive response to unprovoked judicial misconduct. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of deterioration detected in this post. The brevity and syntactic simplicity are consistent with Trump's documented baseline for short reactive posts. Vocabulary is appropriate and consistent. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or temporal confusion. The "Another from" construction demonstrates coherent narrative sequencing across a same-day series of posts. --- ## Archetypal Analysis This post embodies the **Warrior** and **Victim** archetypes simultaneously — a combination characteristic of Trump's trial-period communication. As Warrior, he attacks; as Victim, he poses the rhetorical question that casts him as wronged. The **Shadow** material is evident in the projection: "out of control" describes his own documented behavior more accurately than his characterization of the judge. The **Trickster** dimension is present in the audacity of attacking a judge's wife during an active gag-ordered proceeding — a rule-breaking act that signals to followers that Trump operates beyond institutional constraints. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics Trump positions himself as an **order attacker** (attacking the corrupt judicial system) and simultaneously an **order restorer** (promising that high court officials should "step in" — as requested in the same-day companion post). The chaos introduced by targeting a private citizen is framed as justified disruption of a corrupt order. Followers are positioned as rightful recipients of protection from this order; Judge Engoron and wife are positioned as its corrupt agents. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Judge Engoron's wife posted something objectionable on social media" | **Unverifiable** | The attached image presumably shows a screenshot of the judge's wife's post, but content is not accessible from text alone. No independent verification available. | | "She is 'almost as out of control as he is'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective characterization of a private citizen's behavior. No factual content to assess. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 'How low can you get?' is a characteristic Trump rhetorical question - Terse, emotionally reactive phrasing consistent with authentic posts - No polish or formal structure — raw, impulsive quality - Sharing opponent's content with brief attack caption is a documented Trump pattern - Posting time 3:59 PM EST falls within business hours, slightly reducing authenticity confidence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (New York civil fraud trial — Judge Engoron presiding) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Judge Engoron's wife (private citizen) - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.78 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 78% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 55% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - acting out (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Rhetorical question ('How low can you get?') recruits audience as co-aggrieved witnesses - Framing the judge's wife as an actor in the perceived persecution narrative - Attachment of image as evidence performs the role of 'showing receipts' to loyalists ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - Identifies a specific private citizen (judge's wife) as a target to a mass audience during active legal proceedings - Pattern of 'Another from...' implies ongoing surveillance/cataloguing of target's public statements - Attached image operationalizes the targeting — followers are given visual material about the private individual - Almost certainly violates the trial gag order, demonstrating active antisocial disregard for court authority - Rhetorical question ('How low can you get?') is an outrage mobilization cue directed at a private person ### Gaslighting - Characterizes judge's conduct as 'out of control' while Trump himself had documented gag order violations during this trial - DARVO: positions the defendant (Trump) as the victim of judicial misconduct - Framing a private spouse's social media activity as evidence of systemic judicial corruption ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Judge Engoron's wife posted something objectionable on social media **UNVERIFIABLE** The attached image presumably shows a screenshot of the judge's wife's post, but content is not accessible from text alone. No independent verification available. > She is 'almost as out of control as he is' **UNVERIFIABLE** Subjective characterization of a private citizen's behavior. No factual content to assess. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - gag-order-violation (90%) - judicial-intimidation (85%) - target-identification (80%) - narcissistic-injury-response (85%) - private-citizen-attack (88%) - DARVO (80%) - ny-civil-fraud-trial (95%) - vulnerable-narcissism (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Day Devolves Into Serial Targeting of Judge's Wife as Trump Posts 60 Times in Highest-Volume Day of Late 2023** Trump's day revolved almost entirely around his New York civil fraud trial, careening between amplifying favorable Deutsche Bank testimony and launching an extraordinary six-post campaign exposing the presiding judge's wife to his millions of followers. Despite objectively good news in court, he couldn't absorb it -- the afternoon escalated into his most aggressive judicial targeting of the period, culminating in a peak-rage demand that the judge and attorney general be impeached. Sixty posts in a single day, roughly triple his typical volume, painted a picture of someone under extreme psychological pressure who responds to every front with immediate offensive action. The day also featured late-night attacks on primary rivals DeSantis and Haley, an MSNBC tirade naming its CEO as a "slimeball," and the recycling of an eight-year-old healthcare promise as if it were new. Full digest for 2023-11-29: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-29/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 29). Another from Judge Engoron’s Wife, who is almost... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111495844394761372 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Another from Judge Engoron’s Wife, who is almost as out of..." 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