# Post ts_111506320843024705

- Post ID: `ts_111506320843024705`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-01T17:23:48.875Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111506320843024705
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111506320843024705/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/thanks-president-trump-colorado-football-coach-deion-sanders/

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,314
- Reposts: 1,534
- Replies: 62
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.389Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:24:02.540Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: ts_111506320843024705
**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-12-01 | **Age:** 77

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### Post Content
The post consists solely of a URL to a Gateway Pundit article titled "Thanks President Trump — Colorado Football Coach Deion Sanders" (originally published September 2023, reshared December 1, 2023). There is **no original text** from the poster. The entire communicative act is the act of curating and amplifying a third-party credit attribution.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** UTC 17:23:48. Trump's likely location on December 1, 2023 is **Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida** (EST, UTC−5), placing this post at **12:23 PM local time** — solidly mid-business-hours.

**Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)**

Indicators:
- Mid-afternoon business hours posting (12:23 PM local)
- No original text whatsoever — pure URL share
- Structurally identical to adjacent posts in the day's feed (bare URLs, no personal commentary), suggesting a curated batch-scheduling pattern by staff
- No typos, emotional markers, capitalization variation, or stream-of-consciousness features
- The posting pattern on this date (multiple URL drops throughout the day) is consistent with Scavino or digital staff running a narrative amplification queue

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### Psychological State & Triggers

Despite zero original language, the *selection* of this article is analytically meaningful.

**Supply-seeking (credit absorption via proxy):** The article title does the psychological work for the poster — a third party proclaims "Thanks President Trump" for Deion Sanders' success at Colorado. This allows grandiose credit absorption without the author having to make the claim directly. This is a structurally efficient supply operation: outsource the flattery to a credentialed (in the in-group sense) media source, then broadcast it. The subject receives narcissistic supply — public credit for another person's success — at zero linguistic cost and with the thin legitimation of journalistic attribution.

**Contextual positioning in the day's feed:** The day's cluster of posts follows a clear narrative logic:
1. Biden corruption vindication ("Trump right again")
2. Hunter Biden evidence vindicates Trump
3. GOP unity around Trump
4. Trump as Russiagate victim / American people the real victims
5. **This post:** Trump credited for Deion Sanders' cultural success

The arc is: *persecution vindicated → political consolidation → cultural heroism*. This post occupies the "benevolent benefactor" slot in the day's self-narrative construction, providing tonal relief from the more embattled grievance posts.

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose** — the day's overall posting pattern projects expansive self-aggrandizement across legal, political, and now cultural domains, rather than a wounded/persecuted posture.

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### Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals)

**Level 1 — Traits:** No direct language to analyze. The act of selection reveals low agreeableness (credit-claiming for another's achievement), high extraversion (audience-directed amplification), and achievement-striving facets of conscientiousness.

**Level 2 — Motives:** Dominant motive is **power/status** — associating the self with a culturally popular, charismatic Black football coach (Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders) signals broad cultural reach and cross-demographic appeal. Agency motive: positioning self as kingmaker.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- *Protagonist role:* Benefactor, kingmaker, cultural tastemaker
- *Identity claim:* "Even popular Black cultural icons owe their success to me"
- *Contrasting other:* Implicitly contrasts with Democrats/Biden — while the left governs, Trump is credited with producing cultural excellence
- *Narrative sequence:* Redemption-adjacent — each post in this cluster is a small redemption token, building toward the meta-narrative of vindicated greatness

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### Defense Mechanisms

- **Rationalization** (neurotic): Implicit — the selection presupposes a causal claim (Trump → Sanders' success) that is unexamined and logically tenuous
- **Idealization** (immature): Sanders is implicitly lionized as a product of Trump's world
- No pathological defenses identifiable from this single, texturally sparse post

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Tertiary credit transfer:** Outsourcing the grandiose claim to a third-party source insulates the poster from direct rebuttal while transmitting the same psychological payload
- **Implied causality:** The article title structure ("Thanks President Trump") performs a causal assertion without requiring argument or evidence
- **Audience signaling:** Gateway Pundit is a reliable in-group symbol — sharing it functions as tribal identity reinforcement as much as information transmission
- **Positive affect injection:** In a feed dominated by grievance and persecution narratives, a culturally celebratory post provides emotional variety and broadens the audience's engagement spectrum

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators.

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### Cognitive Status

No original language is available for cognitive assessment. This post contributes nothing to the longitudinal language sample.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump deserves credit for Deion Sanders' success as Colorado's head football coach" | **Mostly False** | Sanders was hired by University of Colorado in December 2022 based on his own coaching reputation and recruiting relationships. Trump's documented public praise of Sanders constitutes fan endorsement, not causal influence over university hiring decisions or on-field performance. The article title performs a post-hoc attribution fallacy. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Mid-afternoon business hours posting (12:23 PM EST)
- No original text - pure URL share
- Structurally identical to adjacent posts suggesting batch scheduling
- No typos, emotional markers, or stream-of-consciousness features
- Part of a curated narrative amplification queue across the day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Cultural/celebrity association opportunity)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Tertiary credit transfer via trusted in-group media source
- Implied causal relationship between self and popular cultural figure

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Trump deserves credit for Deion Sanders' success as Colorado's head football coach

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Sanders was hired by University of Colorado in December 2022 based on his own coaching reputation and recruiting relationships. Trump's documented public praise of Sanders constitutes fan endorsement, not causal influence over university hiring decisions or on-field performance. The article title performs a post-hoc attribution fallacy.

Sources: General knowledge of Sanders' hiring and Colorado 2023 season

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- supply-seeking (70%)
- aide-written (85%)
- credit-absorption (65%)
- gateway-pundit (50%)
- deion-sanders (60%)
- url-only (90%)
- batch-scheduled (75%)

## That day

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

**Aide-Managed Inevitability Blitz Pierced by Authentic Rage at Judge and Family**

Trump's team flooded his feed with over 30 favorable news links building a narrative of electoral inevitability, while Trump himself posted a late-night taunt and two furious midday attacks on the judge overseeing his fraud trial. The most alarming moment came when he demanded to see social media accounts belonging to the judge's wife and "all other Family Members" — posted the same day a gag order was reinstated due to threats against court staff. He also issued a condolence for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and made a pointed appeal to Jewish voters as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapsed.

Full digest for 2023-12-01: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 1). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/thanks-pr... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111506320843024705
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/thanks-president-tr..." Truth Social, 1 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111506320843024705. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/thanks-president-tr...," Truth Social, December 1, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111506320843024705.

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