# Post ts_111573260932308652

- Post ID: `ts_111573260932308652`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-13T13:07:33.585Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111573260932308652
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111573260932308652/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111573260932308652.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I AM LEADIN CROOKED JOE BIDEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY POLL. I AM LEADING NIKKI BY 50 POINTS, AND MORE! SUNUNU RAN, WITHOUT ANNOUNCING, BUT POLLED BADLY, AND DROPPED OUT!

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,935
- Reposts: 2,838
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T15:15:33.015Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 8:07 AM EST from New York — where Trump was attending the NY civil fraud trial's expert witness phase — this ALL CAPS dominance broadcast is a high-confidence authentic post. It functions as compensatory narcissistic supply: under simultaneous legal siege (active civil fraud trial, Jack Smith's SCOTUS immunity petition), the subject pivots to maximally flattering electoral terrain, constructing a reality in which he is undefeatable across all fronts. The tight tricolon structure dispatches three opponent categories (incumbent president, primary rival, potential primary entrant) in sequence, creating a rhetorical drumbeat of inevitability. The typo "LEADIN" and unedited impulsive formatting are characteristic authentic markers. Defense mechanisms include distortion (legal context entirely absent), reaction formation (peak triumphalism coinciding with peak legal pressure), and devaluation (Sununu's strategic withdrawal recast as polling failure). Factual claims are largely grounded in real polling data but framed with characteristic hyperbole. No rage, no dehumanizing language, no danger indicators. Cognitive presentation shows no deviation from established baseline. This post is unremarkable within Trump's longitudinal posting history — a routine grandiose maintenance post — but analytically illustrates narcissistic compartmentalization: legal threat domains are not engaged but implicitly neutralized by electoral dominance framing.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-12-13T13:07:33Z

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at **08:07 AM EST** from New York, where Trump was attending the NY civil fraud trial's expert witness phase. The ALL CAPS formatting throughout, the unedited typo ("LEADIN" for "LEADING"), the impulsive chained-exclamation structure, and the early-morning timing are all high-confidence authentic Trump markers. Aide-authored posts (Scavino) show standard capitalization, correct spelling, professional formatting, and typically fall in business hours. This post scores 0.92 on the authenticity scale.

## Psychological State & Triggers

The post constitutes a **compensatory grandiose dominance display** triggered by simultaneous legal pressure: Trump was in active NY civil fraud proceedings (defense expert testimony day) while Jack Smith's SCOTUS immunity petition was pending. Rather than engage these threats, the post pivots entirely to flattering electoral terrain, constructing a reality in which the subject is undefeatable across all competitive fronts.

**Narcissistic state:** Fully grandiose. No visible vulnerability. The subject is at the expansive pole of the grandiose/vulnerable oscillation, broadcasting strength and inevitability.

**Trigger classification:** Primary *supply-seeking* with secondary *reaction formation* against legal exposure. The legal domain is not acknowledged, but its implicit presence is likely driving the intensity of the compensatory broadcast.

## Defense Mechanisms

- **Distortion (pathological):** The post presents a reality selectively stripped of all threatening information — active trial, SCOTUS petition, immunity appeal — and populated exclusively with flattering polling data.
- **Reaction formation (neurotic):** Peak triumphalism coincides precisely with peak legal pressure. The affective register is inverted relative to the objective situation.
- **Devaluation (immature):** Each rival is reduced to a scoreline or a narrative of failure. Sununu's strategic non-entry is recast as polling-driven collapse. Haley becomes a number. Biden becomes an epithet ("CROOKED").

## Rhetorical Techniques

The post employs a tight **tricolon elimination structure**: three opponent categories dispatched in sequence (incumbent president → primary rival → potential primary entrant). Anaphoric repetition of "I AM LEADING" creates a drumbeat of inevitability. Numerical precision ("50 points, AND MORE") functions rhetorically as evidence, inviting the audience to receive scoreboard data rather than reason through it. "CROOKED JOE BIDEN" is a fixed epithet that pre-encodes moral condemnation before any comparison is introduced.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Leading Crooked Joe Biden in virtually every poll" | **Mostly True** | December 2023 WSJ poll showed Trump leading Biden 47-43% nationally; Trump ahead in all 7 key swing states per historian-provided events. 'Virtually every' is a mild hedge that is factually defensible given the polling landscape at the time. |
| "Leading Nikki by 50 points, and more" | **Mostly True** | December 2023 national Republican primary polling showed Trump approximately 60-65% vs Haley approximately 10-12%, yielding a roughly 50-point margin. The directional claim is accurate; 'AND MORE' adds mild hyperbolic padding. |
| "Sununu ran, without announcing, but polled badly, and dropped out" | **Half True** | Chris Sununu explored a presidential run, conducted polling, and ultimately announced in October 2023 he would not enter the race. However, Sununu publicly framed his decision as strategic (concern about field fragmentation), not as a response to poor personal polling. The 'polled badly and dropped out' framing imposes a defeat narrative onto a pre-announcement strategic withdrawal. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Cognitive Status

No deviation from established baseline. "LEADIN" is a grapheme-omission typo consistent with impulsive unedited posting, not a phonemic or semantic paraphasia. Syntactic complexity (0.22) and vocabulary sophistication are within normal Trump range. Short declarative chains with no subordination — fully consistent with thousands of prior posts.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no target-plus-grievance structure, no eliminationist framing. This is a routine electoral dominance broadcast.

## Longitudinal Note

This post is unremarkable within Trump's posting history — a canonical example of narcissistic compartmentalization under legal pressure. Useful as a reference for grandiose-pole baseline against which vulnerable-pole posts can be compared.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout — characteristic authentic Trump formatting
- Typo 'LEADIN' (missing final G) — unedited impulsive typing
- 08:07 AM EST posting time — consistent with Trump's documented early-morning window
- Stream-of-consciousness chained exclamation structure
- Emotional reactivity without polish or professional formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (ongoing legal pressure from NY civil fraud trial and Jack Smith SCOTUS immunity petition)

Sentiment: +0.38

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS throughout — elevated arousal state
- Rapid tricolon enumeration of dominance claims
- Exclamation marks on every sentence
- Unedited typo suggesting reduced inhibitory editing
- Early morning posting (8:07 AM) consistent with high activation state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 8%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- reaction formation (neurotic)
- devaluation (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Dominance broadcast inviting audience to share in reflected glory
- Elimination of all plausible threats to reassure followers of inevitable victory
- Numerical precision ('50 points') creates false intimacy of insider knowledge

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Leading Crooked Joe Biden in virtually every poll

**MOSTLY TRUE**

December 2023 WSJ poll showed Trump leading Biden 47-43% nationally; Trump ahead in all 7 key swing states per historian-provided events. 'Virtually every' is a mild hedge that is factually defensible given the polling landscape at the time.

Sources: WSJ December 2023 national poll (per historian-provided events)

> Leading Nikki by 50 points, and more

**MOSTLY TRUE**

December 2023 national Republican primary polling showed Trump approximately 60-65% vs Haley approximately 10-12%, yielding a roughly 50-point margin. The directional claim is accurate; 'AND MORE' adds mild hyperbolic padding.

Sources: December 2023 Republican primary polling (general knowledge)

> Sununu ran, without announcing, but polled badly, and dropped out

**HALF TRUE**

Chris Sununu explored a presidential run, conducted polling, and ultimately announced in October 2023 he would not enter the race. However, Sununu publicly framed his decision as strategic (concern about field fragmentation), not as a response to poor personal polling. The 'polled badly and dropped out' framing imposes a defeat narrative onto a pre-announcement strategic withdrawal.

Sources: Public reporting on Sununu non-entry, October 2023

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- grandiosity (90%)
- supply_seeking (85%)
- authentic_trump (92%)
- ALL_CAPS (95%)
- poll_boasting (90%)
- primary_rival_devaluation (80%)
- compensatory_dominance_display (85%)
- reaction_formation (75%)
- legal_context_suppression (70%)
- tricolon_elimination_structure (80%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Day: Fraud Trial Rage and Jack Smith Fury Bracket an Iowa Rally Pivot**

Trump spent a legally intense day oscillating between courthouse fury and campaign trail bravado. The morning opened with an explosive reaction to his New York civil fraud trial, claiming his expert witness demolished the prosecution, before pivoting to all-caps boasts about dominating every poll. The afternoon brought a recycled 2020 election fraud narrative, a gleeful "WHERE'S HUNTER?" taunt timed to Hunter Biden's subpoena defiance, and a combative defense against a Politico report on North Korea. The day closed with a sharp attack on Jack Smith's push to fast-track presidential immunity to the Supreme Court, posted shortly after landing in Iowa for an evening rally. Throughout it all, aides padded the feed with dozens of supportive article links and endorsement announcements.

Full digest for 2023-12-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 13). I AM LEADIN CROOKED JOE BIDEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111573260932308652
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I AM LEADIN CROOKED JOE BIDEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY POLL. I AM..." Truth Social, 13 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111573260932308652. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I AM LEADIN CROOKED JOE BIDEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY POLL. I AM...," Truth Social, December 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111573260932308652.

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