# Post ts_111574923926800753

- Post ID: `ts_111574923926800753`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-13T20:10:28.867Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Chris Sununu could have run for the Senate in New Hampshire and WON, but no, he wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did. Sadly for him, he got ZERO traction, and went back to being Governor. Very selfish! Now he is unelectable in his own State, and can back Nikki, who has no chance of winning. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 3,088
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T15:30:37.398Z (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 post triggered by Chris Sununu's endorsement of Nikki Haley, constituting a dual narcissistic irritant — an established critic gaining relevance by amplifying a primary competitor. Trump responds from a stable grandiose narcissistic state, deploying splitting, devaluation, and projection in a compact delegitimization sequence targeting both Sununu and Haley simultaneously. The dominant affect is contempt rather than rage. Most clinically notable is the projection of "selfishness" onto Sununu — the accusation of pursuing personal ambition at the expense of broader party/national good maps with considerably greater precision onto Trump's own political biography than Sununu's. The "Sadly for him" construction exemplifies ego-syntonic sadism: performative sympathy functioning as dominance display. Several fact claims are false or misleading: Sununu never formally ran for president, and his gubernatorial win rate (57% in 2022) contradicts the "unelectable in his own State" assertion. Cognitively, the post shows one syntactically strained construction consistent with Trump's established stream-of-consciousness baseline — no deviation. The 3:10 PM EST timing is the sole aide-consistent signal; stylistic fingerprinting strongly favors authentic Trump composition, likely during New York civil fraud trial proceedings. Danger level: none.

# Analysis: ts_111574923926800753 — Trump on Chris Sununu (2023-12-13)

## Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 2023-12-13T20:10:28Z → **EST (UTC−5):** 3:10 PM — business hours. On December 13, 2023, Trump was likely in New York area due to the ongoing NY Civil Fraud Trial (he appeared December 7; proceedings continued). The 3:10 PM local timing falls squarely within aide-typical hours. However, the linguistic fingerprint is strongly authentic Trump: grammatically fragmented construction ("wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did"), capitalized emphasis ("ZERO"), the sardonic "Sadly for him," the dismissive single-sentence verdict ("Very selfish!"), and the closing slogan. Most plausible interpretation: Trump dictated or drafted this himself, possibly posted during a courtroom break or return travel. The stylistic evidence outweighs the timing signal here. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic Trump.**

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (high):** Assertive, dominant framing. No hedging; all declarative statements. Commands the narrative.

**Agreeableness (very low):** The post is structured entirely around diminishing two named individuals. No trust, no modesty, no tender-mindedness. "Very selfish!" and "unelectable in his own State" are pure devaluation.

**Conscientiousness (low):** The phrase "he wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did" is syntactically strained — "did" dangling after a parenthetical clause. Suggests impulsive composition rather than deliberation.

**Neuroticism (moderate):** Hostile affect is present but controlled. This reads more like contempt than raw rage. No evidence of acute anxiety or vulnerability in this specific post.

**Openness (very low):** Rigid, categorical judgments. No ambiguity about outcomes ("ZERO traction," "no chance of winning," "unelectable"). Black-and-white worldview on display.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Status maintenance.** The post is not primarily about policy but about hierarchy — reestablishing Trump's inevitability in the Republican primary by publicly executing rivals on the status ladder.

**Agency schema:** Trump frames himself as the arbiter of who is viable and who is finished. He assigns political fate: Sununu is "unelectable," Haley "has no chance." This is the language of someone who perceives himself as the supreme authority on electoral legitimacy within his party.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self:* Untouchable frontrunner with superior judgment
- *Sununu:* Deluded, selfish also-ran who overreached
- *Haley:* Doomed lightweight whose campaign is kept alive only by failed endorsers

**Trigger:** Sununu's endorsement of Nikki Haley. This constitutes a dual narcissistic irritant: (1) a rival governor who had been publicly critical of Trump aligning against him, and (2) attention and credibility flowing toward a primary competitor. The post functions as a preemptive attack — discrediting both Sununu's endorsement capacity ("unelectable") and Haley's viability ("no chance") in a single efficient strike.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The knowing judge. Trump does not position himself as a combatant here — he speaks from above, pronouncing verdicts. This is the "oracle" variant of his standard fighter role.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination applied to Sununu: he had a good opportunity (Senate seat, could have won) → squandered it through selfishness and hubris → now irrelevant and tainted. Classic "they had their chance and blew it" structure that reinforces Trump as the only viable path.

**Identity claims:** The MAGA slogan at the end functions as a territorial marker — a reminder that Trump owns the movement and that endorsers of alternatives are backing a losing brand.

**Contrasting other:** Sununu and Haley are jointly cast as the deluded opposition — connected by failure and irrelevance.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**Narcissistic features:** Pronounced. Grandiosity ("no chance of winning"), interpersonal devaluation of two named individuals, implicit entitlement framing (the race is Trump's to lose, everyone else is in the way). The dismissal is not merely tactical — there is evident relish in the verdict.

**Antisocial features:** Low-moderate in this post. Disregard for reputational harm to named individuals, but within normal political-combat norms.

**Paranoid features:** Minimal in this specific post. No persecution narrative present; Trump is operating from a dominant, not persecuted, stance.

**Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild to moderate. "Sadly for him" is the tell — a performative sympathy that functions as dominance display. The rhetorical move of feigning regret while cataloguing someone's failures is characteristic of ego-syntonic cruelty.

### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose**

Operating from expansion, not vulnerability. The trigger (Sununu endorsing Haley) has been processed into an opportunity to assert dominance rather than a wound to nurse.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (immature):** Sharp binary: Sununu failed/selfish vs. Trump's implicit righteousness. Haley "has no chance" — no gradation.

**Devaluation (immature):** Both named targets are systematically stripped of credibility and viability. This is the dominant mechanism in this post.

**Projection (immature):** Labeling Sununu "Very selfish!" from an individual whose entire political project is self-referential is a textbook projection. The accusation of selfishness (pursuing personal ambition at the expense of the party/country) maps more precisely onto Trump's own political biography than Sununu's.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The causal chain constructed — Sununu was selfish → got zero traction → now unelectable → therefore his endorsement is worthless → therefore Haley has no chance — is logical-appearing post-hoc justification for a pre-existing emotional verdict.

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## Cognitive Status Markers

The sentence "he wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did" is syntactically awkward. The parenthetical insertion disrupts the clause structure and leaves "did" dangling ambiguously. This is consistent with Trump's known stream-of-consciousness composition style and does not represent a deviation from his established baseline. No word-finding errors, phonemic paraphasias, or confabulation detected. Vocabulary and complexity are within his established range (simple declarative sentences, common vocabulary, brief clauses). **No cognitive deviation from baseline.**

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Ad hominem:** The attack is entirely personal; Sununu's political judgment is dismissed via his biography, not argument.
- **Preemptive delegitimization:** Declaring Sununu "unelectable" and Haley having "no chance" before outcomes are determined — shaping perception rather than reflecting it.
- **Selective causation:** Framing Sununu's decision not to run for Senate as "selfish" ignores the entirely reasonable political calculation that running for president is a legitimate ambition.
- **Superlative + CAPS emphasis:** "ZERO traction" — amplification beyond factual content (Sununu never formally announced, so "traction" wasn't formally measured).
- **Territorial slogan close:** MAGA as brand assertion, not policy statement.
- **False certainty:** Predictions ("unelectable," "no chance") stated as established facts.

**No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.**

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## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

**Mild distortion:** Claiming Sununu "got ZERO traction" is misleading — he explored a run but never formally announced, making traction comparisons non-operational. More consequentially, asserting he is "now unelectable in his own State" is stated as fact; this is projection of desired narrative, not documented reality.

**No DARVO pattern present.** This is straightforward attack rhetoric, not gaslighting in the clinical sense.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Sununu could have run for the Senate in New Hampshire and WON" | **Unverifiable** | Sununu was a popular four-term governor (57% win in 2022) and was considered a plausible Senate candidate, but the claim is a counterfactual with no definitive evidence either way. |
| "He wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did" | **Mostly False** | Sununu explored a presidential run and was publicly discussed as a potential candidate but never formally announced a campaign. Characterizing exploration as actually running is misleading. |
| "He got ZERO traction" | **Half True** | Sununu polled in low single digits during exploratory periods and ultimately decided against running. 'Zero' is hyperbolic but the directional assessment of low support is accurate. |
| "Now he is unelectable in his own State" | **Mostly False** | Sununu won NH gubernatorial elections four times, most recently in 2022 with approximately 57% of the vote. No evidence at time of posting supported the 'unelectable' characterization. |
| "Nikki [Haley] has no chance of winning" | **Unverifiable** | As of December 2023, Trump held dominant primary polling leads nationally and in early states. Whether Haley had 'no chance' was an opinion/prediction, not a verifiable fact at the time. |

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** Standard intraparty rival dismissal. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no call to action against named individuals, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Sardonic 'Sadly for him' construction is characteristic Trump
- Syntactically fragmented sentence ('wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did')
- Single-exclamation verdict ('Very selfish!') matches known style
- ALL CAPS emphasis ('ZERO') is authentic Trump marker
- Closing MAGA slogan as territorial brand mark

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Chris Sununu endorsing Nikki Haley)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 28%
- Paranoid: 12%
- Sadism: 38%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Oracle positioning — Trump speaks from above as arbiter of electoral fate
- In-group/out-group reinforcement — MAGA slogan as tribal marker at close
- Vicarious dominance display — followers participate in Sununu's public humiliation

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Sununu could have run for the Senate in New Hampshire and WON

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Sununu was a popular four-term governor (57% win in 2022) and was considered a plausible Senate candidate, but the claim is a counterfactual with no definitive evidence either way.

Sources: General knowledge of NH 2022 gubernatorial results

> He wanted to run for President and, without announcing, did

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Sununu explored a presidential run and was publicly discussed as a potential candidate but never formally announced a campaign. Characterizing exploration as actually running is misleading.

Sources: General knowledge of 2024 Republican primary field formation

> He got ZERO traction

**HALF TRUE**

Sununu polled in low single digits during exploratory periods and ultimately decided against running. 'Zero' is hyperbolic but the directional assessment of low support is accurate.

Sources: General knowledge of 2023-2024 Republican primary polling

> Now he is unelectable in his own State

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Sununu won NH gubernatorial elections four times, most recently in 2022 with approximately 57% of the vote. No evidence at time of posting supported the 'unelectable' characterization.

Sources: General knowledge of NH gubernatorial election results

> Nikki [Haley] has no chance of winning

**UNVERIFIABLE**

As of December 2023, Trump held dominant primary polling leads nationally and in early states. Whether Haley had 'no chance' was an opinion/prediction, not a verifiable fact at the time.

Sources: General knowledge of December 2023 Republican primary polling

Overall Veracity: 38%

## Tags

- political-rival (92%)
- intraparty-competitor (88%)
- devaluation (85%)
- projection (78%)
- grandiose-narcissism (72%)
- preemptive-delegitimization (83%)
- ad-hominem (80%)
- 2024-republican-primary (90%)
- contempt (82%)
- splitting (75%)

## 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). Chris Sununu could have run for the Senate in New... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111574923926800753
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Chris Sununu could have run for the Senate in New Hampshire..." Truth Social, 13 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111574923926800753. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Chris Sununu could have run for the Senate in New Hampshire...," Truth Social, December 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111574923926800753.

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