# Post ts_111599378591814332

- Post ID: `ts_111599378591814332`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-18T03:49:37.434Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599378591814332
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599378591814332/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-slams-dirty-players-on-the-left-declares-were-not-going-to-allow-them-to-rig-2024/

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,189
- Reposts: 1,385
- Replies: 129
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:47:41.069Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_111599378591814332 — 2023-12-18T03:49:37Z

## Overview

This post consists solely of a URL to RSB Network (Right Side Broadcasting Network), a reliably pro-Trump outlet. The article headline is fully legible from the slug: *"Trump slams dirty players on the left, declares 'we're not going to allow them to rig 2024.'"* There is no original authored text; the post's communicative content is entirely delegated to a favorable media summary of Trump's own prior statements.

Because the post is URL-only with a self-explanatory slug, the substance is analyzable without fetching. RSB Network functions here as an amplification channel — the post circulates a flattering framing of Trump's rhetoric back to his own audience.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** UTC 03:49:37 on December 18 converts to **10:49 PM EST (December 17)** — assuming Trump had departed Reno and was in transit or had returned to the East Coast. The prior posts establish a Reno rally on December 17 ("On my way, RENO!"; "Record setting crowd. Thank you Reno"). Given the rally ended in the evening Pacific time, Trump may still have been on Pacific time (~7:49 PM PST), well within business hours.

**Content signature:** URL-only shares without appended personal commentary are a hallmark of aide-authored posts. Trump's authentic posts characteristically include reactive text, emotional punctuation (ALL CAPS, exclamation marks), and spontaneous commentary. This post is a clean media link drop — polished, purposeful, no impulsive textual additions. RSB Network links appear frequently in both authentic and aide posts, so outlet selection is not diagnostic.

**Assessment:** Likely aide-authored (Scavino or equivalent), with low confidence. The 10:49 PM EST timing marginally supports possible authentic authorship, but the pure URL format strongly suggests staff curation.

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## Contextual Frame

The post arrives in a period of acute legal and political pressure:
- Trump's federal election interference case is paused but not dismissed (Chutkan ruling, Dec 13)
- NY civil fraud trial is in progress
- Trump's "poisoning the blood" immigration rhetoric had drawn significant pushback
- Despite these headwinds, Trump leads Biden in all seven key swing states

The election-rigging narrative serves dual purposes: it pre-explains potential future electoral defeat (preemptive victimhood), and it consolidates base identity around an existential threat frame.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

Trait signal is heavily mediated by the RSB headline rather than direct text. What can be inferred:

- **Low Agreeableness**: "dirty players" — adversarial framing, no cooperative register
- **High Neuroticism (Angry Hostility facet)**: grievance orientation, threat vigilance
- **Low Conscientiousness (Deliberation)**: the "rigging" claim is asserted without evidentiary scaffolding
- **High Extraversion (Assertiveness)**: "we're not going to allow them" — active, dominant, mobilizing language

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant:** The declaration "we're not going to allow them" is a control-assertion — framing the subject as an active agent capable of blocking institutional forces. This counters the vulnerable position created by ongoing legal jeopardy.

**Schema activation:** Classic persecution/resistance schema: powerful corrupt forces (the Left) deploying illegitimate means (rigging) against a righteous but embattled protagonist (Trump + MAGA coalition). The world-schema is zero-sum: any electoral loss is definitionally fraudulent.

**Goal:** Electoral legitimacy pre-framing. By establishing the "rigging" narrative now, any future unfavorable outcome is interpretively pre-contaminated.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Fighter/defender — positioned against corrupt systemic forces.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination-in-progress: the implicit story is that legitimate elections (good) are being sabotaged (bad) by malevolent actors. The 2020 election-theft narrative extends into 2024 as a continuous contamination arc.

**Identity claim:** The first-person plural ("we're not going to allow") asserts both personal agency and collective authority — Trump as tribune of a movement large enough to resist institutional rigging.

**Contrasting other:** "Dirty players on the left" — unnamed, collective, morally tainted antagonists. The vagueness is rhetorically functional; it allows audience members to project their specific grievances onto the category.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity in the claim to electoral authority ("not going to allow them"). Entitlement framing embedded in the assumption that a legitimate election would necessarily produce Trump's victory.

**Paranoid features:** The rigging framing operationalizes paranoid vigilance — preoccupation with perceived attacks, bearing grudges (2020 narrative continues), readiness to counterattack. Confidence: medium.

**Antisocial features:** Disregard for institutional electoral processes implicit in the framing that elections are legitimate only if Trump wins.

**Sadism:** Not apparent in this post.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Compound narcissistic injury — ongoing legal proceedings (election interference case, civil fraud trial), combined with the approaching 2024 election cycle creating both threat and opportunity. The post is partly *supply-seeking* (favorable RSB coverage of his strength) and partly *preemptive attack* (establishing the rigging narrative before election season begins in earnest).

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed — the RSB framing presents grandiose strength ("slams," "declares"), but the rigging narrative contains vulnerable/persecuted undertones.

**Rage:** Not directly present in this post; the RSB framing channels affect into controlled assertiveness rather than raw hostility.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (immature):** Rigging/manipulation — traits associated with Trump's own acknowledged strategic manipulation — are attributed entirely to opponents.

**Denial (pathological):** The 2020 election loss is structurally denied through the ongoing rigging framework; the 2024 preemptive claim extends that denial forward.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** Electoral concern is framed as civic duty and protective vigilance rather than self-interest.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices present (via RSB headline):**
- **Labeling/ad hominem:** "dirty players" — character attack rather than policy argument
- **False dichotomy:** Clean/dirty, riggers/resisters — no middle ground
- **Hyperbole:** "rig 2024" implies total, coordinated systemic fraud
- **Mobilization framing:** "we're not going to allow" — call to vigilance/action

**Propaganda techniques:**
- **Firehose repetition:** The rigging narrative has been continuously amplified since November 2020; each iteration reinforces the schema
- **Epistemic closure:** RSB Network as source reinforces in-group information consumption
- **Preemptive delegitimization:** Contaminating the 2024 electoral result before votes are cast

**Dehumanizing language:** "Dirty players" is adversarial but not dehumanizing in the strict sense. No animal/infestation metaphors.

**Violent imagery:** Absent.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The rigging claim functions as institutionalized gaslighting at scale: it demands audience members distrust certified electoral outcomes and accept an unverified counter-narrative. This is a sustained DARVO pattern — Trump as perpetual victim of Democratic fraud rather than losing candidate. The claim is not supported by the documented legal record (60+ failed lawsuits, AG/Secretary of State certifications across multiple states).

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## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

The RSB link amplifies rather than introduces the rigging schema — it's a maintenance post for an existing epistemic ecosystem. Followers who accept the rigging frame have already agreed to treat any contrary evidence as proof of deeper conspiracy. This is textbook epistemic closure: in-group "truth" (rigging) vs. out-group "delusion" (legitimate election). The post reinforces that closure without expanding it.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The left intends to rig the 2024 election" | **Unverifiable** | Stated as near-certainty; no credible evidence of coordinated 2024 electoral rigging exists. The 2020 analogous claims were adjudicated in 60+ court cases and rejected. The claim is a forward-looking assertion structured to be unfalsifiable. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** The election rigging narrative carries proven mobilization potential; January 6 was partly driven by the same framing applied to 2020. Applying it prospectively to 2024 before the election begins seeds the same justification structure for potential post-election mobilization. This single post is maintenance-level, not an acute incitement — but the pattern cumulatively elevates danger.

No explicit violent imagery or dehumanizing language. Stochastic terrorism threshold not crossed by this post alone.

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## Cognitive Assessment

**Not assessable.** The post contains no original text. No language production data available for cognitive analysis. URL-only posts are a known limitation of longitudinal cognitive tracking via social media posts.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

Trump here positions as **order restorer** against a **chaos-imposing** opponent ("dirty players" who would corrupt a legitimate process). The rhetorical inversion is characteristic: the disruptive actor presents as defender of order; the institutional actors (election officials, courts, media) are recast as chaos agents. This asymmetric framing is the structural core of populist displacement rhetoric.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- URL-only post with no appended personal text — atypical for authentic Trump
- Clean format without typos, ALL CAPS, or impulsive commentary
- RSB Network media link shares are common for both aide and authentic posts
- 10:49 PM EST timing marginally consistent with late-evening authentic posting, but 7:49 PM PST if still on West Coast time after Reno rally — within business hours
- Media amplification function (circulating favorable coverage) is consistent with staff curation role

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Approaching 2024 election cycle + ongoing legal jeopardy (federal election interference case, civil fraud trial))

Sentiment: -0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- First-person plural ('we're not going to allow') — audience incorporated into resistance coalition
- Favorable media echo (RSB) creates vicarious validation for followers
- Threat framing activates in-group solidarity against external enemy

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Prospective election rigging claim extends the January 6 justification structure to 2024 before voting begins
- Mobilization-adjacent framing ('we're not going to allow them') implies volitional resistance capacity
- Continuous maintenance of the rigging schema increases cumulative radicalization risk in susceptible followers
- No acute incitement markers; danger is structural/longitudinal rather than immediate

### Gaslighting

- Election rigging framing demands followers distrust certified electoral outcomes in favor of unverified counter-narrative
- Continuous extension of 2020 fraud narrative into 2024 — institutionalized at scale
- Attacks on institutional epistemic authority (election officials, courts) as corrupt or complicit

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The left intends to rig the 2024 election

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Stated as near-certainty; no credible evidence of coordinated 2024 electoral rigging exists. The 2020 analogous claims were adjudicated in 60+ court cases and rejected. The claim is a forward-looking assertion structured to be unfalsifiable.

Sources: Federal and state court records 2020-2021; DOJ/DHS post-2020 election assessments

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- election_integrity_narrative (90%)
- 2024_preemptive_rigging_claim (85%)
- rsb_network_amplification (60%)
- url_only_post (70%)
- aide_authored_likely (65%)
- paranoid_features (55%)
- epistemic_closure_maintenance (75%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Grandiosity Crumbles Into Courtroom Rage as Fraud Trial Motion Denied**

Trump rode the high of a Reno rally and a rowdy UFC appearance for most of the day, flooding his feed with crowd-size boasts, campaign promises, and flattering news links. The mood was triumphant and self-congratulatory, with sweeping pledges to prevent World War III and end child trafficking. But the day took a sharp turn in the late afternoon when a judge denied his motion to dismiss the New York civil fraud case, triggering a burst of angry posts attacking the judge and attorney general by name. The contrast between the morning's victory lap and the evening's courtroom fury defined the day.

Full digest for 2023-12-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 18). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-slams-dirty-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599378591814332
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-slams-dirty-players-on..." Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599378591814332. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-slams-dirty-players-on...," Truth Social, December 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599378591814332.

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