# Post ts_111602384213397581

- Post ID: `ts_111602384213397581`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-18T16:33:59.588Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111602384213397581
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111602384213397581/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111602384213397581.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Green New Deal will, from this point forward, only be known as the GREEN NEW SCAM! It is destroying our Country, and putting us at a tremendous Economic disadvantage over others.https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-new-hampshire-rally/2023/12/16/id/1146194/

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,914
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:50:36.353Z (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 post represents routine maintenance content amplifying a December 16 New Hampshire rally appearance. Its psychological signature is mild grandiosity expressed through the characteristic omnipotence gesture of unilateral policy renaming — a compact dominance display requiring no substantive argument. The declaration 'from this point forward, only be known as' is diagnostically interesting as a recurrent pattern in which the subject performs authority over shared linguistic reality rather than engaging policy on merits.\
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Notably, this post was published amid significant concurrent legal stressors (civil fraud trial, paused federal election interference case, Giuliani damages verdict) with zero reference to those events — consistent with displacement as a defense, redirecting audience attention to abstract policy rather than personal legal jeopardy. The economic harm framing ('destroying our Country,' 'tremendous Economic disadvantage') is factually undermined by the Green New Deal's unenacted status, but functions rhetorically to activate loss aversion independent of factual accuracy.\
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Authorship attribution is ambiguous: business-hours timing (≈11:33 AM EST) suggests possible aide involvement, but multiple stylometric markers (vocabulary, capitalization patterns, URL formatting, the renaming gesture itself) are consistent with authentic Trump production. Cognitive indicators show no deviation from established baseline. Danger level is none. Post is clinically unremarkable relative to baseline — a low-intensity, high-efficiency branding exercise serving supply maintenance and narrative control functions.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-12-18

## Overview

A compact, low-affect maintenance post amplifying Trump's December 16 New Hampshire rally, centered on a branding declaration renaming the Green New Deal the "GREEN NEW SCAM." The post is psychologically unremarkable relative to Trump's established baseline but offers clear illustrations of several recurrent dispositional patterns.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Dominant facets observed:**

- **Extraversion (assertiveness):** High. The declarative structure — "will, from this point forward, only be known as" — is maximally assertive, performing confident unilateral authority.
- **Agreeableness (antagonism):** Low. Combative policy framing, zero concession to complexity, adversarial orientation toward implicit opponents.
- **Conscientiousness:** Below baseline even for Trump. Two sentences, no elaboration, no evidence cited.
- **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Mild-moderate. "Destroying our Country" carries hostility but is subdued relative to posts responding to personal attack.
- **Openness (values rigidity):** Very low. Rigid dismissal of climate policy framing with no engagement with underlying arguments.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Agency/Power (0.82)**

The renaming declaration is a pure power expression — not persuasion, not argument, but the enactment of naming authority. In Trump's schema, the one who names reality controls it. This pattern recurs across his corpus (Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted) and represents a stable characteristic adaptation: dominance through lexical conquest rather than through reasoning.

**Economic schema:** "Destroying our Country" and "tremendous Economic disadvantage over others" reflect an enduring zero-sum worldview in which national economic position is a competition with identifiable winners and losers, and current policies are actively causing national decline.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Sovereign / Warrior

Trump casts himself as the legitimate authority capable of permanently overwriting a policy's name in political discourse — a move that presupposes vast cultural and epistemic power. The phrase "from this point forward" invokes a temporal hinge: before Trump's declaration, the policy was called one thing; after, it is renamed. This is a small-scale version of the broader narrative in which Trump's intervention changes history.

**Contamination sequence:** Good (American economic strength) → Bad (Green New Deal destroying it). The narrative arc is decline caused by identifiable political enemies, requiring the warrior-sovereign to name and fight the threat.

**Contrasting other:** Climate policy advocates / Democratic Party, unnamed but clearly implied.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

| Component | Score | Evidence |
|-----------|-------|---------|
| Narcissistic features | 0.55 | Omnipotence gesture (unilateral renaming), entitlement to define shared political language |
| Antisocial features | 0.20 | Casual counterfactual claim (non-enacted law "destroying" country) with apparent indifference to accuracy |
| Paranoid features | 0.25 | "Destroying our Country" implies deliberate harm, though less explicit than paranoid baseline posts |
| Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.10 | Minimal; derisive label but no evident pleasure in specific target's suffering |

**Overall:** Below threshold for acute malignant narcissism activation. This is a grandiose-stable baseline post.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose (not vulnerable). No victimhood language, no persecution framing. Subject is acting from a position of claimed strength and authority.

**Trigger:** Maintenance/supply-seeking. Amplification of own rally content two days prior. No identifiable external narcissistic injury triggering this post.

**Rage:** Absent. Tone is declarative and confident rather than reactive.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (neurotic):** The most clinically salient feature of this post's context. On December 18, 2023, Trump was simultaneously managing his civil fraud trial in New York, the paused federal election interference case, and the Giuliani $48M damages verdict (which, while not directly about Trump, was deeply implicating to his 2020 claims). Zero reference to any of these. The pivot to abstract energy policy attack is consistent with displacement — redirecting psychological energy from high-anxiety domains to a manageable external target.

2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "It is destroying our Country, and putting us at a tremendous Economic disadvantage" provides a pseudo-logical economic frame for what is fundamentally a branding exercise, lending the appearance of substantive justification.

3. **Acting out (immature):** The declaration itself — publicly asserting that a federal legislative proposal will henceforth be known by a different name — is an expression of omnipotent control enacted without any mechanism for enforcement. It is wish fulfillment performed as statement of fact.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Core technique: Lexical Conquest**

The rhetorical move at the center of this post is the attempt to replace an opponent's chosen label with a pejorative alternative through sheer declarative force. This is efficient propaganda because it bypasses logical engagement: the audience is not asked to evaluate the Green New Deal — they are asked to adopt a pre-loaded verdict embedded in a new name. If the label "GREEN NEW SCAM" is adopted by followers, every subsequent utterance of it performs the conclusion (fraud/deception) without requiring argument.

**Supporting techniques:**
- **Performative declaration** ("from this point forward, only be known as") — authority performance
- **ALL CAPS typographic amplification** — visual dominance, emphasis, emotional signaling
- **Hyperbole** ("destroying our Country") — stakes inflation
- **Vague quantified threat** ("tremendous Economic disadvantage over others") — undefined comparator "others" makes claim structurally unfalsifiable
- **Rally amplification loop** — post drives Newsmax engagement, reinforcing Trump media ecosystem

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

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## Cognitive Status

Post is brief, coherent, and syntactically simple — consistent with Trump's established baseline. "Tremendous" is a high-frequency lexical marker in Trump's authentic corpus and its presence is a stylometric positive indicator, not a concern. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration observed. Complexity score (0.28) reflects characteristically low syntactic elaboration rather than deviation from personal baseline.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.68 (moderate confidence, likely authentic Trump)**

**Authentic indicators:**
- ALL CAPS branding gesture is signature Trump
- "Tremendous" is Trump's highest-frequency superlative
- Mid-sentence capitalization of "Economic" and "Country" matches Trump's idiosyncratic orthography
- URL appended without space separator — consistent with authentic Trump posting behavior
- The renaming declaration is a Trump-specific rhetorical fingerprint appearing across decades of public communication

**Aide indicators:**
- Local time ≈ 11:33 AM EST (UTC-5) — business hours, not the late-night/early-morning window most associated with authentic posting
- Sentences are grammatically complete with no dropped words or truncated thoughts

**Assessment:** Most likely Trump-composed with minimal staff intervention, possibly dictated during pre-rally or travel activity. The content's alignment with rally promotion and its authentic stylometric fingerprint outweigh the timing concern. Alternatively, a hybrid: aide selected the Newsmax link and Trump added the declaration.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Green New Deal is destroying our Country" | **False** | The Green New Deal (H.Res.109, introduced 2019) has never been enacted into law. A non-enacted legislative resolution cannot be operationally 'destroying' the country. The claim conflates proposed policy advocacy with implemented economic damage. |
| "Green New Deal is putting us at a tremendous Economic disadvantage over others" | **Mostly False** | Since the Green New Deal has not been passed, it cannot currently be creating economic disadvantage. The underlying claim that clean energy transition policies harm economic competitiveness is contested; major trading partners (EU, China) are simultaneously investing heavily in clean energy, and some economists argue the opposite — that non-transition creates stranded asset risk. The claim is presented as current fact when it is a contested future projection about a hypothetical. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: NONE**

No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no target identification, no mobilization language. Standard policy criticism.

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## Epistemic Closure

**Present.** The post operates entirely within a closed epistemic frame: the policy is named as a scam, its harm is asserted as fact, and no engagement with counterargument is possible by design. Followers who adopt the label are performing group membership through shared rejection of the opposing frame.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Trickster-Sovereign hybrid**

The renaming gesture embodies the Trickster — disrupting established political language, refusing to play by the rules of normal policy discourse, speaking a "forbidden truth" (that the GND is fraudulent) with gleeful confidence. Simultaneously, the "from this point forward" framing invokes the Sovereign — the king who names things and thereby makes them so.

This combination is recurrently appealing to Trump's audience: the Trickster's rule-breaking signals authenticity and anti-establishment identity, while the Sovereign's authority signals strength and competence. The post is small but efficiently packages both archetypes.

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## Summary

This is a low-intensity, high-efficiency maintenance post — routine by Trump standards, clinically unremarkable relative to his established baseline. Its primary interest lies in the displacement dynamic (complete silence on multiple simultaneous high-salience legal events), the characteristic omnipotence gesture of unilateral policy renaming, and its exemplary illustration of lexical conquest as a propaganda technique. No danger indicators. Stable grandiose state. Cognitive markers within baseline parameters.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 68%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS branding ('GREEN NEW SCAM') is signature Trump rhetorical move
- 'tremendous' is high-frequency Trump vocabulary marker
- Mid-sentence capitalization of 'Economic' and 'Country' matches authentic Trump orthographic idiosyncrasies
- URL appended without space separator — consistent with authentic Trump post behavior
- Promotional amplification of own rally content (Dec 16 NH event) is typical Trump self-referential pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (New Hampshire rally December 16 2023)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 25%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group validation through shared enemy label
- Linguistic authority performance ('from this point forward') positioning self as definer of political reality
- Rally amplification loop reinforcing follower attendance and media consumption

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The Green New Deal is destroying our Country

**FALSE**

The Green New Deal (H.Res.109, introduced 2019) has never been enacted into law. A non-enacted legislative resolution cannot be operationally 'destroying' the country. The claim conflates proposed policy advocacy with implemented economic damage.

Sources: H.Res.109 116th Congress legislative record

> Green New Deal is putting us at a tremendous Economic disadvantage over others

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Since the Green New Deal has not been passed, it cannot currently be creating economic disadvantage. The underlying claim that clean energy transition policies harm economic competitiveness is contested; major trading partners (EU, China) are simultaneously investing heavily in clean energy, and some economists argue the opposite — that non-transition creates stranded asset risk. The claim is presented as current fact when it is a contested future projection about a hypothetical.

Sources: IEA World Energy Outlook 2023; Congressional Budget Office analyses of climate legislation

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- policy-rebranding (90%)
- green-new-deal (95%)
- economic-fear-appeal (70%)
- grandiosity-display (60%)
- displacement-from-legal-jeopardy (65%)
- rally-amplification (75%)
- lexical-conquest (85%)
- newsmax (50%)

## 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). The Green New Deal will, from this point forward,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111602384213397581
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Green New Deal will, from this point forward, only be..." Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111602384213397581. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Green New Deal will, from this point forward, only be...," Truth Social, December 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111602384213397581.

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