# Post ts_111609676713571861

- Post ID: `ts_111609676713571861`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-19T23:28:34.348Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> It’s a sad day for America when a lowlife Prosecutor like Deranged Jack Smith, who was put into the position of Special Prosecutor by Lisa Monaco and the other Thugs that surround our incompetent President, Crooked Joe Biden, to sully my reputation for the purpose of Election Interference and ideally, put me in jail. In that regard, they are doing poorly, so they snuck a “wired” D.C. SWAMP Lawyer, Michael Dreeben, who I’ve beaten three times, into their midst, hoping that he can turn things around because of his Judicial “connections.” Dreeben, Monaco, Smith, Weissmann, and all the rest suffer massively from Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS—In other words, and for reasons unknown, they hate me!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T16:40:36.145Z (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 on the day the Colorado Supreme Court made history by removing Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause, this post is a displaced acute stress response: unable to attack the Colorado ruling directly without reinforcing its insurrection framing, Trump redirects onto the federal prosecution apparatus where partial wins are claimable. The full malignant narcissism profile is present in compressed form—paranoid insertion narrative (Dreeben 'snuck in' with covert connections), projection of election interference onto the officials investigating election interference, total devaluation of four named individuals, and a grandiose-vulnerable oscillation resolved by pathologizing opponents as TDS sufferers. Defense mechanisms range from pathological (denial of prosecutorial legitimacy) through immature (projection, devaluation) to neurotic (displacement, rationalization). The TDS device functions as an epistemic closure mechanism, converting all adverse legal outcomes into symptoms of irrational hatred and foreclosing substantive engagement with any proceeding. Four named federal officials are targeted in a dehumanizing frame ('Thugs') before an audience radicalized by prior rhetoric. The preceding RT's 'repercussions far greater than...' provides contextual threat-escalation. Danger level is elevated. Authorship is high-confidence authentic Trump based on stylistic fingerprint, reactive posting cluster pattern, and characteristic self-pathos closing.

# Analysis: ts_111609676713571861 | 2023-12-19T23:28:34Z

## Contextual Frame

This post lands on one of the most legally consequential days of the 2023 campaign cycle: the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on December 19 that Trump is disqualified from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment—the first such ruling in U.S. history. The post's nominal focus is Jack Smith's team and Michael Dreeben, but it must be read against that backdrop. The preceding RT post (ts partially quoted) already contained a thinly veiled warning: "repercussions far greater than..." This post extends the reaction arc into the prosecutorial domain, a displacement move suggesting the Colorado ruling is too constitutionally destabilizing to attack frontally.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 23:28 converts to **6:28 PM EST** (Trump was almost certainly in New York or Mar-a-Lago in mid-December 2023; either location yields ~6:28 PM local). This falls outside the classic late-night/early-morning authentic window but is consistent with an evening emotional response to day-of news.

**Authentic indicators (strong):**
- Stream-of-consciousness single-sentence paragraph running 120+ words with cascading embedded clauses
- Multiple ad hominem handles applied in rapid succession: "lowlife," "Deranged," "Thugs," "incompetent," "Crooked"
- Scare quotes used as contempt markers: "wired," "connections," "Justice"
- Personal grievance specificity: "I've beaten [Dreeben] three times"—a very idiosyncratic claim
- The self-deflating terminal clause ("for reasons unknown, they hate me!") reads as authentic Trumpian self-pathos
- CAPS for emphasis ("SWAMP")
- The posting cluster (MAGA rally cry → Federalist repost on Dreeben → weaponization RT → this post) is characteristic of a reactive posting flurry, not aide-coordinated scheduling

**Aide indicators:** None significant. Grammar is imperfect (run-on), capitalization is emotional, sentence architecture is characteristic.

**Verdict:** High confidence authentic Trump.

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## Trigger Analysis

**Primary trigger:** The Colorado Supreme Court ballot disqualification ruling (December 19, 2023). This represents a compound narcissistic injury: (1) formal legal finding of "insurrection" participation—a direct assault on identity; (2) exclusion from the democratic contest he framed as his birthright; (3) judicial actors positioned as the enemy class acting capriciously.

**Secondary trigger:** The Federalist article about Michael Dreeben (linked in the preceding post) activated a more personal grievance sub-loop. The post pivots from the structural threat (ballot disqualification) to a personalized attack on named DOJ individuals—a characteristic displacement: attack the attackers on terrain where he feels he can score points ("doing poorly," "I've beaten three times").

The result is a **mixed narcissistic state**: grandiose posturing ("I've beaten three times," "I am leading in the Polls") coexists with pronounced vulnerability ("sad day for America," "sully my reputation," "put me in jail"). This grandiose-vulnerable oscillation within a single post is a hallmark of narcissistic injury response under acute stress.

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## Psychological Analysis

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**A. Narcissistic features (high):** The post opens by rendering the entire DOJ apparatus as instruments of personal persecution—reality bent around a single self-referential axis. The claim "I've beaten [Dreeben] three times" transforms a legal opponent into a personal trophy. The framing that prosecutors "hate me" for "reasons unknown" simultaneously claims victimhood and denies any legitimate grievance others might hold against him.

**B. Antisocial features (moderate-high):** Career federal officials are labeled "Thugs." The legal process is reflexively delegitimized. No acknowledgment of the Colorado ruling's constitutional basis; contempt for institutional constraint is total.

**C. Paranoid features (marked):** The "snuck a 'wired' D.C. SWAMP Lawyer" construction is a paranoid insertion narrative—Dreeben didn't join a legal team, he was *infiltrated*. "Wired" implies hidden loyalties, covert networks. The framing of Lisa Monaco as the string-puller "behind" Biden is structurally conspiratorial.

**D. Ego-syntonic sadism (mild-moderate):** "They are doing poorly" is delivered with evident satisfaction. The suffering of named adversaries ("suffer massively from Trump Derangement Syndrome") is framed as their deserved condition.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (immature, primary):** The post accuses prosecutors of "Election Interference"—precisely the charge against Trump in the indictment. The accused positions the accusers as the actual perpetrators. This is textbook projection: the unacceptable impulse (interference in elections) is attributed wholesale to the Other.

**Devaluation (immature):** Every named opponent is stripped of professional legitimacy through handle-assignment: "lowlife," "Deranged," "incompetent," "Crooked." None are engaged on the merits.

**Displacement (neurotic):** The post cannot attack the Colorado Supreme Court ruling directly without reinforcing its framing (insurrection). Instead, anger is redirected toward the federal prosecution team—a safer emotional target where the win-claim ("beating Dreeben three times") is available.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** "For reasons unknown, they hate me"—irrational hatred becomes the explanation for all adverse legal outcomes, freeing him from engaging the factual basis of any proceeding.

**Denial (pathological):** The entire prosecutorial apparatus is framed as illegitimate at the root ("put into the position...to sully my reputation...and ideally, put me in jail"), denying that any charge could have merit.

### Narrative Identity (McAdams)

- **Protagonist role:** Persecuted fighter, targeted by a coordinated cabal precisely *because* of his strength and poll standing
- **Contamination sequence:** What should have been an untouchable political position (leading in polls, strong candidacy) is being deliberately poisoned by institutional enemies
- **Contrasting other:** The "SWAMP"—a network of connected, corrupt professionals with no democratic accountability
- **Identity claims:** "I've beaten [Dreeben] three times"—positions himself as superior to credentialed opponents; "they hate me" frames his existence as the organizing principle of his enemies' lives

### DARVO Pattern

Present and complete: **Deny** (prosecutions are fabricated), **Attack** (lowlife, thugs, deranged), **Reverse Victim and Offender** (he is the victim of election interference perpetrated by those investigating election interference).

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post is a masterclass in delegitimization-by-handle. Each named official receives a disqualifying label before any substantive claim is made, priming the audience to discount everything that follows from those officials. The structure:

1. **Emotional frame-setter** ("It's a sad day for America") — invokes collective mourning, recruits audience as co-sufferers
2. **Delegitimization cascade** — "lowlife," "Deranged," "Thugs," "incompetent," "Crooked"
3. **Conspiracy insertion** ("snuck a 'wired' D.C. SWAMP Lawyer") — implies covert network operating outside visibility
4. **Win-claim** ("I've beaten [Dreeben] three times") — re-establishes dominance within the victim narrative
5. **Pseudo-medical diagnosis** ("Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS") — pathologizes opponents, removes the need to engage their arguments
6. **Self-pathos close** ("for reasons unknown, they hate me!") — converts persecution into a kind of existential mystery, inviting audience sympathy

**Propaganda techniques:** False dichotomy (corrupt deep state vs. Trump), ad hominem (every named individual), whataboutism (framing prosecution as the real election interference), appeal to fear (banana republic framing in the preceding RT).

**Dehumanizing language:** "Thugs" applied to senior DOJ officials is notable. It strips them of institutional legitimacy and professional identity simultaneously.

**Violent imagery:** Absent in this specific post but the preceding RT's "repercussions far greater than..." is a contextually significant threat-adjacent statement.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Projection as gaslighting:** Labeling the prosecutors' work "Election Interference" inverts the factual record; the indictment concerns Trump's own interference. This functions as gaslighting toward the broader audience, not just the named individuals.
- **Attacks on epistemic legitimacy:** "TDS" serves as a universal solvent—any adverse legal action can be dismissed as pathological hatred rather than legal judgment.
- **Reality distortion re: Dreeben:** The "snuck...into their midst" framing suggests irregular infiltration where a normal staff addition occurred.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

- Four individuals are named (Dreeben, Monaco, Smith, Weissmann) and characterized as irrational haters operating through corrupt connections—a framing that generates threat environments for named targets
- The preceding post's "repercussions far greater than..." is a threat-adjacent signal that contextualizes this post's rhetoric
- "Thugs" applied to DOJ officials dehumanizes them to an audience that includes people who acted violently on January 6 in response to similar rhetoric
- No explicit call to action, no eliminationist language in *this* post specifically, but the naming + grievance + dehumanization pattern is the stochastic terrorism precursor sequence
- Stochastic terrorism: borderline; the pattern is present but no specific action is implied here

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## Cognitive Status

No significant deviations from Trump's recent (2023) baseline:
- Run-on sentence structure is long-standing stylistic feature
- Vocabulary is simple and repetitive (consistent with recent baseline)
- No phonemic paraphasias, neologisms, or temporal confusions observed
- The "TDS" label is used fluently and with apparent strategic intent
- Complexity score: low-moderate (consistent with 2019-2023 baseline; below documented 1980s-90s complexity)

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jack Smith was put into position by Lisa Monaco" | **Half True** | Monaco as Deputy AG was involved in the Special Counsel deliberations, but Attorney General Merrick Garland made the formal appointment under 28 CFR 600. The framing overstates Monaco's role and renders it conspiratorial. |
| "Dreeben was snuck into the team because of his judicial connections" | **Mostly False** | Michael Dreeben joined Smith's team as a prominent appellate attorney with extensive Supreme Court experience. No evidence of irregular appointment or improper judicial relationships. His hire was reported publicly as a standard legal staff addition. |
| "They are doing poorly" | **Half True** | As of December 19, 2023, Judge Chutkan had paused the federal election interference case pending immunity appeal (December 13), creating real prosecution delay. However, indictments were standing and the documents case was proceeding. Characterizing this as doing poorly is selectively accurate. |
| "I've beaten Dreeben three times" | **Unverifiable** | Trump does not specify which three proceedings he references. Dreeben participated in numerous cases over a career spanning decades. Without specification, the claim cannot be verified or refuted. |
| "I am leading in the polls by a lot" | **Mostly True** | Trump held substantial leads in Republican primary polling throughout late 2023, typically polling 40-60 points ahead of DeSantis and other challengers in national surveys. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Summary

December 19, 2023 is the day the Colorado Supreme Court became the first court in U.S. history to bar a major presidential candidate from a primary ballot on insurrection grounds. This post should be read as an acute stress response to that ruling, displaced onto the federal prosecution apparatus—a psychologically safer target where Trump can claim a partial win record ("beaten three times"). The post exhibits the full malignant narcissism profile in compact form: paranoid insertion narrative (Dreeben "snuck in"), projection of election interference onto prosecutors investigating election interference, devaluation of all named opponents through handle-assignment, and a grandiose-vulnerable oscillation resolved by pathologizing opponents as TDS sufferers. Defense mechanisms are predominantly immature to pathological: projection, splitting, devaluation, and denial. Rhetorically, the TDS device functions as an epistemic closure mechanism—it forecloses any engagement with the substance of legal proceedings by rendering all adverse outcomes as symptoms of irrational hatred. Four named individuals are targeted in a dehumanizing frame before an audience radicalized by prior rhetoric. Danger level is elevated. Authorship is high-confidence authentic Trump.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness single-sentence paragraph exceeding 120 words
- Multiple ad hominem handles in rapid succession (lowlife, Deranged, Thugs, incompetent, Crooked)
- Scare quotes as contempt markers (wired, connections, Justice)
- Personal win-claim specificity (beaten three times)
- Self-pathos terminal clause (for reasons unknown, they hate me)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court ballot disqualification ruling (December 19, 2023) compounded by Dreeben's addition to Smith's team)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting Jack Smith, Lisa Monaco, Michael Dreeben, Andrew Weissmann, DOJ apparatus broadly
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid multi-post reaction cluster (MAGA call → article repost → weaponization RT → this post) in compressed timeframe
- Elevated energy in response to acute legal threat
- Grandiosity coexisting with victimhood without apparent cognitive dissonance
- Acceleration of ad hominem output density

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 45%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective mourning invitation (sad day for America)
- Co-suffering recruitment (targeting audience's sense of injustice)
- TDS as in-group identity marker (we see through their pathology)
- Win-claim to reassure base (doing poorly, beaten three times)

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Four named federal officials (Dreeben, Monaco, Smith, Weissmann) targeted by name with dehumanizing framing (Thugs) before a radicalized audience
- Thugs label strips named DOJ officials of professional and institutional legitimacy simultaneously
- Immediately preceding RT post contains threat-adjacent language: repercussions far greater than...
- Paranoid conspiracy framing of Dreeben's appointment amplifies threat perception toward a specific named individual
- Pattern of naming + grievance + dehumanization constitutes stochastic terrorism precursor sequence even absent explicit call to action

### Gaslighting

- Election Interference accusation projected onto prosecutors investigating Trump's own alleged election interference—inverts factual record for the audience
- TDS framing pathologizes opponents to eliminate need to engage legal substance—any adverse ruling becomes symptom of hatred rather than legal judgment
- Conspiracy framing of Dreeben's appointment (snuck in, wired) reframes a public staff addition as covert infiltration
- Framing legitimate prosecution as reputation-sullying delegitimizes the entire judicial process for followers

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Jack Smith was put into position by Lisa Monaco

**HALF TRUE**

Monaco as Deputy AG was involved in the Special Counsel deliberations, but Attorney General Merrick Garland made the formal appointment under 28 CFR 600. The framing overstates Monaco's role and renders it conspiratorial.

Sources: DOJ Special Counsel regulations 28 CFR 600; Garland November 2022 appointment announcement

> Dreeben was snuck into the team because of his judicial connections

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Michael Dreeben joined Smith's team as a prominent appellate attorney with extensive Supreme Court experience. No evidence of irregular appointment or improper judicial relationships. His hire was reported publicly as a standard legal staff addition.

Sources: Public reporting on Smith team composition, 2023

> They are doing poorly

**HALF TRUE**

As of December 19, 2023, Judge Chutkan had paused the federal election interference case pending immunity appeal (December 13), creating real prosecution delay. However, indictments were standing and the documents case was proceeding. Characterizing this as doing poorly is selectively accurate.

Sources: Chutkan stay order December 13 2023

> I've beaten Dreeben three times

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Trump does not specify which three proceedings he references. Dreeben participated in numerous cases over a career spanning decades. Without specification, the claim cannot be verified or refuted.

> I am leading in the polls by a lot

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump held substantial leads in Republican primary polling throughout late 2023, typically polling 40-60 points ahead of DeSantis and other challengers in national surveys.

Sources: RealClearPolitics Republican primary polling averages, December 2023

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury_response (95%)
- projection (92%)
- ballot_disqualification_reaction (90%)
- target_naming (82%)
- epistemic_closure_TDS (88%)
- paranoid_insertion_narrative (80%)
- DARVO (85%)
- dehumanization_Thugs (75%)
- authentic_trump (88%)
- displacement_onto_DOJ (78%)
- grandiose_vulnerable_oscillation (82%)

## That day

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

**Historic Ballot Disqualification Met with Displacement, Denial, and a Veiled Threat of "Repercussions"**

Trump spent the day under extraordinary legal pressure — a Colorado court made history by barring him from the state's primary ballot, while the New York fraud case continued to grind. Rather than confront the Colorado ruling head-on, he never once mentioned it directly, instead redirecting his fire at the New York judge, the judge's wife, Ron DeSantis, and federal prosecutors. The day ended with a sharp escalation: a post warning of "repercussions far greater than anything Biden or his Thugs could understand," the most threatening language of the day. In between the rage, his team flooded the feed with poll numbers, endorsements, and rally promotions, projecting business-as-usual strength while the legal walls closed in.

Full digest for 2023-12-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 19). It’s a sad day for America when a lowlife... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111609676713571861
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It’s a sad day for America when a lowlife Prosecutor like..." Truth Social, 19 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111609676713571861. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It’s a sad day for America when a lowlife Prosecutor like...," Truth Social, December 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111609676713571861.

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