# Post ts_111610428828061177 - Post ID: `ts_111610428828061177` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-20T02:39:50.700Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610428828061177 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610428828061177/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111610428828061177.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Charlie Hurt: “Democrats in Colorado are so afraid of allowing American voters to vote and pick the next president they are willing to do extra-judicial things, in order to thwart the people’s choice from being on the ballot. To them, preserving democracy requires destroying democracy.” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > The people, Democrats in Colorado are so afraid of allowing American voters to vote and pick the next president, they are willing to do extrajudicial things, complete highway robbery here, in order to thwart the people's choice from being on the ballot. To them, preserving democracy requires destroying democracy. And that's who we're dealing with. These people are unhinged, they're lunatics, and they're very dangerous. Yeah, I mean, it's more than voter suppression. It's more than voter intimidation. It's the elimination of the voter. You can't vote for the guy you want to. It's as simple as that. And it's because the court ruled in their opinion, he's an insurrectionist. He's not been charged with insurrection. He's not been convicted of insurrection. It's just their opinion that that's what happened. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/610/428/710/990/453/original/fe2940ea868aa953.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,579 - Reposts: 5,868 - Replies: 1,486 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:51:00.070Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary The Colorado Supreme Court's disqualification ruling constitutes a narcissistic injury of structural severity for Trump — not personal humiliation but existential political threat. The evening cascade, of which this Hurt quote is one part, displays a classic vulnerable narcissism → rage mobilization pattern. The DARVO structure is fully executed: Trump (via Hurt) denies the insurrection predicate, attacks the court as anti-democratic, and reverses victim and offender — repositioning the judicial institution as the destroyer of democracy. The anchor distortion — calling a Supreme Court ruling "extra-judicial" — is categorically false and represents pathological-level denial of adverse institutional reality. Amplified through a six-post cascade citing multiple authority voices (Levin, Jarrett, Hurt), the evening's output instantiates the RAND Firehose model and functions as epistemically enclosing gaslighting for followers. Danger assessment is elevated: while not directly inciting, the framing — election interference, stolen people's choice, anti-democratic conspiracy — structurally mirrors the pre-January 6 delegitimization rhetoric. The presupposition embedded in "the people's choice" (Trump = already-chosen, before any primary vote) is a grandiose narcissistic claim dressed as democratic principle, and the entire cascade primes followers to reject any adverse legal outcome as illegitimate theft rather than constitutional process. # Psychological Analysis: ts_111610428828061177 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** December 19, 2023 (9:39 PM EST, Mar-a-Lago) | **Age:** 77 --- ## Situational Context This post arrives within approximately 24 hours of the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling — the first in American history — disqualifying Trump from a state primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The ruling constitutes a narcissistic injury of structural magnitude: it does not merely criticize Trump but threatens to mechanically remove him from the electoral process he has cast as his existential redemption arc. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post (and its surrounding cascade) registers extreme scores on **angry hostility** (neuroticism facet), **assertiveness** (extraversion), and **low agreeableness** — particularly the trust dimension. The curation of Charlie Hurt's words reveals disciplined message control even in a moment of evident emotional activation, suggesting remaining executive function deployed in service of the emotional response. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate entirely.** The framing — "the people's choice," "thwart" — positions electoral access as a power/status zero-sum contest. There is zero communion language; no solidarity with harmed parties, no acknowledgment of institutional complexity. The **schema of persecution** is fully activated: the world is populated by powerful adversaries conspiring to deny Trump what is rightfully his. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Persecuted sovereign — the leader unjustly prevented from ruling by corrupt institutions - **Contamination sequence:** Active — legitimate democratic process (election) is being "contaminated" by anti-democratic forces (the court) - **Identity claim (proxied through Hurt):** Trump = the people's authentic choice; his removal = removal of the people themselves - **Contrasting other:** "Democrats in Colorado" — monolithic, conspiratorial, anti-democratic The Hurt quote performs a narrative function: it embeds Trump's self-concept (chosen by the people, feared by elites) in an ostensibly independent journalistic voice, lending it a quality of confirmed objective truth. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Dynamics:** This is a textbook **narcissistic injury → rage cascade**, compressed into a single evening's posting session. The injury (institutional defeat/disqualification) triggers a multi-channel defensive mobilization. The vulnerable narcissistic state is visible in the victimization framing, while the grandiose underpinning persists in the assumed certainty of Trump as "the people's choice" before a single primary vote has been cast. **Defense Mechanisms:** 1. **Denial (pathological):** Calling a Supreme Court decision "extra-judicial" is categorical reality denial. The Colorado Supreme Court is, by definition, the judicial institution. This is not rhetorical license; it is the refusal to accept that a legitimate judicial process has reached an adverse conclusion. 2. **Projection (immature):** The accused act — subverting democratic process — maps precisely onto the legal argument against Trump (that Jan 6 constituted an anti-democratic insurrection). The accusation is redirected outward. 3. **Splitting (immature):** The binary is absolute — legitimate popular will (Trump) vs. illegitimate elites (the court, "Democrats"). 4. **Devaluation (immature):** The Colorado Supreme Court is reduced to "Democrats," stripping it of judicial standing in the audience's mental model. **DARVO Pattern:** Prominent. Trump (through Hurt) executes the full sequence — Deny the insurrection predicate, Attack the court as anti-democratic, Reverse Victim and Offender (the court becomes the destroyer of democracy; Trump becomes democracy's defender). --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The term **"extra-judicial"** is the anchor distortion in this post. "Extra-judicial" denotes actions taken outside or in circumvention of the judicial system. Applying it to a state Supreme Court ruling — the most paradigmatically *judicial* act possible — is a significant reality inversion. When repeated across a high-volume media ecosystem, this semantic substitution corrupts the audience's ability to evaluate the event accurately. The broader cascade (6+ posts in one evening) instantiates the **RAND Firehose model**: volume, repetition, and multisource apparent confirmation (Levin, Jarrett, Hurt) create an epistemically enclosed information environment. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The Hurt quote achieves several functions simultaneously: 1. **Authority laundering** — independent journalistic voice validates the frame 2. **Paradox as weapon** — "preserving democracy requires destroying democracy" is memorable, shareable, and resistant to nuanced rebuttal in low-context environments 3. **Populist interpellation** — "allowing American voters to vote" positions the audience as the real victims, activating protective identification 4. **Presupposition embedding** — "the people's choice" presupposes electoral selection before any primary has occurred The evening's full rhetorical strategy (using the surrounding posts as context) follows a **crescendo structure**: abstract article → emotional declaration → amplified quote → repeat with new authority voices. This is coordinated message discipline consistent with aide involvement in sequencing, even if Trump is personally driving the content selection. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Democrats in Colorado are doing 'extra-judicial things'" | **False** | The Colorado Supreme Court is a judicial institution. Its ruling interpreting the 14th Amendment is by definition a judicial act. 'Extra-judicial' means outside the judicial system; applying it to a Supreme Court ruling inverts the term's meaning categorically. | | "The ruling is intended to 'thwart the people's choice from being on the ballot'" | **Mostly False** | The ruling applies Section 3 of the 14th Amendment based on a finding of insurrection participation — a constitutional process, not a partisan maneuver. The ruling was immediately stayed pending appeal, and Trump had not yet been selected as the Republican nominee by any vote. | | "Trump is 'the people's choice'" | **Half True** | Trump led Republican primary polling substantially (WSJ December 2023 showed him ahead), but no primary votes had been cast. 'People's choice' presupposes a completed democratic selection that had not occurred. | | "Preserving democracy here requires destroying democracy" | **Unverifiable** | This is a rhetorical paradox and opinion claim, not a factual assertion. The underlying premise — that constitutional disqualification of a candidate is anti-democratic — is contested; the 14th Amendment's Section 3 was enacted specifically to protect democratic institutions from insurrectionists. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Archetypal Analysis This post embodies the **Victim/Persecuted Sovereign** archetype at peak activation. The underlying myth: the rightful king, chosen by the people, is blocked from his throne by corrupt courtiers. The **Warrior** archetype is latent (not yet fully activated in this specific post) — the cascade suggests mobilization is building toward combat framing. The **Shadow** projection is clear: the accused anti-democratic acts are attributed outward to the court, while Trump's own relationship to democratic norms (Jan 6) is entirely absent from the narrative. **Order/Chaos positioning:** Trump positions himself as Order Restorer against a Corrupt Order (the court, Democrats). The irony — that the constitutional disqualification clause exists precisely to *preserve* democratic order — is the inversion the DARVO structure is designed to prevent audiences from perceiving. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated.** This post is not directly inciting. However, as one component of a larger cascade that frames a legitimate judicial ruling as: - Election interference - Anti-democratic conspiracy - Theft of the people's will ...it contributes to the delegitimization infrastructure that preceded January 6, 2021. The framing pattern — "they are stealing your vote," "extra-judicial," "election rigging" (Jarrett) — mirrors the 2020 pre-insurrection rhetoric structurally. The specific danger here is epistemic rather than immediately operational: it pre-inoculates followers against accepting any adverse legal outcome as legitimate. --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient direct Trump-authored language in this post to assess cognitive markers independently. The surrounding posts ("IT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY, AT ALL…" with ellipsis, "Tonight, America is seeing the ultimate—in ELECTION INTERFERENCE") show characteristic stylistic markers (ALL CAPS, em-dash emphasis, trailing ellipses) consistent with baseline Trump-voice patterns. No novel degradation indicators noted relative to period baseline. Longitudinal comparison with pre-2015 speech would be required for formal cognitive assessment. --- ## Summary *Clinically significant — summary generated.* The December 19, 2023 Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment represents a narcissistic injury of structural severity — not personal criticism but institutional removal. The response cascade, of which this Hurt quote is one component, exhibits a textbook vulnerable narcissism → rage mobilization pattern compressed into a single evening. The central psychological maneuver is DARVO: the accused anti-democratic actor (Trump, per the court's Jan 6 finding) is recast as democracy's defender, while the judicial institution is recast as the anti-democratic conspirator. The anchor distortion — calling a Supreme Court ruling "extra-judicial" — is a significant reality inversion that, when propagated through a high-volume, multi-authority-voice ecosystem (Levin, Jarrett, Hurt), functions as epistemically enclosing gaslighting. The danger level is elevated not through direct incitement but through structural delegitimization of the legal system, mirroring pre-January 6 rhetorical patterns. The post itself is proxy content rather than direct Trump voice, but its selection and sequencing is consistent with Trump's personal direction of the response cascade. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Posted at 9:39 PM EST (Mar-a-Lago local time) — consistent with authentic Trump evening activity - Content is a curated repost of Charlie Hurt commentary rather than original text, suggesting possible aide involvement in selecting the clip - Accompanying video attachment (mp4) implies production/curation assistance - Part of a sustained multi-post salvo throughout the evening — pattern suggests Trump directing, possibly with aide execution on media attachment posts - No typos or idiosyncratic capitalization in quoted text (though that reflects the source, not Trump's own composition) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 ruling disqualifying Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment — the most direct institutional assault on his political viability to date) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Colorado Supreme Court / Democratic Party as conflated entity - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.78 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Six or more posts in a single evening on a single topic — elevated output rate - Escalating intensity across posts (links → ALL CAPS declarations → multiple commentator quotes) - Evening media consumption and reactive posting pattern consistent with activated/agitated state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 75% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positions audience as co-victims of the anti-democratic action ('allowing American voters to vote') - Uses third-person authoritative voice (Hurt) to launders the message as independent confirmation - Activates parasocial protection instinct — 'they are afraid of you, the voter' ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Structural delegitimization of the judiciary using same framing pattern as pre-January 6 rhetoric ('stolen,' 'rigged,' 'interference') - Six-post cascade in a single evening creates epistemically enclosed information environment resistant to legal/factual correction - Framing legitimate constitutional process as theft of the people's will — primes audience to view adverse legal outcomes as requiring extralegal response - Multi-authority-voice validation (Levin, Jarrett, Hurt) creates false consensus effect amplifying the delegitimization frame ### Gaslighting - Applying 'extra-judicial' to a Supreme Court ruling — a categorical semantic inversion designed to make a legal process appear illegitimate - Framing constitutional review as 'election interference' — redefining institutional process as conspiracy - DARVO execution: Jan 6 insurrection finding reversed so that the court becomes the anti-democratic actor - Pre-inoculation against accepting any adverse legal outcome ('election rigging') — followers encoded to reject future rulings ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Democrats in Colorado are doing 'extra-judicial things' **FALSE** The Colorado Supreme Court is a judicial institution. Its ruling interpreting the 14th Amendment is by definition a judicial act. 'Extra-judicial' means outside the judicial system; applying it to a Supreme Court ruling inverts the term's meaning categorically. Sources: Colorado Supreme Court ruling, December 19, 2023 > The ruling is intended to 'thwart the people's choice from being on the ballot' **MOSTLY FALSE** The ruling applies Section 3 of the 14th Amendment based on a finding of insurrection participation — a constitutional process, not a partisan maneuver. The ruling was immediately stayed pending appeal, and Trump had not yet been selected as the Republican nominee by any vote. Sources: Colorado Supreme Court ruling, December 19, 2023 > Trump is 'the people's choice' **HALF TRUE** Trump led Republican primary polling substantially (WSJ December 2023 showed him ahead), but no primary votes had been cast. 'People's choice' presupposes a completed democratic selection that had not occurred. Sources: WSJ December 2023 polling data > Preserving democracy here requires destroying democracy **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a rhetorical paradox and opinion claim, not a factual assertion. The underlying premise — that constitutional disqualification of a candidate is anti-democratic — is contested; the 14th Amendment's Section 3 was enacted specifically to protect democratic institutions from insurrectionists. Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - Colorado ballot disqualification (100%) - 14th Amendment Section 3 (90%) - DARVO (85%) - election interference narrative (90%) - proxy amplification (70%) - reality distortion (80%) - narcissistic injury response (90%) - delegitimization of judiciary (85%) - firehose cascade (75%) - vulnerable narcissism (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Colorado Ballot Ruling Triggers All-Day Narcissistic Crisis: Rage Cascades, Surrogate Validators, and a Lincoln Delusion** Trump spent the day consumed by the Colorado Supreme Court's historic ruling removing him from the state's primary ballot — the first such decision in American history. His evening and early morning posts swung between raw emotional outbursts and curated media clips attacking the court, culminating in a demand that Biden drop all criminal and civil cases. By afternoon, aides shifted the feed toward favorable polling numbers to stabilize the narrative. The day closed with Trump comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, falsely claiming Democrats similarly blocked Lincoln from the ballot in 1860 — a historically inaccurate parallel that captured the blend of grandiosity and grievance defining the entire day. Full digest for 2023-12-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 20). Charlie Hurt: “Democrats in Colorado are so... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610428828061177 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Charlie Hurt: “Democrats in Colorado are so afraid of..." Truth Social, 20 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610428828061177. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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