# Post ts_111610746665266355 - Post ID: `ts_111610746665266355` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-20T04:00:40.511Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610746665266355 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610746665266355/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111610746665266355.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > It was hard-working Patriots like you who built this Country, and it’s hard-working Patriots like you who are going to save our Country! https://ia.donaldjtrump.com/ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:53), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > From Sioux City to Iowa City, from Fort Dodge to Cedar Rapids and Des Moines to Davenport to right here in Waterloo, we stand on the shoulders of generations of Iowa Patriots who have tamed the wilderness, braved the elements, tilled the soil. You tilled that soil, you still tilled all the soil, right? The great people worked the fields, built the factories and poured out their blood, sweat, and tears to make this country into the greatest nation in the history of the world. But now we are a nation in decline, we are a failing nation, we are a nation that has lost its confidence, its willpower, and its strength. We are a nation that has lost its way, but we are not going to allow this horror to continue. We're not going to allow it to continue. We can't let it continue. The biggest election we've ever had is coming up, 2024, you know I used to say that with 2016, it's the biggest election, I meant it, but we didn't have, we had a big border problem. In fact I fixed it so good that in 2020 we couldn't talk about the border, they'd say sir nobody cares about the border, I'd say what do you mean, it's the biggest thing. You fixed it sir, it was totally fixed. And then what happened is not even believable. This is the single biggest election in the history of our country, this is going to determine whether or not we even have a country left, because these people are destroying our country. Three years ago we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. It was hard working patriots like you who built this country, and it is hard working patriots like you who are going to save our country. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/610/746/515/701/848/original/734f34b07a01b9a0.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,048 - Reposts: 2,181 - Replies: 171 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:50:09.937Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Published 18 hours after the Colorado Supreme Court's historic ballot-disqualification ruling, this post executes a clean supply-seeking maneuver: flattering supporters as civilizational heroes, harvesting post-rally validation energy, and redirecting to a campaign action URL — while structurally erasing the ruling from its frame entirely. The bifurcated communications strategy on this date — reactive Turley repost for the legal injury, forward-looking positivity for base mobilization — reflects professional crisis management layered over Trump's more reactive baseline. Likely aide-drafted or heavily templated, posted at 10 PM CST following the Waterloo, Iowa rally, the post employs sophisticated parallelism, parasocial address ("like you"), and existential stakes framing ("save our Country") consistent with trained political communication rather than authentic Trump stream-of-consciousness. Psychologically, it functions as narcissistic resupply following injury, deploying denial (ruling is structurally absent), displacement (anger redirected to positive mobilization), and splitting (all-good Patriots vs. unnamed threat). The post's most analytically notable feature is its absent enemy: by specifying no threat, "save our Country" maximizes resonance by allowing each reader to project their own antagonist. No danger indicators present; no cognitive markers assessable from this brief, formulaic sample. ## Post Analysis: ts_111610746665266355 — December 20, 2023 ### Authorship Attribution **Local time:** Trump was in Waterloo, Iowa (confirmed by same-day rally posts). Iowa CST = UTC−6. Post at 04:00 UTC = **10:00 PM CST on December 19**. Borderline late evening — neither definitively authentic nor clearly business-hours aide activity. **Stylistic assessment:** The post leans aide-drafted or heavily templated. The parallel construction ("hard-working Patriots like you who **built** this Country... hard-working Patriots like you who are going to **save** our Country") is crafted rhetorical symmetry rather than Trump's characteristically rambling, stream-of-consciousness style. The inclusion of a campaign MP4 attachment and a mobilization URL (ia.donaldjtrump.com — Iowa action portal) indicates coordinated campaign production. The capitalization of "Patriots" and "Country" is consistent with Trump's idiosyncratic stylistic preferences, suggesting he may have reviewed or dictated the core sentiment, even if staff polished and published it. No typos, no ALL CAPS outbursts, no rhetorical interruptions — atypical for authentic late-night Trump. **Confidence:** Medium-low for authentic Trump; likely campaign staff post with Trump's voice deliberately emulated. --- ### Contextual Framing (Critical) This post was published approximately **18 hours after** the Colorado Supreme Court issued its historic 4-3 ruling barring Trump from the state's primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause — the most constitutionally significant legal event of the 2024 election cycle to that point and a direct, existential narcissistic injury. Other posts on the same day *did* engage with the ruling (via the Jonathan Turley quote framing it as "anti-democratic"), but this post **conspicuously ignores the ruling entirely**, pivoting instead to positive supporter mobilization. This bifurcated communications strategy — reactive posts for the injury, forward-looking positivity for the base — suggests professional crisis management layered over Trump's more reactive output. The post is also nested within Iowa caucus mobilization (January 15 deadline), following a campaign rally in Waterloo — it functions primarily as a **fundraising/volunteer activation close** to the day's events. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion:** High positive affect and assertiveness ("going to save our Country!"). Post-rally energy visible. - **Agreeableness:** Unusually elevated for Trump's baseline — flattering and identity-affirming toward supporters rather than attacking enemies. - **Conscientiousness:** Not assessable from this brief, formulaic text. - **Neuroticism:** Markedly suppressed given the Colorado ruling context. No hostile anger is visible, which is notable contrast to baseline reactivity under threat. - **Openness:** Low — formulaic rhetoric, no novel framings. The suppression of neuroticism here is contextually significant. Following a historic narcissistic injury, this post displays controlled affect — consistent with either professional communications management overriding reactive impulse, or post-rally emotional elevation temporarily masking threat response. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives:** High — the "save our Country" framing positions supporters as agents in a high-stakes civilizational struggle, with implicit leadership from Trump. **Communion motives:** Moderately elevated — "Patriots like you" activates identity-based belonging, solidarity through shared national mythology. **Schemas:** - *Self:* Implied as the leader/vessel through whom patriot energy is channeled (absent from direct statement but structurally implied — the campaign URL points back to him). - *Others (supporters):* Idealized as builders and saviors — extraordinary ordinary people. - *World:* In crisis, requiring rescue by a defined in-group. **Parasocial technique:** The "like you" construction creates an intimacy illusion — each reader feels personally addressed, personally heroized. This is a sophisticated parasocial engagement mechanism that generates reciprocal obligation (you are the savior → you must act → click the link). --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Notably displaced onto *the supporter*, not Trump himself. Trump is structurally the unseen rallying point — the leader behind the "you." This is a rhetorical device that elevates the audience while preserving Trump's centrality. **Narrative sequence:** Implicit **redemption arc** — the country was built by patriots (golden past), fell into jeopardy (implied crisis, unnamed threat), but will be saved (triumphant future). Classic three-act campaign mythology. **Identity claims:** Supporters are "hard-working Patriots" — the claim encodes class identity (hard-working, not elite), moral identity (patriotic, not treasonous), and group belonging. **Contrasting other:** Absent from the text but powerfully implied — whoever threatens a country that needs "saving" is the structural enemy. The enemy is unnamed, making it maximally projectable by each reader onto their own perceived antagonist. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics — Trigger:** The Colorado ballot removal is a severe **narcissistic injury** (defeat + exposure + comparison to insurrectionists). This post is a **supply-seeking response** — not directly processing the injury but harvesting validation energy from the supporter base as emotional resupply. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose register. The post performs confident forward momentum despite an existential legal threat. This may reflect genuine compartmentalization, professional messaging discipline, or the post-rally euphoric state that temporarily overrides vulnerability. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent in this post. The rage response was partially displaced into the Turley repost (framing the court as destroying democracy), while this post functions as the affirming counterweight. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Displacement** (immature): Anger at Colorado court channeled away from direct expression in this post; redirected toward positive mobilization energy. - **Denial** (pathological register): The ruling is structurally erased from this communication — it does not exist in this frame. - **Splitting** (immature): Hard-working Patriots (all-good) vs. the unnamed force threatening the country (all-bad), with no ambiguity permitted. - **Rationalization** (neurotic): The implicit logic — if patriots save the country, legal obstacles are rendered irrelevant — provides psychological insulation from the Colorado threat. **Malignant narcissism sub-scores (post-level, not diagnostic):** - Narcissistic features: Low-moderate (supply-seeking, grandiose national narrative) - Antisocial features: Not evident in this post - Paranoid features: Minimal (implied threat, not explicit persecution) - Ego-syntonic sadism: Absent --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment **Length and formulaic nature preclude meaningful cognitive assessment.** The parallel sentence structure ("hard-working Patriots like you who X... hard-working Patriots like you who Y") is clean, rhetorically functional, and shows no word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or perseveration. However, the brevity and likely aide-drafted nature of the post make it an unreliable cognitive sample. **No cognitive markers identified; no baseline deviation detectable from this sample.** --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Devices employed:** - **Antimetabole/parallelism:** "hard-working Patriots like you who built... hard-working Patriots like you who are going to save" — creates rhythmic, memorable structure. - **Appeal to identity:** "Patriots" signals moral status, national belonging, and class solidarity simultaneously. - **Existential stakes framing:** "save our Country" implies the country is in mortal peril without specifying the threat, allowing maximum projection. - **Parasocial address:** "like you" generates felt personal relationship. - **Implicit call to action:** Campaign URL follows the emotional peak — the emotional charge is converted to a behavioral ask. **Propaganda techniques:** Soft application of the **Rally/Mobilization** function. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist content in this post specifically. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent. --- ### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion **Minimal in this post.** The only implicit reality distortion is the framing of the country as needing to be "saved" — a crisis narrative that is assertion, not evidence. However, this is standard campaign rhetoric and does not constitute targeted gaslighting. No denial of documented events, no DARVO pattern, no direct attacks on perception. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This is a routine campaign mobilization post. No targets identified, no eliminationist language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism pattern. The "save our Country" framing is existential in register but unspecific in target — below the threshold for danger flagging. --- # ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Polished parallel sentence structure atypical of authentic Trump stream-of-consciousness - Campaign URL and MP4 video attachment indicate coordinated production - 10 PM CST timing is borderline — neither definitively authentic nor clearly business hours - No typos, no ALL CAPS passages, no mid-sentence digressions - Capitalization of 'Patriots' and 'Country' is Trump-consistent but easily mimicked by trained staff ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court ballot disqualification ruling (December 19, 2023)) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - displacement (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct second-person address ('like you') creates felt personal relationship - Supporters cast as heroes to generate reciprocal obligation and action - Identity elevation ('Patriots', 'hard-working') activates group belonging and moral identity - Emotional peak immediately followed by campaign action URL — converts validation to behavioral compliance ## Tags - campaign-mobilization (90%) - supply-seeking (70%) - aide-drafted (65%) - iowa-caucus (80%) - narcissistic-injury-response (60%) - denial-of-legal-threat (65%) - parasocial-engagement (75%) - existential-stakes-framing (70%) - colorado-ruling-context (85%) ## 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). It was hard-working Patriots like you who built... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610746665266355 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It was hard-working Patriots like you who built this..." Truth Social, 20 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610746665266355. 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