# Post ts_111617045478729150

- Post ID: `ts_111617045478729150`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-21T06:42:32.838Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/HeyJude88/statuses/111612968740924437 Crooked Joe Biden is the Insurrectionist because he let millions of unknown people come recklessly and unchecked through our insane “Open” Border, let a war begin in the Middle East and Ukraine, Weaponized our DOJ & FBI, SURRENDERED in Afghanistan when we could have left with dignity and strength - the most embarrassing event in the history of our Country, and is destroying America with the GREEN NEW SCAM!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,269
- Reposts: 2,198
- Replies: 179
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:50:50.550Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Retruthed at 1:42 AM EST, two days after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump engaged in insurrection, this post is a near-certain authentic crisis response constituting one of the clearest DARVO sequences in the documented record. The precise inversion of the legally-applied term "insurrectionist" onto Biden — combined with wholesale denial of January 6 and broad delegation of all civilizational failure to one political adversary — reflects projection operating at the pathological level in response to acute narcissistic injury via legal exposure. The psychological mechanism is transparent: the court's ruling threatens both ballot access and self-concept as patriot/fighter/winner; the adaptive response is total lexical reversal. The mixed narcissistic state (grandiose rage at Biden's record + implicit vulnerable victimhood under judicial persecution) is consistent with prior legal threat response patterns. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Epistemic closure demand is high — accepting this post's framing requires rejecting the Colorado ruling's evidentiary basis, functioning as a loyalty test for the audience.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_111617045478729150 | 2023-12-21

## Situational Context

This post must be read against its immediate precipitant: the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling on December 19, 2023 — two days prior — that Trump engaged in insurrection and is constitutionally disqualified from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. This is the most severe single legal-political threat to Trump's 2024 candidacy to date at time of posting, striking at both his political survival and his core identity narrative (fighter, winner, victim of persecution). The selection and retruthing of this content at 1:42 AM local time (EST, Mar-a-Lago) is a near-certain authentic Trump action.

## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.82 (Trump himself) — High confidence.** The 1:42 AM EST timing places this squarely within the documented authentic posting window. While the words belong to @HeyJude88, the curation act at this hour, selecting content that performs exact lexical inversion of his acute legal crisis, reflects personal emotional investment inconsistent with aide operation.

## The DARVO Architecture

The post's psychological structure is textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender):

- **Deny:** Zero acknowledgment of the Colorado ruling or January 6.
- **Attack:** A rapid-fire enumeration of Biden's alleged catastrophic failures across five policy domains.
- **Reverse Victim and Offender:** "Crooked Joe Biden **is the Insurrectionist**."

The specific term *Insurrectionist* is the diagnostic marker here. It is not a standard Trump pejorative — it entered his lexicon almost exclusively because it was applied to him two days earlier by a state supreme court. Its redeployment onto Biden within 48 hours is a textbook projection response to narcissistic injury via legal exposure.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
The post reflects characteristically elevated neuroticism (angry hostility at ceiling), minimal agreeableness (no modesty, contemptuous attribution of malice), and high extraversion (assertive, energetic enumeration). Conscientiousness is absent — the impulsive 1:42 AM retruth of a supporter's post reflects poor deliberation. Low openness manifests in the rigid, Manichean attribution of all national problems to one agent.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Power/status restoration under threat.** The Colorado ruling attacks his power (ballot access) and status (reframes him as insurrectionist rather than patriot). Every item in the list — border, wars, DOJ, Afghanistan, climate — functions to re-establish Biden as the legitimate threat object. The "Weaponized DOJ & FBI" item is particularly salient as a pre-emptive delegitimization of the institutional apparatus now being used against him.

Agency motives are running at maximum; communion motives are absent.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** Implicit victim of judicial weaponization / absent-but-implied patriot.
- **Contrasting other:** Biden as singular instigator of civilizational collapse.
- **Contamination sequence:** America was fine → Biden destroyed it; Trump's candidacy was secure → courts weaponized against him. Both threads invoke victimhood.
- **Redemption arc:** Implicit — Trump's return would reverse all listed catastrophes.
- **Identity claim:** The post's amplification implicitly asserts: "I am the legitimate candidate, not the insurrectionist they claim."

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism Assessment:**
- *Narcissistic features (0.88):* Grandiosity, entitlement, projection, and exploitation of supporter content for political self-defense are all present.
- *Paranoid features (0.74):* "Weaponized DOJ & FBI" reflects preoccupation with institutional persecution and mirrors the broader pattern of attributing systemic malice to adversaries.
- *Antisocial features (0.62):* Sustained disregard for legal constraints (dismissing court ruling via inversion rather than legal argumentation), contempt for institutional authority.
- *Sadism (0.45):* Mild — the post derives some satisfaction from painting Biden's record in maximally catastrophic terms, but the primary driver is defense rather than pleasure in cruelty.

## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (Pathological):** The insurrectionist label is redirected wholesale onto Biden.
2. **Denial (Pathological):** Total silence on January 6, the Colorado ruling, or any causal responsibility.
3. **Splitting (Immature):** Biden is a singular vessel for all national catastrophe.
4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Each policy failure is recast as intentional malice, constructing a logical framework for the persecution narrative.

## Cognitive Status

No significant deviation from established baseline. The list structure, ALL CAPS emphasis on emotional peaks (SURRENDERED, GREEN NEW SCAM), and stream-of-consciousness enumeration are all consistent with Trump's documented stylistic baseline. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion is evident. The post is emotionally elevated but cognitively coherent by his standards.

## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present.** The direct inversion of "insurrectionist" — a term now carrying specific legal weight applied to Trump — and its reattribution to Biden constitutes active reality manipulation for an audience that has just processed the Colorado ruling. The "Weaponized DOJ & FBI" framing further attacks institutional epistemology, framing legitimate legal proceedings as persecution.

## Epistemic Closure Dynamics

The post functions as an epistemically closed circuit for the base: (1) any legal action against Trump is by definition political weaponization; (2) the real wrongdoer is Biden; (3) the courts applying the 14th Amendment are themselves the insurrectionist actors. Accepting these propositions requires rejecting the factual basis of the Colorado ruling and the documented record of January 6 — constituting a significant demand for epistemic closure as group membership test.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Joe Biden let millions of unknown people come recklessly and unchecked through our insane 'Open' Border" | **Half True** | Border crossings did reach historic highs under Biden (over 2 million encounters in FY2023). However, 'unknown' and 'open' are partisan characterizations; CBP processes and records the vast majority of crossers. |
| "Biden let a war begin in the Middle East and Ukraine" | **Mostly False** | Russia initiated the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Hamas initiated the October 7, 2023 attack. Biden did not cause either conflict. A failure-to-deter argument is debatable; 'let begin' attributes originating agency to Biden that factually belongs to Russia and Hamas. |
| "Weaponized our DOJ & FBI" | **Unverifiable** | Contested political claim. Trump prosecutions were initiated by DOJ career prosecutors under special counsels. Direct evidence of political direction by Biden administration has not been established; claim is disputed by institutional actors. |
| "SURRENDERED in Afghanistan when we could have left with dignity and strength — the most embarrassing event in the history of our Country" | **Half True** | The August 2021 withdrawal was widely criticized as chaotic, resulting in 13 U.S. service member deaths and scenes of panic at Kabul airport. However, the withdrawal was conducted under the Doha Agreement signed by the Trump administration in February 2020, and 'most embarrassing in history' is unsupported rhetorical hyperbole. |

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** No direct eliminationist language or explicit incitement. However, the inversion of the insurrectionist label serves to re-encode Trump supporters' threat perception: the judiciary, not Trump, is now the insurrectionist entity. This framing has potential to mobilize audience antagonism toward courts and election officials who may act similarly. The pattern — court issues ruling → Trump frames ruling as the real threat → base's threat perception redirects from Trump's conduct to institutional actors — carries stochastic terrorism risk via normalization of institutional delegitimization rather than direct incitement.

## Summary

Retruthed at 1:42 AM EST, two days after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump engaged in insurrection, this post is a near-certain authentic crisis response constituting one of the clearest DARVO sequences in the documented record. The precise inversion of the legally-applied term "insurrectionist" onto Biden — combined with wholesale denial of January 6 and broad delegation of all civilizational failure to one political adversary — reflects projection operating at the pathological level in direct response to acute narcissistic injury via legal exposure. The psychological mechanism is transparent: the court's ruling threatens both his ballot access and his self-concept as patriot/fighter/winner; the adaptive response is total lexical reversal. The mixed narcissistic state (grandiose rage at Biden's failures + implicit vulnerable victimhood under judicial persecution) is consistent with patterns observed in prior legal threat responses. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Epistemic closure demand is high — accepting this post's framing requires rejecting the evidentiary basis of the Colorado ruling entirely, constituting a significant loyalty-test function for the audience.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- 1:42 AM EST local time at Mar-a-Lago (UTC-5) — deep within authentic Trump posting window
- Retruth behavior (amplifying a supporter's content) is a documented authentic Trump pattern
- Selection of content that directly mirrors his current narcissistic injury (Colorado ballot ruling) indicates personal emotional investment, not aide curation
- No aide would curate a retruth at 1:42 AM

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting Joe Biden / Democratic legal apparatus
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.81

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 1:42 AM posting of emotionally charged content
- Rapid-fire enumeration across five policy domains suggests pressured ideation
- Selection of maximally inflammatory framing (insurrectionist inversion) consistent with reduced inhibition under emotional arousal

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 62%
- Paranoid: 74%
- Sadism: 45%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invites followers to share the inversion of the insurrection narrative, creating cognitive dissonance resolution for those who experienced the Colorado ruling as threatening
- Outsourcing the most inflammatory language to a supporter (@HeyJude88) maintains plausible deniability while amplifying the message
- Collective grievance list functions as catechism — supporters recognize each item and feel validated

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Inversion of insurrectionist label reframes judicial actors as the legitimate threat, redirecting audience antagonism toward courts and election officials
- Systematic delegitimization of DOJ/FBI as 'weaponized' normalizes rejection of legal accountability mechanisms
- Pattern — court ruling → Trump encodes ruling as persecution → base threat perception redirects to institutional actors — carries stochastic terrorism risk via institutional delegitimization

### Gaslighting

- Direct inversion of court-applied term 'insurrectionist' onto Biden within 48 hours of ruling
- 'Weaponized DOJ & FBI' framing attacks the epistemological legitimacy of institutions conducting legal proceedings against Trump
- Absence of any reference to Colorado ruling or January 6 constitutes denial of documented public events the audience has just experienced

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Joe Biden let millions of unknown people come recklessly and unchecked through our insane 'Open' Border

**HALF TRUE**

Border crossings did reach historic highs under Biden (over 2 million encounters in FY2023). However, 'unknown' and 'open' are partisan characterizations; CBP processes and records the vast majority of crossers.

Sources: CBP public statistics; DHS records

> Biden let a war begin in the Middle East and Ukraine

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Russia initiated the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Hamas initiated the October 7, 2023 attack. Biden did not cause either conflict. A failure-to-deter argument is debatable; 'let begin' attributes originating agency to Biden that factually belongs to Russia and Hamas.

Sources: Historical record of Ukraine invasion; October 7 Hamas attack documentation

> Weaponized our DOJ & FBI

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Contested political claim. Trump prosecutions were initiated by DOJ career prosecutors under special counsels. Direct evidence of political direction by Biden administration has not been established; claim is disputed by institutional actors.

Sources: DOJ public statements; Special counsel appointment records

> SURRENDERED in Afghanistan when we could have left with dignity and strength — the most embarrassing event in the history of our Country

**HALF TRUE**

The August 2021 withdrawal was widely criticized as chaotic, resulting in 13 U.S. service member deaths and scenes of panic at Kabul airport. However, the withdrawal was conducted under the Doha Agreement signed by the Trump administration in February 2020, and 'most embarrassing in history' is unsupported rhetorical hyperbole.

Sources: Doha Agreement February 2020; Bipartisan Afghanistan withdrawal assessments

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Tags

- DARVO (97%)
- projection (95%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (93%)
- Colorado_ballot_ruling (95%)
- insurrectionist_inversion (96%)
- late_night_authentic (85%)
- epistemic_closure (82%)
- mixed_narcissistic_state (80%)
- gaslighting (85%)
- legal_crisis_response (92%)

## That day

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

**48 Hours After Historic Ballot Disqualification, Trump Cycles Through Every Stage of Narcissistic Injury in a Single Day**

Trump spent December 21 processing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the state's primary ballot — the most significant legal blow of his campaign to that point. The day opened with a late-night posting burst that ran past 2 AM, starting with proxy threats and building to all-caps rage declaring Biden "a threat to democracy." By afternoon, the tone shifted to confident spin, reframing the ruling as a guaranteed path to victory. The evening closed with a rapid-fire string of campaign slogans and rival attacks that seemed designed to bury the Colorado story under sheer volume. Across the full day, the word "insurrectionist" — the court's label for Trump — was systematically projected onto Biden in a textbook reversal pattern.

Full digest for 2023-12-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 21). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/HeyJude88/status... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111617045478729150
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/HeyJude88/statuses/1116129..." Truth Social, 21 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111617045478729150. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/HeyJude88/statuses/1116129...," Truth Social, December 21, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111617045478729150.

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