# Post ts_111621634381017424

- Post ID: `ts_111621634381017424`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-22T02:09:33.870Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> “THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (6:20), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Five years after the Civil War, pro-slavery Democrats filled the halls of Congress. And 15 years later, pro-slavery Confederates actually flipped the House. 51 former Confederate soldiers or officials were elected into office. Even the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, an arch secessionist, landed a seat in Congress. Another Confederate rebel, Lucius Lamar, great name, who literally drafted the Missouri Secession Plan, went on to serve as Interior Secretary, and was later appointed to the Supreme Court. But how is that possible? Because all week we've been hearing how the Constitution bans insurrectionists from office, the 14th Amendment. How would Confederate soldiers be allowed to serve in government but not Donald Trump? Well, it turns out Congress eviscerated the 14th Amendment 150 years ago. Because President Ulysses S. Grant believed national unity and reconciliation after the Civil War was more important than holding a grudge. This law has been hollowed out and has been sitting on the back burner for years. Well, that is until Donald Trump came along. And like every previous attack, lunatic liberal lawyers resuscitate an esoteric legal theory from another century to prosecute the former president with. Remember how Alvin Bragg, Frankenstein, the bookkeeping matter into 34 felonies? Or how special prosecutor Jack Smith's now having to beg the Supreme Court, are we allowed to charge the president? Because his case is so arcane. The ballot stripping is just another Hail Mary to steal your vote because Biden's shot. Here's constitutional scholar, Stephen Colbert. Removing the guy who tried to overthrow a democratic election is actually pro-democratic. That's like saying it's anti-hen to keep the fox out of the hen house. Let the chickens decide whether he finds them delicious. But did you actually kind of hear how casually Colbert says the phrase removing the guy? We're just removing the guy. You know, the guy who 74 million people voted for last time. You know, we're just going to remove them. Who cares what 74 million people want? It's pro-democratic. It's pro-democratic to ignore the will of the people. Democrats are treating this like the civil war, which they promised would happen if Trump got elected. Remember, they say if Trump selected, Colorado's gone. You got to give it up for Colorado. They're the first state to legalize weed and illegalize Trump. Yeah, they banned him from the ballot. If Trump ends up winning in 2024, don't be surprised if Colorado suddenly becomes East Utah. Are Democrats planning to start a second civil war? Because this is going to end the same way the last one did. Biden's basically demanding citizens grab their bayonets and fight. Listen to this. Ready? He says the greatest threat Donald Trump poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose everything. The pro-slavery Democrats thought Lincoln was the greatest threat to them, too, which is why Democrats took Lincoln off the ballot in 10 states. Today, they're stripping Trump off the ballot in Colorado, and Democrats in 17 other states are trying to boot him, too. Or as Colbert says, remove the guy. California, a state you should never, ever emulate, is saying stealing your vote is the right thing to do. When the Supreme Court of Colorado determines in an examination of the facts that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and therefore is disqualified from being on the ballot, certainly here in California, we have to look at that information and make the same determination here. Lady, Colorado didn't determine anything. Colorado didn't call witnesses, didn't present evidence, didn't allow the defendant due process. Four unelected Democrats state judges just said Trump's an insurrectionist. Biden's going to have to run against Vivek. That's how it's going to work. Here's an interesting idea. Why don't we ask what the voters think? Because they're the ones who decide elections in this country. I know recently the elections have been decided by Fauci and the FBI, but let's get back to our founding. Listen to voters in Colorado, for instance, a solid blue state. What do you think of the Supreme Court decision? I think it's unfair. Okay. Government shouldn't get in that position to control votes for certain candidates. If that was a legitimate thing that happened, if he was part of an insurrection, he would have been arrested. Outrage. Absolute outrage. Why were you outraged? They're going to take away our choice based on their personal beliefs because I don't believe they're speaking for the people. Tony Clonaris doesn't take this decision seriously. She thinks the Supreme Court taking Trump off the primary ballot is a result of game playing. Why do you think they're playing a game? And not doing their job. I think they're part of the game. And what's that game? Not being honest. Don't you think that Trump has been honest? For the most part, yeah. CNN just found out no one watches them. This is why we send Johnny out. We actually care what you think. We don't tell you what to think. But if Democrats want to play games with cobweb laws from a century ago, the only time section three of the 14th amendment was used was to remove a socialist who provided aid and comfort to the enemy. That's right. In 1919, socialist Congressman Victor Berger was caught helping the Germans in World War I. So we can strip Biden from the ballot for giving aid and comfort to Iran, China, Venezuela, right? Biden's paying these countries millions of dollars in letting thousands of their people sneak into our country. Texas should, as Stephen Colbert says, just remove him from the ballot. This election is already about a nine out of 10. And we're not even at 2024 yet. They've already raided, arrested, censored, and stripped Trump from the ballot. And there's 10 months to go. And none of it's worked. I have a bad feeling about this. I really should not have gotten that tarot card reading.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/621/633/754/139/732/original/9111783d0236daef.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,758
- Reposts: 3,812
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.386Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T16:41:24.114Z (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 hours after the Colorado Supreme Court ballot-removal ruling — among the most significant narcissistic injuries of Trump's political career — this five-word, ALL CAPS post is a compressed psychological discharge and mobilization signal. The transformation of a constitutional judicial process into "THEY WANT TO REMOVE" is a textbook narcissistic reframing: formal institutional accountability becomes conspiratorial persecution. The third-person construction ("TRUMP" not "me") converts personal legal jeopardy into a symbolic assault on a collective movement, inviting followers to experience the threat as their own. Narcissistic state is vulnerable rather than grandiose — characteristic of genuine defeat rather than performance. Defense mechanisms are pathological (delusional projection of conspiratorial intent onto a court ruling) and immature (splitting, acting out via ALL CAPS). The vague enemy "THEY" is structurally essential: undefined antagonists cannot be evaluated, only feared. Combined with the post-January 6 political environment, electoral stakes, and the absence of any peaceful resolution pathway, this post carries elevated stochastic terrorism risk despite lacking explicit dehumanizing or eliminationist language. The attached video's content would be material to a complete danger assessment. Cognitive status cannot be meaningfully evaluated from five words, though same-day posts show minor errors ("Their were no Victims") and a defensive construction ("I Never Mix Up Biden and Obama") that warrants longitudinal tracking.

# Psychological Analysis: "THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP" (December 21-22, 2023)

## Context and Trigger

This post arrives three days after the Colorado Supreme Court's landmark 4-3 ruling (December 19, 2023) that Trump engaged in insurrection and is constitutionally disqualified from the presidential primary ballot under the 14th Amendment, Section 3. This is among the most significant narcissistic injuries of Trump's political life: a court of law, applying constitutional text, has ruled that he forfeited his right to appear on a ballot. The post is a direct psychological response to that wound.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Neuroticism (High):** The ALL CAPS presentation, five-word compression, and total absence of rational argumentation signal acute emotional arousal. No attempt at rebuttal, legal counter-argument, or factual response — pure affective discharge.

**Agreeableness (Very Low):** The implicit framing is pure antagonism: an unnamed malevolent collective ("THEY") arrayed against a single heroic target ("TRUMP"). No recognition of legitimate institutional process, no acknowledgment of opposing perspective.

**Openness (Very Low):** The constitutional mechanism being applied (14th Amendment Section 3) is entirely absent from the framing. The post demonstrates complete foreclosure on alternative interpretations of events.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency Motives — Threatened Dominance:** The core motive animating this post is the protection of status and power against a perceived existential threat. The word "REMOVE" is semantically overdetermined: it echoes impeachment proceedings, electoral defeat, and now judicial disqualification, creating a unified persecution narrative in which all institutional challenges are collapsed into a single continuous conspiracy.

**Schema — Malevolent World:** "THEY WANT TO" reveals the underlying cognitive schema: the world contains powerful, coordinated agents whose explicit goal is Trump's elimination. This schema is consistent with paranoid ideation and is observable across many posts in this dataset.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** Pure victim-martyr in this moment, with implicit hero-who-will-survive subtext. The grammatical construction positions Trump as the object of others' action ("remove"), not an agent. This is a momentary adoption of the Victim archetype, characteristic of narcissistic vulnerable state.

**Contrasting Other:** "THEY" — maximally undefined. This is a deliberate rhetorical choice. A named enemy can be evaluated, fact-checked, and defended against by rational means. "THEY" is infinitely populated by the audience's own projections.

**Narrative Sequence — Contamination:** A pattern of contamination is visible across the surrounding posts and this period broadly: what was legitimate power (presidency, political candidacy) is being corrupted/attacked by malevolent others. The contamination sequence positions Trump as the one who must reverse the corruption.

**Identity Claim:** The third-person construction — "REMOVE TRUMP" rather than "remove me" — is psychologically significant. It converts a personal legal jeopardy into an assault on a symbolic entity. "TRUMP" has become a brand, a movement, a symbol; the self has been externalized. This is both a defensive maneuver (depersonalization of threat) and a sophisticated rhetorical move that invites collective identification.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**Narcissistic Features (Severity: High):**
- Grandiosity encoded in the third-person construction — Trump-as-symbol
- Sense of entitlement to ballot access framed as a natural right being usurped
- Absence of any self-reflection or acknowledgment of the 14th Amendment basis for the ruling

**Antisocial Features (Severity: Moderate):**
- Implicit delegitimization of judicial authority
- The post contributes to a pattern of undermining institutional trust

**Paranoid Features (Severity: High):**
- "THEY WANT TO" presupposes coordinated conspiratorial intent
- The constitutional legal process is reframed as targeted persecution
- No engagement with the legal merits; immediate counter-attack mode

**Sadism (Severity: Absent in this post):** No delight in others' suffering here — the post is in vulnerable mode, not aggressive dominance mode.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury — not criticism (a manageable annoyance) but *exposure* and *defeat*. The court has ruled, in public, that he committed an act (insurrection) that disqualifies him. This is a fundamental challenge to both his legal standing and his self-narrative as rightful president.

**Rage:** Present at intensity ~0.82. Notably, the rage is compressed — five words of ALL CAPS rather than a multi-paragraph tirade. This compression may indicate that (a) the post is attached to a video doing the rhetorical heavy lifting, or (b) the injury is so severe that normal verbal escalation is insufficient.

**Proportionality:** The response is highly disproportionate relative to the legal reality (ruling was stayed pending appeal, eventually reversed by SCOTUS), but entirely proportionate to the narcissistic wound — which is existential, not merely procedural.

**Narcissistic State:** Vulnerable. The post lacks the expansive self-aggrandizement ("GREATEST EVER," "TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN") of the grandiose state. Instead, it is compressed, victimhood-framed, and mobilizing. This is the state that follows direct defeat.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (Immature):** The world is reduced to "THEY" (persecutors) and "TRUMP" (target). No complexity, no institutional nuance, no constitutional process.

**Delusional Projection (Pathological):** The most clinically significant defense employed here. A 4-3 judicial ruling, applying a constitutional provision written after the Civil War, is recast as "THEY WANT TO" — attributing conspiratorial intent to a formal legal process. This is not mere spin; it represents a fundamental distortion of institutional reality.

**Acting Out (Immature):** The ALL CAPS, the brevity, the emotional charge — the post is itself an act of emotional discharge rather than rational engagement.

### Cognitive Status Markers

**Note on baseline:** This post is too brief for robust linguistic analysis. However, the surrounding posts on the same day provide useful data points:

- "Their were no Victims" (grammatical error: "Their" for "There") — minor but notable
- "I Never Mix Up Biden and Obama" — defensive/reactive construction, suggesting the Biden-Obama confusion claim has been circulating and is psychologically activating
- General discourse remains coherent and thematically organized

**Complexity:** This post is at the extreme low end of linguistic complexity — five words. This is not evidence of cognitive impairment but of deliberate rhetorical compression (or aide curation for maximum impact). Not diagnostically informative in isolation.

**Baseline deviation:** Slight reduction in elaboration compared to baseline, consistent with acute emotional arousal rather than cognitive decline.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The five-word construction "THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP" is a masterpiece of grievance compression:

1. **Subject ("THEY"):** Maximally vague — infinitely extensible. Each audience member populates "THEY" with their own antagonists.
2. **Predicate ("WANT TO REMOVE"):** "Want to" is not "are doing" — it implies ongoing conspiratorial intent, keeping the threat perpetually present.
3. **Object ("TRUMP"):** Third person, proper noun — converts the personal into the symbolic. "Remove Trump" is "remove your movement," "remove your cause," "remove us."

**Propaganda techniques:**
- **Firehose contribution:** This is one of approximately eight posts on December 22, each attacking a different front (coal miners, Obamacare, New York crime, Colorado ballot ruling). The aggregate effect overwhelms rational processing.
- **False reframing:** A constitutional judicial process is recast as conspiratorial desire. The word "WANT" attributes motivation and malice where the court cited constitutional obligation.
- **Enemy undefined:** "THEY" functions as a Rorschach blot — Democrats for some, "the establishment" for others, "the deep state" for others still.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Present, moderate severity.** The framing inverts institutional reality: a court applying a constitutional amendment becomes a conspiratorial cabal "wanting to remove" Trump. This is DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) applied to a judicial ruling:
- **Deny:** No engagement with the legal merits
- **Attack:** "THEY WANT TO" implies malice, not law
- **Reverse:** The subject of the court's concern (Trump's role in January 6) becomes the victim; the court becomes the aggressor

## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

**High concern.** The post demands followers adopt a fundamentally distorted reality: that a constitutional court ruling is indistinguishable from a political conspiracy. Accepting this framing requires rejecting the legitimacy of constitutional processes. The epistemic closure demanded here is significant — followers who internalize "THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP" as their interpretive frame will be resistant to any legal or factual information that undermines that narrative.

## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype activated: Victim/Martyr** — the post casts Trump in the role of the persecuted figure, targeted by powerful forces. This is the shadow side of the Hero archetype; the Hero who is being prevented from completing his mission.

**Secondary archetype: Symbolic King under threat** — "Remove Trump" resonates with the archetypal pattern of the king's enemies seeking his overthrow. The word "remove" carries quasi-monarchical connotations of deposition.

**Collective resonance:** For Trump's audience, this archetype activates deep patterns: the rightful leader being illegitimately deposed, the chosen figure being suppressed by corrupt elites. These are mythologically potent frames that operate below rational processing.

## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning: Order Attacker + Chaos Agent.** Trump positions the existing legal/institutional order as the source of chaos and injustice — "THEY" are the disruptors of legitimate order. Trump implicitly positions himself as the true order, being disrupted by corrupt institutions. The asymmetric application: courts and the Democratic establishment get chaos and delegitimization; "the people" (Trump's followers) are promised restored order.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** The post falls short of critical danger indicators (no explicit dehumanization, no eliminationist language, no specific target identification). However:

1. **Stochastic terrorism precursor:** "THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP" identifies a diffuse threat without naming a specific response. In the post-January 6 environment, this framing is not politically neutral — it has historically activated audience violence.
2. **Grievance without resolution:** The post articulates grievance (removal) without providing a legal or peaceful resolution pathway, leaving the emotional charge with no outlet except the audience's own imagination.
3. **Temporal proximity to electoral action:** December 2023, with primaries approaching, means this rhetoric lands in a context of heightened political stakes.
4. **Video attachment unknown:** The attached video (mp4) cannot be assessed here; video content may contain more explicit mobilization rhetoric.

The vague enemy construction ("THEY") combined with electoral stakes and a prior violence incident (January 6) elevates this above baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "They want to remove Trump (implying conspiratorial coordinated effort)" | **Half True** | The Colorado Supreme Court did rule 4-3 to remove Trump from the primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3, citing his role in the January 6 insurrection. This is factually accurate. However, framing it as 'THEY WANT TO' attributes conspiratorial malicious desire to what was a formal judicial ruling applying constitutional law — the court cited legal obligation, not political desire. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Notes

The "I Never Mix Up Biden and Obama" post on the same day is separately significant and warrants its own analysis. The defensive/reactive construction suggests the Biden-Obama confusion claim is sufficiently widespread to require explicit denial — which is itself a marker of defensive awareness. The same-day burst of approximately eight posts on disparate topics is consistent with acute stress response: scattershot rhetorical counterattacks when a single, coherent response is psychologically unavailable.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump emotional escalation
- Third-person self-reference ('TRUMP' not 'me') — signature Trump rhetorical habit
- Extreme brevity with maximal punch — authentic Trump compression under stress
- Video attachment suggests aide production involvement, but caption text reads as authentic
- Local time approx. 9:09 PM EST at Mar-a-Lago (UTC-5) — evening, not deep overnight, ambiguous but not inconsistent with authentic posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 ruling on December 19 barring Trump from the primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3)

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting Unspecified 'THEY' — courts, Democrats, political establishment
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.85

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- delusional projection (pathological)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-person self-reference converts personal wound into collective symbol — 'TRUMP' becomes 'us'
- Vague enemy 'THEY' invites followers to project their own enemies onto the threat
- Brevity forces emotional rather than analytical processing in audience
- Victimhood framing positions supporters as co-persecuted

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Vague enemy construction ('THEY') in post-January 6 electoral context activates audience imagination without constraining it to peaceful response
- Grievance articulated (removal from ballot) without legal resolution pathway offered — emotional charge left undirected
- Historical pattern: similar 'THEY are coming for you' framing preceded January 6 audience mobilization
- Unknown video content may contain more explicit mobilization rhetoric
- Temporal proximity to primaries elevates stakes of all audience-activating content

### Gaslighting

- Constitutional court ruling applying 14th Amendment Section 3 recast as conspiratorial 'want' — attributes malice where law was applied
- DARVO structure: Trump (subject of accountability) positioned as victim; court (institutional actor) positioned as aggressor
- Delegitimization of judicial process by omitting its constitutional basis entirely
- Demands audience adopt conspiratorial frame to maintain group membership — epistemic closure test

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> They want to remove Trump (implying conspiratorial coordinated effort)

**HALF TRUE**

The Colorado Supreme Court did rule 4-3 to remove Trump from the primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3, citing his role in the January 6 insurrection. This is factually accurate. However, framing it as 'THEY WANT TO' attributes conspiratorial malicious desire to what was a formal judicial ruling applying constitutional law — the court cited legal obligation, not political desire.

Sources: Colorado Supreme Court ruling December 19, 2023 (provided historian context); 14th Amendment Section 3 of U.S. Constitution

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury_response (95%)
- vulnerable_narcissistic_state (88%)
- ballot_disqualification_reaction (95%)
- vague_enemy_construction (90%)
- third_person_self_reference (85%)
- delusional_projection (82%)
- epistemic_closure_demand (80%)
- DARVO (78%)
- colorado_14th_amendment (95%)
- mobilization_signal (72%)
- authentic_trump_likely (72%)

## That day

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

**Colorado Ruling Aftershock: 48-Post Defensive Barrage Reveals Sustained Narcissistic Injury Response**

Trump spent the day in full reactive mode from Mar-a-Lago, flooding Truth Social with 48 posts -- nearly all responding to the Colorado Supreme Court's ballot disqualification ruling from three days earlier. The posting came in intense bursts: evening campaign-style attacks, a morning wave of curated legal defense articles, and an afternoon blitz of friendly media links mixed with personal grievance posts. His mood swung between defiant confidence when celebrating polls and wounded fury when attacking judges, prosecutors, and rivals by name. The single most alarming moment was a post recycling his "poisoning" immigration metaphor, while a lengthy tirade about the NY fraud case targeted specific officials as enemies. It was one of his highest-volume posting days of the period, driven almost entirely by compounding legal pressure.

Full digest for 2023-12-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 22). “THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111621634381017424
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP”" Truth Social, 22 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111621634381017424. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“THEY WANT TO REMOVE TRUMP”," Truth Social, December 22, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111621634381017424.

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