# Post ts_111622449934167357 - Post ID: `ts_111622449934167357` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-22T05:36:58.223Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111622449934167357 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111622449934167357/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111622449934167357.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Bo Nickal Played Golf with Trump” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:07), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > an experience did you were you at UFC Miami yes here how crazy was it when Trump walked out insane I've never experienced it's like I was like it was more crazy when he walked out in Madison Square Garden really yeah geez the Madison Square Garden one lat the last fight was fucking bananas it's unbelievable I was like heard a crowd over a minute of people screaming at the top of their lungs as he's walking in nuts this country is fed up yeah this is serious said up country yeah you know the mainstream media can say all the shit they want they're trying but the people aren't buying it no you and that's it the perfect example right there is you know 20,000 people or whatever like losing their minds when the dudes walking down to the cage it's like there's no fighter that gets that but yeah the country it's like you can tell you just talk to people or see what's going on it's like you could tell well you know there's people that voted for Biden that are doing it now yeah they're like what did I do right what did I choose how is this guy yeah you just can't listen to an interview or he's saying some of the stuff he says it just makes no sense at all it's like you can't listen to those interviews and feel like you made a good decision I don't know how did you hear what he said like yesterday a couple days ago mm-hmm talk about the Revolutionary War he's like one of the reasons why we lost the Revolutionary War one of problems with Revolutionary War was they didn't have enough airports like pull him if you were if you had any other job and you were talking like that yeah they would go hey you're done if you talk like that to a doctor at your medical exam for to fight they'll be like okay like obviously they're not fighting you also here's you know eight weeks of being helped out by a professional like right you might not ever do anything no it's it's one of the wildest things ever it's insane yeah the media gaslighting you to protect it's just people are so afraid of Trump being in office yeah Republicans being in office you know it's funny cuz um right after after my last fight he was he was a cage side with Dana and then I got back home and he invited me out to Bedminster in Jersey was like come golf me coolest freakin dude man he was like I was we didn't talk about politics we didn't talk about anything when I first got there rolled up I mean there's 30 secret service members you know everybody's doing their thing and he did a few like kind of worked with one of his secretaries like make some announcements and do some stuff but then we just golfed for like four hours rode in the cart with him and he was like the coolest guy so with it so smart asking me about fighting we're talking about you know all the boxing we talked about football talk about golf and he was so sharp and with it and it was me this is like the craziest thing like I'm from like I grew up in a town of 5,000 people in Wyoming now I'm fighting on the UFC and then with Trump golfing it's me Trump OJ Anderson who's an NFL running back Super Bowl MVP and LT like that's the fourth that's the foursome and I'm like wow what the heck is going on here but it's gonna feel surreal it was super surreal and what nothing really like he was such a bro and so cool and so with the 70 I think 70 upper 70s and couldn't believe how smart and sharp the guy was like I was like wow like this is bizarre right right like super with he's the only guy that went through four years in the White House and didn't seem to age no everybody gets in that White House and they just fall apart yeah hair gets gray they look tired all the time they just look like the weight of the world which it literally is right on their shoulders I think he just he loves it he's like what are you gonna say come on oh it was this was the craziest thing so him and LT were playing like a thousand bucks a hole or something and he smoked him up Trump like people I golf with him the dude's amazing golfer I couldn't believe it how good he was every fairway right down the middle hit every green making all those putts and so he won the first nine like pretty easy and then the last nine it was going in the 18th hole him and LT were tied or something was like the winner it was like all came down to this last hole and they both hit great drives and LT hit like a good approach shot and Trump gets it there gets up there he's probably 150 yards from the green and he sets up just stripes it straight at the pin balls like in the middle of the arc like not even not even coming down yet he turns around doesn't even watch it land walks right back to the cart sits down and the guys like nice shot mr. president and I was like damn that was clutch and he looks at me he goes don't you want your present to be clutch for sure man and he hit it two feet from the pin and tapped it in and I was like geez it was slick I was like it was just cool dude though ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/622/448/306/568/978/original/51dc3cd20670987c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,095 - Reposts: 2,865 - Replies: 573 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.386Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:55:23.452Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Post Analysis: "Bo Nickal Played Golf with Trump" — December 22, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time Assessment:** Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on December 22, 2023 — his standard winter residence. UTC 05:36:58 converts to **12:36 AM EST**, placing this squarely in his documented late-night posting window. This is the single strongest indicator of authentic Trump authorship. The caption itself is six words, title-cased, and grammatically clean — superficially resembling aide formatting. However, its extreme brevity and the absence of any promotional language or call to action is inconsistent with professional social media management. Aides typically append context ("Watch the video below!" / event details / strategic messaging). This reads more like an impulsive video dump with a minimal label, consistent with authentic Trump behavior when sharing content he finds personally satisfying. **Verdict:** Likely authentic. Confidence: medium. --- ## Contextual Framing This post lands three days after the Colorado Supreme Court issued its historic 4-3 ruling barring Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment — the most serious legal-constitutional threat of his campaign to that point. The same posting day includes a defensive screed about New York courts, a denial about mixing up Biden and Obama, and an Obamacare attack. Against that backdrop, this golf video functions as **counter-programming**: a visible display of leisure, social desirability, and celebrity association at a moment of acute legal siege. Bo Nickal is a rising UFC middleweight contender and former dominant NCAA wrestler who by late 2023 had publicly aligned himself with Trump. Associating with a young, dominant combat athlete carries layered symbolic freight: vitality, masculine dominance, winning, physical power — all archetypal projections consistent with Trump's self-branding. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits Despite minimal textual content, the post reveals elevated **extraversion** (public display of high-status social relationship), low **neuroticism** in surface presentation (no visible distress markers), and low **agreeableness** in its implicit structure (the framing centers Trump, not Nickal — "Played Golf with *Trump*," not "Trump played golf with Bo Nickal"). ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Primary motive: Status display / narcissistic supply-seeking.** The post provides no political content, no argument, no information — its sole function is to establish social desirability and high-status association. This is textbook supply acquisition: a celebrity athlete wants to be near Trump, therefore Trump is desirable, powerful, worth knowing. The Colorado ruling created a narcissistic injury (public declaration of illegitimacy); this post, consciously or not, counters that injury with proof-of-status. **Agency motive** dominates (0.75); **communion motive** is negligible — there is no warmth, no relationship content, no personal detail about the interaction. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The winner, the celebrity magnet, the man athletes seek out. - **Narrative sequence:** Implicitly redemptive — amid legal contamination (courts attacking him), social elites *choose* his company. - **Identity claim:** "People of accomplishment want to be with me." - **Contrasting other:** Implicitly, the isolated, unpopular politician under legal attack; the post says *that is not me*. ### Level 4: Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Grandiose. No vulnerability signaling here; this is the expansive, triumphant mode. **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. The Colorado ruling three days prior likely activated a need to demonstrate ongoing social power and desirability. This is a classic narcissistic regulatory maneuver: when institutional legitimacy is attacked, seek interpersonal validation. **Rage:** Absent. This post represents the opposite pole — the celebratory, supply-satisfied state. --- ## Defense Mechanisms The post itself deploys no explicit defense mechanisms. However, in the context of the day's posting sequence, it can be read as **displacement** — channeling the emotional energy generated by the Colorado ruling into a benign display of social success rather than direct confrontation. The day's posts show both direct attack (NY courts, Obamacare) and indirect supply-seeking (this post); the splitting between the two modes is notable. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Techniques present are minimal given the six-word caption: - **Celebrity/status association:** Borrowing the social capital of a rising athletic star. - **Name prominence:** Trump's name appears last, in the position of emphasis — the implicit message is that Nickal's presence validates *Trump*, not the reverse. - **Implicit social proof:** A young, dominant male athlete chose to spend leisure time here — this functions as a subtle appeal to social desirability. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Pure image-maintenance content. --- ## Cognitive Status Assessment With only six words, cognitive assessment is not meaningfully possible. No word-finding errors, no tangentiality, no temporal confusion are detectable. Vocabulary is at his documented baseline. No deviation from established patterns is observable. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This post contains no threat indicators, no target identification, no eliminationist rhetoric, no mobilization call. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Bo Nickal played golf with Trump" | **Unverifiable** | Bo Nickal is a documented Trump supporter who attended campaign events. Video attached presumably documents the outing. No external confirmation available but no known contradiction. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Clinical Significance This post is not clinically significant in isolation. Its interest is contextual: it illustrates the **regulatory function of narcissistic supply** during periods of narcissistic injury. The posting pattern across the day — legal attack response, denial of cognitive error (the Biden/Obama post), and then this leisure-display — suggests a complete narcissistic regulatory cycle: threat → counterattack → supply acquisition → equilibrium. No summary generated as the individual post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 12:36 AM EST local time at Mar-a-Lago falls within documented late-night posting window - Extreme brevity (6 words) inconsistent with aide-managed content which typically includes context and calls to action - Title-case formatting is clean but may simply reflect minimal effort rather than professional editing - No promotional language, hashtags, or audience engagement prompts — inconsistent with strategic social media management - Video share with bare caption is consistent with impulsive authentic behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court 14th Amendment ruling three days prior — narcissistic injury requiring compensatory supply acquisition) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Celebrity association lending social proof of desirability - Implicit status display inviting audience to share reflected glory ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Bo Nickal played golf with Trump **UNVERIFIABLE** Bo Nickal is a documented Trump supporter who attended campaign events. Video attached presumably documents the outing. No external confirmation available but no known contradiction. Sources: Attached mp4 video (unreviewed) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply-seeking (80%) - status-display (75%) - celebrity-association (70%) - counter-programming (65%) - grandiose-state (60%) - post-injury-regulation (60%) - late-night-authentic (65%) ## 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). “Bo Nickal Played Golf with Trump” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111622449934167357 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Bo Nickal Played Golf with Trump”" Truth Social, 22 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111622449934167357. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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