# Post ts_111624581388208137 - Post ID: `ts_111624581388208137` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-22T14:39:01.633Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111624581388208137 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111624581388208137/analysis ## Post text > https://thegreggjarrett.com/colorado-gets-it-wrong-by-kicking-trump-of-its-presidential-ballot/ ## Engagement - Likes: 5,319 - Reposts: 1,426 - Replies: 116 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.386Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:54:50.022Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-12-22 (URL Share, Gregg Jarrett / Colorado Ballot) ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to Gregg Jarrett's op-ed arguing the Colorado Supreme Court erred in removing Trump from the presidential primary ballot. No original text is appended. It is one of at least five posts on this date amplifying friendly legal and political commentary in response to the December 19 Colorado ruling — the first-ever such disqualification of a major presidential candidate under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-written / aide-curated (confidence: medium)** Key indicators: - **Local time**: 9:39 AM EST at Mar-a-Lago — squarely within business-hour posting patterns associated with Dan Scavino-managed content - **Zero original text**: Authentic Trump posts almost universally include personal commentary, emotional punctuation, or reactive language when sharing material directly relevant to his legal jeopardy. The bare URL share is atypical of self-authored posts - **Coordinated pattern**: Five or more posts on the same date distribute allied commentary from McCarthy, Kudlow, Jarrett, Gateway Pundit, and a CNN-sourced quote — suggesting a curated, staff-organized media response rather than spontaneous emotional posting The absence of caps-lock passages, exclamation points, or personal grievance language — all baseline features of authentic Trump posting when facing legal threats — further supports aide management. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits With no original text, direct trait inference is constrained. However, the *selection* of content reveals: - **Low Agreeableness (trust facet)**: The chosen article assumes bad faith by the Colorado court - **High Neuroticism (angry hostility, suppressed)**: The triggering event (ballot disqualification) would normatively produce high-intensity response; the suppressed output — a clean link — may reflect aide intervention moderating an authentic reactive impulse - **Low Openness (values rigidity)**: Routing exclusively to confirmatory sources is consistent with ideologically rigid information processing --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency / Power (defensive mode)** The Colorado ruling directly threatens Trump's core identity project — the return to the presidency — making it an acute agency-threat. The response strategy (third-party validation flooding) is consistent with a characteristic adaptation pattern: when direct self-aggrandizement would appear too nakedly defensive, the subject aggregates proxy voices to reconstruct the sense of rightness and support. **Schema activation**: "I am being persecuted by corrupt institutions" — the consistent framing across all five same-day posts. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: Wrongfully persecuted outsider / victim of corrupt legal system **Narrative sequence**: Contamination — legitimate democratic candidacy is being unlawfully "poisoned" by partisan courts **Contrasting other**: Colorado Supreme Court (4-member majority); Democratic political establishment implied as orchestrator **Identity claim (via proxy)**: "Trump is constitutionally eligible and the court is wrong" — stated by Jarrett so Trump need not directly assert it The Jarrett article title — "Colorado gets it wrong" — performs the narrative move of delegitimizing an adverse ruling, a pattern consistent across this posting cluster (McCarthy and Talel posts reframe the NY fraud case as lawless partisanship; Kudlow post frames Democratic opposition as pathology). --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics**: The December 19 Colorado ruling constitutes a significant narcissistic injury — a formal legal declaration that Trump engaged in insurrection and is constitutionally unfit for the presidency. The injury is existential to the subject's current identity project. The response mode — outsourcing indignation to allied commentators rather than erupting directly — suggests either: 1. **Aide mediation**: Staff intercepted an authentically reactive impulse and replaced it with managed content distribution 2. **Strategic restraint**: Awareness that direct emotional response could backfire legally or politically (appeal was filed December 27) Either interpretation is consistent with a subject navigating a significant narcissistic wound through third-party supply rather than direct supply-seeking. **Defense mechanisms**: - *Displacement* (neurotic): Emotional response to injury is channeled through Jarrett rather than expressed directly - *Rationalization* (neurotic): "Court got it wrong" reframes legal defeat as institutional error **Narcissistic state**: Vulnerable — this posting cluster as a whole reflects a subject absorbing multiple simultaneous legal and electoral shocks (Colorado ruling, NY fraud case) and seeking to reconstitute a sense of rightness through allied voices rather than through grandiose self-assertion. --- ## Cognitive Status **Insufficient data for assessment.** No original language generated. Cannot evaluate word-finding, syntactic complexity, or coherence. No deviation from or consistency with baseline can be established from a bare URL post. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Third-party endorsement / source laundering**: Jarrett functions as a credentialed (Fox News legal analyst) proxy for claims Trump cannot make directly without appearing self-serving. The rhetorical effect is: "Even legal experts say the court is wrong." **Epistemic closure**: Five posts in a single day, all routing followers to allied media figures, reinforces a closed information environment where the Colorado ruling is universally condemned within the curated ecosystem. **Framing via URL slug**: The article title, visible in the slug, does the argumentative work without Trump needing to assert it: "gets it wrong" encodes judicial error as settled fact. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Mild gaslighting by proxy — the Jarrett article (as telegraphed by the URL slug) frames a 4-3 Supreme Court ruling as error rather than legitimate legal adjudication. This is relatively restrained compared to baseline; Trump's direct posts in this period often more aggressively delegitimize adverse rulings. **Gaslighting present**: Low-level / indirect (via amplification of allied framing) --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization rhetoric. Pure media amplification. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Colorado Supreme Court erred in removing Trump from the presidential primary ballot (implied by Jarrett article title)" | **Unverifiable** | The Colorado ruling was a 4-3 decision by duly constituted justices applying Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed in Trump v. Anderson (March 2024) on procedural/enforcement grounds without ruling on the insurrection question itself. Whether the court 'got it wrong' on the merits remains legally contested and is not a verifiable factual claim. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary *Not generated — post lacks original authored content. Clinical patterns are inferred from selection and coordination behavior rather than language production.* --- ## Notes on Longitudinal Pattern This post is part of a documented same-day pattern: systematic amplification of allied legal commentary in response to the Colorado ballot ruling. The coordinated nature, business-hour timing, and absence of personal text all point to managed staff operation. When authentic Trump posts emerge in response to the Colorado ruling (likely in evening/overnight hours), they will almost certainly show higher emotional intensity, direct grievance language, and more overt delegitimization of the court. This managed daytime response should be read as the *public relations layer* of a multi-register response, not the full psychological picture. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Post time of 14:39 UTC = 9:39 AM EST at Mar-a-Lago — business hours, aide-consistent - Zero original text added by poster — pure link share, typical Scavino operation - No typos, emotional punctuation, or reactive commentary - Structured as part of a coordinated same-day media blitz (5+ posts sharing supportive commentary), suggesting staff curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - third-party validation — leveraging allied media commentator as surrogate voice - implied grievance sharing — followers are invited to be outraged on Trump's behalf without Trump directly emoting ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Jarrett article title frames a duly rendered 4-3 Supreme Court ruling as simple error ('gets it wrong'), delegitimizing the court by proxy without direct assertion - Part of coordinated same-day multi-post effort creating an artificial consensus among allied voices that adverse legal rulings are partisan rather than legitimate ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Colorado Supreme Court erred in removing Trump from the presidential primary ballot (implied by Jarrett article title) **UNVERIFIABLE** The Colorado ruling was a 4-3 decision by duly constituted justices applying Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed in Trump v. Anderson (March 2024) on procedural/enforcement grounds without ruling on the insurrection question itself. Whether the court 'got it wrong' on the merits remains legally contested and is not a verifiable factual claim. Sources: Colorado Supreme Court, Trump v. Anderson (Dec. 19, 2023); U.S. Supreme Court, Trump v. Anderson, 601 U.S. 100 (2024) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - ballot-disqualification (90%) - colorado-14th-amendment (90%) - third-party-validation (80%) - aide-authored (70%) - narcissistic-injury-response (70%) - epistemic-closure (70%) - vulnerable-narcissistic-state (60%) - coordinated-media-response (80%) ## 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). https://thegreggjarrett.com/colorado-gets-it-wrong... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111624581388208137 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thegreggjarrett.com/colorado-gets-it-wrong-by-kickin..." Truth Social, 22 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111624581388208137. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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