# Post ts_111637768275751269 - Post ID: `ts_111637768275751269` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-24T22:32:37.598Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637768275751269 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637768275751269/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111637768275751269.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, LIED TO CONGRESS, CHEATED ON FISA, RIGGED A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ALLOWED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, TO INVADE OUR COUNTRY, SCREWED UP IN AFGHANISTAN, & JOE BIDEN’S MISFITS & THUGS, LIKE DERANGED JACK SMITH, ARE COMING AFTER ME, AT LEVELS OF PERSECUTION NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR COUNTRY??? IT’S CALLED ELECTION INTERFERENCE. MERRY CHRISTMAS! ## Engagement - Likes: 28,096 - Reposts: 7,898 - Replies: 2,450 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:01:35.160Z (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 Christmas Eve 2023 at Mar-a-Lago amid compound narcissistic injuries — Colorado ballot removal (Dec 19) and active Jack Smith prosecution with immunity appeal filed the prior day — this post is a high-intensity authentic DARVO exercise. The subject, under prosecution for election interference, accuses his prosecutors of election interference, demonstrating near-textbook projection as the post's structural core. Seven grievances delivered in unbroken ALL CAPS grievance cascade, with dehumanizing language targeting both immigrants (from prisons and mental institutions) and prosecutors (misfits, thugs, deranged). Jack Smith is named and labeled within a persecution/coming-after-me frame delivered to a large, emotionally activated audience — meeting definitional criteria for stochastic terrorism. Defense mechanisms operating simultaneously include distortion, projection, splitting, and denial. Christmas Eve martyrdom framing carries implicit Christological resonance for the religious in-group; the closing MERRY CHRISTMAS! is trickster-mode tonal whiplash converting victimhood into defiant normalcy. Narcissistic state is mixed — primarily vulnerable with grandiose inflection converting persecution into historical distinction. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Danger level elevated due to named-target dehumanization pattern within maximally activated audience context. # Psychological Analysis: ts_111637768275751269 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-12-24 22:32 UTC (17:32 EST, Mar-a-Lago) | **Age:** 77 --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: High confidence authentic Trump (0.88)** UTC 22:32:37 converts to 17:32 EST at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's documented Christmas Eve location. While late afternoon rather than late-night, stylometric markers are overwhelming: the post is written entirely in ALL CAPS — a near-definitive authentic signature — with triple question marks, a surrealist tonal closer ("MERRY CHRISTMAS!"), and an unmodulated accusation cascade with no polished structure. Aide-written posts do not adopt this emotional register. The content is directly reactive to same-day narcissistic injuries, consistent with impulsive authentic posting. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers **Primary triggers:** Compound narcissistic injury cascade. The Colorado Supreme Court's ballot removal ruling (Dec 19, 2023) constitutes a profound exposure injury — being publicly adjudicated as an insurrectionist and removed from a ballot is among the most potent narcissistic injuries possible. This was compounded by the Jack Smith prosecution's active immunity challenge, with the DC Circuit appeal filed the day before (Dec 23). Trump is posting into a sustained multi-vector crisis. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed — predominantly vulnerable (persecuted martyr, uniquely victimized) with grandiose inflection (persecution framed as historically unprecedented, conferring implicit status). The oscillation is visible within the post: victim mode drives the grievance catalog; grandiose mode emerges in "LEVELS OF PERSECUTION NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR COUNTRY" which transmutes victimhood into distinction. **Narcissistic rage:** Present at high intensity (0.88). The rage is grossly disproportionate to any single trigger — it is cumulative, expressing months of stacked injuries through a Christmas Eve discharge. The target diffuses from "THEY" (institutional conspiracy) to Biden to Jack Smith specifically. --- ## Defense Mechanisms Four mechanisms operating simultaneously: 1. **Distortion (pathological):** Lawful judicial prosecution recast as "persecution at levels never seen before." Reality is grossly reshaped to protect self-concept from the implication that legal accountability is occurring. 2. **Projection (immature):** The post's structural core — a subject under prosecution for election interference accusing prosecutors of "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — is near-textbook projection. The charge attached to self is evacuated and deposited in the adversary. 3. **Splitting (immature):** Complete bifurcation of reality into a unified malevolent "THEY" and righteous self/in-group. Multiple institutions (FBI, Congress, FISA courts, Biden DOJ, Special Counsel) are collapsed into a single coordinated entity. No gradations, no partial acknowledgment. 4. **Denial (pathological):** Wholesale rejection of 60+ judicial rulings, DOJ findings, and CISA assessments on election integrity. The election "rigging" claim requires sustained denial of converging institutional consensus. --- ## Rhetorical Architecture The post is built on **DARVO inversion** as its load-bearing structural element: Deny (election fraud happened), Attack (prosecutors are thugs/misfits), Reverse Victim and Offender (I am being persecuted; the prosecution IS the election interference). This inversion is deployed with enough rhetorical confidence to seed the frame in followers who lack access to contradicting information. **Grievance cascade** is the delivery mechanism: seven accusations delivered without evidentiary scaffolding, moving at a pace that prevents critical evaluation of any individual claim. The volume is the argument. **Dehumanization operates on two tracks:** Immigrants are "from prisons & mental institutions" (activating disgust and biosecurity threat psychology); prosecutors are "MISFITS & THUGS" and Jack Smith is "DERANGED" (activating contempt and delegitimizing legal process through social stigma). **Christmas Eve martyrdom framing** carries implicit Christological resonance for the religious in-group: the righteous man persecuted during the holiest season. The closing "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" simultaneously signals normalcy ("I'm fine") and intensifies the martyrdom ("even on Christmas they come after me"). This is trickster-mode tonal whiplash — context-violating, defying the emotional logic of the preceding text. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 (Traits):** Neuroticism dominates (0.91) — specifically angry hostility at near-maximum activation. Agreeableness essentially absent (0.06). Openness at floor (0.09) — no alternative interpretations entertained. **Level 2 (Motives):** Power/agency motive (0.88) expressed through dominance assertion and legal resistance. Communion essentially absent (0.04) — no relational warmth, even toward supporters who are addressed only as co-victims. **Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** Protagonist role is the **persecuted warrior-martyr** — historically unique, uniquely targeted, fighting against coordinated evil. Contamination sequence: his rightful presidency/return was contaminated by coordinated institutional betrayal. Contrasting other: Biden's apparatus of "MISFITS & THUGS." Identity claims: "I am the most persecuted man in American history" (implicit) — martyrdom as status claim. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary: Victim + Warrior.** The Warrior mode sustains the offensive accusation cascade; the Victim mode drives the persecution framing. The Christmas Eve setting activates latent **Martyr** resonance for the religious in-group. **Shadow projection:** The subject's own demonstrated disregard for electoral rules is projected outward onto prosecutors as "election interference." What is disowned about self (actual documented election interference attempts) is attributed with full intensity to adversaries. **Trickster element:** The "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" closer — context-violating, rule-breaking, defying tonal logic — is the Trickster signature. The disruption of expected register is itself a power display: I operate by no conventions. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics The post positions Trump as an **order restorer** (defending against corrupt institutions) while deploying **chaos rhetoric** (institutional illegitimacy, coordinated conspiracy). The target of chaos is the existing legal order; the promised restoration is a different order ("proper" America). Grievance intensity is maximum. Blame is distributed to a unified malevolent establishment. --- ## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED The stochastic terrorism pattern is present: Jack Smith is **named**, labeled **"DERANGED"**, positioned as actively **"coming after me"** within a persecution narrative delivered to a large, emotionally activated audience — with no mitigating framing. At the time of this post, Smith had received documented credible death threats. The combination of target identification, dehumanizing label, and persecution urgency meets the definitional criteria for stochastic terrorism even absent explicit incitement. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN" | **Mostly False** | DOJ IG Horowitz found 17 significant errors and omissions in FISA applications targeting Carter Page (a campaign associate), but the investigation was initiated on documented predicate evidence. Characterizing this as spying on the campaign substantially overstates findings. | | "CHEATED ON FISA" | **Mostly True** | DOJ Inspector General documented 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in FISA applications. Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty to falsifying a document. Institutional FISA process failures are well-documented. | | "RIGGED A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION" | **False** | 60+ courts, DOJ, CISA, AG Barr, and multiple Republican-led state election officials found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to affect the 2020 outcome. | | "ALLOWED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, MANY FROM PRISONS AND MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, TO INVADE OUR COUNTRY" | **Mostly False** | Elevated illegal border crossings under Biden are documented by CBP data. However, the characterization that many arrived from prisons and mental institutions has no documented evidentiary basis and echoes a structurally identical false claim from the 2015 campaign announcement. | | "SCREWED UP IN AFGHANISTAN" | **Mostly True** | The execution of the August 2021 withdrawal was bipartisanly criticized. 13 US service members were killed at Abbey Gate. Afghan security forces collapsed faster than US intelligence predicted. Multiple congressional inquiries documented execution failures. | | "AT LEVELS OF PERSECUTION NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR COUNTRY" | **Unverifiable** | Trump faces historically unprecedented criminal indictments as a former president. Whether this constitutes persecution rather than accountability is a contested framing judgment, not a factual claim amenable to verification. | | "ITS CALLED ELECTION INTERFERENCE" | **False** | Characterizing criminal prosecution for election interference as itself election interference is a DARVO inversion. Prosecution by an appointed special counsel following judicial process is not legally or definitionally election interference. This is a rhetorical inversion, not a factual claim. | Overall Veracity: 36% ## Cognitive Status No deviation from established baseline. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with Trump's documented speech patterns. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, tangentiality, or confabulation markers. The post is internally coherent within its distorted logical frame. Perseveration on persecution/Jack Smith theme is contextually reactive (active legal crisis) rather than anomalous. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post is a higher-intensity but structurally familiar instance of the persecution narrative characterizing Trump's Truth Social output since the first indictments (August 2022). The same-day posting cluster (five posts on Christmas Eve including Colorado ballot ruling response, immunity claim, J6 committee destruction claims, and this post) suggests sustained activation over the day. The compound injury from Colorado + Smith prosecution is driving maximum output. Stable trajectory; no cognitive deterioration signal. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - Post written entirely in ALL CAPS — near-definitive authentic Trump stylometric marker - Triple punctuation sequences (???) consistent with authenticated Trump posting signature - Stream-of-consciousness accusation cascade without polished structure - Jarring tonal whiplash: persecution screed ending with MERRY CHRISTMAS! - No event announcements or professional formatting present ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court ballot removal (Dec 19) + Jack Smith prosecution active + immunity appeal filed Dec 23) **Rage:** Intensity 88% targeting Jack Smith, Biden administration, federal prosecutors, unnamed institutional THEY - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.87 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Complete ALL CAPS throughout entire post — elevated energy and activation state - Seven-grievance cascade with no decelerating structure or hedging - Racing-thought pattern: FISA, election, Afghanistan, immigration, prosecution compressed into single breath - Context-inappropriate affect: persecution grievance screed ending with MERRY CHRISTMAS - Five-post Christmas Eve cluster suggests sustained activation across the day ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 82% - Sadism: 42% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address positions followers as co-victims of same persecution - Christmas tribal signal (MERRY CHRISTMAS) bonds in-group in shared identity - Shared enemy construction: our country vs. unified malevolent THEY - Epistemic closure: acceptance of persecution narrative positioned as in-group membership test ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - Jack Smith named and labeled DERANGED within persecution/coming-after-me frame — identified target plus dehumanization plus emotional urgency to large audience - Stochastic terrorism pattern present: named individual plus inflammatory label plus explicit grievance (coming after me) plus maximally activated audience - Smith had received documented credible death threats at time of posting; this post amplifies threat vector - Immigrant dehumanization (from prisons and mental institutions) adjacent to invasion eliminationist framing ### Gaslighting - DARVO inversion: under prosecution for election interference, labels prosecution election interference - Denial of 60+ court rulings, DOJ, and CISA findings: RIGGED A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION asserted as unqualified fact - Attacks on institutional legitimacy across courts, Congress, FBI, DOJ simultaneously — demanding followers reject all institutional reality - Epistemic closure: acceptance of persecution narrative positioned as required group membership **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (7) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN **MOSTLY FALSE** DOJ IG Horowitz found 17 significant errors and omissions in FISA applications targeting Carter Page (a campaign associate), but the investigation was initiated on documented predicate evidence. Characterizing this as spying on the campaign substantially overstates findings. Sources: DOJ OIG Report December 2019 > CHEATED ON FISA **MOSTLY TRUE** DOJ Inspector General documented 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in FISA applications. Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty to falsifying a document. Institutional FISA process failures are well-documented. Sources: DOJ OIG Horowitz Report 2019; Clinesmith plea August 2020 > RIGGED A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION **FALSE** 60+ courts, DOJ, CISA, AG Barr, and multiple Republican-led state election officials found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to affect the 2020 outcome. Sources: CISA statement November 2020; DOJ statement December 2020; Multiple federal court rulings 2020-2021 > ALLOWED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, MANY FROM PRISONS AND MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, TO INVADE OUR COUNTRY **MOSTLY FALSE** Elevated illegal border crossings under Biden are documented by CBP data. However, the characterization that many arrived from prisons and mental institutions has no documented evidentiary basis and echoes a structurally identical false claim from the 2015 campaign announcement. Sources: CBP border encounter data 2021-2023 > SCREWED UP IN AFGHANISTAN **MOSTLY TRUE** The execution of the August 2021 withdrawal was bipartisanly criticized. 13 US service members were killed at Abbey Gate. Afghan security forces collapsed faster than US intelligence predicted. Multiple congressional inquiries documented execution failures. Sources: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report 2022; SIGAR reports 2021-2022 > AT LEVELS OF PERSECUTION NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR COUNTRY **UNVERIFIABLE** Trump faces historically unprecedented criminal indictments as a former president. Whether this constitutes persecution rather than accountability is a contested framing judgment, not a factual claim amenable to verification. > ITS CALLED ELECTION INTERFERENCE **FALSE** Characterizing criminal prosecution for election interference as itself election interference is a DARVO inversion. Prosecution by an appointed special counsel following judicial process is not legally or definitionally election interference. This is a rhetorical inversion, not a factual claim. Overall Veracity: 36% ## Tags - DARVO (95%) - persecution_narrative (92%) - stochastic_terrorism (78%) - dehumanization (82%) - epistemic_closure (88%) - narcissistic_injury_response (91%) - projection (90%) - splitting (85%) - all_caps_authentic (95%) - authentic_trump (88%) - election_fraud_denial (90%) - immigrant_dehumanization (82%) - martyrdom_framing (80%) - trickster_closer (72%) - legal_persecution_narrative (93%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago: Holiday Cheer Dissolves Into Escalating Legal Rage Spiral** Trump spent Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago oscillating between holiday pleasantries and intense legal grievances. The morning started with a defensive post about presidential immunity, followed by a midday stretch of "Merry Christmas" and flattering article shares. But by late afternoon, the dam broke: three rapid-fire posts of escalating fury targeting Jack Smith, the January 6th Committee, and the Colorado Supreme Court's ballot disqualification ruling. The rage built noticeably across the trio, culminating in an all-caps grievance cascade before a final poll share cooled things down. The day's arc was unmistakably shaped by legal pressure — the Colorado ruling and the immunity appeal filed days earlier clearly weighed on him even as he tried to project holiday normalcy. Full digest for 2023-12-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 24). THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, LIED TO CONGRESS,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637768275751269 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, LIED TO CONGRESS, CHEATED ON..." Truth Social, 24 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637768275751269. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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