# Post ts_111642573374006185 - Post ID: `ts_111642573374006185` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-25T18:54:37.546Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642573374006185 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642573374006185/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111642573374006185.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Love the people who do this. Thank you! ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/642/573/285/076/022/original/908ce069deaabdbd.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 25,643 - Reposts: 5,510 - Replies: 817 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:59:20.193Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This seven-word post is clinically unremarkable in isolation but acquires longitudinal significance as a within-day tonal rupture. On Christmas 2023, Trump's Truth Social feed is dominated by high-intensity narcissistic injury responses: ALLCAPS proclamations of election interference, attacks on Biden as history's worst president, derisive nicknames for Republican rivals, and implicit 'ROT IN HELL' energy. Against that backdrop, this brief, warm expression of gratitude toward an unnamed group of supporters functions as an affective reset — a supply-receiving moment that closes a positive narcissistic feedback loop without the characteristic grandiosity, grievance, or enemy-construction present in adjacent posts. The rapid tonal oscillation between volcanic hostility and warm appreciation within a single day's posting is consistent with the labile affect patterns associated with narcissistic personality organization, where the subject's emotional register is largely determined by whether supply is flowing in or being threatened. Here, supply is flowing: a supporter action (depicted in the attached image, content unverifiable) has earned public acknowledgment. Authorship confidence is reduced by the daytime Christmas timing, grammatical cleanliness, and PR-utility of the post — characteristics more consistent with aide-managed content than Trump's characteristic unfiltered late-night output. The post most plausibly represents either aide-generated brand softening, or a verbally approved posting of a supporter-sent image. Psychologically, it represents a brief grandiose supply-receiving interlude in an otherwise injury-dominated Christmas communications stream. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-12-25T18:54:37Z ## Overview **Post:** "Love the people who do this. Thank you!" **Context:** Christmas Day 2023, with attached media (image unavailable for direct analysis). Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL (UTC-5). Local post time: **1:54 PM EST** — mid-afternoon, Christmas Day. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-written or aide-prompted (medium confidence; score 0.25/1.0)** Several factors reduce the probability of direct Trump authorship: 1. **Timing:** 1:54 PM local time on a holiday falls within the daytime window associated with aide-managed posting, not the late-night/early-morning pattern typical of authentic Trump output. 2. **Grammatical cleanliness:** Zero typos, no ALLCAPS, no incomplete thoughts — atypical for Trump's personal posting style. 3. **Tonal discontinuity:** The four adjacent posts from the same day are combative, grievance-laden, and emotionally loaded. This post is purely warm and appreciative with no enemy construction, no self-aggrandizement, and no policy assertion. The rupture is sharp enough to suggest deliberate curation. 4. **Vague referent:** "People who do this" is undefined — the meaning depends entirely on the attached image. This construction is consistent with an aide captioning an image on behalf of the principal, possibly after verbal approval. 5. **PR utility:** On a day when Trump's posts include effectively hostile Christmas messages, this post serves a clear softening/humanizing function — a media-management decision more typical of a communications aide than an impulsive Truth Social user. The alternative hypothesis — that Trump personally typed a brief grateful caption on Christmas afternoon — is plausible but less probable given the aggregate evidence. --- ## Psychological State Analysis ### Trigger Classification **Supply-receiving** — not supply-seeking. The post responds to a supporter action depicted in the attached image (most likely a fan display, MAGA installation, pro-Trump Christmas gesture, or similar loyalty act). Trump is closing the narcissistic feedback loop: the supporter performs, the leader acknowledges, the behavior is reinforced. ### Narcissistic Dynamics This post represents the **grandiose pole** of the narcissistic state, specifically the pleasurable receipt of tribute. There is no injury, no rage, no vulnerability on display. The phrase "Love the people who do this" positions Trump as the natural center of fan devotion — the beloved leader around whom loyal acts naturally orbit. This is supply in its most comfortable form: unsolicited, publicly performed, warmly acknowledged. ### Oscillation Pattern (Clinically Significant in Context) The most psychologically meaningful signal in this post is not its content but its **tonal position** within the Christmas feed. The same day includes: - ALLCAPS proclamations of coordinated illegal election interference - Attack on Biden as history's most corrupt president - Derisive nicknames for Republican rivals ("DeSanctimonious," "Birdbrain," "Sloppy Chris") - Dark proclamations about the nation being in a "fight against MADNESS & DOOM" Then: "Love the people who do this. Thank you!" This rapid oscillation between volcanic narcissistic injury responses and warm supply-receiving moments is consistent with the **labile affect** characteristic of narcissistic personality organization. The subject's emotional register appears largely determined by whether narcissistic supply is available (warm, appreciative) or under threat (hostile, grandiose-vulnerable). The self is not stable across these moments; it responds to the supply environment. ### Defense Mechanisms No significant defenses are deployed in this post. The absence of splitting, projection, or rationalization is notable — this is one of the few same-day posts that does not require active psychological defense. ### Parasocial Technique The public acknowledgment of supporter loyalty creates a behavioral reinforcement loop: - Supporter performs loyalty act → leader publicly loves them → other followers observe → behavior is modeled and repeated - The vague "people who do this" allows any supporter to self-identify with the praised group, maximizing identification --- ## Cognitive Assessment **Insufficient data.** Seven words cannot support meaningful cognitive analysis. Syntactic simplicity (Subject + Object + Verb) is register-appropriate rather than diagnostically significant. No paraphasia, perseveration, neologism, or disorganization is detectable. This post cannot be compared to Trump's established verbal baseline (which requires longer speech samples). **Complexity score: 0.05/1.0** — minimum possible for coherent utterance. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Dominant technique: Parasocial warmth / community reinforcement** The post's rhetorical function is affective rather than argumentative: - **Vagueness as inclusion:** The undefined referent "do this" invites projection — any loyal supporter can read themselves into the praised group. - **Brevity as authenticity signal:** Short, warm, unpolished-feeling posts can paradoxically feel more genuine than crafted messages, strengthening parasocial bonds. - **Implicit reciprocity norm:** Public gratitude from the leader establishes a social expectation of continued loyalty acts from the base. No hyperbole, no false dichotomy, no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery. This is the gentlest rhetorical register in the day's posting pattern. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No threat indicators, eliminationist language, target identification, or mobilization signals. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) **Protagonist role:** Beloved leader receiving tribute — the King archetype in its benevolent mode, briefly surfacing amid the Warrior and Victim archetypes that dominate the day's other posts. **Contrasting other:** Absent — uniquely, no foil is constructed. This makes the post an outlier in the Christmas feed, where almost every other post defines Trump against an enemy (Biden, the DOJ, the media, rival Republicans, the courts). **Identity claim:** "I am loved by my people; I notice and value their loyalty." --- ## Longitudinal Note To strengthen analysis, this post should be examined alongside a broader sample of image-captioning behavior on Truth Social to determine whether the warm-appreciative tone for supporter content represents a stable pattern or a contextually unusual moment. The Christmas timing and suspected aide authorship complicate longitudinal attribution. --- ## Analytical Limitations 1. **Image content unavailable:** The attached media is inaccessible for direct analysis. All conclusions about the "people who do this" are inferential based on typical fan-loyalty-display content patterns. 2. **Authorship uncertainty:** The aide-authorship hypothesis cannot be confirmed without platform metadata or communications records. 3. **Brief post:** Seven words is insufficient for cognitive baseline comparison or deep linguistic analysis. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Posted at approximately 1:54 PM EST (Christmas Day afternoon, business hours for a holiday skeleton staff) - Extremely brief, grammatically clean, no typos or misspellings - Warm, appreciative tone sharply contrasts with the combative ALLCAPS posts earlier in the same day - Appears designed to 'humanize' the Christmas feed — a PR softening maneuver after hostile posts - Absence of Trump's characteristic self-referencing, superlatives, or grievance framing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Supporter display captured in attached image (likely fan art, MAGA installation, or pro-Trump Christmas display)) Sentiment: +0.82 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective gratitude gesture ('Love the people') creates warm in-group belonging - Implicit validation loop: supporters do something public, Trump acknowledges it, which encourages repetition ## Tags - supply-receiving (80%) - parasocial-bonding (70%) - tonal-oscillation (85%) - aide-authorship-suspected (60%) - christmas-messaging (50%) - media-dependent (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Christmas Day at Mar-a-Lago: Holiday Greetings Weaponized as Eliminationist Rage Peaks at "ROT IN HELL"** Trump spent Christmas Day at Mar-a-Lago oscillating between warm holiday greetings and some of his most hostile language of the season. The morning started with attacks on Biden, the justice system, and what he called a coordinated conspiracy to interfere in the 2024 election. By mid-afternoon, a "Merry Christmas" post to adversaries escalated into telling them to "rot in hell" -- the day's most intense moment. Brief interludes of levity (polling boasts, a "Home Alone 2" shoutout, a supporter thank-you) punctuated the grievance, but legal anxiety from the Colorado ballot ruling and federal prosecutions dominated the day's emotional texture. Full digest for 2023-12-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 25). Love the people who do this. Thank you! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642573374006185 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Love the people who do this. Thank you!" Truth Social, 25 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642573374006185. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Love the people who do this. 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