# Post ts_111642745146668045

- Post ID: `ts_111642745146668045`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-25T19:38:18.622Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith, the out of control Lunatic who just hired outside attorneys, fresh from the SWAMP (unprecedented!), to help him with his poorly executed WITCH HUNT against “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and “sick” as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:00:12.815Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A Christmas Day post that deploys the holiday greeting format as an attack delivery system, escalating to eliminationist condemnation before resuming seasonal pleasantries. Authentic Trump authorship at high confidence despite mid-afternoon timing. The post is best understood as a ritualized response to converging narcissistic injuries: the Colorado Supreme Court's December 19 ballot disqualification ruling and the ongoing Jack Smith prosecution. The full malignant narcissism tetrad is operative — narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic features all present. The ego-syntonic sadism is diagnostically most notable: 'MAY THEY ROT IN HELL' directed at named adversaries, flanked by cheerful Christmas salutations, reflects cruelty performed openly and with apparent relish rather than concealed. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological (distortion, denial) and immature (splitting, projection). The post contains dehumanizing language ('THUGS,' 'Lunatic,' 'evil and sick'), an eliminationist curse directed at named individuals, and the standard civilizational threat frame that positions opponents as more dangerous than foreign adversaries — a combination that elevates the danger assessment to the high range. Cognitive markers are consistent with recent baseline; perseveration in the grievance list is chronic rather than acute. The post exemplifies the Contamination/Return mythological narrative: America was great, internal enemies have corrupted it, they must be purged.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — December 25, 2023

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** UTC 19:38 converts to **2:38 PM EST** at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL (Trump's near-certain location on Christmas Day, a venue he consistently occupies for the holiday). This falls within daytime hours, which slightly reduces the probability of authentic authorship by timing alone. However, the stylistic fingerprint overwhelmingly supports direct authorship. The escalating ALL-CAPS, the holiday-greeting-as-attack structure, the nickname arsenal ("Crooked Joe," "Deranged Jack Smith," "SWAMP"), the stream-of-consciousness grievance list, the abrupt tonal detonation ("MAY THEY ROT IN HELL"), and the immediately resumed seasonal pleasantry ("AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!") are hallmarks that no aide reproduces. The post is consistent in style with the other same-day posts (also authentic-pattern), and the five posts together suggest an active, reactive posting session throughout Christmas Day. **High confidence: authentic Trump authorship.**

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Neuroticism (Very High):** The post is saturated with angry hostility. The progression from ironic greeting to eliminationist outburst within a single paragraph signals profound emotional dysregulation. "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" on Christmas morning — a culturally sanctified moment of goodwill — reflects extreme impulsive expression overriding social convention entirely.

**Agreeableness (Very Low):** Every reference to a named or implied other is hostile, dehumanizing, or contemptuous. There is no modesty, empathy, or trust. The sole positive affect directed toward others ("Love the people who do this" in the concurrent post) is reserved for those demonstrating loyalty.

**Extraversion (High):** Assertiveness is maximal — dominance displays throughout. The performative quality of the post (an audience is clearly imagined and addressed) reflects the consistent extraversion baseline.

**Conscientiousness (Low):** No deliberation evident. The text accelerates without coherent argumentative structure, shifting from Jack Smith → world leaders → domestic policy laundry list → eliminationist curse → Christmas sign-off. Achievement-striving manifests only as dominance assertion ("none of which are as evil and 'sick'").

**Openness (Very Low):** Rigid, closed-world schema. Policy positions reduced to epithets. No nuance entertained.

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### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals, Motives, Schemas)

**Dominant motive:** Power/Agency. Every sentence asserts status, frames enemies as weak or corrupt, and positions the author as the indispensable focal point of a civilizational struggle. There is zero communion motive present — no warmth toward family, community, or even his own supporters except as an undifferentiated "MAGA" mass.

**Self-schema:** Embattled savior/warrior under siege from a corrupt system. The self-referential quotation marks around "TRUMP" and "MAGA" are psychologically notable — treating his own name as a cause-noun, an abstract object worth defending, not merely a person subject to prosecution. This is an advanced stage of identity-cause fusion.

**World-schema:** Hostile, conspiratorial, zero-sum. The domestic "THUGS" are explicitly coded as *worse than foreign adversaries* ("none of which are as evil and 'sick' as the THUGS we have inside our Country"), inverting the conventional Christmas-goodwill-toward-all formula into an in-group/out-group sortition ritual.

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### Level 3 — Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Warrior-Victim hybrid. The post oscillates rapidly — he is being persecuted ("WITCH HUNT," "poorly executed"), yet simultaneously towers over his enemies in moral clarity and strength. This is the classic narcissistic oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states within a single communication.

**Contamination sequence:** "our once great USA" is the keystone phrase — America was good, it has been contaminated by a named set of internal enemies, and the audience is invited to share the author's grief and fury at this desecration.

**Identity claims:** "TRUMP" and "MAGA" are placed in quotation marks as targets of prosecution — a rhetorical move that conflates personal legal jeopardy with collective political identity. The implicit message: attacking me is attacking you.

**Contrasting other:** An unusual multi-tiered construction — Jack Smith (personal legal enemy) < world leaders (bad but understandable) < domestic "THUGS" (maximally evil). This hierarchy makes the domestic political opposition more threatening than authoritarian foreign leaders, which functions as a legitimizing frame for extreme response.

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### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):**

- *Narcissistic features:* Grandiosity implicit throughout; entitlement to immunity from prosecution framed as civilizational necessity; devaluation of all opponents to subhuman status.
- *Antisocial features:* Contempt for legal process ("poorly executed WITCH HUNT"); no acknowledgment of legitimate institutional authority; framing rule of law as weaponization.
- *Paranoid features:* Persecution narrative fully elaborated — Biden, Jack Smith, Monaco, and unnamed "THUGS" are all coordinating against him. The Colorado ballot ruling (December 19) is a fresh, concrete narcissistic injury that amplifies paranoid framing.
- *Ego-syntonic sadism:* "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" directed at named adversaries on Christmas Day is the clearest sadistic marker in this post. The pleasure of the curse is evident in its capitalization, its placement, and its cheerful bookending with seasonal salutations. This is dominance-display cruelty performed openly.

**Narcissistic State:** Mixed, oscillating. The opening frames vulnerability (Biden has "ONLY HOPE" in Smith — Trump is under siege). The middle pivots to grandiosity (his adversaries are uniquely evil; he sees through them). The finale is a dominance explosion. This oscillation within a single post is characteristic of malignant narcissistic instability under stress.

**Trigger Analysis:** Multiple converging narcissistic injuries are operative:
1. **Colorado Supreme Court ruling (December 19)** — first-ever ballot disqualification under the 14th Amendment, framing him as an insurrectionist; this is a profound exposure injury
2. **Jack Smith's election case** — ongoing threat of criminal accountability
3. **The "outside attorneys" development** — interpreted as a sign Smith is escalating rather than retreating

**Narcissistic Rage:** Present, intense (intensity: 0.85). The response — "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" — is wildly disproportionate to the ostensible trigger (a prosecutor hiring outside counsel). The rage target is diffuse (Jack Smith, Biden, unnamed "THUGS"), suggesting the rage has exceeded any proportionate object-relation and is now flooding outward.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (Immature):** Attributes destructive intent ("looking to destroy our once great USA") to opponents while the post itself contains eliminationist rhetoric.

**Splitting (Immature):** Perfect black-and-white division — world leaders "good and bad," but domestic opponents are categorically "evil and sick" beyond comparison to any foreign adversary.

**Distortion (Pathological):** The entire framing of Jack Smith as "Deranged" and "poorly executed" constitutes gross reality distortion — a special counsel appointed under DOJ regulations pursuing indictments upheld on multiple initial legal challenges is reframed as a lunatic's incoherent vendetta.

**Denial (Pathological):** No acknowledgment that legal proceedings have any legitimacy whatsoever.

**Rationalization (Neurotic):** The holiday-greeting frame provides thin rhetorical cover for what is substantively a political attack, offering a plausible-deniability narrative ("I was just sending Christmas wishes to everyone").

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## Cognitive Status

**Baseline context:** Trump's baseline speech/writing (1980s-2000s) showed longer, more syntactically complex sentences, broader vocabulary, and more coherent argumentative sequencing. Current writing reflects a narrower vocabulary range, shorter clause structures, and heavier reliance on epithets as cognitive shortcuts.

**Present markers:**
- *Perseveration:* The grievance list ("Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam...") is a well-documented perseverative pattern repeated across dozens of posts with minimal variation — formulaic rather than generative
- *Tangentiality:* The pivot from Jack Smith → world leaders → domestic policy laundry list lacks coherent transitional logic
- *Complexity:* Vocabulary and syntactic complexity consistent with recent baseline; no marked acute deviation detected in this post

**Assessment:** No acute cognitive change detectable relative to recent baseline. Perseveration pattern is chronic, not acute.

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## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis

**Core device — ironic holiday frame:** The Christmas greeting wrapper is not incidental; it functions as a delivery mechanism for aggression that would be jarring in isolation, and as a loyalty test: "normal" Christmas messages do not include eliminationist curses. Accepting this message as appropriate Christmas content requires ideological commitment.

**Dehumanization:** "THUGS," "Lunatic," "evil and sick" applied to named and unnamed political opponents.

**Eliminationist rhetoric:** "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" is unambiguous eliminationist language — directed at a set of people including named individuals (Jack Smith) and an unnamed class ("THUGS inside our Country"). This exceeds hyperbole into the zone of ritualized condemnation.

**Grievance list (RAND Firehose):** The compressed policy laundry list ("Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes...") follows the volume/velocity model — overwhelming the audience with assertion-density, precluding analytical engagement.

**False dichotomy:** Domestic political opponents explicitly coded as more dangerous than foreign adversaries, forcing a binary choice between Trump's coalition and civilizational destruction.

**Nostalgia appeal:** "once great USA" activates the core MAGA mythological frame — restoration of a lost paradise from a state of contaminated present.

**Ad hominem:** Every opponent named exclusively by pejorative epithet. No substantive policy counter-argument is offered anywhere in the post.

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## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

The post's framing of all legal proceedings as illegitimate political weaponization ("WITCH HUNT") is the post's central reality distortion. Jack Smith is a court-appointed special counsel; the outside attorneys were engaged for legitimate legal reasons; Biden's Justice Department maintained formal independence structures (contested, but that is the documented institutional design). The claim that Biden "illegally" directed prosecution of Trump is asserted without evidence and requires the audience to accept it as obvious.

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## Jungian Archetypal Analysis

**Warrior archetype dominant:** Surrounded by enemies, fighting for civilization, no ceasefire possible.

**Victim archetype present:** Persecution narrative, "WITCH HUNT" framing.

**Shadow projection:** The traits most visible in the post — dehumanization, eliminationist rage, contempt for rule of law — are projected entirely onto opponents ("THUGS," "evil and sick"). The post's own aggression is rendered invisible through this projection.

**Mythological narrative:** The Contamination/Return myth — America was great, it has been corrupted by internal enemies, the warrior-savior will restore it. "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" functions as ritual purification language, not mere hyperbole — casting out the contaminating element so the body politic can be healed.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

This post simultaneously attacks the existing order (Biden's DOJ, Jack Smith's office, named officials) as illegitimate/corrupt, while positioning itself as the voice of a *proper* order being unlawfully displaced. The asymmetry: order (law, norms, institutions) is for "MAGA" and "real Americans"; chaos and persecution are what the "THUGS" deserve.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated → High**

The "MAY THEY ROT IN HELL" formulation is eliminationist language directed at named (Jack Smith) and unnamed but identifiable ("THUGS inside our Country") targets. While it does not constitute explicit incitement, it:
1. Dehumanizes named adversaries to demonic status
2. Ritually curses them in front of a large audience
3. Frames them as uniquely threatening to civilization
4. Provides a moral framework for extreme response by susceptible third parties

The combination of named target + dehumanization + civilizational urgency framing meets the basic parameters of stochastic terrorism risk elevation, even without explicit calls to action.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jack Smith hired outside attorneys" | **Mostly True** | Smith's office did engage outside counsel for aspects of the prosecution; characterization as 'SWAMP' is editorial |
| "Hiring outside attorneys is unprecedented for a special counsel" | **Mostly True** | Unusual practice for a special counsel's office, though not formally prohibited |
| "Biden illegally using levers of law enforcement against Trump" | **Mostly False** | No documented evidence of direct Biden direction of prosecutorial decisions; DOJ maintained formal independence protocols |
| "Open Borders" | **Mostly False** | Border enforcement remained active; record crossings occurred but characterizing this as open borders significantly distorts documented policy |
| "No Energy Independence" | **Mostly False** | U.S. was world's largest oil producer throughout Biden administration; energy independence metrics remained high despite policy differences |
| "Afghanistan Surrender" | **Half True** | Withdrawal was chaotic and widely criticized; 'surrender' collapses complex policy into rhetorical frame that ignores prior Trump administration Doha Agreement context |

Overall Veracity: 45%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis throughout consistent with authentic pattern
- Nickname arsenal deployed (Crooked Joe, Deranged Jack Smith, SWAMP)
- Holiday greeting weaponized as attack vehicle — classic authentic structural move
- MAY THEY ROT IN HELL outburst inconsistent with aide-written polish
- Stream-of-consciousness grievance list with no coherent transitional logic

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court ballot disqualification (Dec 19) + Jack Smith election case escalation)

**Rage:** Intensity 87% targeting Jack Smith, Biden administration, unnamed domestic political opponents
- Proportionality: 10%

Sentiment: -0.82

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Five posts on Christmas Day — elevated output frequency
- MAY THEY ROT IN HELL on Christmas — marked inhibition reduction
- Pressured run-on quality of grievance list
- Rapid tonal oscillation within single post (greeting → rage → greeting)
- Impulsive public expression of eliminationist sentiment

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 75%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 78%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Identity-cause fusion (TRUMP = MAGA = you)
- Civilizational stakes framing (your survival depends on this)
- In-group loyalty test via holiday greeting weaponization
- Shared enemy construction across multiple named and unnamed targets

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- MAY THEY ROT IN HELL directed at named individual (Jack Smith) and unnamed class of political opponents
- Dehumanization: THUGS, Lunatic, evil and sick applied to identifiable targets
- Explicit framing of domestic opponents as more dangerous than all foreign adversaries — moral license for extreme response
- Civilizational urgency framing removes proportionality constraints on audience response
- Named target (Jack Smith) + grievance articulation + eliminationist language = stochastic terrorism risk elevation
- Large audience amplification of ritualized condemnation on culturally significant date

### Gaslighting

- WITCH HUNT label applied to court-appointed special counsel with upheld indictments
- Framing Biden DOJ as illegally directed against Trump — asserted as obvious without evidence
- Deranged Jack Smith — attacking prosecutor's sanity to delegitimize legal process
- Poorly executed — framing competent legal proceedings as incompetent to deny their validity

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (6)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Jack Smith hired outside attorneys

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Smith's office did engage outside counsel for aspects of the prosecution; characterization as 'SWAMP' is editorial

Sources: Known events context — Jack Smith case coverage

> Hiring outside attorneys is unprecedented for a special counsel

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Unusual practice for a special counsel's office, though not formally prohibited

Sources: General legal knowledge

> Biden illegally using levers of law enforcement against Trump

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No documented evidence of direct Biden direction of prosecutorial decisions; DOJ maintained formal independence protocols

Sources: General knowledge of DOJ special counsel independence framework

> Open Borders

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Border enforcement remained active; record crossings occurred but characterizing this as open borders significantly distorts documented policy

Sources: General knowledge of 2023 border policy

> No Energy Independence

**MOSTLY FALSE**

U.S. was world's largest oil producer throughout Biden administration; energy independence metrics remained high despite policy differences

Sources: General knowledge of U.S. energy production statistics

> Afghanistan Surrender

**HALF TRUE**

Withdrawal was chaotic and widely criticized; 'surrender' collapses complex policy into rhetorical frame that ignores prior Trump administration Doha Agreement context

Sources: General knowledge of Afghanistan withdrawal

Overall Veracity: 45%

## Tags

- eliminationist-rhetoric (92%)
- malignant-narcissism (88%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (85%)
- holiday-weaponization (83%)
- sadistic-display (81%)
- dehumanization (80%)
- stochastic-terrorism-risk (76%)
- colorado-ballot-ruling-response (74%)
- jack-smith-targeting (72%)
- identity-cause-fusion (70%)
- grievance-list-perseveration (65%)
- contamination-narrative (68%)

## 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). Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642745146668045
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY..." Truth Social, 25 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642745146668045. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY...," Truth Social, December 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111642745146668045.

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