# Post ts_111648439277354695 - Post ID: `ts_111648439277354695` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-26T19:46:24.129Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111648439277354695 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111648439277354695/analysis ## Post text > https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/121918/donald-trump-ally-colorado-primary-ban-poll-lead-democrats ## Engagement - Likes: 7,341 - Reposts: 1,877 - Replies: 141 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:02:26.459Z (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 — 2023-12-26T19:46:24Z ## Overview This post consists solely of a hyperlink to a *The Express* article covering the political fallout of the Colorado Supreme Court's December 19, 2023 ruling disqualifying Trump from the state's 2024 primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. The article reportedly frames the ruling as a political gift to Trump and highlights his sustained or improved poll leads in its aftermath. The absence of any original text renders direct psychological inference minimal. The post's significance is primarily **architectural**: it is the fifth link-share on the Colorado disqualification theme in a single day, forming part of a coordinated messaging campaign documented across the surrounding posts. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Very likely aide-written (Scavino or equivalent). Confidence: High.** - **Local time:** 2:46 PM EST (Mar-a-Lago, Christmas week). Deep inside business hours. - **No personal text.** This is the decisive marker. Trump's authentic posts — even when sharing articles — nearly always append emotional commentary. A bare URL is a social media manager's queue entry, not Trump's voice. - **Strategic framing without emotional exposure.** The article selection converts the Colorado injury into a supply-delivering narrative (poll leads, political gift) without requiring Trump to directly acknowledge or emotionally process the threat. --- ## Psychological Context Though Trump almost certainly did not personally write this post, its curation reveals campaign psychological strategy. The day's posting sequence constructs a DARVO-adjacent counter-narrative around the Colorado ruling: 1. **Victimhood layer** (McCarthy quotes): The case violates due process; it should not exist. 2. **Cross-partisan legitimacy** (Chait quote): Even liberals oppose it; this validates Trump's framing. 3. **Dominance layer** (this post + NBC link): Polls show it is backfiring — Trump is winning anyway. This tripartite structure converts a genuine existential legal threat into evidence of invincibility. It serves grandiose narcissistic supply without triggering visible narcissistic rage — a more regulated presentation than Trump's authentic Christmas Day posts ("ROT IN HELL"). --- ## Cognitive Status No assessable language production in this post. Baseline comparison not applicable. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump has a poll lead despite Colorado ballot ban" | **Mostly True** | WSJ December 2023 poll showed Trump leading Biden 47-43% nationally; ahead in all 7 key swing states per historian-researched events. Causal attribution of lead to the ban is editorial speculation. | | "Colorado primary ban enacted" | **True** | Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on December 19, 2023 to remove Trump from 2024 primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3. | Overall Veracity: 90% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No incitement, dehumanization, or eliminationist language present. --- ## Summary Not clinically significant as a standalone post. The post is an aide-curated link share executed during business hours with no original text. Its analytical value lies in its placement within a structured day-long messaging cluster designed to neutralize the narcissistic injury of the Colorado ballot disqualification by reframing it as a polling advantage. The psychological work here is strategic rather than expressive. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - 2:46 PM EST posting time — squarely within business hours for Mar-a-Lago/EST timezone - Post contains zero personal text: pure URL share with no emotional commentary, no ALL CAPS, no epithets - Bare URL shares without any appended reaction text are strongly inconsistent with authentic Trump posting style - Aide curation workflow (Scavino or equivalent) routinely posts link-only entries as social media feed filler ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court ballot disqualification ruling (December 19, 2023)) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit validation-seeking through poll data amplification - Delegated messaging: aide posts article so Trump need not engage directly with the injury ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump has a poll lead despite Colorado ballot ban **MOSTLY TRUE** WSJ December 2023 poll showed Trump leading Biden 47-43% nationally; ahead in all 7 key swing states per historian-researched events. Causal attribution of lead to the ban is editorial speculation. Sources: WSJ December 2023 poll; Historian-researched events for period > Colorado primary ban enacted **TRUE** Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on December 19, 2023 to remove Trump from 2024 primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3. Sources: Historian-researched events Overall Veracity: 90% ## Tags - Colorado ballot disqualification (90%) - 14th Amendment Section 3 (80%) - aide-authored (90%) - polling data amplification (70%) - supply-seeking via curation (60%) - injury-to-victory reframe (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Boxing Day Damage Control: 42-Post Defensive Barrage Conceals a Single Volcanic Eruption at Jack Smith** Trump's team ran a tightly choreographed content dump the day after Christmas, flooding Truth Social with over 40 articles and quotes defending against the Colorado ballot removal ruling from a week earlier. The posts alternated between grievance material framing the court decision as "lawfare" and flattering polls showing commanding primary leads. One post broke sharply from the curated tone -- a raw, all-caps tirade telling Special Counsel Jack Smith to "go to HELL" -- revealing the anger simmering beneath the managed surface. The overall mood was defensive but controlled, with staff doing the heavy lifting while Trump himself appeared to intervene only once, and explosively. Full digest for 2023-12-26: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 26). https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/121918/d... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111648439277354695 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/121918/donald-trum..." Truth Social, 26 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111648439277354695. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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