# Post ts_111653218425315183

- Post ID: `ts_111653218425315183`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-27T16:01:48.139Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> “The Never Trump movement has LOST-now get out of our way, we’ve got a country to save”

## Media

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## Engagement

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

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:02:57.062Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Acutely grandiose-phase post triggered by the Michigan Supreme Court's December 27 ballot-ruling victory and the concurrent Colorado SCOTUS appeal filing. The 17-word construction achieves textbook splitting (defeated Never Trumpers vs. victorious movement), pathological distortion (declaring an active political movement categorically finished), and messianic savior framing ("country to save") in minimal text. The command "get out of our way" directed at fellow Republicans positions intraparty dissenters as illegitimate obstacles rather than political participants — a pattern with mild eliminationist undertones in aggregate. Authorship is lean-authentic despite 11:01 AM EST timing, given the day's saturated personal posting pattern and strong stylistic fingerprint. No cognitive markers of concern; fully consistent with established baseline. Danger assessed as elevated due to commanding dismissal of named political opponents combined with high-stakes national-salvation framing.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_111653218425315183
**Date:** December 27, 2023 | **Age:** 77 | **Platform:** Truth Social

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## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Lean authentic (0.65), medium confidence**

The UTC timestamp (16:01) converts to **11:01 AM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (Trump's presumed location during the Christmas-to-New Year's holiday period). Business-hours posting is a mild aide-authorship indicator. However, the stylistic profile is strongly authentic: the em-dash splice, ALL CAPS emotional emphasis, imperative mood, and slogan-like cadence align with Trump's documented personal style. The day's saturated posting pattern — multiple emotionally reactive posts celebrating court victories and amplifying flattering headlines — is consistent with Trump posting personally during perceived triumph cycles.

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## Context & Trigger
On December 27, the Michigan Supreme Court denied the Democratic attempt to remove Trump from the ballot, and the Colorado Republican Party filed its SCOTUS appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling. These constitute a cluster of perceived victories against ballot-removal efforts, providing potent narcissistic supply — external validation that the "persecution" campaign against Trump is failing. This post is the triumphalist punctuation on that day's legal narrative.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
| Trait | Salience | Evidence |
|-------|----------|----------|
| **Extraversion** | High (0.85) | Assertive, dominant, commanding register |
| **Agreeableness** | Very Low (0.10) | Zero acknowledgment of opponents' legitimacy; dismissive command |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low (0.30) | Impulsive, unpolished; no deliberation markers |
| **Neuroticism** | High (0.70) | Emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS, urgency |
| **Openness** | Low (0.15) | Binary framing; rigid categorical thinking |

**Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (Extraversion facet) combined with angry hostility (Neuroticism facet)

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives** dominate entirely (estimated 0.90 vs communion 0.10). The post is a pure power assertion: claiming victory, issuing commands, defining the movement's trajectory. There is no communion content — no appeal to shared values or community bonds beyond instrumental "we."

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self-schema:* Unconquerable, historically destined victor
- *Other-schema (enemy):* Defeated, illegitimate obstacle
- *World-schema:* Zero-sum contest; losers must yield

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The victor-savior. Trump positions himself (and by extension, his movement) as having definitively won a battle, now pivoting immediately to the next heroic task (saving the country).

**Narrative sequence:** This is a **redemption pivot** — the ongoing contamination sequence (persecution, ballot removal, lawfare) is declared resolved ("LOST"), enabling immediate transition to forward-moving redemption arc. The post is a narrative hinge point.

**Identity claims:**
- "We" are the winners and the rightful leaders
- "We" have a mission of national salvation
- Never Trumpers are not merely wrong but obstacles

**Contrasting other:** The Never Trump movement — defined here solely by their defeat, stripped of any substantive policy identity.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)
- **Narcissistic features (0.75):** Grandiosity, entitlement to command opponents' behavior, messianic self-positioning, no empathic acknowledgment of opponents' concerns
- **Antisocial features (0.30):** Disregard for democratic legitimacy of dissent within own party; treating intraparty opposition as illegitimate obstacle
- **Paranoid features (0.20):** Low in this post; no persecution emphasis (grandiose phase, not vulnerable)
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (0.25):** Mild pleasure in declaring enemies "LOST" — performative capitalization functions as humiliation display

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**State:** Acutely **grandiose** — no vulnerable features present. The trigger is perceived victory (supply), not injury, producing expansive dominance expression rather than defensive rage.

**Rage:** Minimal; this is contemptuous dismissal rather than rage. The command "get out of our way" carries disdain but not the white-hot quality of injury-triggered posts (cf. same-day "ROT IN HELL" Christmas messaging, which showed more intense affect).

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Splitting (immature):** Never Trumpers are monolithically defeated; the movement is monolithically victorious — no gradation
2. **Distortion (pathological):** An ongoing, contested political movement is declared categorically finished — external reality reshaped to meet internal need for closure and dominance
3. **Idealization (immature):** "We" (the MAGA movement) are the unchallenged legitimate agents of national salvation

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## Cognitive Status
No markers of concern in this post. The construction is deliberately simple but internally coherent. Vocabulary is rudimentary by design (rhetorical, not cognitively constrained). The em-dash construction, while unpolished, is purposeful. **Baseline deviation: none.**

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)
**Primary archetypes:**
- **Hero/Savior:** "we've got a country to save" — the messianic quest frame
- **King (victorious):** issuing commands from a position of declared supremacy
- **Warrior (transitional):** the battle is declared won; now marching to the next

**Shadow projection:** The Never Trump movement receives the projected qualities of betrayal and obstruction — qualities that might be attributed to Trump's own behavior in opposing legitimate intraparty processes.

**Mythological narrative:** The returning champion who has defeated internal traitors and now mobilizes for the larger civilizational battle.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics
- **Positioning:** Order restorer. Trump claims the chaotic period of "Never Trump" resistance is over; proper order (his dominance) is restored.
- **Asymmetric application:** Order is promised to "real Americans" (implied in "our way," "country to save"); Never Trumpers are positioned as outside the legitimate polity
- **Grievance intensity:** Low in this post — grievance has been displaced by triumph

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
The declarative "has LOST" functions as mild gaslighting — it demands acceptance of a contested claim (the Never Trump movement's defeat) as settled fact. The Never Trump movement was demonstrably still active as of December 2023 (Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis were mounting primary challenges; conservative voices like the Bulwark remained prominent). The claim requires followers to perceive a living political movement as dead.

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## Danger Assessment
**Level: Elevated**

The command "get out of our way" directed at a named political category of Americans — combined with the framing of opponents as obstacles to a national-salvation mission — carries mild eliminationist undertones. This does not rise to direct incitement, but the pattern of positioning intraparty dissenters as illegitimate obstacles to be cleared is consistent with rhetoric that, at higher intensity, has preceded political violence targeting perceived enemies of the movement. The messianic "country to save" framing elevates stakes in ways that historically correlate with increased follower license to act against perceived obstacles.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Never Trump movement has LOST" | **Mostly False** | As of December 27, 2023, multiple primary challengers remained in the field (Haley, DeSantis, Ramaswamy) and prominent Never Trump institutions (The Bulwark, The Dispatch, Republicans for Ukraine) remained active and influential. While Michigan denied the ballot-removal attempt, the Colorado Supreme Court had ruled against Trump (under appeal), and the SCOTUS resolution was pending. The movement had not categorically 'LOST' — this is political spin elevated to declarative fact. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Summary
This 17-word post is a textbook grandiose-phase narcissistic triumph display triggered by the Michigan Supreme Court's December 27 ballot-ruling victory. Trump deploys classic splitting (defeated enemy / victorious movement), distortion (declaring a living political movement categorically finished), and the savior/hero archetype ("a country to save") to fuse triumphalism with forward mission momentum. The authorship profile is lean-authentic despite business-hour timing, given the day's saturated personal posting pattern and strong stylistic fingerprint. Clinically, the post is notable for its economy of dominance expression: maximum entitlement ("get out of our way"), maximum grandiosity ("country to save"), and performative humiliation ("LOST") compressed into minimal text. Danger is elevated but not high — the command to "get out of the way" directed at fellow Republican dissenters contributes to a normalization of treating intraparty opposition as illegitimate obstacles to be removed rather than legitimate voices to be persuaded. No cognitive markers of concern are present; this is consistent with Trump's established baseline communication style.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emotional emphasis ('LOST') is a reliable authentic Trump marker
- Punchy, unpolished dash construction ('LOST-now') consistent with stream-of-consciousness style
- Slogan-like cadence ('we've got a country to save') mirrors rally speech patterns
- Post time 11:01 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago, Florida) falls in business hours, slightly favoring aide attribution
- However, the brevity, emotional charge, and lack of polish pull toward authenticity

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Michigan Supreme Court ruling denying ballot removal; Colorado appeal filed same day)

Sentiment: +0.45

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- High-volume posting day (6+ posts) with emotionally escalating content
- Triumphalist affect with minimal deliberation
- Rapid transitions between legal commentary, victory declarations, and amplification of flattering headlines
- Pressured quality across the day's posting pattern

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' ('we've got a country to save') fuses speaker and audience into single heroic unit
- Triumph-sharing: positions followers as co-victors in defeat of shared enemy
- Urgency framing creates sense of ongoing mission requiring continued allegiance

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Get out of our way' directed at a named category of political Americans — positions dissenters as obstacles to be cleared
- Messianic 'country to save' framing elevates stakes and implies followers have license to act against 'obstacles'
- Normalization of treating intraparty opposition as illegitimate (not merely wrong, but in the way)
- Pattern across same-day posts shows consistent enemy-definition and elimination framing (cf. 'ROT IN HELL' Christmas message to adversaries)

### Gaslighting

- Declarative 'has LOST' demands audience accept contested political claim as objective reality
- Treats intraparty dissent as finished — DARVO light: converts those raising concerns about Trump into the defeated losers
- Attacks on opponents' perceived legitimacy ('get out of our way') frames their continued existence as abnormal

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The Never Trump movement has LOST

**MOSTLY FALSE**

As of December 27, 2023, multiple primary challengers remained in the field (Haley, DeSantis, Ramaswamy) and prominent Never Trump institutions (The Bulwark, The Dispatch, Republicans for Ukraine) remained active and influential. While Michigan denied the ballot-removal attempt, the Colorado Supreme Court had ruled against Trump (under appeal), and the SCOTUS resolution was pending. The movement had not categorically 'LOST' — this is political spin elevated to declarative fact.

Sources: General knowledge: 2024 Republican primary field as of December 2023; Provided context: Michigan Supreme Court ruling, Colorado appeal filed December 27

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- grandiosity (90%)
- triumphalism (85%)
- splitting (85%)
- messianic_framing (80%)
- never_trump (90%)
- ballot_removal (75%)
- savior_archetype (80%)
- command_rhetoric (75%)
- reality_distortion (70%)
- supply_seeking (65%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Immunity on Repeat: Legal Siege Drives Multi-Wave Grievance Campaign from Mar-a-Lago**

Trump spent the day in full legal-defense mode from Mar-a-Lago, posting 28 times as the Colorado ballot case reached the Supreme Court and Jack Smith pressed forward with prosecution. The morning and afternoon were dominated by repeated -- sometimes near-identical -- claims of election fraud and presidential immunity demands, interspersed with attacks on prosecutors, a congresswoman, and primary rivals. He celebrated Michigan's favorable ballot ruling but framed it through a persecution lens, and lashed out at a director who contradicted his account of a movie cameo. The evening wound down into a familiar pattern of sharing favorable polls, supporter quotes, and MAGA slogans. The day's most striking feature was the sheer repetition of the same grievance list across multiple posts, suggesting genuine psychological distress rather than strategic messaging.

Full digest for 2023-12-27: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 27). “The Never Trump movement has LOST-now get out of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111653218425315183
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“The Never Trump movement has LOST-now get out of our way,..." Truth Social, 27 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111653218425315183. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“The Never Trump movement has LOST-now get out of our way,...," Truth Social, December 27, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111653218425315183.

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