# Post ts_111655925008399856 - Post ID: `ts_111655925008399856` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-28T03:30:07.357Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111655925008399856 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111655925008399856/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111655925008399856.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > With today’s WIN in the Great State of Michigan, we are 35 and 1. Colorado’s voters are very embarrassed by what has taken place. If they didn’t have an essentially all Mail-In vote, I would WIN Colorado. The people there are GREAT!!! ## Engagement - Likes: 19,406 - Reposts: 4,533 - Replies: 850 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T17:27:20.764Z (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 late-night authentic Trump post (22:30 EST at Mar-a-Lago) responds to the Colorado Supreme Court's 14th Amendment ballot removal ruling through a characteristic narcissistic injury response sequence. A Michigan legal victory is immediately elevated and framed as a 35-1 sports record — converting constitutional adjudication into a dominance metric where the score, not the reasoning, constitutes truth. The Colorado response deploys three interlocking defenses: rationalization (mail-in voting counterfactual preserving grandiose self-concept), mild DARVO (Colorado's voters are "embarrassed," implying the ruling was done to them against their will), and splitting (corrupt electoral apparatus vs. GREAT people). Notable is the complete absence of any engagement with the 14th Amendment substance — the legal argument is entirely bypassed in favor of mechanism-attribution. The grandiose-vulnerable oscillation within a single brief paragraph is clinically characteristic: triumph (35-1) → defensive counterfactual → restored affirmation. The "35-1" framing exemplifies the subject's consistent epistemological pattern across domains: all adversarial proceedings are reprocessed as performance contests where the score supersedes reasoning. No cognitive red flags beyond slightly below-baseline logical coherence consistent with reactive late-night posting. No danger indicators present. # Analysis: Truth Social, 2023-12-28 (ts_111655925008399856) ## Authorship Attribution Posted at 03:30 UTC on December 28, which converts to approximately **22:30 EST on December 27** — Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago for the holiday period. Late-night posting in his local timezone is a strong authentic marker. Additional stylistic signals reinforce this: ALL CAPS emphasis ("WIN," "GREAT"), a sports-record construction ("35 and 1") that mirrors his authentic rhetorical tics, abrupt logical pivots, triple exclamation points, and a trailing affirmation ("The people there are GREAT!!!") characteristic of unmediated Trump posting. No aide would write this. Confidence: **high**. --- ## Trigger and Psychological State This post is a direct response to paired narcissistic injuries: the Colorado Supreme Court's 14th Amendment ruling removing him from the ballot (and, overlapping in time, Maine's Secretary of State ruling the same day). The Michigan ballot eligibility ruling is immediately mobilized as **compensatory narcissistic supply**, framed as a sporting win-loss record (35–1) that converts constitutional legal proceedings into a dominance metric. The narcissistic state is **mixed**: grandiose in the Michigan framing, rapidly pivoting to a vulnerable-defensive posture in the Colorado section. This oscillation within a single brief post is characteristic of the **grandiose-vulnerable cycling** pattern documented in narcissistic personality organization — injury is absorbed, briefly, then covered by an aggressive counterfactual that restores the grandiose self. The **trigger type is narcissistic injury** — specifically, exposure of defeat via a legitimate institutional process. Trump's response contains zero engagement with the legal substance (14th Amendment / insurrection clause). The injury is processed and expelled entirely through compensatory mechanisms. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Primary — Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3):** "If they didn't have an essentially all Mail-In vote, I would WIN Colorado." This constructs a logical-seeming counterfactual that absorbs the defeat without acknowledging it. The syllogism runs: *I would have won → they cheated with mail → therefore I did not truly lose*. Classic rationalization: emotionally unacceptable reality is rendered acceptable through pseudological justification. **Secondary — Denial/Distortion (pathological, Level 1):** "Colorado's voters are very embarrassed by what has taken place." This inverts the meaning of the ruling: rather than representing a legitimate legal judgment, the Colorado Supreme Court decision is recast as something done *to* Colorado's voters, against their will, causing them shame. A mild DARVO structure — the institutional action is reversed so that Colorado's *legal system*, not Trump, becomes the embarrassing party. **Tertiary — Splitting (immature, Level 2):** The legal/electoral apparatus of Colorado is implicitly corrupt (mail-in voting enables cheating), while the *people* of Colorado are "GREAT." This is politically functional splitting: it allows rejection of the ruling without alienating potential voters, preserving both the grandiose narrative and the electoral appeal simultaneously. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion**: High — assertiveness, dominance-signaling ("WIN"), positive affect toward crowds ("GREAT") - **Agreeableness**: Low — dismissiveness toward the Colorado legal system; no acknowledgment of legitimacy - **Conscientiousness**: Low — reactive, impulsive, logically thin - **Neuroticism**: Moderately elevated — defensive reactivity, counterfactual wishful thinking - **Openness**: Low — rigid explanatory schema (mail-in voting = fraud), no engagement with opposing argument --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** dominate entirely: power (framing all legal proceedings as a contest to be won), status (win-loss record), autonomy (resistance to institutional constraint). **Communion motives** appear instrumentally: "The people there are GREAT!!!" is audience maintenance, not genuine intimacy. **Schema revealed:** Adversarial legal proceedings are sporting contests. Institutions that rule against him are corrupt or manipulated. The will of "the people" is always aligned with Trump; therefore any institutional ruling against Trump must misrepresent or be imposed upon the people. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Winner/fighter — the 35-1 record frames Trump as a dominant competitor in an ongoing contest - **Sequence type:** Contamination with reactive redemption — Colorado win is re-narrated as rigged context, not genuine loss - **Contrasting other:** Colorado's legal/electoral system (mail-in apparatus), implicitly contrasted with "the people" who are "GREAT" - **Identity claims:** "I am winning everywhere; the only losses are manufactured by rigged systems" --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The **"35 and 1" construction** is this post's most analytically significant element. It converts constitutional adjudication into a sports box score, eliminating the distinction between legitimacy and mere outcome. What matters under this frame is not the legal reasoning — it is the win/loss record. This is consistent with Trump's broader epistemological pattern: all adversarial processes are performance contests, and the score is the truth. The **mail-in voting counterfactual** performs multiple functions simultaneously: (1) explains anticipated future Colorado general election losses; (2) seeds continued doubt about mail ballots as a category; (3) sidesteps the 14th Amendment substance entirely; (4) preserves the grandiose self-concept against the injury. **"Colorado's voters are very embarrassed"** is attribution of emotion to a population in a direction that conveniently supports the speaker's narrative — a rhetorical move that is simultaneously gaslighting (claiming others feel what serves your argument) and supply-extraction (framing their imagined embarrassment as validation of his position). --- ## Cognitive Status The post shows **mild tangentiality** — abrupt pivots from Michigan victory → Colorado embarrassment → mail-in voting claim → voter quality affirmation, with thin connective tissue. Logical complexity is slightly below Trump's own baseline. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic errors, temporal confusion, or perseveration detected. The trailing "GREAT!!!" affirmation is a recognized authentic pattern. **No clinically significant cognitive markers** beyond the slightly below-average structural coherence, which is within normal reactive-posting range for this subject. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "We are 35 and 1 in ballot eligibility rulings" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with contemporaneous reporting on Trump's record in ballot eligibility cases as of December 2023; Colorado Supreme Court ruling was the primary documented loss. Precise count difficult to independently verify but widely reported in this range. | | "Colorado has an essentially all Mail-In vote" | **Half True** | Colorado does conduct elections primarily by mail — all registered voters automatically receive mail ballots. The mechanical description is largely accurate. However, the implication that this systematically disadvantages Trump is contested and unsupported by evidence. | | "Colorado's voters are very embarrassed by what has taken place" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective attribution of emotional state to a population. No polling data cited. Functions rhetorically as projection — attributing to voters the embarrassment Trump refuses to acknowledge in himself. | | "I would WIN Colorado without mail-in voting" | **Unverifiable** | Counterfactual political opinion with no empirical basis. Colorado's 2020 results showed Biden winning by approximately 13 points; Trump's counterfactual claim is inconsistent with polling and historical margins regardless of voting modality. | Overall Veracity: 57% ## Danger Assessment No eliminationist language, no dehumanization of persons, no stochastic terrorism indicators, no mobilization calls. Post is defensive/compensatory rather than aggressive-outward. **Danger level: none.** --- ## Summary This late-night post (22:30 EST, authentic Trump) responds to the Colorado Supreme Court's 14th Amendment ballot removal ruling — a significant narcissistic injury — through a rapid compensatory sequence: a Michigan legal victory is immediately framed as a 35-1 sports record, converting constitutional law into a dominance metric. The Colorado response deploys three interlocking defenses: rationalization (mail-in voting counterfactual preserving the grandiose self), mild DARVO (Colorado's voters are *embarrassed*, implying the ruling was done *to* them), and splitting (corrupt electoral apparatus vs. GREAT people). Notably absent is any engagement with the 14th Amendment substance — the legal argument is entirely bypassed in favor of mechanism-attribution (mail-in voting). The "35 and 1" framing is clinically notable as an example of the subject's consistent epistemological pattern: all adversarial proceedings — legal, electoral, institutional — are reprocessed as sporting contests where the score, not the reasoning, constitutes truth. The post's brief structure contains a characteristic grandiose-to-vulnerable oscillation within a single paragraph. No cognitive red flags beyond slightly below-baseline logical coherence consistent with reactive late-night posting. No danger indicators. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - Late-night posting (~22:30 EST at Mar-a-Lago) - ALL CAPS emphasis (WIN, GREAT) - Sports win-loss record construction (35 and 1) - Stream-of-consciousness logical pivots - Triple exclamation points trailing affirmation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court 14th Amendment ballot removal ruling) Sentiment: +0.30 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 68% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 38% - Sadism: 8% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% Cognitive Markers: - tangentiality **Parasocial Techniques:** - Win-loss record as crowd-pleasing dominance signal - "The people there are GREAT!!!" — audience inclusion and validation-seeking - Shared grievance about mail-in voting as group bonding mechanism ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - "Colorado's voters are very embarrassed by what has taken place" — attributes convenient emotional state to a population to delegitimize the ruling without engaging its substance - Implicit framing that the Colorado court acted against voters' will rather than as a legitimate constitutional body - Mail-in voting counterfactual functions to preemptively reframe any future Colorado losses as manufactured outcomes ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > We are 35 and 1 in ballot eligibility rulings **MOSTLY TRUE** Consistent with contemporaneous reporting on Trump's record in ballot eligibility cases as of December 2023; Colorado Supreme Court ruling was the primary documented loss. Precise count difficult to independently verify but widely reported in this range. Sources: contemporaneous news reporting on ballot eligibility litigation > Colorado has an essentially all Mail-In vote **HALF TRUE** Colorado does conduct elections primarily by mail — all registered voters automatically receive mail ballots. The mechanical description is largely accurate. However, the implication that this systematically disadvantages Trump is contested and unsupported by evidence. Sources: Colorado Secretary of State election procedures > Colorado's voters are very embarrassed by what has taken place **UNVERIFIABLE** Subjective attribution of emotional state to a population. No polling data cited. Functions rhetorically as projection — attributing to voters the embarrassment Trump refuses to acknowledge in himself. > I would WIN Colorado without mail-in voting **UNVERIFIABLE** Counterfactual political opinion with no empirical basis. Colorado's 2020 results showed Biden winning by approximately 13 points; Trump's counterfactual claim is inconsistent with polling and historical margins regardless of voting modality. Overall Veracity: 57% ## Tags - narcissistic-injury-response (92%) - ballot-eligibility (88%) - Colorado-14th-amendment (85%) - rationalization-defense (82%) - sports-record-framing (80%) - mail-in-voting-counterfactual (78%) - grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (75%) - DARVO (65%) - late-night-authentic (87%) - splitting-defense (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Siege from Two States, Trump Oscillates Between Scoreboard and Martyrdom** Trump spent the day reacting to Maine's decision to remove him from the primary ballot — the second state to do so after Colorado. His mood swung between defiant victory laps (boasting a "35 and 1" legal record) and dark grievance (calling the country "invaded," accusing prosecutors of persecution, and posting cryptic destruction imagery). The morning brought the angriest posts, with a lengthy attack on Jack Smith and an all-caps border screed, while the evening shifted to a rapid-fire cluster of curated media clips reinforcing a martyrdom narrative. Despite the legal pressure, the posting pace stayed within normal range and there were no signs of sleep disruption. Full digest for 2023-12-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 28). With today’s WIN in the Great State of Michigan,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111655925008399856 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "With today’s WIN in the Great State of Michigan, we are 35..." Truth Social, 28 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111655925008399856. 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