# Post ts_111664218791971356 - Post ID: `ts_111664218791971356` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-29T14:39:20.415Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111664218791971356 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111664218791971356/analysis ## Post text > https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/opinion-boom-boom-out-go-the-lights-deroy-murdock/ ## Engagement - Likes: 4,947 - Reposts: 1,485 - Replies: 126 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T17:31:28.755Z (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 URL-only post is almost certainly aide/Scavino-authored, posted at 9:39 AM EST during Trump's Mar-a-Lago holiday stay — firmly within business-hours scheduling patterns. The post contains zero original language, precluding direct psychological or cognitive assessment of Trump himself. Its significance lies in curation: this is the second Deroy Murdock piece shared in the same day's cluster (alongside five other conservative media URLs), and the title "Boom Boom Out Go the Lights" deploys a boxing knockout metaphor implying imminent defeat of unnamed opponents. This framing directly responds to the acute legal threat environment of December 28–29: Maine's Secretary of State removed Trump from the primary ballot the previous day, Colorado's ruling was at SCOTUS, and the Jack Smith immunity appeal was active. The communications strategy is displacement through delegation — aggressive retaliatory framing is carried by the pundit, maintaining Trump's plausible distance while sustaining the Warrior/Comeback archetype for his audience. The cumulative cluster of six same-day shares (elimination rhetoric, Hitler comparison defense, immigration expulsion language) suggests a coordinated counter-narrative operation rather than spontaneous expression. Epistemic closure is reinforced: all sources are within the conservative media ecosystem, presenting a unified reality of imminent Trump triumph. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-12-29T14:39Z ## Post Overview The post consists entirely of a single URL to a Daily Caller opinion piece by Deroy Murdock titled "Boom Boom Out Go the Lights" (published December 18, 2023). No original text accompanies the link. The article returned a 403 error on fetch; analysis proceeds on title, author, outlet, and contextual inference. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (high confidence, ~0.80)** | Factor | Assessment | |--------|-----------| | Local time (Mar-a-Lago, EST = UTC-5) | **09:39 AM** — core business hours | | Original text | None | | Typos/emotional markers | Absent | | Cluster context | Part of 6-URL same-day scheduling burst | Trump spends the Christmas–New Year period at Mar-a-Lago annually; December 29, 2023 is consistent with this pattern. The 9:39 AM local posting time, complete absence of original text, and placement within a coordinated multi-URL cluster all strongly indicate Dan Scavino or communications staff scheduling, not spontaneous Trump expression. --- ## Contextual Significance This is the **second Deroy Murdock share** in the same day's cluster. The December 22 Murdock piece Trump shared earlier that day was titled "Mess Around and Find Out — If Dems Can Remove Trump from Ballots, GOP Must Do the Same to Biden." The pairing is thematically deliberate: the December 22 piece articulates the retaliatory doctrine; the "Boom Boom" piece (December 18, now amplified December 29) delivers the knockout triumphalism. The timing is notable: Maine's Secretary of State removed Trump from the primary ballot on **December 28** — the day before this post. Colorado's ruling was before SCOTUS. The Jack Smith immunity appeal was active. This cluster functions as a coordinated counter-narrative operation during maximum legal pressure. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Insufficient original language for reliable Big Five assessment. Article selection pattern reflects: **low agreeableness** (competitive, aggressive framing), **high agency/dominance motivation**, and **approach orientation** (triumph rather than grievance in this particular piece). --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/agency.** The knockout metaphor ("boom boom out go the lights") frames the political contest as a physical domination event where Trump's side delivers the decisive blow. This sustains the power motive central to the subject's characteristic adaptation profile even in a staff-curated post. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Fighter/Comeback King (delegated to Murdock as proxy narrator) **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — the setbacks (ballot removals, indictments) are implicitly cast as temporary; the knockout punch is coming for opponents. **Contrasting other:** Unnamed opponents who will have the "lights go out" on them. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Displacement (neurotic):** Aggressive retaliatory impulse is redirected through a third-party pundit, avoiding direct Trump ownership of the violent metaphor. - **Rationalization (neurotic):** Conservative media amplification frames a reactive, legally embattled communications posture as proactive dominance. --- ## Clinical Indicators No direct text to assess. The curation pattern is consistent with **narcissistic supply maintenance** — favorable punditry functions as ambient admiration that does not require explicit self-promotion. The selection of a knockout metaphor during acute defeat (ballot removals) is consistent with **narcissistic injury response**: the communications apparatus deploys triumphalist content precisely when the reality is most threatening, maintaining the grandiose self-narrative against contrary evidence. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis - **Delegated rhetoric:** The pundit carries aggressive framing Trump cannot safely deliver in first person during active litigation. - **Violent/knockout metaphor:** "Boom boom out go the lights" — boxing knockout, opponent elimination imagery. - **Firehose model:** Sixth URL in same-day cluster; volume creates narrative momentum independent of any single piece's merit. - **Third-party endorsement laundering:** Conservative pundit voices what Trump's legal exposure prevents him from stating directly. **Dehumanizing language:** Not confirmed (article inaccessible). **Stochastic terrorism:** Not applicable at this level of indirection. --- ## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED The danger elevation is **cumulative and cluster-based** rather than intrinsic to this post alone. Within the same-day cluster: Gateway Pundit "send them all back" (expulsion language), Hitler-comparison defense (identity threat framing), and this knockout metaphor together constitute an ambient eliminationist rhetorical environment. No single post clears the "high" threshold independently, but the coordinated cluster warrants elevated classification. --- ## Cognitive Status **Not assessable** — no original language production. No deviation from the URL-share baseline pattern. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Warrior archetype** is sustained through proxy. The boxing knockout title invokes combat-to-finish mythology. In the context of Jungian political psychology, this post reinforces the Warrior/Hero archetype — the champion absorbing blows (ballot removals, indictments) while delivering the decisive knockout — even without Trump speaking directly. The archetype is being maintained by the communications apparatus as a narrative management function. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Order attacker / Order restorer:** The post positions Trump as the force that will knock out a corrupt establishment (represented by the officials removing him from ballots), while promising restoration of proper order. The chaos is externally attributed to the "lights going out" on opponents, not Trump's own situation. --- ## Epistemic Closure Confirmed. All six same-day shares draw exclusively from the conservative media ecosystem (Daily Caller ×2, Gateway Pundit, Just the News ×2, Newsmax). No external or contrary perspectives enter the amplification pattern. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 09:39 EST (UTC-5, Mar-a-Lago timezone — Trump spends Christmas/New Year holiday season there annually) - Business hours post (9:39 AM local) aligns strongly with aide/Scavino scheduling pattern - Zero original text — pure URL share with no emotional commentary, typos, or stream-of-consciousness - Clean, unadorned URL format consistent with curated media amplification by staff - Part of a coordinated same-day cluster of 6 favorable conservative media shares, suggesting scheduled queue ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court ballot removal (Dec 19) and Maine Secretary of State ballot removal (Dec 28)) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Delegated aggression — the pundit carries the violent knockout metaphor so Trump maintains plausible distance - Signal amplification — resharing creates the impression of an overwhelming consensus supporting Trump's position - Vicarious supply — favorable punditry functions as public admiration supply without requiring Trump to explicitly solicit it ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Boxing knockout title ('Boom Boom Out Go the Lights') participates in ambient eliminationist framing across same-day cluster - Second Deroy Murdock share in same cluster — Dec 22 Murdock piece explicitly called for GOP to remove Biden from ballots as retaliation; this piece extends the retaliatory/knockout theme - Cumulative cluster effect: Gateway Pundit 'send them all back' + knockout metaphor + Hitler-comparison defense + Jack Smith attack = aggressive multi-front framing of opponents as targets **Violent Imagery Present** ## Tags - aide-authored (85%) - delegated-aggression (70%) - ballot-removal-response (60%) - knockout-metaphor (50%) - media-amplification (80%) - deroy-murdock (60%) - url-only (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **After Second Ballot Removal, Trump's Machine Builds Counter-Reality While He Broadcasts a Target** Trump spent the day reeling from Maine's decision to remove him from the 2024 primary ballot — the second state to do so in two weeks. His team flooded his account with nearly two dozen links to friendly media outlets, building a counter-narrative of surging polls, Democratic overreach, and retaliatory threats to remove Biden from ballots. The most alarming moment came late the previous night, when a bare link to the Maine official's personal biography was posted without comment — broadcasting her identity to millions of angry followers. By evening, Trump himself appeared to take the wheel, firing off an all-caps accusation that Biden is "a threat to democracy" and predicting a Great Depression if he loses — turning the very charge leveled against him into a weapon. Full digest for 2023-12-29: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-29/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 29). https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/opinion-boom-bo... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111664218791971356 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/opinion-boom-boom-out-go-..." 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