# Post ts_111785972151499059

- Post ID: `ts_111785972151499059`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-20T02:42:49.209Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111785972151499059
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111785972151499059/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111785972151499059.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> JUST THINK OF IT—I would now be getting ready to leave government, and now they’ve got me for 4 more years!!!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:16), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> Just think of it, I'd now be getting ready to leave government, and now they've got me for four more years. Look what they've done to them, I just thought of that.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/785/972/110/734/966/original/d346960906b1f6a0.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,780
- Reposts: 3,053
- Replies: 381
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.376Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T18:00:30.532Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_111785972151499059

### Context
Posted January 19, 2024 at 9:42 PM EST, following a campaign rally in Concord, New Hampshire. Trump was campaigning ahead of the NH primary after his dominant Iowa caucus win. The post references the date January 20—the anniversary of presidential inaugurations—noting that had he won in 2020, his second term would be ending around this date. Instead, he frames himself as being pulled back in for "4 more years."

### Authorship Attribution
Late evening post (9:42 PM EST) following a rally in Concord, NH. ALL CAPS opener, stream-of-consciousness style with em-dashes, exclamation marks, and emotional energy consistent with post-rally Trump. The attached video is likely a rally clip. High confidence this is authentic.

### Psychological Analysis
The post is a compact expression of several simultaneous psychological operations:

1. **Redemption narrative**: The implicit story is contamination (stolen 2020 election) → redemption (comeback for 4 more years). The "they" is deliberately ambiguous—prosecutors, Democrats, the system—all merged into a persecutory collective.

2. **Grandiose victimhood oscillation**: "They've got me" simultaneously claims victim status (forced back into service) and grandiosity (so indispensable he must return). This is the reluctant hero archetype—he didn't choose this, the people/fate demanded it.

3. **Crowd validation as narcissistic supply**: Posted with rally video, this is classic supply-seeking behavior, sharing the moment of adulation.

### Rhetorical Devices
- "JUST THINK OF IT" — direct audience engagement, parasocial intimacy
- The triple exclamation marks signal genuine emotional arousal
- Ambiguous "they" allows each listener to project their preferred villain
- Reframes legal persecution and political opposition as fuel for his return

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization**: Running again reframed as something imposed on him rather than chosen
- **Denial**: Implicit denial of 2020 loss (he "would now be getting ready to leave" a second term)

### Cognitive Markers
No significant cognitive concerns. The sentence is syntactically coherent, the temporal logic is clear, and the rhetorical construction is effective. Consistent with baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "He would now be getting ready to leave government (implying he should have served a second term 2021-2025)" | **False** | Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden by 306-232 electoral votes and over 7 million popular votes. He served one term (2017-2021). |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Late evening post (9:42 PM EST)
- ALL CAPS opener
- Em-dash stream-of-consciousness
- Triple exclamation marks
- Post-rally emotional energy

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Rally crowd / inauguration anniversary)

Sentiment: +0.60

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Post-rally elevated mood
- Grandiose framing
- Late evening energy

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address ('JUST THINK OF IT')
- Shared grievance framing
- Rally video as communal experience

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Implicit premise that 2020 election was stolen (he 'would now be getting ready to leave' a second term)
- Casual assertion of alternate reality as shared assumption

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> He would now be getting ready to leave government (implying he should have served a second term 2021-2025)

**FALSE**

Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden by 306-232 electoral votes and over 7 million popular votes. He served one term (2017-2021).

Sources: 2020 election results

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (60%)
- rally_supply (70%)
- reluctant_hero (80%)
- comeback_narrative (70%)

## That day

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

**Post-Iowa Victory Lap Collides with Multi-Front Legal Siege on Inauguration Anniversary**

Trump spent the day riding high on his Iowa caucus win, campaigning hard across New Hampshire with back-to-back rallies in Concord and Manchester. The morning was a victory lap of all-caps slogans, a fresh Tim Scott endorsement, and gleeful mockery of defeated rivals. But the mood darkened as the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial forced its way into the feed, triggering an intense counterattack that misrepresented her own words and named the presiding judge. He also launched parallel broadsides against the Georgia prosecution, the January 6 committee, and Nikki Haley's electability claims, revealing a campaigner increasingly agitated by legal walls closing in on multiple fronts.

Full digest for 2024-01-20: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 20). JUST THINK OF IT—I would now be getting ready to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111785972151499059
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "JUST THINK OF IT—I would now be getting ready to leave..." Truth Social, 20 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111785972151499059. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "JUST THINK OF IT—I would now be getting ready to leave...," Truth Social, January 20, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111785972151499059.

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