# Post ts_111856959576094826 - Post ID: `ts_111856959576094826` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-02-01T15:35:51.338Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111856959576094826 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111856959576094826/analysis ## Post text > https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/31/nolte-nikki-haley-losing-to-none-of-the-above-in-nevada/ ## Engagement - Likes: 10,912 - Reposts: 2,734 - Replies: 564 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.373Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:22:18.007Z (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 — 2024-02-01T15:35:51Z ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to a Breitbart article reporting that Nikki Haley is polling behind Nevada's "None of These Candidates" ballot option ahead of the February 6 state primary. There is no original text. The post's entire communicative content is encoded in the act of selection and amplification. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (Scavino). High confidence.** UTC 15:35 converts to 10:35 AM ET or 7:35 AM PT — comfortably within business hours across all plausible Trump locations (New York, Las Vegas where he had just held a caucus rally, or traveling between). The bare-URL format, absence of any personal voice, and the back-to-back pattern with an adjacent bare-URL post (Daily Caller, same morning) are canonical Scavino signatures: curating favorable headlines without authorial fingerprint. --- ## Psychological Function The post is low-intensity but psychologically precise. Its function is **proxy devaluation** — attacking a primary rival while maintaining plausible deniability. The specific story selected is not merely "Haley is losing" but "Haley is losing to *nobody*" — a maximally humiliating frame. Sharing this without comment implies the humiliation is so complete it requires no editorializing. This is consistent with the documented pattern of ego-syntonic rival devaluation: the sadistic pleasure is laundered through a third-party headline. The grandiose narcissistic state is implicit in the selection — the story only exists as newsworthy because Trump so thoroughly dominates the primary that Haley's only competition is a null vote. **Defense mechanisms:** Devaluation via proxy; splitting (Trump = dominant, Haley = less-than-nobody). **Trigger:** Competitive maintenance / supply-seeking. No narcissistic injury evident; this is triumphalist, not reactive. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Nikki Haley is losing to 'None of the Above' in Nevada" | **Mostly True** | Nevada's state-run Republican primary (Feb 6, 2024) included a 'None of These Candidates' option. Haley was the sole named candidate, having declined to enter the separate party caucus (Feb 8). Pre-primary polling and ultimately the Feb 6 results confirmed 'None of These Candidates' outperformed Haley. The Breitbart article (Jan 31) was correctly anticipating an outcome that materialized. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Rhetorical Structure The rhetorical architecture is entirely delegated. The headline performs the attack; the poster performs only curation. This is a low-cost, low-risk competitive attack vector: effective within the base (Breitbart is a high-trust source for the MAGA audience), reputationally deniable externally. No violent imagery, no dehumanization, no danger indicators. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This is a routine political attack by media amplification with no escalatory content. --- ## Longitudinal Note The adjacent Daily Caller URL post earlier the same morning establishes a clear morning media-drop pattern for this date — consistent with Scavino's editorial role of seeding the day's narrative frames for Trump's audience. No clinically significant deviation from baseline observed. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post is a bare URL with zero added text — no emotional commentary, no ALL CAPS, no personal voice - UTC 15:35 = 10:35 AM ET (New York) or 7:35 AM PT (Las Vegas) — squarely within aide business hours in any plausible timezone - Adjacent post on same date follows identical pattern: bare URL to a favorable news article (Daily Caller piece about Trump leading Biden) - Purely transactional article-amplification function — consistent with Scavino's known role as media curator - No typos, no impulsive register — absence of language makes style analysis moot but the structural choice is itself a stylometric signal ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Primary rival Nikki Haley) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vicarious humiliation — audience is invited to share schadenfreude at rival's embarrassment without Trump needing to voice it directly - Plausible deniability — the attack is fully laundered through a third-party headline ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Nikki Haley is losing to 'None of the Above' in Nevada **MOSTLY TRUE** Nevada's state-run Republican primary (Feb 6, 2024) included a 'None of These Candidates' option. Haley was the sole named candidate, having declined to enter the separate party caucus (Feb 8). Pre-primary polling and ultimately the Feb 6 results confirmed 'None of These Candidates' outperformed Haley. The Breitbart article (Jan 31) was correctly anticipating an outcome that materialized. Sources: Nevada Secretary of State primary results Feb 2024; AP Nevada primary coverage Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - proxy-attack (80%) - rival-devaluation (75%) - primary-competition (80%) - nevada-primary (70%) - nikki-haley (90%) - schadenfreude (65%) - breitbart-amplification (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A quiet staff-run day: poll-sharing and rival-mocking on autopilot** An unusually quiet day with only three posts, most likely handled by staff rather than Trump himself. The morning featured back-to-back shares of favorable polling (leading Biden) and a Breitbart piece mocking Nikki Haley's Nevada loss to "None of the Above." No anger, no escalation, no original writing — just curated wins. The low volume and mechanical timing suggest Trump was occupied elsewhere, possibly focused on behind-the-scenes efforts to kill the bipartisan border deal. Full digest for 2024-02-01: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 1). https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/31/nolt... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111856959576094826 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/31/nolte-nikki-ha..." Truth Social, 1 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111856959576094826. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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