# Post ts_111926166206044245 - Post ID: `ts_111926166206044245` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-02-13T20:56:00.709Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111926166206044245 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111926166206044245/analysis ## Post text > https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-leads-wide-margins-every-major-super-tuesday-state-poll ## Engagement - Likes: 7,105 - Reposts: 1,652 - Replies: 107 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.371Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:54:51.502Z (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 — 2024-02-13T20:56 UTC ### Post Content A bare URL to a Just the News article titled (per URL slug): *"Trump Leads Wide Margins in Every Major Super Tuesday State Poll."* No accompanying text is present. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time:** 20:56 UTC = **3:56 PM EST**. On February 13, 2024, Trump was preparing for or traveling to his Charleston, South Carolina rally scheduled for 7:00 PM Eastern that evening (evidenced by the same-day "See you tomorrow, South Carolina" post, which was likely published the prior day or early that morning). Regardless of precise location, 3:56 PM Eastern falls firmly within business hours. Combined with the complete absence of personal text, typos, or commentary—replaced instead by a mechanically clean URL drop—this is a high-confidence **aide-authored post (Scavino pattern)**. Authentic Trump posts nearly always include at minimum a reflexive comment, ALL CAPS fragment, or exclamation. A bare link with zero text is inconsistent with his documented posting style. --- ### Psychological State & Triggers Despite minimal content, the act of curation is itself psychologically legible: - **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No injury or threat is present; this is proactive admiration harvesting. - **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The implicit message is dominance and inevitability—Trump is winning everywhere and by wide margins. - **Context:** This post fits a settled, confident psychological posture consistent with Trump's primary position at this moment. He had just won Nevada unopposed (all 26 delegates), the Supreme Court appeared skeptical of Colorado ballot disqualification, and the Biden "elderly man with poor memory" Hur report had recently generated favorable coverage for Trump. Multiple same-day posts ("Trump Triumphs in Pennsylvania," Biden "Slim at Best") reflect a coordinated positive-news amplification strategy. --- ### Defense Mechanisms No significant defense mechanisms are active here. The post is not reactive. The closest applicable construct is **idealization** in the service of self-image maintenance—curating external validation as a mirror for the grandiose self. This is normative within the documented behavioral pattern, not clinically notable in isolation. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis All rhetorical work is delegated to the curated headline embedded in the URL slug: - **Appeal to authority** (polling data as objective confirmation of dominance) - **Bandwagon / inevitability framing** ("every major Super Tuesday state") - **Implicit self-aggrandizement through editorial curation**—the selection *is* the message No explicit language, dehumanization, violent imagery, or propaganda techniques are present. The rhetorical effect is achieved entirely through link selection—a low-effort, high-leverage amplification mechanism typical of managed campaign social media. --- ### Cognitive Status Markers No prose is present; cognitive assessment is not possible from this post. No deviation from baseline can be scored. --- ### Narrative Identity Even absent text, the curation reinforces the **"winner" protagonist role** central to Trump's narrative identity. The URL slug functions as a headline-length identity claim: dominant, inevitable, validated by data. This is consistent with the contamination → redemption arc he runs throughout the primary season: from indictments and ballot challenges → to sweeping polling leads and delegate accumulation. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump leads by wide margins in every major Super Tuesday state poll (implied by curated URL)" | **Mostly True** | As of mid-February 2024, Trump had swept Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada and was polling with commanding leads across Super Tuesday states. Nikki Haley remained the only active challenger but was significantly behind in all contested states. The 'wide margins' characterization is consistent with available polling data from this period. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Bare URL with zero accompanying text — atypical for authentic Trump posts - 3:56 PM EST timestamp falls within business hours (Scavino pattern) - No typos, ALL CAPS, exclamation points, or stream-of-consciousness fragments - Clean link drop consistent with social media management workflow - Same-day authentic Trump posts show personal commentary; this has none ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (favorable polling coverage) Sentiment: +0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vicarious pride transmission — followers invited to share in polling dominance narrative ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Trump leads by wide margins in every major Super Tuesday state poll (implied by curated URL) **MOSTLY TRUE** As of mid-February 2024, Trump had swept Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada and was polling with commanding leads across Super Tuesday states. Nikki Haley remained the only active challenger but was significantly behind in all contested states. The 'wide margins' characterization is consistent with available polling data from this period. Sources: Known events context: Trump won Nevada GOP caucuses unopposed securing all 26 delegates; Broader primary polling context from training data Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - supply_seeking (70%) - aide_authored (85%) - positive_news_amplification (80%) - primary_campaign (90%) - polling (90%) - grandiose_state (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Late-Night Haley Obsession Reveals Disproportionate Threat Response as Primary Rival Refuses to Exit** Trump's day split into two distinct halves: a late-night rage session targeting Nikki Haley and the Lincoln Project, followed by an afternoon of routine campaign maintenance and link-sharing. The most striking feature was the intensity directed at Haley -- including a cruel taunt about her husband's military deployment overseas -- despite her distant second-place standing in the primary. One post about the Lincoln Project closed with an implied threat, and a false claim that Haley trails Biden by 15 points inverted the actual polling data. The afternoon was calm and largely aide-produced, suggesting the overnight fury had burned itself out. Full digest for 2024-02-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 13). https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-lead... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111926166206044245 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-leads-wide-mar..." Truth Social, 13 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111926166206044245. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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