# Post ts_112387302489868990 - Post ID: `ts_112387302489868990` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-05-05T07:29:02.066Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112387302489868990.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > I never said that “some states may choose to monitor women’s pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.” This was made up by Democrats and the Fake News Media. After 50 years, Abortion is now up to the States, where everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted it to be. The people choose, and many States, like Ohio and Kansas, have chosen. Many others are in the process of choosing. Arizona’s Legislature has just voted to kill an old 1800’s law, and a new one will soon be voted on by the people. It is all working, will never go back to the Federal Government, and our Country will soon start uniting on this long contentious issue. At the same time, nobody wants to see abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month or, execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted. Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied. Remember, politicians must also win elections! ## Engagement - Likes: 17,532 - Reposts: 5,428 - Replies: 1,638 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.358Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T07:54:14.588Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Written at 3:29 AM EDT during the New York hush money trial, this post is a controlled damage-control response to a narcissistic injury: the TIME magazine interview (published ~May 1) in which Trump conspicuously declined to deny that states might monitor pregnancies to enforce abortion bans. The categorical denial ("I never said that") is followed by textbook DARVO — attributing fabrication to Democrats and media, repositioning himself as victim of deliberate distortion. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial, projection, rationalization via state-by-state accounting, and displacement of extremism onto a Democratic figure (Northam/"execution after birth"). The post is notable for its relative restraint — no ALL CAPS, no fragmented syntax — consistent with the political calculation required on abortion, a core 2024 electoral liability. The cherry-picking of Ohio and Kansas as examples of states "choosing" is ironic: both voted to protect abortion access. The transparent close ("politicians must also win elections!") breaks the usual principle-motivation frame, revealing electoral calculation. Three significant fact distortions are present: the denial of the documented non-denial, the false consensus claim about legal scholars and public opinion, and the hyperbolic "execution after birth" characterization of Northam's 2019 comments. No danger indicators. Authorship assessed as likely authentic based on 3:29 AM timestamp. # Analysis: Truth Social Post, May 5, 2024 — Abortion Denial/Repositioning ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** 07:29 UTC converts to **3:29 AM EDT** (Trump was in New York for the ongoing hush money trial). This squarely falls in the late-night/early-morning window strongly associated with authentic Trump authorship. However, the post's relative coherence, political calculation, and defensive messaging about abortion policy—a high-stakes electoral liability at this moment—introduces mild uncertainty. The "Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied" construction and the blunt closing ("Remember, politicians must also win elections!") are idiomatic Trump. The absence of ALL CAPS rage, misspellings, or fragmentary sentences somewhat reduces certainty. Assessment: **likely authentic** with possible light aide review, driven primarily by the 3:29 AM timestamp. --- ## Psychological Context and Trigger The post directly responds to a **narcissistic injury**: Trump's April 30/May 1, 2024 TIME magazine interview in which he conspicuously failed to deny that states might monitor women's pregnancies to enforce abortion bans. Multiple outlets reported his non-denial, creating electoral damage. The post's opening categorical denial ("I never said that") is the defensive response to being exposed in a politically costly position on abortion—a topic on which he simultaneously takes credit for overturning Roe (via Court appointments) while trying to neutralize it as a 2024 electoral liability. This is a **supply-maintenance and damage-control** post rather than a pure rage post. The narcissistic state is **mixed**: predominantly vulnerable (denial, victim framing toward media), with a thin overlay of grandiosity ("our Country will soon start uniting"). --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility/Vulnerability):** Moderately elevated. The denial is reactive but more controlled than baseline rage posts. "Made up by Democrats and the Fake News Media" signals the characteristic attribution of criticism to bad-faith fabrication. - **Extraversion/Assertiveness:** Present but tempered—this is persuasion mode, not dominance display. - **Agreeableness (Low):** The collegial framing ("everybody, Republican and Democrat") is performative rather than genuine—the post still positions media and Democrats as fabricators. - **Openness (Low):** Rigid epistemic framing—there is one correct interpretation (his), and dissenters are liars. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motives dominant:** Control over the narrative, protection of electoral positioning. - **Schema of self:** A pragmatic truth-teller being systematically misrepresented. - **Schema of others:** Binary—good-faith voters who will "listen to their heart," vs. Democrats/media who fabricate. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The pragmatic dealmaker and constitutional restorer, falsely accused. - **Redemption arc:** Misquoted/attacked → truth revealed → national unity forthcoming. - **Identity claims:** "I" as the person who correctly returned abortion to states; "I" as the one who would never say something so extreme. - **Contrasting other:** "Democrats and the Fake News Media" as fabricators; implicitly, the "former Democrat Governor of Virginia" as the real extremist. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (Pathological Level 1):** The flat "I never said that" opening is categorical denial of attributed statements. The TIME magazine interview record suggests this is not straightforwardly accurate—he conspicuously declined to deny the scenario when asked. The denial is syntactically clean (no "to my knowledge," no hedging), suggesting ego-syntonic deployment rather than mere spin. 2. **DARVO / Projection (Immature Level 2):** Immediately reframes the injury: the claim was "made up" by Democrats and media. The aggressor becomes the fabricator; he is repositioned as victim of deliberate distortion. This is textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender). 3. **Rationalization (Neurotic Level 3):** The lengthy state-by-state accounting (Ohio, Kansas, Arizona) constructs a logical framework to justify the post-Dobbs landscape as orderly progress, neutralizing the emotional force of the abortion access debate. 4. **Displacement:** Redirects attention to the "former Democrat Governor of Virginia" and "execution after birth" framing—repositioning extremism as a Democratic problem, not a Republican one. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Categorical denial + scare quotes:** Placing the attributed statement in quotes then denying it creates the appearance of precision while sidestepping what was actually implied. - **False consensus appeal:** "everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted it to be [states' issue]"—flatly false; millions of Americans and legal scholars explicitly opposed overturning Roe. - **Selective example cherry-picking (with irony):** Ohio and Kansas are cited as examples of states "choosing"—but both voted to *protect* abortion access, not restrict it. This is either deliberate neutrality performance or an inadvertent concession. - **Hyperbolic characterization:** "Execution after birth" is an extreme distortion of Northam's 2019 comments about palliative care in rare late-term cases. Serves to paint Democrats as the true extremists. - **Folksy emotional appeal + pragmatic realism:** "Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied" followed by "politicians must also win elections!"—rare explicit acknowledgment of electoral calculation over principle. - **Future optimism framing:** "our Country will soon start uniting" projects an outcome that neutralizes ongoing controversy. --- ## Gaslighting Indicators - Denial of a documented record (the TIME magazine non-denial) - Attacks on epistemic sources: "Democrats and the Fake News Media" as origin of the claim - Implicit loyalty test: accepting his denial requires rejecting credible reporting --- ## Cognitive Status No significant deviations from baseline. The post is coherent, topic-adherent, and relatively well-organized for a 3:29 AM composition. Syntactic complexity is moderate. The Northam reference (a 2019 event) is temporally appropriate as political precedent, not temporal confusion. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or paraphasia detected. **Baseline deviation: none.** --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "I never said that 'some states may choose to monitor women's pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans'" | **Mostly False** | Trump's TIME magazine interview (published ~May 1, 2024) documented him conspicuously declining to deny that states would monitor pregnancies. He did not use those exact words but refused to rule out the scenario when asked directly. The categorical denial is misleading given the documented record. | | "everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted [abortion] to be a states issue" | **False** | Roe v. Wade consistently polled with majority public support; large numbers of legal scholars explicitly supported it; Democrats have consistently opposed returning abortion to states. The claim inverts documented reality. | | "States like Ohio and Kansas have chosen [their abortion policy]" | **True** | Kansas (August 2022) voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have removed abortion protections. Ohio (November 2023) voted to enshrine abortion rights in its state constitution. Both claims are factually accurate, though both states voted to protect abortion access — counter to the restrictive direction the framing implies. | | "Arizona's Legislature has just voted to kill an old 1800's law" | **True** | Arizona's legislature voted in late April 2024 to repeal the state's 1864 near-total abortion ban that had been revived by an Arizona Supreme Court ruling. | | "execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted" | **Mostly False** | Ralph Northam (Virginia governor) made controversial 2019 comments about a late-term abortion bill, describing palliative care for nonviable infants in rare circumstances. His comments were widely characterized as endorsing infanticide by Republicans, which he disputed. 'Execution after birth' is a severe hyperbolic distortion of what he described. | Overall Veracity: 48% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This is political positioning and narrative management. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. The post is a controlled damage-control exercise, notable for its relative restraint compared to adjacent posts. --- ## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis **Primary archetype: Trickster-as-dealmaker.** Trump is threading an impossible needle—claiming credit for the policy that is electorally damaging him while repositioning as the neutral enabler of democratic choice. The Trickster here operates not as chaos agent but as narrative escape artist. **Order/chaos positioning:** Order *restorer*. The Dobbs outcome is framed as restoring proper constitutional order after 50 years of aberrant federal overreach. He is the one who fixed it; the resulting democratic processes (state referenda) are orderly progress. **Shadow projection:** The "extremism" accusation is reversed onto Democrats via the Northam example—what Republicans fear being called (extreme on abortion) is projected onto the opposing party. --- ## Clinical Summary This post is psychologically significant as a well-executed damage-control response to a documented narcissistic injury. The May 1, 2024 TIME magazine interview had exposed Trump declining to deny states could monitor pregnancies—a liability in a general election context. Written at 3:29 AM EDT, the post deploys categorical denial followed by DARVO (attributing fabrication to Democrats/media), rationalization via selective state examples, and displacement of extremism onto a Democratic figure. The absence of ALL CAPS rage or fragmented syntax is notable and strategically coherent: the political calculation required modulation, which he achieves. The "politicians must also win elections!" closing is a rare moment of transparent electoral realism, breaking the usual frame of principle-based motivation. The cherry-picking of Ohio and Kansas—both of which voted *pro-choice*—as evidence of states "choosing" suggests either deliberate neutral optics or limited attention to the irony. Overall, the post reflects the characteristic architecture of narcissistic injury management: deny the specific attribution, discredit the source, reframe the broader context favorably, and project extremism onto the opponent. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 3:29 AM EDT timestamp strongly consistent with authentic Trump posting pattern - Idiomatic closings: 'Listen to your heart' and 'politicians must also win elections!' are characteristic Trump phrasings - Relative coherence and political calculation suggest possible light aide review on a high-stakes topic - No misspellings or ALL CAPS passages reduces certainty vs. baseline - Reactive content responding to news cycle consistent with authentic impulsive posting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (TIME magazine interview coverage attributing pregnancy monitoring comment) Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Folksy emotional appeal ('Listen to your heart') - Inclusive consensus framing ('everybody, Republican and Democrat') - Future unity projection ('our Country will soon start uniting') ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Denial of documented record (TIME magazine non-denial converted to categorical 'I never said that') - Attacks on epistemic source credibility: 'Democrats and the Fake News Media' as fabricators - Implicit loyalty test: accepting the denial requires rejecting credible reporting from multiple outlets ## Fact Checks (5) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > I never said that 'some states may choose to monitor women's pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans' **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump's TIME magazine interview (published ~May 1, 2024) documented him conspicuously declining to deny that states would monitor pregnancies. He did not use those exact words but refused to rule out the scenario when asked directly. The categorical denial is misleading given the documented record. Sources: TIME magazine Trump interview, May 2024 > everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted [abortion] to be a states issue **FALSE** Roe v. Wade consistently polled with majority public support; large numbers of legal scholars explicitly supported it; Democrats have consistently opposed returning abortion to states. The claim inverts documented reality. Sources: Gallup polling on Roe v. Wade; Legal scholarship record on Dobbs dissent > States like Ohio and Kansas have chosen [their abortion policy] **TRUE** Kansas (August 2022) voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have removed abortion protections. Ohio (November 2023) voted to enshrine abortion rights in its state constitution. Both claims are factually accurate, though both states voted to protect abortion access — counter to the restrictive direction the framing implies. Sources: Kansas August 2022 referendum; Ohio Issue 1, November 2023 > Arizona's Legislature has just voted to kill an old 1800's law **TRUE** Arizona's legislature voted in late April 2024 to repeal the state's 1864 near-total abortion ban that had been revived by an Arizona Supreme Court ruling. Sources: Arizona legislative record, April 2024 > execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted **MOSTLY FALSE** Ralph Northam (Virginia governor) made controversial 2019 comments about a late-term abortion bill, describing palliative care for nonviable infants in rare circumstances. His comments were widely characterized as endorsing infanticide by Republicans, which he disputed. 'Execution after birth' is a severe hyperbolic distortion of what he described. Sources: Northam WTOP radio interview, January 2019 Overall Veracity: 48% ## Tags - abortion (95%) - damage_control (90%) - DARVO (85%) - denial_of_record (80%) - electoral_positioning (85%) - false_consensus (75%) - narcissistic_injury_response (80%) - states_rights_framing (70%) - media_discrediting (65%) - late_night_post (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Under Siege: 25-Post Proxy Blitz Floods the Zone While Trump Escapes to Formula 1** Trump spent most of the day orchestrating a massive legal-media counteroffensive against his Manhattan criminal trial, posting over two dozen quotes from conservative commentators attacking the judge, the prosecutor, and the gag order -- all within a half-hour window in the afternoon. The tone was overwhelmingly defensive and aggrieved, a stark contrast to the three cheerful posts from the Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix later that evening, where he claimed credit for McLaren's victory. A lone early-morning post denying he ever suggested states might monitor pregnancies hinted at the political anxiety simmering beneath the legal crisis. Overall, a day defined by siege mentality, proxy warfare, and a brief escape into sports glamour. Full digest for 2024-05-05: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 5). I never said that “some states may choose to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I never said that “some states may choose to monitor..." Truth Social, 5 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112387302489868990. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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