# Post ts_112453672881104389 - Post ID: `ts_112453672881104389` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-05-17T00:47:53.835Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112453672881104389 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112453672881104389/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112453672881104389.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Michael Goodwin, The New York Post: “Media obsession about the partisan show trial of defendant Donald Trump is obscuring a far more significant truth about him. Candidate Trump has opened his biggest lead in the presidential campaign. Polls of battleground states, along with such anecdotal evidence as the enormous turnout of 100,000 people at his New Jersey rally and dispirited concessions by Joe Biden supporters, signal that we’ve reached a turning point in the battle for the White House…Consider a recent analysis from the leftist Brookings Institution. It finds that Biden is hemorrhaging support from almost every demographic…‘Major shifts away from Biden have occurred among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters,’ the report says, ‘including among college-educated members of those groups.’ It reports a swing among Black Voters of a stunning 25 points, 13 points among Latinos, and 21 points among Asian Americans.’” ## Engagement - Likes: 10,936 - Reposts: 2,742 - Replies: 172 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.356Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T08:26:18.963Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the day Michael Cohen delivered his most damaging trial testimony — directly implicating Trump in the hush money scheme — this post is the capstone of a five-repost counter-narrative flooding operation. Trump's legal constraints prevent direct courtroom rebuttal, so the response takes the form of coordinated media amplification: the trial is a 'partisan show trial,' Trump holds his biggest polling lead, 100,000 people turned out in New Jersey, and even 'leftist Brookings' confirms Biden's demographic collapse. The psychological architecture is characteristically narcissistic under acute threat: pathological denial of legal legitimacy, displacement of Cohen testimony with electoral data, and aggressive supply-seeking through grandiose rally and poll figures. The mixed narcissistic state — simultaneously persecuted victim and triumphant champion — is the defining dynamic. The complete omission of Cohen or his testimony, on the day of his most damaging statements, is the most psychologically revealing feature: the injury is managed by rendering it invisible. Authorship attribution leans toward aide-assisted given batch posting pattern and formatting cleanliness, though evening timing remains ambiguous. No danger indicators present; rhetoric is delegitimizing but not eliminationist. ## Post Analysis: ts_112453672881104389 — May 17, 2024 ### Overview This post is a verbatim repost of Michael Goodwin's New York Post commentary, amplifying a multi-part narrative: the trial is illegitimate ("partisan show trial"), Trump is winning electorally despite it, and Biden is catastrophically losing minority voters. The post arrives on the same day Michael Cohen was delivering star-witness testimony directly implicating Trump in the hush money scheme — making the timing psychologically significant. This is a classic counter-narrative deployment during acute legal threat. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-assisted (medium confidence)** The UTC timestamp of 00:47:53 on May 17, 2024 converts to **8:47 PM EDT on May 16** in New York (Trump's likely location during the Manhattan trial). This is evening, not late night — ambiguous territory. However, the post is a clean verbatim block quote with no typos, no ALL CAPS passages, no stream-of-consciousness intrusions, and no emotional interpolations by Trump himself. It is one of at least five media-quote reposts visible in the session, a pattern consistent with aide-managed posting queues. Dan Scavino and comms staff routinely batch favorable commentary during trial days to maintain counter-narrative flow. Trump himself occasionally reposts in the evening, so the possibility of authentic posting cannot be excluded, but the formatting cleanliness, absence of personal voice, and batch-posting pattern collectively suggest aide involvement. --- ### Psychological State and Triggers The trial context is decisive. Cohen's testimony — alleging Trump personally directed and approved the Stormy Daniels payment — constitutes a significant **narcissistic injury**: public exposure of alleged criminal deception, in a courtroom, from someone who knew him intimately. The injury is compounded by Trump's inability to respond directly from the defense table. This post represents a characteristic **supply-seeking and counter-narrative response** to that injury. Rather than engaging the substance of Cohen's testimony, the post pivots aggressively to: 1. **Delegitimization of the entire proceeding** ("partisan show trial") 2. **Grandiose electoral narrative** (biggest lead, 100,000 people, Biden hemorrhaging) 3. **Inoculated authority sourcing** — even the "leftist Brookings Institution" confirms Biden's collapse The narcissistic state here is **mixed**: grandiose in electoral framing (record leads, massive rally) but simultaneously persecutory (show trial, partisan prosecution). This oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable poles is characteristic of narcissistic functioning under sustained public threat. **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury (exposure via Cohen testimony, combined with ongoing courtroom confinement/humiliation) **Response type:** Supply-seeking + preemptive counter-narrative --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Denial (pathological level):** The characterization of the trial as a "partisan show trial" is total denial of the legitimacy of a functioning legal proceeding. This is not critique of judicial overreach — it is wholesale rejection of the reality that the state of New York has jurisdiction and that Cohen's testimony is legally meaningful. **Distortion (pathological level):** Reframing an active criminal trial — in which Trump sits as defendant during a prosecution's star witness — as primarily a story about *Trump's electoral dominance* is a reality-reshaping distortion. The trial is transformed from threat to proof of victimhood, which in turn generates sympathy and fundraising. **Displacement:** Emotional energy from Cohen's damaging testimony is redirected entirely toward Biden's demographic collapse. The post does not mention Cohen once. **Rationalization:** The quote chain on this day (Turley, McCarthy ×2, Human Events, Hannity, Goodwin) constitutes a coordinated rationalization architecture — each piece provides a different legal, moral, or political justification for rejecting the trial's legitimacy. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** - **Low agreeableness**: The "partisan show trial" framing expresses contempt for the justice system; "leftist Brookings" signals trust deficits and in-group/out-group sorting - **High extraversion**: Rally attendance (100,000) and polling dominance are assertiveness/status displays - **Elevated neuroticism**: The entire posting session (5+ reposts) reflects anxious, reactive engagement — a man monitoring hostile coverage and flooding the zone with counter-messaging - **Low conscientiousness**: Rally crowd figures are disputed (30K–100K range per contemporaneous reports); no acknowledgment of uncertainty **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - **Agency motives dominate**: Power, status, and control are the operative motives. The post is explicitly about who is winning — electorally, demographically, narratively. - **Communion motives absent**: No reference to governing, policy, or the wellbeing of the constituencies cited (Black, Hispanic, Asian voters). They appear exclusively as metrics proving Trump's dominance and Biden's failure. - **Schema — world as zero-sum contest**: Every data point is framed as a win for Trump equaling a loss for Biden; no shared-interest framing. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - **Protagonist role**: The persecuted champion — tried by partisan enemies, vindicated by the people - **Redemption sequence**: Active prosecution (contamination) → record polling leads, massive rallies (redemption already in progress) - **Contrasting other**: Biden (weak, abandoned by his base, "dispirited" supporters) vs. Trump (100,000-strong, historic margins) - **Identity claims**: The real candidate; the people's choice; someone the left must silence because he cannot be beaten --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Appeal to inoculated authority:** The Brookings citation is rhetorically sophisticated. By characterizing Brookings as "leftist" before quoting its anti-Biden findings, the post weaponizes the source's credibility — even the opposition confirms the narrative. This is a form of **concession inoculation**: the messenger is dismissed ideologically while the message is extracted for use. **Hyperbole and superlatives:** "Biggest lead," "enormous turnout of 100,000," "stunning 25 points." Each superlative contributes to an escalating dominance narrative. The rally attendance figure (100,000) was disputed; actual independent estimates ranged 30,000–100,000. **False equivalence / whataboutism:** The post pivots from defendant to candidate — reframing legal jeopardy as electoral validation. The logic implies that polling leads are evidence of innocence, which is a category error presented as intuitive truth. **Enumeration as authority:** Citing three specific minority-voter swing numbers (25 pts Black, 13 pts Latino, 21 pts Asian) projects empirical precision onto what is a favorable data selection. The Brookings report was real; the framing strips any nuance or caveats. **No violent imagery, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators** in this post. Danger level: none. --- ### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion **Present at low-moderate level.** The "partisan show trial" label, deployed across multiple posts this session, is a sustained reality distortion operation — not cognitive confusion but deliberate epistemic management. The goal is to make Trump's audience experience the trial as an attack rather than a legal proceeding, requiring acceptance of this framing as an in-group loyalty marker. The absence of any engagement with Cohen's actual testimony — despite it dominating the day's news cycle — is also a form of reality management by omission. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "100,000 people at his New Jersey rally" | **Half True** | The Wildwood, NJ rally on May 11 drew enormous crowds. Trump campaign and local GOP claimed 100,000+. Independent estimates and local infrastructure capacity assessments ranged 30,000–100,000. Provided events confirm 'disputed estimates ranged 30,000-100,000.' | | "Candidate Trump has opened his biggest lead in the presidential campaign" | **Half True** | May 2024 polling did show Trump with consistent leads in battleground states. The superlative 'biggest' is dependent on poll selection and averaging methodology; some aggregators showed this as a high point, others did not confirm it as the largest margin to date. | | "Brookings Institution found swing among Black Voters of 25 points, 13 points among Latinos, 21 points among Asian Americans" | **Mostly True** | Brookings Institution published analyses in early-to-mid 2024 documenting significant movement away from Biden among minority voters. These specific figures are consistent with the range reported in those analyses, though individual poll variation and framing caveats were omitted. | | "Brookings Institution is 'leftist'" | **Mostly False** | Brookings is widely classified by political scientists and media-bias analysts as centrist to center-left — a mainstream, nonpartisan-by-charter think tank. Characterizing it as 'leftist' is a significant overstatement deployed to inoculate the citation rhetorically. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Posted at 8:47 PM EDT — evening, not late night/early morning window most associated with authentic Trump posts - Clean verbatim block quote with zero typos, misspellings, or emotional interpolations - No ALL CAPS passages or stream-of-consciousness intrusions - One of five media-quote reposts in a single session — consistent with aide-managed posting queue during trial day - No first-person Trump voice added before or after the quote ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Michael Cohen star witness testimony directly implicating Trump in criminal hush money scheme) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - displacement (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 50% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Validation through shared grievance (the trial is happening to 'us') - Inoculated authority citation (even 'leftist' institutions confirm our narrative) - Quantified dominance display (specific polling percentages, rally attendance) to reassure the base ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'Partisan show trial' label applied to active criminal proceeding — attacks legitimacy of the court and requires followers to reject the proceeding as an attack rather than law - Complete omission of Cohen's testimony despite it being the dominant news event of the day — reality management by silence - Counter-narrative flooding across five posts creates epistemic environment where the trial is framed as persecution, requiring in-group acceptance as loyalty marker ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > 100,000 people at his New Jersey rally **HALF TRUE** The Wildwood, NJ rally on May 11 drew enormous crowds. Trump campaign and local GOP claimed 100,000+. Independent estimates and local infrastructure capacity assessments ranged 30,000–100,000. Provided events confirm 'disputed estimates ranged 30,000-100,000.' Sources: Known events: Trump holds massive Wildwood, NJ rally > Candidate Trump has opened his biggest lead in the presidential campaign **HALF TRUE** May 2024 polling did show Trump with consistent leads in battleground states. The superlative 'biggest' is dependent on poll selection and averaging methodology; some aggregators showed this as a high point, others did not confirm it as the largest margin to date. Sources: Contemporaneous polling aggregators from training data > Brookings Institution found swing among Black Voters of 25 points, 13 points among Latinos, 21 points among Asian Americans **MOSTLY TRUE** Brookings Institution published analyses in early-to-mid 2024 documenting significant movement away from Biden among minority voters. These specific figures are consistent with the range reported in those analyses, though individual poll variation and framing caveats were omitted. Sources: Brookings Institution 2024 electoral analysis (training data) > Brookings Institution is 'leftist' **MOSTLY FALSE** Brookings is widely classified by political scientists and media-bias analysts as centrist to center-left — a mainstream, nonpartisan-by-charter think tank. Characterizing it as 'leftist' is a significant overstatement deployed to inoculate the citation rhetorically. Sources: Academic consensus on think tank classification (training data) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - trial-counter-narrative (95%) - supply-seeking (85%) - polling-amplification (80%) - aide-assisted (65%) - narcissistic-injury-response (90%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - inoculation-rhetoric (70%) - displacement-defense (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Cohen Testifies; Trump Responds With 15-Post Quote Barrage and Fantasies of Case Dismissal** Trump spent the day almost entirely focused on his Manhattan criminal trial, where Michael Cohen testified as the prosecution's star witness and directly implicated him in directing the hush money payment. The response was a coordinated flood of favorable legal commentary from conservative pundits — 15 quote-relay posts in under five minutes during the evening — followed by a late-night post predicting (incorrectly) that the DA would drop the case. A brief, warm mention of attending Barron's high school graduation was the day's only departure from trial fixation, and campaign-mode posts about debate acceptances occupied the afternoon before the evening brought another wave of trial commentary. The mood was predominantly defensive, occasionally angry, and punctuated by bursts of unearned confidence. Full digest for 2024-05-17: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 17). Michael Goodwin, The New York Post: “Media... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112453672881104389 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Michael Goodwin, The New York Post: “Media obsession about..." Truth Social, 17 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112453672881104389. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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