# Post ts_112488546098861602

- Post ID: `ts_112488546098861602`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-05-23T04:36:36.874Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112488546098861602.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> As usual, the Democrats have pushed Misinformation, AND FAILED. It’s the only thing they’re good at - EVERYTHING ELSE THEY’RE INVOLVED IN IS DESTROYING AMERICA!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:35), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> investigated this. We actually found the editor's template which was used for this and we can pull it up maybe full screen. You can buy this online. It's called newspaper vintage history headlines promo. If you wanted to make a vintage ad, this is exactly how you would do it. You just go online and buy this from whatever company this is and they probably use it for a long time and it basically uses a collection of old news headlines and sub headlines and articles from like the early 1900s. One of which was German industrial strength significantly increased after 1871 driven by the creation of a unified Reich. This 50 years before anybody was talking about the Nazis and the atrocities that would come before and during World War II, it has nothing to do with anything. These are just old headlines. There were other headlines as well. Expansion of violence in Bosnia was one of them that's used over and over again because this is just a wallpaper template on the internet. Confusion among central powers, the first world war and many other completely innocuous news topics from a hundred years ago. This is wallpaper background for editors who want to make vintage art. That's what it is and whoever did make this thing and it wasn't the Trump campaign, that's what they used. Anybody that's actually in the media that knows anything about how all this works and there are a lot of idiots in the media but the ones that actually understand how it all works know how fake the outrage that we saw today is. It's all performative.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/488/545/976/434/000/original/681fe6f092861908.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,546
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.351Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T08:34:24.586Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Late-night authentic Trump post (~11:36 PM CT) executing a grandiose-defensive maneuver under acute legal threat. With prosecutors having rested in the hush money trial after 20 witnesses, and Trump simultaneously circulating a documented false claim about Biden authorizing deadly force at Mar-a-Lago, this post performs a classic projection-DARVO sequence: seizing the "misinformation fighter" identity before that label can attach to Trump himself. The ALL CAPS escalation and existential framing ("DESTROYING AMERICA") indicate moderate emotional dysregulation consistent with narcissistic threat activation, though the post remains in a grandiose rather than vulnerable state — Trump narrates himself as winning, not losing. Defense mechanisms are predominantly immature (projection, splitting) with pathological denial elements ("AND FAILED" dismisses a progressing criminal trial). The vague, unfalsifiable accusation structure functions as rhetorical inoculation: impossible to disprove, impossible to anchor to a specific misinformation event. Danger level is elevated due to sustained eliminationist framing of Democrats as destroyers of the nation — not from this post alone, but as part of the cumulative ambient threat construction visible across the day's posting pattern. Longitudinally consistent with Trump's baseline; no marked cognitive or behavioral deviation.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-05-23T04:36:36Z

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Assessment:** Based on the contextual posts, Trump was departing Texas (Houston/Dallas) and heading to New York on the evening of May 22–23. At UTC 04:36:36, the local time in Central timezone (Texas) would be approximately 11:36 PM CDT on May 22, and 12:36 AM EDT in New York. Either way, this falls squarely in the late-night window strongly associated with authentic, self-composed Trump posts.

**Stylistic markers confirm authenticity:** ALL CAPS deployed mid-sentence for emphasis ("AND FAILED," "EVERYTHING ELSE THEY'RE INVOLVED IN IS DESTROYING AMERICA!"); a punchy, declarative structure with no subordinate clauses; emotional reactivity without precise targeting of any specific event; the characteristic rhetorical cadence of accusation-then-expansion. The post lacks the polished grammar, event-announcement structure, or professional formatting associated with aide (Scavino) authorship. **High confidence: authentic Trump.**

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### Trigger Analysis

The post is temporally proximate to several potential narcissistic injury triggers:

1. **Hush money trial (primary):** Prosecutors rested their case on May 20 after 20 witnesses, including Michael Cohen. The trial is reaching its most threatening phase for Trump. The vague accusation of "Misinformation" without specifying a claim is consistent with a reactive post to adverse trial coverage or evidence presented.

2. **Deadly force narrative (secondary):** Trump's own posts from the same day circulate his false claim that Biden "authorized deadly force" at Mar-a-Lago — a claim AG Garland called "extremely dangerous." The rhetorical counter-move ("Democrats pushed Misinformation") may function as preemptive defense: establishing a counter-narrative before the false claim is formally debunked in media.

3. **General campaign energy:** Post-Texas fundraising high (record amount raised) may amplify grandiosity, producing this kind of sweeping, confident attack rather than an anxious defensive post.

**Trigger type:** Mixed — narcissistic injury (trial) plus preemptive attack (inoculating against misinformation label).

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### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State: Grandiose** — The post positions Democrats as failing ("AND FAILED") while Trump wins by default. The grammar of victory is intact. However, this grandiosity is slightly brittle: the escalation to existential stakes ("DESTROYING AMERICA") suggests underlying threat activation that pure confidence would not require.

**Rage:** Present at low-to-moderate intensity. The ALL CAPS escalation and the terminal exclamation mark signal anger, but the post lacks the more intense, personalized attack language seen in posts targeting specific individuals (e.g., "Deranged Jack Smith," "Crooked Joe Biden"). This is generalized partisan rage rather than acute narcissistic wound rage.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (immature, high confidence):** The post accuses Democrats of "Misinformation" on the same day Trump circulated a documented false claim (the deadly force allegation) that the Attorney General publicly labeled "extremely dangerous." The attribution of the very behavior Trump is actively engaged in to the opposing party is textbook projection. This is one of Trump's most consistent defensive operations.

**Splitting (immature):** Democrats are coded as categorically, totally destructive — "EVERYTHING ELSE THEY'RE INVOLVED IN IS DESTROYING AMERICA." No gradation, no partial attribution. The political world is divided into pure threat-objects (Democrats) and implicitly pure good-objects (Trump's America). Classic splitting.

**Denial (pathological level):** "AND FAILED" dismisses an ongoing criminal trial as already resolved in Trump's favor. The trial represents an objective existential threat; the post treats it as a concluded defeat for the other side.

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
- *Extraversion:* High assertiveness, dominant tone, broadcast-mode rhetoric
- *Agreeableness:* Markedly low — hostile, oppositional, zero empathy or acknowledgment of opposing perspective
- *Conscientiousness:* Low impulse control; vague, unmoored claim without evidentiary grounding
- *Neuroticism:* Elevated angry hostility; ALL CAPS deployment indicates emotional dysregulation
- *Openness:* Very low; rigid binary worldview, no complexity or nuance

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
- **Dominant motive: Power.** The post is an assertion of superiority and an attempt to dominate the information environment. No communion motives visible.
- **Schema:** Self = winner/truth-teller; Democrats = lying destroyers; world = zero-sum combat

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** Warrior/Defender
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination (Democrats are actively destroying something good)
- **Identity claims:** Implicitly: "I am the one who sees through their lies"
- **Contrasting other:** "The Democrats" as an undifferentiated destructive collective
- **Archetypal resonance:** Warrior archetype in combat mode; also Order Restorer casting Democrats as the Chaos agents destroying America's order

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### Rhetorical Analysis

- **Hyperbole:** "EVERYTHING ELSE THEY'RE INVOLVED IN IS DESTROYING AMERICA" — total, undifferentiated, existential claim
- **False dichotomy:** Democrats = destroyers; the implied opposite (Trump's side) = saviors
- **Ad hominem (collective):** No engagement with any specific claim; Democrats as an undifferentiated failure-entity
- **Vague accusation:** "Misinformation" without specifying what misinformation, when, or about what — prevents falsifiability
- **ALL CAPS escalation:** Typographic dominance display, functions as volume increase
- **Appeal to fear/patriotism:** "DESTROYING AMERICA" activates existential threat response in base audience
- **Dehumanizing language:** Absent in this post specifically
- **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent in this post

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The accusation of "Misinformation" is structurally gaslighting: it inverts accountability. On the same day Trump was circulating a false claim about Biden authorizing deadly force — a claim the AG publicly rebutted as dangerous — Trump posts accusing Democrats of being the misinformation operatives. This is a **DARVO pattern** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): preemptively seizing the "truth-teller" role to neutralize incoming fact-checking.

**Epistemic closure:** The post contains no falsifiable claim, no evidence, and constructs a closed worldview in which Democrat involvement in anything equals destruction. Followers are implicitly asked to accept this as group identity. **Epistemic closure: present.**

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### Cognitive Status

No markers of concern in this post. Vocabulary is simple but deliberate; syntax is coherent; the logical flow (accusation → expansion → escalation) is intact. This is consistent with Trump's established baseline of short, punchy, emotionally activated social media posts. No word-finding difficulty, no semantic paraphasia, no temporal confusion.

**Complexity score:** Low — but consistent with baseline. Not a deviation.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Democrats have pushed Misinformation" | **Unverifiable** | No specific misinformation event is identified; the claim is structurally unfalsifiable as stated. Contextually, Trump was himself circulating a documented false claim about Biden authorizing deadly force at Mar-a-Lago on this date. |
| "Democrats FAILED [at pushing misinformation]" | **Mostly False** | In the most proximate context (hush money trial), prosecutors had successfully rested their case after 20 witnesses with the trial proceeding. No evident Democrat failure in the documented events of this period. |
| "Everything Democrats are involved in is destroying America" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion claim / rhetorical hyperbole, not a falsifiable factual assertion. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Late night timing: ~11:36 PM CDT / 12:36 AM EDT
- ALL CAPS mid-sentence deployment ('AND FAILED', 'EVERYTHING ELSE...')
- Stream-of-consciousness structure, no subordinate clauses
- Emotional reactivity without precise event referent
- Exclamation mark terminal punctuation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Hush money trial prosecution resting case; potential preemptive defense against misinformation label)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Democrats collectively
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Post-Texas fundraising high (record amount raised) followed by late-night posting suggests elevated mood state
- Multiple posts in rapid succession across the same date
- Grandiose certainty ('AND FAILED') despite objective threat context (ongoing criminal trial)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 58%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared enemy construction ('the Democrats')
- Epistemic flattery (followers are the ones who see through the misinformation)
- Existential stakes framing ('DESTROYING AMERICA') as group identity reinforcement

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'DESTROYING AMERICA' frames Democratic political participation as existential national threat, pre-justifying extreme countermeasures in audience cognition
- Sustained eliminationist framing across multiple same-day posts creates cumulative ambient threat environment
- Collective dehumanization-adjacent rhetoric: Democrats as an undifferentiated destructive force rather than political opponents

### Gaslighting

- DARVO pattern: accuses Democrats of 'Misinformation' while simultaneously circulating a documented false claim about Biden authorizing deadly force — preemptively seizing the truth-teller role
- Vague accusation without specifics prevents falsifiability, making rebuttal structurally impossible
- Attacks on opponents' epistemic credibility ('Misinformation') function as delegitimization of factual counter-evidence

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Democrats have pushed Misinformation

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No specific misinformation event is identified; the claim is structurally unfalsifiable as stated. Contextually, Trump was himself circulating a documented false claim about Biden authorizing deadly force at Mar-a-Lago on this date.

Sources: Known Events: Trump falsely claims Biden authorized deadly force at Mar-a-Lago

> Democrats FAILED [at pushing misinformation]

**MOSTLY FALSE**

In the most proximate context (hush money trial), prosecutors had successfully rested their case after 20 witnesses with the trial proceeding. No evident Democrat failure in the documented events of this period.

Sources: Known Events: Prosecution rests in Trump hush money trial

> Everything Democrats are involved in is destroying America

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion claim / rhetorical hyperbole, not a falsifiable factual assertion.

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- projection (90%)
- DARVO (85%)
- eliminationist_rhetoric (70%)
- trial_reactive (80%)
- splitting (85%)
- grandiose_state (75%)
- authentic_late_night (88%)
- epistemic_closure (80%)
- unfalsifiable_accusation (85%)

## That day

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

**Midnight Legal Rage Spiral Yields to South Bronx Rally Grandiosity as Trial Pressure Mounts**

Trump's day split into two sharply different halves. After flying from Texas to New York late at night, he fired off a string of increasingly angry posts past 2 AM -- including a debunked claim that Biden authorized deadly force against him -- before burning through a pile of months-old grievance articles. After sleeping it off, the afternoon was all rally hype: a dozen-plus posts promoting his South Bronx event, projecting confidence and crowd size. The contrast between the nocturnal anxiety and the daytime swagger was the day's defining feature.

Full digest for 2024-05-23: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 23). As usual, the Democrats have pushed... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112488546098861602
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "As usual, the Democrats have pushed Misinformation, AND..." Truth Social, 23 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112488546098861602. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "As usual, the Democrats have pushed Misinformation, AND...," Truth Social, May 23, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112488546098861602.

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