# Post ts_112714326715389148 - Post ID: `ts_112714326715389148` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-07-02T01:35:35.672Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112714326715389148 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112714326715389148/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112714326715389148.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > A must watch with Victor Davis Hanson! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > the president did there from the White House? Well it was pretty rich, because this case would have never got to the Supreme Court, had his own Department of Justice not appointed a special counsel that had a history of bias, and went after the leading presidential opposition candidate to the president. And it wouldn't have come to the Supreme Court had Fannie Willis not met with a White House Council to coordinate a defense strategy in Georgia, a prosecution strategy in Georgia, and it wouldn't have happened if the third highest ranking federal attorney in Merrick Garland's DOJ had not suddenly appeared at Alvin Bragg's prosecution. And so this was in response to the weaponization of the DOJ by none other than Joe Biden. Second, it's very ironic, Jason, because you see the special counsel, Robert Herr, said that Joe Biden himself, while he was president, faced criminal liability. He had classified files, which is a felony to be in his possession. He didn't notify anybody that he had them until he selected the special counsel to go after Donald Trump. And then he had a speechwriter that had no security clearance that admittedly was looking at those files in the presence of Joe Biden. The only reason he wasn't prosecuted was Robert Herr determined that he was too enfeebled and would win the sympathy of a jury. And finally, they had been going after the Supreme Court. Chuck Schumer went out to the doors of the Supreme Court and called out by name Justice Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and said, you're going to reap the whirlwind. You don't know what's going to hit you. And then when protesters a year later started showing up, including a potential assassin at the homes of the justices, Merrick Garland didn't enforce the law, which was a felony to do that for political purposes to influence the Supreme Court decision. So this was this was very tragic. What Joe Biden just did, it was ironic, it was wrong, and it was highly partisan and it's dangerous. I think I would agree with all of that. It is tragic because we need a Supreme Court with its independence and the Democrats are doing everything they can to make them dependent on whatever the political whim of the party in power is. And it's just disgusting, but Democrats have run out of things to run. They can't run on the economy. They can't run on the border. They can't run on the protecting us overseas and all these wars that are going on. The mental and physical demise of Joe Biden is on display. So they're going to pick, I guess, the Supreme Court, but a six to three ruling in this particular case is pretty convincing, six to three. Yeah. Well, especially when you've seen what they've done to Donald Trump and what they do to him again when he's probably going to be elected. And again, the irony is that Joe Biden violated his oath of office when he destroyed the southern border and illegal allowed 11 million, 10 million people illegally to enter the United States. There's a lot of people who felt that that was a violation of the oath of office. As I said earlier, he broke the law when he had in his possession as president, classified file. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/714/326/488/442/285/original/fbe1c7ca1e4f111d.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 18,287 - Reposts: 5,891 - Replies: 831 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.345Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T10:16:32.293Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_112714326715389148 — "A must watch with Victor Davis Hanson!" ## Overview This is a minimal content-amplification post consisting of a single endorsement sentence paired with an embedded video. It is one of the lowest-intensity posts in the longitudinal set and warrants limited clinical commentary. The analytical value lies primarily in **authorship attribution**, **supply-seeking dynamics**, and **what it reveals through juxtaposition** with the surrounding high-intensity posts. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Location:** Around July 1–2, 2024, Trump was most likely at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL) or possibly in transit. No events in the provided historian record place him elsewhere. **Time conversion:** UTC 01:35 on July 2 = **9:35 PM EDT on July 1** in Florida (UTC-4). This falls in the late-evening window (post-9 PM) that is consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns. However, the post is unusually clean and promotional in structure — no capitalization, no typos, no emotional punctuation. Posts this brief and polished often originate from Scavino's queue but are scheduled or timed for evening release to mimic authentic cadence. **Assessment:** Mixed signals. Timing favors authentic authorship; content polish and single-sentence promotional format lean aide-written. Best classified as **likely aide-assisted or aide-drafted with Trump's content approval**. Confidence: medium-low. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers **Context:** This post falls immediately after Trump's most grandiose posting burst in the longitudinal record — the Supreme Court immunity ruling on July 1. The preceding posts show escalating ALL-CAPS grandiosity, messianic framing ("GOD BLESS AMERICA"), and open triumph over legal opponents. This post represents a **deceleration to maintenance mode** — amplifying a supportive intellectual voice rather than directly self-aggrandizing. Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) is a Hoover Institution classicist and conservative commentator who has been one of Trump's most intellectually credentialed defenders. Sharing his content serves a specific narcissistic function. **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking (secondary). After the grandiose victory lap of July 1, this post harvests validation from an intellectual proxy — importing VDH's credibility to reinforce and legitimize the previous day's narrative (immunity ruling as vindication). It outsources the intellectual framing to a figure with academic gravitas Trump himself cannot credibly claim. **Narcissistic state:** Residually grandiose, but cooling into maintenance. The lack of ALL CAPS and superlatives is notable against the July 1 baseline. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion:** Muted here; low assertiveness in this specific post - **Agreeableness:** Nominally positive ("must watch") — unusually prosocial framing - **Conscientiousness:** Low signal - **Neuroticism:** Absent from this post - **Openness:** The choice of VDH (an intellectual who writes in full paragraphs about Thucydides) as an ally is instrumentally strategic rather than reflecting genuine intellectual curiosity --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive (status/power):** The VDH endorsement serves status-maintenance. VDH functions as an intellectual legitimizer — associating Trump's populist movement with historical and classical scholarship. **Schema:** Others are divided into validators (VDH, Tim Scott, the Supreme Court justices — all appearing in this 24-hour window) and attackers (Biden, "Crooked Joe"). This post is firmly in the validator-amplification pattern. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Absent from this post — VDH is the protagonist here. This is a strategic delegation of the narrator role to a more credentialed figure. **Narrative sequence:** Implicit redemption sequence. VDH, in this period, was almost certainly discussing the immunity ruling as vindication. By sharing this content on the heels of his own celebratory posts, Trump extends the redemption arc without having to restate it. **Identity claims:** None explicit. The implicit claim is "even serious intellectuals validate me." **Contrasting other:** Not invoked in this post. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Malignant narcissism assessment:** Essentially no signal in this specific post. The clinical richness is in the surrounding posts, not this one. **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal. A weak case could be made for **rationalization via proxy** — outsourcing intellectual justification to a credentialed figure — but this is speculative for a post of this length. --- ## Cognitive Status No language production to assess. Single sentence, structurally normal. No markers detectable. **Baseline deviation: none.** --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Appeal to authority:** VDH's academic credentials (Stanford/Hoover Institution, classicist, military historian) are imported implicitly. Trump does not need to make the argument himself. - **Imperative framing ("must watch"):** Mild command structure — not debatable, presents VDH as obligatory viewing - **Content laundering:** The video likely contains arguments and framings Trump endorses but cannot articulate with equivalent sophistication; sharing it is a form of rhetorical outsourcing **Propaganda techniques:** Low-grade. No dehumanization, no violent imagery, no fear appeals in this post. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None present in this post. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no targets, no mobilization signals. --- ## Shared Psychosis Dynamics Low signal in this post. The epistemic closure dynamic is present only implicitly — VDH functions as an in-group intellectual validator, reinforcing the closed information ecosystem. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype invoked (implied):** The **Scholar/Sage** — by proxy. Trump, who rarely invokes intellectual authority directly, here borrows the Sage archetype from VDH to add gravitas to the preceding day's triumphalism. **Order/Chaos positioning:** Order restorer (residual from July 1 posts). This specific post is neutral on the axis. --- ## Summary Note This post does not meet the threshold for a clinically significant summary. It is a low-intensity content-amplification post whose primary analytical interest is authorship ambiguity and its strategic positioning as intellectual supply-harvesting following an intense grandiosity burst. The surrounding posts carry the clinical weight; this one functions as a cooldown valve and credibility-laundering mechanism. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Late evening local time (9:35 PM EDT) consistent with authentic Trump posting window - Unusually clean single-sentence structure without typos or ALL CAPS - Purely promotional format matches aide-drafted content sharing - No emotional punctuation or stream-of-consciousness markers - Content approval model likely: Trump selected the video, aide formatted the post ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Victor Davis Hanson video) Sentiment: +0.38 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Imperative framing ('must watch') creates obligation in follower - VDH association imports intellectual credibility by proxy ## Tags - supply-seeking (70%) - intellectual-proxy (80%) - content-amplification (90%) - aide-assisted (60%) - maintenance-mode (80%) - vdh-endorsement (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Victory Lap: Dual Wins Over Biden and SCOTUS Fuel Sustained Grandiose Euphoria** Trump spent the day riding a wave of confidence after two major wins — Biden's debate collapse and a favorable Supreme Court immunity ruling. An energetic late-night posting session mocked Biden's cognitive fitness, attacked Jack Smith, and celebrated the legal victory, before a long overnight break and a calmer afternoon of campaign messaging. The most notable moment came when he declared "TOTAL EXONERATION" and claimed the immunity ruling ends all his legal cases, including unrelated New York civil matters it cannot touch. The tone throughout was triumphant rather than defensive — a rare day of almost purely offensive positioning with no significant grievance spirals. Full digest for 2024-07-02: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-02/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 2). A must watch with Victor Davis Hanson! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112714326715389148 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A must watch with Victor Davis Hanson!" Truth Social, 2 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112714326715389148. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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