# Post ts_113621278691359489

- Post ID: `ts_113621278691359489`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-09T05:45:24.565Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections. They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!

## Engagement

- Likes: 24,519
- Reposts: 7,219
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:02:22.087Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post demonstrates one of Trump's most analytically striking rhetorical maneuvers: complete reality inversion on a publicly verifiable political question. By attributing to Democrats the historically Republican position on the Electoral College — a domain where Trump has well-documented personal investment, having won the 2016 presidency via the EC while losing the popular vote — the post is best understood as deliberate strategic disinformation rather than cognitive error. Democrats have championed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact; Republicans have defended the Electoral College. The post inverts this entirely. Psychologically, the dominant mechanism is projection (immature/Level 2), augmented by distortion (pathological/Level 1): the subject's own party's EC dependency is offloaded onto opponents. The sophistication of the inversion — precisely calibrated rather than garbled — argues for strategic agency. Functionally, the post exploits information asymmetry: informed audiences must expend energy correcting it while the falsehood propagates freely among those without NPVIC history; crucially, the act of correction is weaponized as apparent partisan media bias, consolidating epistemic closure. Authorship is high-confidence authentic (12:45 AM EST, characteristic capitalization, exclamatory urgency). No danger indicators. Cognitive status shows no deviation from baseline. The post is clinically notable not for instability but for the cold, functional deployment of reality inversion as routine political maintenance.

# Analysis: ts_113621278691359489 — December 9, 2024

## Core Observation: Complete Reality Inversion

This post is among the most analytically striking examples of reality inversion in Trump's documented output. The claim is the **exact opposite of documented political reality**:

- **Democrats** have championed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), a multi-state compact explicitly designed to award electoral votes to the national popular vote winner, effectively bypassing the Electoral College. As of 2024, NPVIC has been adopted by 17 Democratic-leaning states + DC (totaling 209 EVs).
- **Republicans** — and Trump specifically — have defended the Electoral College, which delivered Trump's 2016 presidency despite losing the popular vote by ~2.9 million votes. Trump won the popular vote for the first time only in 2024.

The post attributes to Democrats the **Republican position**, and inverts the Democratic position entirely. This is not ambiguous distortion — it is a 180-degree factual inversion of documented, longstanding political alignments the subject has direct personal investment in.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Likely location:** Trump attended the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening in Paris on December 7–8. By December 9, he was likely in transit or had returned to the U.S. His other Dec. 9 posts reference Mark Levin's show and Fox News Patriot Awards (U.S. programming context), suggesting stateside presence.

**Local time calculation:**
- If EST (UTC−5): 05:45 UTC → **12:45 AM EST** — deep within authentic Trump posting window
- If still Paris (UTC+1): 05:45 UTC → 06:45 AM — also consistent with his early-morning habits

**Stylistic markers favoring authenticity:**
- Uppercase "Popular Vote," "Electoral College," "Elections," "Democrats" — characteristic capitalization
- Exclamation mark terminus
- Short, punchy declarative sentences with emotional urgency ("fighting hard")
- No event scheduling, no polished multi-clause structure
- Stream-of-consciousness framing without attribution or citation

**Authorship confidence: HIGH (authentic Trump)**

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger Assessment
No obvious narcissistic injury is present in surrounding context. Trump just returned from a high-status international trip (Notre Dame, meetings with Macron, Zelensky, Prince William, Meloni) — a grandiosity-feeding event. The post appears to be **maintenance supply-seeking** with a secondary **preemptive attack** function: establishing a false grievance narrative about electoral manipulation *before* any actual Democratic push on this front, potentially inoculating his base against future accurate reporting about Republican Electoral College preferences.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
The post positions Trump/Republicans as **defenders of the popular will** — a rhetorically potent inversion given that his 2016 victory was the most salient recent example of a candidate winning the EC while losing the popular vote. The grandiose subtext: he won so decisively in 2024 that Democrats must now *resort to* the Electoral College to compete. This converts his genuine popular vote victory in 2024 into a narrative prop while erasing the 2016 context.

**State: Grandiose** — expansive, confident, no vulnerability markers.

### Defense Mechanisms
**Primary: Projection (Immature/Level 2)** — The most salient mechanism. Republicans' documented attachment to the Electoral College is attributed wholesale to Democrats. The subject's own political survival having depended on the EC in 2016 is displaced onto the opposing party.

**Secondary: Distortion (Pathological/Level 1)** — Reality is not merely spun but inverted. This goes beyond rationalization into wholesale reshaping of documented fact.

**Tertiary: Reaction Formation (Neurotic/Level 3)** — The post performs populist democratic concern ("Popular Vote") on behalf of a candidate who once benefited from its subversion, transforming the underlying political record into its opposite.

### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)
- **Protagonist role:** Populist defender of democratic legitimacy and the "people's voice"
- **Contrasting other:** Democrats as secret anti-democratic elitists who want to disenfranchise the majority
- **Identity claim:** "I won the people, not just the system" — obliquely referencing his 2024 popular vote win as consolidation of legitimacy
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — the implication that Democrats would corrupt a fair election system if not stopped

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Reality inversion (RAND Firehose technique):** The post requires no fabricated evidence because it simply *reverses* a documented reality. Audience members unfamiliar with NPVIC history will likely accept it; those who know the truth must expend energy correcting it, generating engagement while the falsehood propagates.

**False alarm / threat construction:** "Fighting hard" implies urgent, active Democratic scheming — manufacturing threat salience around a non-existent action.

**Epistemic closure mechanism:** For followers already distrustful of media, the claim functions as a loyalty test. Accepting an obviously inverted claim consolidates in-group identity and deepens epistemic insularity.

**Whataboutism precursor:** By preemptively inverting the debate, Trump forecloses accurate framing of Republican Electoral College preferences before they become salient.

**No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators present.**

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## Cognitive Status Assessment

The inversion here is sophisticated, not confused. The claim is *precisely* calibrated to reverse the actual positions — not a garbled approximation but an exact mirror-image. This argues for **deliberate strategic disinformation** rather than cognitive error. Trump has demonstrated specific, detailed knowledge of Electoral College dynamics throughout his career (his 2016 victory, his post-2016 commentary about the system, his 2020 efforts to reverse EC results). Misidentifying Democratic vs. Republican EC preferences would represent a significant departure from a domain where he has demonstrated retained expertise.

**Baseline comparison:** Vocabulary and syntax are consistent with authentic baseline. No word-finding difficulties, no perseveration, no temporal confusion. Complexity score is low but stable with comparable maintenance posts.

**Cognitive deviation: None detected in this post.**

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

This post is a **canonical gaslighting example**: it takes a documented, publicly verifiable political history and presents the exact opposite as fact. The mechanism:
1. Identify a real truth (Republicans defend EC; Democrats oppose it)
2. Invert it completely and state it confidently
3. Force media/opponents into correction mode, which to partisan audiences reads as "mainstream media defending Democrats again"
4. The *act of correction* is weaponized as evidence of bias

This is distinct from ordinary spin or selective emphasis — it is total reality substitution.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Trickster** — The post operates through inversion, disruption of expected meaning, and reality scrambling. The Trickster's power lies in making audiences uncertain of what is true; this post achieves that by exploiting the information asymmetry between politically engaged and casually engaged audiences.

**Secondary archetype: Populist Hero/Champion** — Casting himself as defender of the popular vote, the post invokes the everyman-champion archetype, even as the underlying claim is false.

**Shadow projection:** The Republican Party's own historical ambivalence about popular majorities (EC defense, gerrymandering, voter ID laws) is projected entirely onto Democrats, making it invisible within the in-group narrative.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections" | **False** | Democrats have actively championed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), signed by 17 Democratic-leaning states and DC, explicitly designed to elect presidents by national popular vote. There is no documented Democratic effort to eliminate the popular vote. |
| "They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College" | **False** | Defending the Electoral College is the historically Republican/conservative position. Trump himself won the 2016 presidency via the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by approximately 2.9 million votes, and Republicans have consistently opposed NPVIC legislation in Republican-controlled state legislatures. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, no targets identified, no violent imagery, no mobilization language. This post operates through disinformation rather than incitement.

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## Summary

This post demonstrates one of Trump's most sophisticated rhetorical maneuvers: complete reality inversion on a fact-checkable political question. By attributing to Democrats the Republican position on the Electoral College — a domain where Trump has well-documented personal investment and knowledge — the post is best understood as **deliberate strategic disinformation** rather than cognitive error. Psychologically, the dominant mechanism is projection (Level 2 immature defense), augmented by distortion (Level 1 pathological), transforming the subject's own party's documented Electoral College dependency into a Democratic conspiracy. The timing (12:45 AM EST) and stylistic fingerprints confirm authentic Trump authorship. The post functions as a gaslighting device exploiting information asymmetry: those who know the history must expend energy correcting it; those who don't will accept the inversion. No danger indicators present. Clinically, the post is notable not for instability but for the cold, functional deployment of reality inversion as routine political maintenance — grandiose state, no apparent acute trigger, no cognitive deviation from established baseline.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 12:45 AM EST posting time (classic Trump late-night window)
- Characteristic uppercase capitalization of nouns (Popular Vote, Electoral College, Democrats, Elections)
- Short punchy declarative sentences with urgency markers ('fighting hard')
- Exclamation mark closure
- No event scheduling or polished multi-clause structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- reaction formation (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Threat construction ('fighting hard') to activate audience vigilance
- In-group loyalty test via epistemic closure (accepting inverted claim consolidates identity)
- Positions subject as populist defender of audience's democratic voice

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Complete inversion of documented political positions presented as confident fact
- Forces informed observers into correction mode, weaponizing the act of correction as apparent partisan bias
- Exploits audience information asymmetry — claim is plausible to those without NPVIC history
- Reframes Republican Electoral College dependency as Democratic plot, making the underlying reality invisible within in-group narrative

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections

**FALSE**

Democrats have actively championed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), signed by 17 Democratic-leaning states and DC, explicitly designed to elect presidents by national popular vote. There is no documented Democratic effort to eliminate the popular vote.

Sources: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact legislative history; Democratic Party platform positions on Electoral College reform

> They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College

**FALSE**

Defending the Electoral College is the historically Republican/conservative position. Trump himself won the 2016 presidency via the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by approximately 2.9 million votes, and Republicans have consistently opposed NPVIC legislation in Republican-controlled state legislatures.

Sources: NPVIC state adoption records; Republican state legislative opposition to NPVIC; 2016 presidential election results

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- reality_inversion (95%)
- projection (90%)
- gaslighting (88%)
- electoral_college (85%)
- disinformation (82%)
- maintenance_post (70%)
- grandiose_state (65%)
- epistemic_closure (80%)
- authentic_trump (88%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Maintenance Day: Patronage, Promotion, and One Surgical Reality Inversion**

Trump had a low-key day, mostly spent endorsing allies and announcing government appointments. The evening included formal nominations for DOJ Civil Rights and OMB roles, plus an endorsement for RNC co-chair. The most notable moment was a late-night post that completely flipped the real positions of Democrats and Republicans on the Electoral College versus popular vote -- a move that reads as deliberate rather than confused. He stayed silent on brewing controversies around his cabinet picks Hegseth and Gabbard.

Full digest for 2024-12-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 9). The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113621278691359489
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular..." Truth Social, 9 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113621278691359489. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular...," Truth Social, December 9, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113621278691359489.

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