# Post ts_113714092728618167 - Post ID: `ts_113714092728618167` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-12-25T15:09:14.379Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714092728618167 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714092728618167/analysis ## Post text > https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/arizona-turning-pointaction-donald-trump/2024/12/22/id/1192577/ ## Engagement - Likes: 7,652 - Reposts: 1,771 - Replies: 75 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:31:16.294Z (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_113714092728618167 — December 25, 2024 ## Overview This post is a methodological edge case: a bare URL containing zero authored text. Psychological, cognitive, and rhetorical analysis is severely constrained as a result. The primary research value lies in authorship attribution and what the *selection* of this link reveals about the surrounding media ecosystem and posting operation. --- ## Authorship Attribution (Confidence: High) **Verdict: Aide-written (Scavino or communications staff)** Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago for Christmas 2024. Converting the UTC timestamp (15:09) to Eastern Standard Time yields **10:09 AM local** — the heart of business hours and squarely within the aide-posting window. More diagnostically, the post contains *no text whatsoever*. Even Trump's briefest authentic posts include some verbal trace — a superlative, a grievance fragment, a boast. A naked URL is structurally inconsistent with his documented posting behavior. Paired with a near-simultaneous RedState link share covering the *same* Phoenix/AmFest rally, this appears to be a systematic media-clip distribution pass: a communications staffer curating favorable press coverage across the Truth Social feed on Christmas morning. This post **should be flagged in any longitudinal dataset** and weighted separately or excluded from analyses of Trump's authentic voice, cognitive state, or emotional reactivity. --- ## Psychological State (Contextual Inference Only) No direct psychological data is available from the post itself. Situating it within the December 25 cluster — territorial expansion declarations (Greenland, Panama Canal), a triumphant Christmas greeting, and multiple rally-coverage amplifications — places it within a **sustained grandiose phase** following the November 2024 election victory. The *selection* of this specific article (rally triumph, Democrats "don't know what happened") serves a passive narcissistic supply function: curating a favorable external mirror without requiring Trump to exert direct authorial effort. **Narcissistic dynamic:** Supply-seeking (maintenance), grandiose pole. No rage, no injury, no paranoid activation evident. --- ## Cognitive Analysis **Impossible to assess.** No authored text means no linguistic data. This post contributes nothing to longitudinal cognitive tracking and should be marked as a null data point for that purpose. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The only rhetorical work is performed by *selection*: - **Epistemic channeling**: Newsmax is a deeply in-group outlet; directing the audience here reinforces tribal media segregation - **Implicit prestige display**: "Look how favorably I'm covered" without the ego-exposure of self-promotion - **Framing by curation**: The article foregrounds triumphalism and Democratic confusion — the specific emotional register Trump's base rewards No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. --- ## Danger Assessment: None No content to assess for danger. --- ## Research Notes - **Epistemic closure flag retained**: Even aide-curated posts directed exclusively to in-group media outlets contribute to the audience's epistemic enclosure - **Fact check**: Trump's Phoenix/AmFest appearance (Turning Point USA, ~Dec 22) is confirmed by pre-researched historian events - **Summary omitted**: Post does not meet threshold for clinical significance — no authored content to analyze ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump spoke at Turning Point Action event in Arizona around December 22, 2024" | **True** | Confirmed by known events: 'Trump's First Post-Election Rally in Phoenix' at Turning Point USA's AmFest conference, Phoenix, AZ. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Bare URL with zero accompanying text — atypical of Trump's expressive posting style - Posted at 10:09 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago, UTC-5) — business hours strongly favor aide activity - No ALL CAPS, no typos, no emotional commentary, no stream-of-consciousness markers - Paired with a near-identical same-day RedState link share (ts post visible in context), suggesting systematic aide media-amplification pass - Content is promotional (favorable rally coverage) rather than reactive — consistent with Scavino-style curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable post-election rally media coverage) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Directing audience to external validation of Trump's power and popularity ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Trump spoke at Turning Point Action event in Arizona around December 22, 2024 **TRUE** Confirmed by known events: 'Trump's First Post-Election Rally in Phoenix' at Turning Point USA's AmFest conference, Phoenix, AZ. Sources: Pre-researched historian events Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - media-amplification (80%) - supply-seeking (40%) - url-only (100%) - grandiose-phase (30%) - newsmax (70%) - phoenix-rally (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Christmas Day at Mar-a-Lago: Holiday Greetings Dissolve Into Territorial Demands and "Go to Hell" Messaging** Trump spent Christmas Day at Mar-a-Lago posting 26 times across about eight hours. The morning was a rapid dump of supportive news links defending his cabinet picks and touting economic wins, likely pre-scheduled by staff. The afternoon took a sharp turn: a bitter "Merry Christmas" message telling political opponents to "go to hell," followed by a string of posts asserting U.S. claims over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada -- including demoting Canada's prime minister to "Governor." The day closed with an upbeat, forward-looking note about the incoming administration, as if the hostility never happened. Full digest for 2024-12-25: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 25). https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/arizona-turning-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714092728618167 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/arizona-turning-pointactio..." Truth Social, 25 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714092728618167. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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