# Post ts_113714177436010305 - Post ID: `ts_113714177436010305` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-12-25T15:30:46.911Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714177436010305 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714177436010305/analysis ## Post text > https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/08/all-we-are-saying-is-give-pete-a-chance/ ## Engagement - Likes: 14,468 - Reposts: 3,080 - Replies: 316 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:34:00.309Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-12-25T15:30:46Z (ts_113714177436010305) ## Post Summary This post consists entirely of a URL to a Daily Signal article dated December 8, 2024, titled *"All We Are Saying Is Give Pete a Chance"* — a clear intertextual riff on John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," deployed as a rhetorical appeal on behalf of Pete Hegseth, Trump's embattled Secretary of Defense nominee. There is no original text. The post must be read in the context of its siblings: on Christmas Day, Trump's Truth Social account posted a cluster of articles defending both Hegseth (multiple entries) and Kash Patel (multiple entries), all plainly coordinated. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** - UTC 15:30 = **10:30 AM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (Trump's confirmed Christmas location per patterns and territorial expansion messaging that day) - 10:30 AM falls squarely within normal business/staff hours — inconsistent with authentic Trump posting windows (10 PM–6 AM local) - Zero original text; pure URL amplification - Part of a tightly coordinated multi-article campaign across a single morning, defending two controversial nominees simultaneously - No typos, no emotional escalation, no ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness markers - Christmas Day deployment of a political influence campaign is a hallmark of pre-scheduled or staff-executed content strategy, not impulsive reactive posting --- ## Psychological State Because no original prose was produced, direct psychological inference is severely constrained. What can be inferred comes from *selection behavior* and *campaign context*: **Trigger:** Both Hegseth and Patel were under significant confirmation scrutiny. The coordinated Christmas Day article barrage is consistent with **narcissistic injury by proxy** — perceived attacks on Trump's judgment in nominating controversial figures function as attacks on the self. Defending the nominees is defending the selector. **Narcissistic Dynamic:** Supply-maintenance and preemptive attack. By flooding the zone on Christmas Day, the campaign attempts to reframe the Hegseth narrative before Senate confirmation battles intensify in January. This is consistent with Trump's pattern of using media saturation to override unfavorable coverage rather than addressing underlying criticisms. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose-defensive. The Christmas Day cadence projects confidence and momentum while implicitly acknowledging vulnerability (the nominees are in trouble). **Defense Mechanisms:** - *Rationalization*: The article framing ("give him a chance") appeals to fairness norms to sidestep substantive allegations - *Splitting*: Critics of Hegseth/Patel are implicitly "unfair" while supporters are "reasonable" — binary framing embedded in the article title itself - *Displacement*: The Hegseth defense is managed entirely through third-party voices (Daily Signal, Fox News, WSJ), allowing plausible distance from direct advocacy --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Intertextuality:** The article title "All We Are Saying Is Give Pete a Chance" parasitizes the moral authority of John Lennon's anti-war anthem — a rhetorical sleight of hand that borrows pacifist and fairness connotations to defuse what are, in fact, serious conduct allegations. **Third-party legitimization:** Rather than directly vouching for Hegseth, the post outsources credibility to The Daily Signal (Heritage Foundation). This is a common propaganda technique: laundering a political message through an ostensibly independent source. **Firehose model (RAND):** The cluster of posts — multiple Hegseth articles, multiple Patel articles — on a single day exemplifies volume-based reality distortion. The sheer density of supportive content creates a false impression of consensus and drowns out critical coverage. **Appeal to fairness:** "Give Pete a chance" invokes procedural justice norms, repositioning a substantive character-fitness debate as a matter of due process. This is rhetorically sophisticated misdirection. --- ## Level 3 Narrative Identity Even in content-free URL shares, narrative identity is expressed through *curation*: - **Protagonist role**: The embattled decision-maker whose judgment is unfairly questioned - **Redemption sequence**: Nominees are unfairly attacked → public rallies → confirmation succeeds → Trump vindicated - **Contrasting other**: The Senate skeptics, media critics, and anonymous accusers who "attack" good men --- ## Cognitive Status No direct speech to analyze. Baseline comparison inapplicable to this post type. No markers assessable. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post amplifies a political influence campaign but contains no eliminationist language, dehumanization, or stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Implicit claim that Pete Hegseth deserves a fair and open-minded confirmation hearing" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion framed as a fairness appeal, not a verifiable factual claim. The underlying conduct allegations against Hegseth were documented by multiple news outlets; this post does not engage with them. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary Note This post is analytically thin in isolation but significant as a data point in a coordinated influence operation conducted through Trump's Truth Social account on Christmas Day 2024. The scheduling, the absence of original text, and the multi-article cluster pattern are all consistent with aide-managed content. The psychological signature is not of the subject but of his communications apparatus operating in defensive mode around two vulnerable nominations. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 10:30 AM local time (EST, Mar-a-Lago) — well within aide business hours - Zero original text; pure URL amplification - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness markers - Part of tightly coordinated multi-article Christmas Day campaign - Pre-scheduled or staff-executed content pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Senate and media scrutiny of Hegseth and Patel nominations) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party legitimization via Heritage Foundation outlet - Intertextual moral authority borrowing (Lennon anthem) - Volume/firehose saturation across multiple posts ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Implicit claim that Pete Hegseth deserves a fair and open-minded confirmation hearing **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an opinion framed as a fairness appeal, not a verifiable factual claim. The underlying conduct allegations against Hegseth were documented by multiple news outlets; this post does not engage with them. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-written (95%) - pete-hegseth (90%) - secretary-of-defense-nomination (85%) - coordinated-campaign (80%) - url-only-post (90%) - third-party-legitimization (75%) - firehose-saturation (70%) - nominee-defense (85%) - christmas-day (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.dailysignal.com/2024/12/08/all-we-are-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714177436010305 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/08/all-we-are-saying-is-..." Truth Social, 25 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113714177436010305. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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