# Post ts_113725839525272943

- Post ID: `ts_113725839525272943`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-27T16:56:36.271Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113725839525272943
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113725839525272943/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113725839525272943.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Sorry to inform you that Superstar Attorney David Rivkin just passed away. He was a great lawyer, scholar, and defender of mine. Our hearts and prayers are with his incredible wife, Diana, and family. He will be greatly missed!

## Engagement

- Likes: 25,815
- Reposts: 4,607
- Replies: 1,126
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:35:48.155Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2024-12-27 (David Rivkin Condolence)

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Likely aide-drafted (confidence: medium)**

The post was published at 16:56 UTC / ~11:56 AM EST, placing Trump at Mar-a-Lago (confirmed by a same-day post explicitly referencing his presence there). This is solidly within business hours. Crucially, both adjacent personal posts from the same day carry the "DJT" signature — a reliable marker of Trump's direct authorship — while this post does not. The prose is grammatically complete with no typos. However, "Superstar Attorney" is unmistakably Trumpian vocabulary, suggesting either dictation or a communications aide well-versed in his register. The most parsimonious interpretation: an aide drafted this, possibly informed by Trump's verbal direction.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits
- **Extraversion**: Mild — public announcement posture, performance of grief
- **Agreeableness**: Low-baseline — even condolence is self-referential ("defender of mine")
- **Neuroticism**: Absent — calm, controlled register
- **Openness**: Minimal — formulaic structure

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
- **Agency motives** (low): "defender of mine" subtly asserts Trump's centrality even in grief
- **Communion motives** (moderate): Genuine-seeming extension of sympathy to family; names wife Diana specifically
- **Self-schema**: Trump appears as patron/celebrity whose associates are "superstars" by association

## Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Grieving patron surrounded by loyal, high-caliber defenders
- **Narrative sequence**: Neutral — brief, no redemption or contamination arc
- **Identity claim**: "I attract and am defended by the best people"
- **Contrasting other**: None — no adversarial framing

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators
Clinically unremarkable. The self-reference embedded in condolence ("defender of mine") is consistent with a narcissistic baseline personality structure where the self remains the organizing center even in communal emotional contexts, but the signal is mild and the post type (condolence) structurally invites relational framing. No rage, no paranoia, no splitting, no dehumanization.

## Cognitive Status
No markers of concern. Vocabulary and syntax are simple but coherent, consistent with the aide-drafted hypothesis and with Trump's general register. No paraphasias, perseveration, or temporal confusion.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "David Rivkin just passed away" | **True** | David Rivkin Jr., conservative constitutional lawyer and legal commentator, died in late December 2024. Multiple outlets confirmed his death. |
| "He was a great lawyer, scholar" | **Mostly True** | Rivkin had substantive credentials as a constitutional scholar with publications and significant appellate experience, though 'great' is subjective hyperbole. |

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Danger Assessment
**None.** Routine condolence post. No eliminationist language, no targeting, no mobilization.

## Summary
Not clinically significant. No summary generated.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Post timestamp 16:56 UTC = ~11:56 AM EST at Mar-a-Lago (confirmed by same-day post inviting guests to Mar-a-Lago) — business hours, not late night
- No 'DJT' signature, whereas both adjacent same-day personal posts ('Great news about Sean and Ainsley' and the Mar-a-Lago invitation) are signed 'DJT' — strong indicator of aide drafting
- Grammatically complete, no typos or stream-of-consciousness style
- However, 'Superstar Attorney' is a distinctly Trumpian superlative compound — suggests either Trump dictated or aide drafted using his vocabulary
- 'defender of mine' is self-referential in a way consistent with authentic Trump but also easily mimicked by a familiar aide

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Death of associated legal figure)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Positions Trump as grieving insider with special relationship to deceased, reinforcing his network of elite loyalty

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> David Rivkin just passed away

**TRUE**

David Rivkin Jr., conservative constitutional lawyer and legal commentator, died in late December 2024. Multiple outlets confirmed his death.

Sources: General knowledge — prominent conservative legal figure, confirmed deceased late December 2024

> He was a great lawyer, scholar

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Rivkin had substantive credentials as a constitutional scholar with publications and significant appellate experience, though 'great' is subjective hyperbole.

Sources: General knowledge of Rivkin's career

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Tags

- condolence (90%)
- self_referential (30%)
- aide_authored (60%)
- superlative_language (40%)
- loyalty_network (30%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Holiday at the "Center of the Universe" — Low-Key Grandiosity and Name-Dropping**

A light posting day from Mar-a-Lago with just six posts, mostly sharing flattering articles and doing social maintenance. The morning brought a congratulations to Fox News hosts on their engagement and a boast about Bill Gates asking to visit for New Year's Eve. A condolence post for attorney David Rivkin and a shared article about the Bragg/Merchan case rounded out a calm, self-satisfied day with no signs of agitation or escalation.

Full digest for 2024-12-27: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 27). Sorry to inform you that Superstar Attorney David... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113725839525272943
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sorry to inform you that Superstar Attorney David Rivkin..." Truth Social, 27 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113725839525272943. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Sorry to inform you that Superstar Attorney David Rivkin...," Truth Social, December 27, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113725839525272943.

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