# Post ts_114212434987437462 - Post ID: `ts_114212434987437462` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-03-23T15:24:13.787Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114212434987437462 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114212434987437462/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114212434987437462.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > In the Great State of Wisconsin, a Radical Left Democrat, one who is insistent on bringing hardened CRIMINALS, that we removed to far away places, back into our Country, allowing men into women’s sports, Open Borders, and more, is running against a strong, Common Sense Republican, JUST CALL HIM BRAD, for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s a really big and important race, and could have much to do with the future of our Country. Get out and VOTE, NOW, for the Republican Candidate — BRAD!!! ## Engagement - Likes: 6,554 - Reposts: 2,007 - Replies: 287 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.315Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T00:21:03.077Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A routine electoral mobilization post for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race (April 1, 2025), endorsing Republican Brad Schimel against Democratic candidate Susan Crawford. The post is psychologically unremarkable relative to Trump's baseline — no acute narcissistic injury, no rage episode, no significant cognitive markers. It deploys his standard rhetorical toolkit: issue-stacking (criminal deportees, trans athletes, open borders), false dichotomy, fear appeal, and existential stakes amplification. Authorship is likely authentic at moderate confidence based on the idiosyncratic 'JUST CALL HIM BRAD' construction and apostrophe encoding artifacts suggesting personal device posting, despite daytime Sunday timing. The 'hardened CRIMINALS' framing merits flagging as dehumanizing language applied to a population whose criminal status is factually heterogeneous, and the 'bringing... back into our Country' construction falsely characterizes judicial due-process review as an affirmative desire to repatriate violent offenders. Danger level is elevated rather than high: the post identifies a political group as a conduit for violent crime and immediately calls followers to mobilize — a low-level stochastic resonance pattern that falls short of explicit threat language. Overall, this post represents Trump operating in confident kingmaker mode, extending his political authority into a state race while reinforcing core grievance narratives ahead of an important election. ## Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis: Wisconsin Supreme Court Endorsement (2025-03-23) ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** 15:24 UTC = 11:24 AM EDT. March 23, 2025 is a Sunday. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago (typical weekend location). 11:24 AM local time falls squarely in late-morning daytime hours — not a late-night authentic-Trump window. **Style markers cut both ways.** Several features suggest authentic Trump: the distinctive parenthetical nickname construction "JUST CALL HIM BRAD" is highly idiosyncratic and would be unusual for a staffer to generate; strategic ALL-CAPS on "CRIMINALS" and "BRAD" follows Trump's known emphasis patterns; the run-on sentence stacking multiple grievances mirrors his stream-of-consciousness style; and the encoding artifact "womenâs" (a garbled smart-apostrophe) suggests typing or paste from an iPhone/device rather than desktop publishing workflow. However, the relatively clean grammar, complete sentence structure, and issue-stacking discipline (criminals → trans sports → open borders) are more structured than Trump's most impulsive posts. Assessment: **mixed signals, leaning authentic** (~65% Trump himself) — the "JUST CALL HIM BRAD" phrasing is too idiosyncratic for typical aide drafting and the apostrophe corruption is a hardware/software artifact consistent with personal posting. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Low Agreeableness** dominates: the opponent is reduced to a function of policy positions, never named, dehumanized by association with "hardened CRIMINALS." There is zero acknowledgment of legitimacy in the opposing viewpoint. **High Extraversion (assertiveness facet):** The triple exclamation point close ("BRAD!!!"), imperative voting command, and self-positioning as national-stakes kingmaker reflect high dominance-assertiveness with no vulnerability. **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation):** Issue-stacking without logical connectives — criminals → sports → borders — is cognitively impulsive, characteristic of low deliberation. Claims are asserted without evidence or qualification. **Moderate Neuroticism (angry hostility):** The "Radical Left" framing and capitalizing "CRIMINALS" carries suppressed hostility that stops short of rage; this is more controlled grievance-arousal than acute narcissistic fury. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate:** The post is a power-extension exercise — Trump positioning himself as the decisive force in a state judicial race. "Could have much to do with the future of our Country" amplifies his perceived influence. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self-schema:* Indispensable national protector whose endorsement shapes destiny. The first-person singular is absent but Trump's authority is the organizing principle. - *Other-schema (Democrat):* Defined entirely by policy enemies — criminals, trans athletes, open borders — not as a person. Classic object-relations flattening. - *World-schema:* Zero-sum, existential stakes in every contest. A state supreme court race = "the future of our Country." --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Off-stage hero/kingmaker. Trump does not appear in this post, yet the entire framing depends on his authority to designate who is "strong" and what is "Common Sense." The narrative positions him as the evaluator of worthiness. **Contamination sequence:** The Democratic candidate is constructed as a vector of contamination — criminals being *returned*, men *entering* women's spaces, borders *opened*. Each issue is framed as an invasion/intrusion narrative. **Identity claims:** "Common Sense" is the operative identity marker. It signals tribal belonging — the reader who agrees is rational; those who disagree are radical. This is identity politics disguised as epistemic virtue. **Contrasting other:** The unnamed Democratic candidate serves as a pure foil — never humanized, only defined by threat categories. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism Components:** *Narcissistic features:* Moderate activation. The post reflects entitlement to shape judicial elections and grandiosity of stakes ("future of our Country"), but is not a self-referential display — attention is redirected toward the candidate. *Antisocial features:* The "hardened CRIMINALS" framing shows willingness to deploy factually misleading characterizations (the deported individuals included many without violent criminal records) without evident concern for accuracy. *Paranoid features:* Mild. The framing implies Democrats are deliberately working to reintroduce dangerous elements — not random policy disagreement but malevolent intent ("insistent on bringing hardened CRIMINALS... back"). *Ego-syntonic sadism:* Absent in this post. No evident pleasure in humiliation; focus is mobilization rather than cruelty. --- ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Maintenance/supply-seeking combined with political mobilization. No acute narcissistic injury is evident. This is scheduled engagement — a Sunday endorsement post ahead of an April 1 election. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The post exudes confidence, national-stakes framing, and kingmaker authority. No vulnerability markers. **Rage:** Absent. Controlled contempt for the Democratic candidate, but no acute rage episode. The hostility is instrumental (mobilizing voters) rather than expressive. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Splitting (immature):** The Democrat is pure threat; Brad is pure "Common Sense." No complexity acknowledged. This is prototypical splitting — all-bad vs. all-good object representation. **Projection (immature):** The framing implies Democrats *want* criminals in communities and men in women's sports — attributing malevolent intent rather than genuine policy disagreement. This projects bad-faith motivation onto the other. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Common Sense" is deployed as a rationalization device — labeling Trump's preferred policy positions as self-evidently rational, foreclosing the need to argue them. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **Issue stacking:** Three distinct grievance triggers (criminal deportees, trans athletes, open borders) concatenated without argumentative connectives — designed to activate multiple anxiety nodes simultaneously. **False dichotomy:** Complex judicial policy questions reduced to binary choice between threat-vector and common-sense protector. **Dehumanizing language:** "hardened CRIMINALS" applied to a category that includes deportees whose criminal status varies widely; this is a dehumanization technique that forecloses empathy. **Appeal to fear:** All three issues (crime, gender/sports, borders) are chosen from the high-anxiety category of Trump's base. The choice is not informational but activational. **Urgency manufacturing:** "VOTE, NOW" and "really big and important race" create artificial temporal pressure for an election still days away. **Stochastic resonance (mild):** The "bringing hardened CRIMINALS back" framing implicitly identifies Democrats as agents of violence — creating a threat narrative that, at scale, can license disproportionate responses. **Hyperbole/superlatives:** "far away places," "future of our Country" — apocalyptic stakes for a state judicial race. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present at moderate level.** The characterization of the Democratic candidate as favoring "Open Borders" and returning "hardened CRIMINALS" distorts the actual policy positions being contested (which relate to deportation due-process protections and judicial independence). This is reality distortion through selective hyperbole rather than outright fabrication. **Epistemic closure:** "Common Sense" framing implies that disagreeing voters lack basic rationality — a loyalty test embedded in the framing. --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment **No clinically significant markers in this post.** The syntax is complete, the logical flow coherent (even if factually distorted), and word-finding appears intact. The run-on sentence structure is stylistically consistent with Trump's baseline rather than indicative of decline. The "JUST CALL HIM BRAD" construction is eccentric but intentional — it functions as a mnemonic device and reflects social/interpersonal intelligence, not impairment. Complexity is moderate-low, consistent with Trump's known oral/written style. No perseveration, paraphasia, or temporal confusion observed. --- ### Danger Assessment **Elevated (not high).** The "hardened CRIMINALS" framing identifying Democrats as conduits for violent crime — combined with a mobilization call — fits the lower end of stochastic terrorism pattern: a named political group (Democrats, the unnamed candidate) is associated with violence/invasion, and followers are mobilized with urgency. The framing does not cross into explicit threat language, but the emotional logic (Democrats = criminals = danger to your community = vote NOW) has an action-arousal structure. --- ### Order/Chaos Dynamics **Order restorer/defender:** The post positions Trump and "Brad" as defending existing social hierarchies (safe communities, gender-defined sports, controlled borders) against forces of disorder. The Democrats are cast as chaos agents (returning criminals, gender disruption, open borders). This is the classic Warrior/King archetype defending threatened order. **Asymmetric application:** Order is promised to "real Americans" in Wisconsin; chaos is what Democrats represent. The framing maps cleanly onto the populist order/chaos asymmetry. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Democrat supports bringing hardened criminals back into the country" | **Mostly False** | Refers to legal challenges to deportation under the Alien Enemies Act. Deportees included individuals with civil immigration violations and minor records, not exclusively violent felons. Characterizing judicial due-process advocacy as wanting to 'bring back' criminals is a significant distortion. | | "Democrat supports allowing men into women's sports" | **Half True** | References genuine policy debate over transgender athlete participation; the framing is reductive but reflects an actual point of partisan disagreement over anti-discrimination law enforcement. | | "Democrat supports Open Borders" | **Mostly False** | Standard characterization applied to any Democrat supporting immigration due-process protections. No mainstream Democratic politician advocates literal open borders policy. | | "Wisconsin Supreme Court race could have much to do with the future of our Country" | **Half True** | The Wisconsin Supreme Court is legitimately high-stakes — affects redistricting, abortion rights, and election law. Hyperbolic framing of national destiny is exaggerated but the underlying electoral significance is real. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 'JUST CALL HIM BRAD' construction is too idiosyncratic for standard aide drafting - Smart-apostrophe encoding artifact ('womenâs') consistent with personal device posting - ALL-CAPS emphasis pattern (CRIMINALS, BRAD) matches Trump's known stylistic habits - 11:24 AM EDT Sunday — daytime/weekend timing is ambiguous (not strongly aide-attributed) - Run-on issue-stacking without logical connectives matches Trump's stream-of-consciousness style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Wisconsin Supreme Court election April 1 2025) Sentiment: -0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('Get out and VOTE, NOW') - Shared threat construction (criminals returning to YOUR community) - In-group identity marker ('Common Sense') creating tribal belonging - National stakes amplification creating urgency ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Hardened CRIMINALS' dehumanization applied to deportee population, by extension labeling their legal advocates as criminal-enablers - Implicit threat narrative: Democrats = conduit for violent criminals entering YOUR community - Mobilization call ('VOTE, NOW') following fear-arousal sequence creates action-arousal link - Low-level stochastic resonance: named political group associated with violence + urgent mobilization = elevated (not high) pattern ### Gaslighting - 'bringing hardened CRIMINALS back' misrepresents judicial due-process review as affirmative desire to return violent offenders - 'Open Borders' applied to candidate who almost certainly advocates regulated immigration — attacks on legitimate policy positions as extreme positions - 'Common Sense' framing implies opponents lack basic rationality, foreclosing legitimate disagreement **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._ > Democrat supports bringing hardened criminals back into the country **MOSTLY FALSE** Refers to legal challenges to deportation under the Alien Enemies Act. Deportees included individuals with civil immigration violations and minor records, not exclusively violent felons. Characterizing judicial due-process advocacy as wanting to 'bring back' criminals is a significant distortion. Sources: Federal Judge Hearing on Alien Enemies Act Deportations (provided events) > Democrat supports allowing men into women's sports **HALF TRUE** References genuine policy debate over transgender athlete participation; the framing is reductive but reflects an actual point of partisan disagreement over anti-discrimination law enforcement. > Democrat supports Open Borders **MOSTLY FALSE** Standard characterization applied to any Democrat supporting immigration due-process protections. No mainstream Democratic politician advocates literal open borders policy. > Wisconsin Supreme Court race could have much to do with the future of our Country **HALF TRUE** The Wisconsin Supreme Court is legitimately high-stakes — affects redistricting, abortion rights, and election law. Hyperbolic framing of national destiny is exaggerated but the underlying electoral significance is real. Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - electoral-endorsement (90%) - wisconsin-supreme-court (85%) - immigration-grievance (80%) - trans-sports-grievance (65%) - dehumanizing-language (70%) - kingmaker-mode (75%) - splitting (80%) - issue-stacking (85%) - maintenance-post (70%) - grandiose-state (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Sunday of Self-Celebration Curdles Into Judicial Targeting as Grandiose Morning Gives Way to Combative Afternoon** Trump spent a quiet Sunday morning sharing clips of his rockstar reception at the NCAA wrestling championships, then unleashed a rapid-fire burst of five posts in nine minutes covering everything from a Wisconsin endorsement to his own meme coin. The mood was buoyant and self-promotional for most of the day, with Trump praising Truth Social, hyping "Liberation Day" tariffs, and gushing over $TRUMP crypto. The tone darkened in the final stretch, with attacks on town hall protesters as "paid agitators" and a pointed shot at a federal judge over immigration rulings. Overall a moderate-volume day dominated by grandiose self-promotion with a combative tail. Full digest for 2025-03-23: https://trump.fm/date/2025-03-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, March 23). In the Great State of Wisconsin, a Radical Left... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114212434987437462 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "In the Great State of Wisconsin, a Radical Left Democrat,..." Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114212434987437462. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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