# Post ts_116109104602937332

- Post ID: `ts_116109104602937332`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-21T14:32:15.409Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116109104602937332
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116109104602937332/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116109104602937332.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> My new hero is United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and, of course, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that they want to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

## Engagement

- Likes: 37,166
- Reposts: 8,580
- Replies: 2,694
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-22T16:15:33.643Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:34:28.467Z (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 completes a textbook splitting defense across a sequence of posts responding to a Supreme Court defeat on tariffs. While adjacent posts devalue Gorsuch, Barrett, and Roberts for ruling against him, this post idealizes Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito as "heroes" — with worth determined entirely by alignment with Trump's position. The insertion of "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" as the justices' supposed motivation collapses judicial independence into partisan allegiance, framing the Supreme Court not as an independent branch but as a loyalty hierarchy. The false-consensus claim ("no doubt in anyone's mind") universalizes Trump's transactional evaluation. The pattern is consistent with narcissistic injury response: defeat triggers rage at disloyal figures and compensatory idealization of loyal ones, with no space for legitimate legal disagreement.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_116109104602937332

### Context
This post follows a Supreme Court ruling against Trump's tariff policy, where his own appointees Gorsuch and Barrett sided against him. In prior posts from the same day, Trump attacked those two justices and Chief Justice Roberts. This post completes the splitting dynamic by idealizing the justices who sided with him.

### Authorship
Posted at 14:32 UTC = 9:32 AM ET. Trump was likely at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. The timing suggests business hours, but the content — emotional, reactive, part of a rapid-fire sequence of posts on the same topic — is clearly authentic Trump. The phrase "My new hero" and the insertion of the MAGA slogan are signature patterns.

### Psychological Dynamics
This post is the idealization half of a textbook splitting defense. The prior posts devalue Gorsuch, Barrett, and Roberts; this one idealizes Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito. The division is purely transactional: loyalty to Trump's position determines hero vs. villain status. "My new hero" frames Supreme Court justices not as independent jurists but as personal allies whose worth derives from alignment with Trump.

The phrase "There is no doubt in anyone's mind" is a characteristic false-consensus claim that universalizes Trump's personal approval.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The MAGA slogan insertion reframes a legal dispute as a loyalty test within the broader political movement. Justices are not evaluated on jurisprudence but on whether they "want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" — collapsing judicial independence into partisan allegiance.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito sided with Trump on tariffs" | **Mostly True** | Context from adjacent posts confirms a Supreme Court ruling went against Trump's tariff policy, with these three justices apparently dissenting in his favor. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Part of rapid emotional post sequence on same topic
- "My new hero" — informal, personal framing
- MAGA slogan insertion
- Stream-of-consciousness quality

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Supreme Court ruling against tariff policy)

Sentiment: +0.70

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid-fire posting sequence on same topic
- Grandiose framing

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- False consensus ("no doubt in anyone's mind")
- In-group signaling via MAGA slogan

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito sided with Trump on tariffs

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Context from adjacent posts confirms a Supreme Court ruling went against Trump's tariff policy, with these three justices apparently dissenting in his favor.

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- splitting (90%)
- judicial_independence (70%)
- tariffs_scotus (80%)
- loyalty_test (70%)

## That day

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

**A day after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs 6-3, a proclamation raising them instead**

Trump spent the day metabolizing the Supreme Court's ruling against his tariffs. Friday night he blamed the two justices he appointed and accused Republicans of disloyalty; Saturday morning he praised the three who sided with him, called the decision anti-American, and issued a formal statement saying he would raise tariffs anyway. The afternoon was routine political business — Texas endorsements, a run of Indiana primary polling graphics, a note about the Great Salt Lake — before the anger came back out on smaller targets: he yanked his endorsement of a Colorado congressman who opposed the tariffs, then demanded Netflix fire Susan Rice or "pay the consequences." He slept a full night in between and nothing suggests a manic stretch. The telling part is the direction of travel: unable to touch the Court, he found people who could be punished.

Full digest for 2026-02-21: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 21). My new hero is United States Supreme Court... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116109104602937332
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "My new hero is United States Supreme Court Justice Brett..." Truth Social, 21 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116109104602937332. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "My new hero is United States Supreme Court Justice Brett...," Truth Social, February 21, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116109104602937332.

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