# Post ts_116868024942266024

- Post ID: `ts_116868024942266024`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-07-05T15:15:40.743Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868024942266024
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868024942266024/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> Screenshot of a tweet/post from "Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh" (@RepAbeHamadeh, verified with a blue checkmark and a gold government badge) criticizing judicial rulings against President Trump. It quotes a bar chart posted by "Kevin Bass" (@kevinnbass, Jun 22) titled "Preliminary Injunctions Against Sitting President's Administrative Policies (Updated as of June 2026)" showing the number of preliminary injunctions/policy blocks by president: George W. Bush (6), Obama (12), Trump 1.0 (75, range 64-86), Biden (21, range 14-28), and Trump 2.0 (169). The post is timestamped 12:10 PM · Jun 23, 2026, with 3,473 views.

Text in the image: "Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh ✓ 🎖️ @RepAbeHamadeh In their desperate bid to stop President Trump, activist judges have seized power from the President, dictating the country's direction. Their blatant override of executive authority has not strengthened the Constitution. It has shredded public trust and accelerated Americans' loss of faith in our institutions. This judicial overreach must be curbed. Americans elected Trump to lead, not unelected judges. Kevin Bass ✓ @kevinnbass · Jun 22 Number of times a judge has blocked a president's policies, broken down by president Tyranny of the judiciary Preliminary Injunctions Against Sitting President's Administrative Policies (Updated as of June 2026) Number of Preliminary Injunctions / Policy Blocks 200 175 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 George W. Bush: 6 Obama: 12 Trump 1.0: 75 (64-86) Biden: 21 (14-28) Trump 2.0: 169 Note: Trump 1.0 shown as 75 (range 64-86); Biden shown as 21 (range 14-28). Trump 2.0 ≈169 from active cases with halted policies (NYT tracker). Data from CRS, Harvard Law Review, NYT tracker. Numbers are approximate. 12:10 PM · Jun 23, 2026 · 3,473 Views"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/868/024/769/117/479/original/c8970a835b79a454.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 283
- Reposts: 114
- Replies: 16
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-07-05T16:01:02.387Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-12T17:11:41.003Z (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 media-only post: a screenshot of Rep. Abe Hamadeh's statement that "activist judges have seized power from the President," stacked over a bar chart captioned "Tyranny of the judiciary" counting 169 preliminary injunctions against the current administration. No caption of his own, so the behavior under analysis is the selection.

Three features are worth recording. First, the complaint about courts arrives three days after DOJ refused Judge Sullivan's July 2 order to unredact Epstein records, and the amplified text never identifies which ruling prompted any of it. A specific adverse order with personally damaging content at stake is answered with a grievance against the judiciary as a category, which is displacement onto a larger and safer target. The chart predates the order by two weeks, so what he contributed was the timing of its circulation.

Second, the borrowed sentence projects: *seized*, *dictating*, *override* assign usurpation to the reviewing branch, and responsibility for lost institutional trust is relocated from the policies to the rulings that blocked them.

Third, the grievance is voiced by a congressman and quantified by a third party citing "CRS, Harvard Law Review, NYT tracker," with the chart's own hedges ("Numbers are approximate") printed under a "Tyranny" label. He retains the claim and outsources its authorship.

The prescription — overreach "must be curbed" — leaves the agent, the target and the means blank. It puts institutional delegitimization into circulation from the presidency and stops there.

## An ally's argument, published with nothing of his own

The artifact is a screenshot of a sitting House member's post — "Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh" — quote-tweeting a bar chart. Trump attached no caption. The entire communicative act is the decision to put this particular combination of a colleague's indictment and a third party's graph in front of his own audience, unmediated and unqualified. Publishing it without comment adopts every sentence in it: "activist judges have seized power from the President," "Americans elected Trump to lead, not unelected judges," and the prescription, "This judicial overreach must be curbed."

That choice of vehicle is itself the finding. The grievance is stated in somebody else's voice, under a congressional seal and above a chart citing "CRS, Harvard Law Review, NYT tracker." He keeps the claim and outsources the authorship — a sourcing launder that makes a litigant's reaction look like an institutional finding.

## Timing: three days after DOJ refused Sullivan's order

The selection lands on July 5, with Judge Emmet Sullivan's July 2 unredaction deadline in the Epstein matter just behind it — an order DOJ declined to comply with and said it would appeal. The published complaint names no case and no judge. A specific adverse ruling with personally damaging material at stake is answered with a grievance about the judiciary as a class, quantified back to George W. Bush. That is displacement in its ordinary shape: the affect attaches to a larger, safer, more abstract target than the one that produced it. The inference rests on proximity alone — judicial friction is continuous in this period, and the chart is two weeks old ("12:10 PM · Jun 23, 2026"), so he did not compose this in response to Sullivan.

## Projection inside the borrowed sentence

"Activist judges have seized power from the President, dictating the country's direction" assigns usurpation to the branch reviewing his actions. The verb set — *seized*, *dictating*, *override* — describes the accuser's own contested conduct and locates it in his opponents. The splitting is explicit and clean: elected against "unelected," leaders against obstructors, with no third category for a judge who rules against him correctly. The second paragraph then inverts responsibility for institutional damage: the rulings, not the policies that drew them, have "shredded public trust and accelerated Americans' loss of faith in our institutions."

## The chart does the arguing

The graph's rhetorical work is to make 169 look like aggression rather than volume. Injunction counts track the number and breadth of contested executive actions as much as judicial appetite, and the chart's own footnote concedes the construction is soft — "Numbers are approximate," Trump 1.0 given as a range of 64–86, Trump 2.0 assembled "from active cases with halted policies (NYT tracker)." Those hedges sit in small type beneath a bar labeled "Tyranny of the judiciary." He asserts none of it in his own words, so there is nothing here to attribute to him as a factual claim; what is analyzable is the willingness to publish a number whose own caption calls it approximate as though it settled the question.

## "Curbed"

The action word is passive and unspecified: judicial overreach "must be curbed," by an unnamed agent, through unnamed means. The one absence that shapes how this reads is of any individual — no judge is named anywhere in the screenshot, so it aims the audience at a category rather than at a person. What the amplification does carry, from a sitting president to an audience that includes people who threaten judges, is the premise that rulings against him are seizures of power by people who should not hold it. The delegitimization is the hazard, not any instruction.

## Authorship

Eastern time puts this near 11:15 a.m., the morning after the Lincoln Memorial event, inside business hours. With no prose there is nothing stylometric to weigh; the question is only who picked the screenshot. Uncaptioned amplification of an ally's post is something he does constantly himself, but a staff account can place the same image at the same midday hour, and nothing in the artifact separates the two.

## What would sharpen this

Whether uncaptioned ally-screenshots cluster after adverse rulings, or fall evenly across his week, is checkable against the archive and would tell us whether the July 2 proximity read above is carrying real weight.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- No written text: no spelling, punctuation, capitalization or syntax evidence exists to score
- Posted approximately 11:15 a.m. Eastern — business hours, the window in which staff posting is common
- Uncaptioned amplification of an allied politician's screenshot is a habitual personal behavior for this subject
- Part of a same-day cluster of short link-and-media posts (including a Bloomberg headline paste), consistent with his own scrolling
- Content is reactive grievance rather than schedule, announcement, or third-person framing — no aide fingerprint either

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 55%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: low agreeableness — oppositional, grievance-oriented hostility toward an institution

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Rightfully elected leader obstructed by officials nobody voted for
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** "Activist judges" / "unelected judges" — the federal judiciary as a usurping class

**Identity Claims:**
- The mandate is his: "Americans elected Trump to lead"
- He is the object of an organized effort — "their desperate bid to stop President Trump"
- Executive authority is personal authority, so blocking a policy is taking power "from the President"

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Adverse judicial rulings generally; plausibly the July 2 Sullivan unredaction order DOJ refused to comply with)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party validation: the grievance is voiced by a verified congressional account rather than by him
- Data-as-authority: a bar chart citing "CRS, Harvard Law Review, NYT tracker" presented as settling the question
- Wordless endorsement, which invites followers to supply the argument themselves

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Presidential amplification of the claim that judges have "seized power" and that rulings are illegitimate, to a mass audience
- Agentless demand that "judicial overreach must be curbed" — no named target, but no boundary on means either
- An entire branch framed as an adversarial bloc acting in "desperate" coordination

## Tags

- judicial-delegitimization (90%)
- borrowed-voice-amplification (85%)
- projection (70%)
- displacement (65%)
- epstein-adjacent-timing (50%)
- data-as-authority (60%)
- wordless-post (100%)

## That day

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

**A record-setting Fourth gave way to a morning spent on reflecting-pool algae and one judge's foreign birth**

Trump was still posting well past midnight, riding the high of the July 4th celebration he had headlined on the National Mall, and by the time he stopped the next evening he had posted more than a hundred times. Most of it was self-congratulation — the record fireworks, a crowd number he inflated, TikTok view counts, family photos, and a surprising amount of attention to how clean the Lincoln Reflecting Pool looked compared with Obama's. Running underneath was a harsher stream of borrowed material: six posts attacking the federal judiciary, four of them naming and picturing the same judge over her birth in Trinidad, plus a video claiming Haitian immigrants are part of a plot to replace American communities. Almost none of that angrier content was in his own words — it was two-week-old screenshots from other accounts, dumped out in one burst before lunch. He closed the day by reposting six of his own posts, then reposting the same six again eight minutes later.

Full digest for 2026-07-05: https://trump.fm/date/2026-07-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, July 5).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868024942266024
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 5 Jul. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868024942266024. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, July 5, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868024942266024.

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