# Post ts_117298741939724787

- Post ID: `ts_117298741939724787`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-19T16:52:40.554Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117298741939724787/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117298741939724787.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Unfortunately, the United States Supreme Court has lacked the Courage to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Over the last 6 months, with their faulty, political, and ridiculous decisions on TARIFFS and Birthright Citizenship, they have cost the United States of America Trillions of Dollars, and forever damaged the way people become Citizens of our great Country. It has been a sad chapter in the life and times of America, but we will prevail! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-19T17:02:31.309Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

He attacks the Supreme Court for rulings against his IEEPA tariffs and his birthright citizenship order. The post judges the Court by whether it had "the Courage to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," which makes his campaign slogan the test of judicial virtue, and then calls the decisions "political." That is projection in a compact form. Losing a legal question becomes a character failure ("lacked the Courage"), and the three adjectives "faulty, political, and ridiculous" dismiss the rulings without addressing their reasoning. Two claims part from the record. "Trillions of Dollars" inflates IEEPA collections that came to roughly the low hundreds of billions. "Forever damaged the way people become Citizens" credits the Court with the disruption his own order attempted, when a ruling against it left more than a century of settled law in place. The post comes after a day of grandiose posts (the Greenland "permanent control" announcement, a "TERM THREE" accomplishments list) and moves from that expansive state into a wounded one before ending on "we will prevail!" No justice is named and there is no call to act. The attack stays at the level of the institution's legitimacy.

## A Saturday-noon indictment of the Court

The post went up at 12:52 p.m. Eastern on a Saturday. It looks back over about half a year of losses at the Supreme Court, and it is one of the few grievance posts in a run of grandiose ones. The day before, he announced a Greenland "Agreement" that gives the U.S. "permanent control" and posted a list of "TOP 25 TRUMP ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF TERM THREE." Earlier the same morning came a poll proposing that AI be renamed "Supreme Intelligence." This post moves from that expansive register into a wounded one: "Unfortunately," "a sad chapter," "forever damaged." He is still keeping score of the IEEPA tariff ruling months after the fact, and bundling it with the birthright citizenship case makes the two cases one account of a Court that let him down. That points to a grudge being maintained rather than a response to fresh news. None of the pre-researched events for the week is a new ruling. The nearest occasions are Constitution Day (September 17), which he marked with a Smithsonian statue demand, and the approaching midterms.

## Courage measured against a campaign slogan

The first sentence holds the post's working schema: "the United States Supreme Court has lacked the Courage to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN." The Court is judged on whether it carried out his political program, and his campaign slogan is the measure of judicial virtue. Having done that, the post calls the decisions "political." That is projection in a fairly clean form: he politicizes the Court's job in the same clause that accuses the Court of being political. The three adjectives "faulty, political, and ridiculous" devalue the rulings without engaging their reasoning. Losing a statutory question on IEEPA's scope becomes a failure of nerve ("lacked the Courage"). That is a rationalization, because it explains the defeat by the other side's character and never raises the possibility that the legal position was weak. The Court he is attacking has a 6–3 conservative majority that includes three justices he appointed, and the post never mentions that. The omission keeps the two sides clean: the institution is failing, and "we" are the ones who "will prevail."

The narrative runs from contamination to redemption. America is on a trajectory toward greatness, the Court "cost" the country and "damaged" it, and the closing turn is "but we will prevail!" He casts himself as the leader of a collective "we" held back by a timid institution. That is the thwarted-savior role, with the King archetype running into a rival authority. He positions himself as attacking an order he calls corrupt, and there is no grievance against individuals in it. No justice is named, which keeps this at the level of institutional delegitimization. Nothing in it identifies a person for followers to act against, and it contains no call to mobilize.

## Where the claims part from the record

"Trillions of Dollars" is the main distortion. Duties collected under the IEEPA tariffs before the February 2026 ruling came to roughly the low hundreds of billions of dollars. Figures in the trillions come only from ten-year projections of revenue the administration hoped for, and it has since used other statutes to replace much of that tariff coverage. The birthright claim turns the direction of change around. The executive order was the attempt to alter "the way people become Citizens." A ruling against it, which the post presupposes, left the jus soli rule of the Fourteenth Amendment and *Wong Kim Ark* (1898) where it has stood for more than a century. By saying the Court "forever damaged" citizenship, the post assigns the disruption to the institution that blocked the change. That is a mild DARVO pattern: the offender and the victim trade places.

## Voice and hand

The text follows his dictation habits closely. It uses idiosyncratic capitals ("Courage," "Citizens," "Trillions of Dollars," "TARIFFS" set against a lowercase "Birthright Citizenship"), an emotive opener ("Unfortunately"), a round-number superlative, a slightly mixed idiom ("a sad chapter in the life and times of America"), and the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off that has closed many of his 2025–26 posts. The midday timing and the clean syntax suggest a staffer typed it. The capitalization and the grievance logic are his. Dictated by the subject and entered by staff fits the evidence best, with medium confidence.

On cognition, the post is coherent. It stays on one topic through three sentences, and "life and times of America" is an idiom stretched past its usual biographical use rather than a paraphasia. The neighboring AI-renaming poll is the odder item of the day, but it belongs to a different analysis.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Supreme Court's tariff and birthright citizenship decisions 'have cost the United States of America Trillions of Dollars'" | **Mostly False** | Duties collected under the IEEPA tariffs before the Court struck them down in February 2026 came to roughly the low hundreds of billions of dollars, which sets the scale of refund exposure. Figures in the trillions come only from ten-year projections of hoped-for revenue, and the administration has since used other trade statutes to replace much of the tariff coverage. The birthright ruling has no comparable fiscal cost. |
| "The rulings 'forever damaged the way people become Citizens of our great Country'" | **Mostly False** | Citizenship by birth on U.S. soil has rested on the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) and United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The executive order was the attempt to change that rule. A ruling against the order, which the post presupposes, leaves the long-standing rule in place and does not change how people become citizens. |
| "The adverse decisions came 'over the last 6 months'" | **Mostly True** | The IEEPA tariff decision was issued in February 2026, about seven months before this post, and the birthright citizenship case was on the Court's docket for decision in the same term. The timeframe is slightly compressed but roughly right. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 68%)

### Indicators

- Idiosyncratic capitalization: 'Courage', 'Citizens', 'Trillions of Dollars', ALL CAPS 'TARIFFS' against a lowercase 'Birthright Citizenship'
- Campaign slogan in capitals dropped into a sentence about the judiciary
- Round-number hyperbole ('Trillions') rather than a sourced figure
- 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' sign-off typical of his dictated 2025-26 posts
- Posted 12:52 p.m. EDT, during staff hours

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (low trust): the Court's motives are cast as political and cowardly

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Thwarted national savior leading a collective 'we'
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** The U.S. Supreme Court

**Identity Claims:**
- Embodiment of the MAGA project that the Court should have had the courage to advance
- Leader who 'will prevail' despite institutional obstruction

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Supreme Court rulings against IEEPA tariffs and the birthright citizenship order)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting U.S. Supreme Court
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we will prevail!' draws followers into his grievance
- Shared mourning in 'a sad chapter in the life and times of America'

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'forever damaged the way people become Citizens' credits the Court with the change his own order attempted
- 'Trillions of Dollars' inflates the fiscal stakes of the tariff ruling by roughly an order of magnitude

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-19._

> The Supreme Court's tariff and birthright citizenship decisions 'have cost the United States of America Trillions of Dollars'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Duties collected under the IEEPA tariffs before the Court struck them down in February 2026 came to roughly the low hundreds of billions of dollars, which sets the scale of refund exposure. Figures in the trillions come only from ten-year projections of hoped-for revenue, and the administration has since used other trade statutes to replace much of the tariff coverage. The birthright ruling has no comparable fiscal cost.

Sources: U.S. Customs and Border Protection IEEPA duty collection reporting; Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (2026)

> The rulings 'forever damaged the way people become Citizens of our great Country'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Citizenship by birth on U.S. soil has rested on the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) and United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The executive order was the attempt to change that rule. A ruling against the order, which the post presupposes, leaves the long-standing rule in place and does not change how people become citizens.

Sources: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, section 1; United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898); Executive Order 14160 (January 2025)

> The adverse decisions came 'over the last 6 months'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The IEEPA tariff decision was issued in February 2026, about seven months before this post, and the birthright citizenship case was on the Court's docket for decision in the same term. The timeframe is slightly compressed but roughly right.

Sources: Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (2026); Supreme Court October Term 2025 docket

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- supreme-court (90%)
- tariffs (70%)
- birthright-citizenship (70%)
- projection (60%)
- grievance-maintenance (60%)

## That day

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

**Renaming AI was elegance in the late morning and, by early afternoon, how the Radical Left runs a hoax.**

A light day by his standards: five posts, all of them done by early afternoon. It opened in the small hours with a video calling him the greatest comeback of all time, then went quiet until late morning. When he came back he wanted a grander name for artificial intelligence, hit the Supreme Court over tariff and citizenship rulings he says cost the country trillions, and then, less than two hours after pitching his own rebrand, offered the left's renaming of global warming as proof it deals in hoaxes. The sore note lasted about twenty minutes before he was back on top. He signed off by sharing a New York Post cover that mocked him, his face pasted on a small child mushing a dog sled across Greenland.

Full digest for 2026-09-19: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-19/analysis

## Citation

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- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Unfortunately, the United States Supreme Court has lacked..." Truth Social, 19 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117298741939724787. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Unfortunately, the United States Supreme Court has lacked...," Truth Social, September 19, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117298741939724787.

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