# Post x_1037078251095687174

- Post ID: `x_1037078251095687174`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-09-04T20:41:37.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1037078251095687174
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1037078251095687174/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1037078251095687174.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the Supreme Court are truly a display of how mean, angry, and despicable the other side is. They will say anything, and are only....

## Engagement

- Likes: 90,541
- Reposts: 21,966
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.398Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T23:43:36.390Z (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 is a compact instance of Trump's splitting and projection defenses deployed during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The pre-emptive labeling of Kavanaugh as 'future Justice' displays characteristic grandiose certainty; the tricolon condemnation of the opposition as 'mean, angry, and despicable' exemplifies projection — attributing to enemies the affective qualities most commonly attributed to the poster himself. The post inverts accountability: the administration that withheld 100,000+ pages of nominee records positions procedural objectors as uniquely bad-faith actors. Epistemic closure is explicit: 'they will say anything' forecloses all future Democratic arguments as ipso facto invalid. The incomplete trailing ('and are only....') is consistent with thread-opener composition in stream-of-consciousness mode, supporting authentic authorship despite business-hours timing. No clinically significant deviation from the 2018 baseline. The narcissistic state is grandiose rather than vulnerable — offense-playing, not defensive wounding. Danger level: none.

## Psychological Analysis: Kavanaugh Hearings Post (Sept 4, 2018)

### Authorship
UTC 20:41:37 = **4:41 PM EDT** in Washington D.C., where Trump was stationed during the Kavanaugh hearing period. Business hours timing slightly favors aide involvement, but the stylistic fingerprints override: stream-of-consciousness construction, emotionally raw adjective stacking ('mean, angry, and despicable'), and the incomplete thread-opener structure ('and are only....') are strongly inconsistent with Scavino's more polished, event-announcement style. **Assessment: authentic Trump at medium-high confidence.**

### Trigger and Narcissistic Dynamics
The post reflects a **grandiose narcissistic state** in response to the Kavanaugh hearing's Democratic opposition — a direct challenge to Trump's most durable legacy vehicle: Supreme Court appointments. The pre-emptive designation of Kavanaugh as **'future Justice'** is a dominance display, projecting certainty of outcome before confirmation to signal that opposition is futile and illegitimate. This functions simultaneously as a loyalty test for followers.

### Defense Mechanisms
**Projection** is the dominant defense: 'mean, angry, and despicable' — adjectives most frequently applied to Trump himself in public discourse — are attributed wholesale to the opposition. **Splitting** is explicit: the other side is cast as uniformly and irredeemably bad-faith ('they will say anything'), admitting zero nuance. **Rationalization** is implicit in the 'truly a display' framing, offered as self-evident without any evidentiary basis.

### Reality Inversion / Gaslighting
The post inverts the accountability structure with notable precision. The administration that withheld 100,000+ pages of Kavanaugh's records from the Bush White House positions those raising procedural objections as the bad-faith, 'despicable' actors. This is a DARVO-adjacent maneuver (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): the party suppressing evidence characterizes the party requesting it as the moral failure.

### Rhetorical Architecture
The **'they will say anything'** construction is the rhetorically significant element: an unfalsifiable claim that functions as epistemic prophylaxis, inoculating followers against any future Democratic argument regardless of its content or merit. Once this frame is accepted, no opposition argument can penetrate. Combined with the pre-emptive 'future Justice' labeling, the post accomplishes a complete closure of the epistemic field — the confirmation is decided; objectors are simply bad people speaking in bad faith.

### Cognitive Status
The incomplete trailing ('and are only....') is consistent with thread-composition behavior, not word-finding difficulty. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with Trump's established 2018 baseline. No deviation noted.

### Archetypal Frame
Post embodies the **King** archetype asserting sovereign prerogative over court appointments, with the opposing senators cast as insurgents disrupting legitimate order. Trump positions as order-defender rather than chaos agent in this instance — unusual relative to his more typical trickster positioning.

### Danger Assessment
**None.** Standard partisan mobilization. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Brett Kavanaugh hearings [began on this date]" | **True** | Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Kavanaugh began September 4, 2018, with immediate Democratic procedural objections and public disruptions. |
| "Democrats are acting in bad faith and 'will say anything'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective characterization. Democrats had documented procedural objections including the administration's withholding of 100,000+ pages of Kavanaugh records — a substantive basis for objection that this post elides. |
| "Kavanaugh is 'the future Justice of the Supreme Court'" | **Mostly True** | Retrospectively accurate (Kavanaugh confirmed October 6, 2018), but at time of posting was a grandiose presumption, not established fact — the confirmation was actively contested. |

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Incomplete trailing construction ('and are only....') consistent with thread-opener pattern
- Blunt emotional register without polished transitions
- Tricolon attack vocabulary characteristic of authentic Trump posts
- Business hours timing (4:41 PM EDT) slightly suggests aide, but style overrides

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Senate Democrats opposing Kavanaugh nomination)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Senate Democrats / 'the other side'
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 48%
- Sadism: 28%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Outrage amplification to activate partisan identity
- Collective enemy construction ('the other side')
- Certainty signaling ('future Justice') to project dominance to followers

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reality inversion: administration that withheld 100,000+ pages of nominee records frames the objectors as bad-faith actors
- DARVO-adjacent framing: attacking those raising legitimate procedural concerns as 'mean, angry, and despicable'
- Epistemic closure rhetoric: 'they will say anything' preemptively delegitimizes all opposition arguments

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-15._

> The Brett Kavanaugh hearings [began on this date]

**TRUE**

Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Kavanaugh began September 4, 2018, with immediate Democratic procedural objections and public disruptions.

Sources: Congressional Record, Senate Judiciary Committee, September 4, 2018

> Democrats are acting in bad faith and 'will say anything'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective characterization. Democrats had documented procedural objections including the administration's withholding of 100,000+ pages of Kavanaugh records — a substantive basis for objection that this post elides.

> Kavanaugh is 'the future Justice of the Supreme Court'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Retrospectively accurate (Kavanaugh confirmed October 6, 2018), but at time of posting was a grandiose presumption, not established fact — the confirmation was actively contested.

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Tags

- Kavanaugh (90%)
- projection (85%)
- splitting (80%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- epistemic_closure (75%)
- grandiosity (65%)
- DARVO_adjacent (60%)
- base_mobilization (70%)

## That day

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

**Woodward's 'Fear' Lands: A Day of Preemptive Strikes and Institutional Damage Control**

Trump spent a relatively normal workday at the White House that was overshadowed by the publication of damaging excerpts from Bob Woodward's book *Fear*. The morning opened with an attack on NBC over its handling of the Harvey Weinstein story, including an implied threat to its broadcast license. The afternoon was dominated by routine governance -- hurricane preparedness, endorsements, and boilerplate defense of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. By evening the focus shifted entirely to damage control: staff rapidly posted official denials from Mattis, Kelly, and Sanders, followed by a personal counterattack branding Woodward a "Dem operative" and the quoted insults "made up frauds." The day's mood was mostly business-as-usual, but the bookend attacks on NBC and Woodward revealed a subject managing multiple institutional threats through press delegitimization.

Full digest for 2018-09-04: https://trump.fm/date/2018-09-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, September 4). The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1037078251095687174
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the..." X (Twitter), 4 Sep. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1037078251095687174. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the...," X (Twitter), September 4, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1037078251095687174.

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