# Post x_1075406772368785408 - Post ID: `x_1075406772368785408` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2018-12-19T15:05:29.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1075406772368785408 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1075406772368785408/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1075406772368785408.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ....In any event, it goes on and on & the new AG, who is now being replaced by yet another AG (who openly campaigned on a GET TRUMP agenda), does little else but rant, rave & politic against me. Will never be treated fairly by these people - a total double standard of “justice.” ## Engagement - Likes: 72,633 - Reposts: 17,280 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.393Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-16T17:48:25.712Z (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 the closing segment of a five-post thread responding to the NY AG's announcement of the Trump Foundation's court-supervised dissolution, citing a "shocking pattern of illegality." It represents a textbook vulnerable narcissistic injury response to institutional exposure: rather than engaging with documented violations, the post constructs a persecution narrative centered on AG succession. Defense mechanisms include projection (accusing the AG of 'ranting and raving' in a post enacting those same qualities), splitting ('Will never be treated fairly — a total double standard'), and pathological denial of documented legal substance. The DARVO structure is complete: the subject of documented violations becomes the victim of a 'total double standard of justice.' Paranoid features are the most elevated clinical indicator. The scare quotes around 'justice' perform epistemic closure, requiring the audience to accept delegitimization of legal accountability as a group loyalty condition. Authorship is high-confidence authentic based on stylistic fingerprint (continuation ellipses, ALL CAPS, tricolon contempt construction) despite 10:05 AM EST posting time. No cognitive decline markers are present. Danger level: none. # Psychological Analysis: Post x_1075406772368785408 **Date:** December 19, 2018 | **Age:** 72 | **Platform:** Twitter/X --- ## Situational Context This post is the terminal segment of a multi-post thread (indicated by opening '....') responding to the New York Attorney General's announcement that the Trump Foundation had agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision. NY AG Barbara Underwood publicly cited a "shocking pattern of illegality," including coordination with the Trump campaign and self-dealing. The post thus responds to a direct, public, institutional exposure event — a high-intensity narcissistic injury. The posting occurred at approximately 10:05 AM EST in Washington, DC — mid-morning, within an hour or two of the Foundation dissolution news breaking. This temporal proximity strongly suggests reactive, injury-driven posting. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.82 (high confidence — authentic Trump)** The stylistic fingerprint is overwhelmingly authentic: continuation ellipses, ALL CAPS scare phrase ('GET TRUMP'), emotionally charged tricolon ('rant, rave & politic'), scare quotes around 'justice,' and the absolute victimhood closure ('Will never be treated fairly'). While 10:05 AM EST is business hours, the high emotional reactivity and direct trigger from breaking news are consistent with authentic posting rather than a scheduled aide communication. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post activates the following facets: - **Neuroticism (high):** Angry hostility is the dominant tone. The post's emotional arc from grievance ('it goes on and on') to victimhood ('Will never be treated fairly') to contempt ('total double standard of justice') traces a full neuroticism signature. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Antagonism toward institutional authority is explicit and unmodulated. No acknowledgment of validity in opposing claims. - **Extraversion (moderate-high):** Assertiveness and emotional expressiveness remain high even under stress — the post is outward-facing, audience-addressed, not withdrawn. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsivity is apparent in the reactive structure; no deliberation about legal risk of public statements about ongoing litigation. - **Openness (very low):** Rigid categorical framing ('never,' 'total,' 'these people') forecloses complexity. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives & Schemas **Agency motives dominate:** The post is preoccupied with loss of control (legal oversight, dissolution order, AG succession) and restoration of power/autonomy. The phrase 'does little else but rant, rave & politic against me' frames the AG as an agent of illegitimate power attacking legitimate authority (Trump himself). **Schema of persecution:** The phrase 'Will never be treated fairly by these people' reveals a stable cognitive schema, not a situational reaction: the world is divided into those who persecute and those who are persecuted, with Trump permanently in the latter role vis-à-vis institutional actors. **Entitlement schema:** The implicit claim is that the Foundation lawsuit is improper — that Trump's charitable activities should be exempt from the oversight being applied. The framing of legal accountability as 'a total double standard' reveals an expectation of special treatment. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Victim-fighter hybrid. The post emphasizes victimization ('Will never be treated fairly') but the underlying energy is combative ('one way or another, we will win' from earlier in the thread carries over). **Contamination sequence:** The narrative arc across the thread is: Trump Foundation did great work → Schneiderman (a corrupt abuser of women) weaponized the AG office against Trump → successive AGs have continued the persecution → 'it goes on and on.' This is a contamination arc: legitimate charitable work has been permanently poisoned by political persecution. **Contrasting other:** The AG succession (Schneiderman → Underwood → James) is cast as a continuous persecutory bloc rather than distinct actors. 'These people' unifies them into a monolithic enemy. **Identity claim:** Implicit: 'I am a man who cannot receive justice from institutions because those institutions are corrupt and biased against me.' This is a stable identity claim, not a new one — it extends across Trump's public communications over decades. --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) | Component | Score | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic Features | 0.72 | Entitlement, persecution belief, sense of exceptionalism ('double standard') | | Antisocial Features | 0.35 | Contempt for legal proceedings, implicit delegitimization of court oversight | | Paranoid Features | 0.78 | 'Will never be treated fairly by these people' — stable persecution conviction | | Ego-Syntonic Sadism | 0.08 | Minimal in this post; focus is on victimhood, not dominance display | The paranoid component is the most activated element in this post, consistent with an exposure-triggered injury. The narcissistic features are present but channeled through vulnerability rather than grandiosity. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury via public institutional exposure (NY AG finding of 'shocking pattern of illegality'). The trigger is reputational and legal simultaneously — it attacks both the self-image (charitable benefactor) and the practical position (legal jeopardy). **State:** Predominantly **vulnerable narcissism** — victimhood framing, persecution narrative, absolute declaratives about unfair treatment. There is no grandiose counter-assertion in this segment (contrast with the 'we will win on the Wall' post from the same day, which reflects grandiose state). The oscillation between vulnerable (this post) and grandiose (Wall/USMCA posts) within a single day is a notable pattern. **Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.68/1.0). Expressed through contemptuous dismissal rather than direct aggression — 'does little else but rant, rave & politic.' Proportionality is low (0.2): the legal finding was based on documented violations; the response treats it as entirely political. Rage is disproportionate to the actual provocation if the underlying claims are valid. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature):** The accusation that the AG does 'little else but rant, rave & politic' describes behavior that the post itself is enacting. The emotional dysregulation, political framing, and ranting quality are projected outward onto the institutional actor. **Splitting (immature):** Absolute binary framing — 'Will never be treated fairly,' 'total double standard,' 'these people' — admits no gradation. Legal actors are wholly corrupt; Trump is wholly victimized. **Denial (pathological):** The post makes no engagement whatsoever with the substance of the 'shocking pattern of illegality' finding. The allegations (coordination with campaign, self-dealing) are not denied specifically — they are treated as if they do not exist. The entire legal basis is effaced and replaced with a political motivation narrative. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The construction of a coherent (if false) narrative — politically motivated AG succession targeting Trump — allows the post to appear logically grounded while deflecting accountability. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Gaslighting is present.** The post performs DARVO at the institutional level: 1. **Deny:** No engagement with documented findings 2. **Attack:** AG 'does little else but rant, rave & politic' 3. **Reverse Victim and Offender:** Trump, subject of a court-supervised dissolution for documented violations, is recast as the victim of a 'total double standard of justice' The scare quotes around 'justice' are a particularly sharp gaslighting instrument: they signal to the audience that the legal process itself is not legitimate, requiring acceptance of this framing as a group loyalty test. --- ### Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive decline are apparent in this post. The syntax is complex (multi-clause parenthetical structure), the argument is internally consistent (if factually distorted), and the rhetorical techniques are deployed with apparent intentionality. The emotional content is high but the language production is controlled. Vocabulary is consistent with established baseline. **Complexity score: 0.52** — mid-range, appropriate for Twitter format. No deviation from baseline. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "New AG 'openly campaigned on a GET TRUMP agenda'" | **Half True** | Leticia James, who won election as NY AG in November 2018, did make investigating Trump a campaign issue. However, this characterization strips the legitimate law enforcement rationale (documented Foundation violations) and overstates purely personal targeting as the sole motivation. | | "AG 'does little else but rant, rave & politic against me'" | **False** | The NY AG's office under Barbara Underwood conducted a documented civil investigation resulting in a court-supervised dissolution agreement. The characterization of legitimate legal proceedings as mere political ranting is contradicted by the documented legal findings. | | "'Total double standard of justice'" | **Unverifiable** | Opinion claim about prosecutorial selectivity that cannot be assessed from available factual evidence. The predicate claim — that Foundation conduct was legally unremarkable — is contradicted by documented findings. | Overall Veracity: 33% ## Summary This post is the closing segment of a five-post thread responding to the NY Attorney General's announcement of the Trump Foundation's court-supervised dissolution. The post represents a textbook vulnerable narcissistic injury response to institutional exposure: rather than engaging with documented findings of illegality, it constructs a comprehensive persecution narrative centered on AG succession ('new AG who is now being replaced by yet another AG'). Defense mechanisms operating include projection (accusing the AG of 'ranting and raving' in a post that itself enacts those qualities), splitting ('Will never be treated fairly'), and pathological denial of documented legal substance. The DARVO structure is complete and deliberate: victim becomes perpetrator (politically motivated AG), perpetrator becomes victim (Trump, subject to 'total double standard of justice'). Paranoid features are the most elevated clinical indicator, consistent with an exposure-triggered injury. The scare quotes around 'justice' perform epistemic closure, requiring the audience to accept the delegitimization of legal accountability as a condition of group membership. No cognitive decline markers are present. Authorship is high-confidence authentic. Danger level: none. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - Opening '....' ellipses indicate direct continuation of prior thread — authentic threading behavior - ALL CAPS 'GET TRUMP' is a characteristic authentic marker - Stream-of-consciousness parenthetical structure ('who is now being replaced by yet another AG (who openly campaigned...')) - Scare quotes around 'justice' — recurring authentic rhetorical signature - Emotionally reactive content ('rant, rave & politic') consistent with grievance-driven authentic posting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY AG Barbara Underwood announcing Trump Foundation dissolution under judicial supervision citing 'shocking pattern of illegality') **Rage:** Intensity 68% targeting New York Attorney General (Barbara Underwood / Leticia James) - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 78% - Sadism: 8% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 52% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Victimhood appeal to shared persecution ('treated fairly by these people' — implies his audience shares this treatment) - Us-vs-them consolidation ('these people' as unified malevolent bloc) ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): documented foundation violations reframed as political persecution - Scare quotes around 'justice' — signals to audience that legal accountability itself is illegitimate - Complete elision of documented legal substance ('shocking pattern of illegality' finding) — treated as non-existent - Delegitimization through political-motive attribution rather than factual rebuttal ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-16._ > New AG 'openly campaigned on a GET TRUMP agenda' **HALF TRUE** Leticia James, who won election as NY AG in November 2018, did make investigating Trump a campaign issue. However, this characterization strips the legitimate law enforcement rationale (documented Foundation violations) and overstates purely personal targeting as the sole motivation. Sources: Pre-researched events: Matthew Whitaker Acting AG Controversy context; NY AG Foundation dissolution announcement cited 'shocking pattern of illegality' > AG 'does little else but rant, rave & politic against me' **FALSE** The NY AG's office under Barbara Underwood conducted a documented civil investigation resulting in a court-supervised dissolution agreement. The characterization of legitimate legal proceedings as mere political ranting is contradicted by the documented legal findings. Sources: Pre-researched event: Trump Foundation Agrees to Dissolve — NY AG cited 'shocking pattern of illegality' including coordination with Trump campaign and self-dealing > 'Total double standard of justice' **UNVERIFIABLE** Opinion claim about prosecutorial selectivity that cannot be assessed from available factual evidence. The predicate claim — that Foundation conduct was legally unremarkable — is contradicted by documented findings. Overall Veracity: 33% ## Tags - narcissistic_injury_response (90%) - vulnerable_narcissism (85%) - DARVO (88%) - paranoid_persecution_schema (78%) - institutional_delegitimization (82%) - epistemic_closure (75%) - projection (80%) - splitting (78%) - authentic_posting (82%) - trump_foundation (95%) - legal_persecution_narrative (90%) - state_lability_grandiose_vulnerable (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: Foundation Dissolution Triggers Defensive Cascade Amid Syria Withdrawal and Shutdown Countdown** Trump's day was dominated by two major moves: announcing a full troop withdrawal from Syria and defending himself against the court-ordered dissolution of his charitable foundation. The morning opened with a batch of border wall posts rebranding his "concrete wall" as "artistically designed steel slats" — a quiet retreat dressed up as innovation, with the government shutdown just three days away. The emotional core of the day was a multi-post eruption against the New York Attorney General, escalating from defensive self-praise into personal attacks and a persecutory declaration that he would "never be treated fairly." He bookended the grievance spiral with triumphalist Syria posts, swinging back to a commander-in-chief tone as if to cleanse the palate. Full digest for 2018-12-19: https://trump.fm/date/2018-12-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, December 19). ....In any event, it goes on and on & the new... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1075406772368785408 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "....In any event, it goes on and on & the new AG, who..." X (Twitter), 19 Dec. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1075406772368785408. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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