# Post x_1150017240395395100 - Post ID: `x_1150017240395395100` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2019-07-13T16:20:51.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1150017240395395100 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1150017240395395100/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1150017240395395100.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > This is one of the most horrible abuses of all. Those texts between gaga lovers would have told the whole story. Illegal deletion by Mueller. They gave us “the insurance policy.” https://t.co/EEa41Kn6fX ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 24,435 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.061Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-17T22:20:40.809Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted two weeks before Mueller's congressional testimony, this is one of five same-afternoon Mueller-themed posts consistent with a Fox News viewing binge. The post exhibits the vulnerable narcissistic state — Trump as victim of "the most horrible abuses" — rather than the grandiose pole. The dominant defenses are projection (accusing Mueller of illegal evidence destruction while himself under obstruction scrutiny) and splitting (investigators rendered as corrupt, amorous conspirators). The phrase "gaga lovers" is the post's most diagnostically revealing element: an unprompted public humiliation of Strzok and Page that entertains the audience while delegitimizing their testimony — a pattern consistent with ego-syntonic sadism. The "insurance policy" shibboleth functions as a tribally-gated signifier requiring Fox News fluency to decode, reinforcing epistemic closure. Factually, "illegal deletion by Mueller" is mostly false; the IG found no intentional destruction of evidence. Authorship is assessed as likely authentic Trump (0.72) despite business-hour timing, driven by the idiosyncratic "gaga lovers" coinage and the reactive multi-post cluster pattern. The post is part of a sustained pre-testimony delegitimization campaign applying RAND Firehose saturation tactics. No acute violence indicators are present. # Psychological Analysis: x_1150017240395395100 | July 13, 2019 ## Overview This post is one of five Mueller-themed tweets posted in rapid succession on the afternoon of July 13, 2019, the day Trump returned from Wisconsin and Ohio. The clustering is consistent with an afternoon Fox News viewing session. The post targets the Strzok-Page text message controversy and accuses Robert Mueller of illegal evidence destruction — two long-running grievance nodes in Trump's anti-investigation narrative. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.72 (leaning authentic Trump) | Confidence: Medium** The 12:20 PM EDT timestamp falls within the aide-writing window, introducing ambiguity. However, several features override the timing signal: - **"Gaga lovers"** — this epithet is too idiosyncratic for aide drafting. It mocks a romantic relationship with a tabloid register that is distinctly Trump. Aides do not coin phrases of this type. - **Fragment syntax** — "Illegal deletion by Mueller." is a two-word accusation, not a composed sentence. This punchy, declarative fragment style is a consistent Trump pattern. - **Sustained binge structure** — the post is embedded in a five-post cluster of identical thematic content, consistent with a reactive viewing session rather than scheduled aide-drafted posts. - **No event-announcement content** — pure emotional reaction, no logistical or organizational messaging. The external link introduces mild doubt (aides often curate media links), but the surrounding text is insufficiently polished for aide authorship. **Assessment: authentic Trump, with medium confidence.** --- ## Psychological State and Triggers **Trigger: Narcissistic injury — investigative exposure** The Mueller investigation represents the most sustained and institutionally credible challenge to Trump's self-concept as untouchable and dominant. It functions as a chronic narcissistic wound. The post occurs approximately two weeks before Mueller's congressional testimony (July 24), which was heavily anticipated as a potential crisis moment. This temporal proximity likely intensified the injury. **Narcissistic state: Vulnerable** The post does not display the grandiose pole of narcissism (triumphalist, expansive, dominant). Instead it positions Trump as victim of "horrible abuse" — the vulnerable narcissistic state, characterized by persecution narratives, grievance amplification, and preoccupation with unfair treatment. This is consistent with the contamination narrative Trump consistently deploys about his presidency: a legitimate, historic victory corrupted by criminal conspiracy. **Rage: Present | Intensity: 0.72 | Proportionality: 0.25** The rage is present but mediated through rhetorical performance rather than raw expression. The superlative opener ("most horrible abuses of all") signals high emotional activation, but the post maintains enough structure to suggest performed outrage for audience consumption as much as unfiltered reaction. The disproportionality is marked — the target is a completed federal investigation, and the characterization as the worst abuse "of all" lacks proportionality to evidence presented. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Projection (Immature)** Trump accuses Mueller of "illegal deletion" while he himself was subject to allegations of obstruction of justice including communications interference. His own legal jeopardy is displaced onto the investigator, who is recast as the criminal. **2. Splitting (Immature)** The investigators are rendered purely villainous: corrupt, scheming, amorous conspirators. Trump is implicitly the innocent victim of their crimes. No complexity, no gradation. This all-bad/all-good binary is a consistent feature across Trump's enemy construction. **3. Rationalization (Neurotic)** The "insurance policy" phrase — taken from a Strzok text decontextualized from its actual meaning — is retrofit into a narrative of pre-meditated coup plotting. This provides a quasi-logical scaffolding for an emotionally driven persecution belief. **4. Denial (Pathological)** The entire post rests on a foundational denial of the investigation's legitimacy. By framing Mueller's team as criminals conducting "illegal" acts, Trump refuses to engage with the possibility that the investigation had legitimate legal basis. --- ## Narrative Identity Analysis (McAdams) **Protagonist role:** Martyred victim / persecuted truth-teller **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — the legitimate election victory (good) has been followed by a criminal conspiracy to destroy the evidence that would exonerate him (bad). The contaminating agent is Mueller's "illegal deletion." **Identity claims:** Implicit claim to being the most wronged political figure in American history ("most horrible abuses of all"). **Contrasting other:** Mueller / "the deep state" investigative apparatus, personified via Strzok and Page as corrupt, biased, and personally compromised. **Redemption potential:** The post implies that if the deleted texts were recovered, they would vindicate Trump completely — a deferred redemption narrative. --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis The post is compact but rhetorically layered: **"Gaga lovers"** is the most analytically interesting phrase. It accomplishes: (a) mockery through infantilization; (b) audience reward — shared contempt as social bonding; (c) delegitimization by associating professional conduct with personal compromised judgment; (d) mild sadistic pleasure in public humiliation of the targets. **"Insurance policy"** functions as a shibboleth. It requires Fox News fluency to decode. This tribally gatekeeps the post's meaning — only those already inside the epistemic bubble understand the full conspiratorial import, reinforcing in-group cohesion. **"They gave us"** — the conspiratorial "they" casts unnamed agents as active plotters who inadvertently revealed themselves. The passive framing ("gave us") positions Trump's team as recipients of evidence rather than active framers — simulating discovery rather than construction. **Fragment syntax** ("Illegal deletion by Mueller.") mimics criminal charge language — syntactically resembling an indictment — without presenting evidentiary standards. The post is part of a five-post volume assault consistent with the RAND Firehose technique: repeat the accusation across multiple formats and framings to saturate the information space and preclude coherent response. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Illegal deletion by Mueller" | **Mostly False** | DOJ Inspector General reviewed Mueller team phone wipes. Found 27 phones wiped, mostly due to forgotten passwords, failed login attempts, or accidental resets. IG did not find evidence of intentional evidence destruction; most texts were recovered via backup systems. Characterizing routine/accidental data management as Mueller personally ordering illegal deletion is not supported. | | "They gave us 'the insurance policy'" | **Half True** | The Strzok-Page 'insurance policy' text message is real and was recovered. However, Strzok testified under oath that the phrase referred to not acting recklessly on the investigation (i.e., not sitting on it passively) — not a plot to undermine Trump's presidency. Trump's conspiratorial interpretation is a contested reading amplified by conservative media without corroborating evidence. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Cognitive Status No notable deviations from Trump's established baseline in this post. The language is at expected complexity levels. The sentence fragment style is characteristic, not a new pattern. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic errors, or temporal confusion are evident. The post's coherence is consistent with prior Mueller-related posts. **Baseline deviation: None** --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None (contextually elevated)** No direct violent imagery or eliminationist language. No dehumanization beyond mockery. However, the post contributes to a sustained delegitimization of federal law enforcement and prosecutorial institutions that, in aggregate across this period, creates conditions for followers to view investigators as criminals deserving retaliation. This is a systemic risk rather than an acute threat from this specific post. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetypes: Victim / Warrior** The Victim archetype dominates — "most horrible abuses of all" casts Trump as history's most wronged figure. Simultaneously, the post performs the Warrior mode: naming enemies, cataloguing their crimes, preparing the audience for battle. **Shadow projection:** Mueller and the investigators carry Trump's projected shadow — the corrupt, law-breaking, self-interested operator. What Trump is accused of (obstruction, evidence interference) is projected onto the investigation itself. **Order/Chaos positioning:** Trump positions himself as the defender of legitimate order (the election result, the will of the people) against a corrupt illegitimate order (the Deep State investigative apparatus). He is simultaneously chaos agent (disrupting institutional norms) and order-restorer (speaking "truth" against corrupt establishment). --- ## Summary This post is part of a sustained July 13 media-reaction binge targeting the Mueller investigation approximately two weeks before Mueller's congressional testimony. It exhibits the vulnerable narcissistic state: Trump as persecuted victim of "the most horrible abuses," rather than the grandiose triumphalist mode. Dominant defenses are projection (accusing Mueller of the illegality Trump himself faced) and splitting (investigators as purely corrupt, adulterous conspirators). The phrase "gaga lovers" is the post's most revealing feature — an unprompted public humiliation of Strzok and Page that provides both audience entertainment and delegitimization of investigative findings, consistent with ego-syntonic sadism. Rhetorical technique centers on the conspiratorial "they," a Fox News shibboleth ("insurance policy"), and fragment syntax that mimics criminal charge language without evidentiary substance. The "illegal deletion" claim is mostly false; the "insurance policy" interpretation is contested. Authorship is assessed as likely authentic Trump (0.72) despite business-hour timing, driven by the idiosyncratic "gaga lovers" coinage and the reactive binge pattern. No acute danger indicators are present, though the post contributes to sustained delegitimization of law enforcement institutions. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Posted at 12:20 PM EDT (business hours) — consistent with aide window, but barely - Idiosyncratic phrase 'gaga lovers' is distinctly Trump vernacular, not aide register - Stream-of-consciousness structure: two-word accusation fragments ('Illegal deletion by Mueller') - Emotional superlative opener ('most horrible abuses of all') typical of authentic posts - Part of sustained Fox News reaction binge — five Mueller-themed posts in sequence on same afternoon ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Mueller investigation / Strzok-Page texts surfacing in media cycle) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Robert Mueller / FBI investigators Strzok and Page - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.78 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 82% - Sadism: 38% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Conspiratorial intimacy ('They gave us') — recruits audience into shared secret - Mocking nickname ('gaga lovers') signals in-group contempt, rewards followers with scorn of enemy - Hyperbolic absolute ('most horrible abuses of all') triggers outrage in sympathetic readers ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - DARVO pattern: Mueller (investigator) recast as criminal; Trump (investigated) recast as victim of illegal conduct - Attacks on documented record: characterizes IG-reviewed phone incidents as 'illegal deletion' — reframes administrative data events as criminal acts - Epistemic pre-emption: 'those texts...would have told the whole story' — asserts that suppressed evidence would prove Trump's case, making the absence of evidence proof of conspiracy ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-17._ > Illegal deletion by Mueller **MOSTLY FALSE** DOJ Inspector General reviewed Mueller team phone wipes. Found 27 phones wiped, mostly due to forgotten passwords, failed login attempts, or accidental resets. IG did not find evidence of intentional evidence destruction; most texts were recovered via backup systems. Characterizing routine/accidental data management as Mueller personally ordering illegal deletion is not supported. Sources: DOJ Office of Inspector General report on Mueller team device handling > They gave us 'the insurance policy' **HALF TRUE** The Strzok-Page 'insurance policy' text message is real and was recovered. However, Strzok testified under oath that the phrase referred to not acting recklessly on the investigation (i.e., not sitting on it passively) — not a plot to undermine Trump's presidency. Trump's conspiratorial interpretation is a contested reading amplified by conservative media without corroborating evidence. Sources: Congressional testimony of Peter Strzok, July 2018; DOJ IG Report on FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - mueller-investigation (100%) - vulnerable-narcissism (82%) - projection (85%) - DARVO (78%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - fox-news-reaction (70%) - pre-testimony-campaign (68%) - strzok-page (90%) - insurance-policy (88%) - persecution-narrative (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Victory Lap Dissolves Into Pre-Dawn Mueller Grievance Spiral After Late-Night White House Return** Trump spent the evening celebrating a manufacturing event in Wisconsin and touting record-high stock markets before flying back to Washington through Ohio. After arriving at the White House around 3:30 in the morning, instead of sleeping he launched a rapid burst of posts attacking the Mueller investigation and amplifying Fox News content — a sharp mood swing from the earlier triumphalism. The grievance continued into the afternoon with a personal attack on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and complaints about deleted texts, suggesting sustained Fox News viewing drove the day's second half. The overall arc was a familiar one: public celebration giving way to private brooding, with investigators and FBI leadership bearing the brunt of his frustration. Full digest for 2019-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2019-07-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, July 13). This is one of the most horrible abuses of all.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1150017240395395100 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This is one of the most horrible abuses of all. Those texts..." X (Twitter), 13 Jul. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1150017240395395100. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "This is one of the most horrible abuses of all. 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