# Post x_1164138796205654000 - Post ID: `x_1164138796205654000` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2019-08-21T15:34:52.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1164138796205654000 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1164138796205654000/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1164138796205654000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for..... ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 11,313 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.058Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-18T07:16:13.577Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On August 21, 2019, Trump retweeted conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root's comparison of him to the 'King of Israel' and 'second coming of God' — then hours later proclaimed 'I am the chosen one' while looking skyward. These two events constitute a psychologically coherent unit: the retweet deploys third-party ventriloquism to introduce messianic identity claims with plausible deniability; the direct proclamation collapses the proxy into explicit self-assertion. Taken together, this is among the most clinically significant single-day expressions of grandiosity in Trump's public record. The embedded splitting — wise Israeli Jews who recognize Trump's greatness versus confused American Jews who inexplicably don't — mirrors the simultaneous 'disloyalty' accusation Trump made to reporters, constructing a psychological framework in which American Jewish skepticism is not legitimate political preference but cognitive and communal failure. This represents narcissistic supply-seeking at a theological register, antisemitic troping through instrumentalization of Jewish identity, and paranoid dismissal of critics as cognitively impaired. The pattern is consistent with Kernberg's malignant narcissism construct at high feature loading. Danger level is elevated: the combined 'disloyalty' + 'don't know what they're doing' framing identifies a community, pathologizes their dissent, and positions their political choices as betrayal — a structure that licenses hostility in followers who internalize the grievance. # Analysis: Trump Retweet of Wayne Allyn Root — "King of Israel / Second Coming of God" **Post ID:** x_1164138796205654000 | **Date:** 2019-08-21 | **Age:** 73 --- ## Authorship Attribution This post is a **retweet** of conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root's content. The words belong to Root; the *decision to amplify* belongs to Trump. These must be assessed separately. **Timing:** UTC 15:34 converts to **11:34 AM EDT** (Trump was at the White House or Bedminster, NJ—August is his Bedminster period). Midday business hours nominally suggest aide involvement, but retweet behavior frequently reflects personal browsing habits outside aide-managed posting. The specific *content selected*—deification of Trump as "King of Israel" and "second coming of God"—is so precisely calibrated to Trump's narcissistic profile that aide-curation of this particular retweet seems implausible. Aides would be unlikely to amplify messianic comparisons; this feels like Trump encountering Root's post and impulsively sharing it for its supply value. **Confidence:** Medium-high that Trump personally executed this retweet. The selection behavior is the psychological artifact, not the prose. --- ## Contextual Coherence: A Psychologically Unified Day The events record reveals a striking psychological unity on this date. Trump: 1. **Retweeted Root** calling him "King of Israel" and "second coming of God" (this post) 2. **Hours later proclaimed** "I am the chosen one" while looking skyward This is not coincidence. The retweet and the proclamation form a psychologically coherent sequence: the retweet deploys *third-party ventriloquism* to introduce the messianic frame with plausible deniability; the direct proclamation hours later collapses the proxy into explicit self-assertion. The retweet *rehearses* the grandiose identity claim; the "chosen one" statement *consummates* it. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (very high):** Impulsive amplification of flattery for public display - **Agreeableness (very low):** Dismissal of American Jews' political agency as confusion/ignorance; contempt embedded in the othering framing - **Neuroticism (elevated):** The exclamatory register ("It makes no sense!") signals emotional activation even within Root's text that Trump chose not to edit out - **Openness (very low):** Binary framing—those who love Trump are wise; those who don't are defective --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives — power/status at maximum activation:** Trump does not merely seek political achievement here; he is seeking *theological* status. The supply being consumed is deification, not mere praise. **Schemas visible:** - *Self-schema:* Cosmically exceptional, divinely sanctioned, misunderstood by some but recognized by the wise - *Other-schema:* Israeli Jews = perceptive and loyal; American Jews = confused, ignorant, ungrateful - *World-schema:* A binary in which recognition of Trump's greatness maps onto moral/cognitive competence --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The divinely chosen leader whose greatness is self-evident to those with clarity of vision, and inexplicably unrecognized by those who should know better. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination embedded within grandiosity — "They love him like the second coming of God...BUT American Jews don't know him." The good (deification) is followed immediately by the bad (betrayal by those who should be natural supporters). This is the core of Trump's Jewish-American political narrative during this period: the "disloyalty" accusation (simultaneously made to reporters) and this retweet are psychologically the same move — elevating himself as Israel's greatest benefactor while framing American Jewish skepticism as inexplicable, pathological ingratitude. **Contrasting other:** The internally incoherent American Jew who cannot perceive what Israeli Jews apparently recognize as obvious divine/regal authority. **Identity claim (via proxy):** King, messiah, second coming — the highest possible status assertion in Western religious-political tradition. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment **A. Narcissistic Features — Extreme:** The decision to retweet explicitly messianic content represents grandiosity at a clinical extreme. Trump's baseline includes superlatives ("greatest deal ever," "the best"), but "second coming of God" and "King of Israel" are qualitatively different — they represent the *logical terminus* of narcissistic self-conception. The Kohutian "grandiose self" finds its ultimate expression not in political superlatives but in divine identification. This post is the most direct recorded instance in Trump's public output of embracing deification. **B. Antisocial Features:** Disregard for the harm caused by amplifying the trope that American Jews who vote Democratic are ignorant and disloyal. No remorse visible; the pattern continues across multiple posts this same day. **C. Paranoid Features:** "They don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore" — the American Jewish community is not merely wrong; they are *cognitively impaired* in their judgment. This paranoid-flavored dismissal (inability to understand reality correctly) is consistent with Trump's broader pattern of attributing critics' positions to defective cognition rather than legitimate disagreement. **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Mild in this specific post; more prominent in the simultaneous Tlaib post ("I don't buy Rep. Tlaib's tears"). ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking, with a secondary preemptive structure. On a day when he was facing criticism (Jewish "disloyalty" comment backlash, Greenland cancellation blowback), Trump reached for the most maximal available supply — literal deification — to shore up a grandiose state under pressure. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose, but with underlying vulnerability. The "It makes no sense!" exclamation embedded in Root's text that Trump chose to share betrays frustration — the King is not being recognized by his subjects. This oscillation (cosmic exaltation + wounded puzzlement) is characteristic of the grandiose/vulnerable cycle. **Rage:** Absent in this specific post, though the adjacent Tlaib post shows direct rage expression. Here the response to non-recognition is dismissal ("they don't even know what they're doing") rather than fury. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (Pathological):** Reality is reshaped to cast Trump as a messianic figure through third-party amplification — maintaining deniability while absorbing the supply 2. **Splitting (Immature):** Israeli Jews (good, perceptive, loving) vs. American Jews (bad, confused, ignorant) 3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** American Jews' actual political preferences are not treated as legitimate choices but as evidence of defective cognition — their rejection is explained away, not engaged --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis - **Ventriloquism via retweet:** Allows Trump to assert messianic status through a proxy, maintaining deniability while fully consuming the supply. A structurally sophisticated propaganda move. - **False dichotomy:** Israeli Jews (wise) vs. American Jews (ignorant/confused) — erases the diversity of Israeli Jewish opinion, which is not monolithic. - **Appeal to authority (inverted):** Root positions Israeli Jewish approval as the gold standard of Trump's legitimacy; American Jewish dissent is then defined as failure relative to this standard. - **Epistemic closure mechanism:** "They don't even know what they're doing or saying" — delegitimizes the cognitive standing of critics, making their dissent a priori invalid. - **Antisemitic troping:** The structure mirrors the "dual loyalty" accusation but inverts it — American Jews are charged with disloyalty *to Israel* (their "true" community) rather than to America. The instrumentalization of Jewish identity for political coercion is the operative antisemitic mechanism. Note: Trump is simultaneously using "King of Israel" as his highest title while weaponizing Jewish identity against Jewish political agency. - **Dehumanizing language:** Absent in explicit form, but "they don't even know what they're doing or saying" carries a depersonalizing quality. - **Violent imagery:** Absent. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Gaslighting present:** Yes. The framing that American Jews who decline to support Trump "don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore" is a direct attack on the epistemic validity of their political choices. Their expressed preferences are characterized not as legitimate political disagreement but as a failure of comprehension — a classic gaslighting structure that delegitimizes dissent by pathologizing the dissenters. **Reality distortions:** 1. The "King of Israel" / "second coming of God" framing — extreme messianic grandiosity amplified without ironic distance 2. Israeli Jewish attitudes toward Trump were not monolithic — significant portions of Israeli public opinion were skeptical 3. American Jewish skepticism about Trump was not ignorance or confusion but reflected well-documented political history and value alignment --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** The combination of elements across this single day creates a risk structure: - Messianic/divinely-chosen self-conception (this retweet + "chosen one" proclamation) - Accusation of "disloyalty" directed at American Jews who vote Democratic - Characterization of American Jews' dissent as cognitively defective ("don't know what they're doing") - Framing via third-party surrogate that normalizes Jewish-specific loyalty demands The pattern does not directly incite violence, but it identifies a specific community (American Jews who don't support Trump), characterizes their dissent as defective loyalty rather than legitimate choice, and anchors this within a messianic frame in which the leader's recognition is cosmically significant. This structure creates conditions that license hostility toward the identified group by followers who internalize the grievance. The "disloyalty" framing has the most direct stochastic risk: it transforms political disagreement into an act of communal betrayal. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "American Jews don't know him or like him" | **Mostly True** | 2019 polling showed Trump approval among Jewish Americans at approximately 26-30%, significantly below general population. Jewish Americans voted Democratic by 70-75% margins in 2018 midterms. | | "Israeli Jews love him like the second coming of God" | **Mostly False** | Trump had significant support from Israel's right-wing political establishment and certain communities, but Israeli Jewish public opinion was not monolithic or uniformly enthusiastic at this level. Root's characterization is extreme hyperbole. | | "He is the King of Israel" | **False** | Israel is a parliamentary republic. The characterization is theological-political rhetoric with no factual basis. | Overall Veracity: 33% ## Cognitive Status **Assessment of this post is confounded by authorship:** The words are Root's; we are analyzing Trump's curation, not his prose generation. The post itself does not provide direct evidence about Trump's language production. **What the curation reveals:** The decision to share content at this level of grandiosity, on this day, in conjunction with the "chosen one" proclamation, is consistent with an elevated psychological state. Whether this constitutes hypomania, situationally-triggered grandiosity, or baseline narcissistic functioning is difficult to assess from a single day's output without baseline comparison. **Baseline note:** Trump's early-career interviews (1980s–90s) show a pattern of self-aggrandizement but the messianic register appears to intensify across the presidency. Longitudinal comparison of the frequency with which Trump amplifies divine/messianic comparisons would strengthen this assessment. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype activated:** The **King/Messiah** hybrid — not merely political authority but cosmic legitimacy. The "King of Israel" framing invokes both political royalty and the religious-eschatological tradition of the anointed ruler. The "second coming of God" directly invokes Christian messianic typology. **Shadow projection:** The ignorant, confused American Jew who cannot recognize the messiah functions as the shadow — the one who refuses to see, whose blindness damns them. In Jungian terms, Trump projects the "unbeliever" archetype onto this group. **Order/Chaos positioning:** Trump positions himself as the restorer of proper order — not defender of existing hierarchy, but the divinely-appointed re-orderer. The chaos is American Jewish "confusion"; the order is recognition of Trump's cosmic authority. **Mythological narrative:** The unrecognized prophet/king — a figure of supreme importance whose greatness is obvious to the wise (Israelis) but denied by those who should know better (American Jews). This is the messianic narrative of the rejected anointed one. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Retweet of Wayne Allyn Root content — words are Root's, not Trump's - Trump is the amplifier; curation decision is the psychological artifact - Midday EDT timing (11:34 AM) nominally suggests aide hours but personal browsing/retweeting is common outside aide-managed posts - Content selection — messianic deification — is precisely calibrated to Trump's narcissistic profile in a way aide curation would likely avoid - No aide would select 'second coming of God' content without Trump's explicit instruction or direct personal action ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (American Jewish community skepticism; simultaneous 'disloyalty' controversy backlash) Sentiment: -0.15 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Messianic grandiosity at theological extreme within single day (retweet + 'chosen one' proclamation) - Multiple impulsive high-intensity posts in rapid succession across the day (Tlaib attack, Greenland cancellation, granddaughter announcement, this retweet) - Elevated exclamatory register ('It makes no sense!') even in curated/retweeted content - Behavioral disinhibition: publicly claiming divine status is an impulsive act with significant reputational risk that a regulated affect state would typically inhibit ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 95% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 60% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Ventriloquism via retweet — assert messianic status through proxy while maintaining deniability - Epistemic invalidation — characterize dissent as cognitive deficiency, not legitimate disagreement - In-group/out-group identity coercion — Israeli Jews as standard by which American Jews are judged deficient ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Disloyalty' accusation directed at American Jews (concurrent public statement) combined with this retweet creates a target-identification + grievance structure - 'They don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore' depersonalizes and pathologizes a community's political agency - Messianic self-framing ('King of Israel,' 'second coming of God,' 'I am the chosen one') can elevate perceived license for followers who believe they serve a divinely-chosen leader - Pattern identifies American Jews who vote Democratic as a group defined by defective loyalty and cognition — precondition structure for stochastic risk - Antisemitic dual-loyalty inversion: American Jews accused of betraying Israel by not supporting Trump ### Gaslighting - 'They don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore' — characterizes American Jews' political preferences as cognitive failure, not legitimate choice - Epistemic invalidation: dissent is reframed as incomprehension, making it unfalsifiable and pre-emptively delegitimized - Simultaneous 'disloyalty' accusation (separate public statement) creates a reality-distorting frame in which Jewish political autonomy is itself cast as betrayal ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-18._ > American Jews don't know him or like him **MOSTLY TRUE** 2019 polling showed Trump approval among Jewish Americans at approximately 26-30%, significantly below general population. Jewish Americans voted Democratic by 70-75% margins in 2018 midterms. Sources: Gallup, Pew Research 2019 Jewish American political affiliation data > Israeli Jews love him like the second coming of God **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump had significant support from Israel's right-wing political establishment and certain communities, but Israeli Jewish public opinion was not monolithic or uniformly enthusiastic at this level. Root's characterization is extreme hyperbole. Sources: Israeli polling data 2019 > He is the King of Israel **FALSE** Israel is a parliamentary republic. The characterization is theological-political rhetoric with no factual basis. Overall Veracity: 33% ## Tags - messianic_grandiosity (97%) - narcissistic_supply_seeking (95%) - antisemitic_troping (85%) - retweet_ventriloquism (82%) - splitting (88%) - chosen_one_cluster (92%) - israel_jewish_identity (90%) - epistemic_closure (80%) - divine_identification (95%) - disloyalty_accusation (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **"King of Israel," "Chosen One," and a Canceled State Visit: Peak Grandiosity Collides with Multi-Front Narcissistic Injury** Trump amplified comparisons of himself to the "King of Israel" and "second coming of God," then separately declared himself "the chosen one" while looking skyward — one of the most extraordinary displays of public grandiosity in his presidency. He abruptly canceled a state visit to Denmark after its prime minister called his Greenland purchase proposal "absurd," then pivoted to attacking Democratic congresswomen as enemies of Jews and Israel. A sustained barrage against the Federal Reserve escalated from policy critique to an all-caps demand, driven by recession fears threatening his core identity as an economic steward. Across twenty posts and several wildly different topics, the common thread was narcissistic injury from multiple directions producing ever-more extreme compensatory responses. Full digest for 2019-08-21: https://trump.fm/date/2019-08-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, August 21). ....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1164138796205654000 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is..." X (Twitter), 21 Aug. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1164138796205654000. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "....like he’s the King of Israel. 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