# Post x_1335351629810286600

- Post ID: `x_1335351629810286600`
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- Posted: 2020-12-06T03:33:32.000Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia, the Democrat Party could not be happier. They fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems. If they were with us, we would have already won both Arizona and Georgia...

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T10:28:09.551Z (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 late-night post constitutes one of the more psychologically and behaviorally significant of the post-election period. Its clinical signature is the splitting defense applied to erstwhile allies: Ducey and Kemp, by fulfilling constitutional certification obligations, are reclassified as enemies worse than the designated primary opposition. This binary object-relations collapse — no middle ground, no acknowledgment of legal constraint — is consistent with malignant narcissistic personality structure under acute defeat stress. The counterfactual "we would have already won" functions simultaneously as denial of certified results, grandiose self-vindication, and prosecutorial accusation assigning causal blame. Most significantly, the post was composed three days after Georgia official Gabriel Sterling's nationally covered press conference warning that "someone is going to get killed" due to death threats against election officials, explicitly naming the rhetorical climate Trump was creating. This post's direct naming and tagging of the same officials, framing them as worse enemies than radical Democrats, in that specific proximate threat context, satisfies the operational structure of stochastic terrorism: identified targets, amplified grievance, dehumanizing comparison, mobilized audience. No explicit incitement is present — none is required. The danger rating is high. Longitudinal note: the expansion of the enemy category to include fellow Republicans marks a notable escalation in the contamination narrative.

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Post | December 6, 2020 (10:33 PM EST)

### Authorship Attribution
**Local time: ~10:33 PM EST.** Trump was at or departing the White House (subsequent posts confirm he was "Leaving for Georgia" on the morning of December 6). Late-night timing is strongly consistent with authentic Trump authorship. Additional authentic markers: stream-of-consciousness structure, emotional impulsivity, direct @-tagging of targets as aggression, informal first-person plural ("us"), trailing ellipsis suggesting incomplete thought, and the characteristic escalation of internecine grievance without staff-level restraint. Confidence: **High**.

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### Psychological State and Triggers
This post emerges from the acute intersection of multiple narcissistic injuries: the certified losses of Arizona and Georgia, AG Barr's public statement that the DOJ found no widespread fraud, and the refusal of Republican governors to reverse those certifications. The primary trigger is **defeat** compounded by a **betrayal narcissistic injury** — the failure of presumed allies to act as instruments of recovery.

The post displays a characteristic **vulnerable-to-grandiose oscillation**: victimization framing ("they fight harder against us") coexists with counterfactual grandiosity ("we would have already won"). This oscillation is consistent with the malignant narcissistic personality under acute stress. The grandiose self-concept cannot accommodate loss; therefore, loss requires an agent of betrayal. Here that agent is externalized onto Republican governors.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Primary — Splitting:** The most clinically salient feature of this post. Ducey and Kemp, by fulfilling their constitutional certification obligations, have been reclassified from allies to enemies *worse than the designated primary enemy* ("they fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems"). This all-or-nothing object relations pattern — loyalty = good object; any deviation = bad object, reclassified below designated enemies — is a hallmark of narcissistic personality structure at the borderline-narcissistic level. No middle ground is acknowledged; no legal constraint, institutional role, or personal political risk of the governors is recognized. Compliance is the only acceptable state.

**Secondary — Denial:** The certified, legally finalized results of both Arizona and Georgia are treated as reversible contingencies, not facts. The finality of certification processes is refused.

**Tertiary — Projection:** Ducey and Kemp are implicitly accused of Democratic alignment ("the Democrat Party could not be happier"), projecting quasi-treasonous intent onto officials who followed statutory processes under enormous pressure.

**Quaternary — Rationalization:** The counterfactual "if they were with us, we would have already won" constructs a causal narrative explaining the loss without accepting defeat. The grandiose self-concept (rightful winner) is preserved by externalizing causality.

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### Malignant Narcissism Indicators

**Narcissistic features (high):** Grandiosity (the election was rightfully won, denied only by inaction of allies), entitlement (gubernatorial compliance is owed and its absence is betrayal), near-total absence of empathy — notably, this post was composed three days after Gabriel Sterling's nationally-covered press conference explicitly warning that death threats against named election officials could result in someone being killed, with no acknowledgment of that reality.

**Antisocial features (elevated):** Continued public targeting of specific named individuals in a context where those individuals are under death threat. Disregard for the safety consequences of amplifying grievance narratives against them. The tagging (@DougDucey, @BrianKempGA) serves as both a signal to followers and a social pressure mechanism.

**Paranoid features (elevated):** Suspicion that fellow Republicans are operationally working against him, preoccupation with betrayal, grudge-bearing (both governors are named together as a class of enemy), hair-trigger reclassification of allies as enemies.

**Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate):** Public humiliation of named governors — tagging them, associating them with Democratic joy, declaring them worse enemies than "Radical Left Dems" — functions as punishment for non-compliance and as a dominance display. The audience is invited to share in contempt for these men.

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### Danger Assessment: **HIGH**

This post carries significant stochastic terrorism indicators. Context is critical: on December 3 — three days before this post — Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling gave a nationally televised press conference warning that "someone is going to get killed" due to death threats against election workers, explicitly implicating the rhetorical climate created by Trump and allied senators. Sterling detailed specific threats including a noose video targeting a young Dominion contract worker.

This post, composed at 10:33 PM on December 5 local time, publicly names and tags Governor Kemp as an enemy **worse than Radical Left Democrats**, amplifies the grievance narrative (his refusal to act "cost" Trump the election), and does so in a context where Trump's followers are already issuing death threats against these specific individuals. The stochastic terrorism structure is complete: **identified and named targets** (Kemp/Ducey, tagged by handle) + **articulated specific grievance** (their inaction cost us two states) + **dehumanizing comparative framing** (worse than the designated primary enemy) + **mobilized grievance audience** (millions of followers primed by weeks of stolen-election narrative) + **proximate known threat context** (active death threats already in circulation against these officials, publicly documented three days prior). Trump does not call for violence — stochastic terrorism does not require explicit instruction. It requires only that the targeting and grievance amplification be sufficient to inspire action in a motivated subset of followers.

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### Rhetorical Analysis

- **False equivalence / comparative devaluation:** Asserting Ducey and Kemp "fight harder against us than Radical Left Dems" inverts the normal political hierarchy in a maximally emotionally provocative way, designed to trigger maximum outrage in his base.
- **Betrayal framing:** The implied narrative is political treason — the worst category of social transgression in Trump's moral universe.
- **Counterfactual construction:** "We would have already won" presents an unverifiable alternative reality as fact. This serves to deny the actual result while assigning blame, functioning simultaneously as grandiose certainty and prosecutorial accusation.
- **Direct target tagging:** @DougDucey and @BrianKempGA are named and tagged — not merely referenced — signaling to followers who the designated targets are and directing social pressure/harassment potential directly at them.
- **"Democrat Party":** Consistent Trump rhetorical usage functioning as othering (refusing the self-description "Democratic" as legitimate).
- **Trailing ellipsis:** Creates the sense of more to come, leaves implied consequences ambiguous and imagination-activating for the reader.
- **No dehumanizing language in this specific post** (no "vermin," "animals") but the comparative devaluation ("worse than Radical Left Dems") achieves analogous in-group/out-group boundary policing.

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### Cognitive Status

No significant word-finding difficulties, phonemic paraphasias, semantic substitution errors, or temporal confusion. The post is syntactically simple and coherent. The counterfactual conditional ("if they were with us, we would have already won") is structurally sound if empirically false. Vocabulary and complexity are at or below Trump's characteristic baseline (short declarative sentences, emotional register, no subordinate clauses). No cognitive deterioration markers identifiable in this post beyond his characteristic verbal simplicity, which predates the current period. Longitudinal complexity tracking would require comparison against verified 1980s–2000s speech samples.

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### Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Betrayed warrior. Trump casts himself as a fighter encircled by enemies on all fronts, including within his own party. This is narrative escalation from prior weeks.

**Contamination sequence:** What should have been victory was turned to defeat by the betrayal of supposed allies. The political world that should be ordered around loyalty to Trump has been "contaminated" by defection at multiple levels — Democrats, courts, DOJ, and now Republican governors.

**Contrasting other:** The contrasting other has **expanded** from Democrats and the media to include Republican governors who are now reclassified as even worse enemies. This expansion of the enemy category is consistent with deteriorating object relations under sustained narcissistic injury.

**Identity claims:** Implicit claim of rightful winner denied by treachery; claim of embattled champion fighting against all odds.

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### Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

Classic epistemic closure dynamics. Certified, legally finalized election results are treated as contingent on the compliance of officials who could theoretically reverse them. No legal ruling, recount result, or certification process is treated as final or authoritative. Accepting results is framed as disloyalty rather than accuracy. This constructs a sealed belief system: evidence of Biden's victory becomes evidence of the depth of betrayal rather than evidence of the outcome. Followers who accept this framework adopt a parallel epistemology in which in-group loyalty determines truth, not empirical evidence.

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### Archetypal / Order-Chaos Dynamics

**Archetype:** Betrayed King oscillating with Warrior. The post invokes the archetypal pattern of a rightful ruler whose kingdom was stolen by treachery from within — more painful and destabilizing than external conquest because it implicates the social order itself.

**Shadow projection:** The shadow (political self-interest that overrides democratic norms) is projected onto Ducey and Kemp, who are accused of prioritizing their relationship with Democrats over their duty to Trump.

**Order-Chaos positioning:** Trump presents himself as an Order Restorer being blocked by corrupt quasi-order (Republican governors protecting a fraudulent outcome), while simultaneously functioning as a Chaos Agent — his rhetoric actively destabilizes the institutional processes of certification, creating the very disorder he claims to be fighting.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Between Ducey and Kemp, the Democrat Party could not be happier" | **Half True** | Democrats did express satisfaction that Republican officials upheld certification, but framing this as the governors actively serving Democratic interests inverts the actual dynamic — they followed statutory obligations under intense pressure from their own party and president. |
| "They fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems" | **False** | Both governors resisted Democratic pressure in normal political contexts and certified results only after legal obligations required it. Kemp had publicly called for a signature audit. Neither took actions remotely comparable to the sustained Democratic electoral opposition Trump faced. This is classic splitting distortion presenting as factual claim. |
| "If they were with us, we would have already won both Arizona and Georgia" | **False** | Both states underwent multiple audits, recounts, and legal challenges. Arizona's hand recount confirmed Biden's margin. Georgia's hand recount confirmed Biden's margin. Wisconsin's Trump-funded recount actually increased Biden's lead. No evidence that gubernatorial intervention could or would have changed certified results; multiple courts rejected challenges on merits. |

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Late night posting (~10:33 PM EST)
- Direct target @-tagging as aggression
- Trailing ellipsis suggesting incomplete stream-of-consciousness
- Emotional impulsivity — attacking own party's governors
- Informal first-person plural 'us'

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Certified electoral loss in Arizona and Georgia; governors' refusal to support fraud claims or call special sessions despite Trump pressure; AG Barr's public statement finding no widespread fraud)

**Rage:** Intensity 80% targeting Republican governors Doug Ducey (AZ) and Brian Kemp (GA) for certifying Biden's victory and refusing to support fraud claims
- Proportionality: 8%

Sentiment: -0.82

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 90%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 85%
- Sadism: 55%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'us/we' binding followers to his betrayal narrative
- Framing governors as enemies of the shared cause — activating follower outrage on his behalf
- Counterfactual 'we would have won' invites followers to share his conviction of rightful victory
- Direct tagging of targets signals to followers who to direct pressure toward

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Direct naming and @-tagging of two specific individuals already under documented death threats
- Grievance amplification: governors' certification decisions framed as personal betrayal costing Trump two states
- Comparative dehumanization: cast as worse enemies than 'Radical Left Dems' — maximum betrayal framing
- Context of Gabriel Sterling's December 3 public warning that 'someone is going to get killed' due to threats against these officials
- Pattern: sustained multi-post campaign targeting same individuals across multiple days
- Mobilized grievance audience with documented propensity for acting on Trump's rhetorical targeting

### Gaslighting

- Certified election results presented as contingent on gubernatorial compliance rather than legal fact
- Officials under death threats for upholding democracy cast as the aggressors against Trump
- DARVO: victims of harassment (election officials) repositioned as perpetrators of harm against Trump
- Counterfactual 'we would have won' demands followers accept an alternative reality as established fact
- Framing governors' legal obligations as a choice to fight against Trump — denying institutional constraints

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> Between Ducey and Kemp, the Democrat Party could not be happier

**HALF TRUE**

Democrats did express satisfaction that Republican officials upheld certification, but framing this as the governors actively serving Democratic interests inverts the actual dynamic — they followed statutory obligations under intense pressure from their own party and president.

Sources: Arizona certification Nov 30 2020; Georgia certification Nov 20 2020

> They fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems

**FALSE**

Both governors resisted Democratic pressure in normal political contexts and certified results only after legal obligations required it. Kemp had publicly called for a signature audit. Neither took actions remotely comparable to the sustained Democratic electoral opposition Trump faced. This is classic splitting distortion presenting as factual claim.

Sources: Kemp statement Dec 4 2020 calling for signature audit; Georgia certification proceedings

> If they were with us, we would have already won both Arizona and Georgia

**FALSE**

Both states underwent multiple audits, recounts, and legal challenges. Arizona's hand recount confirmed Biden's margin. Georgia's hand recount confirmed Biden's margin. Wisconsin's Trump-funded recount actually increased Biden's lead. No evidence that gubernatorial intervention could or would have changed certified results; multiple courts rejected challenges on merits.

Sources: Arizona hand recount results; Georgia hand recount confirming Biden win; Multiple court dismissals of election fraud claims; AG Barr statement Dec 1 2020 finding no widespread fraud

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Tags

- splitting (95%)
- narcissistic_rage (85%)
- stochastic_terrorism (88%)
- betrayal_narrative (92%)
- election_fraud_claims (90%)
- enemy_expansion (85%)
- intraparty_attack (90%)
- epistemic_closure (88%)
- DARVO (78%)
- late_night_authentic (92%)
- counterfactual_prosecution (80%)
- named_target_amplification (90%)

## That day

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

**Rally Night Splits Into 2 AM Rage Spiral as Republican Allies Become the New Enemy**

Trump rallied in Georgia for Senate runoff candidates, then spent the small hours of the morning bombarding social media with election fraud content and attacks on Republican governors who certified Biden's win. The most striking contradiction of the day was simultaneously urging supporters to vote by absentee ballot in the Georgia runoffs while insisting the presidential election was stolen through mail-in fraud. Fox News was formally demoted to enemy status alongside CNN and MSNBC, continuing the rapid expansion of the betrayal list. Sleep appeared minimal, with posting activity suggesting only fragmented rest between the rally, a frenetic 2 AM content blitz, and an early-morning thank-you cluster.

Full digest for 2020-12-06: https://trump.fm/date/2020-12-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, December 6). Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1335351629810286600
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and Governor..." X (Twitter), 6 Dec. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1335351629810286600. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and Governor...," X (Twitter), December 6, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1335351629810286600.

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