# Posts from Saturday, August 25, 2018

13 posts on 2018-08-25.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2018-08-25/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T21:45:31.501Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**Under Maximum Legal Siege, Trump Erases Reality and Launches AG Pressure Campaign**

Trump navigated the aftermath of Michael Cohen's guilty plea and Paul Manafort's conviction — the most legally threatening stretch of his presidency — without once mentioning either by name. The evening before was standard presidential fare: hurricane support, diplomatic congratulations, and a rally in Ohio. But Saturday morning brought a rapid-fire burst of attacks on Jeff Sessions and the Mueller investigation, paired with an aggressive pivot to Hillary Clinton's emails as a counter-narrative. The day ended quietly with a stock market boast, posted just minutes after the announcement of Senator John McCain's death.

- Posts analyzed: 13
- Dominant state: mixed
- Narrative arc: contamination
- Aggregate rage level: 0.38
- Max danger level: elevated
- Escalation detected
- Theme obsession: Clinton emails / FBI review statistics
- Claims: 27 (8 false)
- Era: Midterms Year

# Daily Psychological Digest: August 25, 2018

## Context and Location

Trump was in Ohio on the evening of August 24 for a political fundraiser, placing him in the Eastern Daylight Time zone (UTC-4). All timestamps below are converted to EDT. The day unfolded against the backdrop of the most acute legal convergence of the Trump presidency: Michael Cohen's guilty plea directly implicating Trump in campaign finance felonies (Aug 21), Paul Manafort's eight-count conviction (Aug 21), and immunity grants to AMI CEO David Pecker and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg — all within the preceding 72 hours.

## Chronological Arc

### Phase 1: Evening Presidential Maintenance (8:20–11:35 PM EDT, Aug 24)

Five posts spanning three hours project routine presidential normalcy. Post x_1033147164812300288 (8:20 PM) addresses Hurricane Lane's impact on Hawaii — a standard disaster-response communication. Post x_1033148759084093440 (8:27 PM) congratulates new Australian PM Scott Morrison. Post x_1033152062203342850 (8:40 PM) takes credit for Senate drug pricing work. All three bear strong aide-drafted markers (low authorship confidence 0.10–0.20, formal register, policy hashtags).

The first psychologically significant post arrives at 10:13 PM: x_1033175432651321345 labels a political fundraiser a "State Dinner" — a mild grandiose inflation of the event's ceremonial status. The commentary correctly identifies the post's significance as lying almost entirely in omission: posted while Cohen and Manafort dominated every news cycle, it contains zero acknowledgment of any legal development. The MAGA slogan insertion and ALL-CAPS register suggest authentic authorship in a supply-seeking mode.

Post x_1033196105159372800 (11:35 PM) — a birthday wish to Vince McMahon — closes the evening phase. High authorship confidence (0.85) and casual brevity suggest an authentic personal post before sleep.

### Phase 2: Morning Rage Cluster (8:16–9:22 AM EDT, Aug 25)

After an approximately 8.5-hour gap consistent with sleep, the subject re-emerges at 8:16 AM with a dramatically different psychological register. Seven posts in 66 minutes — averaging one every 9.4 minutes — constitute the day's psychologically dominant episode.

**Post x_1033327353227882496 (8:16 AM)** opens the cluster with a response to Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis's narrow walk-back regarding the Trump Tower meeting. The typo "Michaels Cohen's" is a strong authentic-authorship marker indicating hurried, emotionally reactive composition. Critically, this post addresses the Trump Tower meeting rather than Cohen's guilty plea regarding hush money payments — a selective pivot to the one domain offering a technical exculpatory hook. The parenthetical "(out of which came nothing!)" is a gross distortion: the meeting was explicitly organized to receive Russian government opposition research. Rage intensity: 0.45. State: vulnerable.

**Post x_1033332301579661312 (8:36 AM)** marks the day's peak intensity (0.87) and peak rage (0.82). This attack on Jeff Sessions simultaneously devalues a loyal appointee as cognitively incompetent ("doesn't understand what is happening") and delegitimizes the entire investigative apparatus ("17 Angry Dems"). The psychological mechanism is displacement: rage properly directed at the legal system producing guilty pleas and convictions is redirected at the Attorney General whose recusal enabled the investigation. Pathological projection is prominent — "real corruption goes untouched" is asserted while the subject's own associates are being convicted of financial crimes. The "No Collusion!" mantra functions as a thought-terminating cliché maintaining follower epistemic closure. Danger level: elevated, representing documented institutional coercion of a sitting Attorney General.

**Post x_1033334753003536384 (8:46 AM)** quotes Senator Lindsey Graham on a president's right to replace Cabinet members. This is the second beat in a deliberate two-punch sequence: the prior post attacks Sessions on competence; this post establishes normative precedent for removal via a respected Republican voice. The proxy rhetoric simultaneously launders the argument, creates a loyalty test for Graham, maintains deniability, and signals removal intent to the base. This post is part of the documented norm-erosion campaign that culminated in Sessions' forced resignation on November 7, 2018. Danger level: elevated (institutional risk).

**Posts x_1033339636343549952, x_1033341088579440640, and x_1033341788491317255 (9:05–9:14 AM)** form a three-post Clinton counter-narrative sub-cluster delivered in nine minutes. This represents the day's most clearly obsessive pattern — perseverative return to the same topic with escalating compression of the same data point (FBI email review statistics). The first post (9:05 AM) contains the clinically most significant single line of the day: "At some point I may have to get involved!" Read against the preceding Sessions attacks, this constitutes a progressive trial balloon for executive interference in federal law enforcement — the performative restraint ("may have to") encoding genuine intent within theatrical hesitation. The FBI email statistics are mathematically grounded but rhetorically weaponized: standard deduplication methodology is reframed as deliberate concealment. Rage across the sub-cluster ranges from 0.55 to 0.72.

**Post x_1033343857675644928 (9:22 AM)** abruptly pivots to Mexico trade relations, functioning as a grandiose compensatory maneuver — the subject reasserts dealmaker identity to repair damage to the grandiose self-schema. Notably, this post was factually prescient: a bilateral US-Mexico NAFTA agreement was reached approximately 48 hours later. The extended ellipsis and casual register suggest authentic authorship with mild aide-polish.

### Phase 3: Extended Silence and Evening Close (9:22 AM – 7:45 PM EDT)

A 10.5-hour posting gap follows the morning cluster — the longest silence of the day and substantially longer than the overnight gap. This withdrawal may represent post-rage exhaustion, strategic restraint following the morning's aggressive messaging, or preoccupation with off-platform events.

**Post x_1033500723709992960 (7:45 PM)** — the day's final post — celebrates a stock market record. Grandiose, supply-seeking, and factually accurate. Its timing carries extraordinary contextual significance: Senator John McCain's death was announced at approximately 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC), placing this stock market post approximately 17 minutes after the announcement. While it cannot be determined with certainty whether Trump had been informed of McCain's death before posting, the complete absence of any acknowledgment of McCain throughout the remainder of the evening is notable given the magnitude of the event — the death of a sitting senator, war hero, and former presidential nominee.

## Psychological State Analysis

### Dominant State: Mixed

The day oscillates between grandiose presidential maintenance (evening Phase 1, closing post) and vulnerable-grandiose mixed states under acute narcissistic injury (morning Phase 2). The grandiose channel operates through standard presidential communications and self-promotion; the vulnerable channel manifests as persecutory framing, paranoid attribution, and rage-driven attacks on perceived sources of threat.

### State Transitions

Three primary transitions are identifiable:
1. **Grandiose → Vulnerable/Mixed** (overnight, between 11:35 PM and 8:16 AM): Triggered by overnight processing of the legal crisis. The subject likely consumed morning news coverage reinforcing the severity of Cohen's plea and Manafort's conviction.
2. **Peak rage → Grandiose pivot** (9:14 AM → 9:22 AM): The Clinton email perseveration gives way abruptly to the Mexico trade post, suggesting deliberate compensatory supply-seeking.
3. **Extended silence → Grandiose** (9:22 AM → 7:45 PM): The stock market post reasserts the grandiose frame without residual rage indicators.

## Escalation Pattern

The morning cluster exhibits a classic spike trajectory:
- **Onset**: x_1033327353227882496 (8:16 AM) — moderate rage (0.45), vulnerable framing
- **Peak**: x_1033332301579661312 (8:36 AM) — maximum rage (0.82) and intensity (0.87), targeting Sessions
- **Partial de-escalation**: x_1033334753003536384 (8:46 AM) — rage channeled through proxy rhetoric (0.55)
- **Secondary wave**: x_1033339636343549952 (9:05 AM) — rage re-escalates on Clinton pivot (0.72)
- **Perseverative tail**: x_1033341088579440640 and x_1033341788491317255 (9:11–9:14 AM) — diminishing but sustained rage (0.55–0.60)
- **Termination**: x_1033343857675644928 (9:22 AM) — complete pivot to supply-seeking, rage drops to zero

Total escalation duration: approximately 66 minutes. The pattern is a spike rather than a gradual build — peak intensity arrives within 20 minutes of onset, followed by oscillating de-escalation.

## Defense Mechanism Inventory

The day deploys the full narcissistic defense stack:
- **Denial**: Complete non-acknowledgment of Cohen guilty plea, Manafort conviction, and immunity grants across 13 posts
- **Displacement**: Rage redirected from legal system → Sessions → Clinton/FBI
- **Projection**: "Real corruption" attributed to investigators while subject's associates face convictions
- **Rationalization**: Constitutional AG-replacement doctrine used to cover self-interested obstruction logic
- **Splitting**: Sessions all-bad, Graham momentarily all-good; Mueller team entirely partisan
- **Reality substitution**: The Firehose pattern — flooding followers' information environment with positive affect, counter-narratives, and alternative stories to displace legal news

## Theme Analysis

### Theme 1: Legal Defense / Mueller Investigation (4 posts)
Posts x_1033327353227882496, x_1033332301579661312, x_1033334753003536384, x_1033339636343549952. The subject never directly addresses the legal developments driving his psychological state. Instead, defense is conducted through proxy — attacking the investigation's legitimacy, the AG's competence, and pivoting to Clinton as the "real" target of law enforcement.

### Theme 2: Clinton Counter-Narrative / FBI Conspiracy (3 posts)
Posts x_1033339636343549952, x_1033341088579440640, x_1033341788491317255. Three posts in nine minutes represent the day's obsessive peak. The same data point (FBI email review statistics) is compressed and repeated with increasing brevity — a perseverative pattern consistent with fixation under stress.

### Theme 3: Presidential Maintenance / Diplomacy (4 posts)
Posts x_1033147164812300288, x_1033148759084093440, x_1033152062203342850, x_1033343857675644928. Standard presidential communications that collectively serve a dual function: maintaining the appearance of normalcy and providing an information-environment buffer against legal crisis coverage.

### Theme 4: Self-Promotion / Supply-Seeking (2 posts)
Posts x_1033175432651321345, x_1033500723709992960. Rally celebration and stock market record — grandiose supply sources accessed during periods of acute threat.

## Contradiction Analysis

### Internal Contradictions
1. **Sessions competence vs. presidential prerogative**: Post x_1033332301579661312 frames Sessions as failing because he "doesn't understand what is happening underneath his command position" (implying he should be intervening), while x_1033334753003536384 quotes Graham's abstract principle that Cabinet members "serve at the pleasure of the President" (implying removal is a pure prerogative question unrelated to performance). The two posts offer contradictory justifications for the same desired outcome — one based on incompetence, the other on executive authority. **Severity: minor** — both serve the same strategic end.

2. **"No Collusion" vs. factual record**: Post x_1033327353227882496 claims the Trump Tower meeting produced "nothing" while characterizing the investigation as a "phony story." The meeting was organized to receive Russian government opposition research, as documented in emails released by Donald Trump Jr. himself. **Severity: moderate** — involves verifiable factual distortion of a legally significant event.

## Hypomanic Indicators

- **Post count**: 13 posts across the UTC day (8 in EDT Aug 25 alone). Trump's 2018 daily average was approximately 6–8 tweets. This day falls in the elevated range but does not meet hypomanic thresholds.
- **Morning cluster density**: 7 posts in 66 minutes (8:16–9:22 AM EDT) represents the day's most compressed output, averaging one post every 9.4 minutes.
- **Sleep window**: Last evening post at 11:35 PM EDT; first morning post at 8:16 AM EDT — approximately 8 hours and 41 minutes. This is a normal sleep window.
- **Post timing spread**: 8:20 PM to 11:35 PM EDT (Aug 24), then 8:16 AM to 7:45 PM EDT (Aug 25). No evidence of middle-of-night posting.
- **Assessment**: Does not meet threshold for hypomanic episode. The morning cluster density is elevated but falls within the range of stress-reactive output rather than pathological flight of ideas.

## Narrative Arc: Contamination

The day follows a contamination narrative structure. The evening of August 24 presents presidential normalcy — rally energy, disaster response, international relations. This positive frame is contaminated by the morning's eruption of defensive rage, paranoid attribution, and obsessive counter-narrative production. The attempted recovery (Mexico trade, stock market) fails to fully restore the grandiose frame because the controlling narrative — total avoidance of the legal crisis — is itself a form of contamination: the absence poisons the surrounding content.

The day's most striking structural feature is the information that never appears. Across 13 posts, there is zero mention of: Michael Cohen's guilty plea, Paul Manafort's conviction, David Pecker's immunity, Allen Weisselberg's immunity, or Senator John McCain's death. The subject's communicative output on the most legally consequential day of his presidency constitutes a complete reality-substitution operation.

## Danger Assessment

Three posts reach elevated danger level, all concentrated in the morning cluster:
- **x_1033332301579661312**: Public pressure on the sitting Attorney General to politicize DOJ operations. This post is part of a documented institutional coercion campaign.
- **x_1033334753003536384**: Proxy signaling of AG removal intent via a Republican senator's words.
- **x_1033339636343549952**: "At some point I may have to get involved!" — trial balloon for executive interference in federal law enforcement, framed as anti-Clinton action but functioning as counter-pressure against the Mueller investigation.

No stochastic terrorism pattern is detected. The danger is institutional rather than eliminationist — erosion of DOJ independence and normalization of executive interference in active investigations.

## Cognitive Assessment

- **Typo**: "Michaels Cohen's" (x_1033327353227882496) reflects hurried composition under emotional duress, not word-retrieval difficulty.
- **Mislabeling**: Fundraiser described as "State Dinner" — grandiose distortion rather than confusion.
- **Perseveration**: Three Clinton email posts in nine minutes suggest fixation under stress.
- **Rhetorical coherence**: The two-punch Sessions sequence (attack + Graham quote) demonstrates intact strategic reasoning.
- **Complexity trend**: Stable relative to 2018 baseline. No markers of cognitive decline.

## Event Correlation

### Cohen/Manafort Legal Convergence (Primary Driver)
Though the guilty plea and conviction occurred on August 21, the continuing news coverage and legal ramifications (immunity grants to Pecker and Weisselberg in the following days) are the unmistakable driver of the morning rage cluster. The subject's response is simultaneously defensive (Sessions/Graham posts), offensive (Clinton counter-narrative), and dismissive (total non-acknowledgment of the triggering events).

### Senator John McCain's Death
Announced at approximately 7:28 PM EDT on August 25. Trump's final post of the day (x_1033500723709992960, 7:45 PM EDT) celebrates a stock market record approximately 17 minutes after the announcement. No acknowledgment of McCain's death appears in any post. Given the well-documented Trump-McCain antagonism, this omission — while ambiguous in the immediate 17-minute window — becomes psychologically significant in the hours that followed without any presidential statement.

### Hurricane Lane
Post x_1033147164812300288 addresses the hurricane's impact on Hawaii. Standard disaster-response communication with no psychological significance beyond maintenance of presidential norms.

### Narrative

Presidential normalcy in the evening is contaminated by a morning eruption of defensive rage and obsessive counter-narrative production. The day's most striking feature is total communicative avoidance: across 13 posts on the most legally consequential day of the presidency, there is zero mention of Cohen's plea, Manafort's conviction, the immunity grants, or John McCain's death. The attempted recovery via trade and market posts fails to restore equilibrium because the controlling absence itself poisons the frame.

### Dominant themes

- Legal defense / Mueller investigation avoidance (1 post)
- Clinton counter-narrative / FBI conspiracy (1 post)
- Presidential maintenance / diplomacy (1 post)
- Self-promotion / supply-seeking (1 post)

### Contradictions that day

- [x_1033332301579661312](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033332301579661312): Sessions should be removed because he doesn't understand what is happening underneath his command position (competence-based argument)
  vs. [x_1033334753003536384](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033334753003536384): Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President and these are not lifetime appointments (prerogative-based argument)
- [x_1033327353227882496](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033327353227882496): The Trump Tower meeting produced nothing and is a phony story
  vs. [x_1033332301579661312](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033332301579661312): Real corruption goes untouched while the investigation continues as a partisan field day

### Cognitive concerns

- Typo 'Michaels Cohen's' indicates hurried composition under emotional stress
- Perseverative cycling: three Clinton email posts in nine minutes on identical data point
- Mislabeling political fundraiser as 'State Dinner' reflects grandiose inflation
- Strategic coherence intact: two-punch Sessions sequence demonstrates preserved planning capacity

## Posts

### [x_1033500723709992960](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033500723709992960)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T23:45:48.000Z (UTC)

> Stock Market hit all time high on Friday. Congratulations U.S.A.!

136,617 likes · 27,466 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033500723709992960.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033500723709992960/analysis

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### [x_1033343857675644928](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033343857675644928)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T13:22:28.000Z (UTC)

> Our relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour. Some really good people within both the new and old government, and all working closely together....A big Trade Agreement with Mexico could be happening soon!

99,077 likes · 21,779 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033343857675644928.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033343857675644928/analysis

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### [x_1033341788491317255](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033341788491317255)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T13:14:15.000Z (UTC)

> “The FBI looked at less than 1%” of Crooked’s Emails!

102,682 likes · 29,187 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033341788491317255.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033341788491317255/analysis

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### [x_1033341088579440640](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033341088579440640)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T13:11:28.000Z (UTC)

> “The FBI only looked at 3000 of 675,000 Crooked Hillary Clinton Emails.” They purposely didn’t look at the disasters. This news is just out. @FoxNews

109,806 likes · 34,133 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033341088579440640.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033341088579440640/analysis

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### [x_1033339636343549952](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033339636343549952)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T13:05:42.000Z (UTC)

> Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD. Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!

153,410 likes · 42,247 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033339636343549952.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033339636343549952/analysis

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### [x_1033334753003536384](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033334753003536384)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T12:46:18.000Z (UTC)

> .@LindseyGrahamSC  “Every President deserves an Attorney General they have confidence in. I believe every President has a right to their Cabinet, these are not lifetime appointments. You serve at the pleasure of the President.”

76,758 likes · 18,493 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033334753003536384.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033334753003536384/analysis

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### [x_1033332301579661312](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033332301579661312)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T12:36:33.000Z (UTC)

> Jeff Sessions said he wouldn’t allow politics to influence him only because he doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position. Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. No Collusion!

94,556 likes · 24,600 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033332301579661312.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033332301579661312/analysis

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### [x_1033327353227882496](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033327353227882496)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T12:16:53.000Z (UTC)

> Michaels Cohen’s attorney clarified the record, saying his client does not know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting (out of which came nothing!). The answer is that I did NOT know about the meeting. Just another phony story by the Fake News Media!

81,294 likes · 21,849 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033327353227882496.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033327353227882496/analysis

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### [x_1033196105159372800](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033196105159372800)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T03:35:21.000Z (UTC)

> Happy birthday Vince, you are truly one of the greats! https://t.co/b8zV5MfojY

66,586 likes · 13,216 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033196105159372800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033196105159372800/analysis

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### [x_1033175432651321345](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033175432651321345)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T02:13:13.000Z (UTC)

> Great #StateDinner2018 in Ohio tonight! Together, we are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/ALU1PHEsvh

52,713 likes · 12,723 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033175432651321345.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033175432651321345/analysis

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### [x_1033152062203342850](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033152062203342850)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T00:40:21.000Z (UTC)

> Great to see the Senate working on solutions to end the secrecy around ridiculously high drug prices, something I called for in my drug pricing Blueprint. Will now work with the House to help American patients! #AmericanPatientsFirst

71,614 likes · 17,772 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033152062203342850.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033152062203342850/analysis

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### [x_1033148759084093440](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033148759084093440)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T00:27:13.000Z (UTC)

> Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the United States and Australia!

79,200 likes · 14,696 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033148759084093440.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033148759084093440/analysis

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### [x_1033147164812300288](https://trump.fm/post/x_1033147164812300288)

X (Twitter) · 2018-08-25T00:20:53.000Z (UTC)

> I spoke with Governor David Ige of Hawaii today to express our full support for the people of Hawaii as the State is impacted by #HurricaneLane. The Federal Government is fully committed to helping the people of Hawaii. https://t.co/P35yAAovIk

52,504 likes · 10,454 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033147164812300288.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033147164812300288/analysis

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