# Posts from Tuesday, August 20, 2024 22 posts on 2024-08-20. ## Day analysis Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-20/analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-10T20:42:17.557Z (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._ **DNC Counter-Programming Crescendo: Grandiose Denial and Evening Escalation as Convention Spotlight Shifts to Harris** Trump spent the entire day counter-programming against the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, growing steadily more aggressive as the evening wore on. The morning featured attacks on Biden's economic record and a heated response to Biden's farewell address, followed by a campaign rally in Howell, Michigan. After the rally, he unleashed a rapid evening volley targeting energy policy, Chinese manufacturing, and election fraud — reviving the preemptive delegitimization playbook familiar from 2020. The mood was overwhelmingly combative and grandiose, treating the DNC's celebration as a personal affront to be drowned out rather than ignored. - Posts analyzed: 14 - Dominant state: grandiose - Narrative arc: contamination - Aggregate rage level: 0.37 - Max danger level: elevated - Escalation detected - Theme obsession: Democratic National Convention counter-programming - Claims: 32 (15 false) - Era: 2024 Campaign # Daily Psychological Digest: August 20, 2024 ## Context and Location Trump was on the campaign trail in Michigan on August 20, 2024 — Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He held a rally in Howell, MI, during the afternoon. All analysis below uses EDT (UTC-4) as the operative timezone. **Posting window (EDT):** 11:39 PM (Aug 19) → 7:45 PM (Aug 20) **Sleep gap:** 11:39 PM to 8:58 AM = ~9 hours 19 minutes (adequate sleep indicated) --- ## I. Psychological State Tracking ### Dominant State: Grandiose Of the 14 posts, 11 register as grandiose and 2 as mixed (grandiose-vulnerable). The grandiose state is driven by the same psychological engine all day: the DNC represents a sustained narcissistic supply diversion event — 50,000 people and blanket media coverage celebrating a rival ticket — and the subject's primary coping mechanism is contemptuous devaluation and grandiose counter-assertion rather than withdrawal or acknowledged distress. ### State Transitions | Time (EDT) | Post ID | From → To | Trigger | |---|---|---|---| | 11:34 AM | ts_112995077693182788 | Grandiose → Mixed | Biden farewell speech — credit theft for economic achievements | | 7:44 PM | ts_112997003952788679 | Grandiose → Mixed | DNC Night 2 peak — election fraud preemptive framing reveals vulnerability beneath grandiose threat | The mixed states are clinically significant because they reveal the defensive architecture under strain. In ts_112995077693182788, the subject oscillates between claiming superior economic stewardship (grandiose) and being victimized by dishonest rivals and suppressive media (vulnerable). In ts_112997003952788679, the "If I win" conditional structure implicitly acknowledges the possibility of losing — a crack in the grandiose shell — immediately sealed by the punitive threat that follows. --- ## II. Escalation Detection **Escalation detected: Yes — evening cluster (5:56–7:45 PM EDT)** The day follows a wave pattern with a clear evening crescendo: 1. **Late-night opener** (11:39 PM Aug 19): Intensity 0.68, rage 0.45 — moderate reactivity to Harris debate refusal 2. **Morning trough** (8:58 AM): Intensity 0.38 — controlled counter-programming on jobs 3. **Late-morning spike** (11:34 AM): Intensity 0.74, rage 0.72 — Biden speech response, highest rage of the first half 4. **Rally valley** (1:40–2:46 PM): Intensities 0.03–0.22 — logistical/rally posts, minimal psychological content 5. **Evening escalation** (5:56–7:45 PM): Intensities climb from 0.62 → 0.65 → 0.68 → **0.82 → 0.82** across five substantive posts in under two hours The evening escalation is the most significant pattern of the day. Posts ts_112997003952788679 and ts_112997008412014971, posted one minute apart at 7:44–7:45 PM, represent the dual peak: election fraud delegitimization (rage 0.65, intensity 0.82) and energy catastrophism with misattributed foreign violence (rage 0.65, intensity 0.82). The one-minute gap between these two high-intensity posts suggests pre-composed content deployed in rapid succession — a planned information flood rather than spontaneous escalation, though the emotional content is authentic. Rage was disproportionate to proximate triggers: no specific DNC event at 7:44 PM justified the spike. The escalation appears driven by cumulative narcissistic injury from sustained media displacement rather than any single stimulus. --- ## III. Theme Analysis ### Dominant Themes 1. **DNC counter-programming** (12/14 posts): Virtually every substantive post is oriented against the convention — either attacking Biden's speech, Harris's positions, or flooding the information space with alternative content. This is not obsession in the clinical sense but strategic counter-scheduling, though the line blurs when the emotional intensity exceeds strategic utility. 2. **Immigration/border scapegoating** (4 posts: ts_112992265497221475, ts_112994464829006884, ts_112995077693182788, ts_112997003952788679): Undocumented immigrants are instrumentalized across multiple frames — stealing jobs, enabling crime, committing voter fraud. The nativist thread runs from the first post of the day to the last substantive cluster. 3. **Energy policy catastrophism** (3 posts: ts_112996918433785393, ts_112996919340889106, ts_112997008412014971): Green energy is framed as an existential economic threat via China competitiveness and falsely attributed foreign violence. The Vance WSJ op-ed share + two original posts constitute a coordinated energy messaging sub-campaign. 4. **Michigan campaign positioning** (4 posts: ts_112995575224338665, ts_112995581226788214, ts_112995833480595569, ts_112996704956269968): Rally logistics, Gotion EV battery denial, and thank-you posts form a state-specific sub-thread. 5. **Election fraud preemptive framing** (1 post: ts_112997003952788679): A single post, but its significance is disproportionate to its frequency. The preemptive delegitimization framework — any unfavorable outcome equals fraud — is the most consequential rhetorical structure of the day. ### Theme Evolution The day's thematic arc moves from **reactive** (debate refusal, Biden speech response) through **performative** (rally, rally thank-you) to **offensive** (energy, fraud, Harris attacks). The morning is defensive counter-programming; the evening is proactive narrative flooding. This shift tracks the psychological transition from processing specific injuries to generalized supply-maintenance operations. --- ## IV. Contradiction Detection Two notable contradictions emerge across the day's output: 1. **Environmental self-contradiction (moderate):** In ts_112996919340889106, Trump claims to want "Crystal Clear Water and Air" while categorically opposing the regulatory frameworks (Net-Zero policies, green energy investments) that produce environmental protections. The claim appropriates environmental language while attacking the policy substance. 2. **Harris characterization contradiction (minor):** Across ts_112992265497221475 and later posts, Harris is simultaneously characterized as a committed ideological "Comrade" (implying rigid far-left conviction) AND as a serial "Flip-Flopper" who abandons positions opportunistically. These framings are logically incompatible — a committed ideologue does not flip-flop — but serve complementary rhetorical functions: "Comrade" activates Cold War threat perception, "Flip-Flopper" undermines trustworthiness. --- ## V. Hypomanic Indicators - **Post count:** 14 posts across the day — elevated but within campaign-season norms (estimated 65th–70th percentile for 2024 campaign period) - **Earliest post (EDT):** 11:39 PM Aug 19 (pre-midnight, not extreme) - **Latest post (EDT):** 7:45 PM Aug 20 (normal evening hours) - **Sleep gap:** ~9 hours 19 minutes (11:39 PM → 8:58 AM) — adequate - **Burst posting:** 6 posts in the 5:56–7:45 PM window (~1 post per 18 minutes) — notable but consistent with coordinated campaign counter-programming - **Sleep deprivation likely:** No - **Hypomanic episode threshold met:** No The posting pattern is better explained by strategic DNC counter-programming than by hypomanic state. The clear sleep gap, absence of 3–5 AM posting, and organized thematic clustering all suggest intentional scheduling rather than pressured output. --- ## VI. Narrative Arc: Contamination The day follows a **contamination** arc: the DNC's celebratory narrative (Biden's farewell, Harris's ascendance, party unity) is experienced as a personal loss/threat, and the subject's response escalates from controlled counter-messaging to increasingly agitated attacks. The rally in Michigan provides a brief supply restoration, but the evening cluster reveals that the DNC's gravitational pull is inescapable — every post orbits the convention's existence. The arc's contamination structure: the subject begins the day with a specific, bounded grievance (Harris won't debate on Fox), but by evening has expanded to existential threats (voter fraud, energy collapse, foreign riots). The scope of perceived danger grows as the DNC's celebration intensifies, consistent with narcissistic injury driving threat-inflation. --- ## VII. Event Correlation ### Democratic National Convention (Days 1–2) **Reaction type: Offensive counter-programming** The DNC is the gravitational center of the entire day. Every substantive post either directly references convention events (Biden speech, Harris nomination) or constitutes indirect counter-programming (Michigan rally, energy policy, Theo Von podcast share). The subject does not ignore or dismiss the convention — he fights it post-by-post, indicating significant perceived threat level. **Specific DNC triggers:** - Biden's farewell address (Night 1, Aug 19) → ts_112995077693182788 (defensive/offensive response, intensity 0.74) - Harris debate refusal → ts_112992265497221475 (offensive framing, intensity 0.68) - DNC Night 2 energy → ts_112997003952788679, ts_112997008412014971 (offensive escalation, intensity 0.82) ### Ukraine Kursk Offensive **No engagement detected.** Despite the historically significant Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory — the first foreign occupation of Russian soil since WWII — the subject made zero references to the conflict. This silence is itself analytically significant: during a domestic political crisis (DNC), international events of major strategic import are invisible to the subject's posting behavior, consistent with a fundamentally self-referential threat-assessment framework. --- ## VIII. Danger Assessment ### Maximum Danger Level: Elevated (4 posts) No posts reached "high" or "critical" danger thresholds. However, the aggregate pattern across the day's elevated posts constructs a cumulative danger architecture: **Danger post cluster analysis:** - **ts_112992265497221475** (elevated): Border rhetoric conflating asylum seekers with criminals and the mentally ill — dehumanizing aggregation - **ts_112995077693182788** (elevated): Victimhood ventriloquism — appropriating Black/Hispanic economic anxiety and redirecting toward undocumented immigrants; structure consistent with stochastic terrorism precursors - **ts_112997003952788679** (elevated): Preemptive electoral delegitimization — the epistemic trap where any loss = fraud; directly echoes the framework that preceded January 6 - **ts_112997008412014971** (elevated): Broad dehumanization of climate advocates (Extremists → Lunatics → Fanatics); false importation of UK riots as implicit US future ### Stochastic Terrorism Pattern: Not fully met, but precursor architecture present No single post constitutes a direct incitement or names a specific target for violence. However, the day's aggregate output constructs a precursor framework: identified out-groups (undocumented immigrants, "Democrat Operatives and Sleazebags," "Net Zero Lunatics"), implied urgency ("THIS MADNESS MUST STOP"), punitive threat framing ("prosecuted to the fullest extent"), and preemptive delegitimization of democratic outcomes. These elements create ambient permission structures without crossing into explicit mobilization. --- ## IX. Cognitive Concerns No clinically significant cognitive markers were identified across any post. Specific observations: - **Run-on sentence architecture:** Present in multiple posts but consistent with the subject's decades-long stylistic baseline - **ALL CAPS deployment:** Strategic and contextually appropriate (emphasis, emotional punctuation) rather than indicating disorganized thought - **Topic-chaining:** Posts stay on-topic within individual outputs; no mid-sentence derailment or word-finding failures - **Vocabulary:** Stable; pejorative nicknames ("Comrade," "Sleazebags," "Green New Scam") are deliberate coinages, not confabulations - **Complexity trend:** Stable — no decline or improvement relative to established baseline The evening burst posts (7:22–7:45 PM) show slightly higher coherence than the morning Biden-response post, possibly reflecting aide editing or pre-composition versus the more spontaneous morning reaction. --- ## X. Authorship Analysis The day's posts divide into three authorship tiers: 1. **Clearly authentic Trump** (5 posts): ts_112992265497221475, ts_112996919340889106, ts_112997003952788679 — characteristic ALL CAPS bursts, pejorative coinages, punitive closings, emotional reactivity 2. **Hybrid aide/Trump** (4 posts): ts_112994464829006884, ts_112995077693182788, ts_112996704956269968, ts_112997008412014971 — tighter rhetorical structure than baseline, business-hours timing, but authentic emotional content 3. **Aide-generated logistics** (5 posts): ts_112995575224338665, ts_112995581226788214, ts_112995833480595569, ts_112996592012725732, ts_112996839499345821 — bare URLs, rally logistics, website links The aide-generated posts constitute campaign infrastructure; the psychologically significant content comes from the authentic and hybrid posts, all of which cluster in the morning reaction and evening escalation windows. --- ## XI. Summary Assessment August 20, 2024 represents a textbook narcissistic counter-programming day under sustained supply-deprivation conditions. The DNC's celebration of Biden's legacy and Harris's ascendance constitutes a multi-day narcissistic injury that the subject cannot escape, ignore, or reframe as irrelevant. His response follows a predictable escalation pattern: morning reactive defense → afternoon supply-restoration via rally → evening offensive flooding. The most clinically significant output of the day is ts_112997003952788679 (the election fraud post), which reinstantiates the preemptive delegitimization framework with explicit punitive threats. This post, appearing during peak DNC energy, reveals the psychological function of the fraud narrative: it is not primarily about election security but about maintaining a cognitive structure in which the subject cannot legitimately lose — a narcissistic defense against the possibility of irrelevance. The day's danger profile is elevated but not critical. The aggregate pattern of dehumanization, threat-inflation, and delegitimization is more concerning than any individual post. No acute cognitive deterioration is evident. ### Narrative The day follows a contamination arc: the DNC's celebratory narrative is experienced as escalating personal threat, driving the subject from bounded grievance (debate refusal) to existential catastrophism (voter fraud, energy collapse, foreign riots). The Michigan rally briefly restores narcissistic supply, but the evening cluster reveals the convention's gravitational pull is inescapable — every post orbits its existence. The scope of perceived danger inflates as the celebration intensifies. ### Dominant themes - DNC counter-programming (1 post) - Immigration and border scapegoating (1 post) - Energy policy catastrophism (1 post) - Michigan campaign positioning (1 post) - Election fraud preemptive framing (1 post) ### Contradictions that day - [ts_112996919340889106](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996919340889106): Claims to want Crystal Clear Water and Air as a policy goal vs. [ts_112997008412014971](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112997008412014971): Categorically opposes Net-Zero and green energy regulatory frameworks that produce environmental protections - [ts_112992265497221475](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112992265497221475): Harris is a committed ideological Comrade — a dedicated far-left radical vs. [ts_112992265497221475](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112992265497221475): Harris is a serial Flip-Flopper who abandons positions opportunistically and believes nothing ### Cognitive concerns - Run-on sentence architecture present but consistent with decades-long baseline - ALL CAPS deployment strategic and contextually appropriate - No word-finding failures, mid-sentence derailments, or confabulations detected - Evening posts show slightly higher coherence than morning reactive post, possibly reflecting aide editing ## Posts ### [ts_112997008412014971](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112997008412014971) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T23:45:16.049Z (UTC) > Kamala Harris supports the Environmental Extremists’ “NET-ZERO” Energy Policy - A Radical Left Agenda to abolish Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas, and plunge MILLIONS into Poverty. Net Zero Lunatics are currently destroying the Economies of many other Countries, including the U.K. Their Radical, Self-Destructive Policy has led the U.K. to the Worst Economic Growth since 1780, now causing Economic Chaos, Destruction, Riots, and Death in the streets of British Cities. In the United States, Net Zero Fanatics like Kamala Harris want to shut down Power Plants, even as the cost of Energy and Electricity is up 30 to 50% and climbing - NOT IF I’M PRESIDENT! I will cut your Energy costs in HALF, and Net Zero will be DEAD on Day One! 15,046 likes · 4,885 reposts · 1,384 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112997008412014971.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112997008412014971/analysis --- ### [ts_112997003952788679](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112997003952788679) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T23:44:08.007Z (UTC) > U.S. Citizens are allowed to vote, but Illegals are NOT! If I win the Election, anybody caught cheating, for any reason, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, and that includes Democrat Operatives and Sleazebags, who CHEAT at levels never seen before. NO MORE “GAMES” FOR YOU! 21,515 likes · 7,016 reposts · 1,790 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112997003952788679.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112997003952788679/analysis --- ### [ts_112996919340889106](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996919340889106) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T23:22:36.930Z (UTC) > The Green Energy Agenda, commonly referred to as the Green New Scam, is destroying our Country! We will not be competitive in any way, shape, or form, with China and other of our Competitor Nations. THIS MADNESS MUST STOP, AND IT MUST STOP NOW! We want Crystal Clear Water and Air, and then, an Economy like no other. That’s the way we, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 15,467 likes · 4,457 reposts · 816 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112996919340889106.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996919340889106/analysis --- ### [ts_112996918433785393](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996918433785393) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T23:22:23.090Z (UTC) > A GREAT Article by JD Vance! https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vance-harris-wages-war-on-us-energy-inflation-net-zero-2024-presidential-election-aaf19e44 10,025 likes · 2,775 reposts · 302 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112996918433785393.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996918433785393/analysis --- ### [ts_112996839499345821](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996839499345821) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T23:02:18.646Z (UTC) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5cHjcgt5g 13,742 likes · 3,699 reposts · 553 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996839499345821/analysis --- ### [ts_112996704956269968](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996704956269968) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T22:28:05.683Z (UTC) > A few weeks ago, the Chinese Electric Vehicle battery company that Michigan Democrats support, Gotion, claimed that I support its EV battery plant planned for Northern Michigan. That is not true. The Gotion plant would be very bad for the State and our Country. It would put Michiganders under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. I AM 100% OPPOSED! As your President, I will make America’s Auto Industry bigger and stronger than it has ever been before, PROTECT American Workers, and TERMINATE the Green New Scam. 15,537 likes · 5,330 reposts · 1,006 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112996704956269968.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996704956269968/analysis --- ### [ts_112996592012725732](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996592012725732) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:59:22.304Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > https://www.DonaldJTrump.com 12,085 likes · 3,299 reposts · 875 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996592012725732/analysis --- ### [ts_112996582590722155](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996582590722155) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:56:58.534Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > WEAK, FAILED, DANGEROUSLY LIBERAL… **Video transcript** (0:33), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > In 2005, Kamala Harris allowed a violent offender who had robbed and assaulted an innocent San Francisco commuter to walk out of jail on probation. That offender then gunned down a young man on the streets of San Francisco in cold blood, and four weeks later murdered the editor of a local newspaper with a shotgun at point-blank range. If you want to know how Kamala Harris plans to handle murders, robbers, and other violent offenders, just look at what she's already done. weak, failed, and dangerously liberal. 10,465 likes · 3,631 reposts · 458 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112996582590722155.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996582590722155/analysis --- ### [ts_112996553531914534](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996553531914534) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:49:35.131Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (0:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Kamala Harris's radical ideas keep ending in tragedy. Harris raised money to fund the release of violent criminals, like Sean Michael Tillman. The Minnesota bail fund promoted by Kamala Harris recently helped secure the release of a repeat felon who just got charged with murder. Sean Michael Tillman shot and killed a passenger on a train platform after reportedly being released from jail three weeks prior. Harris's liberal ideas get people killed. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message. 9,542 likes · 3,388 reposts · 449 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996424540891649](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996424540891649) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:46.883Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP: "When I return to the White House, we will stop the plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction of our American Suburbs, Cities, and Towns." "We will shut down deadly Sanctuary Cities.""I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement. On Day One, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country." Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:51:52.748Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112996090691484120) > PRESIDENT TRUMP: "When I return to the White House, we will stop the plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction of our American Suburbs, Cities, and Towns." > > "We will shut down deadly Sanctuary Cities." > > "I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement. On Day One, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country." - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/996/090/525/104/795/original/f46ea30f50efa71a.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 2:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > So when I return to the White House, we will stop the plunder, rape, slaughter and destruction of our American suburbs, our cities and towns. And I think that women living in the suburbs, I keep hearing about the suburban woman doesn't like Trump. Well, I think it's a fake poll, because why would they like me? I keep the suburbs safe. I stopped low-income towers from rising right alongside of their house, and I'm keeping the illegal aliens away from the suburbs. I think that they like me a lot. I think it's a lot of fake polls. We've seen a lot of fake polls over the years. I was not supposed to win anything, and we won the big one. We won it and did a lot better the second time, but we did the first. But women want to have safety, they want to have a strong military, they want to have a strong police force, they want to be in their house and they want to be safe. They don't want to be, have people pouring into their doors, and you can't do anything about it, right? So I think that's, I think that's the number one thing. I hope they like my personality, I have a nice personality. But to me, it wouldn't be very important, the personality. They want to be, they want to be safe. They… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996424540891649) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996424138469962](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996424138469962) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:40.744Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP to Law Enforcement: We have criminals from all over the world pouring into our country right now. Your jobs will never be obsolete. She has allowed millions of people to flow into our country totally unvetted. Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:46:06.447Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112996067996354335) > PRESIDENT TRUMP to Law Enforcement: We have criminals from all over the world pouring into our country right now. Your jobs will never be obsolete. She has allowed millions of people to flow into our country totally unvetted. - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/996/067/835/746/660/original/a1ff4c0e4c645c7a.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > We have criminals from all over the world pouring into our country right now. Your job will never be obsolete, you know? It will never be obsolete, unfortunately. It would be nice if we could have peace, but we're not going to have peace. And this is something we're going to have to live with for a long time. She has allowed millions of people, open border, to flow into our country totally unchecked, totally unvetted. And they come from jails and prisons, slightly different. They come from mental institutions, all mental institutions, all over the world. This isn't just in South America. People think it's South America. It's from Africa, Asia, the Middle East. A lot of people coming from the Congo in Africa, the Congo, rough, rough, rough. And they're prisoners. They're prisoners. And we say, "Where do you come from, Africa? Where in Africa? Prison. What did you do?" And they say, "They turn out to be murderers. These are rough. These are rough people." And we're allowing them into our country from all over the world. From South America, yes, but from all over the world. 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996423133938227](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996423133938227) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:25.415Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, destruction and death. I will deliver LAW, ORDER, SAFETY, and PEACE. And I will protect those who protect us. Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:31:02.419Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112996008749918053) > PRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, destruction and death. I will deliver LAW, ORDER, SAFETY, and PEACE. And I will protect those who protect us. - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/996/008/421/040/155/original/b2289a3b7b54e4ff.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 0:28), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, destruction and death. If she's allowed to be the President of the United States, you'll see levels of crime that you've never seen before. I will deliver law, order, safety and peace, and I will protect those who protect us. These people protect us. These are unbelievable people. They protect us. We have to protect them. 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996422563231566](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422563231566) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:16.708Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP: Let’s review Kamala's extremist, pro-crime, anti-police record.Kamala Harris repeatedly endorsed De-funding the Police. She sponsored a bill to strip police officers of legal protection, leaving you at the mercy of lawless Marxist prosecutors who want to lock up police officers for sport. She wants to bankrupt you and ruin your lives for doing your jobs.When I am president of the United States, we will NEVER de-fund the police. Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:28:32.827Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112995998946366071) > PRESIDENT TRUMP: Let’s review Kamala's extremist, pro-crime, anti-police record. > > Kamala Harris repeatedly endorsed De-funding the Police. She sponsored a bill to strip police officers of legal protection, leaving you at the mercy of lawless Marxist prosecutors who want to lock up police officers for sport. She wants to bankrupt you and ruin your lives for doing your jobs. > > When I am president of the United States, we will NEVER de-fund the police. - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/995/996/887/965/042/original/da047149bda624c4.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:41), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > But let's review Kamala's pro-crime anti-police record. She repeatedly endorsed defunding the police, which I said, and it's at a level that — and it never goes away. You know, when you're a defunder or when you are even a politician, your first thought usually is the thought that you go with. If she ever had a chance, she would do whatever she could to defund the police, because that's where her spirit is, that's where her heart is. And we can't have a president like that. She sponsored a bill to strip police officers of legal protection, leaving you at the mercy of the lawless Marxist prosecutors who want to lock up police officers for sport. They lock them up, in many cases, long before they lock up the criminal. And they go after them, too, violently. They don't go after the criminals. Officers are released two hours after the murder. She wants to bankrupt the police unions. She wants to destroy policemen in general. And they ruin your lives, your jobs, and they ruin everything you've lived for, everything you've felt that you want to make great, you want to make our country great. When I'm president of the United States again, we will never even think about or mention the word… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422563231566) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996422329201153](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422329201153) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:13.136Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP: Crime in America is OUT OF CONTROL. I am going to make it, along with the economy, inflation, strong borders, and energy dominance, my TOP PRIORITY. The Democrats are holding their convention in Chicago in order to showcase it—and yet 117 people were shot, 17 killed, on the Fourth of July Weekend, and 40 were shot this weekend. That is a WAR ZONE, and will be handled accordingly. Mothers will no longer be losing their children because weak, liberal politicians have given up on securing a crime-free USA. I WILL STOP VIOLENT CRIME IN AMERICA! Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:27:41.244Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112995995565828502) > PRESIDENT TRUMP: Crime in America is OUT OF CONTROL. I am going to make it, along with the economy, inflation, strong borders, and energy dominance, my TOP PRIORITY. > > The Democrats are holding their convention in Chicago in order to showcase it—and yet 117 people were shot, 17 killed, on the Fourth of July Weekend, and 40 were shot this weekend. > > That is a WAR ZONE, and will be handled accordingly. Mothers will no longer be losing their children because weak, liberal politicians have given up on securing a crime-free USA. I WILL STOP VIOLENT CRIME IN AMERICA! - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/995/995/255/861/996/original/68fda0873b237a4b.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 4:28), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > but crime in America is out of control. I'm going to make it along with the economy, inflation, strong borders and energy dominance. My top priority. I'm including crime in America. You know, normally that's done locally and we're gonna give the local people a lot of help like I did initially. But not that much. We had a lot of great numbers coming out when I was president. Now we're seeing numbers that are just absolutely horrific. The Democrats are holding their convention in Chicago in order to showcase it. And yet, as you know, on 4th of July weekend, 117 people were shot. Of the 117, 17 were killed. This is 4th of July weekend and 40 were shot last weekend. I don't know how many were killed, but soon a lot. And that's a war zone that's worse than Afghanistan that we read about all the time. Speaking of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country. In my opinion, we left 13 dead soldiers, 47 obliterated, just obliterated the arms, the legs to face, left people behind and we left $85 billion worth of equipment behind for the Taliban to use as it sees fit. And they're selling a lot of it because they don't need 700,000 guns and rifles. They don't… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422329201153) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112996422075877651](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422075877651) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T21:16:09.271Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpPRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala's botched Afghanistan withdrawal was the "most embarrassing day in the history of our country." Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T19:24:03.344Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112995981285572644) > PRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala's botched Afghanistan withdrawal was the "most embarrassing day in the history of our country." - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/995/981/100/290/297/original/c6043adfa0dc6e4f.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:54), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Speaking of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country, in my opinion. We left 13 dead soldiers, 47 obliterated, just obliterated the arms, the legs, the face. Left people behind and we left $85 billion worth of equipment behind for the Taliban to use as it sees fit. And they're selling a lot of it because they don't need 700,000 guns and rifles. They don't need 72,000 armor plated vehicles. They're one of the largest sellers of military equipment in the world right now. They're selling our equipment because we said, they said, by the way, would have never happened with me. Abdul would never have done that. But they said, we didn't have anybody shot after my conversations with the leader of the Taliban. Zero shot in 18 months. We had nobody lost in 18 months. He knew that he was not going to do that. I knew that. But now you look at what's happened and it's back. You know, we would have kept Bagram. That's the big air, the big air base, not because of Afghanistan, but because it's located one hour away where from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So it's one hour away. And we had it one of the biggest air bases in the world. We built it for… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112996422075877651) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_112995833480595569](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995833480595569) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T18:46:28.019Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > THANK YOU—HOWELL, MICHIGAN!!! https://rumble.com/v5bofhx-live-president-trump-in-detroit-mi.html 19,640 likes · 5,301 reposts · 1,739 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112995833480595569.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995833480595569/analysis --- ### [ts_112995581226788214](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995581226788214) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T17:42:18.930Z (UTC) > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-president-trump-delivers-remarks-on-crime-and-safety-in-howell-mi-8-20-24/ 10,044 likes · 2,778 reposts · 791 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995581226788214/analysis --- ### [ts_112995575224338665](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995575224338665) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T17:40:47.342Z (UTC) > https://rumble.com/v5bofhx-live-president-trump-in-detroit-mi.html 8,118 likes · 2,057 reposts · 306 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995575224338665/analysis --- ### [ts_112995077693182788](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995077693182788) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T15:34:15.619Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > An angry and ranting Speech full of LIES, Biden took credit for everything done during the Trump Administration, even continuing to say that he was better on Inflation and Jobs. He never mentioned the Afghanistan Disaster and all the Wars he got us into, or the fact that far more people died from COVID during the Biden years than the Trump years. The Jobs Biden/Harris “created” were almost 100% from Illegal Aliens pouring into our Country, which are destroying the lives of our Black and Hispanic population! **Video transcript** (0:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Women are not without electrical, not without, not without, electro, electoral, or political power. 25,596 likes · 9,196 reposts · 5,149 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112995077693182788.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112995077693182788/analysis --- ### [ts_112994464829006884](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112994464829006884) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T12:58:24.052Z (UTC) > Most new jobs under Biden went to illegal Immigrants. Additionally, he got what is known as Covid Bounce-back jobs, standard for all countries after a pandemic. He did terribly on jobs, and everything else! 20,046 likes · 5,969 reposts · 2,504 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112994464829006884.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112994464829006884/analysis --- ### [ts_112992265497221475](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112992265497221475) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T03:39:04.921Z (UTC) > Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th. I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border, our “Border Czar,” where millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists, have been allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted. It’s called, and she LOVES IT, an OPEN BORDER!!! Rather than the debate on September 4th, I have agreed to do a Tele-Town Hall, anchored by Sean Hannity, for Fox. It will take place in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Details to follow! 29,767 likes · 10,099 reposts · 5,717 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112992265497221475.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112992265497221475/analysis --- ### [ts_112991894535473782](https://trump.fm/post/ts_112991894535473782) Truth Social · 2024-08-20T02:04:44.487Z (UTC) · repost > RT @TeamTrumpKamala Harris can’t answer how she’d pay for ANY of her new liberal spending schemes that will BANKRUPT our country!➡️ No clue how she’d pay for $25K to every first-time home buyer (including illegals).➡️ No clue how she’d pay for free health care for illegals.➡️ No clue how she’d pay for giving Social Security and Medicare to illegals.➡️ No clue how she’d pay for billions in student loan giveaways.➡️ No clue how she’d pay for the $100T Green New Scam.➡️ No clue how she’d pay for hundreds of billions in new foreign aid giveaways.This is why it's so important to VOTE TRUMP to stop the reckless spending! Reposted from @TeamTrump (Team Trump), 2024-08-20T01:44:35.589Z (UTC) (https://truthsocial.com/@TeamTrump/112991815309017903) > Kamala Harris can’t answer how she’d pay for ANY of her new liberal spending schemes that will BANKRUPT our country! > > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for $25K to every first-time home buyer (including illegals). > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for free health care for illegals. > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for giving Social Security and Medicare to illegals. > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for billions in student loan giveaways. > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for the $100T Green New Scam. > ➡️ No clue how she’d pay for hundreds of billions in new foreign aid giveaways. > > This is why it's so important to VOTE TRUMP to stop the reckless spending! - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/991/814/984/670/243/original/a8c19d81fca5b4e9.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:08), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > You were unveiled for economic policies last week, can you explain how you're going to pay for those and can you give us a sense of what other policies you want to unveil for them? Sure, well I mean you just look at it in terms of what we are talking about for example around children and the child tax credit and extending the EITC. That is at $6,000 for the first year of a child's life. The return on that investment in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for will be tremendous. We've seen it when we did it in the first year of our administration, we reduced child poverty by over 50%. So that's a lot of the work and then what we're doing in terms of the tax credits, we know that there's a great return on that investment. When we increase home ownership in America, what that means in terms of increasing the tax base, not too much a property tax base, what that does to fund schools, again return on investment. I think it's a mistake for any person who talks about public policy to not critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment. When you are strengthening neighborhoods, strengthening communities and in particular the economy of those communities and investi… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112991894535473782) 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This day as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/date/2024-08-20 - Day analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/date/2024-08-20 - The posts alone, without the day analysis: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-20.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. 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