# Post ts_109365122417665074

- Post ID: `ts_109365122417665074`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-18T13:48:53.832Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109365122417665074
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109365122417665074/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109365122417665074.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> …Many people, perhaps most, don’t pay tax on the use of a company car or company apartment. Whether they know or not, that’s just the way it is. It’s called “standards and practices,” referring, I presume, to the standards and practices of large numbers of people within the Country. Out of fairness, it has a legal meaning. It should be a point in the Manhattan D.A. case. Did the former D.A. Pay tax on the use of his car? In the meantime, Violent Crime in New York has reached an ALL TIME HIGH!

## Engagement

- Likes: 23,655
- Reposts: 5,936
- Replies: 1,194
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.429Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:26:40.696Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109365122417665074

### Context
This is the second post in a series about the Manhattan DA's case against Trump Organization entities (the Weisselberg fringe benefits case). Trump was at Mar-a-Lago (having just announced his 2024 campaign there on Nov 15). Posted at 13:48 UTC = 8:48 AM ET — morning hours, consistent with either Trump or aide authorship.

### Authorship
The post has a quasi-legal argumentative structure but retains Trump's voice: the parenthetical asides ("perhaps most," "I presume"), the pivot to violent crime, the ALL CAPS emphasis. The ellipsis opening suggests it's a continuation (possibly of a thread). The legal reasoning is simplified but coherent — likely Trump dictating or writing with some awareness of his legal team's arguments. The "standards and practices" framing appears to be a legal talking point he's paraphrasing.

### Psychological Analysis
The post is driven by **narcissistic injury** from the Manhattan DA prosecution. The defense strategy is multi-layered: (1) **normalization** — "everyone does this," (2) **tu quoque** — did the DA pay tax on his car?, (3) **deflection** — pivot to violent crime as the "real" issue the DA should focus on.

The whataboutism directed at the former DA (Cy Vance) and the violent crime pivot are classic displacement and rationalization defenses. The framing of tax practices as universal ("many people, perhaps most") is a distortion — most people don't have company apartments as untaxed compensation.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Normalization fallacy**: framing potential tax evasion as standard practice
- **Appeal to authority**: invoking "standards and practices" as quasi-legal terminology
- **Tu quoque/whataboutism**: redirecting to the DA's own tax practices
- **Red herring**: violent crime statistics to delegitimize prosecution priorities
- **ALL CAPS** for emotional emphasis on crime claim

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Violent Crime in New York has reached an ALL TIME HIGH" | **False** | NYC violent crime in 2022 was elevated compared to 2019 but far below 1990s peaks. In 1990, NYC recorded 2,245 murders; in 2022, approximately 438. Overall violent crime indices similarly well below historical highs. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Morning post (8:48 AM ET) — ambiguous timing
- Parenthetical asides typical of Trump's voice
- ALL CAPS usage
- Quasi-legal reasoning suggests legal team influence
- Ellipsis opening suggests thread continuation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA prosecution / Weisselberg case)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Framing self as representative of common people who all do the same thing
- Implying shared victimhood from prosecutorial overreach

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claiming violent crime is at 'ALL TIME HIGH' when it is not
- Framing potential tax evasion as normal universal practice

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Violent Crime in New York has reached an ALL TIME HIGH

**FALSE**

NYC violent crime in 2022 was elevated compared to 2019 but far below 1990s peaks. In 1990, NYC recorded 2,245 murders; in 2022, approximately 438. Overall violent crime indices similarly well below historical highs.

Sources: NYPD CompStat historical data; FBI UCR data

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- legal-defense (90%)
- manhattan-da (80%)
- whataboutism (70%)
- crime-fearmongering (60%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Launch Afterglow Shattered by Special Counsel Appointment**

Trump spent the day oscillating between celebrating his recent 2024 campaign announcement and reacting to mounting legal threats. The morning started with positive media shares, shifted into anxious defensiveness about the Trump Organization fraud trial, and then took a sharp turn when Jack Smith was named special counsel. An afternoon attack on the National Review appeared to be displaced aggression over the legal news, and the evening ended with a rapid-fire dump of supportive links -- an apparent attempt to shore up the narrative before a planned public statement at Mar-a-Lago.

Full digest for 2022-11-18: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 18). …Many people, perhaps most, don’t pay tax on the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109365122417665074
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "…Many people, perhaps most, don’t pay tax on the use of a..." Truth Social, 18 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109365122417665074. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "…Many people, perhaps most, don’t pay tax on the use of a...," Truth Social, November 18, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109365122417665074.

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