# Post ts_110045020046373515 - Post ID: `ts_110045020046373515` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-03-18T15:35:48.265Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110045020046373515 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110045020046373515/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110045020046373515.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > If you are doing poorly, as so many of you are, do not send anything. If you are doing well, which was made possible through the great policies of the Trump Administration, send your contribution to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/. We have to take back our Country and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/045/019/985/485/121/original/29914a66e2acd240.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 37,252 - Reposts: 10,240 - Replies: 1,974 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.417Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:34:16.318Z (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 aide-authored fundraising appeal (posted 11:35 AM EDT, polished grammar, zero misspellings) is clinically significant primarily as a contextual artifact: it appears within a same-session posting sequence that includes raw, unmediated crisis content calling for protests against a predicted arrest. The juxtaposition reveals a characteristic narcissistic adaptation — converting existential threat into financial supply-seeking. The conditional framing ("if doing poorly, don't send; if doing well, that's from my policies") is rhetorically sophisticated, encoding identity-affirming contribution while attributing prosperity asymmetrically to Trump's record and leaving hardship causally diffuse. The attribution distortion (Trump-era prosperity claimed in March 2023 despite his term ending in recession) constitutes mild gaslighting consistent with the broader election-denial reality architecture elaborated in adjacent posts. Danger is rated elevated not from this post's specific content but from its mobilization function within a session simultaneously calling for protests — financial support operationalized as participation in political combat. Cognitive baseline assessment is limited by aide authorship; adjacent authentic posts in the session show phonemic-approximate misspellings ("STOLLEN," "BOARDERS") and extreme emotional dysregulation worthy of longitudinal tracking. ## Analytical Commentary: March 18, 2023 Fundraising Appeal ### Authorship Attribution This post stands in stark tonal discontinuity from the adjacent same-day content. The posts bracketing this appeal—dripping with ALL-CAPS dysregulation, spelling errors ("STOLLEN," "BOARDERS"), and apocalyptic imagery—bear the hallmarks of authentic, unmediated Trump. By contrast, this fundraising appeal exhibits polished grammar, deliberate conditional structure, complete sentences, zero misspellings, and a clear call-to-action funnel. Posting time converts to approximately 11:35 AM EDT (Daylight Saving Time began March 12; Mar-a-Lago is Eastern), squarely within business hours. These features collectively indicate aide authorship—most likely Scavino or a communications staffer—with Trump providing thematic direction (MAGA tagline, "take back our Country"). ### Psychological Dynamics The most clinically notable feature is the **crisis-to-cash conversion**: within the same posting session that announced Trump's anticipated arrest and demanded protests, this appeal harvests financial supply from that very anxiety. This is not dissonant to Trump's characteristic adaptations; it is *their expression*. The predicted arrest is transformed from a vulnerability into a mobilization asset. The **conditional framing** ("if you are doing poorly... do not send anything") functions as a sophisticated manipulation mechanism. It signals empathy toward struggling followers while simultaneously encoding a transactional identity: financial contribution becomes a marker of success *attributable to Trump's policies*. The implicit message: your prosperity is mine to credit, your hardship is someone else's fault. The **attribution asymmetry** is stark and revealing. Hardship is ambient, unnamed, and unattributed in this post (though the adjacent posts blame the radical left, Biden, Soros, and illegal immigrants). Prosperity is explicitly anchored to "the great policies of the Trump Administration." This split attribution—a form of idealization/devaluation applied to systemic outcomes rather than persons—reflects Level-2 narcissistic schematic processing: the self as originating cause of all good, external forces as originating cause of all bad. ### Narrative Identity This post embeds Trump firmly in the **Restorer/Savior** archetype. He is the source of prior prosperity; he is the necessary agent for its return. The "take back our Country" phrase, within the same session as explicit arrest-prediction posts calling for protests, implicitly fuses financial support with political combat—framing donation as participation in a righteous struggle rather than merely funding a campaign. The **contamination sequence** is operative across the session: prosperity was achieved (Trump era) → prosperity was stolen (radical left, stolen election) → restoration requires action (donation + protest). This three-beat mythological narrative is structurally identical to his broader rhetorical universe. ### Rhetorical Analysis The conditional if/then structure creates a **false dichotomy**: it implies the population is simply divided into "doing poorly" (whose condition is ambient) and "doing well" (whose condition is Trumpian). The device elegantly sidesteps any acknowledgment that current economic conditions might be shaped by post-Trump policy. The appeal to collective ownership of national recovery ("We have to take back our Country") activates communal identity while the donation link monetizes individual anxiety. ### Cognitive Assessment Because this post is assessed as primarily aide-authored, it contributes minimal signal to longitudinal cognitive analysis. The adjacent authentic posts, however, show notable markers: perseverative capitalization, phonemic-approximate misspellings ("STOLLEN," "BOARDERS"), and somewhat loosened associative chains. These will be flagged in the baseline tracking. ### Danger Assessment This specific post rates **elevated** rather than high or critical, primarily by contextual contamination from the adjacent posts calling for protests amid arrest predictions. The phrase "take back our Country" carries rhetorical adjacency to mobilization language, and in the context of the same-session protest calls, functions as a soft amplifier of that frame—even in a fundraising register. ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "doing well, which was made possible through the great policies of the Trump Administration" | **Mostly False** | Trump's term concluded with the U.S. in recession (2020 saw worst annual unemployment since 1940, GDP contraction of 3.4% for the year). March 2023 economic conditions reflect post-pandemic recovery and Biden-era fiscal policy. While pre-COVID Trump-era growth was real, causal attribution of 2023 prosperity exclusively to Trump administration policies is false. As political opinion it is unverifiable, but as empirical causation claim it is mostly false. | | "We have to take back our Country" | **Unverifiable** | Premise rests on the stolen-election narrative (elaborated in adjacent posts). The underlying factual claim — that the 2020 election was stolen — has been adjudicated false by courts, election officials, and the Department of Justice. As a political sentiment the claim is opinion; as an embedded factual assertion it is false. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posts at 11:35 AM EDT — business hours for Mar-a-Lago/Eastern timezone - Zero misspellings or typos, contrasting sharply with adjacent authentic posts ('STOLLEN', 'BOARDERS') - Deliberate conditional if/then structure atypical of Trump's stream-of-consciousness style - Complete, polished sentences with no emotional ALL-CAPS passages - Fundraising-optimized call-to-action format with direct URL ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Predicted arrest crisis being monetized) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Conditional release from obligation creates false intimacy ('I understand your hardship') - Financial contribution framed as identity-affirming success signal - Collective ownership language ('We have to take back our Country') bonds donor to political combat narrative ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Take back our Country' language contextually adjacent to same-session protest calls and arrest predictions - Financial mobilization in service of political combat narrative that has already generated protest incitement in adjacent posts - Crisis framing ('DYING,' 'ANIMALS,' 'KILLING') in surrounding posts provides ambient threat context even when this post is measured in tone ### Gaslighting - Attribution of follower prosperity to Trump administration inverts causal record (Trump term ended in recession) - Implicit suggestion that current hardship is caused by unnamed present forces — consistent with broader election-denial reality rewrite - Structural denial: crisis-to-donation conversion implicitly reframes legal jeopardy as political persecution requiring follower action ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > doing well, which was made possible through the great policies of the Trump Administration **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump's term concluded with the U.S. in recession (2020 saw worst annual unemployment since 1940, GDP contraction of 3.4% for the year). March 2023 economic conditions reflect post-pandemic recovery and Biden-era fiscal policy. While pre-COVID Trump-era growth was real, causal attribution of 2023 prosperity exclusively to Trump administration policies is false. As political opinion it is unverifiable, but as empirical causation claim it is mostly false. Sources: BLS unemployment data 2020; BEA GDP Q2 2020; CBO economic projections > We have to take back our Country **UNVERIFIABLE** Premise rests on the stolen-election narrative (elaborated in adjacent posts). The underlying factual claim — that the 2020 election was stolen — has been adjudicated false by courts, election officials, and the Department of Justice. As a political sentiment the claim is opinion; as an embedded factual assertion it is false. Sources: 60+ court rulings rejecting election fraud claims 2020-2021; DOJ/DHS joint election integrity statement November 2020 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - fundraising (90%) - aide-authored (80%) - crisis-monetization (85%) - narcissistic-supply-seeking (75%) - attribution-distortion (70%) - MAGA-identity-signaling (65%) - election-denial-embedding (60%) - savior-archetype (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **72 Hours Before Predicted Arrest, Trump Deploys Full Mobilization Rhetoric Mirroring Pre-January 6 Pattern** Trump spent the entire day consumed by the Manhattan DA investigation, posting nothing about any other topic despite a global banking crisis and domestic flooding. A quiet 1 AM link share gave way to an explosive early-morning rage burst calling America "third world and dying," accusing the DA of corruption, and predicting his own arrest for Tuesday. The day escalated into repeated calls to "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK" and "PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST" with no peaceful qualifier — language that structurally mirrors his pre-January 6 communications. A polished fundraising appeal dropped into the middle of the crisis posts, revealing the operational machinery converting existential threat into donor mobilization. Full digest for 2023-03-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-18/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 18). If you are doing poorly, as so many of you are,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110045020046373515 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If you are doing poorly, as so many of you are, do not send..." Truth Social, 18 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110045020046373515. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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