# Post ts_110220629766655724

- Post ID: `ts_110220629766655724`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-04-18T15:55:39.945Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110220629766655724.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we are doing it again, SERIES 2, AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW. GO TO https://collecttrumpcards.com. Have fun!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/220/629/742/883/867/original/afc99bc5adc81892.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,654
- Reposts: 3,097
- Replies: 681
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.414Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T03:52:04.271Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Trump Digital Trading Cards Series 2 — April 18, 2023

### Overview

A brief commercial announcement promoting the second series of Trump's NFT digital trading cards. On its surface this is routine promotional content, but the psychological and contextual layers are notable: the post was published on the same day Trump sat for a seven-hour civil fraud deposition in New York, with the E. Jean Carroll battery/defamation trial nine days away. The product being hawked — idealized, superhero-rendering trading cards of the subject himself — makes this a psychologically rich artifact even absent overt emotionality.

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### Authorship

Local time for Trump on April 18, 2023 was approximately **11:55 AM EDT** (UTC-4). He was almost certainly in New York for the AG civil fraud deposition. Business-hours timing is the primary aide indicator. Additional markers: formal opener ("I am pleased to inform you"), clean spelling/grammar, tightly structured CTA. Against this: ALL CAPS emphasis on key product terms ("DIGITAL TRADING CARDS," "SERIES 2," "AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW"), the casual relational close ("Have fun!"), and the first-person possessive brag about "great success" all carry authentic Trump stylistic fingerprints. Assessment: **collaborative authorship** — aide-drafted template with Trump direction and/or light editing. Confidence: medium.

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### Personality (Multi-Level)

**Level 1 — Traits:**
The post is thin in behavioral signal, but what surfaces is high extraversion (assertive, positive-affect promotional energy), low agreeableness in the transactional sense (the "success" frame is self-referential), and low neuroticism — no visible anxiety despite the day's legal context, which itself is informative.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Agency motives dominate: the commercial framing constructs Trump as a successful entrepreneur whose products sell on the strength of his brand alone. The NFT product is psychologically meaningful: it monetizes idealized, heroic self-imagery — Trump as fighter-pilot, astronaut, superhero — a literal commodification of grandiose self-representation. Supply-seeking (validation through commercial success) is the primary motivational driver here.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** triumphant entrepreneur/winner
- **Contrasting other:** implicit (those who doubted Series 1 would succeed)
- **Identity claims:** popular, in-demand, capable of repeated success
- **Narrative sequence:** redemption-adjacent — "we tried, we succeeded, we're doing it again"

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### Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic Dynamics:**
The timing is the interpretive key. On a day when Trump spent seven hours defending allegedly fraudulent financial statements to New York AG investigators — the precise domain (financial success, asset valuations) most central to his self-concept — he posted a gleeful commercial for products built on heroic self-imagery. This pattern is consistent with **compensatory grandiosity**: a mobilization of supply-seeking behavior to counteract the deflating psychological experience of legal accountability. The "great success" framing reasserts the winner narrative at a moment when that narrative is under institutional challenge.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — no vulnerability signaling present, at least in this post.

**Defenses:**
- **Denial** (mild): The cheerful commercial tone produces no acknowledgment of the significant legal jeopardy context of the day.
- **Rationalization**: The success narrative ("due to the great success") constructs commercial demand as self-evident rather than marketing-manufactured.

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### Rhetorical Analysis

Simple and effective commercial rhetoric:
- **Urgency framing**: "AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW" compresses the decision window
- **Social proof/achievement framing**: "great success of my previously launched" — past success as present credibility
- **Direct CTA**: "GO TO [URL]" — unusually unadorned for political communication
- **Relational close**: "Have fun!" — softens transactional register, simulates intimacy with audience

No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS" | **Half True** | Series 1 NFTs (December 2022, 45,000 cards at $99 each) did sell out within hours of launch for approximately $4.45M gross revenue. From a sell-out/primary-market perspective the claim has basis. However, secondary market prices dropped significantly below issue price for most cards within weeks, meaning most buyers experienced losses. The claim is selectively true — accurate for the issuer, misleading for most purchasers. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Business-hours posting (11:55 AM EDT) — primary aide indicator
- Formal opener 'I am pleased to inform you' atypical of raw Trump posts
- Clean spelling and grammar throughout
- Structured CTA with URL placement
- ALL CAPS emphasis on product terms is authentic Trump stylistic signature

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Legal jeopardy context (civil fraud deposition same day))

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address ('Have fun!') simulates friendship with audience
- Shared success framing ('we are doing it again') recruits audience into his winner narrative

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS

**HALF TRUE**

Series 1 NFTs (December 2022, 45,000 cards at $99 each) did sell out within hours of launch for approximately $4.45M gross revenue. From a sell-out/primary-market perspective the claim has basis. However, secondary market prices dropped significantly below issue price for most cards within weeks, meaning most buyers experienced losses. The claim is selectively true — accurate for the issuer, misleading for most purchasers.

Sources: General knowledge of Trump NFT Series 1 December 2022 launch

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- NFT/digital trading cards (90%)
- supply-seeking (75%)
- compensatory grandiosity (70%)
- legal pressure context (80%)
- aide-collaborative authorship (65%)
- winner narrative (70%)

## That day

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

**Deposition Day Displacement: Rival Attacks and Trading Card Triumph Mask Legal Pressure**

Trump spent the day of his seven-hour civil fraud deposition with the New York Attorney General without ever mentioning it, instead channeling his energy into attacks on DeSantis and a brief dust-up over Elon Musk's loyalties. The mid-morning was the most heated stretch, with a pointed DeSantis takedown and a flash of anger at Musk, but the mood shifted by midday as Trump pivoted to promoting his second series of digital trading cards. He ended the day on a triumphant note, celebrating a $4.6 million sell-out and capping a pattern of displacement and compensatory self-promotion that defined the entire session.

Full digest for 2023-04-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, April 18). I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success..." Truth Social, 18 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success...," Truth Social, April 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724.

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