# Post ts_110221371906813998 - Post ID: `ts_110221371906813998` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-04-18T19:04:24.105Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110220629766655724 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110220629766655724 (2023-04-18T15:55:39.945Z (UTC)) > 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! - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/220/629/742/883/867/original/afc99bc5adc81892.jpg ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/221/371/759/814/806/original/765217a2c653897b.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 11,298 - Reposts: 2,643 - Replies: 638 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.414Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T03:52:49.923Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social RT with Video — April 18, 2023 (19:04 UTC) ## Content Overview This post consists solely of a retruth (RT) of Trump's own earlier post (ID: 110220629766655724) with a QuickTime video attachment (.qt format). There is no original authorial text. The RT'd post is from the same account, making this a self-repost of video content. The Truth Social platform returned a JavaScript-gated page, preventing retrieval of the original post's text. Substantive psychological and rhetorical analysis is therefore severely constrained; conclusions must be drawn from contextual and structural evidence rather than textual content. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Posting time:** 19:04 UTC = **3:04 PM EDT** (Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago or New York, both EDT on April 18, 2023). Business-hours posting (3:04 PM local), combined with a formatted video attachment and zero original text, is strongly consistent with **aide-mediated posting**. Authentic Trump posts tend to cluster in late-night/early-morning windows and include idiosyncratic punctuation, capitalization, and stream-of-consciousness prose — none of which is present here because there is no prose at all. The use of a `.qt` (QuickTime) video file is consistent with professionally produced or curated media content, further suggesting coordinated staff activity rather than spontaneous posting. This post pattern resembles routine content distribution rather than impulsive personal expression. **Confidence:** Medium-low (structural evidence only; content inaccessible). --- ## Contextual Framing April 18, 2023 was a high-volume posting day. The surrounding posts establish a clear thematic cluster: - **Trading Cards Series 2** commercial announcement - **Attacks on DeSantis** ("DeSanctus") over Disney dispute - **Elon Musk relationship revisionism** (claiming Musk is "mending fences") - **Jim Jordan endorsement signal** Given the QuickTime video attachment and the self-RT pattern, this post most plausibly represents a **video promotional for Trading Cards Series 2** or a video version of the DeSantis attack/political commentary — both consistent with the afternoon content push visible across this day's posting cluster. The Trading Cards launch was the most commercially urgent item on this day's agenda. --- ## Psychological Assessment (Constrained) Without textual content, deep psychological inference is inappropriate. Structurally, the self-RT-with-video pattern is consistent with: - **Supply-seeking / maintenance behavior**: amplifying promotional content to maximize reach and monetization - **Achievement motive expression** (Level 2 characteristic adaptation): the Trading Cards re-launch is framed in surrounding posts as a commercial triumph, and this video distribution extends that narrative - No rage, injury response, or vulnerability indicators detectable The absence of content renders malignant narcissism sub-component scoring, cognitive marker analysis, and defense mechanism identification methodologically invalid for this post in isolation. --- ## Limitations Note This post is analytically thin due to: (1) no original text; (2) inaccessible RT'd source content; (3) inaccessible video media. Future longitudinal work should resolve the RT'd post content via archival sources (Wayback Machine, third-party Truth Social scrapers) and review the video for visual/rhetorical analysis. Any conclusions drawn here are provisional and structural rather than content-based. --- ## Summary **Not clinically significant in isolation.** This post is a content-distribution event — a self-RT of video media during a busy commercial-and-political posting afternoon. Aide involvement is the most parsimonious explanation given the timing and format. No danger indicators, no detectable psychological distress signals, no rhetorical analysis possible without content. The post functions as logistical amplification within a broader April 18 messaging campaign. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 3:04 PM EDT — business hours, not Trump's typical late-night window - Zero original text — no stream-of-consciousness, no capitalization patterns, no typos - Professional QuickTime video attachment suggests coordinated media distribution - Self-RT format consistent with staff-managed content amplification ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: 0.00 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Self-amplification via retruth to maximize reach ## Tags - self-retruth (100%) - video-content (80%) - aide-likely (70%) - content-inaccessible (100%) - maintenance-post (60%) ## 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). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 18 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, April 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998. ## 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 post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_110221371906813998 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_110221371906813998 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_110221371906813998 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-18 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110221371906813998.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._