# Post ts_110316450428483928 - Post ID: `ts_110316450428483928` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-05-05T14:04:07.212Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110316450428483928 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110316450428483928/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110316450428483928.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Leading big in all polls, including against Biden. Thank you! ## Engagement - Likes: 16,887 - Reposts: 3,507 - Replies: 552 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.412Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:43:04.687Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_110316450428483928 — May 5, 2023 ## Overview A minimal two-sentence post functioning as a routine grandiose supply-seeking dispatch. At 12 words total, it is among the more compressed posts in the corpus, yet its rhetorical mechanics are highly efficient. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post activates **high extraversion** (assertiveness, positive affect) and **low agreeableness** in its implicit dismissal of opponents. Neuroticism is notably *absent* here—this is Trump in an elevated, expansive mood, not a reactive or threatened one. Conscientiousness and Openness leave no significant signature in a post this brief. Dominant facet: **assertiveness combined with status-dominance expression**. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations The operative motive is **status/power**. The post makes no communion appeal beyond the performative 'Thank you!'—which itself is instrumentalized as a parasocial bonding device rather than genuine reciprocity. The schema on display: *I am the dominant figure; my popularity is self-evident; my audience validates my position.* --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Inevitable winner, returning champion - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc (post-2020 loss comeback is implicit) - **Contrasting other:** Biden, named explicitly as the opponent being bested - **Identity claim:** Poll leader, broadly popular, defeating the incumbent The redemption narrative is implicit but structurally present: the subject lost the 2020 election and is now asserting he leads against the same opponent. The post functions as a chapter marker in the comeback story. --- ## Level 4 & Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Grandiose. No vulnerability or persecution present in this post (contrast sharply with the same-day posts invoking 'Gestapo force' and 'rubber stamp' courts—the intra-day oscillation between grandiose and persecuted states is the more clinically significant longitudinal observation). **Trigger:** Supply-seeking, maintenance. No narcissistic injury is apparent. **Rage:** Absent. **Defenses:** Mild distortion—collapsing mixed polling data (general election polls vs. Biden in May 2023 were not uniformly favorable) into the absolute 'leading big in *all* polls.' --- ## Cognitive Status Post is too brief for meaningful complexity assessment. Sentence structure is simple but intentionally so—this is a stylistic register, not a cognitive marker. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or tangentiality detectable. Consistent with baseline. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis 'Leading big in all polls' simultaneously: (1) establishes dominance hierarchy, (2) forecloses counter-narrative via universalizing claim, and (3) frames electoral outcome as already determined. The 'Thank you!' closes the parasocial loop—supporters are positioned as co-agents of his success, deepening tribal investment. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Leading big in all polls, including against Biden" | **Half True** | In May 2023 Trump held a dominant lead in Republican primary polling (~30-40 pts over DeSantis). However, general election matchup polls against Biden were mixed and largely within margins of error. 'All polls' is a materially false universalization, and 'leading big' against Biden misrepresents the competitive polling picture. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **None.** This post contains no eliminationist language, dehumanization, target identification, or mobilization signals. --- ## Authorship Lean authentic (0.65). Timing (10:04 AM EDT) is ambiguous but not ruling. The phrasing register—'big,' the brevity, the 'Thank you!'—is characteristic of unmediated Trump. Aides typically produce more substantive, multi-clause messaging for this hour. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 'Leading big' is characteristic Trumpian hyperbole phrasing - 'Thank you!' closing is a signature Trump parasocial device - Post timing 10:04 AM EDT falls in business hours (ambiguous zone) - Brevity and emotional gratification suggest impulsive personal posting - No aide-typical features: no event announcement, no polished multi-clause structure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (polling data) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Victory lap invitation ('Thank you!') positions followers as co-authors of polling success, binding them to his electoral identity - Declarative certainty ('leading big') constructs shared reality of inevitable triumph ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Leading big in all polls, including against Biden **HALF TRUE** In May 2023 Trump held a dominant lead in Republican primary polling (~30-40 pts over DeSantis). However, general election matchup polls against Biden were mixed and largely within margins of error. 'All polls' is a materially false universalization, and 'leading big' against Biden misrepresents the competitive polling picture. Sources: General knowledge of May 2023 polling landscape Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply_seeking (90%) - grandiose_state (85%) - polling_claim (80%) - parasocial_bonding (75%) - redemption_narrative (60%) - intraday_state_oscillation (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Returning Prophet-Warrior: Transatlantic Re-Entry Triggers Acute Legal Persecution Cascade** Trump returned from a European golf trip and immediately shifted from warm nostalgia about his Irish and Scottish properties into a sustained barrage against the DOJ, FBI, and Jack Smith investigation. The morning was dominated by increasingly heated posts comparing federal investigators to the Gestapo and warning supporters "they are coming after you." The afternoon cooled with book endorsements, foreign leader praise, and attacks on DeSantis, but the day closed with a raw two-word outburst about election interference. Throughout, the pattern was familiar: legal pressure produced anger, which was briefly soothed by polling numbers and flattery, then flared again. Full digest for 2023-05-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 5). Leading big in all polls, including against... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110316450428483928 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Leading big in all polls, including against Biden. Thank..." Truth Social, 5 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110316450428483928. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Leading big in all polls, including against Biden. 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