# Post ts_110327830376266644

- Post ID: `ts_110327830376266644`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-07T14:18:11.436Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110327830376266644/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110327830376266644.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> It’s time to beat the Radical Left at their own game. Money does talk—Anheuser-Busch now understands that. Great new Book by Wayne Allyn Root. Buy your copy today! https://www.amazon.com/Great-Patriot-BUY-cott-Book-Conservative/dp/099173372X

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/327/830/329/818/448/original/88a8c48a29dcd3a0.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,294
- Reposts: 3,248
- Replies: 237
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.412Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:40:29.047Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship Assessment

**UTC timestamp:** 14:18:11. On May 7, 2023, Trump was almost certainly in the New York metro area (Trump Tower or Bedminster), given the gag order/protective order proceedings in the NY hush money case peaking that week (protective order issued May 8). New York is EDT (UTC−4), placing local time at **10:18 AM** — solidly mid-morning business hours.

Multiple stylometric indicators converge on **aide composition**, most likely Dan Scavino or communications staff:
- Mid-morning business hours (10:18 AM local)
- No typos, no misspellings, grammatically complete sentences
- Commercial promotional structure ("Buy your copy today!")
- Precisely formatted Amazon product URL — suggests copy-paste from publisher materials
- No emotional volatility, no ALL CAPS, no reactive stream-of-consciousness
- Promotional rather than grievance-driven in orientation
- Structured three-part arc: principle ("money talks") → proof case (Bud Light) → call to action (book)

Trump's directional fingerprint is detectable in the Bud Light reference and "Radical Left" framing — themes consistent with his known preoccupations — but execution is aide-mediated.

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## Psychological Analysis

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No acute narcissistic injury is operative here. The Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney boycott (April 2023) had already run its initial phase and produced a visible conservative "win" — Anheuser-Busch stock fell, Bud Light was dethroned as top-selling beer. This post harvests that win as validation of conservative economic force, functioning primarily as supply-seeking: mobilizing the audience around a shared victory narrative.

**Narcissistic State:** Mildly grandiose. "Beat the Radical Left at their own game" casts the speaker as strategic architect of a culture war campaign with tactical sophistication — claiming credit for knowing how to fight. This is characteristically grandiose but subdued relative to baseline Trump posts (aide authorship dampens amplitude).

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- *Rationalization (neurotic):* Economic coercion of a corporation is reframed as mere tactical parity — "their own game" — neutralizing the ethical charge of organized boycotts by attributing the tactic to the outgroup first.
- *Splitting (immature):* Clean binary between "Radical Left" (monolithic aggressor) and implied Patriot consumers (righteous defenders). No middle ground exists in this framing.

**Motive Profile:**
- Dominant motive: **Power** — consumer mobilization as force projection; ability to damage corporations seen as an expression of political dominance
- Achievement: Secondary — claiming credit for the Bud Light outcome as evidence of conservative efficacy
- Communion: Absent — this is competitive, not affiliative

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## Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** General/Strategist — summoning an economic army, not fighting personally
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination-reversal arc — "They" (Radical Left) have weaponized money and consumer pressure; now "we" seize and redirect that same instrument. This is structurally a redemption arc from prior powerlessness.
- **Identity claims:** Results-oriented ("Anheuser-Busch now understands"), strategically sophisticated, winning
- **Contrasting other:** "Radical Left" as original economic aggressor being tactically outmaneuvered

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Techniques employed:**
- *Tribal identity markers:* "Radical Left" (outgroup threat), "Patriot" (book title/ingroup signal), "Great" (aspirational adjective tied to MAGA vocabulary)
- *Proof by example:* Bud Light cited as empirical evidence that consumer pressure works — creates inductive proof for the book's thesis
- *Implied causation:* "Money does talk — Anheuser-Busch now understands that" frames the boycott as a complete lesson delivered and received, compressing a complex corporate crisis into a tidy pedagogical moment
- *Commercial call-to-action:* "Buy your copy today!" — overt mobilization toward economic action
- *Validation loop construction:* Boycott worked → buy this book → replicate model → more wins. Audience is invited into an ongoing campaign
- *Embedded urgency:* "It's time" implies lateness, calling audience from inaction

No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric. Danger level: **none**.

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## Cognitive Assessment

Post is brief, aide-authored promotional copy. Sentence structure is simple and serviceable. No word-finding difficulties, tangentiality, or perseveration detectable. Meaningful baseline comparison is not possible on content of this type and authorship profile — aide-mediated posts do not reflect the subject's real-time cognitive output.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Anheuser-Busch now understands that money talks (implying the Bud Light boycott caused measurable harm)" | **Mostly True** | Following the April 2023 Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney partnership, Bud Light experienced its largest volume decline in brand history, dropping from the #1 selling beer in the US. Anheuser-Busch stock fell approximately 15-17% over subsequent months. The boycott effect was real and significant. Minor overstatement in implying total causation to organized conservative action vs. broader media amplification and retailer hesitation. |
| "Wayne Allyn Root authored a book titled 'The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book'" | **True** | Book title is visible in the Amazon URL slug ('Great-Patriot-BUY-cott-Book-Conservative') and Wayne Allyn Root is a documented conservative commentator and author. |

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Danger / Escalation Assessment

**None.** Pure consumer activism promotion. No identified human targets, no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism pattern. The post channels grievance energy into commercial activity — a domesticated rather than explosive outlet.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- 10:18 AM EDT — mid-morning business hours
- No typos or misspellings
- Grammatically complete, polished sentences
- Structured three-part commercial arc: principle → proof case → call to action
- Precisely formatted Amazon product URL suggests copy-paste from publisher materials

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Bud Light/Anheuser-Busch boycott outcome (April 2023))

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 5%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared victory framing — audience invited to claim collective win
- Call to action — audience mobilized into ongoing campaign
- Implied membership in strategic resistance movement

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Anheuser-Busch now understands that money talks (implying the Bud Light boycott caused measurable harm)

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Following the April 2023 Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney partnership, Bud Light experienced its largest volume decline in brand history, dropping from the #1 selling beer in the US. Anheuser-Busch stock fell approximately 15-17% over subsequent months. The boycott effect was real and significant. Minor overstatement in implying total causation to organized conservative action vs. broader media amplification and retailer hesitation.

Sources: General knowledge — widely documented corporate/market event, April-May 2023

> Wayne Allyn Root authored a book titled 'The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book'

**TRUE**

Book title is visible in the Amazon URL slug ('Great-Patriot-BUY-cott-Book-Conservative') and Wayne Allyn Root is a documented conservative commentator and author.

Sources: Amazon URL slug in post

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Tags

- consumer-activism (90%)
- boycott-buycott (85%)
- aide-authored (85%)
- book-promotion (80%)
- Radical-Left-framing (75%)
- supply-seeking (60%)
- culture-war (70%)
- economic-mobilization (65%)

## That day

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

**A quiet Sunday of self-promotion and grievance maintenance, bookended by poll victory laps**

A low-key Sunday with nine posts spread across normal waking hours, mostly spent boosting his own earlier content and seeking validation through poll numbers and rally mythology. The only notable flare came from a brief pivot into persecution territory, amplifying a spokesperson's framing of federal investigations as corrupt personal targeting. He ignored the day's major world events — including the King Charles III coronation and a deadly crash near a Texas migrant shelter — in favor of routine self-promotion, a book plug, and a thank-you to his son Eric.

Full digest for 2023-05-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 7). It’s time to beat the Radical Left at their own... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110327830376266644
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It’s time to beat the Radical Left at their own game. Money..." Truth Social, 7 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110327830376266644. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It’s time to beat the Radical Left at their own game. Money...," Truth Social, May 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110327830376266644.

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