# Post ts_110706743287457530 - Post ID: `ts_110706743287457530` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-13T12:20:43.616Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706743287457530 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706743287457530/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110706743287457530.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110693354835838047 A MUST READ! ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110693354835838047 (2023-07-11T03:35:52.177Z (UTC)) > @NewtGingrich has a new book out, “March to the Majority.” Go behind the scenes and hear untold stories of the Republican Revolution in 1994! Get your copy today at: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/154600484X?tag=hacboogrosit-20 - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/693/354/772/611/008/original/7583de0e3550fe26.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 8,762 - Reposts: 2,253 - Replies: 410 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:13:58.415Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: RT of Own Post — "A MUST READ!" (2023-07-13) ## Parsing Note The raw post data concatenates the linked URL with the editorial caption: the URL is `https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110693354835838047` and the appended "A" initiates the caption "A MUST READ!" This appears to be a display/parsing artifact. The post is therefore a **self-retruth** — Trump amplifying his own earlier post (circa July 10–11, 2023) with the sole editorial addition of "A MUST READ!" The original post's content is unknown from the provided data. Substantive analysis is therefore severely constrained to the act of retruthing and its three-word caption. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Estimated local time:** UTC 12:20 → **08:20 AM EDT** (Trump in July typically resides at Bedminster Golf Club, NJ; Eastern Daylight Time = UTC−4). Morning hours (8–9 AM) fall in the transition zone between aide-staffed and self-authored posts. However, several markers favor authentic Trump: - "A MUST READ!" is a crystallized Trumpian idiom — imperative, all-caps, exclamatory, agentless, and entirely unhedged. This construction appears repeatedly in authenticated Trump posts across platforms. - Self-retruthing with a minimal superlative caption (rather than a crafted promotional paragraph) matches Trump's documented impulsive amplification style. - No scheduling markers, event announcements, or grammatically complex framing that would suggest aide authorship. **Confidence: Medium.** The hour is plausible for Trump's documented early-morning media consumption and posting window. --- ## Psychological State This post exemplifies **narcissistic supply-seeking via self-amplification**: directing one's follower base to consume earlier output by framing it as essential ("MUST") reading positions the author as both content producer and arbiter of importance. The loop is self-referential — Trump endorsing Trump. **Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No narcissistic injury is evident; the post carries no reactive or defensive valence. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. The directive is confident, expansive, and self-appointing. **Rage:** Absent. The post's affective tone is simply self-promotional. --- ## Broader July 13 Context The five other posts from this date reveal a hyperactive, agenda-setting session: - Two Breitbart RTs targeting left-wing figures ("Two Radical Left jerks, and their ice cream is TERRIBLE!" — likely Ben & Jerry's) and the White House cocaine case ("They know who it is!" — Secret Service closed the case on July 12 without identifying a suspect, but Trump signals certainty). - Breitbart RT endorsing Mark Levin's book ("GREAT, and so is he!") - Newsmax RT praising James Comer ("true fighter and PATRIOT") - This self-retruth ("A MUST READ!") The collective pattern: aggressive partisan media relay, ingroup validation, confident moral judgment, with no ambivalence. The cocaine-at-the-White-House case closure (July 12) appears to be the dominant political trigger for the day's activity — Trump's "They know who it is!" implies conspiratorial certainty despite the investigation's failure to produce a suspect. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Despite its brevity, "A MUST READ!" deploys recognizable rhetorical mechanics: - **Imperative construction:** "MUST" removes the reader's discretion — the content is framed as obligatory. - **Self-endorsement:** Presenting one's own prior content as essential reading is a dominance move — claiming authority over the epistemic landscape. - **Superlative-adjacent intensity:** "MUST" functions as a modal superlative, parallel to Trump's "GREAT," "BEST," "PERFECT" lexicon. No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators present. --- ## Cognitive Assessment The post provides insufficient text for meaningful language production analysis. A three-word caption reveals nothing about word-finding, syntactic complexity, or coherence. No markers can be assessed. Baseline comparison is inapplicable. --- ## Summary Determination This post is **clinically unremarkable in isolation** — a routine self-amplification retruth with a characteristic Trumpian caption. Summary omitted per protocol (no marked deviation from baseline, no clinically significant pattern unique to this post). Its interest lies primarily in the self-referential supply loop and as a data point in the July 13 posting cluster. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - 'A MUST READ!' matches crystallized Trump imperative-superlative idiom documented across platforms - Self-retruthing with minimal caption (not a crafted promotional paragraph) consistent with impulsive amplification style - 08:20 AM EDT at Bedminster — within Trump's documented early-morning media consumption and posting window - All-caps construction, no hedging, no grammatical complexity pointing away from aide authorship - No event announcement, scheduling, or polished prose markers of aide (Scavino) style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (self (own prior post)) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - imperative directive ('MUST READ') creates sense of personal obligation in follower - self-amplification loop positions Trump as both producer and validator of essential content ## Tags - self-amplification (90%) - supply-seeking (75%) - imperative-superlative (85%) - self-retruth (95%) - url-caption-concatenation-artifact (90%) - morning-media-amplification-session (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning Calm Gives Way to Afternoon Martyrdom as Indictment Looms** Trump posted from Bedminster in two distinct bursts -- a breezy morning round of allied media retweets and a more charged afternoon stretch that grew steadily hotter. The morning was all casual confidence, endorsing allies and mocking Ben & Jerry's, but the afternoon shifted toward legal grievance as he anticipated another indictment and reframed his legal troubles as patriotic sacrifice. He took shots at DeSantis along the way, relishing a Financial Times article about his rival's struggling campaign. The day's emotional peak came when he declared that being arrested by "sick government Thugs" would be his "great honor" -- converting legal jeopardy into a rallying cry before briefly pivoting to the White House cocaine investigation, which he quickly looped back to his own persecution narrative. Full digest for 2023-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 13). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110706743287457530 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." 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