# Post ts_110725381186085579

- Post ID: `ts_110725381186085579`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-16T19:20:35.379Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110725381186085579
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110725381186085579/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110725381186085579.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before—and under our leadership, the Forgotten Man and Woman Will Be Forgotten No Longer! With your help, your love, and your vote, we will put AMERICA FIRST, and WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/725/381/167/813/366/original/f380c8db84051002.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 16,300
- Reposts: 4,598
- Replies: 681
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.405Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:34:11.317Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-07-16T19:20:35Z

## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Aide-authored (confidence: high)**

Converting UTC 19:20 to Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) yields **3:20 PM ET** — squarely within business hours. Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his customary July residence). The post exhibits zero orthographic errors, perfectly structured parallel grammar, clean URL integration, and consists entirely of pre-existing campaign slogans assembled without a single spontaneous personal touch. This is coordinated communications output, most likely from Dan Scavino or the Trump campaign comms team.

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## Contextual Trigger

The proximate trigger is almost certainly **Biden's Q2 fundraising announcement** (July 14): $72M raised, approximately double Trump's $35M quarterly total, with $97M cash on hand. A superior opponent fundraising number creates pressure for a compensatory campaign mobilization push. The post serves as a financial solicitation dressed in populist clothing — the appended `donaldjtrump.com` URL confirms the operational intent.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

Because this post is aide-authored, trait inferences about Trump personally are attenuated. The *constructed* persona on display reflects:

- **High Extraversion** (assertive, rallying, expansive positive affect)
- **Low Agreeableness** (zero modesty; entitlement assumed rather than argued)
- **Low Openness** (rigid recycling of established slogans, no novel framing)
- **Low Neuroticism** (no rage, no vulnerability — entirely flat emotional register)

The post is emotionally uncomplicated and operationally optimized rather than psychologically revealing.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.8)**
The post is fundamentally about asserting inevitable leadership: "under our leadership" presupposes the outcome it is soliciting. The structure is command-as-prediction.

**Secondary motive: Communion (0.5)**
"Your help, your love, your vote" — communion language appears instrumentalized here. Intimacy is deployed as a conversion mechanism rather than expressed as genuine connection.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self:* Inevitable leader of a historical popular uprising
- *Audience:* Devotees whose love and votes are owed
- *World:* Divided between elites who forgot ordinary people and the movement that remembers them

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Hero/Savior-Restorer

**Narrative sequence:** Redemption — the contamination (forgotten Americans) is framed as already reversing under Trump's leadership. The arc is contamination-in-progress being interrupted by the hero's return.

**Identity claims:**
- Champion of the historically overlooked working class
- Leader of an unprecedented popular awakening
- The vessel through which America reclaims its greatness

**Contrasting Other:** Implicit — the unnamed forces that "forgot" the working class (establishment, elites, Democrats). Notably absent is any specific enemy, which is unusual for Trump content and further confirms aide authorship.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post is a compact anthology of proven populist devices:

1. **Nixon's "Silent Majority" (1969):** Appropriated to imply a hidden popular mandate suppressed by media/elites
2. **FDR's "Forgotten Man" (1932):** Ironic borrowing from the New Deal era, reframed as anti-progressive
3. **Anaphora ("your help, your love, your vote"):** Escalating intimacy treats political action as personal devotion
4. **Inevitability frame ("rising like never before"):** Bandwagon appeal disguised as observation

The most psychologically notable device is the intimacy escalation: *help* (instrumental) → *love* (emotional) → *vote* (transactional). This sequence conditions the audience to experience voting as an act of love rather than civic calculation — a sophisticated parasocial bonding mechanism.

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## Clinical Indicators

| Domain | Assessment |
|--------|-----------|
| Narcissistic state | Grandiose (flat/performative) |
| Trigger | Supply-seeking; probable response to Biden fundraising superiority |
| Rage | Absent |
| Primary defense | Idealization of movement; rationalization of leadership claim |
| Malignant narcissism | Low across all quadrants in this post |
| Cognitive markers | Not assessable (aide-authored) |
| Danger level | None |

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## Longitudinal Context

Same-day posts show a pattern: Trump amplified several favorable media clips (Gingrich quotes, Fox News segments) throughout the day, culminating in this campaign CTA post. This is a routine operational sequence — media amplification builds perceived momentum, then the campaign post harvests it for donations. No deviation from established baseline behavior patterns for this operational mode.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before" | **Unverifiable** | A rhetorical assertion framed as empirical observation. Trump led the GOP primary by wide margins in mid-July 2023, but trailed Biden in general election polling. 'Like never before' is inherently unverifiable as a superlative claim. |
| "Implied continuous leadership ('under our leadership')" | **Mostly False** | Trump was a private citizen at this date, not holding any governmental office. He was also a criminal defendant (federal documents case indictment, June 2023). The framing of ongoing leadership is a rhetorical presupposition, not a factual description. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 8%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 15:20 ET (business hours, EDT = UTC-4; Trump likely at Bedminster NJ in mid-July)
- Zero typos or grammatical errors
- Polished, structured campaign syntax
- Fundraising URL appended — hallmark of coordinated comms operation
- Pure slogan concatenation with no spontaneous personal content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Biden campaign's record Q2 fundraising announcement ($72M, approximately double Trump's total), reported July 14)

Sentiment: +0.75

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address ('your help, your love, your vote') simulating intimate relationship with audience
- Inclusive pronoun shift ('we will') dissolving boundary between leader and follower
- Love-bombing language ('your love') creating emotional reciprocity bond

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before

**UNVERIFIABLE**

A rhetorical assertion framed as empirical observation. Trump led the GOP primary by wide margins in mid-July 2023, but trailed Biden in general election polling. 'Like never before' is inherently unverifiable as a superlative claim.

Sources: General polling knowledge, mid-2023

> Implied continuous leadership ('under our leadership')

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump was a private citizen at this date, not holding any governmental office. He was also a criminal defendant (federal documents case indictment, June 2023). The framing of ongoing leadership is a rhetorical presupposition, not a factual description.

Sources: Public record

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- campaign-boilerplate (90%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- fundraising-solicitation (85%)
- silent-majority (80%)
- forgotten-man (80%)
- maga-sloganeering (85%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- grandiose-maintenance (65%)
- parasocial-bonding (75%)
- populist-framing (80%)

## That day

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

**Rally High Meets Grievance Gravity: ACTCon Supply Fuels 34-Post Marathon Before Club for Growth Triggers Afternoon Rage**

Trump rode the afterglow of his Turning Point Action conference speech all day, flooding his feed with rally clips, media appearances, and favorable coverage. The highlight came when straw poll results showed him at 85.7%, prompting gleeful ridicule of DeSantis and Christie. But the supply high couldn't hold — within 30 minutes he pivoted to an angry attack on Club for Growth for spending Republican money against him, calling it a "DEATH WISH." The day ended with a barrage of aide-posted links amplifying rally themes, including dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants and opponents that maintained an elevated but controlled threat level throughout.

Full digest for 2023-07-16: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 16). The Great Silent Majority is rising like never... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110725381186085579
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before—and..." Truth Social, 16 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110725381186085579. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before—and...," Truth Social, July 16, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110725381186085579.

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