# Post ts_110775737075975647 - Post ID: `ts_110775737075975647` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-25T16:46:45.282Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110775737075975647 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110775737075975647/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110775737075975647.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Five years ago, it was my great honor to sign the incredible “Right to Try Act,” where people who are terminally or seriously ill are allowed to try promising medicines and treatments that are not yet approved for use. So incredible! Politicians have been trying for 52 years to get this approved by Congress, but to no avail. I got it done. Thousands of lives have been saved! ## Engagement - Likes: 13,961 - Reposts: 3,920 - Replies: 740 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.405Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T06:22:08.220Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post represents a textbook instance of maintenance-mode narcissistic supply-seeking during campaign season, triggered by the approximate fifth anniversary of the Right to Try Act signing. The psychological state is securely grandiose — expansive and self-satisfied, with no reactive edge suggesting narcissistic injury. The post's defining structural move is a compressed redemption narrative: 52 years of collective congressional failure resolved by a single decisive actor. This is Trump's canonical self-mythology — the outsider who cuts through institutional paralysis and delivers. Two factual claims warrant clinical note as distortions rather than mere spin. The "52 years" framing inflates the legislative history significantly; the modern Right to Try movement dates primarily to 2014. More significantly, "thousands of lives have been saved" is unsupported by documented utilization data — the federal pathway saw limited uptake, with the FDA's pre-existing expanded access program handling the vast majority of cases. These distortions function defensively: they are not calculated lies so much as grandiosity-driven magnitude inflation that reshapes reality to match internal self-narrative. Authorship is likely mixed — business-hours posting and coherent structure suggest light aide involvement, but the characteristic vocabulary ('incredible' x2, 'I got it done') bears strong authentic fingerprints. No cognitive concerns; language is at or slightly above baseline complexity. No danger indicators. The post is notable primarily as a clean specimen of legacy-reinforcement rhetoric in advance of the 2024 primary. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-07-25 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely mixed authorship (authentic core, possible light aide polish) — Medium confidence** The post was published at **12:46 PM EDT** (Trump's probable location: Bedminster, NJ, his customary summer residence). This falls within business hours, a mild signal favoring aide composition. However, several micro-linguistic features are strongly associated with authenticated Trump posts: - **"incredible" appears twice**, including as a standalone exclamatory sentence ("So incredible!") — this redundant intensifier pattern is a high-frequency Trump verbal tic documented across verified authentic posts - **"I got it done"** — blunt, first-person, declarative; this exact phrase structure appears repeatedly in authenticated Trump communications - **Exclamatory sentence fragments** ("So incredible!") are characteristic of Trump's spontaneous register The overall coherence — a clean three-beat narrative with no dropped threads — leans slightly toward aide composition or editing. Most plausible interpretation: Trump dictated the substance and key phrases; staff lightly organized and cleaned without altering his vocabulary. --- ## Contextual Framing This post appears within a cluster of same-day reposts of favorable media articles (American Thinker defense of Trump, Daily Mail on Hunter Biden, Spectator piece on the "two-tiered justice system"). The Right to Try post is the only original content in the visible feed. It functions as a content break from adversarial/defensive material — an affirmative legacy claim inserted into an otherwise reactive information stream. The known legal context (Judge Hellerstein's July 19 denial of Trump's bid to move the hush money case to federal court) provides a plausible background injury that may be driving elevated supply-seeking. The post does not reference this legal setback, but its timing within days of a legal defeat is consistent with the pattern of compensatory self-aggrandizement following narcissistic injury. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger and State The surface trigger is commemorative: the approximate 5th anniversary of the Right to Try Act signing (May 30, 2018). The post's grandiose, expansive tone is consistent with a **securely grandiose narcissistic state** — no wounded quality, no hypervigilance, no thinly veiled anxiety. The campaign context (active 2024 primary) adds an instrumental dimension: this is legacy-building for electoral consumption. However, the broader context of simultaneous legal adversity (hush money case, federal indictments being processed) makes it difficult to rule out a **compensatory function**: when external reality attacks the grandiose self-narrative, the psyche may generate counter-balancing achievement content. This would be consistent with the **defense mechanism of distortion** — reshaping reality to preserve internal coherence. ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (High, 0.82)**: Assertive, self-promoting, dominant affect throughout - **Agreeableness (Low, 0.22)**: Implicit self-elevation through others' failure; no humility or acknowledgment of collaborative achievement - **Conscientiousness (Moderate, 0.55)**: Achievement-focused framing, but the post is self-referential rather than task-oriented - **Neuroticism (Low-moderate, 0.28)**: Calm, celebratory state; minimal anxious hostility - **Openness (Low, 0.18)**: Simple, binary framing; no intellectual complexity; values rigidity ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Agency/Achievement (0.88)**: The post is almost exclusively organized around personal power and efficacy - **Communion (0.15)**: The terminally ill patients function as emotional props rather than subjects of genuine empathy; they are instrumentalized as evidence of Trump's impact - **Schema**: Self = singular historical agent; Others (politicians) = ineffective collective; World = a domain of problems awaiting Trump's decisive intervention ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: The decisive achiever; the one who cuts the Gordian knot that stymied predecessors - **Narrative sequence**: **Redemption** — 52 years of failure → Trump arrives → lives saved. Classic Trump mythological arc - **Identity claims**: "I am uniquely effective," "My presence in office was historically consequential," "I save lives" - **Contrasting other**: The anonymous mass of predecessors who "tried for 52 years to no avail" — their failure is the canvas on which Trump's achievement is painted ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features (moderate-high, 0.65):** - Grandiosity: explicit ("my great honor," "thousands of lives saved") - Entitlement implicit in framing: what others couldn't achieve in 52 years was Trump's to deliver - Achievement inflation (see Fact Checks) - No explicit empathy for patients; they are quantified as proof of Trump's efficacy **Antisocial (negligible, 0.05)**: No deceit, exploitation, or rule-violation signals in this post **Paranoid (absent, 0.0)**: No persecutory ideation; this is purely grandiose in register **Ego-syntonic sadism (absent)**: No delight in others' suffering; the post is affirmative --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (pathological)**: "Thousands of lives have been saved" reshapes documented limited utilization of the federal Right to Try pathway into a massive impact claim consistent with the grandiose self-narrative. This is not calculated lying so much as genuine magnitude inflation driven by the need for the story to match internal self-image. 2. **Idealization (immature)**: Self-idealization as uniquely capable historical figure; the Act becomes "incredible" precisely because it was Trump who did it. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The anniversary framing provides socially acceptable justification for what is fundamentally a self-promotional act during a political campaign. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post executes a compact rhetorical program: 1. **Temporal anchoring**: "Five years ago" establishes historicity and implies enduring impact 2. **Pathos hook**: Terminally/seriously ill patients as emotional anchor — creates moral weight before the self-promotional claim 3. **False contrast with numerical authority**: "52 years... to no avail" — the specificity of "52" signals (falsely) historical research and amplifies the contrast with Trump's success 4. **Declarative climax**: "I got it done" — the syntactically simplest and rhetorically most powerful line; five words that concentrate the entire narrative 5. **Consequence claim**: "Thousands of lives have been saved" — converts policy into mortality impact, the ultimate moral currency The propaganda technique is **hero narrative construction**: Trump as the singular problem-solver in a world of institutional failure. This is the Jungian **Hero/King archetype** — the rightful authority who restores order. There is no Warrior mode here (no enemies named, no combat), no Trickster (no disruption claimed), no Victim (no persecution narrative). The post is unusually unitary in its archetypal expression. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of concern. Language production is coherent, syntactically simple but structurally intact, and consistent with Trump's documented baseline across verified authentic posts. The slight elevation in narrative coherence (relative to raw stream-of-consciousness posts) is more consistent with aide polish than with cognitive improvement. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, tangentiality, temporal confusion, or name errors observed. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Five years ago I signed the Right to Try Act" | **Mostly True** | The Right to Try Act was signed May 30, 2018 — approximately 5 years and 2 months before this post. 'Five years ago' is a reasonable approximation. | | "Politicians have been trying for 52 years to get this approved by Congress" | **Mostly False** | The modern Right to Try movement originated with state-level legislation circa 2014; the Goldwater Institute began pushing federal Right to Try circa 2015–2016. Dating the effort to 1971 (52 years prior) is a significant inflation with no clear legislative basis. Earlier FDA compassionate use debates exist but were not identical legislation. | | "Thousands of lives have been saved" | **Mostly False** | Independent analyses indicate the federal Right to Try pathway saw extremely limited uptake — estimates suggest fewer than a hundred patients used the federal pathway in its first years of existence, as the FDA's pre-existing expanded access (compassionate use) program remained the primary route. 'Thousands' is not supported by documented utilization data. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis **Archetype**: Hero/King — benevolent order-bringer **Order-chaos positioning**: Order restorer (solved intractable problem, restored functionality to a broken system) **Hierarchy dynamics**: Elevates Trump's legacy, implicitly diminishes every prior administration's competence without naming them **Grievance**: Minimal and retrospective — the 52-year failure is presented as past, now corrected --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, no violent imagery. This is a purely constructive legacy post with no threat vectors. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 62%) ### Indicators - Repetition of 'incredible' twice is a highly characteristic Trump verbal tic - 'So incredible!' as standalone exclamatory sentence matches authentic stream-of-consciousness pattern - 'I got it done' is quintessential Trump phrasing — blunt, first-person, definitive - Posted at 12:46 PM EDT (business hours) — mild aide-authorship signal - Structure is more coherent and complete than raw Trump posts, suggesting possible light aide polish ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (5th anniversary of Right to Try Act signing) Sentiment: +0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated, expansive tone with repeated intensifiers - Exclamatory sentence fragments ('So incredible!') ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - idealization (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invitation to share in reflected glory ('it was my great honor') - Implicit appeal to terminally ill patients and their families as emotional proxy - Creating a shared narrative of historical achievement with audience as witnesses ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Five years ago I signed the Right to Try Act **MOSTLY TRUE** The Right to Try Act was signed May 30, 2018 — approximately 5 years and 2 months before this post. 'Five years ago' is a reasonable approximation. Sources: Public Law 115-176, enacted May 30, 2018 > Politicians have been trying for 52 years to get this approved by Congress **MOSTLY FALSE** The modern Right to Try movement originated with state-level legislation circa 2014; the Goldwater Institute began pushing federal Right to Try circa 2015–2016. Dating the effort to 1971 (52 years prior) is a significant inflation with no clear legislative basis. Earlier FDA compassionate use debates exist but were not identical legislation. Sources: Goldwater Institute Right to Try campaign history; FDA expanded access program history > Thousands of lives have been saved **MOSTLY FALSE** Independent analyses indicate the federal Right to Try pathway saw extremely limited uptake — estimates suggest fewer than a hundred patients used the federal pathway in its first years of existence, as the FDA's pre-existing expanded access (compassionate use) program remained the primary route. 'Thousands' is not supported by documented utilization data. Sources: FDA annual expanded access reports; NEJM commentary on Right to Try implementation, 2019 Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - legacy-building (90%) - supply-seeking (85%) - grandiosity (60%) - achievement-inflation (80%) - campaign-content (75%) - Right to Try Act (100%) - healthcare-policy (70%) - hero-narrative (75%) - fact-distortion (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Triggers 40-Post Displacement Marathon: Biden Corruption as Shield Against Mounting Indictments** Trump posted 40 times from Bedminster — well above his usual pace — in a day dominated by legal anxiety. A late-night burst of Biden corruption links gave way to a midday dump of polling and endorsement articles, before the afternoon brought genuine heat: attacks on Jack Smith, a tirade calling congressional Democrats "slimeballs," and a surprisingly furious reaction to a minor EU travel fee. About 40% of the day's posts hammered Biden family corruption, building a counter-narrative ahead of Devon Archer's expected congressional testimony. The mood swung between calculated deflection and real anger, with brief detours into policy boasting about Texas property taxes and the Right to Try Act. Full digest for 2023-07-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 25). Five years ago, it was my great honor to sign the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110775737075975647 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Five years ago, it was my great honor to sign the..." Truth Social, 25 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110775737075975647. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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