# Post ts_110849128682991334 - Post ID: `ts_110849128682991334` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-07T15:51:12.382Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110849128682991334.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June. Bidenomics! ## Engagement - Likes: 10,661 - Reposts: 3,098 - Replies: 942 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:04:27.395Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis **Post:** "The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June. Bidenomics!" **Date:** 2023-08-07 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Age:** 77 --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timing:** UTC 15:51 converts to **11:51 AM EDT** at Trump National Bedminster, NJ (confirmed by same-day post about Bryson DeChambeau at Bedminster for the LIV tournament). This falls squarely within business hours, a mild indicator of staff assistance. **Stylistic signals are mixed.** The ALL CAPS on "BACON" is consistent with authentic Trump — he routinely capitalizes words for rhetorical emphasis mid-sentence. The neologistic attack brand "Bidenomics!" with the trailing exclamation is also consistent with his authentic voice. However, the extreme brevity, clean punctuation, and economic-messaging discipline suggest possible aide involvement or, at minimum, a lightly edited authentic draft. The post reads like a talking point rather than a stream-of-consciousness reaction. **Assessment:** Likely an aide-assisted or aide-drafted post with authentic stylistic flourishes (CAPS), or a very brief authentic post fired off mid-morning during a high-activity day. Confidence: **medium** for aide attribution; cannot rule out authentic given Trump's demonstrated capacity for short punchy posts. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger & State This post is embedded within a day of intense legal-defensive posts (Jack Smith, protective order, Judge Chutkan recusal, Jan 6 arraignment fallout). The bacon post represents a notable **tonal pivot** from vulnerable-defensive narcissistic state (the legal posts) to a brief **grandiose-offensive** posture (attacking Biden's economy). This oscillation is consistent with the narcissistic pattern of cycling between injury-reactive vulnerability and dominance-display grandiosity. **Trigger type:** Maintenance/political supply-seeking. The post does not appear to respond to a specific narcissistic injury; it functions as routine base-engagement and anti-Biden messaging, possibly timed by staff to diversify the feed away from continuous legal defensiveness. ### Narcissistic Dynamics No significant narcissistic rage is present in this post. The energy is muted compared to the surrounding posts. The post deploys **projection** in a mild form — attributing economic hardship to Biden while Trump's own inflationary policies and trade-war tariffs on agricultural goods remain unacknowledged. The claim itself functions as **rationalization** (economic grievance as frame for political opposition). ### Defense Mechanisms - **Displacement (neurotic):** Anxiety from acute legal jeopardy (same-day Jan 6 indictment aftermath) is displaced onto an economic target (Biden/bacon prices). The everyday consumer item serves as a safer, more populist emotional outlet. - **Distortion (pathological):** The factual claim is grossly exaggerated (see Fact Checks). The distortion serves to amplify grievance beyond what evidence supports. - **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Bidenomics" frames all economic dissatisfaction as attributable to a single political opponent, bypassing complex causal analysis. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **Complexity:** This post is at the extreme low end of linguistic complexity — 11 words total, one declarative sentence, one word sentence fragment. However, brevity alone does not indicate cognitive decline; Trump has routinely posted very short punchy content throughout his social media history. No word-finding errors, paraphasias, or confabulation are detectable. **Baseline comparison:** This length and style is consistent with known short-form Trump posts. No deviation flagged. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **Hyperbole** is the dominant device — "TRIPLED" applied to a two-month window is almost certainly a gross exaggeration unsupported by market data. **Synecdoche** is employed: bacon stands in for all of lived economic experience, leveraging the culturally loaded symbolism of bacon as an American working-class staple. **Brand attack neologism** ("Bidenomics") is a counter-narrative device that inverts Biden's own rebranding of economic policy, weaponizing it as a term of condemnation. **False attribution** links a commodity price (with many supply-chain determinants) directly to presidential policy. No dehumanizing language or violent imagery is present. --- ## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals) **Level 1 – Traits:** Low agreeableness (combative framing), low conscientiousness (false claim), low-moderate neuroticism relative to the surrounding posts, moderate extraversion (punchy public broadcast). **Level 2 – Motives:** Dominant motive here is **power/status via opposition** — undermining a rival's legitimacy through economic grievance. Communion motives are absent; this is pure agency/dominance messaging. **Level 3 – Narrative Identity:** Trump casts himself implicitly as the **economic champion** (the implied contrast: things were better under me). The post invokes a **contamination sequence** — a good economic world (under Trump) was contaminated by Biden's policies. The protagonist is absent but implied; the contrasting other (Biden/Bidenomics) does all the narrative work. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June" | **False** | BLS Consumer Price Index data for bacon and related pork products shows prices peaked in 2021-2022 and were declining or stable through mid-2023 as supply chain pressures eased. No commodity shock capable of tripling bacon prices in approximately 4-8 weeks occurred in the June-August 2023 window. Such an event would have represented an unprecedented peacetime supply catastrophe and would have generated major economic news coverage. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post contains no eliminationist language, no targets, no violent imagery, no mobilization calls. It is a standard economic attack on a political opponent. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS on 'BACON' consistent with authentic mid-sentence Trump emphasis - Trailing exclamation on neologism 'Bidenomics!' matches authentic style - 11:51 AM EDT (business hours at Bedminster) mildly favors aide authorship - Extreme brevity and economic messaging discipline consistent with staff-crafted talking point - No typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness fragmentation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Routine political messaging / base engagement) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Economic solidarity signaling via everyday consumer item (bacon) as shared grievance touchstone - In-group validation through shared anti-Biden frame ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June **FALSE** BLS Consumer Price Index data for bacon and related pork products shows prices peaked in 2021-2022 and were declining or stable through mid-2023 as supply chain pressures eased. No commodity shock capable of tripling bacon prices in approximately 4-8 weeks occurred in the June-August 2023 window. Such an event would have represented an unprecedented peacetime supply catastrophe and would have generated major economic news coverage. Sources: BLS CPI pork products series (general knowledge); No such price spike reported in contemporaneous economic coverage Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - economic-populism (90%) - bidenomics (90%) - false-claim (85%) - hyperbole (80%) - displacement (70%) - aide-written-possible (55%) - tonal-pivot (65%) - bacon-prices (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Arraignment Siege: Seventeen Posts Channel Legal Fury Into Systematic DOJ Delegitimization** Four days after his federal arraignment on January 6 charges, Trump posted seventeen times from Bedminster in a day consumed by fury at prosecutors and the justice system. A late-night cluster began with gloating over a soccer rival's public humiliation before shifting into defensive media-sharing, and by morning the posts escalated into sustained attacks on Jack Smith, the presiding judge, and the DOJ itself — which he rechristened the "Department of Injustice." Brief detours into golf congratulations, bacon prices, and foreign policy never broke the gravitational pull of the indictment. A notable error — misnaming a key congressional witness "Keven" instead of Devon Archer — was the day's clearest cognitive flag. Full digest for 2023-08-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 7). The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June. Bidenomics!" Truth Social, 7 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The price of BACON has TRIPLED since June. Bidenomics!," Truth Social, August 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_110849128682991334 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_110849128682991334 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_110849128682991334 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-07 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110849128682991334.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._