# Post ts_110871319436320905 - Post ID: `ts_110871319436320905` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-11T13:54:36.362Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110871319436320905 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110871319436320905/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110871319436320905.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you Jesse and Stephen—A must watch! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:18), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Stephen Miller is the founder of America First Legal and he joins us now. How do you even react to this? Do you think the judge is going to sign off on a January 2nd trial date? Well we know that the judge in Washington DC is an extreme leftist and they've been pushing and pushing and pushing cases with this judge knowing that they're going to give the government or she's going to give the government whatever they want. But let's just take a step back for a second. There's no authoritarian country in the world that would put the opponent on trial during the actual primary itself. They would at least pretend. They would at least play make believe. They would at least try to plausibly put the trial somewhere where they're like oh this is an election interference. This is just an unrelated event. They are saying during the Iowa caucus, during the New Hampshire primary, we are going to bench the person who is 40 plus points ahead. At this point in 2012 Mitt Romney was five points ahead. He was within the margin of error. There's never been a lead like this in a Republican primary and they are saying that that candidate cannot be on the ground. That anyone who has studied who is just no one knows anything about the Iowa caucus knows. Iowa voters expect you to be there on the ground shaking hands, standing with them, going to diners and the message is going to be to Iowa voters you can't vote for this guy because he's on trial. He will not be available. He might go to jail, vote for somebody else. That's what the government is trying to do and it's not even ambiguous. You think they're going to get away with it? It's really up to the house isn't it? I mean the house has to create a degree of pressure and a degree of intensity and focus and determination that is going to make it very clear to the Department of Justice and to the judges adjudicating this case they are not going to be able to get away with it and that yes that there will be criminal investigations and criminal charges and that the house is going to refer to the Department of Justice for action in 2025 a multitude of cases based on what they're investigating but right now if I'm in the Department of Justice and I'm part of this corrupt scheme you know what I'm thinking we're getting away with it all. We're pulling this off. We're literally saying in writing we're going to bench the leading candidate during the caucus we're going to have him in on trial over tweets that he sent three years ago. Isn't it new information Jesse? Read the indictment. They're like well on January 7th at 16 oh 24 hours Donald Trump sent a message on Twitter. These things have been known for three years and they're putting him on trial now and they're saying you know what it's working nobody's stopping us nobody's being impeached nobody's being referred for criminal charges so yeah they will get away with it honestly unless there's a fundamental change in how the house and the senate and that includes many center republicans who've been on the sidelines engage with this issue. Well when they get back from their six-week vacation Stephen maybe they'll come up with the plan. All right good to see you. Yeah they're all busy flying all around the world getting getting the luxe treatment from foreign countries when we're losing our damn country. All right Stephen Miller everybody thank you so much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/871/319/313/297/718/original/b050fc88e9430d52.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,408 - Reposts: 4,936 - Replies: 1,039 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:07:02.012Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_110871319436320905 — "Thank you Jesse and Stephen—A must watch!" **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-08-11 | **Subject Age:** 77 --- ## Overview This post is among the most minimal in the observable corpus: a two-clause endorsement of an attached video featuring "Jesse" and "Stephen"—almost certainly Jesse Watters (Fox News primetime host) and Stephen Miller (former senior White House advisor and Trump loyalist), both consistent allies who would produce Trump-favorable commentary during the August 2023 indictment period. The post constitutes a pure *media amplification* act with negligible original content to analyze psychologically. Its analytical value lies primarily in what it reveals about authorship patterns, media ecosystem management, and its stark contrast with the surrounding day's output. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 13:54:36 — **Local (Bedminster, NJ, EDT = UTC−4):** 9:54 AM Trump's summer residence in August 2023 was Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, NJ. 9:54 AM is firmly within business hours, placing this post squarely in the "aide-generated" window. Stylistic markers reinforce this conclusion: - **Em dash** (—) used correctly and typographically—a punctuation form Trump almost never deploys authentically; his authentic posts use periods, commas, or nothing - **No typos, no capitalization eruptions, no ALL CAPS** - **Correct spelling** throughout - **Complete sentences**, polished micro-format - **Zero emotional content or grievance**—sharply discontinuous with the same-day posts attacking Christie, Pence, Jack Smith, and the J6 Committee This is textbook Dan Scavino-style amplification: brief, supportive, functional, formatted correctly. It performs the social function of thanking allies and driving traffic to favorable media without requiring Trump's direct engagement. **Confidence:** Medium-high that this is aide-written (Scavino or similar). The probability of authentic Trump authorship at 9:54 AM with this register and polish is low. --- ## Psychological State Assessment Since content is essentially absent, psychological inference must be largely contextual: **Trigger context:** The surrounding posts on August 10–11 show a high-intensity grievance cluster—Jack Smith's trial scheduling, Pence's "betrayal" narrative, Christie's polling attacks, J6 Committee evidence claims. This post is a *calm island* in that storm, consistent with managed communications rather than authentic emotional expression. **Supply function:** The act of sharing supportive commentary from allied media figures serves a **narcissistic supply maintenance** function even when aide-mediated. It reinforces the parasocial message: *credible figures agree with and support me*. The "must watch" directive enlists followers as audience for favorable content—a routine amplification loop. **Narcissistic state:** Indeterminate from this post alone. The broader day's output is predominantly **grandiose-to-vulnerable oscillation** (grandiose attacks on Christie/Smith, with vulnerable victimhood framing on Pence/J6). This post interrupts that oscillation with a neutral/positive beat. **Agency motives:** Weak but present—status maintenance through association with loyal allies. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Implicit endorsement via social proof:** "Jesse and Stephen" are recognizable loyalists; naming them signals in-group tribe membership to followers - **Imperative framing:** "A must watch" functions as a soft command, directing follower attention and behavior without argument - **Parasocial gratitude performance:** "Thank you" signals warmth and loyalty reciprocity, reinforcing the media ecosystem's incentive to produce favorable content No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. --- ## Cognitive Status This post is too brief to yield any meaningful cognitive indicators. No word-finding, tangentiality, perseveration, or confabulation patterns are detectable. The polished aide-written style further precludes cognitive assessment. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** The post is affirmatively benign—a media share with no targets, no grievances, no eliminationist language. --- ## Summary Note No clinically significant patterns emerge from this post in isolation. Its primary analytical value is as a **baseline contrast point**: the stark tonal discontinuity from the surrounding high-intensity grievance posts supports the hypothesis of a bifurcated posting operation—authentic Trump (raw, emotional, grievance-laden) versus aide-managed Trump (polished, functional, ecosystem-maintenance). The post also illustrates the **ally-reward loop** that characterizes the broader media strategy: publicly thanking Watters and Miller incentivizes continued favorable coverage. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Post time is 9:54 AM EDT—business hours, within aide-posting window - Correct em dash usage (—) is atypical for authentic Trump posts - No typos, misspellings, or grammatical anomalies - No ALL CAPS emotional eruptions - Polished, complete, minimal format consistent with Scavino-style amplification ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Allied media content (Watters/Miller video)) Sentiment: +0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Ally-reward loop: public gratitude incentivizes continued favorable media coverage - Implicit social proof: naming credible in-group figures to validate narrative - Directive framing: 'must watch' commands follower attention and behavior ## Tags - aide-written (85%) - media-amplification (90%) - ally-reward-loop (75%) - supply-maintenance (50%) - low-content (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Chutkan's Protective Order Triggers a Coordinated Legal Defense Barrage from Bedminster** Trump's day at Bedminster split into two distinct phases: a pair of combative personal posts in the evening attacking Chris Christie's wall claims and the January 6th committee, followed by a late-morning barrage of shared articles building a coordinated legal defense narrative. The article dump — ten links in roughly three minutes — appeared staff-managed, mixing indictment victimhood pieces with attacks on Judge Chutkan and rival devaluation of DeSantis. The dominant mood was defensive, shaped by Judge Chutkan's protective order issued that same day. No signs of sleep disruption, but the sustained focus on legal persecution and judicial targeting stood out as the day's defining pattern. Full digest for 2023-08-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 11). Thank you Jesse and Stephen—A must watch! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110871319436320905 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you Jesse and Stephen—A must watch!" Truth Social, 11 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110871319436320905. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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