# Post ts_110895201917578448 - Post ID: `ts_110895201917578448` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-15T19:08:14.148Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110895201917578448 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110895201917578448/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110895201917578448.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you Matt!! You are a Great American Patriot. ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:32), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Trump has been indicted in Georgia, the last 14 years I've called Georgia home. I have my business here, got married here, my daughter was born in Fulton County. I've been all over the world in most major US cities. If I could live anywhere, I would stay right here, in Georgia. To me, Georgia is the best place in the world. Where people still say yes ma'am and thank you sir, where even the liberals go to church on Sundays. And to see the establishment drama brought to my doorsteps, the globalist-socialist chaos brought to our community. Last night when I watched the Fulton County DA smirk, while she indicted former President Donald Trump along 18 others on RICO charges like they are part of the Sopranos, I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty pissed. And then I read all 96 pages of the indictments. There is nothing in there to get anyone. The DA specifically said that the overt acts listed are not illegal on their own, but because there are enough of them, they can be charged as a criminal enterprise. What do these overt acts include? Questioning the outcome of the 2020 election, for making false statements about the integrity of the election in other states, for asking for email addresses of public officials and sending emails, for hiring forensic data teams to review election results, for requesting hearings to challenge the results, for unnamed people sending emails, and most importantly, mean tweets. This trial goes nowhere, and they know it. So why all the drama, and why was I so upset? It's not because of the charges, the charges are bullshit. It's because I could see their plan, and I could feel it working. You gotta see the big picture, the play is always geopolitics, always control. The globalist-socialist establishment has already conquered LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago. Where are the Trump indictments? They're trying to take New York, Virginia, Miami, and now Atlanta. Notice they are not indicting him in areas they've already won. It's a squeeze play. Can you see the map? The point of these indictments is not to prevent Trump from running for president. Of all the indictments and charges, none of them can prevent him from running. It's not even about preventing him from winning. They see that the poll numbers jump every time an indictment is announced. They truly believe that Trump was plotting to overthrow the US government that would focus all of their energy, resources, and personnel on one case, and try to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. You don't indict in multiple states with multiple charges with multiple teams of lawyers. You don't spray and pray. The sole point of the indictments is to divide this country. To keep us occupied fighting each other. Republican vs Democrat, man vs woman, black vs white vs brown vs yellow, poor vs less poor. Don't get distracted. It's not us vs each other. It's us vs them. They're not trying to save democracy. They're trying to crush it. If you're watching from Georgia, if you are my neighbor, beware. Look at what they've done in other cities, other states, homelessness, drugs, and violence. Burning it all down so they can build it back up and gain control. The talking head propagandist will surely plaster the news cycle. This time, we got him. What they really mean is, this time, we got you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/895/201/667/448/992/original/4fde7853824c35a0.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 20,474 - Reposts: 9,452 - Replies: 1,597 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:09:00.208Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Micro-Post Analysis: Brief Gratitude Expression (2023-08-15) ### Contextual Frame This seven-word post is a decontextualized fragment—a brief gratitude expression directed at an unidentified "Matt" with a media attachment (MP4) not accessible for review. Its psychological significance lies almost entirely in its **contrast with the surrounding posting cluster**: it appears sandwiched between posts marked by acute narcissistic crisis (Georgia indictment, "WITCH HUNT!" bursts, vicious attack on Chris Christie). The brevity and tonal shift are themselves data. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC timestamp:** 2023-08-15T19:08:14Z **Trump's likely location:** Bedminster, New Jersey (confirmed by a same-day post explicitly referencing a press conference "at Bedminster, New Jersey" the following Monday). Bedminster is EDT (UTC−4). **Local time:** **3:08 PM EDT** — mid-afternoon business hours. This timing falls squarely within the aide-authorship window. However, several micro-features complicate the call: - **Random capitalization of non-proper nouns**: "Great American Patriot" — all three words capitalized with no grammatical justification. This is a well-documented Trump stylistic fingerprint (cf. "Witch Hunt," "Radical Left," "Deep State") and is reproduced here with exactness. - **Double exclamation point after "Matt!!"**: impulsive punctuation characteristic of authentic Trump posting. - **No complete sentences, no polished structure**: the post is affectively charged but syntactically minimal. Balancing mid-afternoon timing (aide indicator) against idiosyncratic capitalization and punctuation (Trump indicators), authorship is **ambiguous**, leaning slightly toward authentic. The post may represent Trump himself briefly surfacing during what was an extraordinarily active posting day, using a aide-prepared or self-generated brief acknowledgment of a video from a supporter. --- ### Psychological State and Dynamics **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** The post offers almost no trait signal. Surface-level warmth ("Thank you," "Great American Patriot") is present but pro-forma. Given the surrounding context of acute stress and rage, this brief positive expression is consistent with oscillation between narcissistic states: a momentary supply-seeking interval within a predominantly dysregulated posting day. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** The "Great American Patriot" label is functionally a **loyalty reward** — a public bestowal of status that simultaneously reinforces the in-group/out-group schema. Labeling a supporter as a "Patriot" implicitly re-affirms that Trump is the axis around which patriotism is defined. Even gratitude, here, is constituted in terms of the self. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** The post contributes minimally to narrative identity construction on its own. In context, it may serve as a **brief redemptive beat** — amid the contamination sequence of the indictment ("they are persecuting me"), a signal that loyal Americans rally around him. The narrative logic: persecution by corrupt elites → validation by "real" Americans. **Level 4 — Narcissistic Dynamics:** - **Trigger:** Supply-seeking. On a day of severe narcissistic injury (fourth criminal indictment), the post represents **narcissistic supply acquisition** — briefly refueling the self from a loyal supporter's video. - **State:** Momentarily grandiose/receptive rather than rageful — but this is a micro-episode within a predominant vulnerable-narcissistic day. - **Rage:** Absent in this post. --- ### Defense Mechanisms Insufficient content to identify active defenses. The post does not reveal defensive operations; it is functionally an intake of positive valence (supply) rather than a processing of threat. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Tribal labeling**: "Great American Patriot" — deploys the patriot/non-patriot binary, which implies its inverse: critics are un-American. - **Social reinforcement**: Public praise signals to the broader audience what kinds of behavior earn recognition from Trump, incentivizing similar supportive content production. - **Appeal to identity**: The "American" frame invokes national identity as the container for loyalty. ### Danger Assessment **None.** This post contains no threatening language, no targeting, no eliminationist rhetoric, no mobilization. --- ### Cognitive Status Markers Insufficient text (7 words) for meaningful cognitive assessment. The capitalization pattern is consistent with baseline Trump. --- # ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### Indicators - Random capitalization of non-proper nouns ('Great American Patriot') — classic Trump stylistic fingerprint - Double exclamation point ('Matt!!') — impulsive punctuation pattern consistent with authentic Trump - No complete sentence structure — minimal, unpolished format - Posted at 3:08 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) — mid-afternoon business hours suggest aide window - Extremely brief — could be quick authentic post or aide-drafted acknowledgment ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (supporter named Matt (video content)) Sentiment: +0.70 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Public loyalty reward — labels supporter 'Great American Patriot', incentivizing similar behavior from followers - Patriot framing implies inverse: those not supporting Trump are implicitly un-American ## Tags - supply_seeking (80%) - tribal_labeling (70%) - loyalty_reward (70%) - authorship_ambiguous (60%) - post_indictment_context (90%) - micro_post (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Fourth Indictment Triggers Day-Long Rage Spiral From Midnight Grievance to "Monsters" at Dusk** Trump spent the day reeling from his fourth criminal indictment of 2023 — the Georgia RICO case — and his posts followed a predictable arc: raw grievance in the small hours, an empty promise of exonerating evidence by morning, then an afternoon blitz mixing attacks on prosecutors with feel-good crowd-size coverage from the Iowa State Fair. By evening, the tone darkened sharply, with Biden branded a "Manchurian Candidate" and prosecutors called "monsters" in a day that ended angrier than it began. The one concrete promise — a press conference with a "conclusive report" proving election fraud — was later quietly cancelled and no report ever materialized. Full digest for 2023-08-15: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-15/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 15). Thank you Matt!! You are a Great American Patriot. [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110895201917578448 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you Matt!! You are a Great American Patriot." Truth Social, 15 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110895201917578448. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you Matt!! 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