# Post ts_110913532381500935

- Post ID: `ts_110913532381500935`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-19T00:49:54.787Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110913532381500935
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110913532381500935/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110913532381500935.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/IAPolls2022/statuses/110912826368953581 THANK YOU LOUISIANA! https://www.donaldjtrump.com/join

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:57), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Republican voters overwhelmingly are saying they plan to vote for Trump in the primary next year. With neighboring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis only getting 10% of the support. Yeah, Louisiana has that closed primary system, so we're not going to see independents that are a little softer on Trump. We're seeing a core of the Republican Party, and that's where Trump is actually getting some of the highest numbers we've seen in our primary polling at about 75% support. Despite numerous indictments in recent weeks, Louisiana Republicans are sticking with him. I keep reading all these stories about Trump being indicted, but you certainly wouldn't be able to tell by how Republicans act in Louisiana. They're standing by his side. These indictments are barely acknowledged, and look, there are a lot of folks who are running entire campaigns based on their affiliation with Donald Trump, chief among them Jeff Landry, our attorney general. Landry, securing that Trump endorsement, has given him a competitive edge over all other Republican candidates. So the Trump name does carry in Louisiana.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/913/531/911/384/750/original/d43b524fa83de796.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 20,782
- Reposts: 5,351
- Replies: 1,130
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:15:27.714Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: Truth Social, 2023-08-19 (UTC 00:49:54)

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time conversion:** UTC 00:49:54 on August 19 = **8:49 PM Eastern** on August 18, 2023. Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his summer residence), in the Eastern timezone. This is an early-evening post — not the deep late-night window strongly associated with authentic Trump, but also not core business hours.

**Authenticity markers present:**
- The URL is malformed: "...110912826368953581THANK" — the "THANK YOU LOUISIANA!" text appears to have been concatenated directly onto the RT URL without a space or line break. This copying error is characteristic of Trump's imprecise, hurried posting behavior. An aide would almost certainly have caught this.
- "THANK YOU" in ALL CAPS — a signature Trump rhetorical tic.
- The emotional immediacy of a single celebratory line appended to a retweet reflects Trump's improvisational style.

**Assessment:** Likely **authentic Trump**, with moderate confidence. The URL formatting error is a strong organic signal; aides tend to produce cleaner copy. The timing is consistent with an early-evening impulsive post.

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### Context and Psychological State

This post appears between two extended, rage-laden Truth Social screeds about the Georgia indictment (same day), in which Trump frames all seven cases as Biden-coordinated "Election Interference" demanding Supreme Court intervention. The pivot to poll-based triumphalism within the same posting session is diagnostically significant.

**IAPolls2022** is a right-leaning Iowa-focused polling aggregator account. The RT almost certainly references a Louisiana primary poll showing Trump with a commanding lead — consistent with his dominance in Southern Republican primary polling during this period.

The psychological function of this post is **narcissistic supply acquisition**: after extended processing of profound narcissistic injury (four criminal indictments, surrender deadline looming), Trump pivots to absorbing positive poll affirmation. The "THANK YOU LOUISIANA!" framing positions Trump as recipient of mass gratitude — the beloved leader, not the accused criminal. This is a textbook oscillation from the **vulnerable narcissistic state** (victimized, persecuted) to the **grandiose state** (affirmed, adored).

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Extraversion (High):** Public performance, crowd affirmation-seeking, emotional display.
- **Agreeableness (Low-moderate):** The gratitude is entirely self-referential ("Thank YOU"), not communal reciprocity.
- **Conscientiousness (Low):** Sloppy URL concatenation; no deliberate formatting.
- **Neuroticism (Low in this post):** Relative to surrounding posts, this is emotionally regulated — affect is positive.
- **Openness (Low):** No complexity; simple celebratory output.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Agency via status/validation.** Poll results function as external metrics of dominance — they confirm rank and superiority. The campaign join link (donaldjtrump.com/join) instrumentalizes the gratitude into recruitment, suggesting even celebratory posts serve strategic acquisition goals.

**Schema revealed:** The self is a beloved figure whose popularity is a moral vindication of his legal predicament. The Louisiana voters thanked here are implicitly contrasted with the prosecutors, jurors, and judges attacking him in contemporaneous posts.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The beloved champion, grateful recipient of mass affirmation.
- **Narrative sequence:** This micro-narrative is a **redemption beat** within a larger contamination arc: indictment (contamination) → poll triumph (redemption signal). The polls serve as evidence the persecution narrative will ultimately resolve favorably.
- **Identity claim:** "The people love me despite what they are doing to me."
- **Contrasting other:** Implicit — the prosecutors, Biden, the "corrupt system" referenced immediately before and after.

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### Defense Mechanisms

- **Denial (Pathological Level 1):** By posting celebratory poll content hours after receiving a fourth criminal indictment, Trump routes around the emotional weight of legal reality. The poll becomes a counter-reality.
- **Rationalization (Neurotic Level 3):** Poll support implicitly rationalized as moral verdict — if Louisiana supports him this strongly, the indictments must be politically motivated.

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### Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic dynamics:**
- **Trigger:** Supply-seeking following narcissistic injury (indictment).
- **State:** Pivoting to grandiose from vulnerable.
- **Rage:** Absent in this post; displaced to surrounding posts.

**Malignant narcissism components (this post):**
- Narcissistic features: Moderate (grandiosity, need for admiration)
- Antisocial: Low
- Paranoid: Low
- Sadism: Absent

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### Rhetorical Analysis

Sparse but functional:
- **Social proof:** Poll results as validation metric.
- **Call to action:** Campaign join link converts emotional moment into political recruitment.
- **Emotional appeal:** "THANK YOU" — reciprocity framing.
- No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery.
- Low propaganda complexity; post functions as morale-maintenance content for base.

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### Cognitive Status

- Simple syntax, limited vocabulary, single emotional register.
- The URL concatenation error is notable — not a linguistic error per se, but an attentional/procedural one. Consistent with hasty, minimally deliberate composition.
- No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or other clinical markers in this post.
- Deviation from baseline: **None** — this is within normal range for authentic Trump celebratory posts.

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### Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, no targets, no eliminationist rhetoric. Post is purely self-affirming. Note, however, that contemporaneous context (Georgia grand jurors being doxxed on Truth Social, judge receiving death threats) means the platform itself is functioning as a threat-amplification vector even when Trump's own posts are benign.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump leads in Louisiana polling (implied by RT of IAPolls2022 and 'THANK YOU LOUISIANA!')" | **Mostly True** | Trump consistently led Republican primary polls nationally by 30-40 points during summer 2023, with especially strong numbers in Southern states. Louisiana, a deeply conservative state, was consistently among his strongest polling geographies. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Malformed URL concatenation ('...953581THANK') — copy-paste error characteristic of hasty authentic posting
- ALL CAPS 'THANK YOU' matches authentic Trump emotional register
- Early evening Eastern time (8:49 PM) — not deep late-night window but plausible for authentic post
- Simple, unpolished single-line append to RT is consistent with Trump's impulsive style
- Campaign join link could suggest aide involvement in content selection

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Louisiana primary poll showing strong support)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 12%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Reciprocal gratitude framing ('THANK YOU') creates emotional bond with Louisiana supporters
- Poll affirmation invites followers to share in collective triumph
- Campaign join link converts emotional moment into parasocial action

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Trump leads in Louisiana polling (implied by RT of IAPolls2022 and 'THANK YOU LOUISIANA!')

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump consistently led Republican primary polls nationally by 30-40 points during summer 2023, with especially strong numbers in Southern states. Louisiana, a deeply conservative state, was consistently among his strongest polling geographies.

Sources: FiveThirtyEight Republican primary polling averages, August 2023; RealClearPolitics 2024 Republican primary polling, August 2023

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- poll_affirmation (90%)
- narcissistic_supply (80%)
- grandiose_oscillation (75%)
- authentic_authorship (70%)
- campaign_recruitment (60%)
- url_formatting_error (50%)
- denial_of_legal_reality (65%)

## That day

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

**Four Indictments Deep: A Day of DARVO, Fabricated Quotes, and a Quiet Threat to Prosecute His Way Back**

Trump spent the day at his Bedminster golf club, but a leisurely Saturday it was not. Nearly every original post circled back to the Georgia indictment handed down five days earlier, with escalating anger through the afternoon. The morning brought attacks on DA Fani Willis and recycled claims about the 2020 Georgia election; by late afternoon, he was calling the DOJ the "Department of Injustice" and openly musing about prosecuting political opponents if he returns to the White House. A burst of aide-posted links in the early afternoon briefly interrupted the pattern, and one genuine golf update provided the day's only moment of normalcy. The mood closed with a grasping appeal to constitutional immunity — a grandiose attempt to regain footing after hours of visible legal anxiety.

Full digest for 2023-08-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 19). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/IAPolls2022/stat... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110913532381500935
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/IAPolls2022/statuses/11091..." Truth Social, 19 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110913532381500935. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/IAPolls2022/statuses/11091...," Truth Social, August 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110913532381500935.

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