# Post ts_110945328532514667

- Post ID: `ts_110945328532514667`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-24T15:36:05.563Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945328532514667
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945328532514667/analysis

## Post text

_A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110941809385400028

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110941809385400028 (2023-08-24T00:41:07.627Z (UTC))

> “LOCKDOWN RON”

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/941/809/252/601/467/original/e55da8992183d3a1.mp4

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> We want to expand on some of our what we've done with some of these large groups you know we banned any of these groups from beaches but we didn't necessarily do that for things like town squares or private residences so I'm going to expand that guidance so consistent with what the CDC says you should not have any social group of 10 people or more so that means you know just because it's a private residence you should not right now be having 50 people for a party I mean you see these images around the country states that are on lockdowns from these massive block parties and places like California you know for us here we want to respect that guidance we'll end up being safer in the long run if we do so that guidance would be for any type of social or recreational group less than 10 otherwise you know it will violate the directive and then we'll also direct that and I know businesses have worked to do this and we've worked with them to do it but we really need all businesses any non essential business to have to be promoting telecommuting I think the goal should be to have at least 50% of your workforce who is telecommuting you know

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/945/328/490/222/885/original/7b4ef337ecc3b54f.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,507
- Reposts: 1,959
- Replies: 166
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:48:50.812Z (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_110945328532514667 — 2023-08-24

## Preliminary Note on Analytical Limits

This post contains **no original text** — it is a retruth (RT) of Trump's own earlier post (110941809385400028) with a video attachment and nothing else. Standard linguistic, cognitive, and rhetorical analyses that depend on text production are therefore largely inapplicable to this post in isolation. Analysis must rely on contextual inference from the day's posting pattern and known events.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-written/managed (high confidence)**

Posted at 11:36 AM Eastern Time (UTC 15:36) — well within standard business hours. Trump was in Atlanta or preparing for his Fulton County booking (surrender occurred ~7:30 PM ET). Aide-coordinated content cadence is the overwhelmingly likely explanation for a midday sterile retruth with no text. Zero authentic Trump markers (no CAPS, no typos, no emotional punctuation, no self-referential commentary).

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## Day-Level Psychological Pattern

While this individual post resists text-based analysis, its placement within the August 24 posting stream is psychologically informative. The day produced at least four anti-DeSantis posts focused on COVID lockdowns — all appearing *before* Trump's surrender to Fulton County custody.

This pattern is consistent with **narcissistic displacement**: rather than engaging with or acknowledging the historic and existential legal event of the day (first-ever presidential mugshot, $200K bond with social media restrictions), the content apparatus redirects collective and possibly self-directed attention onto an offensive attack against the primary primary rival. The subject avoids the vulnerable narcissistic position ("I am being arrested") by inhabiting the grandiose position ("He is the real authoritarian").

The timing relative to the first GOP debate (same evening, Milwaukee) adds strategic layering: saturating the pre-debate news cycle with DeSantis lockdown content aims to frame DeSantis negatively before he can speak in his own defense.

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## Defense Mechanisms (Inferred from Daily Pattern)

- **Displacement** (neurotic): Legal jeopardy energy redirected into rival attack
- **Projection** (immature): Authoritarianism/shutdown behavior attributed to DeSantis while subject faces criminal accountability for attempting to overturn an election
- **Reaction formation** (neurotic): Vulnerability of arrest day transformed into aggressive dominance display

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## Cognitive Status

Insufficient textual data for cognitive assessment of this post. Not scoreable.

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** No text, no targets named, no violent or eliminationist language present.

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## Summary

*Not generated* — this post lacks sufficient original content for clinically meaningful standalone analysis. Contextual significance lies in its role as one datapoint in a saturation campaign strategy deployed on a day of maximum legal vulnerability.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 11:36 AM Eastern Time (business hours) — strong aide indicator
- Post contains zero original text; pure RT of own earlier post
- Polished, minimal format with no typos or affect
- Trump was en route to or preparing for Fulton County booking (7:30 PM ET surrender); scheduling of pre-surrender media pushes likely aide-coordinated

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Ron DeSantis)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Manufactured urgency via repeated same-day posting on single attack theme
- Video content as emotional amplifier without requiring text engagement

## Tags

- retruth (100%)
- aide-written (90%)
- desantis-attack (80%)
- mugshot-day (90%)
- displacement (70%)
- pre-debate-messaging (70%)
- video-content (60%)

## That day

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

**Mugshot Day: 63 Posts, Zero Acknowledgment — Trump Converts Historic Humiliation Into Triumphalist Counter-Narrative**

On the day he became the first former president to have a mugshot taken at Fulton County Jail, Trump flooded social media with over 60 posts — none acknowledging the historic booking itself. The evening before, he live-commented the GOP debate he skipped while boasting about his counter-programming Tucker Carlson interview approaching 100 million views. By afternoon, as the surrender approached, the tone sharpened with direct attacks on prosecutor Fani Willis and Atlanta's crime rate. The entire day was structured as a triumph narrative: arrest reframed as persecution, mugshot converted into merchandise, and over seven million dollars raised from the spectacle.

Full digest for 2023-08-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 24). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945328532514667
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 24 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945328532514667. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, August 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945328532514667.

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