# Post ts_110976017386186129

- Post ID: `ts_110976017386186129`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-30T01:40:40.295Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110976017386186129
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110976017386186129/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110976017386186129.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years, and we won the Texas Border Counties that no Republican Candidate had won in more than a Century!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> - Hello, Hidalgo County, and congratulations on a successful Lincoln-Reagan dinner. I want to thank your chairwoman, Adrienne Peña Garza, along with Mayra Flores, Congresswoman Monica de la Cruz, and so many other outstanding Texas leaders. You are incredible people, incredible state. They're destroying your state with what they're doing at the border, but we'll get it stopped fast. I am incredibly proud of the progress we've made for our party and our movement in Hidalgo County, and the counties across the great state of Texas. In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, than any Republican in more than 50 years, and we won the Texas border counties that no Republican candidate had won in more than a century. Actually, it was since the Civil War. In 2024, we're going to win an even larger share of the Hispanic American vote, setting all-time records for Republicans up and down the ballots. You could take the five worst presidents in American history, put them together, and they would not have done the damage that crooked Joe Biden has done to our nation in just a few short years. Nobody knows this better than the people of Texas. You see the effects of the Biden border catastrophe each and every day. It's a disaster. It's a disgrace that we can allow this to happen. But the moment we reclaim the presidency, we will immediately begin to reverse every single Biden disaster to quickly rebuild the nation we love. On day one, we will immediately restore the most secure border in U.S. history. We will bring back "Remain in Mexico," remember that? Title 42, remember that? And catch and release and stop this border catastrophe once and for all. We will restore American energy independence and unleash Texas oil and gas production like never before. We will become energy dominant, which we were just about at that point until Biden came along. We will have tax cuts, regulatory cuts, historic tariffs, and the lowest cost of energy anywhere in the world to quickly rebuild the greatest economy in history. I did it before twice. We really rebuilt our economy twice, the greatest economy in history. And now I will do it a third time, but this time bigger and better than ever before. I will end the weaponization of law enforcement against Republicans, conservatives, and people of faith, and we will totally obliterate the deep state. And we will get critical race theory out of our schools and out of our military. I will keep men out of women's sports, and I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk prohibiting immediately child sexual mutilation in all 50 states. Can you imagine having to even say that? We have to do that. We have to end child mutilation. Can you believe this? In everything we do, we will put America first, and as one united team, we will make America great again. Thank you very much, Texas. Have a great evening.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/976/015/613/320/488/original/d2407acea880f470.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,871
- Reposts: 2,680
- Replies: 294
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:01:57.091Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Six days after the historic Fulton County mugshot and four days after a white supremacist killed three Black Americans in Jacksonville, this coordinated campaign post performs dual defensive work without naming either precipitating event. By asserting record-setting minority vote performance in 2020, it simultaneously counters the criminal-defendant narrative and distances from racial extremism associations through implicit positive counter-framing. The claims range from mostly true (Texas border counties) to false (Hispanic 50-year record, given Bush 2004's approximately 44% share). The post's polished grammar, parallel structure, attached campaign video, and membership in a five-post state-by-state messaging burst all point toward aide authorship. In psychological terms this represents a grandiose narcissistic state deploying distortion as primary defense, rationalization as secondary, and displacement of mugshot-week injury into electoral triumphalism. The most analytically significant feature is the temporal coincidence: this post arrives at the precise moment where both criminal accountability and racial violence associations would most threaten the brand, and responds with statistical claims designed to rewrite both liabilities simultaneously. No danger indicators present.

## Analysis: ts_110976017386186129 | 2023-08-30 | Minority Vote Boast

### Authorship & Timing

UTC 01:40:40 on August 30 converts to **9:40 PM Eastern** (EDT, UTC-4). By late August 2023, Trump was splitting time between Bedminster, NJ and Mar-a-Lago; either way he is in the Eastern timezone. 9:40 PM is evening — not the late-night/early-morning window most associated with impulsive authentic posting, but not deep in business-hours aide territory either.

Multiple structural indicators favor **aide-authored or aide-approved** content: (1) correct parallel grammatical construction; (2) absence of typos or capitalization eruptions; (3) an attached campaign MP4 implying coordinated media production; (4) this post is one of at least five on the same day covering New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, and Texas — a coordinated state-by-state messaging burst consistent with campaign communication infrastructure rather than impulsive spontaneous posting. Confidence: **medium-high** for aide involvement.

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### Psychological State & Trigger

**Context is decisive:** This post arrives six days after Trump's surrender and historic mugshot at Fulton County Jail (August 24), and four days after a white supremacist killed three Black Americans in Jacksonville, Florida (August 26). Both events create pressure requiring narrative countermeasures.

**Primary trigger:** Narcissistic injury (mugshot/indictment) + preemptive defense against racial-extremism association (Jacksonville). The post does not mention either event; instead it performs what can be called *narrative displacement* — substituting the frame of "historic vote-getter from minority communities" for "criminal defendant" and "associated-with-white-supremacy."

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The register is triumphant, not wounded. The post asserts superlative achievement ("more than any Republican in more than 50 years," "more than a Century") — classic grandiose supply-seeking designed to generate affirmation while simultaneously doing defensive work.

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### Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals)

**Level 1 — Trait Salience:**
- *Extraversion*: High assertiveness; the post is entirely declarative, affirmative, self-promoting. No hedging.
- *Agreeableness*: Superficially coalition-invoking (naming specific minority groups) but instrumentally so — minorities are cited as evidence of Trump's own achievement, not as subjects in their own right.
- *Conscientiousness*: Low accuracy commitment. Claims are stated with certainty that the evidence does not support.
- *Neuroticism*: Suppressed. No visible anger; affect is controlled and positive-dominant, consistent with aide crafting.
- *Openness*: Values rigidity; the framing is retrospective (2020 election) and binary (win/lose, record-setting/not).

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Agency motives dominate: power and status are asserted via historical comparison. Communion is instrumentalized — "I brought minorities to my coalition" rather than "I care about these communities." The 2020 election remains a central organizing schema: it was won, it was record-setting, and the loss is absent from the narrative entirely.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- Protagonist role: *Historic electoral champion* and *racial-coalition builder*
- Narrative sequence: **Redemption** — the implied subtext is: despite what you're hearing about indictments and mugshots, I am actually the one who builds the broadest Republican coalition in half a century
- Contrasting other: *Joe Biden* (implicit) and prior Republican candidates (explicit — those who didn't win border counties or minority votes)
- Identity claims: "I" am someone who breaks records with minority voters; "I" win where no Republican has won in a century

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Primary: Distortion (Level 1 pathological)**
The claims reshape electoral reality to serve psychological needs. Presenting a contested, partially false vote-share claim as settled historical fact represents gross distortion of objective record. This is not mere spin; it is the construction of an alternate factual universe.

**Secondary: Rationalization (Level 3 neurotic)**
The post provides pseudo-logical justification for why Trump should be seen favorably across racial lines — a rationalization that deflects from both the criminal proceedings and the Jacksonville racial attack by substituting electoral statistics for moral accountability.

**Tertiary: Displacement (Level 3 neurotic)**
The emotional energy that might be directed at the narcissistic injury of the mugshot week is displaced into electoral pride and campaign momentum messaging.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Superlatives/historical comparison:** "more than any Republican in more than 50 years," "more than a Century" — designed to convey unprecedented achievement without requiring listeners to verify
- **Inclusive enumeration:** Naming Hispanic, African, and Asian Americans by group performs coalition-building optics without substantive policy content
- **First-person plural ("we"):** The campaign collective voice converts personal ego assertion into shared communal victory
- **Anaphoric structure:** The parallel "more than any... / more than a Century" repetition reinforces the historical-record frame
- **False specificity:** "50 years," "a Century" sound precise and researched; in fact they are approximate claims designed to avoid fact-checking by making exact verification difficult
- **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery:** Register is triumphant/promotional, not eliminationist

**Propaganda techniques:** RAND Firehose model (volume — this is 5+ posts in one day); reality distortion (false/contested statistical claims presented as fact).

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "We got more votes from Hispanic Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years" | **False** | George W. Bush received approximately 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004, only 16 years prior. Trump's 2020 Hispanic vote share is estimated at 32-38% depending on pollster. The 50-year claim is clearly false. |
| "We got more votes from African Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years" | **Mostly False** | Trump received approximately 8-12% of Black vote in 2020. Nixon received ~32% in 1960, Reagan ~14% in 1980. Trump's performance was modestly above his 2016 showing but not historically exceptional. |
| "We got more votes from Asian Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years" | **False** | Trump's Asian American support was weaker relative to prior Republican nominees historically. Asian Americans have trended Democratic, but earlier Republican nominees performed comparably or better. |
| "We won the Texas Border Counties that no Republican Candidate had won in more than a Century" | **Mostly True** | Trump flipped Zapata County in South Texas, which had not voted Republican since approximately 1920. He made substantial gains in Starr, Webb, and Hidalgo counties. The border county claim has documented evidentiary support. |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- 9:40 PM ET timing — evening, not late-night authentic window
- Polished parallel grammatical construction, zero typos
- Attached campaign MP4 implying coordinated media production
- One of five coordinated state-specific posts (NH, Iowa, SC, TX) on same day
- No ALL CAPS eruptions, no ellipsis-trailing fragments

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Fulton County mugshot and indictment (August 24), Jacksonville racial shooting creating association pressure (August 26))

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' language creating shared victory identity with audience
- Historical superlatives inviting follower pride by proxy
- Implicit counter-narrative positioning followers against criminal-defendant frame without naming it

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Presenting contested/false electoral statistics as unambiguous historical fact
- Constructing alternative factual reality for followers without verification pathway
- Rapid revisionism — 2020 election presented as unambiguous victory despite documented loss

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> We got more votes from Hispanic Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years

**FALSE**

George W. Bush received approximately 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004, only 16 years prior. Trump's 2020 Hispanic vote share is estimated at 32-38% depending on pollster. The 50-year claim is clearly false.

Sources: 2004 National Exit Polls (CNN/NYT); 2020 Pew Research Center post-election analysis of Hispanic vote; Edison Research exit polls 2020

> We got more votes from African Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump received approximately 8-12% of Black vote in 2020. Nixon received ~32% in 1960, Reagan ~14% in 1980. Trump's performance was modestly above his 2016 showing but not historically exceptional.

Sources: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies 2020; Pew Research 2020 post-election survey

> We got more votes from Asian Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years

**FALSE**

Trump's Asian American support was weaker relative to prior Republican nominees historically. Asian Americans have trended Democratic, but earlier Republican nominees performed comparably or better.

Sources: AAPI Data 2020 election analysis; Pew Research Asian American voters 2020

> We won the Texas Border Counties that no Republican Candidate had won in more than a Century

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump flipped Zapata County in South Texas, which had not voted Republican since approximately 1920. He made substantial gains in Starr, Webb, and Hidalgo counties. The border county claim has documented evidentiary support.

Sources: Texas Secretary of State election results 2020; Texas Tribune election analysis 2020

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- electoral-revisionism (85%)
- narrative-management-post-mugshot (90%)
- minority-vote-claims (80%)
- aide-authored (75%)
- distortion-defense (80%)
- factual-distortion (85%)
- campaign-messaging (70%)
- racial-association-deflection (75%)

## That day

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

**Post-Mugshot Counteroffensive: 99-Post Barrage Converts Criminal Booking Into Campaign Ammunition**

Six days after his historic Fulton County mugshot, Trump flooded Truth Social with 99 posts — one of his highest-volume days on record. The morning was a staff-produced wall of favorable links building a persecution-meets-triumph narrative, but the afternoon turned personal and heated, with escalating all-caps attacks on Jack Smith, the DOJ, Biden, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Barr. The most alarming moment came when he amplified an article explicitly calling the indictments a "declaration of war" requiring a "fight fire with fire" response. Throughout it all, the dominant mood was defiant grandiosity — the mugshot had already been converted into a fundraising bonanza and cultural weapon, with poll leads and the $20 million August haul cited as proof that persecution only makes him stronger.

Full digest for 2023-08-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 30). In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110976017386186129
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic Americans, African..." Truth Social, 30 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110976017386186129. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic Americans, African...," Truth Social, August 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110976017386186129.

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