# Post ts_110979924713482722 - Post ID: `ts_110979924713482722` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-30T18:14:21.379Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110979924713482722 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110979924713482722/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110979924713482722.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > What’s happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute disgrace! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:14), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > What's happening to our autoworkers is an absolute disgrace and an outrage beyond belief. Autoworkers are getting totally ripped off by Crooked Joe Biden and also their horrendous leadership because these people are allowing our country to do these electric vehicles that very few people want. And it's a mandate, so you'll ultimately be forced to drive in a car that goes for an hour and then you have to have it recharged. I hope you don't want to go very far away. Biden has imposed the outlandish requirement that 67% of all new vehicles must be electric in less than 10 years. That means Michigan and places that make cars, you can forget about it. You better get your union working because you can forget about it. Those cars are all going to be made in China. According to the UAW president himself, one auto company CEO used the word brutality over 40 times in a single conversation to describe Joe Biden, I call him Crooked Joe because he's the most corrupt president in history. He's also the most incompetent. But Joe Biden's cruel and foolish electric vehicle mandate, that's how bad this policy is. Your union heads know it, but the union bosses don't want to do anything about it because they're not leaders. But you know who's voting for me? The people in the union. The union heads and the Crooked Joe keep using the phrase fair transition. There's no fair transition. First of all, people don't want the electric car. And the ones that want it should get it. But we want to have all forms of transportation and all forms of motorization to describe this unnecessary forced transition to electric vehicles. But there's no such thing as fair transition that destroys over 100,000 auto manufacturing jobs. More than that, waste tens of billions of dollars that should be going to the workers and makes new cars entirely unaffordable for the middle class. That's a transition to hell. You're going to hell. And your bosses are leading you right down the tubes. You shouldn't pay your fees. They get these big fees from all of their workers. And it doesn't matter how bad they are, they'll endorse a Democrat, even though the Democrats selling you down the tubes. Both the UAW bosses and the big three auto executives should be screaming at the top of their lungs, they should be ashamed of themselves, demanding that Joe Biden cancel his brutal electric vehicle mandate before it destroys the entire U.S. auto sector. If the union bosses and the CEOs refuse to fight back against Crooked Joe Biden by forcing him to repeal this disastrous electric car scheme, then you will know they're not pro-worker, they're not on your side, they've got some deals going for themselves. And I'm telling you, you shouldn't pay those dues. You should not pay your dues because they're selling you to hell. You're going to be going to hell. You're not going to have any jobs. All those cars are going to be made in China. Every one of them. You can forget it, Michigan. You can forget it, South Carolina. You can forget it, everybody. All of those cars are going to be made in China. We sit on liquid gold and we're getting rid of combustion engines, and they sit on all of the other materials that you need for the batteries. They're going to make all those cars. We're not going to make any of them. So to every auto worker, I stand in total solidarity with you in your fight against Joe Biden's job-killing, Green New Deal insanity. It's insanity. When I am your president, I will deliver higher wages for auto workers. I will protect your jobs. I will end Joe Biden's catastrophic electric vehicle mandate. And by the way, if you want an electric car, you're going to get it. But you're going to be able to get all other types of cars, types of vehicles that you want. And on day one, you're going to be back in business with me, and those factories are going to start opening up again. Remember, when I got elected, I told you all about this in the campaign, and when I got elected, hardly a car company built outside of this country. I stopped it. They didn't go to Mexico anymore. I said, if you go to Mexico, I'm putting a big tariff. You'll make a car. You're going to have a 25 percent tariff if you send that car back into the United States. I stopped it. Well, right now, they're doing it again, worse than ever before. We lost 32 percent of our industry to Mexico prior to my getting there, and we lost almost nothing, nothing. In fact, we were taking back our industry, but now it's going again. I'll straighten it out. But you have to vote for Trump. You have to vote for Trump. You can't listen to these union guys who get paid a lot of money, and they get whined and dined in Washington. They know that electric cars are no good in terms of our workers. So vote for Republicans, but vote for Trump. Because if we don't win this election, our country, not only in terms of auto workers, our country will go to hell. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/979/922/435/145/115/original/d4d7ad7c396f7566.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,853 - Reposts: 3,579 - Replies: 406 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:04:15.083Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted six days after the historic Fulton County mugshot, this brief post represents the campaign's successful reorientation from defensive legal framing to proactive populist offense. Business-hours timing and video attachment suggest aide mediation, though phrasing echoes Trump's voice. The psychological significance lies in the displacement dynamic: negative affect generated by the humiliating booking is rapidly converted into outrage on behalf of auto workers — a sympathetic proxy group whose genuine contract grievances (UAW negotiations with Ford, GM, Stellantis were peaking ahead of the September 15 strike) are instrumentalized for electoral coalition maintenance. The post embodies the grandiose narcissistic state: Trump as Protector/Champion rather than the vulnerable/persecuted register visible in same-day legal posts. The oscillation between these two states within a single news cycle — from "they're indicting me" to "I will save our workers" — is characteristic. No cognitive flags, danger indicators, dehumanizing language, or marked deviations from behavioral baseline are present. Clinically routine electoral supply-seeking behavior. # Analysis: "What's happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute disgrace!" **Truth Social | 2023-08-30 | 18:14 UTC | Subject Age: 77** --- ## Authorship Attribution The post arrived at 18:14 UTC, which is **2:14 PM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly in the northeastern U.S. or Florida in late August 2023 — both observe EDT, UTC-4). This falls squarely in **business hours**, a strong indicator of aide involvement. The video attachment adds further weight: authentic late-night Trump posts rarely include professionally packaged media. The sentence itself is short, punchy, and contains the capitalized proper noun ("Auto Workers") that Trump favors stylistically, but the construction is unusually clean and the trigger is externally political rather than personally reactive. **Assessment: likely aide-initiated post, possibly with Trump's verbal direction or approval. The phrasing echoes his voice but the packaging does not.** --- ## Psychological State and Trigger This post occurs within a dense cluster of same-day content that spans multiple domains: legal persecution framing ("Manchurian Candidate," "indicting me"), nationalistic pride restoration ("defeated 100% of the ISIS CALIPHATE"), and anniversary grievance ("most embarrassing event in History"). The auto worker post represents a **pivot from narcissistic injury processing to supply-seeking populist outreach** — a behavioral shift consistent with campaign mode activation. The trigger is almost certainly the UAW (United Auto Workers) contract standoff with the Big Three automakers (Ford, GM, Stellantis) that was intensifying in late August 2023, weeks before the strike formally launched September 15. Trump's framing targets Biden's EV transition push, which UAW leadership had begun voicing concerns about as threatening legacy manufacturing jobs. **The post instrumentalizes a genuine worker grievance as electoral supply** — the "auto worker" becomes an avatar for white working-class voters Trump is courting. Contextual note: this post arrives in the immediate wake of Trump's Fulton County booking and mugshot (August 24), a historically humiliating legal event. The mugshot fundraising success ($7.1M) suggests the campaign had pivoted from defensive legal framing to aggressive populist offense. This post is consistent with that strategic shift. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive declarative tone, emotionally charged ("absolute disgrace") - **Agreeableness (low-moderate):** "Our Auto Workers" introduces communal identification — unusual relative to baseline hostility, but instrumentalized - **Conscientiousness (low):** No specifics, no policy substance — the vagueness is characteristic - **Neuroticism (moderate):** Outrage register, but controlled; no capitalization storms or punctuation dysregulation - **Openness (very low):** Binary framing (disgrace vs. implicit prior greatness), no complexity Dominant facet: **Angry Hostility (Neuroticism)** directed outward at an implied systemic failure attributable to the opponent. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive dominant:** The post positions Trump as sole capable protector — implicit power claim embedded in the grievance framing - **Communion motive secondary and strategic:** "Our" workers signals group belonging, but this is a dispositionally low-communion actor deploying communion language instrumentally - **Schema:** World as zero-sum arena where workers are being victimized by corrupt/incompetent leadership; Trump as natural corrective ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Champion/Protector — notably distinct from the Warrior/Fighter role in the same-day legal posts - **Contamination sequence:** Workers had good conditions (under Trump) → are now suffering (under Biden) → disgrace - **Identity claim:** "I am the guardian of American workers" — implicit via "our" - **Contrasting other:** Not named here, but the video presumably implicates Biden's EV policy; Biden functions as the shadow-other responsible for the disgrace --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking / maintenance — no narcissistic injury evident in this specific post - **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (expansive, positioning self as protector) - **Rage:** Absent — the outrage expressed is performative political affect, not narcissistic rage ### Defense Mechanisms - **Displacement (neurotic):** The post likely channels legal-context distress (Fulton County, Chutkan trial date) into outrage on behalf of a sympathetic proxy group — auto workers absorb affect that cannot productively be expressed as legal grievance - **Rationalization (neurotic):** The undefined "disgrace" allows followers to project their own grievances onto the frame, broadening the emotional coalition ### Cognitive Status - No word-finding difficulty, phonemic or semantic paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration evident - Single-sentence construction: syntactically simple but coherent - No temporal confusion or name confusion - **Complexity deviation from baseline:** None — brief outrage declaratives are consistent with baseline Twitter/Truth Social output. No cognitive flags warranted. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Devices employed:** 1. **Appeal to collective identity ("our Auto Workers"):** The possessive pronoun performs solidarity while subordinating workers to Trump's political coalition. Workers become "his." 2. **Vague outrage hook:** "What's happening" is deliberately non-specific — forces video consumption and primes emotional state before the argument is made. Classic persuasion sequencing. 3. **Absolute superlative ("absolute disgrace"):** Forecloses nuance; positions the situation as beyond debate 4. **Implied nostalgia:** The "disgrace" presupposes a prior state of dignity attributable to Trump's tenure 5. **False dichotomy (latent):** Good past vs. disgraced present = vote to restore **Propaganda techniques:** RAND Firehose contribution (volume, consistent messaging across day), appeal to fear (job loss), nostalgia appeal. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent **Violent imagery:** Absent **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion None present in this specific post. The claim of "disgrace" is evaluative rather than factually falsifiable. No documented events are denied; no perception attacks deployed. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** Standard political outrage rhetoric without eliminationist, dehumanizing, or mobilizing elements. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "What's happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute disgrace" | **Unverifiable** | Evaluative/opinion claim. Contextual basis exists: UAW contract negotiations with Big Three automakers were intensifying in August 2023, with union seeking wage increases and job security amid EV transition concerns. The specific 'disgrace' framing implies Biden policy causation, which requires the video content to assess. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary This post represents a textbook example of electoral coalition maintenance through instrumental populism. Arriving in business hours with a video attachment, it bears hallmarks of aide-mediated production rather than authentic late-night impulse posting — though the phrasing echoes Trump's voice. The psychological significance lies less in the post itself than in its timing: it appears two days into the post-mugshot fundraising surge, representing the campaign's successful pivot from legal-victim framing to proactive populist offense. The pivot from legal persecution posts (multiple same-day) to worker champion framing illustrates Trump's characteristic oscillation between vulnerable (persecuted) and grandiose (protector) narcissistic states within a single news cycle. The displacement of Fulton County legal anxiety into performative outrage on behalf of auto workers is clinically consistent with the broader pattern: negative affect generated by narcissistic injury is rapidly converted into attack energy directed at an external target, here Biden's implicit EV policy. No cognitive flags, danger indicators, or marked deviations from behavioral baseline are present. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 42%) ### Indicators - Post arrives at 2:14 PM EDT — business hours, atypical for authentic late-night Trump posting pattern - Video attachment suggests pre-planned production, inconsistent with impulsive authentic posts - No typos or misspellings present - Clean single-sentence construction without stream-of-consciousness fragmentation - Capitalization of 'Auto Workers' is consistent with Trump's stylistic habit of emphasizing nouns ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (UAW contract crisis / Biden EV policy) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Possessive identification ('our Auto Workers') performs group membership - Vague outrage hook requiring video consumption deepens engagement - Implied nostalgia creates emotional contrast to activate loss aversion ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > What's happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute disgrace **UNVERIFIABLE** Evaluative/opinion claim. Contextual basis exists: UAW contract negotiations with Big Three automakers were intensifying in August 2023, with union seeking wage increases and job security amid EV transition concerns. The specific 'disgrace' framing implies Biden policy causation, which requires the video content to assess. Sources: UAW contract timeline August-September 2023 (publicly documented); Biden EV transition policy and UAW tensions (publicly documented) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - populist_outreach (85%) - auto_workers_uaw (80%) - aide_mediated (65%) - displacement (70%) - grandiose_state (60%) - campaign_mode (75%) - post_mugshot_pivot (80%) ## 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). What’s happening to our Auto Workers is an... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110979924713482722 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "What’s happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute..." 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