# Post ts_110986267012083716

- Post ID: `ts_110986267012083716`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-31T21:07:17.268Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986267012083716
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986267012083716/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110986267012083716.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> As President, I will ensure that America is the place where the cost of Energy is the lowest, and the Economy is the strongest!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:50), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> If America is going to dominate the world in manufacturing once again, as it did when I was running things, you remember when they used to say you can't have manufacturing jobs in our country anymore? I said, really? Why? And we created hundreds of thousands of them. But we must be the most affordable energy and electricity place anywhere on the planet. We have to have affordable energy. Right now, we have energy that's weak, substandard, and unaffordable. It's made by the wind. The windmills rust. They rot. They kill the birds. It's the most expensive energy there is, and we have other things that are also no good. It's called the Green New Deal. I call it the Green New Hoax. One of the reasons manufacturing jobs were flooding back into the United States when I was president was that we dramatically reduced energy costs. Really, crooked Joe Biden sacrificed this tremendous economic advantage on the altar of the Green New Deal, perhaps because he was bribed by communist China or because communist China knows all of the money that they've paid him. We have a Manchurian candidate. That's what he is. He's a Manchurian candidate. They know everything about him, and he's scared, stiff. He won't do a thing. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China, and Joe Biden's afraid to even talk to him. Biden's war on American energy has sent prices soaring, and his latest actions will make it catastrophically worse. It's going to be bad at a level that we've never seen. This will be so bad. Under Biden's newly proposed power plant regulations, most natural gas and coal plants will be forced to shut down. By the way, they tried that in Germany, and now they're going back and building coal plants all over the place because they've destroyed Germany. They have no energy, so Germany now is building a coal plant every two weeks, and China is building a coal plant every week, every single week. They're putting up a new coal plant, and we're playing games with the wind. This is terrible what's happening to our country. There is nothing to replace our energy at this time, not even close. It's very expensive, and it's very weak. It doesn't have the power to power up those big plants that you see. At the same time as Biden is shutting down existing power plants, he also wants to force hundreds of millions of Americans into ultra-expensive electric vehicles. It costs twice as much as what you have, and what you have is better, and it goes a lot longer, and it's a lot easier to fill up. We have liquid gold under our feet at a level that no other country has, but they'll strain the grid to the breaking point. It already is at a breaking point. If you look at California, it's got brownouts and blackouts every single day. People can't turn on their air conditions, and it'll drive electricity prices into the stratosphere. If Biden's policies go forward, our electricity costs will be the highest on Earth. They're already very close. With shortages, blackouts, and crippling inflation, U.S. manufacturing will be dead, absolutely dead, and China will be laughing all the way to the bank. They will end up controlling the world. My plan is the exact opposite. As president, I will set a national goal of ensuring that America has the number one lowest cost of energy of any industrial country anywhere on Earth. I want to be number one. We were energy independent just three years ago, and now we're begging Venezuela for their oil, and yet we have many times more than any other country. There's no country -- Saudi Arabia, Russia -- nobody -- no country has what we have. We will develop the liquid goal that is right under our feet, including American oil and natural gas. And we will also embrace nuclear, clean coal, hydropower, which is fantastic, and every other form of affordable energy to get it done. We will not only match China, we will be cheaper than China by a lot, and more energy will mean lower inflation, and it'll mean more jobs. I will cancel Biden's ruinous power plant rule, terminate his electric vehicle mandate. If you want to buy an electric car, that's fine, but you're going to be able to buy every other form of car also, and unleash domestic energy production like never before. But just think of it, energy independence three years ago, energy dominance was going to follow very shortly. We're going to pay off our debt, we're going to lower taxes for everybody. And they ended that, immediately ended it. First day they ended it. I will fully modernize the electric grid to prepare it for the next 100 years, implement rapid approvals for energy projects, and greenlight the construction of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of brand new, beautiful power plants that actually work. This will pave the way for an enormous growth in American wealth in the future. Every manufacturing plant, every data center, every semiconductor facility and assembly line will want to be built in America. They're all going to want to be in America, so we're going to have the lowest cost of energy. It's a big factor. This will be the place where the cost of energy is lower than any place else on Earth, where the economy is stronger than any place else on Earth, and where the workers are the best, brightest, and most talented anywhere in the world. I want to thank you very much. We cannot let this man, who is diminished mentally and physically, but much worse mentally, we cannot let him tell us what to do with our country. He has no clue. He can't put two sentences together. We have to make America great again, and we can't do it with a man who is severely diminished. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/986/264/894/366/968/original/e07c3ee1214bd90d.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,698
- Reposts: 4,175
- Replies: 512
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:07:09.769Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Psychological Analysis: ts_110986267012083716

## Overview

A brief, professionally produced campaign post embedded within a coordinated Iowa campaign media sequence. The post is almost certainly aide-written (Scavino-tier), timed at 4:07 PM local CDT during active campaign events. It is psychologically low-affect and clinically unremarkable in isolation, but contextually significant as a denial operation.

## Authorship Attribution

**Confidence: High — aide-written.** UTC 21:07 = ~4:07 PM CDT in Iowa. Business-hours timing, attached professional video, spotless grammar, and scripted campaign syntax all converge on staff authorship. The phrase "As President, I will ensure" is a campaign communications formulation, not Trump's organic voice. Authentic Trump posts from this same day ("I LOVE IOWA!", "DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!") show his actual register: capitalized fragments, exclamation bursts, emotional reactivity.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

High extraversion expressed through assertiveness and positive affect. Agreeableness is low — the implicit frame devalues the current administration without naming them. Neuroticism is suppressed in this post (scripted affect regulation). Openness is minimal; the worldview is closed and outcome-certain.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate completely.** The post is structured around power and control: the president as singular agent who *ensures* economic and energy outcomes. Communion motives are effectively absent. The schema is zero-sum: America's dominance requires displacement of current leadership.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role: Restorer-King.** "As President" deploys the Jungian King archetype — the legitimate sovereign who brings order, abundance, and strength. The narrative sequence is redemptive: implied decline under current leadership → promised restoration under Trump. The contrasting other (Biden administration) is present only as a negative space — named by omission, indicted by implication.

**Redemption arc mechanics:** Energy costs are *highest* now (implied) → will be *lowest* under Trump. Economy is *weakest* now (implied) → will be *strongest* under Trump. The superlatives perform the entire argument.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

This post registers as **maintenance-mode grandiosity** — routine supply-seeking from a campaign audience, not an acute response to injury. The narcissistic features present (omnipotent will, superlative self-positioning) are baseline-consistent for this subject.

The more clinically salient observation is the **absence of any acknowledgment** of the contemporaneous legal environment: Fulton County booking occurred days earlier, Judge Chutkan had just set a March 4, 2024 trial date, and the Mark Meadows federal hearing was ongoing. This total reality partition — between legal defendant and campaign president — is consistent with **operationalized denial** at a characterological level. It is not avoidance in the ordinary sense; it is the projection of an alternative reality in which the legal proceedings simply do not exist.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (immature):** The legal siege is structurally absent from the post's reality. Not mentioned, not addressed, not deflected — simply nonexistent within the communicative frame.
2. **Displacement (neurotic):** Anxiety generated by the week's legal events is channeled into aspirational campaign content. Energy policy becomes the container for existential defense.

### Cognitive Assessment

**Not assessable from this post.** Single aide-written sentence. No valid cognitive signal extractable.

## Rhetorical Analysis

Standard campaign boilerplate. The rhetorical load is carried by presupposition ("As President") rather than explicit argument. Superlatives ("lowest," "strongest") function as absolute closure devices — they preclude comparison or qualification. No dehumanization, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Order restorer positioning.** Post presents Trump as the agent who will re-establish proper hierarchy: American energy dominance, American economic supremacy. The current order (Biden-era) is framed as chaotic/failing by implication. Trump's presidency is framed as the restoration of natural, correct order.

## Contextual Note

The Jacksonville Dollar General white supremacist shooting occurred within days of this post (three Black victims, swastika-marked weapon). The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes were ongoing. Hurricane Idalia had just devastated Florida. None of these appear in this post or, per the longitudinal record, in this day's posting pattern. The campaign communication apparatus was operating in a fully siloed register.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Standard campaign aspirational content.

## Summary Judgment

Clinically unremarkable post. Its significance is contextual: the complete denial of a historically unprecedented legal week through the seamless projection of an alternative presidential identity is psychologically notable as a systemic pattern, not as an acute event. The post is a unit of a larger denial architecture.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "As President, I will ensure that America is the place where the cost of Energy is the lowest" | **Unverifiable** | Forward-looking campaign promise. No president controls global energy markets unilaterally. U.S. energy costs are influenced by global commodity markets, OPEC policy, infrastructure, and domestic regulatory environments. The U.S. already had among the lower retail energy costs in the developed world during Trump's first term, but 'lowest' globally is structurally implausible. |
| "As President, I will ensure... the Economy is the strongest" | **Unverifiable** | Prospective campaign promise. Unmeasurable as stated — 'strongest' by what metric, compared to what? Standard campaign superlative not susceptible to fact-checking until actualized. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- 4:07 PM CDT (business hours) — Trump was in Iowa campaigning
- Grammatically flawless, no typos or capitalization anomalies beyond standard Trump style
- Paired with professionally produced mp4 video attachment, indicating coordinated media operation
- Polished declarative structure ('As President, I will ensure…') consistent with scripted messaging
- Part of a coordinated multi-post Iowa campaign sequence with matching campaign links

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Iowa campaign rally audience)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Future-pacing: audiences are invited to mentally inhabit a future in which Trump has already won
- Identity anchoring: 'As President' presupposes victory, collapsing the distinction between candidate and incumbent

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> As President, I will ensure that America is the place where the cost of Energy is the lowest

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Forward-looking campaign promise. No president controls global energy markets unilaterally. U.S. energy costs are influenced by global commodity markets, OPEC policy, infrastructure, and domestic regulatory environments. The U.S. already had among the lower retail energy costs in the developed world during Trump's first term, but 'lowest' globally is structurally implausible.

Sources: EIA energy price data; IEA global energy price comparisons

> As President, I will ensure... the Economy is the strongest

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Prospective campaign promise. Unmeasurable as stated — 'strongest' by what metric, compared to what? Standard campaign superlative not susceptible to fact-checking until actualized.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- campaign-messaging (90%)
- aide-written (85%)
- denial-operation (70%)
- grandiosity-baseline (50%)
- energy-policy (80%)
- iowa-campaign (90%)
- restorer-king-archetype (70%)
- superlatives (80%)

## That day

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

**25-Post Blitz Buries Historic Legal Crisis Under DeSantis Attacks and Campaign Bravado**

Trump spent most of the day attacking Ron DeSantis from every angle -- his polling collapse, his donors fleeing, his electricity rate hikes -- while barely acknowledging the historic legal storm closing in around him. A brief flash of anger at Fox News for hosting Chris Christie and Bill Barr gave way to a sustained afternoon content blitz of over two dozen posts, many just shared links amplifying favorable coverage. The Fulton County mugshot, taken just days earlier, was acknowledged exactly once and immediately turned into a fundraising pitch. Notably absent from the entire day: any mention of Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, or the racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville. The overall mood was aggressively upbeat -- a performance of dominance and normalcy that seemed designed to drown out the legal reality.

Full digest for 2023-08-31: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 31). As President, I will ensure that America is the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986267012083716
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "As President, I will ensure that America is the place where..." Truth Social, 31 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986267012083716. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "As President, I will ensure that America is the place where...," Truth Social, August 31, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986267012083716.

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