# Post ts_110986400865532875 - Post ID: `ts_110986400865532875` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-31T21:41:19.617Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986400865532875 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986400865532875/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110986400865532875.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > We owe our children GREAT schools that lead to incredible jobs, so that they can have a wonderful life. I want them to be more successful than “TRUMP!” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world, and yet we get the worst outcomes. We're at the bottom of every list, and total American society pours more than a trillion dollars a year into public education systems, but instead of being at the top of the list, we are literally right smack, guess what, at the bottom. Rather than indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material, which is what we're doing now, our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work, and in life, and the world of keeping our country strong so they can grow up to be happy, prosperous, and independent citizens. We owe our children great schools that lead to great jobs and leads to an even greater country that we're living in right now. Right now, we're living in a failing nation because of Joe Biden and these people running it. They're Marxists, they're communists. What they're doing to our country is incredible, but we'll take care of that for our children. Here are 10 key ideas that will power our movement for great schools. First, we will respect the right of parents to control the education of their children. And we will empower parents and local school board to hire and reward great principals and teachers, and also to fire the poor ones, the one whose performance is unsatisfactory. They will be fired, like on "The Apprentice." You're fired. Third, we will ensure our classrooms are focused not on political indoctrination, but on teaching the knowledge and skills needed to succeed, reading, writing, math, science, arithmetic, and other truly useful subjects. Fourth, we will teach students to love their country, not to hate their country like they're taught right now. Fifth, we will support bringing back prayer to our schools. Sixth, we will achieve schools that are safe, secure, and drug-free, with immediate expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student. Seventh, we will give all parents the right to choose another school for their children if they want, it's called school choice. Eighth, we will ensure students have access to project-based learning experiences inside the classroom to help train them for meaningful work outside the classroom. Ninth, we will strive to give all students access to internships and work experiences that can set them on a path to their first job. They're going to be very, very successful. I want them to be more successful than Trump, let them go out and be more successful. I will be the happiest person in the world, but we want our children to have a great life and be successful. And tenth, we will ensure that all schools provide excellent jobs and career counseling so that high school and college students can get a head start on jobs and careers best suited to their God-given talents. This is how we will ensure a great education for every American child. And one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education, work, and needs back to the states. We want them to run the education of our children because they'll do a much better job of it. You can't do worse. We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other nation, and yet we're absolutely at the bottom. We're one of the worst. So you can't do worse. We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C. We're going to close it up, all those buildings all over the place, and you have people that in many cases hate our children. We're going to send it all back to the states. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/986/398/767/726/031/original/95fbe0dcc84fb0a5.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,311 - Reposts: 5,564 - Replies: 968 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:07:19.872Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This campaign-mode post presents a rare prosocial surface, but its most analytically significant feature is the narcissistic architecture embedded in its closing line. The statement "I want them to be more successful than 'TRUMP!'" performs humility while covertly installing the subject as the universal success benchmark — even altruism becomes self-referential. The capitalization of "TRUMP!" as branded noun reinforces ego-syntonic grandiosity. Authorship is likely aide-drafted (5:41 PM ET, polished structure, attached campaign video) with a retained or dictated Trumpian flourish in the closer. The sharp tonal discontinuity from surrounding posts — which focus on mugshot fundraising, DeSantis attacks, and the mug shot — suggests deliberate campaign strategy to appeal to a softer parental demographic rather than authentic affect. No aggression, dehumanizing language, or danger indicators are present. Psychologically, the post reflects supply-seeking through aspirational identification: the subject associates himself with the universal parental desire for children's flourishing. The absent "contrasting other" (DeSantis dominates all adjacent posts) is itself notable, suggesting content was scripted in isolation from Trump's active preoccupations. Clinical significance is low; the post is most useful longitudinally as a data point on the gap between managed campaign persona and authentic posting behavior. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-31T21:41Z ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely aide-drafted (confidence: medium) | Score: 0.35** The post was published at **5:41 PM Eastern Time** (Trump was almost certainly in New York or Florida given the campaign activity and Hurricane Idalia context). This falls squarely in business hours — a consistent aide-attribution indicator. The attached MP4 confirms this is part of a coordinated campaign content push rather than an impulsive authentic post. Grammar is clean, sentences complete, tone deliberately aspirational. However, the closing construction — *"more successful than 'TRUMP!'"* — carries authentic fingerprints: the capitalized self-branded reference, the scare-quoted proper noun, and the narcissistically self-inserting logic are too precise to be purely aide-generated. Most plausible interpretation: aide-scripted campaign content with a Trumpian flourish either retained from dictation or ad-libbed during filming. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits This post activates an unusually high **communion** dimension for this subject — appeals to children's futures, parental aspiration, collective obligation ("we owe our children"). Agreeableness is elevated relative to baseline. **Neuroticism is near-absent** — no hostile affect, no anxious reactivity — consistent with managed campaign persona rather than authentic emotional state. **Extraversion** remains high in the aspirational performance register. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Status/agency via benefactor framing.** The subject positions himself as a champion of children's futures, which functions as a status-claim even while appearing communal. The closing self-reference makes the underlying agency motive explicit: *his* success is the implicit ceiling against which children should aspire. The **schema** revealed: "I am the benchmark of achievement; to succeed is, by definition, to approach what I have accomplished." ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Benefactor / Champion for families — a deliberate pivot from the Warrior/Trickster roles dominant in surrounding posts - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption-adjacent (the implied future is better than the present) - **Identity claims:** "I am a champion for children," "I want others to succeed" (performed); "TRUMP is the standard of success" (embedded) - **Contrasting other:** Notably *absent* — the entire day's posting stream is otherwise organized around DeSantis as contrasting other. The absence here confirms scripted campaign content that was drafted independently of Trump's active preoccupations ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic structure within prosocial framing (medium confidence):** The statement "I want them to be more successful than 'TRUMP!'" is the psychological crux of this post. On the surface it performs humility. Structurally, it establishes the subject as the universal success benchmark — children's aspirational summit is defined as *surpassing him*. This is a classic narcissistic maneuver documented in the literature on grandiose narcissism: apparent self-deprecation that simultaneously centers the self as the measure of all things (cf. Ronningstam, 2005). The capitalization and branding of "TRUMP!" as a quasi-institutional noun reinforces this pattern. Even altruism becomes a vehicle for self-aggrandizement. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Reaction formation (neurotic):** The prosocial, other-focused framing stands in stark contrast to the surrounding day's posts (mugshot fundraising, DeSantis attacks, mug shot jokes). The performance of generosity and parental concern appears in the context of a day otherwise dominated by grievance and aggression. This tonal flip suggests the prosocial content is strategically manufactured rather than emerging from genuine affect. 2. **Idealization (immature):** "GREAT schools," "incredible jobs," "wonderful life" — the hyperbolic idealization of outcomes reflects the characteristic splitting pattern where things are either superlative or catastrophic. No middle register. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Low-aggression, soft-power persuasion mode.** This post deploys: - **Aspirational future-framing** (appeal to universal parental hope) - **Inclusive "we" pronoun** manufacturing shared obligation - **Pseudo-humility** functioning as covert credential-claiming - **Self-referential brand insertion** (the "TRUMP!" standard) No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is clearly designed for a broader demographic than base activation — likely parents, moderates, or swing-state persuasion targets. The strategic context (late August 2023, crowded primary, DeSantis threat) makes coalition-broadening rational. --- ## Cognitive Status No anomalies detected. Simple syntactic structures, elementary vocabulary (Flesch-Kincaid consistent with Trump's documented baseline ~grade 4-6). The coherence is slightly above authentic-mode baseline, which is consistent with aide drafting. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or perseveration. --- ## Tonal Discontinuity Flag The most analytically notable feature of this post is its **sharp tonal discontinuity** from the surrounding stream. On the same day, Trump posted: mugshot fundraising appeals, "REALLY BAD POLLING FOR RON DESANCTIMONIOUS," detailed DeSantis vote-count attacks, and mug shot jokes. This post — with its aspirational rhetoric about children's futures — reads as content from a different psychological register entirely, consistent with a campaign content calendar rather than emotional authenticity. --- ## Danger Assessment: **None** No threat indicators, dehumanizing language, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism patterns present. This is among the lowest-danger posts in the observed stream. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Post time is 5:41 PM Eastern (business hours), consistent with aide activity - MP4 attachment suggests coordinated campaign content push - Complete, grammatically correct sentences with aspirational tone - Polished campaign messaging structure atypical of late-night authentic posts - However, 'GREAT' capitalization and the clunky self-referential closer ('more successful than TRUMP!') carry authentic Trumpian fingerprints ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Campaign audience / general electorate) Sentiment: +0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - reaction formation (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inclusive 'we' framing to create shared stake with audience parents - Aspirational projection onto children as proxy for audience validation - Self-insertion as success benchmark ('more successful than TRUMP!') — establishes the subject as the implicit ceiling/reference point even within an ostensibly humble statement ## Tags - education (60%) - supply-seeking (70%) - embedded-grandiosity (75%) - aide-drafted (65%) - campaign-messaging (80%) - prosocial-surface (60%) - self-as-benchmark (72%) ## 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). We owe our children GREAT schools that lead to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986400865532875 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We owe our children GREAT schools that lead to incredible..." 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