# Post ts_111010393362766065

- Post ID: `ts_111010393362766065`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-05T03:22:56.120Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of “all Electric Cars” goes into effect. CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%. United Auto Workers, VOTE FOR TRUMP. Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME, I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS, AND BRING IN MANY MORE. CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 23,871
- Reposts: 7,062
- Replies: 1,416
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T07:59:29.182Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Late-night (11:22 PM EDT) authentic-Trump post targeting Michigan autoworkers ahead of the anticipated UAW labor action (strike began September 14). The post follows the established Trump rhetorical template: existential threat construction (EV mandate → no auto industry), China-threat amplification ("CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%"), savior self-nomination, and mobilization imperative. Psychological state is stable-grandiose: the subject presents as economic omnipotent ("I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS, AND BRING IN MANY MORE"), exhibits explicit entitlement in demanding organizational endorsement ("Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME"), and deploys China-threat framing as a fear anchor. Defense mechanisms include splitting, projection, and reality distortion via hyperbolic absolutes. Factual claims range from false to half-true. A mild tangential leap to "CHOICE IN SCHOOLS" at the close suggests free-associative construction but does not meet the threshold for cognitive concern. No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. Danger level: none. The post is clinically unremarkable relative to baseline — competent grandiose-narcissistic campaigning in a high-value swing-state demographic, consistent with longitudinal patterns.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-05T03:22:56Z

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at 03:22 UTC on September 5, 2023. Trump was almost certainly on the East Coast (likely Bedminster, NJ or New York) during this period; no travel events are noted. EDT = UTC−4, placing post time at **11:22 PM local**. This is firmly within the late-night authentic-Trump window (post-10 PM). Stylistic markers heavily confirm authenticity: proprietary nickname deployment ("Crooked Joe"), ALL CAPS outbursts, triple-exclamation terminus, stream-of-consciousness pivot to school choice (a non-sequitur to the car-industry frame), and the characteristically compressed, urgent voter-mobilization cadence. Aide-written posts rarely exhibit the tangential leap from "CHOICE IN CARS" to "CHOICE IN SCHOOLS" — this is the associative wandering of an unmediated mind.

**Authorship confidence: HIGH (authentic Trump)**

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## Psychological State & Triggers

The post arrives within a cluster of supply-seeking posts from the same day: a poll headline, a MMA celebrity endorsement, a "MAGA" chant, and a quote validating his "undefeatable" status. This post breaks that validation loop with an outward-directed *preemptive attack* — mobilizing autoworkers against Biden before the UAW strike formally begins (the UAW would strike September 14). The psychological trigger here is dual: (a) **supply-seeking** via the implied offer of salvation to Michigan workers, and (b) **preemptive territory-claiming** in a swing-state demographic. There is no narcissistic injury visible here; this is an expansive, grandiose-state post.

**Narcissistic state: GRANDIOSE**

The "CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%" line is the emotional peak — an existential catastrophizing that serves as the fear anchor around which the savior pivot is constructed. The self-nomination ("VOTE FOR TRUMP," "Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME") is characteristically unsubtle, reflecting high entitlement and low self-monitoring.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five):**
- *Extraversion*: Very high. Assertive, dominant, direct voter mobilization.
- *Agreeableness*: Very low. Antagonism toward Biden, zero acknowledgment of complexity, imperious tone toward union leaders ("Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME").
- *Conscientiousness*: Low. No policy detail, no evidence base, impulsive structure.
- *Neuroticism*: Elevated. Fear-based threat construction (China, job loss), angry hostility toward Biden.
- *Openness*: Low. Binary framing, no consideration of alternative policy paths.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives):**
Dominant motive is *power/agency* — the post is structured around his capacity to control economic outcomes ("I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS"). Communion motive is instrumental: appeals to autoworkers are transactional ("VOTE FOR TRUMP" in exchange for job protection), not genuine affiliation. The self-schema is explicitly messianic.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- *Protagonist role*: Savior/Protector of "forgotten" industrial workers
- *Narrative sequence*: Contamination (good Michigan auto industry → destroyed by Biden's "crazed" EV mandate → China capture) immediately arrested by a redemption pivot (Trump returns → jobs restored and multiplied)
- *Identity claims*: Economic omnipotence ("I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS, AND BRING IN MANY MORE")
- *Contrasting other*: "Crooked Joe Biden" — criminal/corrupt against his own implied legitimacy

The "CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS!!!" closing is a tangential rhetorical flourish that echoes conservative liberty-framing but has no organic connection to the preceding auto-industry argument. It reads as free-associative, a reflexive invocation of culture-war vocabulary.

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## Defense Mechanisms

- **Splitting** (immature): Biden's EV policy is "crazed"; Trump's undefined alternative is unambiguously beneficial. No middle ground exists.
- **Projection** (immature): "Crazed" attribution to Biden carries the implication of irrationality, displacing the emotional dysregulation visible in the post itself onto the target.
- **Rationalization** (neurotic): The China-threat frame provides pseudo-logical scaffolding for what is fundamentally an emotional, audience-mobilization appeal.
- **Distortion** (pathological): "Michigan will not have an auto industry" is a gross distortion of policy reality; "CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%" is a reality-reshaping absolute.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Hyperbole**: "will not have an auto industry anymore"; "CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%"
- **False dichotomy**: Biden EV policy = national economic destruction; Trump = total salvation
- **Appeal to fear**: China economic domination as existential threat to livelihood
- **Ad hominem**: "Crooked Joe Biden's crazed concept" — attacks credibility and sanity simultaneously
- **Direct mobilization**: Explicit voter instruction ("VOTE FOR TRUMP") and organizational pressure ("Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME")
- **Pseudo-liberty framing**: "CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS" borrows from parental-rights rhetoric and applies it here as a unifying freedom motif
- **Superlatives**: "GREAT JOBS," "GREAT State" — routine aggrandizement

No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.

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## Cognitive Status Markers

Relative to baseline, this post is coherent and follows a recognizable Trump argumentative template (identify threat → invoke China → offer self as solution → mobilization call). The school-choice non-sequitur is a mild tangentiality but is not clinically significant in isolation — it may reflect associative priming from other policy discussions of the period. Vocabulary is unsophisticated and consistent with established baseline. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic errors, or temporal confusion observed.

**Baseline deviation: NONE**

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## Danger Assessment

**NONE.** The post is economically populist campaign rhetoric. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no target + grievance + implied action structure. Mobilization is toward voting and union endorsement pressure — conventional political activity.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Biden's EV policy goes into effect" | **False** | Biden's EV mandates and Inflation Reduction Act domestic content requirements are specifically designed to onshore EV manufacturing. Michigan has attracted billions in new EV investment from GM and Ford under this framework. The claim inverts the actual policy intent and observed investment trajectory. |
| "CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%" | **Mostly False** | China leads in EV battery supply chains and has significant EV manufacturing capacity, but the IRA contains explicit domestic content requirements designed to limit Chinese component eligibility for tax credits. The 100% absolute is hyperbolic distortion; US domestic EV manufacturing is expanding, not collapsing. |
| "Biden's policy is a concept of 'all Electric Cars'" | **Half True** | Biden's EPA proposed rules in 2023 aimed at effectively ending new ICE vehicle sales by approximately 2032, which is aggressive. However, 'all Electric Cars' overstates the immediacy, ignores hybrid carveouts, and frames a phased regulatory target as an absolute mandate already in effect. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Summary

This late-night (11:22 PM EDT) authentic-Trump post represents textbook grandiose-narcissistic campaigning: a preemptive strike into Michigan autoworker territory ahead of anticipated UAW labor unrest. Psychologically it is a supply-seeking/territory-claiming hybrid — Trump positions himself as economic savior by catastrophizing Biden's EV policy through a China-threat frame, then executing the savior pivot with characteristic imperious directness. Defense mechanisms include splitting, projection of irrationality onto Biden, and gross reality distortion via hyperbolic absolute claims. Rhetorical architecture follows the established Trump template (threat → villain identification → self-nomination → mobilization imperative) with a reflexive liberty-framing coda ("CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS") suggesting associative rather than deliberate construction. Factual claims are largely false to mostly false. No danger indicators are present. The post is clinically unremarkable against established baseline — it represents stable-grandiose functioning consistent with prior longitudinal patterns, not a deviation requiring elevated concern.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 11:22 PM EDT posting time — within authentic late-night window
- Proprietary nickname 'Crooked Joe Biden' — consistent Trump lexicon
- ALL CAPS outbursts across multiple clauses
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot to school choice with no logical bridge
- Triple exclamation terminus

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Michigan autoworkers / UAW demographic ahead of anticipated labor unrest)

Sentiment: -0.20

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple ALL CAPS passages within a single post
- Rapid topic change from auto industry to school choice without logical bridge
- Urgent, pressured mobilization directives ('VOTE FOR TRUMP', 'Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME')
- Triple exclamation point terminus
- Grandiose economic promises without evidential basis

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to UAW membership over heads of their leaders
- Economic protection offer creating dependency narrative
- Savior framing that positions followers as requiring rescue

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Biden's EV policy goes into effect

**FALSE**

Biden's EV mandates and Inflation Reduction Act domestic content requirements are specifically designed to onshore EV manufacturing. Michigan has attracted billions in new EV investment from GM and Ford under this framework. The claim inverts the actual policy intent and observed investment trajectory.

Sources: General knowledge of IRA domestic content provisions; Michigan EV investment announcements 2022-2023

> CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%

**MOSTLY FALSE**

China leads in EV battery supply chains and has significant EV manufacturing capacity, but the IRA contains explicit domestic content requirements designed to limit Chinese component eligibility for tax credits. The 100% absolute is hyperbolic distortion; US domestic EV manufacturing is expanding, not collapsing.

Sources: General knowledge of IRA Section 30D domestic content rules

> Biden's policy is a concept of 'all Electric Cars'

**HALF TRUE**

Biden's EPA proposed rules in 2023 aimed at effectively ending new ICE vehicle sales by approximately 2032, which is aggressive. However, 'all Electric Cars' overstates the immediacy, ignores hybrid carveouts, and frames a phased regulatory target as an absolute mandate already in effect.

Sources: General knowledge of EPA proposed vehicle emissions rules 2023

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- campaign-mobilization (95%)
- china-threat-framing (90%)
- grandiose-narcissism (80%)
- economic-populism (85%)
- michigan-autoworkers (90%)
- ev-policy (88%)
- fear-appeal (82%)
- authentic-trump (85%)
- late-night-post (80%)
- reality-distortion (75%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Day: 49 Posts Oscillate Between Grandiose Supply-Seeking and Rage-Fueled Projection as Tarrio Gets 22 Years**

A heavy posting day of 49 posts, driven by the sentencing of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years for seditious conspiracy and the looming Georgia arraignment the next morning. The late morning featured a rapid-fire dump of over 20 links in under 40 minutes, building a legal defense wall out of borrowed voices and right-wing media clips. The afternoon pivoted to rehabilitating the mugshot as a badge of "street cred," while the evening escalated into direct, angry attacks on the January 6th committee and Jack Smith — with Trump accusing investigators of destroying classified documents, the same type of charge he himself faces. The day ended hotter than it started, with the final posts landing as raw, all-caps fury about political persecution.

Full digest for 2023-09-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 5). The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111010393362766065
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry..." Truth Social, 5 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111010393362766065. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry...," Truth Social, September 5, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111010393362766065.

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