# Post ts_111059272470361121 - Post ID: `ts_111059272470361121` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-13T18:33:32.060Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111059272470361121 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111059272470361121/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111059272470361121.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > BIG INFLATION INCREASE. MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY THAN ANTICIPATED BY CROOKED JOE. WHAT A MESS!!! ## Engagement - Likes: 24,042 - Reposts: 6,945 - Replies: 1,539 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:36:10.498Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Reactive post to the August 2023 CPI report (released same morning), showing headline inflation at 3.7% YoY — up from 3.2% in July. Post is stylometrically authentic Trump despite afternoon timestamp: ALL-CAPS register, nickname weaponization, fragmented parataxis, exclamation piling. Grandiose narcissistic state operative; post functions as supply-seeking and preemptive 2024 campaign positioning. Inflation and immigration grievances are fused without causal logic — standard Trump rhetorical pattern bundling unrelated issues under a unified blame target. Defense mechanisms: projection ('CROOKED' attributes intent to Biden), splitting (pure bad-object construction), rationalization (simplified causal narrative). No baseline cognitive deviation detected; complexity is low but normative for this speaker and platform. Inflation increase was real but 'BIG' overstates a largely energy-driven spike against a disinflationary core trend (half_true); immigration claim unfalsifiable as stated. No danger indicators, dehumanization, or violent imagery present. Post is a well-worn unit of Trump's attack-rhetoric repertoire, confirming the stability of his pattern entering the 2024 primary season. # Analysis: ts_111059272470361121 — September 13, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution Posted at 18:33 UTC = **2:33 PM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly in New York or Bedminster, NJ during this period — his summer base). This falls squarely within business hours, which typically favors aide attribution. However, the stylometric fingerprint is strongly authentic: - Full ALL-CAPS throughout (classic authentic Trump register) - Nickname deployment: "CROOKED JOE" (established Trumpian lexicon) - Fragmented declarative bursts with no transitional syntax - Triple exclamation mark termination ("WHAT A MESS!!!") - Reactive to a same-day news event (BLS August CPI release, September 13) - No event-announcement or scheduling language The post reads as genuine reactive posting to the morning's inflation data, likely composed personally despite the afternoon timestamp. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic Trump.** --- ## Trigger Identification The immediate external trigger is the **Bureau of Labor Statistics August 2023 CPI report**, released this same morning, which showed headline inflation accelerating to 3.7% YoY (from 3.2% in July), driven primarily by energy prices. This constitutes classic **supply-seeking and preemptive attack** behavior: Trump converts an economic data point into 2024 campaign ammunition while simultaneously seeking validation from his base. The proximity of two separate grievance categories (inflation + immigration) in a single three-sentence post reflects **cognitive economy of resentment** — themes are fused without logical connective tissue, as they share a common rhetorical utility (Biden incompetence narrative). --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1 — Big Five Trait Expression - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, emotionally amplified language; public performance of indignation - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero conciliation; pure oppositional framing; nickname weaponization - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, unpolished; no evidential support offered; reactive rather than deliberative - **Neuroticism (high):** Angry hostility is the dominant affect; exclamation accumulation signals emotional dysregulation - **Openness (very low):** Rigid binary framing; no acknowledgment of systemic complexity; closed epistemic system ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate entirely.** Power and status positioning are the operative goals. There is no communion dimension — no appeal to shared struggle or collective care. The post functions as dominance assertion: *I see this, Biden caused this, I would not have caused this.* The implied contrast positions Trump as omniscient and Biden as incompetent or malicious ("CROOKED"). **Schema revealed:** World as zero-sum arena; political opponents as active agents of harm; self as uniquely capable of perceiving and correcting disorder. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The clear-eyed observer/critic who identifies catastrophe that others deny or cause - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — America was not like this; Biden converted good into bad - **Identity claims:** Implicitly, "I would have anticipated this / I would not have allowed this" - **Contrasting other:** "CROOKED JOE" — the foil is both incompetent (didn't anticipate) and corrupt (nickname implies intent) --- ## Psychological Dynamics ### Narcissistic State **Grandiose pole.** The post lacks the wounded, persecutory quality of the vulnerable narcissistic state. Instead it is expansive, confident in its attack, and implicitly self-elevating. Trump positions himself above the situation rather than victimized by it. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** The "CROOKED" designation attributes moral corruption to the object of attack, projecting chaos-causation onto Biden rather than acknowledging structural/systemic economic drivers 2. **Splitting (immature):** Pure bad-object construction; no nuance, no shared causation, no historical context — Biden is responsible for everything wrong 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The inflation/immigration pairing implies a causal logic (open border → economic strain) that simplifies a complex reality into an emotionally satisfying narrative ### Malignant Narcissism Components (this post) - **Narcissistic features:** Moderate-high; grandiosity, implicit entitlement to correct assessment - **Antisocial features:** Low-moderate; limited to nickname-based delegitimization - **Paranoid features:** Moderate; "CROOKED" implies intentional malfeasance rather than policy disagreement - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Low; this post is more triumphalist than cruel --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Hyperbole:** "BIG," "MILLIONS MORE," "WHAT A MESS" — all intensity amplifiers without quantitative grounding - **Ad hominem:** "CROOKED JOE" performs character assassination to preempt substantive engagement - **False attribution:** Complex macroeconomic phenomena attributed entirely to a single political actor - **Capitalization as paralinguistic device:** ALL-CAPS substitutes for vocal amplitude; creates urgency and alarm without argumentation - **Paratactic structure:** Three disconnected declarative blasts — no conjunctions, no causation markers — mimics spontaneous outrage; the form enacts the content **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators.** --- ## Cognitive Markers Post is brief, structurally simple, and consistent with Trump's established baseline register. No word-finding anomalies, no paraphasias, no temporal confusion. The ALL-CAPS fragmented style is his characteristic idiom since at least 2015. **No baseline deviation detected.** Complexity score is low but that is normative for this channel and speaker. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "BIG INFLATION INCREASE" | **Half True** | August 2023 CPI (released Sept 13) showed headline inflation accelerating to 3.7% YoY from 3.2% in July, driven largely by gasoline prices (+10.6% monthly). However, core CPI fell from 4.7% to 4.3% — the underlying trend was disinflationary. An increase occurred but 'BIG' overstates a largely energy-driven, partially transitory spike. | | "MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY THAN ANTICIPATED BY CROOKED JOE" | **Unverifiable** | FY2023 border encounters were at historically elevated levels — the factual basis for elevated crossings exists. However, 'more than anticipated' is a mental-state attribution that cannot be verified against actual administration projections, making the specific claim unfalsifiable as stated. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary This post is a textbook example of Trump's reactive campaign-mode register: brief, all-caps, emotionally amplified, triggered by same-day economic data, and structurally organized around Biden delegitimization. The August 2023 CPI report (3.7% headline, up from 3.2%) provides the immediate stimulus. The post fuses two grievance categories — inflation and immigration — without logical connective tissue, reflecting a stable cognitive-rhetorical pattern: bad outcomes are paired under the banner of Biden incompetence/corruption regardless of causal relationship. Psychologically, the grandiose narcissistic state is operative; there is no vulnerable or persecutory coloring here. Defense mechanisms are characteristic: projection, splitting, and false attribution. Stylometrically, the post is almost certainly authentic Trump despite the 2:33 PM EDT timestamp, given the reactive quality, nickname deployment, and ALL-CAPS register. No clinically anomalous features are present relative to his established baseline. Danger level is none — no dehumanization, no eliminationist language, no mobilization call. The post is notable primarily as a data point confirming the stability and consistency of his attack-rhetoric pattern entering the 2024 primary season. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - ALL-CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump posting register - Nickname 'CROOKED JOE' is established personal Trumpian lexicon - Triple exclamation termination ('WHAT A MESS!!!') - Fragmented paratactic structure with no transitional syntax - Reactive timing to same-day BLS CPI release ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (August 2023 CPI release showing inflation acceleration to 3.7% YoY — converted into campaign ammunition) Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - ALL-CAPS as shared alarm signal — inviting audience to co-experience indignation - Nickname weaponization creates in-group language ('CROOKED JOE') - Declarative certainty positions Trump as the reliable truth-teller vis-à-vis mainstream media ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > BIG INFLATION INCREASE **HALF TRUE** August 2023 CPI (released Sept 13) showed headline inflation accelerating to 3.7% YoY from 3.2% in July, driven largely by gasoline prices (+10.6% monthly). However, core CPI fell from 4.7% to 4.3% — the underlying trend was disinflationary. An increase occurred but 'BIG' overstates a largely energy-driven, partially transitory spike. Sources: BLS Consumer Price Index August 2023 release, September 13 2023 > MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY THAN ANTICIPATED BY CROOKED JOE **UNVERIFIABLE** FY2023 border encounters were at historically elevated levels — the factual basis for elevated crossings exists. However, 'more than anticipated' is a mental-state attribution that cannot be verified against actual administration projections, making the specific claim unfalsifiable as stated. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - inflation (90%) - immigration (70%) - Biden attack (95%) - ALL-CAPS (80%) - grandiose state (70%) - supply-seeking (65%) - reactive posting (75%) - CPI response (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grandiose Baseline Day: Late-Night Putin Validation, Romney Victory Lap, and a 14-Post Link Dump** A moderately busy day of 27 posts was dominated by self-congratulation and rival-bashing, with Trump celebrating Romney's retirement, mocking DeSantis's declining polls, and attacking Biden over inflation numbers. The most notable moment came after midnight when he cited Putin's criticism of America as validation of his own persecution claims — a rare instance of openly leveraging hostile foreign propaganda. A massive midday burst of shared links, mostly posted by staff, padded the count, while a two-part morning response to a New York Times article revealed disproportionate sensitivity to any suggestion of cognitive error. Full digest for 2023-09-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 13). BIG INFLATION INCREASE. MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111059272470361121 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "BIG INFLATION INCREASE. MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE POURING INTO..." Truth Social, 13 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111059272470361121. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "BIG INFLATION INCREASE. 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