# Post ts_111068622470959656 - Post ID: `ts_111068622470959656` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-15T10:11:21.757Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111068622470959656 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111068622470959656/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111068622470959656.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The all Electric Car is a disaster for both the United Auto Workers and the American Consumer. They will all be built in China and, they are too expensive, don’t go far enough, take too long to charge, and pose various dangers under certain atmospheric conditions. If this happens, the United Auto workers will be wiped out, along with all other auto workers in the United States. The all Electric Car policy is about as dumb as Open Borders and No Voter I.D. IT IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER! ## Engagement - Likes: 28,514 - Reposts: 9,177 - Replies: 2,278 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:35:33.946Z (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 at 6:11 AM Eastern on the precise morning the UAW strike began, this authentic Trump post is a real-time political intervention designed to capture blue-collar grievance. The post deploys his standard populist formula: fear framing (workers "wiped out"), foreign threat activation (China), and policy straw-manning (Biden's EV incentive framework misrepresented as a universal mandate). Rhetorically notable is the closing pivot linking EV policy to immigration and voter ID — a Trumpian tribal bundling technique that activates multiple grievance nodes through a single condemnatory parallel construction. Psychologically, the post reflects grandiose narcissistic state with supply-seeking trigger; no narcissistic injury is evident. Defenses include splitting (EVs = total disaster, zero nuance), distortion of policy reality, and rationalization via accumulated list-arguments. Cognitive markers are within established baseline — mild tangentiality in the closing pivot is a documented pattern. Fact claims range from half-true (cost, range, charge time) to mostly false (China manufacturing claim). No danger indicators, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism present. The post is clinically unremarkable relative to baseline, representing competent political opportunism executed in Trump's authentic voice at maximum strategic salience. # Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — September 15, 2023 (Electric Vehicles / UAW) ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 10:11 = approximately **6:11 AM Eastern** (Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago or in New York, both Eastern timezone). Early-morning posting is a strong authentic Trump indicator. **Stylistic markers supporting authenticity:** - Spurious comma after "China and," — a well-documented Trump grammatical tic - Stream-of-consciousness list structure without logical connective tissue - Emotional escalation climaxing in ALL CAPS finale ("IT IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER!") - Abrupt tangential pivot to "Open Borders and No Voter I.D." — classic Trumpian free-association from the proximate topic to the broader grievance agenda - The unusual phrasing "various dangers under certain atmospheric conditions" — elliptical, hedged in a way aides would avoid - Rendered character artifact "Car" consistent with copy-paste from a personal device **Assessment:** High confidence authentic Trump post. The 6 AM timing, grammatical errors, associative leap, and emotional escalation are all consonant with his documented pre-staff-briefing posting pattern. --- ## Contextual Trigger The UAW strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis **began on September 15, 2023 — the same day as this post**, with 12,700 workers walking out. This post is a direct, nearly real-time response to a politically salient event. The opportunity is clear: insert himself into the UAW narrative, compete with Biden for working-class framing, and attach a signature enemy (the EV mandate) to the strike grievance. This is **opportunistic supply-seeking** combined with **political positioning** — not primarily driven by narcissistic injury but by perceived electoral opening. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Observed Direction | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | High | Assertive, declarative, zero hedging | | **Agreeableness** | Low | Categorical dismissal ("as dumb as"), contempt, no acknowledgment of opposing view | | **Conscientiousness** | Low | Poorly organized argument, non-sequitur closing pivot | | **Neuroticism** (angry hostility) | Elevated | Escalating sentence rhythm, ALL CAPS terminal explosion | | **Openness** | Low | Rigid, zero acknowledgment of EV technology trajectory | **Dominant facets:** Assertiveness (E), angry hostility (N), low tender-mindedness (A). ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Motives) **Dominant motive: Power/Agency via status realignment.** The post is structured as a bid to claim ownership of the blue-collar worker identity — a constituency both parties are actively courting during the strike. The sequence "they will be wiped out" functions as a threat narrative that positions Trump as the only figure who sees (and could prevent) the danger. **Schema activation:** The post reveals a zero-sum, displacement-of-threat worldview — China wins, workers lose, Biden causes it. Self-schema as uniquely perceptive ("dumb as") and protective ("wiped out" unless he intervenes, implicitly). ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Protector/Cassandra — he alone sees the disaster; everyone else is blind or complicit - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination arc (good American manufacturing → Biden's EV policy → total destruction) - **Identity claims:** Populist champion, policy oracle, voice of the forgotten worker - **Contrasting other:** Biden administration; implicitly, elite EV advocates (coastal, technocratic, pro-China) - **Archetypal resonance:** Warrior/Cassandra hybrid — constant combat posture, delivering unheeded warnings ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The post lacks the wounded, persecutory quality of vulnerable narcissism; instead it is expansive, declarative, and authoritative. **Defense mechanisms:** 1. **Splitting (immature):** Technology is cleanly bifurcated — EVs = total disaster, traditional autos = virtuous. No partial or nuanced position admitted. 2. **Distortion (pathological):** "The all Electric Car policy" misrepresents Biden's actual EV incentive framework as a mandatory ban on ICE vehicles — a significant distortion of policy reality. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Five reasons are stacked in rapid succession (China manufacture, cost, range, charging time, atmospheric danger) giving an appearance of logical argument while each claim ranges from exaggerated to false. **Paranoid features:** Mild. "They will all be built in China" reflects a suspicion schema (America under siege, foreign capture of domestic industry) consistent with baseline paranoid ideation but not acute. --- ## Cognitive Status **Within baseline range.** Sentence structure is consistent with documented Trump speech patterns from this period — list-form reasoning, emotional escalation, terminal ALL CAPS. The phrase "various dangers under certain atmospheric conditions" is elliptical but likely refers to EV battery fires in flooding or extreme temperatures (a news topic in 2023); the imprecision is characteristic rather than indicative of word-finding failure. **Tangentiality:** The pivot from EV policy → "Open Borders and No Voter I.D." is the most notable marker. This associative leap — connecting unrelated policies through the shared predicate "dumb" — is a recurring pattern in Trump's posting (parallel construction as tribal marker) rather than a new cognitive finding. Consistent with baseline. **No acute cognitive deterioration markers detected** beyond established baseline. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis | Technique | Evidence | |---|---| | **Hyperbole/superlatives** | "complete and total disaster," "wiped out," "all" (universal claims) | | **Fear appeal** | "wiped out," implying economic annihilation of an entire workforce | | **False dichotomy** | EVs = destruction vs. implicit traditional auto = preservation | | **Straw man** | "all Electric Car policy" misrepresents Biden's incremental incentive approach as a mandate | | **Tricolon/list rhetoric** | "too expensive, don't go far enough, take too long to charge" — rhetorical accumulation giving false impression of comprehensive indictment | | **Parallel construction as tribal bundling** | Closing pivot to "Open Borders and No Voter I.D." links EV policy to immigration and election integrity in a single condemnatory package — activating multiple grievance nodes simultaneously | | **Populist victimhood framing** | "American Consumer," "United Auto Workers" — positions ordinary people as victims of elite policy | **Violent imagery:** None explicit. "Wiped out" has eliminationist overtones but in an economic register. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism:** Not present. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion 1. **"The all Electric Car policy"** — Biden did not mandate all-electric vehicles by 2023. The IRA included EV tax credits and EPA proposed stricter emissions standards encouraging (not mandating) EV adoption. The characterization of a universal mandate is a deliberate distortion. 2. **"They will all be built in China"** — Misrepresents reality; major EV manufacturers including Tesla, GM, and Ford produce EVs in the United States. Battery supply chain dependence on China is a legitimate concern but does not support "all will be built in China." These are rhetorical distortions deployed strategically rather than confabulatory cognitive errors — the specificity of the framing suggests calculated misrepresentation. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "They will all be built in China" | **Mostly False** | Major EVs are manufactured in the US: Tesla (Fremont CA), GM (Michigan, Tennessee), Ford (Kentucky, Tennessee). China dependence is real in battery materials and components but does not support 'all built in China' claim. | | "EVs are too expensive" | **Mostly True** | Average EV transaction price ~$53,000 in 2023 vs ~$48,000 for ICE vehicles; price premium was real, though EV incentives partially offset it. | | "Don't go far enough" | **Half True** | Average EV range ~250 miles in 2023; range anxiety is documented consumer concern but improving trajectory; adequate for majority of daily use cases. | | "Take too long to charge" | **Half True** | DC fast charging requires 30-45 minutes to 80%; slower than 5-minute gas fill. Level 2 home overnight charging is minimally burdensome for most users. Context-dependent. | | "Pose various dangers under certain atmospheric conditions" | **Half True** | EV battery fires in flooding and extreme temperatures are documented. However, ICE vehicles catch fire at higher statistical rates per mile. The vague framing overstates comparative risk. | | "United Auto Workers will be wiped out" | **Unverifiable** | EV transition job displacement is a studied economic concern; some analyses project net job losses in traditional auto manufacturing. 'Wiped out' is hyperbolic but references a real structural risk. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No dehumanizing language, no identifiable targets, no stochastic terrorism indicators, no calls to mobilization. The eliminationist language ("wiped out") is in the economic register and directed at a policy outcome, not a person or group. Standard political hyperbole. --- ## Summary This post is a real-time political intervention on the day the UAW strike began, using Trump's established rhetorical formula to insert himself into a high-visibility labor dispute. Stylistically authentic (6:11 AM Eastern, grammatical errors, ALL CAPS finale, associative tangent). The psychological dynamics are opportunistic rather than reactive — no narcissistic injury trigger is evident; instead this represents supply-seeking through working-class identification. Dominant defense is splitting, with Biden's EV incentive framework distorted into a mandatory all-EV policy that is then linked to China capture and worker annihilation. The closing triadic association of EV policy with "Open Borders and No Voter I.D." reveals the underlying cognitive architecture: disparate policy positions bundled as a single catastrophic Liberal project. Cognitive markers are within established baseline — the vague "atmospheric conditions" phrasing and tangential leap are characteristic rather than novel. No danger indicators. The post is clinically unremarkable relative to baseline, representing competent political opportunism executed in Trump's authentic voice, deploying well-practiced fear-based populist framing on the day it carries maximum salience. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - 6:11 AM Eastern posting time (pre-staff-briefing window) - Spurious comma after 'China and,' - Stream-of-consciousness list structure - ALL CAPS terminal emotional escalation - Tangential pivot to 'Open Borders and No Voter I.D.' ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (UAW strike beginning September 15 2023) Sentiment: -0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - ALL CAPS terminal escalation ('IT IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER!') - Rapid concatenation of multiple grievances without pause or qualification - Early morning posting before staff engagement ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% Cognitive Markers: - tangentiality **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('American Consumer', 'United Auto Workers') to claim proxy membership in blue-collar identity - Shared threat framing ('they will be wiped out') to activate protective bonding - Policy expertise performance to reinforce oracle status ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'The all Electric Car policy' — frames Biden's EV incentive/emissions framework as a mandatory all-EV ban, misrepresenting the actual policy to generate catastrophizing response - Implicit denial of US EV manufacturing reality through 'all built in China' claim ## Fact Checks (6) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > They will all be built in China **MOSTLY FALSE** Major EVs are manufactured in the US: Tesla (Fremont CA), GM (Michigan, Tennessee), Ford (Kentucky, Tennessee). China dependence is real in battery materials and components but does not support 'all built in China' claim. Sources: General knowledge of US EV manufacturing footprint as of 2023 > EVs are too expensive **MOSTLY TRUE** Average EV transaction price ~$53,000 in 2023 vs ~$48,000 for ICE vehicles; price premium was real, though EV incentives partially offset it. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 automotive market > Don't go far enough **HALF TRUE** Average EV range ~250 miles in 2023; range anxiety is documented consumer concern but improving trajectory; adequate for majority of daily use cases. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 EV specifications > Take too long to charge **HALF TRUE** DC fast charging requires 30-45 minutes to 80%; slower than 5-minute gas fill. Level 2 home overnight charging is minimally burdensome for most users. Context-dependent. Sources: General knowledge of EV charging infrastructure 2023 > Pose various dangers under certain atmospheric conditions **HALF TRUE** EV battery fires in flooding and extreme temperatures are documented. However, ICE vehicles catch fire at higher statistical rates per mile. The vague framing overstates comparative risk. Sources: General knowledge of EV safety data > United Auto Workers will be wiped out **UNVERIFIABLE** EV transition job displacement is a studied economic concern; some analyses project net job losses in traditional auto manufacturing. 'Wiped out' is hyperbolic but references a real structural risk. Sources: General knowledge of EV transition economic analyses Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - EV policy (90%) - UAW strike (85%) - China threat framing (80%) - populist appeal (80%) - early morning post (75%) - tribal bundling (70%) - straw man (70%) - splitting (65%) - supply seeking (65%) - grandiose state (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Anxiety Submerged Beneath Grandiose Myth-Building Erupts in Evening Rage Over Gag Order** A mostly quiet day of link-sharing and campaign promotion ended with the day's only original outburst — a heated response to Special Counsel Jack Smith's request for a gag order. The morning featured a well-timed post seizing on the UAW strike to attack Biden's electric vehicle policies, and a midnight "REMEMBER THE MAN" video that leaned into self-mythologizing. Most of the day's 19 posts were bare URL shares likely posted by staff, padding the feed with favorable polls and legal-defense commentary. The mood was confident on the surface, but the volume of legal-persecution articles shared early in the evening betrayed an underlying preoccupation with mounting courtroom pressure. Full digest for 2023-09-15: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-15/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 15). The all Electric Car is a disaster for both the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111068622470959656 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The all Electric Car is a disaster for both the United..." Truth Social, 15 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111068622470959656. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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