# Post ts_111095391149846897 - Post ID: `ts_111095391149846897` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-20T03:38:59.373Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111095391149846897.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Join Team Trump today at: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/join ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > remember that nothing worth doing is ever easy. You'll have bad moments. You gotta love what you're doing. And if you don't, just do something else. Keep standing up always for your values. Keep loving your country. And one of the most important things, never, ever quit. Never quit. Then ask yourself what imprint will you leave in the sands of history. What will future Americans say we did in our brief time right here on earth? Did we take risks? Did we dare to defy expectations? Did we challenge accepted wisdom and take on established systems? In my short time in Washington, I've seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone. Want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. But you aren't going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you're right. I know that each of you will be a warrior for the truth, will be a warrior for our country and for your family. I know that each of you will do what is right, not what is the easier way. And that you will be true to yourself and your country and your beliefs. Remember this, nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it. It's called the road less traveled. (upbeat music) ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/095/390/877/349/590/original/4dec173ba6efc88c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,113 - Reposts: 5,409 - Replies: 869 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:40:15.605Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "Join Team Trump" Campaign Recruitment Post (2023-09-20) ## Overview This post consists of a single imperative sentence and a campaign URL, accompanied by a video attachment. It is among the lowest-information posts in the corpus — a pure campaign call-to-action with no discernible psychological texture in the text itself. The analysis is accordingly brief and confidence-limited. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely aide-authored (Scavino or campaign staff) — medium confidence.** **Timing:** UTC 03:38:59 on September 20. Based on the known events (Meet the Press interview at Bedminster, NJ), Trump was likely in the Eastern time zone (EDT, UTC−4). Local time: **11:38 PM EDT on September 19** — technically late-night, which is a mild indicator of authentic Trump posting. However, the *content* is decisive in the other direction. The post is a polished, minimal, grammatically correct campaign recruitment imperative with a formatted URL. There are no typos, no emotional reactivity, no ALL CAPS passages, no stream-of-consciousness digression. The post is functionally indistinguishable from scheduled campaign content distributed by the digital team. The attached video (a produced campaign asset) further confirms professional campaign infrastructure driving this post. The late-night timing may reflect automated or scheduled posting rather than Trump personally typing at midnight. The adjacent posts — the multi-part abortion policy statement and the Agenda47 auto industry announcement — are similarly aide-coordinated, suggesting this was part of a planned content drop. **Assessment:** ~0.15 on the authentic Trump scale. This is campaign machinery, not personal expression. --- ## Psychological Analysis With only seven words of substantive content ("Join Team Trump today at"), meaningful psychological inference is impossible. No emotional state is legible. No narcissistic dynamics are activated. No defense mechanisms are deployed. No triggers are evident. The phrase "Team Trump" warrants a brief notation: it functions as a communion/belonging frame — inviting the audience into a collective identity defined by the subject. This is a standard parasocial technique (group membership appeal), but it is so formulaic in campaign contexts that it carries no diagnostic weight here. **Narcissistic state:** Indeterminate from this post alone. Cross-referencing the prior-day abortion posts (grandiose self-attribution: "I got the job done… something nobody thought was possible"), the broader period is consistent with a **grandiose** orientation — but that inference derives from other posts, not this one. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The single rhetorical device present is a **direct call to action** paired with an implicit **group identity appeal** ("Team Trump" — "you are either on the team or you are not"). The video likely carries the actual persuasive payload; the text is scaffolding. No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, or violent imagery are present. --- ## Cognitive Status No assessable language production. Sentence complexity is zero by design. No baseline deviation is detectable in a single-clause imperative. --- ## Contextual Note The post appears within a dense content cluster on the UAW strike / auto industry theme (the Agenda47 auto post is same-day) and a preceding multi-part abortion policy statement. The campaign was clearly executing a coordinated messaging cycle. This post is the recruitment funnel component of that cycle. --- ## Summary *Not clinically significant. No summary generated.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Single grammatically correct imperative sentence — no typos, no emotional markers - Formulaic campaign call-to-action indistinguishable from scheduled content - Accompanied by produced video asset indicating professional campaign infrastructure - Part of coordinated same-day content cluster (Agenda47 auto post, abortion series) - Late-night local timing (11:38 PM EDT) is a weak authentic indicator but outweighed by content evidence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign recruitment cycle) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Group identity/team membership appeal ('Team Trump') ## Tags - campaign-recruitment (100%) - aide-authored (85%) - call-to-action (90%) - low-information (100%) - team-identity (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Legal Siege, Trump Floods Feed with Biden Counter-Narrative While Posting Past 2 AM** Trump spent the day running a sustained counter-offensive against Biden, triggered by Biden's UN speech, the Hunter Biden indictment, and a new gag order request from Jack Smith. The morning and midday were dominated by attacks on Biden — calling him corrupt, mocking his UN delivery, and flooding the feed with partisan news links about Hunter. Brief flashes of anger surfaced around accusations of election interference and the gag order, but rage stayed controlled and strategic rather than spiraling. Late-night posting past 2 AM before a travel day to Iowa suggests limited sleep, though the day's output was mostly staff-managed link shares rather than personal rants. Full digest for 2023-09-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 20). Join Team Trump today at: https://www.donaldjtrump... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Join Team Trump today at: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/join" Truth Social, 20 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Join Team Trump today at: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/join," Truth Social, September 20, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_111095391149846897 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_111095391149846897 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_111095391149846897 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-20 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111095391149846897.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._