# Post ts_111097998081899121 - Post ID: `ts_111097998081899121` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-20T14:41:57.997Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111097998081899121 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111097998081899121/analysis ## Post text > https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-soars-past-biden-key-swing-states-poll ## Engagement - Likes: 7,770 - Reposts: 1,883 - Replies: 141 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:39:49.449Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Post Analysis: Truth Social — 2023-09-20T14:41:57Z ## Overview This post consists entirely of a bare URL to a *Just the News* article headlined "Trump Soars Past Biden in Key Swing States Poll." There is no original text, commentary, capitalization, or emotional expression. It is one of at least five URL-only posts published by the account on the same day, all linking to articles favorable to Trump or damaging to Biden (Hunter Biden gun charges, Biden polling weakness, Biden-Ukraine-Shokin narrative). This clustering pattern is analytically significant. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: High confidence aide-authored (Scavino or equivalent)** The UTC timestamp of 14:41:57 converts to approximately **10:41 AM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly in or near New York City during UN General Assembly week — Biden's UN address occurred the same day). This is squarely within business hours. The post exhibits every marker of aide curation: - No original text, no emotional commentary - Correct URL with no typos - Part of a batch of thematically coordinated URL drops on the same day - Professional, frictionless presentation - No ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness, no grammatical irregularities Authentic Trump posts — especially supply-seeking ones about favorable polls — typically include exuberant commentary ("GREAT POLL! Thank you!"). The total absence of any personal voice is the primary indicator. --- ## Psychological State & Dynamics Despite minimal direct content, the *selection* of this article is psychologically informative. **Trigger:** This post fits a **supply-seeking** pattern. With Hunter Biden's federal gun indictment dominating the news cycle, Trump and his team were executing a coordinated same-day narrative: (1) Biden is corrupt, (2) Biden is weak, (3) Trump is winning. The polling share completes a three-part attack: legal → political → electoral. **Narcissistic state:** The selection reflects the **grandiose pole** — not wounded/vulnerable, but triumphalist. "Soars past Biden" is the framing. The word "soars" is particularly apt: flight imagery connoting dominance, effortlessness, superiority. Even in aide-mediated form, the content selection expresses the grandiose self-narrative. **Motive structure:** Dominant motive is **agency/status** — the poll validates superiority over a rival. There is no communion signal here. The post participates in a devaluation sequence targeting Biden (already established across the day's earlier posts). --- ## Defense Mechanisms Given the absence of original text, defense mechanisms must be inferred from content selection rather than language: - **Projection (immature):** The clustering of Hunter Biden corruption posts alongside this poll implicitly frames Biden as corrupt *and* losing — projecting failure and criminality onto the opponent while the subject is cast as clean and ascending. - **Splitting:** The day's posting pattern constructs a clean binary: Biden = corrupt + failing; Trump = vindicated + winning. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques The rhetorical work here is entirely structural and curatorial: - **Amplification via curation:** Sharing without comment forces the headline to speak as unmediated fact. The absence of a personal frame paradoxically lends it more authority. - **Superlative framing (headline):** "Soars past" is hyperbolic language embedded in the shared headline — Trump benefits from the framing without authoring it, providing deniability. - **Coordination/Firehose element:** Five URL drops in one day on the same thematic cluster (Biden corruption + Biden weakness) mirrors RAND Firehose tactics — volume and repetition to saturate the information environment. - **Source selection:** *Just the News* (John Solomon's outlet) and Newsmax are ideologically aligned platforms. Citing them is an epistemic closure signal — the in-group recognizes these as legitimate; the out-group dismisses them. --- ## Narrative Identity (Level 3) Even in this minimal form, the post participates in Trump's master narrative: - **Redemption arc in progress:** Legal jeopardy (multiple indictments) → poll dominance → inevitable return. This article is a narrative beat: despite everything, he is winning. - **Protagonist role:** The absent hero whose numbers speak for themselves. - **Contrasting other:** Biden as the implicit foil — corrupt, weak, losing. --- ## Cognitive Status No language production to assess. Cognitively uninformative. The aide-authored nature removes this post from any longitudinal cognitive tracking utility. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump leads Biden in key swing states polls (mid-September 2023)" | **Mostly True** | Multiple legitimate polls in late August–September 2023 showed Trump leading Biden in several key swing states including PA, MI, WI, AZ, GA, NV. NYT/Siena July 2023 poll showed Trump ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. The directional claim is supported; 'soars past' is hyperbolic framing. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no targeting, no violent imagery. Routine political supply-seeking via favorable poll citation. --- ## Summary *Not clinically significant as an individual post.* The post is a bare URL share, almost certainly aide-authored, published during business hours as part of a coordinated same-day information campaign. Its psychological signal value lies in its context: it is the triumphalist capstone (Trump winning) to a series of attack posts (Biden corrupt, Biden weak). The curation reflects a grandiose supply-seeking state operationalized through staff. No original language, no cognitive signal, no danger indicators. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (~10:41 AM EDT) - Bare URL with zero original text - Part of coordinated batch of 5 URL-only posts same day - No typos, ALL CAPS, emotional language, or stream-of-consciousness markers - Professional curation without personal voice ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable swing-state polling data) Sentiment: +0.70 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Amplification by silence — headline speaks as unmediated fact without personal framing - Epistemic closure via ideologically aligned source selection ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump leads Biden in key swing states polls (mid-September 2023) **MOSTLY TRUE** Multiple legitimate polls in late August–September 2023 showed Trump leading Biden in several key swing states including PA, MI, WI, AZ, GA, NV. NYT/Siena July 2023 poll showed Trump ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. The directional claim is supported; 'soars past' is hyperbolic framing. Sources: NYT/Siena College polling July-September 2023; General polling environment mid-2023 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (95%) - supply-seeking (80%) - grandiose-state (60%) - coordinated-narrative (85%) - epistemic-closure (70%) - polling-content (90%) - anti-biden-campaign (85%) ## 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). https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-soar... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111097998081899121 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-soars-past-bid..." Truth Social, 20 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111097998081899121. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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