# Post ts_111109586180797563 - Post ID: `ts_111109586180797563` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-22T15:48:58.356Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111109586180797563 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111109586180797563/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111109586180797563.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The Democrats are the Party of both! ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/109/586/143/319/836/original/dd89d1d11b1b8287.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 11,610 - Reposts: 3,614 - Replies: 748 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:22.977Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "The Democrats are the Party of both!" — September 22, 2023 ## Critical Limitation This post's semantic meaning is almost entirely dependent on the attached image (`dd89d1d11b1b8287.jpg`). The nine-word caption functions as a caption-hook, rendering the text analytically incomplete in isolation. The word "both" is a deictic pronoun pointing entirely to visual content. Any deep psychological inference from the text alone must be held tentatively. ## Contextual Reconstruction Given the week's dominant events — the **Menendez federal bribery indictment** (gold bars, cash, Egyptian ties), the ongoing **UAW strike** against Biden's "blue-collar" framing, and the **government shutdown crisis** — the most probable image is a split graphic pairing two Democratic-associated scandals or perceived hypocrisies. Candidate pairings include: (1) corruption/crime + anti-worker; (2) crime + chaos/open-borders; (3) two scandals from the same week (Menendez + shutdown). The "Party of both!" structure is a classic compressed rhetorical attack common in Trump's Truth Social posting pattern. ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** Trump was at Bedminster, NJ on this date (confirmed by same-day posts referencing "a night at Bedminster" and the Meet the Press interview conducted there). UTC 15:48 = **11:48 AM EDT** — squarely business hours. **Counterweight indicators for authenticity:** The post is grammatically minimal, punchy, and relies on an image to carry the rhetorical payload — a style Trump does employ authentically. The exclamation mark following "both" is characteristic. However, the daytime timing and the polished two-word-punch economy (no typos, no stream-of-consciousness) leans slightly toward aide-assisted or aide-posted content. **Assessment:** Likely a hybrid — authentic Trump framing/concept, possibly distributed by staff during working hours. Confidence: medium. ## Psychological State The post presents in **grandiose narcissistic mode** — attacking a collective out-group (Democrats) rather than defending against a specific narcissistic injury. There is no reactive quality here; this is supply-seeking through audience engagement. The cryptic "both!" is a deliberate hook designed to drive followers to look at the image, generating interaction (a classic parasocial engagement technique). The attack is depersonalized — the target is a party, not an individual — suggesting low acute arousal. No narcissistic rage is evident. The tone is smug rather than wounded. This is maintenance-mode posting during an active news cycle favorable to Trump (Menendez indictment was politically useful; UAW populism narrative was being built; Bedminster media attention was positive). **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal visible in text. The framing "Party of both" employs **splitting** at a macro level — the world is divided into the corrupt/hypocritical Democrats and the (implicitly) coherent/honest alternative. This is Level 2 (immature) defense, but at very low intensity given the brevity. ## Rhetorical Analysis - **"Party of [X]" framing**: Established political labeling technique; attempts to attach identity-level claims to opponent. Inherited from decades of American political rhetoric ("Party of the rich," "Party of the people"). - **Deictic hook**: "both!" withholds content, compelling the viewer to engage with the image — an algorithmic engagement device consistent with social media optimization. - **Compressed superlative attack**: No evidence of elaborate propaganda technique; this is the simplest possible negative brand attack. - **No dehumanizing language**, no violent imagery, no eliminationist framing in the text. ## Cognitive Status The extreme brevity makes meaningful cognitive assessment impossible. A nine-word post that delegates meaning to an image offers no syntactic complexity to analyze, no word-finding pathway to observe, no logical architecture to evaluate. **No markers of deterioration are observable**, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence at this sample size. Baseline deviation: none assessable. ## Danger Assessment **None.** The post targets a political party in the most generic possible terms. No individuals are named, no action is implied, no violent imagery is present in the text. ## Personality (Big Five — Limited Signal) The post is too brief to strongly characterize trait expression. The broad out-group attack is modestly consistent with **low agreeableness** (opposition, antagonism) and **high extraversion** (assertive public declaration), but these inferences are weak given sample size. ## Summary Not clinically significant; no marked deviation from baseline. Routine maintenance-mode political attack post. Primary analytical limitation is image dependency. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 50%) ### Indicators - 11:48 AM EDT — business hours, consistent with aide-posting pattern - No typos or stream-of-consciousness markers - Extremely brief, punchy framing consistent with authentic Trump style - Exclamation mark usage after 'both' is authentic Trumpian punctuation - Image-as-payload structure used by both authentic Trump and aide accounts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable news cycle (Menendez indictment, UAW narrative)) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Deictic hook ('both!') withholds meaning to compel follower engagement with image - Identity-reinforcing in-group/out-group framing creates shared contempt experience ## Tags - party-attack (90%) - image-dependent (90%) - maintenance-mode (80%) - supply-seeking (70%) - splitting (50%) - daytime-post (60%) - low-intensity (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Routine Campaign Day Culminates in Death-Penalty Allusion Against Retiring General Milley** The day was dominated by routine campaign activity -- aide-posted links promoting favorable polls, proxy attacks on Ron DeSantis through Laura Loomer articles, and a plug for a new border surveillance website. A morning broadside against Mitch McConnell set a combative tone but stayed within typical bounds. The day's final post, however, was a sustained attack on retiring General Mark Milley that included an explicit reference to execution as punishment for treason -- the most dangerous content of the day by a wide margin. Full digest for 2023-09-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 22). The Democrats are the Party of both! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111109586180797563 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Democrats are the Party of both!" Truth Social, 22 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111109586180797563. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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