# Post ts_111111823044706695

- Post ID: `ts_111111823044706695`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-23T01:17:50.194Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> On top of everything else going wrong with our Country, Interest Rates have just hit an almost 16 year high, and the housing market is crashing. Next up will be the Autoworkers, who are being sold down the drain by Crooked Joe Biden and the leaders of the “United” Autoworkers. It doesn’t matter what salary you make, in 3 years these jobs will all be gone as Electric cars will almost entirely be made in CHINA. Be careful TRUCKERS, you’re next!!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:40.010Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A late-evening authentic post capitalizing on UAW strike momentum and rate news to perform populist solidarity while expanding his working-class coalition to include truckers. The post is structurally a grievance aggregator: five economic anxieties are stacked in rapid succession to produce cumulative dread without inviting scrutiny of any individual claim. Trump occupies the Cassandra-prophet role — the outsider who sees the betrayal institutional leaders conceal. Narcissistic state is grandiose and supply-seeking rather than injured; this is campaign-mode Trump, not rage-mode Trump. Defense mechanisms include splitting (workers as pure victims, Biden/UAW leaders as pure betrayers), projection (betrayal framing that inverts UAW's active strike posture), and rationalization (EV-China doom dressed as logical inevitability). The scare quotes on "United" Autoworkers are the most precise rhetorical instrument — simultaneously mocking the union name and co-opting labor identity by attacking its own institutions. Key factual problems: housing market was cooling, not crashing; the 3-year total job-extinction timeline has no credible evidentiary basis; UAW leadership was visibly fighting management during this period, contradicting the betrayal frame. Cognitive status unremarkable; the rendering artifact is a mobile formatting issue, not a language production marker. Danger level: none. Clinically, the post is consistent with baseline narcissistic supply-seeking in a grandiose state, with no acute decompensation indicators.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2023-09-23 (01:17 UTC)

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence, ~0.78)**

UTC 01:17:50 converts to **9:17 PM EDT**, placing this firmly in Trump's characteristic late-evening posting window. The post was made from Bedminster, NJ (where the Meet the Press interview occurred that week), possibly post-Iowa rally return. Multiple authenticating markers are present: the unrendered image placeholder glyph (``) before "be" — a classic artifact of mobile copy-paste — is essentially impossible in a staff-prepared post; stream-of-consciousness pivots across five distinct economic domains; ALL CAPS emphasis on `TRUCKERS` and `CHINA`; the nickname "Crooked Joe Biden"; and the rhetorically naked three-exclamation warning at the close. A Scavino-authored post would not leave the rendering artifact nor execute the abrupt truckers pivot without a transitional sentence.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, dominant tone; direct audience address; strong positive affect about his own predictive accuracy
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Combative framing; mocking scare quotes; zero acknowledgment of opposing legitimate perspectives
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive topic cascade without sustained argument; no supporting evidence offered for sweeping claims
- **Neuroticism (elevated):** Doom-laden framing; catastrophizing language ("crashing," "all be gone," "next"); anxiety transmission as political tool
- **Openness (low):** Rigid zero-sum worldview; no nuance in EV transition analysis; certainty presented without epistemic hedging

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate.** The post is driven by status maintenance (positioning as truth-teller against institutional deceivers) and power-seeking (coalition expansion ahead of 2024 Iowa caucus). There is a performative communion motive — solidarity with workers — but it is instrumental rather than genuine: workers are rhetorical props for an anti-Biden argument rather than beneficiaries of a concrete policy proposal.

**Schema: zero-sum world.** Every economic development is a betrayal authored by a specific villain (Biden, UAW leadership). The complexity of EV transition economics — involving global supply chains, battery mineral sourcing, Chinese state subsidies, US Inflation Reduction Act incentives — is collapsed to a simple betrayal narrative. This reflects a deeply stable schematic pattern across Trump's public communications.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Cassandra-prophet — the prescient outsider who warns workers of coming doom that credentialed institutions conceal
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination arc — what was once good (American auto manufacturing, blue-collar prosperity) is being deliberately poisoned by corrupt leadership
- **Identity claims:** "I see what others miss"; "I am on the side of real workers against their supposed representatives"
- **Contrasting other:** Biden + UAW institutional leadership (a notable pairing that co-opts labor identity by attacking its own institutions)

The extension to truckers at the end is narratively significant: it converts a strike-specific moment into a universal working-class threat, expanding the coalition of the aggrieved without any factual substrate connecting trucking to the EV transition argument.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment
This post falls below the threshold for acute malignant narcissism expression. The grandiosity is moderate and populist in form (reflecting glory from workers' victimhood) rather than directly self-aggrandizing. Antisocial features are minimal — there is no explicit rule-violation or expressed contempt for legal process. Paranoid features are present but low-grade (institutional betrayal frame). Sadism is absent.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
- **State:** Grandiose (expansive, performatively confident, not wounded)
- **Trigger:** Supply-seeking opportunism — the UAW strike expansion and rate news provide a ready-made emotional vehicle for admiration-seeking with the working class
- **Rage:** Absent or muted. The affective register is more of a confident warning than an injury response. This is Trump in campaign mode, not grievance mode.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Splitting (immature):** Workers = pure victims; Biden/UAW leaders = pure betrayers. No acknowledgment that UAW leadership is actively fighting for workers or that EV transition involves competing legitimate interests.
2. **Projection (immature):** The "sold down the drain" characterization may reflect projection — Trump's own administration's mixed record on auto manufacturing (GM plant closures, 2019; NAFTA renegotiation producing limited auto reshoring) is attributed wholesale to Biden.
3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The EV-China doom prediction is presented with false logical inevitability, lending pseudo-rational scaffolding to what is an ideologically motivated forecast.

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## Cognitive Status
No significant markers. The topic cascade is rapid but internally coherent along an economic anxiety spine (rates → housing costs → auto labor → EV manufacturing → supply chain adjacency to trucking). Vocabulary and syntax are consistent with established baseline. The rendering artifact is a mobile usability issue, not a language production error. **No deviation from baseline warranting concern.**

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

The post exemplifies **Firehose aggregation**: by stacking five economic anxieties in rapid succession, it overwhelms the reader's capacity for individual scrutiny and produces cumulative dread. The scare quotes on "United" are a precision instrument — they simultaneously mock the union name and imply internal betrayal, repositioning union leadership as management proxies. The serial escalation (each group warned in turn) creates a sense of spreading contagion. The truckers coda functions as a **coalition expansion move** with zero evidentiary support — an implied grievance extrapolation rather than an argument.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Interest rates have just hit an almost 16 year high" | **Mostly True** | Federal funds rate reached 5.25–5.50% after July 2023 hike, highest level since 2007 — approximately 16 years prior. Characterization is substantively accurate. |
| "The housing market is crashing" | **Mostly False** | Housing market in September 2023 was cooling — sales volume and affordability constrained by high rates — but home prices nationally remained elevated. No major price crash was occurring. 'Crashing' is unsupported hyperbole. |
| "In 3 years these jobs will all be gone as Electric cars will almost entirely be made in China" | **Mostly False** | EV transition is real and Chinese manufacturers hold significant global market share, but a 3-year total extinction of US auto jobs is unsupported. IRA (2022) created substantial incentives for domestic EV and battery manufacturing. Ford BlueOval City, GM Ultium facilities represent major US EV investment. |
| "UAW leaders are selling autoworkers down the drain" | **False** | UAW had just launched the largest simultaneous strike against all three Detroit automakers in union history (Sept 15, 2023), actively fighting for wage increases and job security. The factual record directly contradicts the betrayal framing. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Gaslighting Assessment
**Gaslighting present at low level.** The characterization of UAW leadership as betrayers *during an active strike they launched* is a subtle reality inversion — the leaders were visibly fighting management, yet are cast as complicit. This is not a marked gaslighting episode but reflects the pattern of inverting observable reality to serve the narrative.

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## Danger Assessment: **None**
No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism pattern. "Be careful TRUCKERS" is a political warning, not a mobilization call. The post is standard populist economic catastrophizing.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics
- **Positioning:** Order attacker (targeting Biden administration as corrupt/illegitimate) + Order restorer (implied: vote Trump to restore blue-collar prosperity)
- **Asymmetric application:** Workers/truckers receive the promise of restored order; Biden, UAW leadership, and China receive chaos attribution
- **Grievance intensity:** Moderate-high; economic rather than existential register

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## Archetypal Analysis
Primary archetype: **Cassandra/Warrior hybrid** — the truth-teller who fights on behalf of those about to be betrayed. The post invokes the Warrior's combat frame (enemies everywhere: Biden, UAW leadership, China) while the Cassandra dimension provides the prophetic authority ("these jobs will all be gone"). The Shadow projection is instructive: the accusation of selling workers "down the drain" mirrors anxieties about Trump's own complex relationship with manufacturing labor during his term.

Secondary: **Trickster** — the scare quotes on "United" are a classic Trickster move, using the enemy's own language against them with a single punctuation gesture.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- 9:17 PM EDT posting time (late evening, consistent with authentic Trump window)
- Stream-of-consciousness topic drift (rates → housing → auto → EV → China → truckers)
- ALL CAPS emphasis on TRUCKERS, CHINA
- Scare-quote rhetorical flourish on 'United'
- Rendering artifact '' before 'be' — classic mobile-paste artifact in authentic posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (UAW strike expansion and economic news cycle)

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 25%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct-address populism ('Be careful TRUCKERS, you're next!!!')
- Coalition expansion through sequential grievance — autoworkers addressed first, then truckers pulled into threat frame
- Positioning as lone truth-teller ('these jobs will all be gone') against institutional deception

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- UAW leadership characterized as betrayers during an active strike they launched — inverts observable reality
- Housing market described as 'crashing' when available data showed cooling/slowing, not collapse

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Interest rates have just hit an almost 16 year high

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Federal funds rate reached 5.25–5.50% after July 2023 hike, highest level since 2007 — approximately 16 years prior. Characterization is substantively accurate.

Sources: Federal Reserve rate history

> The housing market is crashing

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Housing market in September 2023 was cooling — sales volume and affordability constrained by high rates — but home prices nationally remained elevated. No major price crash was occurring. 'Crashing' is unsupported hyperbole.

Sources: NAR existing home sales data Q3 2023

> In 3 years these jobs will all be gone as Electric cars will almost entirely be made in China

**MOSTLY FALSE**

EV transition is real and Chinese manufacturers hold significant global market share, but a 3-year total extinction of US auto jobs is unsupported. IRA (2022) created substantial incentives for domestic EV and battery manufacturing. Ford BlueOval City, GM Ultium facilities represent major US EV investment.

Sources: IRA EV manufacturing provisions; UAW EV transition analysis

> UAW leaders are selling autoworkers down the drain

**FALSE**

UAW had just launched the largest simultaneous strike against all three Detroit automakers in union history (Sept 15, 2023), actively fighting for wage increases and job security. The factual record directly contradicts the betrayal framing.

Sources: UAW strike announcement Sept 15 2023; Known events: UAW Strike Against Big Three

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- economic_catastrophizing (85%)
- populist_coalition_building (82%)
- UAW_strike_opportunism (78%)
- anti_china_framing (70%)
- supply_seeking (72%)
- splitting (68%)
- working_class_identity_capture (75%)
- authentic_authorship (78%)
- cassandra_archetype (65%)
- false_urgency (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**After-Midnight Rage Spiral and Evening Election Alarm Bracket a Day of Grandiose Self-Validation**

Trump's day unfolded in three distinct phases: a late-night burst of increasingly angry posts attacking Howard Stern, Biden, and the 2020 election results, followed by a quiet afternoon of sharing flattering articles and claiming he predicted aerospace disasters. The day closed with a furious all-caps post accusing Democrats of stealing Pennsylvania through automatic voter registration. The mood swung between self-congratulatory calm and bursts of genuine anger, with economic populism around the UAW strike serving as the through-line connecting the grievances.

Full digest for 2023-09-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 23). On top of everything else going wrong with our... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111111823044706695
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "On top of everything else going wrong with our Country,..." Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111111823044706695. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "On top of everything else going wrong with our Country,...," Truth Social, September 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111111823044706695.

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