# Post ts_111140790136974174 - Post ID: `ts_111140790136974174` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-28T04:04:32.946Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140790136974174 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140790136974174/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111140790136974174.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > "It's an invasion of America. Streets flooded with poison, killing millions. Enemies and tyrants on opposite sides of the globe laugh at us. Wars threaten us. The threat of nuclear annihilation, once forgotten, is now real again. America's weakness has become their strength. The global elitist who send your kids to war, who tell you a woman is a man and a man is a woman who teach your children, their country, their faith, their beliefs are a lie. They have corrupted every facet of American government, weaponized it against you. While they watch our cities burn and violent crime skyrocket, you and your families pay the price. Out of control inflation, an economy wrecked, a nation in decline. This is Joe Biden's America. Failing. Weak. But one man, one movement can change all that for us. Put America, the middle class, first. And put the globalists, the elitist and the corrupt, in their place. Bring back pride and the American dream. To let the world know, don't mess with us. One man focused on the true owners of this great land. One movement focused on the true priorities. Make America great for us again. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/140/789/991/057/873/original/d56872ce9309722e.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 20,557 - Reposts: 6,143 - Replies: 940 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.396Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T09:25:08.813Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_111140790136974174 — "TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" **Date:** 2023-09-28 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Age:** 77 --- ## Overview This post is a minimal campaign-slogan dispatch — four words of ALL CAPS rallying text, a campaign URL, and an attached video. The content is formulaic to the point of near-nullity; it is the rhetorical equivalent of a campaign bumper sticker. Any substantive psychological signal must be read through *context* rather than content, since the text itself carries almost no unique information. The contextual backdrop is, however, significant: posted within hours of an appellate court denying Trump's request to delay the New York civil fraud trial (Sep 28), and two days after Judge Engoron's summary judgment ruling that Trump had committed fraud by inflating asset values by up to $3.6 billion. The trial was scheduled to begin October 2 — four days hence. This is one of the most acute legal crises of Trump's post-presidency. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timestamp analysis:** 2023-09-28T04:04:32Z UTC converts to **12:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4)**. Trump's likely location was New York City, where he would have been managing the imminent civil fraud trial. Midnight posting is squarely within the window associated with authentic Trump posts. **However**, the content itself argues against pure authenticity: - Zero typos, misspellings, or grammatical irregularities - No stream-of-consciousness digressions - The slogan is a perfectly verbatim, pre-fabricated campaign phrase - The attached campaign video and linked campaign website suggest coordinated digital advertising push, not impulsive late-night posting - The immediately preceding post (`https://www.DonaldJTrump.com` alone, no text) has the identical structure, suggesting a **series of scheduled campaign posts** **Resolution:** Most plausible interpretation is a **pre-scheduled campaign series** queued by digital staff but deploying at midnight — a timing chosen to appear prominent in early morning feeds without the aide being required to be awake. The content is aide-composed/campaign-produced; the midnight timestamp is an artifact of scheduling, not authentic late-night behavior. Confidence: medium. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers Under the multi-level framework: **Level 1 — Traits visible:** Near-zero signal given content brevity. The ALL CAPS usage is consistent with high assertiveness (Extraversion: dominance facet). No agreeableness, neuroticism, or openness signals detectable. **Level 2 — Motives:** Pure **agency/power** motive expression. The MAGA slogan is a power-affirmation ritual that reasserts dominance narrative amid legal attack. No communion motive is evident — "together" is rhetorical inclusivity, not genuine warmth; it serves the power motive by conscripting the audience into the protagonist's story. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** The slogan positions Trump as **Hero/Savior** archetype in a restoration myth: the nation was great, it fell, *he* will restore it. The word "TOGETHER" is a parasocial bonding device that recruits followers into co-authorship of this redemption narrative. Given the legal context, the post can also be read as a **defiance signal** — maintaining grandiose self-presentation in the face of judicial humiliation. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. There is no visible vulnerable state, no acknowledgment of the legal pressure. This is consistent with the characteristic defense pattern of **denial** — external reality (fraud ruling, imminent criminal exposure) is simply absent from the post's emotional universe. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Denial (Level 1/Pathological):** The complete absence of any acknowledgment of the fraud ruling or imminent trial — posting triumphant campaign content on the same day an appellate court denied his delay request — is consistent with denial as a primary defense. The grandiose rallying cry functions to override, not process, the legal threat. - **Reaction Formation (Neurotic):** The post's affirmative, forward-looking energy is the emotional opposite of what the legal situation would logically occasion. Posting "WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hours after a major judicial defeat is a textbook reaction formation. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Collective pronoun / false unity:** "TOGETHER, WE" dissolves the individual into the movement; followers become co-authors of the mission, deepening parasocial investment. - **Slogan repetition:** MAGA is a Pavlovian trigger in the base — a semantic anchor loaded with years of emotional conditioning. Using it requires no new argumentation; it activates pre-loaded affect. - **ALL CAPS:** Typographic dominance display; conveys urgency and emotional intensity without substantive content. - **Campaign URL as persuasion:** The link monetizes and mobilizes the emotional spike generated by the slogan, directing followers to donation/volunteer infrastructure. - **Propaganda technique — Firehose volume:** This post exists as part of a high-volume stream of content, including the immediately preceding URL-only post and "Thank you, Ron DeSanctimonious!" The volume-and-variety approach is consistent with the RAND Firehose model — maintain omnipresence, vary register, keep the audience perpetually engaged. - **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators.** --- ## Contextual Note: "Thank you, Ron DeSanctimonious!" The preceding post is psychologically richer: the use of the mocking nickname "DeSanctimonious" is a **devaluation** maneuver — maintaining dominance hierarchy by publicly humiliating a competitor. The sarcastic "Thank you" suggests DeSantis did or said something Trump could exploit, consistent with **splitting** (rivals are devalued enemies, never neutral actors). This post pair illustrates the oscillation between dominance-assertion modes. --- ## Cognitive Assessment Insufficient text to assess meaningfully. Four content words and a URL provide no window into syntactic complexity, word-finding, or coherence. No markers detectable; absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification, no implied call to action beyond campaign engagement. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post is below clinical significance threshold for standalone analysis. The post's primary interest is contextual: it functions as grandiose denial in the face of acute legal threat, maintaining the Hero/Savior narrative precisely when the legal system is most forcefully challenging it. The scheduling hypothesis (aide-produced content queued for midnight deployment) best accounts for the combination of late timing and flawless, formulaic execution.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Midnight EDT posting time consistent with authentic Trump window - Zero typos or misspellings inconsistent with authentic impulsive posts - Verbatim campaign slogan suggests pre-fabricated content - Attached campaign video and URL suggest coordinated digital advertising push - Immediately preceding post shares identical structure (URL only), suggesting scheduled series ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign infrastructure / legal pressure context) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - reaction formation (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective pronoun fusion ('TOGETHER, WE') recruits followers into co-authorship of protagonist narrative - Pavlovian slogan activation (MAGA) leverages years of pre-loaded emotional conditioning - Campaign URL converts emotional spike into behavioral mobilization ## Tags - campaign-content (90%) - maga-slogan (95%) - grandiose-denial (60%) - hero-savior-archetype (80%) - scheduled-post (65%) - legal-stress-context (70%) - low-content (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Walls Close In, But Trump Builds Walls of Denial — A Night of Displacement After Rally and Debate** Trump spent the evening riding high off his Michigan counter-rally, flooding social media with gratitude posts, rival attacks, and fundraising links while completely ignoring the day's biggest story: his appeal to delay the New York civil fraud trial was denied. Instead of addressing his legal crisis, he launched a sustained late-night attack campaign against DeSantis and Christie following the GOP debate he skipped. The mood was forcibly upbeat and combative, with the sheer volume of posts and their pointed avoidance of legal reality suggesting a deliberate psychological redirect rather than genuine confidence. Full digest for 2023-09-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 28). TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140790136974174 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!..." Truth Social, 28 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140790136974174. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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