# Post ts_111180056371854196 - Post ID: `ts_111180056371854196` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-05T02:30:28.140Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180056371854196 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180056371854196/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111180056371854196.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “We worked very hard to get those vaccines into all of our elderly communities…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:14), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > stuff. I can tell you in Florida your chance of surviving if your vaccine is close to 100% and so we've worked very hard to get those vaccines into all our elderly communities and give it to other folks who could use it. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/180/056/284/843/537/original/aa0c339700960750.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 5,135 - Reposts: 1,660 - Replies: 373 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.395Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T10:08:51.616Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post is a textbook supply-seeking maneuver timed to the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for mRNA vaccine technology (October 2, 2023). With global attention validating COVID-19 vaccine science, Trump posts a clip claiming personal credit for delivering vaccines to elderly communities — associating himself with a prestigious scientific achievement through Operation Warp Speed legacy framing. The grandiose-state positioning is compensatory: Trump had walked out of his NY Civil Fraud Trial the prior day and was under a judicial gag order, making cross-domain supply-seeking a predictable adaptive response. The aide-curated format (10:30 PM EDT, Scavino-style clip-and-caption) suggests managed legacy communication rather than impulsive authentic posting. Most clinically notable is the unresolved narrative contradiction: Trump simultaneously cultivates vaccine-skeptical constituencies and claims vaccine authorship — a compartmentalization his base is expected to absorb unreflectively. The mild gaslighting lies not in explicit denial but in selective historical framing that erases decades of mRNA research, NIH contributions, and state-level distribution infrastructure from his account. By clinical standards this is a low-pathology post; it reveals the grandiose supply-seeking machinery operating in a benign register, contrasting sharply with the hostile narcissistic rage visible in the preceding day's Kelly attack post. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-10-05T02:30:28Z ## Post Overview The post consists of a single attributed quote fragment — *"We worked very hard to get those vaccines into all of our elderly communities…"* — paired with an attached MP4 video clip. The ellipsis signals truncation from a longer speech or interview segment. The text functions as a caption/excerpt rather than an original composed post. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time conversion:** Trump was almost certainly in New York City at this time, given the ongoing NY Civil Fraud Trial (which began October 2, 2023). EDT = UTC−4. Post time: **10:30 PM EDT on October 4, 2023** — late evening, within the authentic Trump posting window (10 PM–6 AM local). **Assessment:** The late-evening timing is consistent with authentic Trump. However, the format — a video clip with a pull-quote caption — is more characteristic of aide-curated content (Scavino's team often clips and posts favorable media segments). The grammar is polished, the ellipsis is professional, and there is no impulsive ALL-CAPS or stream-of-consciousness quality. This is most likely **aide-curated** (Scavino) content posted during late evening, possibly pre-scheduled, with Trump's approval. Confidence: medium. --- ## Contextual Trigger The most salient contextual event is the **Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine** awarded October 2, 2023 to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for mRNA vaccine technology — the scientific foundation of the COVID-19 vaccines Trump championed via Operation Warp Speed. This Nobel announcement provided an irresistible supply-opportunity: the world's most prestigious scientific body was validating the vaccine program. Trump seizes the moment to reclaim credit. Secondary context: Trump was simultaneously in the midst of the NY Civil Fraud Trial (he walked out on October 4), under a judge's gag order, and in significant legal distress. Supply-seeking via legacy credit-claiming is a characteristic response to narcissistic injury from legal pressure. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion/Assertiveness**: High — "We worked very hard" is a direct, assertive claim to ownership. - **Agreeableness (low)**: The framing is implicitly exclusionary — credit flows solely to Trump/his administration, with no acknowledgment of scientists, FDA, or career public health officials. - **Conscientiousness (achievement striving)**: The post performs industriousness ("worked very hard") as a trait claim. - **Neuroticism**: Notably absent here; the post is unusually measured and calm compared to surrounding posts (the Kelly attack post from October 4 showed marked hostility). ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive (power/achievement)**: Dominant. The post positions Trump as the decisive agent in vaccine delivery. - **Schema — self as indispensable**: "We worked very hard to get those vaccines" constructs Trump as the active force without whom the elderly would not have been protected. - **Supply-seeking schema**: This is a benign-valenced supply moment — Trump drawing admiration from a broadly positive accomplishment rather than attacking enemies. Relatively rare in this period. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Savior/Protector. Trump cast as the figure who delivered life-saving medicine to the most vulnerable population. - **Redemption narrative**: Implicit — the COVID pandemic (chaos, death) → Trump's decisive action → vaccines delivered → lives saved. A classic contamination-to-redemption arc leveraged for present supply. - **Identity claim**: *I am the man who saved the elderly from COVID.* - **Contrasting other**: Absent explicitly, but implicit in the current political climate — Democrats who now want to distance him from vaccine credit, and the vaccine-hesitant wing of his base who he must navigate carefully. - **Narrative tension**: This post represents one pole of Trump's deeply conflicted vaccine identity. He simultaneously courts anti-vaccine constituencies (RFK Jr. adjacency, "medical freedom" rhetoric) and claims credit for Operation Warp Speed. This contradiction is unresolved in his public narrative. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger**: Supply-seeking in response to the mRNA Nobel Prize announcement. With global attention turning to COVID vaccine science, Trump activates his legacy claim. Secondarily, the fraud trial and gag order represent active narcissistic injury requiring compensatory supply from another domain. **Narcissistic state**: **Grandiose**. No vulnerability markers; no persecution or victimhood. This is a moment of expansive self-association with a scientific achievement. **Malignant narcissism features present:** - Narcissistic: Moderate — self-aggrandizement, claim to exceptional achievement - Antisocial: Absent in this specific post - Paranoid: Absent - Sadism: Absent The post is notably **low-pathology** in isolation, representing a routine supply-seeking behavior rather than a rage or persecution episode. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The post implicitly justifies taking credit by framing it as factual past effort rather than boasting. - **Distortion (pathological, mild)**: The "we" collapses the enormous institutional apparatus of HHS, NIH, Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, CDC advisory committees, and decades of mRNA research into a singular Trump-led effort. This is reality-shaping rather than outright fabrication. --- ## Cognitive Status **Language production**: The fragment is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or paraphasia evident. The sentence is syntactically complete and coherent. **Baseline comparison**: This post's language is unremarkable — simple, declarative, first-person plural. No deviation from baseline patterns. Confidence: low (minimal text to assess). --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Hyperbole**: "very hard" — mild intensifier, not extreme - **Appeal to protection/care**: "elderly communities" — the most sympathetic possible beneficiary group, framing Trump as protector of the vulnerable - **Synecdoche**: "We" performs collective ownership while clearly centering Trump as the driving force - **Implicit appeal to legacy**: Invoking Operation Warp Speed amid Nobel Prize news attempts to associate Trump with scientific triumph - **Truncation strategy**: The ellipsis creates curiosity, inviting viewers to watch the full video clip — a standard engagement technique **Dehumanizing language**: Absent **Violent imagery**: Absent **Stochastic terrorism indicators**: Absent **Propaganda technique**: Legacy appropriation / credit capture --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **Mild gaslighting present**: Trump's vaccine narrative has been selectively deployed. He has simultaneously claimed Warp Speed credit and associated with vaccine-skeptic figures and rhetoric. Presenting himself straightforwardly as the vaccines' champion, without acknowledging this contradiction or the scientific community's role, constitutes a mild form of revisionism directed at base audiences who may hold both beliefs simultaneously. This is not acute gaslighting (denial of documented events, DARVO) but rather **selective historical framing**. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post contains no violent imagery, dehumanization, eliminationist language, or stochastic terrorism patterns. It is a benign supply-seeking post. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "We worked very hard to get those vaccines into all of our elderly communities" | **Mostly True** | Trump's administration established Operation Warp Speed (May 2020), which provided multi-billion dollar funding and logistical coordination accelerating vaccine development and distribution. CDC's ACIP did prioritize elderly populations in Phase 1 distribution guidelines. However, the 'we' erases the decades of mRNA research by Karikó/Weissman (just awarded Nobel Prize), the NIH, HHS, pharmaceutical companies, and state-level distribution apparatus. Elderly prioritization was driven by CDC advisory committees, not solely the White House. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Summary This post represents a textbook supply-seeking behavior timed to the mRNA Nobel Prize announcement, allowing Trump to re-associate himself with the COVID vaccine achievement during a period of significant legal stress (NY Civil Fraud Trial, gag order). The grandiose-state framing — casting himself as protector of elderly communities — is a relatively benign narcissistic maneuver compared to the hostile, rage-inflected post attacking John Kelly from the prior day. The likely aide-curated format (Scavino-style clip-and-caption) at 10:30 PM local time suggests pre-planned legacy management rather than impulsive posting. The most clinically interesting element is the **unresolved narrative contradiction**: Trump simultaneously courts vaccine-skeptical constituencies and claims Warp Speed credit, representing a compartmentalization that his base is expected to absorb without cognitive dissonance. No danger indicators. Cognitive markers insufficient to assess from this brief excerpt. Overall pathology level in this specific post is low; the surrounding context (legal siege, Kelly attack) provides the more significant clinical material for this period. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Late evening timing (10:30 PM EDT) is within authentic Trump window - Video clip with pull-quote caption format is characteristic of Scavino aide curation - Grammatically polished, no typos or ALL CAPS - Ellipsis is professional, not stream-of-consciousness - Multiple link-share posts same day suggest aide-managed session ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Nobel Prize in Medicine for mRNA vaccines (Oct 2, 2023) + compensatory response to narcissistic injury from ongoing civil fraud trial) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Legacy association with Nobel Prize-validated achievement - Protective framing (elderly as beneficiary) to generate warmth/approval - Video clip engagement bait via ellipsis truncation ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Selective historical framing presents Trump as singular agent of vaccine delivery, erasing scientific and institutional contributors - Implicit narrative contradiction: post claims vaccine credit while Trump has elsewhere cultivated vaccine-skeptical base — presenting one pole without acknowledging the contradiction ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > We worked very hard to get those vaccines into all of our elderly communities **MOSTLY TRUE** Trump's administration established Operation Warp Speed (May 2020), which provided multi-billion dollar funding and logistical coordination accelerating vaccine development and distribution. CDC's ACIP did prioritize elderly populations in Phase 1 distribution guidelines. However, the 'we' erases the decades of mRNA research by Karikó/Weissman (just awarded Nobel Prize), the NIH, HHS, pharmaceutical companies, and state-level distribution apparatus. Elderly prioritization was driven by CDC advisory committees, not solely the White House. Sources: Operation Warp Speed historical record; CDC ACIP Phase 1b/1c guidelines Nov 2020; Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 announcement Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - Operation Warp Speed (90%) - supply-seeking (85%) - legacy claim (85%) - Nobel Prize timing (80%) - aide-curated (70%) - vaccine narrative contradiction (75%) - grandiose state (60%) - low pathology instance (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Fury: Trump's 17-Post Blitz Against NY Fraud Case Peaks at "High" Danger With Racial Targeting of AG James** Trump spent the day consumed by his New York civil fraud trial, launching repeated attacks on Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Engoron while cycling between defiance and victimhood. The morning brought the sharpest rage, with racially coded nicknames and accusations of persecution that prompted a "high" danger assessment. Between trial volleys, he displaced anxiety onto Republican rivals DeSantis, Haley, and Senator Cassidy, claimed credit for Biden's border wall decision, and floated the fantasy of becoming House Speaker. Seventeen posts across the day -- elevated but not unprecedented during legal crises -- reflected a man under sustained institutional threat channeling that pressure into every available target. Full digest for 2023-10-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 5). “We worked very hard to get those vaccines into... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180056371854196 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“We worked very hard to get those vaccines into all of our..." Truth Social, 5 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180056371854196. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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