# Post ts_111234569627429318

- Post ID: `ts_111234569627429318`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-14T17:33:54.400Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234569627429318
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234569627429318/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111234569627429318.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The United Autoworkers are being sold down the tubes by their so-called “leadership.” They always support Democrats, yet they have lost 60% of car manufacturing over the years to foreign countries…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:21), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The United Auto Workers are being sold down the tubes by their so-called leadership. They always support Democrats, yet they have lost 60 percent of car manufacturing over the years to foreign countries. And that's all been through Democrats. For the most part, they don't care about cars. They don't care about the auto workers. The electric vehicles are a disaster for the auto workers and a big disaster for America. They will all be made in China, every single one of them, all of our jobs and auto making will be gone. I will double and triple manufacturing of cars in the USA. Sean Fain should endorse Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, who doesn't know he's around. I mean, he can't put two sentences together. And Sean Fain cannot preside over the death of auto workers in America, because as the head of the union, that's what he's doing. If Sean Fain endorses Donald Trump, we already know that most of the auto workers are going to vote for me because they know how I feel about them and how I feel about their jobs. He will have the easiest union job ever. He can go on a vacation like Biden for six months, because we're going to bring back auto making to America. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/234/569/516/302/110/original/2c423902ce091a09.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 19,971
- Reposts: 5,538
- Replies: 871
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:38:53.579Z (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 represents a calculated electoral intervention during the historic UAW trilateral strike, likely aide-authored (business hours, pre-produced video, polished grammar) rather than authentic Trump. The rhetorical strategy is a textbook wedge: validate real worker grievances, attribute causation to union leadership's Democratic alignment, and position Trump implicitly as the corrective. The operative mechanism is splitting — workers are wholly innocent, leadership wholly corrupt — supported by a pseudo-statistical claim ("60%") that functions as unfalsifiable authority-lending rather than factual assertion. Trigger is supply-seeking with preemptive attack characteristics; no narcissistic injury is driving the post. The grandiose protagonist role (truth-teller for betrayed workers) is present but subdued, consistent with aide mediation. No danger indicators, no violent imagery, no gaslighting. The post's clinical significance is primarily sociopolitical: it exemplifies a durable Trump template — circumventing union leadership to address rank-and-file workers directly — being redeployed for 2024, at a moment when UAW president Shawn Fain was actively hostile to Trump. Cognitive markers are not assessable due to probable aide authorship.

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Likely aide-written (medium confidence)**

Posted at 13:33 EDT — Trump was in New York attending his civil fraud trial. Business-hours timing, grammatically complete sentences, zero typos, and the presence of a pre-produced MP4 video attachment all point to prepared, staffed content. The sardonic "so-called 'leadership'" construction and the use of ellipsis carry faint Trump stylistic DNA, but the measured, strategic register — no ALL CAPS, no personal grudge language, no stream-of-consciousness digressions — is inconsistent with authentic late-night Truth Social posts. The video attachment is particularly telling: producing and attaching a clip requires coordination that rarely accompanies impulsive authentic posts.

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## Context and Trigger
The post drops during the second week of the historic UAW simultaneous strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis — the first trilateral strike in UAW history, with 145,000 workers affected. Trump is mid-campaign and structurally dependent on working-class Midwestern support. The trigger is **supply-seeking with preemptive attack characteristics**: Trump attempts to recruit UAW rank-and-file by attacking union leadership and tying their Democratic alignment to manufacturing job losses, positioning himself — implicitly — as the workers' authentic champion. This is not narcissistic-injury-driven reactive content; it is calculated audience cultivation.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
- **Low agreeableness**: Adversarial framing, contempt embedded in scare-quoting "leadership"
- **High extraversion (assertiveness facet)**: Declarative, dominant tone; no hedging
- **Low conscientiousness**: Imprecise, unsourced statistical claim ("60%") deployed without qualification
- **Low neuroticism (for this post)**: The measured tone is notable and consistent with aide authorship rather than authentic Trump in reactive mode

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
- **Agency motives dominant**: Power, status, and control framing throughout
- **Schema of exploitation**: Workers = innocent victims; union leadership = parasitic intermediaries; Democrats = exploiters of misplaced loyalty
- **Wedge schema as recurring adaptation**: The gap between worker interests and union/Democratic alignment is the operative rhetorical lever — a schema Trump has deployed since 2015

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Truth-teller exposing betrayal; champion of forgotten working class
- **Contamination sequence**: Auto workers once possessed power and prosperity → corrupted and betrayed by Democrat-aligned union "leadership" → 60% of manufacturing lost
- **Identity claim (implicit)**: "I alone see the betrayal and will restore what was taken"
- **Contrasting other**: UAW leadership and, by extension, Democratic institutional loyalty

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## Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting (immature)**: Workers (wholly innocent, betrayed) vs. leadership (wholly corrupt, complicit) — no nuance admitted
- **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The "60%" statistical claim provides pseudo-logical justification for a conclusion reached on partisan grounds
- **Displacement**: Structural forces — globalization, automation, bipartisan trade policy — are displaced onto leadership venality and partisan loyalty as the singular causal agent

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## Rhetorical Analysis
- **False dichotomy**: Workers and leadership cast as irreconcilably opposed
- **Ad hominem**: "so-called 'leadership'" dismisses elected union representatives without engaging their positions
- **Wedge rhetoric**: Explicit attempt to sever workers' identification with their elected union
- **Misleading statistics**: "60%" stated as established fact; time frame, metric definition, and sourcing absent
- **Post hoc causal chain**: Democratic endorsement history asserted as the cause of manufacturing decline (correlation presented as causation)
- **Populist triangulation**: Trump as voice of authentic workers vs. corrupt labor-elite-Democrat triad

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The UAW always supports Democrats" | **Mostly True** | UAW has historically endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, including Biden in 2020. At the time of this post (Oct 14, 2023), UAW president Shawn Fain had not yet made a 2024 endorsement; Biden endorsement came January 2024. Historical pattern is accurate, but 'always' overstates consistency. |
| "They have lost 60% of car manufacturing over the years to foreign countries" | **Half True** | US auto manufacturing employment has declined substantially since its late-1970s peak of ~1 million workers. However: (1) '60%' is a specific, unsourced figure with no defined time frame or metric; (2) sole attribution to 'foreign countries' ignores automation, shifting consumer preferences, and the substantial growth of foreign-brand domestic US manufacturing (Toyota, Honda, BMW plants); (3) the causal linkage to union Democratic endorsement is asserted without support. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: None.** No violent imagery, no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Wedge rhetoric can inflame labor-management tensions but does not meet elevated danger criteria.

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## Longitudinal Note
This post fits a durable Trump template: circumventing union leadership to address rank-and-file workers directly with populist messaging. The pattern was central to his 2016 Rust Belt strategy and is here being redeployed for 2024. UAW president Shawn Fain was explicitly hostile to Trump during this period, having publicly criticized Trump's manufacturing record — making this post a targeted countermessage to that ongoing friction. No cognitive markers are assessable given probable aide authorship; cognitive analysis from aide-written content would be methodologically unsound.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- Posted 13:33 EDT — business hours, consistent with staffed content
- Pre-produced MP4 video attachment indicates coordination
- Grammatically complete sentences, zero typos
- No ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness digressions
- Sardonic scare-quoting of 'leadership' and trailing ellipsis carry faint Trump stylistic DNA

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (UAW strike and 2024 campaign positioning)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to union workers over heads of their leadership
- Positioning as the one who 'sees through' the corruption
- Implicit promise of restoration

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> The UAW always supports Democrats

**MOSTLY TRUE**

UAW has historically endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, including Biden in 2020. At the time of this post (Oct 14, 2023), UAW president Shawn Fain had not yet made a 2024 endorsement; Biden endorsement came January 2024. Historical pattern is accurate, but 'always' overstates consistency.

Sources: UAW endorsement history; UAW 2024 endorsement timeline

> They have lost 60% of car manufacturing over the years to foreign countries

**HALF TRUE**

US auto manufacturing employment has declined substantially since its late-1970s peak of ~1 million workers. However: (1) '60%' is a specific, unsourced figure with no defined time frame or metric; (2) sole attribution to 'foreign countries' ignores automation, shifting consumer preferences, and the substantial growth of foreign-brand domestic US manufacturing (Toyota, Honda, BMW plants); (3) the causal linkage to union Democratic endorsement is asserted without support.

Sources: BLS auto manufacturing employment data; FRED manufacturing employment series

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- UAW_strike (95%)
- wedge_rhetoric (90%)
- populist_appeal (85%)
- aide_authored (75%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- 2024_campaign_positioning (85%)
- misleading_statistics (80%)
- labor_democrats_wedge (90%)

## That day

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

**Trial Anxiety Simmers Beneath Grandiose Surface All Day Before Erupting in Evening Rage Against "Monster" Prosecutor**

A busy Saturday of 29 posts started with late-night golf bragging and a Louisiana endorsement, then shifted into a midday firehose of partisan links, pointed attacks on DeSantis (twice called a "wounded bird"), and culture-war broadsides against universities and California. The civil fraud trial was clearly the unspoken driver of the day -- references to Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James leaked into otherwise unrelated posts. By evening, the mask came off entirely with a raw, angry demand to end the "Witch Hunt," calling the attorney general a "monster." A notable stumble -- "RINO Paul RINO" instead of "RINO Paul Ryan" -- and the recycled "wounded bird" metaphor across two separate posts hinted at cognitive rigidity under stress.

Full digest for 2023-10-14: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 14). The United Autoworkers are being sold down the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234569627429318
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The United Autoworkers are being sold down the tubes by..." Truth Social, 14 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234569627429318. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The United Autoworkers are being sold down the tubes by...," Truth Social, October 14, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234569627429318.

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