# Post ts_111319460606785552

- Post ID: `ts_111319460606785552`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-29T17:22:47.957Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111319460606785552
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111319460606785552/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111319460606785552.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/jsolomonreports/statuses/111318570545268863 Don’t give them 10 cents. It is the WORST and most expensive energy, kills our birds and ruins the environment. We should never need to subsidize energy!

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,935
- Reposts: 4,363
- Replies: 943
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.393Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T10:27:47.768Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Truth Social RT — Energy Subsidies / Wind Energy (2023-10-29)

## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Hybrid (aide mechanics, Trump-authored commentary) — Medium Confidence**

Local time in Las Vegas (PDT, UTC−7): **10:22 AM** — squarely within business hours, consistent with aide-managed posting workflow. The repost (RT) structure itself is characteristically aide-curated, amplifying a John Solomon article through the Trump media ecosystem.

However, the appended commentary contains multiple authentic Trump linguistic fingerprints: `ALL CAPS` deployment on "WORST," the verbatim "kills our birds" formulation (a documented personal idiosyncratic talking point used across years of Trump speeches and interviews), and the financial absolutism of "Don't give them 10 cents." The most probable scenario: aide-managed RT mechanics with Trump-authored or Trump-dictated comment appended.

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## Contextual Displacement

A notable finding is what this post *avoids*. On this same day (October 29), Judge Chutkan **reinstated the federal gag order** on Trump in the election interference case — a significant legal pressure event. The post redirects entirely to energy policy, a comfortable ideological terrain offering zero legal exposure. This is textbook **displacement**: emotional energy arising from the gag order reinstatement is channeled toward a routine culture-war topic where Trump holds high rhetorical confidence. The Las Vegas rally context also supports a "maintenance mode" function — base mobilization through familiar grievance territory.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a sophisticated **environmental inversion**: it appropriates the moral language of environmentalism ("kills our birds," "ruins the environment") to *oppose* renewable energy. This neutralizes the standard green critique by seizing the environmentalist frame and redirecting it. Combined elements:

- **Hyperbolic superlative**: "WORST and most expensive" — designed for memorability, not accuracy
- **Financial contempt signal**: "Don't give them 10 cents" — zero-tolerance absolutism as strength performance
- **Selective principle deployment**: "We should never need to subsidize energy!" — applied asymmetrically; fossil fuels receive substantial U.S. tax preferences, unacknowledged
- **In-group media ecosystem amplification**: John Solomon (jsolomonreports) is a core Trump-aligned media figure; amplification signals ideological alignment to base

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## Psychological Dynamics

**Trigger type: Maintenance / displacement** — routine audience engagement with probable displacement from legal stress.

**Narcissistic state: Mildly grandiose** — the declarative absolutism ("we should NEVER need to subsidize energy") projects confident authority, but without personal aggrandizement typical of higher-intensity posts. This is ideological grandiosity rather than personal.

**Defenses employed:**
1. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Opposes wind energy using environmentalist language — borrows moral legitimacy from the opposition's framework to serve anti-regulatory goals. Logically structured but serving motivated reasoning.
2. **Denial (pathological)**: "WORST and most expensive energy" contradicts established LCOE data. Motivated denial in service of stable ideological commitments rather than acute injury.

**Gaslighting present**: The framing constitutes deliberate reality inversion — positioning renewable energy as the environmental threat while implicitly defending fossil fuels. Designed to reshape the audience's causal map of environmental harm.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Wind energy is the WORST and most expensive energy" | **Mostly False** | LCOE data consistently ranks onshore wind among cheapest new generation sources; offshore wind is more expensive but neither ranks as overall most expensive by standard energy economics metrics |
| "Wind energy kills our birds" | **Half True** | Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000-500,000 birds annually in the U.S. — a real phenomenon. However, cats kill 1.3-4B, buildings ~600M, vehicles ~200M annually. The claim is factually grounded but deployed without scale or comparative context. |
| "Wind energy ruins the environment" | **Mostly False** | Wind energy lifecycle carbon emissions among lowest of any generation source; land use is reversible and coexists with agriculture. Comparative environmental damage from fossil fuel extraction and combustion is substantially greater by virtually all standard metrics. |
| "We should never need to subsidize energy" | **Unverifiable** | Normative opinion claim. Notably, U.S. fossil fuel sector benefits from substantial tax preferences; the implied asymmetric application of this principle is the operative rhetorical move. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Cognitive Status

Post is too brief for robust assessment. No paraphasias, tangentiality, or confabulation evident. "Kills our birds" is an established personal idiom (documented in Trump speeches since at least 2016), not a language production error. Syntactic complexity is low but consistent with Trump's established baseline for social media posts. **No deviation from baseline detected.**

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## Longitudinal Note

The anti-wind energy rhetorical package deployed here — "kills birds," "most expensive," environmental destruction framing — is stable and well-documented across Trump's public record dating to at least 2016. No drift in talking points, language structure, or emotional intensity relative to baseline. This constitutes a stable ideological schema, not an acute psychological state.

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## Summary

Not clinically significant; no summary generated. Routine maintenance post with displacement dynamics. Consistent with established baseline patterns.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- 10:22 AM local time (Las Vegas PDT) — business hours, aide-consistent timing
- Repost mechanics suggest curated aide workflow
- ALL CAPS 'WORST' is authentic Trump stylistic fingerprint
- 'kills our birds' is a documented idiosyncratic personal Trump talking point verbatim
- Absolutist financial dismissal ('Don't give them 10 cents') matches Trump register

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (John Solomon article on energy subsidies)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Tribal identity signaling via John Solomon amplification
- Financial absolutism as strength performance ('not one cent')

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Presents wind energy as environmentally destructive using selectively framed evidence ('kills birds') while implicitly defending fossil fuels — deliberate reality framing designed to invert the standard environmental valence of the debate

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Wind energy is the WORST and most expensive energy

**MOSTLY FALSE**

LCOE data consistently ranks onshore wind among cheapest new generation sources; offshore wind is more expensive but neither ranks as overall most expensive by standard energy economics metrics

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration LCOE data; Lazard LCOE analysis

> Wind energy kills our birds

**HALF TRUE**

Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000-500,000 birds annually in the U.S. — a real phenomenon. However, cats kill 1.3-4B, buildings ~600M, vehicles ~200M annually. The claim is factually grounded but deployed without scale or comparative context.

Sources: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates; Loss et al. 2013 Nature Communications study

> Wind energy ruins the environment

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Wind energy lifecycle carbon emissions among lowest of any generation source; land use is reversible and coexists with agriculture. Comparative environmental damage from fossil fuel extraction and combustion is substantially greater by virtually all standard metrics.

Sources: IPCC lifecycle emissions data; NREL environmental review literature

> We should never need to subsidize energy

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Normative opinion claim. Notably, U.S. fossil fuel sector benefits from substantial tax preferences; the implied asymmetric application of this principle is the operative rhetorical move.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- energy policy (90%)
- anti-wind energy (85%)
- environmental framing inversion (75%)
- John Solomon amplification (60%)
- displacement from legal pressures (65%)
- maintenance posting (70%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Trail Discipline Broken by One Sharp Legal Eruption Over Fraud Trial**

Trump spent the day on the campaign trail, moving from a Saturday evening rally in Las Vegas to a Sunday afternoon event in Sioux City, Iowa. The mood was overwhelmingly upbeat and self-promotional, with a steady stream of endorsement shares, rally links, and favorable media coverage. The one sharp exception was an angry outburst about the New York civil fraud trial, attacking the judge and attorney general with notable intensity before quickly returning to campaign cheerleading. A more measured post used legal commentator Jonathan Turley as a proxy voice to push back against ballot-eligibility challenges on the same day his federal gag order was reinstated. Overall, a disciplined campaign day with one brief but pointed flash of legal grievance.

Full digest for 2023-10-29: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 29). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/jsolomonreports/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111319460606785552
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/jsolomonreports/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 29 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111319460606785552. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/jsolomonreports/statuses/1...," Truth Social, October 29, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111319460606785552.

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