# Post ts_111449985630144276 - Post ID: `ts_111449985630144276` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-21T18:37:01.748Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449985630144276 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449985630144276/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111449985630144276.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > One of my greatest honors as president was to terminate the globalist monstrosity known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership my first day in office… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -One of my greatest honors as president was to terminate the globalist monstrosity known as Trans-Pacific Partnership my very first day in office. That's when I did it. TPP was an Obama-Biden sellout of the American worker, fully supported by Ron DeSanktimonius. The TPP would have massacred the U.S. auto industry, and it also would have been a catastrophe for family farmers, but thankfully for the American workers, I killed the TPP before it ever could kill you. I stopped it immediately right in its tracks. Now, Crooked Joe Biden is back trying to resurrect TPP under a different name, but it's really just TPP2. The entire concept is to make it easier to outsource American jobs and factories to Asia by reducing every possible barrier to shipping your jobs overseas while punishing American producers for doing business here at home. They want to really punish the American worker, including American auto workers. You're going to be out of business. You better talk to your unions because you're going to be out of business. Crooked Joe is doing the bidding of Wall Street, of foreign countries, and of everyone else who owns him, but he's stabbing auto workers, manufacturing workers, and American families in the back. Under the Trump administration, TPP2 will be dead-on arrival. We will kill it immediately. We believe that other countries should pay for the privilege of selling their products to the American market. And we believe that the United States should not have to export American jobs to buy the loyalty of foreign nations that we are paying billions of dollars to in order to defend them. Vote for Trump, and we will keep our auto industry intact. We will add jobs in our auto industry instead of losing it, because if you vote for Biden, your auto industry is gone. We will keep our factories, and we will keep everything going the way it's supposed to. Our country is a failing nation under Crooked Joe Biden. We're not respected anywhere in the world. Our country is a disaster. We're going to make our country great again. There will be no surrender. There will be no problem. It's going to happen fast. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/449/984/703/788/485/original/79504395432b2342.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 17,669 - Reposts: 4,429 - Replies: 553 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T10:59:08.415Z (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 is an aide-assisted, supply-seeking retrospective post timed to the Iowa campaign season, published at 12:37 PM CST during Trump's Fort Dodge rally day. Psychologically, it reflects a stable grandiose narcissistic state with no acute injury or rage driving it. The post's primary function is credential display — invoking a first-term achievement to prime Iowa caucus audiences and generate admiration. The narrative structure is classically redemptive: America suffering under globalist capture, warrior-king arriving on day one to terminate the monster. Splitting and rationalization defenses enable a morally unambiguous self-aggrandizing frame. The term 'globalist' warrants ongoing tracking given its dual function as mainstream anti-establishment rhetoric and far-right antisemitic dog whistle. 'Monstrosity' performs dehumanization of a policy framework, consistent with the broader rhetorical pattern of demonizing out-group objects. The 'first day' claim is a characteristic temporal compression (actual date: January 23, 2017, his first business Monday, not his January 20 inauguration day). No danger indicators, no cognitive concern markers, and no acute volatility signals are present. This post is psychologically unremarkable by Trump's baseline — a standard campaign-season achievement reminder deployed with the vocabulary of existential combat. ## Post Analysis: Truth Social, 2023-11-21T18:37:01Z ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time Conversion:** Trump was in Fort Dodge, Iowa on this date for an evening rally at Fort Dodge High School. Iowa observes Central Standard Time (UTC-6). The post was published at **12:37 PM CST** — solidly within business hours. **Assessment:** Aide-assisted (Scavino) with possible Trump input. Indicators: (1) midday business hours timing; (2) attached video suggesting produced/packaged campaign content; (3) grammatically complete, polished construction; (4) no typos or stream-of-consciousness fragmenting. Counter-indicators: "globalist monstrosity" is quintessential Trump diction — visceral, hyperbolic, enemy-constructing. The most probable reading is a hybrid: Trump provided or approved the language, aide formatted and posted it alongside a campaign video. --- ### Contextual Frame This post arrives in a rich political environment: the Colorado 14th Amendment ruling the prior day (which Trump was celebrating), active gag order litigation, the Iowa rally, and broader campaign momentum. The TPP reference is a strategic retrospective — invoking a high-salience achievement from the first term to prime Iowa audiences on the eve of caucus season. The video attachment strongly suggests this is a formal campaign media asset, not an impulsive post. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (High, ~0.75):** The self-promotional structure ("One of my greatest honors") reflects high assertiveness and positive affect toward self-referential achievement. No hedging or modesty. **Agreeableness (Low, ~0.15):** The phrase "globalist monstrosity" signals contempt and hostility toward an out-group (cosmopolitan elites, internationalists, trading-bloc architects). This is characteristic low-agreeableness diction — derogatory, dismissive, dehumanizing (applying a term used for creatures to a policy framework). **Conscientiousness (Moderate, ~0.55):** Achievement-orientation is central to the post's purpose. However, this is backward-looking — invoking past conscientiousness rather than demonstrating present deliberation. **Neuroticism (Low-Moderate, ~0.30):** The post is relatively calm by Trump standards. No rage markers, no defensive reactivity, no victim language. Affects a confident, retrospective tone. **Openness (Low, ~0.20):** Extreme ideological rigidity. The characterization of a multilateral trade agreement as a "globalist monstrosity" admits no complexity or nuance. The framing is entirely closed-system — the TPP was unambiguously wrong and its termination unambiguously heroic. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency Motives (Very High):** The post is centrally organized around a power/achievement display. The act being described — unilaterally withdrawing from a 12-nation trade agreement on the first day — is the maximum possible expression of executive agency. The recall of this act is itself a supply-seeking move, fishing for admiration through past performance. **Communion Motives (Absent):** No care, belonging, or interpersonal warmth. The in-group ("us, the nation") is implied but not addressed warmly. The post is oriented outward toward an enemy object and upward toward self-aggrandizement. **Schemas:** - *Self:* Decisive protector, historical agent, heroic terminator of existential threats. - *Others (in-group):* Passive recipients of his protection; beneficiaries who should be grateful. - *Others (out-group):* "Globalists" — shadowy, monstrous, anti-American forces. - *World:* A dangerous place requiring a strong sovereign to neutralize predatory arrangements. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist Role:** Warrior-King. The act described — unilaterally terminating a multilateral trade deal "my first day" — is the narrative of a conqueror staking territory immediately upon assuming power. There is no deliberation, no coalition, no process. Just an individual act of sovereign will. **Narrative Sequence:** Pure redemption. The TPP represents a prior contamination — America's submission to a globalist order — which Trump reversed in a single stroke. The structure is: suffering under corrupt globalism → hero arrives → hero slays monster → honor achieved. **Identity Claims:** - "I am a decisive executive." - "I am anti-globalist by principle and action." - "I honor America by destroying its enemies." - "My presidency produced achievements of historic honor." **Contrasting Other:** The globalist architects of TPP (implicitly: Obama, multinational elites, the Davos class). The "monstrosity" framing ensures the contrasting other is not merely wrong but morally deformed. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Personality Features:** - Grandiosity: "One of my greatest honors" — self-anointing a routine executive order as among the greatest deeds of a presidency. - Self-importance: The framing positions a trade withdrawal as a historic act of heroism. - Entitlement: The ease with which he describes acting unilaterally on day one signals entitlement to unchecked executive power. **Narcissistic State:** **Grandiose.** No vulnerability markers present. This is an expansive, confident retrospective — not reactive defensiveness. **Trigger:** **Supply-seeking / maintenance.** With the Iowa caucuses approaching and the Colorado ruling providing a campaign tailwind, this post is designed to remind the base of first-term credentials and generate admiration. There is no acute narcissistic injury driving it; it is proactive image management. **Rage:** Absent. The affective tone is triumphant, not angry. The "monstrosity" language carries contempt and dehumanization but is not rage — it is the composed contempt of a victor describing a slain enemy. **Antisocial Features:** Low-moderate. The post does not itself display rule-breaking, but it celebrates unilateral sovereignty and the bypassing of multilateral process without acknowledgment of costs or trade-offs. **Defense Mechanisms:** - **Rationalization (Neurotic):** The TPP is characterized as purely monstrous, with no acknowledgment of any potential benefits — enabling a morally clean narrative of termination as heroism. - **Idealization of Self (Immature):** "Greatest honors" — elevating an executive order to a near-sacred act. - **Splitting (Immature):** Perfect good (America-first Trump) vs. perfect evil (globalist TPP). No complexity admitted. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Devices:** - **Superlative ("greatest honors"):** Classic Trump self-superlative, maximizing the magnitude of any self-referential act. - **Demonization/Dehumanization ("monstrosity"):** Applying a term connoting a grotesque creature to a trade agreement. This is not hyperbole for rhetorical effect alone — it functions to morally delegitimize and eliminate empathy for the other side. - **Dog whistle ("globalist"):** In contemporary far-right discourse, "globalist" carries coded antisemitic freight (referencing a supposed Jewish-controlled international financial and political order). The term functions simultaneously as mainstream anti-establishment critique (plausible deniability) and as in-group signaling to audiences who read the antisemitic subtext. This cannot be assessed with certainty from a single use, but it is a recurring pattern in Trump's diction warranting notation. - **Temporal precision ("my first day in office"):** The "first day" claim functions rhetorically to signal decisiveness and prioritization — "I knew this was the enemy and I acted immediately." This is a repeated Trump rhetorical pattern. - **Ellipsis (trailing "…"):** Suggests continuation, as if the speaker has more to say — creates an open invitation, a trailing thought. Combined with the video, this is a narrative hook. **Propaganda Techniques:** Appeal to nationalism; enemy-construction; retrospective heroism narrative; nostalgia activation (implied first term as golden age). **Dehumanizing Language:** Present — "monstrosity" applied to a policy. **Violent Imagery:** Mild — "terminate" carries eliminationist connotation. **Stochastic Terrorism:** Absent. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Terminated the Trans-Pacific Partnership my first day in office" | **Half True** | Trump signed the TPP withdrawal executive order on January 23, 2017 — his first Monday and first full business day, but technically the fourth day after his January 20 inauguration. He consistently compresses this to 'first day' for rhetorical effect. The withdrawal itself is factually accurate; the temporal claim is a characteristic compression. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Posted at 12:37 PM CST (business hours) while in Fort Dodge, Iowa - Video attachment suggests produced campaign content - Grammatically complete and polished — no typos or fragmentation - Language ('globalist monstrosity') is authentically Trump in vocabulary and affect - Trailing ellipsis is characteristic Trump punctuation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Iowa campaign audience / pre-caucus credential display) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 45% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared achievement framing ('we won by my action') - In-group identity activation (America-first base) - Supply-seeking through retrospective credential display ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Terminated the Trans-Pacific Partnership my first day in office **HALF TRUE** Trump signed the TPP withdrawal executive order on January 23, 2017 — his first Monday and first full business day, but technically the fourth day after his January 20 inauguration. He consistently compresses this to 'first day' for rhetorical effect. The withdrawal itself is factually accurate; the temporal claim is a characteristic compression. Sources: Executive Order signed January 23, 2017; Inauguration January 20, 2017 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - TPP (90%) - globalism (85%) - first_term_retrospective (80%) - supply_seeking (75%) - dog_whistle (65%) - Iowa_caucus_priming (70%) - splitting (60%) - achievement_display (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Iowa Rally Day Masks Legal Siege as 21-Post Blitz Culminates in Evening Eruption Over NY Fraud Trial** Trump spent the day campaigning in Iowa with a Fort Dodge rally, firing off a rapid burst of nearly 20 posts around noon before going quiet for five hours. The midday cluster mixed standard campaign messaging with attacks on Biden, DeSantis, Kim Reynolds, and multiple legal proceedings. The day's sharpest moment came in the early evening, when a raw, high-anger post about the New York civil fraud trial named specific officials and reversed the court's own findings. Underneath the rally-day energy, legal anxiety was the constant undercurrent — nearly half the posts referenced ongoing prosecutions or election grievances. Full digest for 2023-11-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 21). One of my greatest honors as president was to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449985630144276 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "One of my greatest honors as president was to terminate the..." Truth Social, 21 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449985630144276. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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