# Post ts_111545965851613852 - Post ID: `ts_111545965851613852` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-08T17:26:03.697Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852/analysis ## Post text > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/coal-workers-trump-wants-to-protect-your-jobs-while-biden-seeks-to-destroy-them/ ## Engagement - Likes: 9,075 - Reposts: 2,417 - Replies: 189 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.388Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:31:45.549Z (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 Post — 2023-12-08T17:26Z (ts_111545965851613852) ## Post Overview The post consists entirely of a URL to a Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSB Network) article. No authorial text is present. The article title embedded in the URL — *"Coal Workers: Trump Wants to Protect Your Jobs While Biden Seeks to Destroy Them"* — constitutes the entirety of analyzable content. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-written (Scavino) — high confidence.** - **Timing:** UTC 17:26 converts to **12:26 PM EST** (Trump was in New York for the civil fraud trial on December 7-8). Midday falls squarely within business-hours aide-posting patterns. - **Format:** A bare URL with zero accompanying text is a consistent Scavino signature. Authentic Trump posts almost invariably include emotional commentary, superlatives, or reactive punctuation. - **Context:** Same-day posts follow an identical pattern — curated links from conservative outlets (Newsweek, Daily Caller, RSB Network) without personal voice. This is media-management, not impulse posting. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Trait signal is negligible due to absence of authorial text. The *selection* of this article reflects: - **Low agreeableness** (Biden framed as adversary) - **High agency motivation** (protecting jobs = power/control narrative) - No meaningful Big Five inference possible from a URL share alone. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/agency** — the protector framing positions Trump as the controlling force preserving livelihoods against an encroaching enemy. This is consistent with his persistent *agency* motive profile across hundreds of posts. **Goal schema:** Electoral coalition maintenance. Coal workers are a specific working-class constituency in key swing states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio). The post is electoral targeting, not spontaneous expression. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Champion/Protector — the article title casts Trump as the defender of an economically vulnerable group. **Contrasting other:** Biden as the agent of economic destruction. **Narrative sequence:** Implicitly redemptive — Trump's return (2024 campaign) as rescue from Biden-caused decline. **Identity claims:** "I protect workers; they destroy workers." The binary is the identity claim. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators No clinically significant material is detectable in this post. The absence of authorial text precludes assessment of cognitive markers, rage dynamics, or acute narcissistic states. This is routine brand-maintenance activity by campaign apparatus. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting (immature):** The URL title encodes all-good (Trump) vs. all-bad (Biden) without gradation. - **Idealization:** RSB Network functions as an idealized in-group media validator. --- ## Cognitive Status **Not assessable.** No language produced by subject. Longitudinal cognitive tracking requires actual speech samples. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical act is the *curation choice* itself. RSB Network is a pro-Trump outlet that functions as an echo chamber amplifier. Linking to favorable third-party coverage allows supply-seeking (validation, audience engagement) without the legal or reputational exposure of direct claims. The article title does the propaganda work: binary enemy construction, working-class identity appeal, economic anxiety activation. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Not applicable to this post format. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, mobilization rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump wants to protect coal workers' jobs" | **Unverifiable** | Policy intent framing; Trump did roll back environmental regulations affecting coal 2017-2021, but coal employment continued secular decline regardless. Framed as intent, which is unverifiable. | | "Biden seeks to destroy coal workers' jobs" | **Mostly False** | Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and energy transition policies disadvantage coal economically, but 'seeks to destroy' implies deliberate targeting of workers rather than sector-level decarbonization policy. Literal framing is false; the policy direction claim has basis. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Summary Not generated — post does not meet clinical significance threshold. A bare URL share with aide-posting fingerprints offers insufficient authorial signal for meaningful psychological analysis beyond routine brand-maintenance and electoral coalition targeting. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 12:26 PM EST (midday business hours — UTC 17:26 converted to EST UTC-5) - Post consists solely of a URL with zero accompanying text — a hallmark of Scavino/aide curation - Trump was attending the NY civil fraud trial Dec 7-8 and unlikely to be personally managing social media at noon - No emotional punctuation, ALL CAPS, typos, or stream-of-consciousness — none of Trump's authentic stylistic signatures - Pattern consistent with other same-day posts which appear to be aide-curated media shares (RSB Network, Daily Caller, Newsweek) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (routine audience engagement and supply-seeking) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Identity alignment with coal workers ('your jobs') creates in-group belonging - Favorable third-party media citation lends credibility veneer without direct self-promotion ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump wants to protect coal workers' jobs **UNVERIFIABLE** Policy intent framing; Trump did roll back environmental regulations affecting coal 2017-2021, but coal employment continued secular decline regardless. Framed as intent, which is unverifiable. Sources: EIA coal employment data; Trump-era EPA regulatory rollbacks > Biden seeks to destroy coal workers' jobs **MOSTLY FALSE** Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and energy transition policies disadvantage coal economically, but 'seeks to destroy' implies deliberate targeting of workers rather than sector-level decarbonization policy. Literal framing is false; the policy direction claim has basis. Sources: IRA provisions on energy transition; Biden DOE coal policy documentation Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - coal_workers (90%) - energy_policy (80%) - biden_contrast (80%) - rsb_network (70%) - aide_posted (90%) - url_only (100%) - working_class_appeal (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: Trump Systematically Targets Every Judge and Prosecutor Across All Active Cases** Trump spent December 8 almost entirely consumed by his legal battles, firing off 25 posts dominated by attacks on the judges and prosecutors handling his cases. The morning was the most heated, with back-to-back rants about the New York fraud trial, the January 6 case, and the E. Jean Carroll verdict — including a flatly false claim that he was "found NOT GUILTY." Between the legal salvos, his team posted endorsements and favorable links to project campaign normalcy, and the evening closed with a coordinated three-part attack on Ron DeSantis over COVID. The overall mood was combative and defensive, with an unusually high number of posts naming and dehumanizing specific legal officials. Full digest for 2023-12-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 8). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/coal-workers-trump... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/coal-workers-trump-wants-to-..." Truth Social, 8 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/coal-workers-trump-wants-to-...," Truth Social, December 8, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_111545965851613852 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_111545965851613852 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_111545965851613852 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-08 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111545965851613852.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._