# Post ts_111728709098622755

- Post ID: `ts_111728709098622755`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-10T00:00:04.452Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111728709098622755/analysis
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## Post text

> Boeing should bring back the 757, the most beautiful, best handling plane (from the pilots standpoint!) that Boeing ever made. Stop with the crazy extensions of the 737, the worst looking plane in the air. All you get is the 737Max - And how did that work out? It seems cursed! Go back to the “Praying Mantis,” the greatest of them all. I did!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.378Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T17:46:58.012Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Boeing 757 Post (2024-01-10)

## Context
This post is a direct response to the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug blowout on January 5, 2024, which led to grounding of all 737 MAX 9 aircraft. Trump seizes the moment to opine on aviation — a domain of genuine personal interest given his decades of owning a Boeing 757.

## Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
- **Extraversion** (high): Assertive opinion-giving, self-promotion
- **Agreeableness** (low): Dismissive of Boeing's current engineering choices
- **Openness** (low): Preference for returning to the past rather than innovation

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
- **Agency**: Positions self as expert authority on aviation
- **Schema**: "I already knew the right answer" — self-as-prescient-authority

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: The man with superior taste and judgment who chose correctly
- **Identity claims**: Connoisseur, insider, someone whose personal choices validate his judgment
- **Contrasting other**: Boeing's current leadership/decision-makers

## Archetypal Pattern
Mild **King** archetype — dispensing judgment on matters of quality and taste from a position of assumed authority.

## Notable Features
This post is a psychological palate cleanser amid the intense immunity/prosecution posts of the same period. It allows Trump to occupy a grandiose but non-combative space — the aviation expert rather than the embattled defendant. The shift in register is itself psychologically informative: brief retreat to a comfort zone of personal expertise and material success.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The 757 is the best handling plane Boeing ever made from the pilots' standpoint" | **Mostly True** | The 757 is widely regarded by pilots as one of the best-handling Boeing aircraft, known for its power-to-weight ratio and responsive controls. This is a common sentiment among commercial pilots. |
| "The 737 is the worst looking plane in the air" | **Unverifiable** | Aesthetic judgment, not a factual claim. |
| "Boeing extended the 737 with 'crazy extensions'" | **Mostly True** | The 737 has been stretched and modified repeatedly since the 1960s (737-100 through MAX 10), making it one of the most extended aircraft families in history. Critics have noted the design compromises this required. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness style
- Personal anecdote ('I did!')
- Parenthetical asides
- Emotional/opinionated tone
- Posted ~7pm ET (Mar-a-Lago) - plausible evening posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 incident)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Insider knowledge display
- Personal testimony as proof

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The 757 is the best handling plane Boeing ever made from the pilots' standpoint

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The 757 is widely regarded by pilots as one of the best-handling Boeing aircraft, known for its power-to-weight ratio and responsive controls. This is a common sentiment among commercial pilots.

Sources: Aviation community consensus

> The 737 is the worst looking plane in the air

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Aesthetic judgment, not a factual claim.

> Boeing extended the 737 with 'crazy extensions'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The 737 has been stretched and modified repeatedly since the 1960s (737-100 through MAX 10), making it one of the most extended aircraft families in history. Critics have noted the design compromises this required.

Sources: Boeing 737 program history

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- aviation (90%)
- self-promotion (60%)
- current-events-reaction (80%)
- nostalgia (50%)

## That day

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

**Family Grief Eclipsed by Legal Siege Mentality as Willis Scandal Fuels Day-Long Persecution Marathon**

Trump's day was dominated by an obsessive focus on the Fani Willis prosecution scandal, which he framed as a Biden-coordinated conspiracy across nearly a dozen posts. The most striking moment came late at night when he announced the death of Melania's mother, Amalija Knavs, in a rare display of unguarded grief — but within hours, he was back to attacking Fox News, rivals, and prosecutors. He toggled between campaign swagger (mocking Christie's exit, devaluing Haley and DeSantis) and legal victimhood (demanding absolute presidential immunity, calling his trials "the Greatest Witch Hunt of all time"). The day ended as it began: in combative mode, heading to Iowa while raging about being forced back to New York for his fraud trial.

Full digest for 2024-01-10: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 10). Boeing should bring back the 757, the most... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111728709098622755
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Boeing should bring back the 757, the most beautiful, best..." Truth Social, 10 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111728709098622755. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Boeing should bring back the 757, the most beautiful, best...," Truth Social, January 10, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111728709098622755.

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