# Post ts_111741052723162854

- Post ID: `ts_111741052723162854`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-12T04:19:13.130Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741052723162854
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741052723162854/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111741052723162854.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> THANK YOU, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:01), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> - How's Joe Biden doing? - He's too old, sorry. But everybody elected him, so that's y'all book. He sent me a line to keep, ooh. - He's the worst president that we ever had. - Joe Biden, please go back to Delaware because New York City, you have no idea what we need. - He's a slimy mother (beep), you know? He take you out of the lunch and stick the fork up your ass right after. Who do you want to win the 2024 election? Joe Biden or Donald Trump? - Donald Trump, I want Donald Trump. - Trump, Trump. - That happens to be me in case you forget. - When he was in, it was no crime, crime was down. - Uncle Donald, no cap, that's a nice guy. - Trump is straight up and down, like six o'clock. At least I know what I get when it comes to him. - I was more comfortable with Donald Trump in office. - I'm not voting for Joe Biden. - And you ain't black. - Trump, that's right, I said it. That's right, I said it. What do you like about Donald Trump? He don't bull (beep), he don't care, like, you know, I like that. Trump was giving back people money.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/741/052/625/376/485/original/b17b67c6534f5d63.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,812
- Reposts: 5,310
- Replies: 603
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.378Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:07:58.336Z (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 — 2024-01-12T04:19:13Z

## Contextual Frame

Posted approximately 11:19 PM EST on January 11, 2024 — three days before the Iowa caucuses. Trump was actively campaigning in Iowa, having held rallies at Newton and Clinton on January 6. The post accompanies a video attachment (content unreviewed) and follows a day of heavy Truth Social activity including a Breitbart link attacking Fani Willis, a Politico Iowa town hall link, and a MAGA video repost.

## Authorship Attribution

**Likely authentic (confidence: medium).** The late-night local timestamp, ALL CAPS register, triple exclamation marks, and raw brevity are consistent with Trump's personal posting signature. The post's emotional simplicity and slogan-only content distinguish it from aide-typical posts, which tend toward event announcements or polished paragraphs. The video attachment may have been queued by staff, but the caption reads as personally appended.

## Psychological State

The post is a clean specimen of **supply-seeking in the grandiose state**. No narcissistic injury is discernible; no enemy is named; no threat is deflected. The dominant affect is celebratory and expansive. The "THANK YOU" opener performs reciprocity — simulating a personal relationship with followers en masse — while the collective "WE" collapses the leader/follower boundary, making supporters feel co-owners of the movement. This is campaign-trail dopamine cycling at its most efficient: gratitude offered, validation returned.

## Rhetorical Structure

Seven words of original text: a gratitude opener, a collective pronoun, the core slogan. There is no argument, no claim, no evidence — only affect and identity. The MAGA slogan functions here as a tribal marker rather than a policy statement. Capitalization simulates the prosodic intensity of live speech, approximating the rally experience through text. Propaganda mechanism: high-frequency slogan repetition consistent with the RAND firehose model's emphasis on message volume over content.

## Narrative Identity (Level 3)

The protagonist is the triumphant populist — receiving rather than seeking, gratified rather than aggrieved. The redemption narrative is implicit in "GREAT AGAIN": the nation fell, the movement will restore it. Notably absent for this date's posting context: any contrasting "other" or enemy. This post is one of the rare purely affirmative outputs in Trump's feed, made possible by the pre-caucus momentum frame. Surrounding posts the same day DO invoke enemies (Fani Willis, unfavorable debate opponents), suggesting this post represents a deliberate tonal break rather than a shift in underlying orientation.

## Cognitive Assessment

Insufficient text for meaningful cognitive assessment. The ALL CAPS and exclamation marks are stylistically normative for Trump and do not constitute hypomania markers in isolation. The high posting volume on this date (5+ posts) is worth noting longitudinally.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No dehumanizing language, no target, no implied action, no eliminationist framing. This is baseline campaign affirmation content.

## Summary Classification

Clinically routine. Not flagged for significant deviation from baseline. No summary generated."

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump stylistic signature
- Late-night local timing (~11:19 PM EST) falls squarely in authentic Trump posting window
- Triple exclamation marks match impulsive, unpolished personal style
- Brief, emotionally reactive content with no event-announcement structure
- Campaign-slogan phrasing with no aide-typical grammatical polish or scheduling info

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Iowa caucus campaign trail — seeking validation and audience reinforcement in the final days before the first primary contest)

Sentiment: +0.78

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS throughout entire post
- Triple exclamation points
- Compressed, high-affect expression with no deliberative content
- High posting frequency that day (5+ posts on 2024-01-12 alone)

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct gratitude address ('THANK YOU') creates intimacy with the audience, simulating a personal relationship between poster and follower
- Inclusive 'WE' language collapses the boundary between leader and follower, making followers feel co-authors of the movement

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- grandiose-state (70%)
- MAGA-slogan (90%)
- late-night-authentic (75%)
- iowa-caucus-campaign (85%)
- collective-pronoun (60%)
- parasocial-gratitude (65%)
- no-enemy-present (50%)

## That day

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

**Trial Day Fury: Closing Arguments Trigger Full-Spectrum Grievance Cascade Three Days Before Iowa**

Trump spent the day consumed by his New York civil fraud trial, where closing arguments were heard. The morning brought his most emotionally intense posts -- raging against Judge Engoron, demanding AG Letitia James face criminal prosecution, and declaring the process a "witch hunt" with "no rights." In the afternoon, his team flooded the feed with over a dozen rapid-fire links pushing election fraud narratives, prosecutor attacks, and endorsement announcements, burying the legal drama under a wall of counter-programming. Threaded throughout was pre-Iowa caucus positioning, including dismissive nicknames for all three Republican rivals and a pointed attack on Nikki Haley's electability. The late-night hours featured a jab at Biden over Yemen strikes, framing the Commander-in-Chief as absent during military operations he had personally authorized.

Full digest for 2024-01-12: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 12). THANK YOU, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741052723162854
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!" Truth Social, 12 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741052723162854. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "THANK YOU, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!," Truth Social, January 12, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741052723162854.

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