# Post ts_111757274377337655 - Post ID: `ts_111757274377337655` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-01-15T01:04:35.928Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111757274377337655 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111757274377337655/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111757274377337655.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > An important message for the Great People of IOWA! 🗳️FIND YOUR CAUCUS VOTING LOCATION HERE: https://ia.donaldjtrump.com/ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:39), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I hope everybody is listening because we have some very important information for you to make sure we win this primary and we win it big. It all starts right here in Iowa with the first in the nation caucuses that I was able to give to Iowa. I controlled it and I gave it, just as I said I would. The outcome in this state will send a message to the entire country and, in fact, the entire world. So please listen very carefully to these simple steps you need to take to vote in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, January 15, 2024, that's Martin Luther King Day, January 15, 2024. Together we're going to make history, but you have to show up and you have to follow these instructions. Thank you all and let's go and make America great again. We're going to do it. We're going to make it greater than ever before. Making America great again starts one place on Earth and one place only right here in Iowa. Monday, January 15, 7 p.m., be there because it's caucus night. Now you may say to yourself, "Self, I've never been to a caucus. How does it work?" You've come to the right place because for the next two minutes, Marlin's going to tell you everything you need to know about how to successfully caucus for President Trump. Coccusing is super easy. Before we get going, let's make sure you are eligible to caucus. Time to check with the lawyers. For that, here's Margo from the law firm of Dewey Dewey and Chittister. To vote at a caucus, you must be at least 18 years old, but here's the kicker. That's 18 by November 5 of 2024, election day. Okay, so now you know you're eligible to vote at the Iowa caucus. How simple is it to caucus? As simple as this. Wait, that's the wrong one. As simple as this. Three easy steps. Step one, make sure you're eligible. Done. Okay, step two, do you know where your caucus location is? Now be careful. The correct answer isn't necessarily your regular voting location. I'm throwing you a lifeline here. You can easily find your caucus location and lots of other information by going to ia.donaldjtrump.com. Now a quick time management lesson. It's Monday, January 15, caucus day. You wake up at 5 a.m. because you are so excited to caucus for President Trump. So what time should you get to your caucus location? Aren't you the go-getter? You don't need to be to your caucus location until 6 p.m., so no excuses for being late. And finally, step three, register once you get to your caucus. Now if the line is long, don't panic. I said don't panic. Sorry. The lines move very quickly, and once you're in line, you can't be turned away, so hang in there. Okay, starting exactly at 7 p.m., it's time for democracy to begin. You will hear a few brief speeches. Then paper ballots for voting will be distributed, collected, and counted, all in front of you. Easy peasy, and that's the first step to making President Trump our next president and making America great again. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/757/272/622/352/286/original/a52714c2c631125c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 21,141 - Reposts: 6,109 - Replies: 1,046 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.377Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:09:52.838Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Post Analysis: Iowa Caucus GOTV — January 15, 2024 ## Overview This is a campaign-operational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) post published on the day of the 2024 Iowa caucuses. It is among the least psychologically rich posts in the corpus, functioning as an institutional mobilization message rather than an authentic expression of the subject's psychological state. Its primary analytical value lies in authorship attribution and contextual framing. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely aide-written (Scavino / campaign staff), with preserved Trump-signature phrasing** The post was published at **01:04 UTC = approximately 7:04 PM Central Time** (Iowa, where Trump had held a rally in Indianola the previous day). This falls squarely within business/campaign hours — outside the late-night window (10 PM–6 AM local) associated with authentic Trump posting. Additional aide indicators: perfect grammar, no typos, no ALL-CAPS emotional outburst, and a purely functional operational purpose (directing voters to a locator tool). The sole authentically Trump-flavored element is the superlative address "Great People of IOWA," which appears verbatim in the previous day's posts and is best understood as a stylistic template preserved by staff. The ballot-box emoji (🗳️) is restrained and civic in character, consistent with institutional rather than impulsive posting. --- ## Psychological State Minimal signal. The post reflects **campaign-maintenance mode** with no detectable narcissistic injury, rage, devaluation of opponents, or supply-seeking behavior. The triggering context — a historic Iowa blizzard with wind chills to -45°F threatening caucus turnout — would logically generate campaign anxiety, but that anxiety is channeled entirely into operational output rather than expressed in the post content. The subject (or their staff) is in mobilization mode, not emotional reactivity. The "Great People of IOWA" construction is a routine **parasocial communion technique** — flattering the target audience to reinforce tribal identity and motivate action. It is consistent with Level 2 agency/communion dynamics: the post frames the subject as a conduit of important information for an exceptional constituency, implicitly positioning him as indispensable. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 (Traits):** Insufficient content for reliable Big Five inference. The positive, assertive framing suggests moderate extraversion; the absence of any hostile or suspicious content suppresses neuroticism and agreeableness-antagonism signals relative to baseline. **Level 2 (Motives):** Dominant motive is **achievement** — winning the Iowa caucus. Agency motivation (control over electoral outcome) channels through the mobilization mechanism. Communion elements (flattery of Iowa voters) serve agency goals. **Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** The protagonist role here is **benevolent leader/mobilizer** rather than the more frequent fighter or victim constructions. No contamination or redemption sequence; the narrative arc is purely prospective (go vote → win). No contrasting other is invoked; opponents are entirely absent. **Level 4 (Clinical):** No clinically significant features detectable. The post's brevity and operational nature preclude substantive assessment. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Superlative audience address** ("Great People"): standard tribal flattery and parasocial bonding - **Imperative mood** ("FIND YOUR CAUCUS VOTING LOCATION"): behavioral mobilization - **Strategic capitalization** of IOWA and FIND: visual salience, associated with authentic Trump typography but likely a stylistic carry-over - **Urgency framing**: implicit in the caucus-day context even without explicit temporal language No attack rhetoric, dehumanization, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Cognitive Status The post is too abbreviated and operationally stripped to yield any cognitive signal. No markers of word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, confabulation, or temporal confusion are detectable. Insufficient content for baseline comparison. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Iowa caucuses occurred on January 15, 2024" | **True** | The Iowa caucuses were scheduled and held on January 15, 2024, as confirmed by the pre-researched events provided. | | "Caucus voting location finder available at ia.donaldjtrump.com" | **Unverifiable** | Plausible campaign infrastructure; domain is consistent with official Trump campaign URL patterns. Cannot verify archived content. | Overall Veracity: 75% ## Summary Assessment **Not clinically significant.** This post merits no extended summary. It is a routine campaign-operations message, almost certainly aide-authored, published at an operationally appropriate moment (early evening on caucus day) under extraordinary weather suppression conditions. Its longitudinal value is limited to confirming the subject's (or campaign's) consistent use of "Great People" superlative branding and the operational pattern of same-URL repetition across multiple consecutive posts. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Posted at 7:04 PM Central (Iowa) — business/campaign hours, not late-night authentic Trump window - Polished sentence structure with no misspellings or typos - Functional operational purpose (voter locator) typical of staff-driven GOTV messaging - Restrained institutional emoji (🗳️) rather than impulsive punctuation - 'Great People of IOWA' is signature Trump superlative phrasing — likely baked into a staff template ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Iowa caucus day, suppressed turnout risk due to historic winter storm) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Superlative flattery of audience ('Great People of IOWA') - Direct address creating intimacy with base - Urgency framing to mobilize supporters ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Iowa caucuses occurred on January 15, 2024 **TRUE** The Iowa caucuses were scheduled and held on January 15, 2024, as confirmed by the pre-researched events provided. Sources: Known Events: Trump Rally in Indianola (pre-caucus) > Caucus voting location finder available at ia.donaldjtrump.com **UNVERIFIABLE** Plausible campaign infrastructure; domain is consistent with official Trump campaign URL patterns. Cannot verify archived content. Overall Veracity: 75% ## Tags - GOTV (95%) - Iowa caucus 2024 (90%) - aide-authored (70%) - maintenance (80%) - parasocial-flattery (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Iowa Caucus Day: Historic Victory Bookended by Pre-Dawn Attack Bursts, Persecution Pivots, and Dangerous Disregard for Supporter Safety** Trump spent Iowa Caucus Day in a sustained state of combative grandiosity, starting before dawn with rapid-fire attacks on Nikki Haley, Chris Sununu, and Ron DeSantis. The morning was dominated by rival-bashing and voter mobilization, with a notable midday detour into January 6 grievance and legal persecution themes. He urged supporters to caucus despite life-threatening wind chills, dismissing any cancellation talk as enemy sabotage. By evening, after securing a historic 30-point victory, the tone shifted to a triumphant endorsement collection — but the day's most striking feature was the sheer volume of false polling claims and the callous indifference to supporter safety in dangerous weather. Full digest for 2024-01-15: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-15/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 15). An important message for the Great People of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111757274377337655 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "An important message for the Great People of IOWA! 🗳️FIND..." Truth Social, 15 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111757274377337655. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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