# Post ts_111869474941704587 - Post ID: `ts_111869474941704587` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-02-03T20:38:40.691Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111869474941704587 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111869474941704587/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111869474941704587.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “With Trump, We Had Money” ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/869/474/859/395/466/original/ba7fba6cd8511f89.jpg - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/869/474/846/578/527/original/2d906878f9c4d121.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 9,613 - Reposts: 2,474 - Replies: 278 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.373Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:24:39.938Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "With Trump, We Had Money" — 2024-02-03 ## Overview This post consists of a single five-word quoted phrase — "With Trump, We Had Money" — accompanied by two media attachments, almost certainly campaign-style meme images. The textual content is deliberately minimal, functioning as a caption or endorsement quote rather than original commentary. Analysis must therefore rely heavily on the framing, the rhetorical structure, and contextual positioning rather than linguistic complexity. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 2024-02-03T20:38:40Z **Likely Location:** Washington, D.C. or New York (Teamsters meeting in D.C. was during this period; NY Civil Fraud Trial ongoing) **Local Time (EST, UTC-5):** 3:38 PM This is solidly mid-afternoon, firmly within business hours. Additional indicators pointing to aide (Scavino-style) authorship: - Zero typos or irregular capitalization - No emotional punctuation (no "!!!," no ALL CAPS rage) - Third-person framing ("Trump") consistent with campaign messaging, not stream-of-consciousness - Image-based campaign content suggests coordinated media strategy, not reactive posting - Short, clean slogan format typical of planned social media calendar **Assessment:** High confidence this is aide-authored/curated content, likely part of a scheduled economic-messaging campaign sequence in advance of the Nevada caucuses (Feb. 8). It does not bear the hallmarks of authentic Trump posting (impulsivity, reactivity, late-night timing, phonemic errors). --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Minimal textual basis limits trait inference, but the framing is consistent with chronic patterns: - **Extraversion (High):** Third-person brand assertion seeks public validation and crowd affirmation - **Agreeableness (Very Low):** Implied contrast positions an out-group (Biden/current economy) as deficient, no acknowledgment of shared economic complexity - **Conscientiousness (Ambiguous):** Post is too sparse to assess deliberation; the *campaign* may be conscientious even if the subject is not - **Neuroticism (Low signal here):** Notably absent — no anger, no grievance, no persecution; this is an unusually calm data point in the broader stream - **Openness (Low):** Reductive, slogan-based framing; no nuance or complexity entertained --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Dominant motive:** Power/agency — economic competence as a dominance signal. "We had money" frames the Trump era as a condition of abundance that has been lost, positioning Trump as the causal variable for material wellbeing. **Schema of self:** Economic savior. Trump is not presented as a person here but as a *condition* — almost environmental: "With Trump" functions like "With sunlight." This is the brand-object schema rather than the human-agent schema. **Schema of others:** Followers are cast as recipients of Trump-generated prosperity. The "We" includes the audience, binding them to the Trump identity through shared economic memory. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Restorer of abundance. The absent presence — Trump displaced from power — is what caused economic suffering. **Contamination sequence (strong):** The implicit narrative arc is: *things were good (Trump era) → taken away → things are now bad (Biden era)*. This is classic contamination-to-redemption framing used in political campaigns: the golden age, the fall, the return. **Identity claim:** "Trump = money/prosperity." This is identity-as-brand compression — the self is reduced to an economic signal, which is both politically effective and psychologically interesting as an index of how the subject conceptualizes his own value to others. **Contrasting other:** Biden (implicit). "With Trump" implies "Without Trump, you don't have money." The adversary need not be named; the economic contrast carries the weight. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Grandiose — presenting self as uniquely responsible for national economic wellbeing. **Trigger:** Maintenance/supply-seeking. Given the Nevada caucus timeline and the economic-contrast messaging campaign underway, this is scheduled narcissistic supply collection rather than reactive posting to a specific injury. **Rage:** Absent. This is an unusually de-escalated post relative to the same-day cluster, which includes the Fani Willis/Jack Smith tirade. The economic meme represents the *aspirational* pole of the posting cycle — grievance and grandiosity alternating in sequence. ### Defenses **Distortion:** The "With Trump, We Had Money" framing distorts complex macroeconomic dynamics (COVID supply chain disruption, Federal Reserve policy, global commodity inflation) into a single-variable model: Trump = prosperity. This is economic reality reshaped to serve narcissistic narrative needs. **Idealization:** The Trump-era economy is idealized as unambiguously prosperous, erasing the pandemic recession of 2020 (the sharpest GDP contraction in US history occurring under Trump's presidency). ### Malignant Narcissism Sub-scores - **Narcissistic features:** Moderate-high. Self as economic deity. - **Antisocial features:** Low signal in this specific post. - **Paranoid features:** Absent here. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Absent here. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Primary technique:** Economic nostalgia appeal — invoking a remembered (and partly mythologized) period of material abundance. **False dichotomy (implied):** Trump era = money; non-Trump era = poverty. No intermediate states acknowledged. **Third-person self-reference:** "Trump" as brand/institution rather than "I" or "me" — a rhetorical distancing that elevates the subject to historical-figure status, positioning a vote for Trump as less a political choice and more a material transaction. **Slogan compression:** Five words containing a complete political argument: *causation* (with), *agent* (Trump), *collective identity* (We), *past tense* (Had), *material promise* (Money). Rhetorically efficient and designed for image-macro viral spread. **Parasocial technique:** The "We" functions as inclusion rhetoric — the reader is placed inside the Trump coalition via shared economic memory even before they've made a conscious choice to join. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Absent. --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient data from a five-word slogan to make meaningful cognitive assessments. The post cannot be scored for syntactic complexity, word-finding, or coherence. No markers of concern are present; no markers of health are demonstrable either. **This post should be excluded from longitudinal cognitive tracking** — the brevity is a feature of the genre (meme caption), not an informative signal about the subject's cognitive state. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "With Trump, We Had Money (implying superior economic conditions under Trump vs. current)" | **Half True** | Pre-COVID Trump economy (2017-early 2020) showed strong indicators: 3.5% unemployment, 2.5% average GDP growth, low inflation. However, Trump's full term included the worst quarterly GDP contraction in modern US history (-31.4% annualized, Q2 2020) and 22M jobs lost in spring 2020. Annual 2020 GDP: -3.5%. The claim is selectively accurate for a subset of the Trump presidency and elides the pandemic economic record. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This post is purely aspirational campaign content. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no targeting of individuals or groups, no mobilization signals. The post represents the benign end of the rhetorical spectrum — economic nostalgia rather than threat. --- ## Contextual Notes This post appears in a same-day cluster that also includes: a Babylon Bee Biden dementia joke, a rage-filled attack on Jack Smith/Letitia James/Alvin Bragg/Fani Willis, and a link to a sympathetic profile piece about Trump. The economic meme represents the *aspirational/supply-seeking* pole of the same-day output, while the legal-attack post represents the *paranoid/persecuted* pole. This oscillation between grandiose self-promotion and persecutory grievance within the same posting session is consistent with the mixed narcissistic state documented across longitudinal data. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. The content is standard campaign messaging with no deviation from established behavioral baseline. Its primary analytic value is contextual: as the positive pole in a same-day grandiose/persecuted oscillation cycle.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - 3:38 PM EST — mid-afternoon business hours - Zero typos or orthographic irregularities - No ALL CAPS or emotional punctuation - Third-person brand framing ('Trump') rather than first-person - Image-based campaign content suggesting scheduled media calendar ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Nevada caucus campaign cycle) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inclusive 'We' framing binds audience to Trump coalition via shared economic memory - Third-person elevation of subject to historical-figure/brand-object status ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > With Trump, We Had Money (implying superior economic conditions under Trump vs. current) **HALF TRUE** Pre-COVID Trump economy (2017-early 2020) showed strong indicators: 3.5% unemployment, 2.5% average GDP growth, low inflation. However, Trump's full term included the worst quarterly GDP contraction in modern US history (-31.4% annualized, Q2 2020) and 22M jobs lost in spring 2020. Annual 2020 GDP: -3.5%. The claim is selectively accurate for a subset of the Trump presidency and elides the pandemic economic record. Sources: BLS unemployment data 2017-2021; BEA GDP reports 2017-2021 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - economic_nostalgia (90%) - campaign_messaging (90%) - aide_authored (85%) - grandiose_supply_seeking (70%) - brand_object_self_schema (65%) - false_dichotomy (70%) - contamination_sequence (80%) - third_person_self_reference (60%) - nevada_caucus_context (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Anxiety and Narcissistic Supply Alternate in Bifurcated Saturday at Mar-a-Lago** A relatively quiet Saturday split between sharing flattering media and lashing out at prosecutors. The morning opened with a Biden joke before pivoting into a combative broadside naming five separate legal adversaries as criminals. After a long midday gap, the afternoon brought a burst of self-affirming article shares, then a sharp return to the Fani Willis scandal with the day's most intense post, an all-caps demand for presidential immunity, and -- in a sudden pivot -- a lighthearted post asking followers if he looks like Elvis. Legal threats clearly dominated his emotional bandwidth even as he tried to project confidence. Full digest for 2024-02-03: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 3). “With Trump, We Had Money” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111869474941704587 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“With Trump, We Had Money”" Truth Social, 3 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111869474941704587. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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