# Post ts_112105484697321291 - Post ID: `ts_112105484697321291` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-16T12:59:03.738Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112105484697321291.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Please watch this. Thank you. MAGA!!! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:21), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > From all over the world they came. Millions of illegal border crosses have entered the country unlawfully. They're coming by the thousands. Nobody could afford this and even morally it's so wrong. We're not smart enough to know who I am, but soon you're going to know who I am. We will secure our borders and we will restore our sovereignty. They recognize the fact that Joe Biden is more favorable president for immigrants. Proper Biden. Biden, of course. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/105/484/610/389/036/original/5f92d1074be298f3.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,425 - Reposts: 3,304 - Replies: 396 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.365Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T05:41:47.024Z (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 — 2024-03-16T12:59:03Z ## Post Overview Seven words of text plus an unrecoverable MP4 video attachment. This is one of the most content-sparse posts in the corpus — virtually all meaning is deferred to the embedded video, which cannot be analyzed from training data alone. Consequently, most frameworks can be applied only at low confidence, and several cannot meaningfully be applied at all. --- ## 1. Authorship Attribution **Local time conversion:** Daylight Saving Time began March 10, 2024. Trump's posting timezone is Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). UTC 12:59 → **8:59 AM EDT**. This falls squarely within professional business hours. **Location on date:** The same-day posts confirm Trump was in transit to Vandalia/Dayton, Ohio for a rally. He may have been at Mar-a-Lago earlier that morning or already in the air. **Stylometric signals — mixed:** | Signal | Direction | |---|---| | "Please watch this. Thank you." | Aide — formal, polished, atypical politeness for Trump | | "MAGA!!!" | Authentic — triple-exclamation signature | | Time (8:59 AM EDT) | Aide — business hours | | Complete sentences, correct grammar | Aide | | No typos, no ALL-CAPS rant | Aide | | Ultra-brevity with video share | Ambiguous — Trump does short video-forward posts | **Assessment:** The salutation structure ("Please… Thank you") is inconsistent with Trump's habitual directness and absence of social niceties. This pattern appears in posts composed or cleaned up by staff (most likely Dan Scavino's team). The "MAGA!!!" append may reflect a Trump directive or branding requirement. **Lean: aide-authored or aide-polished at Trump's direction.** Confidence: medium. --- ## 2. Psychological State & Triggers Content is insufficient for robust inference. What can be noted: - **Trigger type:** Maintenance / supply-seeking. No reactive or injury-driven quality is detectable. - **Narcissistic state:** Neither grandiose nor vulnerable; neutral/operational. - **Rage:** Absent. - **Urgency register:** Low to moderate ("Please watch this" is courteous, not imperative). The post's emotional valence is entirely dependent on the video's content, which is unknown. Given the day's context (Ohio rally, "bloodbath" comments later that afternoon), the video could range from campaign promotion to partisan attack media. --- ## 3. Defense Mechanisms None discernible. Post is operational/promotional in function, not defensive. --- ## 4. Rhetorical Techniques Despite minimal text, two techniques operate: 1. **Parasocial intimacy / communal appeal:** "Please" and "Thank you" are social lubricants that simulate a polite personal request from friend to friend — creating an in-group warmth effect. The audience is positioned as a trusted community being asked a favor. 2. **MAGA as tribal signal:** The sign-off functions as a solidarity marker and identity call — activating group identity even in a content-free post. The exclamation marks amplify affective intensity. 3. **Deferred meaning:** By making the video the sole payload, the post creates mild curiosity/urgency without making any falsifiable claim — a rhetorical non-commitment. --- ## 5. Cognitive Status **Seven words** is insufficient to assess vocabulary, syntax, or coherence. No markers detectable. Cognitive analysis is inapplicable to this post. --- ## 6. Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) Protagonist role: absent from text. No identity claims. No redemption or contamination arc visible. The post is structurally a relay device. --- ## 7. Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None present. --- ## 8. Danger Assessment **Text alone:** None. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no targeting. **Contextual note:** This post was made the same day as the Vandalia, Ohio rally at which Trump made the "bloodbath" comments regarding the auto industry and elections. This post likely promoted content adjacent to that rally day, but the text itself contains nothing dangerous. --- ## 9. Fact Claims None in text. No verifiable claims to assess. --- ## 10. Summary Determination Post does not meet threshold for clinical summary. Content is too minimal for meaningful pattern analysis. Longitudinal significance is nil unless video content is recovered and analyzed. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - 'Please watch this. Thank you.' — formal politeness inconsistent with Trump's habitual directness - 8:59 AM EDT posting time — business hours, consistent with aide activity - Grammatically complete, error-free sentences - No typos, no ALL-CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness style - 'MAGA!!!' append consistent with Trump branding directive or personal addition ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (rally day audience mobilization) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Polite personal request framing ('Please… Thank you') simulating friend-to-friend appeal - MAGA tribal identity activation as sign-off ## Tags - video-share (90%) - aide-authored (65%) - maintenance (80%) - rally-day (70%) - tribal-signaling (60%) - content-sparse (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Rally Day in Ohio: Legal Gloating Over Wade Resignation, 'Bloodbath' Speech, and a Concentrated Immigration Fear Offensive** A triumphant rally day built around Trump's Dayton, Ohio appearance for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. The morning featured routine self-promotion before a gloating burst over Nathan Wade's resignation from the Fani Willis prosecution -- the emotional high point of the day. The rally itself produced the widely debated "bloodbath" remark about auto industry tariffs, while the evening was consumed by aide-driven amplification of rally coverage and a cluster of immigration-focused articles weaponizing the Laken Riley case. The mood stayed uniformly grandiose with no defensiveness or vulnerability, making it one of the more psychologically stable days on record despite the inflammatory rhetoric. Full digest for 2024-03-16: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-16/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 16). Please watch this. Thank you. MAGA!!! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Please watch this. Thank you. MAGA!!!" Truth Social, 16 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Please watch this. Thank you. MAGA!!!," Truth Social, March 16, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291. ## 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_112105484697321291 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_112105484697321291 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_112105484697321291 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-16 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112105484697321291.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`._