# Post ts_112141681834017142 - Post ID: `ts_112141681834017142` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-22T22:24:28.255Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112141681834017142 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112141681834017142/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112141681834017142.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Under Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States of America, the price of food has surged nearly 39%… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -Under Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States of America, the price of food has surged nearly 39%. When you go to the grocery store, you're spending $150, $200, even $250 or more, and you can't even believe how little food you're getting or buying, comparing it to three years ago when I was president. The cost of basics like eggs and chicken and steak is way up, and it's getting worse and worse with each passing day and month. Every time you go to the grocery store and pay these brutal prices, just remember, this is Crooked Joe Biden's inflation, and there's never been an inflation like it. It's the worst in 72 years, but I think it's much longer than that. Under my leadership, we had no inflation. It was virtually zero. Then Crooked Joe came along, and you had inflation at the highest level in 52 years. Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats printed trillions and trillions of dollars and wasted under the Green News scam, and that's what it is. It's the Green News scam. It's a disaster. And taxpayer-funded benefits for hordes of illegal aliens. We're paying so much for illegal aliens, but we're not taking care of our soldiers, our veterans. We're not taking care of our people, and that includes the elderly. Now you are paying the price in your grocery bill for all of Joe Biden's waste and plunder. We've never had anything like this. He's the worst president in the history of our country, and he's not taking care of our people. He probably doesn't know that because I'm not sure he knows anything, but he's not taking care of our people. He looted the Treasury to enrich his political allies, and now you have to pinch pennies in your own shopping cart to cover the cost, and you look at it on a weekly basis. How much more it is. It just keeps going up and up. It's a disgrace, but I will fix it, and I will fix it fast. I will end Joe Biden's inflation nightmare once and for all, and we will quickly rebuild the greatest economy in the history of the world. We will drill, baby, drill. We will get energy prices down to a level that we haven't seen in four years, and then everything else will follow. You're going to be very happy again. You're going to be very rich again, and that's the way we want it to be. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/141/681/691/284/502/original/ad8d7839f703a8f3.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 15,012 - Reposts: 4,011 - Replies: 452 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.364Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T05:53:02.049Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Psychological Analysis: ts_112141681834017142 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2024-03-22 | **Age:** 77 --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely aide-written (confidence: high)** Posted at 6:24 PM EDT (DST active since March 10), this falls squarely within business hours. The post is a single clean sentence captioning a produced MP4 — the signature format of Scavino/communications-team content drops. No typos, no capitalization bursts, no tangential elaboration. The contrast with same-day authentic posts is instructive: the Engoron response post shows classic unpolished Trump markers (COMPLETE VICTORY, compound nickname chains, legal grievance spiraling), while this post is an economy of language consistent with a planned ad release. Attribution confidence is further supported by the absence of any emotional reactivity despite acute same-day stressors (bond failure, property seizure threat by James). --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post activates the **low agreeableness** facet most prominently — specifically the hostile-devaluation subfacet. The epithet "Crooked Joe Biden" is reflexive rather than expressive; it functions as a conditioned label. **Extraversion** (assertiveness) is present in the maximalist declarative. **Openness** is notably low: the framing admits zero complexity about multi-causal inflation dynamics. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate.** The post is instrumental — it positions Trump as the competent alternative by devaluing the incumbent. Communion motives are near-absent (no warmth, solidarity, or direct address to followers' wellbeing). The goal schema is straightforward: convert economic anxiety into electoral grievance pointed at a named target. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity The post is a **contamination sequence fragment**: a good/stable state (pre-Biden America, implied) has been corrupted by a specific, named agent. Trump himself is absent as explicit protagonist but is the implicit solution — the structure sets up a redemption arc to be completed by voting. The **contrasting other** (Biden as "Crooked," "worst ever") defines Trump's identity by opposition rather than affirmative claim. --- ## Clinical Level: Narcissistic Dynamics **State: Grandiose (low-intensity)**. No acute narcissistic injury is detectable in this post. The tone is controlled, not reactive. This is **maintenance/supply-seeking** content — routine audience engagement in the campaign messaging cycle. The projection dynamic is worth flagging: "Crooked" is directed at Biden on the same day Trump's lawyers disclosed inability to secure bond for a fraud judgment and Letitia James moved to seize properties. The label externalization is textbook — projection of legally-adjudicated "crooked" behavior onto the political opponent. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Splitting** (primary): Biden is categorically the worst president in American history — absolute, binary, no graduations admitted. - **Displacement**: Voter economic anxiety is redirected from systemic/multi-causal inflation toward a singular, personified cause. - **Projection**: "Crooked" inverted from self to opponent under conditions of acute legal exposure. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post is a precision-engineered micro-attack-ad. Key techniques: 1. **False precision**: "nearly 39%" sounds empirical. It is not — the actual cumulative food CPI increase under Biden through early 2024 was approximately 20-21% (BLS data). The figure appears inflated by ~85%, possibly by conflating categories, using cherry-picked commodities (eggs), or applying non-standard baseline periods. False precision lends authority to a distorted claim. 2. **Maximalist superlative**: "worst president in the history of the United States" is a closing-move framing device — it forecloses debate by positioning the claim as settled fact rather than political argument. 3. **Open loop**: The trailing ellipsis ("…") is a deliberate rhetorical hook — anxiety is created, resolution deferred to the video. Classic persuasion architecture. 4. **Epithet conditioning**: "Crooked Joe Biden" — repetition across posts (this is one of ~7 on the day) conditions negative association through Pavlovian repetition. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The price of food has surged nearly 39% under Biden" | **Mostly False** | BLS Consumer Price Index data shows cumulative food-at-home (grocery) inflation of approximately 20-21% from January 2021 through early 2024. The broader 'food' CPI (including food away from home) was similarly ~21%. No standard BLS or USDA metric reaches 39%. Some conservative media figures have cited higher numbers using selective commodity categories (e.g., eggs, which spiked dramatically) or alternative calculation methodologies, but the headline figure for overall food prices under Biden is approximately half the cited figure. The 39% number appears to conflate overall inflation or energy costs with food prices, or use a cherry-picked commodity baseline. | | "Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States of America" | **Unverifiable** | Historical presidential rankings are inherently subjective. Trump ranks poorly in most academic historian surveys (Siena College, C-SPAN) while Biden ranks in the lower-middle tier in available early assessments. The claim is political opinion framed as fact. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Longitudinal Context This post sits within a same-day burst of seven posts covering immigration, Social Security, legal grievances, foreign policy validation (Duda), and campaign fundraising. This volume pattern is consistent with a coordinated communications day rather than reactive posting — further supporting aide-originated or aide-coordinated content. Notably, the DWAC/Truth Social merger was approved on this exact date, giving Trump a financial stake in platform traffic and engagement metrics that may amplify posting volume incentives. --- ## Summary *Not flagged as clinically significant — this is routine campaign content. No summary generated.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 6:24 PM EDT (business hours, not late-night authentics window) - Single clean sentence with no typos or capitalization eruptions - Accompanies a produced MP4 media attachment (planned content release) - Economically precise framing ('nearly 39%') atypical of stream-of-consciousness style - No rhetorical escalation or emotional digression ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign messaging cycle) Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Economic victimhood framing positions audience as shared sufferers - Implicit promise: Trump as solution to named problem - Ellipsis ('…') invites audience to complete thought — parasocial co-authorship ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > The price of food has surged nearly 39% under Biden **MOSTLY FALSE** BLS Consumer Price Index data shows cumulative food-at-home (grocery) inflation of approximately 20-21% from January 2021 through early 2024. The broader 'food' CPI (including food away from home) was similarly ~21%. No standard BLS or USDA metric reaches 39%. Some conservative media figures have cited higher numbers using selective commodity categories (e.g., eggs, which spiked dramatically) or alternative calculation methodologies, but the headline figure for overall food prices under Biden is approximately half the cited figure. The 39% number appears to conflate overall inflation or energy costs with food prices, or use a cherry-picked commodity baseline. Sources: BLS CPI Food Index 2021-2024; USDA Economic Research Service Food Price Outlook > Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States of America **UNVERIFIABLE** Historical presidential rankings are inherently subjective. Trump ranks poorly in most academic historian surveys (Siena College, C-SPAN) while Biden ranks in the lower-middle tier in available early assessments. The claim is political opinion framed as fact. Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - campaign_content (90%) - aide_written (80%) - economic_attack (90%) - splitting (70%) - statistical_inflation (85%) - projection (60%) - supply_seeking (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Bond Crisis Siege: 43 Posts in 20 Hours as Property Seizure Threat Unleashes Year's Most Intense Posting Storm** Trump's day was consumed by the New York fraud case — specifically the looming threat of property seizure after he failed to secure a $454 million bond. He posted 43 times across roughly 20 hours, oscillating between raw all-caps rage at the judge and attorney general, and curated legal defenses shared from Fox News commentators. A massive business win — the approval of the Truth Social merger with DWAC — went almost entirely unmentioned, buried under a flood of grievance. The most striking claim of the day was that he had "almost five hundred million dollars in cash," which directly contradicted what his own lawyers were telling the court about the impossibility of posting bond. Immigration attacks using military language like "invading army" formed a persistent secondary theme, apparently serving as an outlet for legal anxiety he couldn't otherwise discharge. Full digest for 2024-03-22: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 22). Under Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112141681834017142 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Under Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history..." Truth Social, 22 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112141681834017142. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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