# Post ts_112192966271042573 - Post ID: `ts_112192966271042573` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-31T23:46:46.625Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112192966271042573 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112192966271042573/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112192966271042573.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > A must watch with @MarkLevinShow and “Economist Extraordinaire”, Stephen Moore! #BidenTaxPlan ## What the media says **Video transcript** (7:23), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Welcome back, America. We're here with our buddy, Steve Moore, economist extraordinaire, the Heritage Foundation, founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Fox News contributor. Steve, I want to read something to you, and then I want you to comment on it as long as you need to. The Biden administration actually proposed a budget, and that tells us what's in his mind and heart and soul about where he wants to take this country. And the Tax Foundation looked at it, and they said his proposed budget would slash gross domestic product in the long run by 2.2 percent, slash capital stock by 3.8 percent, slash wages by 1.6 percent, result in increased unemployment of almost 800,000. It would decrease American incomes by 1.9 percent in the long run, raising the corporate income tax to 28 percent, the largest driver of negative effects. It would drive down GDP by 0.9 percent, capital stock by 1.7 percent, wages by almost 1 percent, resulting in unemployment of almost 200,000. And it goes on and on and on. And this guy's getting away with saying that he's cut the debt, that he has a responsible proposal. It's like $8 trillion. It's like $7.8 trillion. And everybody is saying, except the hard left, this guy's crazy what he's proposing here. What's your take? Well, great to be with you, Mark. And I loved your opening monologue. And I do feel sometimes, by the way, like we're living in George Orwell's 1984, when you look at what's happened to our country. I mean, you are 100 percent correct. Now, let's talk about that Biden budget. You know, I've lived through I've been doing this for 40 years. So I've examined 40 years of budgets. And normally what happens is Democrats, when they get to the election year, they move to the middle and they pretend like the conservatives. And I've got to give Joe Biden credit. He's not moving to the middle. I mean, this isn't the era of big government is over. This is like the era of big government is here to stay like we've never seen before. You mentioned the fact that he's lying about these deficit reduction numbers. I mean, this is a joke. This is a president in just three years in office has increased the 10-year forecast for the debt by $10 trillion, Mark, $10 trillion. How is that reducing the deficit ? Second of all, let's talk about taxes for a minute. You know, I'm an old fashioned Reagan supply center. You want to get tax rates low to bring jobs and businesses back. Reagan did it at work, Mark. Donald Trump did it. It worked to create a great economy. You're not going to believe this, Mark, but under the Biden tax plan, the United States of America, the land of the free, would have a higher tax rate than Russia and China, our businesses. Now, my old boss, Dick Armey, who I loved and adored, he was the former majority leader. He used to say that liberals love jobs, but they hate employers. This is an assault against American businesses, small businesses, American corporations is playing right into the hands of our enemies like China and Russia and the European countries that are competitors. Trump used to say that these other countries are laughing behind our back. That's exactly what's happening here. This is a put America last budget. And then he frames it, you know, Meece said, we all sound like Marxist now, and he frames it in the Marxist language, a class warfare, get the rich, go after the corporations. And this is the Democrat Party theme song now, which is we're cutting spending while massively increasing it. We're cutting the debt while massively increasing it. You want to destroy social security when in fact they refused to reform it. So they're destroying social security and Medicare. And then they go on these rants about how they stand for the little guy. And so maybe you can tell me what exactly has Joe Biden done for the middle class in this country? Well, the middle class is poor since Joe Biden came in when you take account of inflation. We haven't seen this kind of inflation in this country since the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter was in office. And you remember what happened with him. Ronald Reagan beat an incumbent president by 10 percentage points. And I think you're looking at the kind of same frustration. The middle class is financially stressed out right now. They're having a hard time paying mortgages. They're having a hard time paying their grocery bills. I mean, when I go to the grocery store with my wife, sometimes people come up to me and they get angry at me because they, you know, they think the inflation is and they're feeling an inflation rate that's much higher than the rate that's being recorded by the by the federal government. I mean, if you look at the fight, what's happening to the price of food, if you look what's happening to the price of energy, if you look what's happening at the gas pump, if you look at mortgage payments, those are not up by 20 percent since Biden came into office. They're up by 30 percent. No. How many people's incomes, Mark, do you think have got up by 30 percent in the last three years? Not many, except the very rich. My dad used to say, if you kill a golden goose, you don't get golden eggs. It's really quite that simple. Let me ask you this question. In addition to the taxes, the regulations, they literally want to ban the combustion engine of the gasoline automobile. What will that do to the average person, both in terms of their lifestyle and their costs? And the EPA is doing this. There's not a statute that supports this. I think this is probably the dumbest thing that Joe Biden has come up with. And he's come up with a lot of crazy ideas. But I want to make sure your viewers understand this. Joe Biden is talking about taking away your car. This is a war against the gas powered car. And what he wants to do is force consumers and car buyers to buy electric vehicles, whether they want to or not. Now, I'm not against electric vehicles. I'm not against Teslas. I'm messing. My best friends have Teslas. But in this country, we believe that people have a right to choose, don't we? I mean, why should the government tell you what kind of car you can buy? Only 1% of the cars today on the road. Did you know that, Mark? Only 1% of the cars are electric vehicles. Only about 6% or 7% of the sales are electric vehicles, even though they're pouring massive subsidies into it. So I think people are going to be angry about this. The price of cars is going to go up because they're not allowing the companies to produce them, like Ford and GM. I mean, it is an outrage. And I think people are extraordinarily frustrated by this. And I think there's going to be a real pushback against. They're not taking my car away from me. That's what people tell me. They're not going to take my car away from me. The electrical grid is not set up for this. No, no way. You're going to have brownouts and blackouts. You're going to have rationing of energy. Yes. These vehicles and the charging stations, they're not ready for this. They're not ready for the cold weather or freezing weather. How many fire departments have told us these are very, very dangerous vehicles when they blow up all kinds of toxins. They can't get people out of these cars and they don't care because they are driven by ideology, not by economics. And they're imposing their will on the American people. No, Mark, if you want to destroy a country's economy, destroy its energy supply, I want to meet people should know this. They're going after our fossil fuel industry, which provides 80% of our energy. And we're going to, we're not going to have any industry left in this country if they pursue this green energy strategy. We'll be right back. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/192/965/889/838/981/original/39183103bfab264a.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,648 - Reposts: 3,905 - Replies: 716 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.362Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T06:17:36.476Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_112192966271042573 — 2024-03-31 23:46:46 UTC ## Overview This is a brief promotional post sharing a video segment featuring conservative commentator Mark Levin and supply-side economist Stephen Moore discussing Biden's tax policy. The post is structurally minimal: one imperative phrase, two named endorsements, one hashtag. It contrasts sharply with the high-affect, ALL-CAPS Easter Sunday post from earlier the same day. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time conversion:** Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL) is EDT (UTC−4). Post time converts to **7:46 PM EDT** — early evening, well within conventional waking/staff hours. **Assessment: Likely aide-written (Scavino or communications staff).** Indicators: - Evening posting window (not late-night impulsive) - Clean grammar, no typos or capitalization anomalies - Proper use of `@MarkLevinShow` handle (formatted correctly) - Hashtag is campaign-functional (`#BidenTaxPlan`) — strategic framing, not reactive - Polished sentence structure — complete, organized **Partial authentic signal:** The scare-quote honorific *"Economist Extraordinaire"* echoes Trump's habitual superlative titling style (e.g., "the great," "incredible"). This may reflect a Trump verbal contribution later cleaned up by staff, or may simply mimic his known titling pattern. **Confidence:** Medium. The post is sufficiently promotional and clean to suggest staff execution, but Trump's stylistic fingerprints in the title are non-trivial. --- ## Psychological State and Triggers Viewed in isolation, this post is psychologically inert — a routine amplification of allied political-economic content. It is best understood as **supply-seeking maintenance**: keeping the audience engaged with validating economic framing (Biden = tax threat) between the more volatile posts of the day. The broader Easter Sunday posting cluster is highly significant: the HAPPY EASTER rant exhibits extreme narcissistic injury response with near-clinical rage, paranoid ideation, and hostile interpersonal content. This video promotion appears **decontextualized** — a scheduled or staff-managed post running concurrently with or shortly after the rage post, serving an audience engagement function rather than expressing acute psychological state. **Motive profile:** Agency-dominant. The post advances a political-economic attack frame (Biden tax policy) while associating Trump with respected (within in-group) intellectual figures. Communion motive is absent. **Narcissistic state:** Not meaningfully expressed. If anything, the implied stance is *grandiose maintenance* — Trump as curator of important knowledge others must watch. **Trigger:** None apparent in this post. No injury, no threat response. This is ambient political programming. --- ## Defense Mechanisms Minimal in this post specifically: - **Rationalization** (neurotic): Framing economic opposition to Biden's tax policy as intellectually grounded (via economist endorsement) serves to legitimize political hostility through quasi-objective authority. No pathological or immature defenses are visible in this text alone. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Imperative urgency:** "A must watch" — commands audience attention without explanation; bypasses deliberation - **Authority appeal:** Citing an "Economist Extraordinaire" confers expert legitimacy on the anti-Biden economic frame - **Scare-quote superlative:** The quoted title functions as mock-formal endorsement, a Trump-adjacent rhetorical habit - **Hashtag agenda-setting:** `#BidenTaxPlan` is a framing device — it names and implicitly opposes Biden's tax proposals without specifying them, inviting the audience to supply negative associations - **Parasocial amplification:** The `@MarkLevinShow` tag directs to trusted in-group media, reinforcing epistemic closure within the conservative information ecosystem No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Stephen Moore is an 'Economist Extraordinaire'" | **Half True** | Stephen Moore is a credentialed supply-side economist affiliated with Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks, and was a Trump economic adviser. His work is real but contested; his 2019 Federal Reserve nomination was withdrawn amid criticism of analytical errors and past writings. 'Extraordinaire' is subjective honorific opinion, not falsifiable. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Narrative Identity Minimal expression in this post. To the extent a narrative role is implied, it is Trump as **trusted curator and guide** — the figure who identifies what the audience *must* watch, directing epistemic attention. This is a modest form of the king/mentor archetype rather than the warrior or victim roles visible elsewhere in the day's posting cluster. --- ## Longitudinal Context This post is the quietest of the Easter Sunday cluster. The same day produced: 1. Extreme narcissistic rage post (HAPPY EASTER) — malignant narcissism markers, paranoid ideation, eliminationist subtext 2. Birthday greeting to Alina — warm, brief, relationship maintenance 3. Golf trophy post — grandiose display, achievement-status seeking 4. Unfair justice system post — moderate injury response, appeal framing 5. Daily Mail poll link — passive supply-seeking (favorable polling) 6. **This post** — routine political content promotion The pattern is consistent with a high-volatility posting day anchored by a severe injury response (gag order, approaching criminal trial, bond obligations) with routine maintenance content interspersed. This post represents the maintenance/programming layer, not the acute psychological layer. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No threat language, no target identification, no dehumanizing content, no stochastic terrorism indicators in this post. --- ## Summary *Not clinically significant as an isolated post.* Routine political content promotion, likely staff-executed, serving audience maintenance and Biden opposition framing functions. Psychologically unremarkable in isolation; contextually meaningful as the low-affect counterpoint to the same day's high-affect rage posting. No clinical indicators, no danger flags. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - 7:46 PM EDT — within conventional staff hours - Clean grammar, no typos or anomalies - Correctly formatted @MarkLevinShow handle - Strategic hashtag #BidenTaxPlan (campaign-functional, not reactive) - Polished complete sentence structure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Directing audience to curated in-group media content - Imperative framing ('must watch') as epistemic authority signal - Endorsement of known trusted-figure allies (Levin, Moore) reinforces in-group media ecosystem ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Stephen Moore is an 'Economist Extraordinaire' **HALF TRUE** Stephen Moore is a credentialed supply-side economist affiliated with Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks, and was a Trump economic adviser. His work is real but contested; his 2019 Federal Reserve nomination was withdrawn amid criticism of analytical errors and past writings. 'Extraordinaire' is subjective honorific opinion, not falsifiable. Sources: General knowledge — Heritage Foundation affiliation, 2019 Fed nomination withdrawal Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-authored (75%) - political-content-promotion (90%) - economic-opposition-framing (80%) - in-group-media-amplification (70%) - maintenance-post (85%) - low-affect (90%) - biden-tax-plan (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Easter Sunday Becomes Vehicle for Peak-Intensity Legal Grievance Discharge** Trump spent Easter Sunday at Mar-a-Lago flooding Truth Social with 50 posts — his highest-volume day in recent memory. The morning was dominated by a rapid-fire dump of curated links pushing a coordinated narrative: Biden as anti-Christian, Trump as persecuted messiah, and the legal system as corrupt conspiracy. One post shared an article with "crucifixion-donald-trump" in the URL. The day's defining moment came early afternoon when he hijacked his own "HAPPY EASTER" greeting to launch an all-caps tirade naming prosecutors and judges as "EVIL," "SICK," and "THUGS," revealing that legal pressure from the approaching hush money trial and a freshly imposed gag order had overwhelmed any capacity for holiday restraint. By evening he had pivoted to posting a golf trophy photo with Jack Nicklaus, completing a textbook cycle from rage to self-congratulation. Full digest for 2024-03-31: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-31/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 31). A must watch with @MarkLevinShow and “Economist... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112192966271042573 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A must watch with @MarkLevinShow and “Economist..." Truth Social, 31 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112192966271042573. 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