# Post ts_112305998403864793

- Post ID: `ts_112305998403864793`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-04-20T22:52:20.089Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112305998403864793.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> A message to the Great People of Wilmington, North Carolina…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:03), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Trump, your favorite president of all time, hopefully. As you can see, there's some very bad weather heading in and we're flying in in a few minutes, but they really would prefer that we not come in because it's a certain danger to all of this. And we want to make sure that everybody is safe above all. And so they've asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter. And what we'll do is we'll make up for this very quickly at another time, but we'll do it as quick as possible. I'm more devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe. It's the most important thing and we want everybody there to be 100% safe. There seems to be some thunder and lightning and it's a pretty big storm. So if you don't mind, I think we're going to have to just do a rain check. I'm so sad, I'm in North Carolina right now and waiting to go in, but they're saying the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. So we have to rely on the weather service and some of the officials, and I just want to thank you. I'm so sorry, but we'll do it again and we'll do it bigger and better and you have my promise. Same location. And thank you all very much. Thank you, everybody. God be with you. Thank you. Message from President Trump via the loudspeaker here. In my opinion, this is absolutely the right thing to do. This is the responsible thing to do. We've got severe weather moving in this area. We got active cloud to ground lightning. We've got gusty winds. We have rain coming. Without a doubt, this was the right call. Now it's not popular. We all want to see the president. Everybody here wants to see the president, right? But at the end of the day, it's about public safety and President Trump, without a doubt, made the right decision here and yielding in the caution of public safety.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/305/998/241/869/108/original/529317119dc21945.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 19,236
- Reposts: 4,910
- Replies: 1,215
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.360Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T07:18:55.576Z (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_112305998403864793 — April 20, 2024

## Overview

This is an extremely minimal post functioning as a coordinated video introduction for a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on the evening of April 20, 2024. Virtually all substantive content resides in the attached video, not the text. The text itself offers negligible psychological signal beyond its baseline communicative function.

## Authorship Attribution

**Likely aide-written (Scavino-pattern).** Local time at posting was **6:52 PM Eastern** — Trump was in Wilmington for a 7:00 PM rally, placing this squarely in coordinated pre-event communications. The polished brevity, absence of typos or emotional capitalization, and event-coordination function all diverge from self-authored patterns. Same-day self-signed posts use ALL CAPS, the "DJT" signature, and exclamation clustering: *"I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA. Heading to Wilmington NOW. See you soon!!! DJT"* — a clear stylistic contrast.

## Psychological State

**Maintenance/supply-seeking.** The post is a pre-rally audience-priming mechanism. "Great People" is a formulaic crowd-endearment device that serves narcissistic supply functions by establishing reciprocal affirmation before the live event. No injury, rage, or defensive posturing is visible.

## Day-Level Contextual Note

This post is the emotional-valence counterpart to the day's legally anxious and paranoid-defensive immunity posts. The compartmentalization is characteristic: nationally-directed posts process legal threat (persecutory/grandiose oscillation); locally-directed rally posts perform warmth and crowd bonding.

## Clinical Significance

**Not clinically significant in isolation.** Insufficient text for cognitive assessment. No danger indicators, gaslighting, or reality distortion present. Longitudinal note: the single-day contrast between the legally defensive immunity posts and this affectively warm rally post illustrates the rapid state-switching pattern documented across Trump's communication corpus.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 6:52 PM Eastern (UTC-4, Trump in Wilmington, NC for rally) — business/early-evening hours consistent with aide coordination
- Polished, minimal text with no typos or impulsive capitalization
- Ellipsis used as professional teaser device rather than stream-of-consciousness trailing thought
- Post is clearly a coordinated rally promotional frame for an attached video, not organic expression
- Contrast with same-day authentic-pattern posts: 'I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA. Heading to Wilmington NOW. See you soon!!! DJT' — that one has the DJT signature, ALL CAPS, and exclamation clustering characteristic of self-authored posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Wilmington, NC rally crowd)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct crowd address ('A message to the Great People')
- Geographic personalization ('Wilmington, North Carolina')
- Anticipation-building ellipsis inviting engagement with video

## Tags

- rally-promo (90%)
- aide-authored (75%)
- supply-seeking (60%)
- crowd-flattery (70%)
- north-carolina (80%)
- video-wrapper (85%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Trial Jury Seated, Trump Spirals Into All-Day Immunity Obsession**

Trump's day was dominated by his Manhattan criminal trial, where a full jury was seated and his last-ditch immunity appeal was rejected. He responded with a sustained barrage of posts arguing for absolute presidential immunity — returning to the topic more than ten times across the afternoon. The mood swung between anxious self-defense and flashes of grandiose confidence, with a brief flash of real anger when he demanded the judge be removed. By evening, a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina offered a reset, shifting him into crowd-pleasing mode. Notably absent: any mention of the House passing a major Ukraine aid bill or the growing Columbia University protests.

Full digest for 2024-04-20: https://trump.fm/date/2024-04-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, April 20). A message to the Great People of Wilmington,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A message to the Great People of Wilmington, North Carolina…" Truth Social, 20 Apr. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "A message to the Great People of Wilmington, North Carolina…," Truth Social, April 20, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112305998403864793.

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