# Post ts_112369324722853305 - Post ID: `ts_112369324722853305` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-05-02T03:17:03.104Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112369324722853305 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112369324722853305/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112367215121379261 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112367215121379261 (2024-05-01T18:20:33.071Z (UTC)) > Join me LIVE in WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN at 1:30pmCDT/2:30pmEST! Will be on @RSBN, @realamericasvoice, @NewsMax, @OAN, and Donald J. Trump @rumble, among others. See you soon! https://rumble.com/v4siq0k-president-trump-in-waukesha-wi.html ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:41), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > ♪ Join them, take a stand ♪ ♪ And wear them to their knees ♪ ♪ 'Cause if I can't get my face ♪ ♪ I can stay the same ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ To be their king ♪ ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ ♪ And I won't forget the man who died ♪ ♪ Who paid that life to me ♪ ♪ I can stand up next to you ♪ ♪ At the big merchant today ♪ ♪ 'Cause the rain will rise ♪ ♪ I won't forget the man who died ♪ ♪ Who paid that life to me ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ ♪ I won't forget the man who died ♪ ♪ Who paid that life to me ♪ ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ ♪ 'Cause the rain will rise ♪ ♪ I won't forget the man who died ♪ ♪ At least I know I'm free ♪ (audience cheering) (audience cheering) ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/369/322/648/420/544/original/76ec1f3d3990fb8b.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,672 - Reposts: 2,313 - Replies: 322 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.358Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T07:42:08.741Z (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_112369324722853305 — May 2, 2024 (03:17 UTC) ## Post Overview This post is structurally a bare repost ("RT") of an earlier Trump-authored Truth Social status (112367215121379261), accompanied by a video attachment. There is no original text. The inability to retrieve the source post's text via fetch means analysis relies on: (1) inferential context from same-day posts, (2) timing, (3) the media file type. The original post being retweeted carries a lower status ID, confirming it was posted earlier that day. Based on the same-day contextual posts — "THANK YOU MICHIGAN!", "A GREAT DAY IN WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. TREMENDOUS CROWDS AND ENTHUSIASM! MAGA2024" — the video almost certainly constitutes rally highlight footage from the May 1 campaign stops in Waukesha, WI and Freeland, MI, Trump's only day off from his Manhattan hush money trial that week. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 03:17 → 11:17 PM Eastern Time (May 1/2 overnight). Trump was based in New York City for the trial but had traveled to and returned from Midwest rallies that day. **Assessment:** The late-night timestamp (23:17 ET) falls squarely in the authentic-Trump posting window (10 PM–6 AM local). However, the posting mechanism — a bare RT with no appended commentary — is also consistent with a scheduled or aide-assisted media amplification task. The total absence of original text removes the primary stylometric markers (typos, ALL CAPS, stream-of-consciousness phrasing) used to confirm authentic authorship. **Confidence:** Medium. Timing favors authentic; format is neutral/ambiguous. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits With no textual content, trait assessment is severely constrained. The *act* of sharing rally footage at midnight signals: - **Extraversion (high):** Continued broadcasting of crowd enthusiasm beyond the event itself; ongoing performance for audience. - **Neuroticism (indeterminate):** No affective markers present in the post itself. - **Conscientiousness (low signal):** A bare repost requires minimal deliberation, suggesting impulse or automation rather than strategic communication. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power via social proof.** Sharing rally footage amplifies visual evidence of mass support — a core narcissistic supply mechanism. The post functions as a display of crowd magnitude without requiring original assertion, plausibly deniable as "just sharing" while still broadcasting the dominance signal. **Schema activation:** Self-as-beloved-leader. Rallies are a primary arena where Trump receives unconditional affirmation; re-broadcasting them extends the supply window beyond the physical event. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity Even without text, the repost participates in the master narrative: *besieged fighter validated by the people*. The timing is significant — this video share follows a day in which Trump was (a) fined $9,000 for contempt of court and (b) cheered by packed rally crowds. The juxtaposition of legal humiliation and mass adulation is the core redemption-contamination oscillation of his 2024 narrative. **Protagonist role:** Triumphant populist (implied through crowd footage). **Narrative sequence:** Contamination (court, contempt) → Redemption (rally, crowds) — the video repost is the redemption beat. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Supply dynamics:** Sharing rally video at midnight is consistent with post-event narcissistic supply processing — re-experiencing the affirmation of the crowd after a day that included a contempt finding. The timing suggests the subject is still emotionally engaged with the day's events rather than having disengaged for sleep. **Malignant narcissism components:** Not assessable from this post in isolation. **Cognitive markers:** Absent (no text to evaluate). --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Displacement / Denial (inferred):** Sharing celebratory rally footage in the immediate aftermath of a contempt fine is consistent with displacing the injury (legal humiliation) with counter-evidence of popular support. The post functions psychologically as "but look how many people love me," a classic narcissistic defense against shame. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Social proof:** Visual documentation of crowd size is a primary persuasion technique — "crowds = legitimacy." Rally footage inherently makes a non-verbal argument about popular mandate. **Propaganda technique (implicit):** The sharing of crowd footage without commentary leverages the RAND firehose principle — volume of positive content drowns out adverse signals (the contempt finding). **No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators present.** --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None detectable in this post. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No threat language, no target identification, no eliminationist rhetoric. --- ## Limitations This post is analytically thin due to the absence of original text. Conclusions are primarily inferential, derived from timing, context, and the structural act of posting. Longitudinal significance lies less in the post's content than in its timing: midnight reposting of affirmation content following a day of legal sanction is a behavioral data point consistent with the broader pattern of narcissistic injury → supply-seeking documented across this period. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Late-night timestamp (23:17 ET) consistent with authentic Trump posting window - No original text — removes primary stylometric markers for confirmation - Bare RT format consistent with aide-assisted or scheduled amplification - Subject returning from Midwest rallies same day, emotionally elevated state plausible ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Wisconsin/Michigan rally crowds) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Visual social proof via crowd footage - Post-event supply extension — re-broadcasting affirmation beyond the physical event ## Tags - rally-content (80%) - supply-seeking (60%) - bare-repost (90%) - post-contempt-posting (70%) - video-share (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Rally Grandiosity Collides with Trial-Day Rage as Contempt Fallout Drives Oscillating Narcissistic States** Trump's day split cleanly between rally-fueled triumph and courtroom fury. Late the night before, he basked in crowd energy from Wisconsin and Michigan rallies, lashing out at RFK Jr. as an afterthought. By morning, facing another day in the Manhattan hush money trial two days after being held in contempt, the mood shifted sharply to rage — he demanded the gag order be removed, called the proceedings a "radical left revolution," and claimed Biden was orchestrating every case against him. A mid-afternoon denial of falling asleep in court — featuring an unprompted compliment about his own "beautiful blue eyes" — was the day's most revealing moment. The evening cooled with an FDNY visit and campaign links, but the underlying pattern was clear: legal pressure is producing increasingly volatile swings between defiance and grandiosity. Full digest for 2024-05-02: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-02/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 2). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112369324722853305 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 2 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112369324722853305. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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