# Post ts_112412575520548743 - Post ID: `ts_112412575520548743` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-05-09T18:36:17.947Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412575520548743 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412575520548743/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112412575520548743.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS. REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Absentee voting, early voting and election day voting are all good options. Republicans must make a plan, register and vote. We've got to get crooked Joe Biden out of office. We've got to elect Republicans and we're going to do it. We're going to have the greatest victory in the history of our country. Thank you very much. God bless you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/412/575/163/659/824/original/ee768fe3b3d88b55.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 15,575 - Reposts: 4,396 - Replies: 873 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.357Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T08:00:58.185Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This aide-authored GOTV directive (posted 2:36 PM EDT, trial day, Manhattan) is clinically significant primarily as a longitudinal marker rather than for its surface content. The post silently reverses years of Trump's own documented rhetoric characterizing absentee and mail-in voting as fraudulent — now presenting all three voting methods as self-evidently "GOOD OPTIONS" with no acknowledgment of the prior position. This silent revision operates as institutional-scale gaslighting: followers who internalized the prior "mail-in = fraud" schema are simply issued a new frame with no cognitive bridge, consistent with the epistemic closure dynamic recurring throughout this corpus. The reversal reflects campaign political calculation (Republican underperformance in 2022 was partly attributed to voter suppression via Trump's own anti-mail rhetoric), executed through a mechanism — silent denial — that avoids accountability while demanding followers update their reality model on command. All authorship indicators (business hours, polished grammar, institutional register, absence of Trump's characteristic emotional texture and selective noun capitalization) confirm staff origin. This post should be excluded from cognitive baseline analysis. The principal research value is as a documented pivot point in Trump's voting-rights messaging and as an instance of mass-audience reality revision through omission. ## Analysis: ts_112412575520548743 — May 9, 2024 ### Overview This post is a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign directive endorsing absentee, early, and Election Day voting. Superficially mundane, the post carries significant longitudinal weight: it represents a near-complete reversal of Trump's sustained 2020–2023 messaging that labeled mail-in and absentee voting as fraudulent, rigged, and dangerous to democracy. That reversal is executed without acknowledgment, apology, or any discursive bridge—a pattern consistent with what Vaillant classifies as denial operating at the sociocommunicative level. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** - **Timezone conversion:** Trial was ongoing in Manhattan. UTC 18:36 → EDT 14:36 (2:36 PM local). Solidly within business hours. - **Style markers:** Polished, error-free, complete imperative sentences. No stream-of-consciousness drift, no mid-sentence pivots, no idiosyncratic capitalization of individual nouns (Trump's authentic "she's got Spirit, she's got Fight" pattern visible in same-day posts). The only all-caps usage here is structural and uniform—more megaphone than rage. - **Content function:** Classic campaign GOTV infrastructure message, almost certainly coordinated with campaign political director or communications shop. Includes official campaign URL. - **Contrast with same-day authentic posts:** The surrounding posts display authentic Trump markers: ad hominem attacks on RFK Jr. and Biden, praise-with-caveats for MTG, emotional reactivity ("ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANY PLACE!"), and idiosyncratic capitalization of concept nouns. This post is categorically different in register. Likely author: Campaign communications staff (Scavino operation or MAGA Inc. coordination). --- ### The Silent Reversal — Principal Finding The most clinically and politically significant feature of this post is what it does not say. Between 2020 and 2023, Trump made hundreds of public statements characterizing mail-in and absentee voting as corrupt, stolen, and rigged—including: *"Mail-In Voting is going to be catastrophic for our Country"* (2020); *"Don't vote absentee — it's terrible"* (repeated across 2022 midterm cycle). Political analysts attributed Republican underperformance in 2022 in part to Trump depressing his own base's use of these legal voting methods. The campaign pivot—now presented as self-evident fact ("ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS")—arrives with zero discursive acknowledgment of the reversal. This is structurally gaslighting at the mass audience level: the prior reality (mail-in voting is fraud) is simply overwritten. Followers who absorbed and acted on the prior messaging are given no cognitive scaffolding for integrating the contradiction. The implicit demand is compliance with the new frame without memory of the old one—a loyalty test requiring followers to update their reality model on command. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post itself suppresses individual trait expression in favor of institutional messaging. Extraversion remains high (ALL CAPS, imperative register), but agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness markers are absent. The voice is conscientious in structure—ordered, deliberate, goal-directed—which itself signals non-authentic origin, as Trump's authentic posts rarely demonstrate deliberative organization without emotional triggering. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/agency (indirect)** The surface motive is communion (collective action, "we must"), but the underlying drive is power preservation—mobilizing the electoral coalition needed to return Trump to power. The post operationalizes agency motive through a three-step behavioral directive: plan → register → vote. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Absent — this post does not foreground Trump as protagonist. The subject of the sentences is "REPUBLICANS," not Trump. This impersonality further confirms aide authorship. **Narrative sequence:** Neutral to redemption (mobilization narrative: from passivity/defeat → organized action → potential victory). **Identity claims:** None explicit. **Contrasting other:** Absent—no enemies named, no dehumanization, no grievance articulation. Anomalous for Trump's usual narrative structure. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics:** Dormant in this post's surface content. No supply-seeking, no rage, no injury response. The post is instrumentally political rather than psychologically expressive. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Denial (pathological level):** The prior reality—years of anti-mail-in-voting rhetoric—is simply absent. Not refuted, not revised, not acknowledged. This is denial operating through omission at institutional scale. - **Rationalization:** The implicit rationalization (not stated) is strategic necessity; the campaign has evidently calculated the electoral cost of vote-suppression-by-rhetoric. **Gaslighting pattern:** Present structurally. The post rewrites the operative reality without acknowledgment of the prior frame. Followers who internalized the "mail-in voting = fraud" schema must now accept "mail-in voting = good option" with no bridge provided. This is consistent with DARVO-adjacent reality management: the prior Trump statements attacking mail-in voting are retroactively rendered non-existent. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis Simple, directive persuasion structure. Tricolon ("ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING") creates false comprehensiveness—lists all options to signal that no option is excluded, implicitly inverting years of exclusions. Imperative mood ("MUST MAKE A PLAN") functions as a command from authority. Appeal to urgency without specifying threat. Campaign URL serves as conversion funnel. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Cognitive Assessment Well below Trump's own simple baseline in terms of syntactic elaboration and emotional texture. The post contains no subordinate clauses, no hedging, no personal anecdotes, no characteristic tangentiality. These absences are consistent with aide authorship rather than cognitive change. Longitudinal cognitive assessment should not use this post as data. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Standard GOTV message. No eliminationist language, no target identification, no grievance amplification, no mobilization toward violence. --- ### Summary Clinically significant primarily as a longitudinal marker. The post itself is unremarkable—a polished, aide-authored GOTV directive timed for business hours during the hush money trial. Its significance lies in what it silently overwrites: years of Trump-authored rhetoric casting absentee and mail-in voting as fraudulent. The reversal arrives without acknowledgment, deploying institutional denial at mass scale. Followers are expected to update their epistemic model on command—a recurring feature of the epistemic closure dynamic observable in this corpus. The post should be flagged in longitudinal analysis as a pivot point in Trump's voting-rights messaging, executed through a mechanism (silent gaslighting) consistent with prior patterns of rapid revisionism documented across this dataset. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS" | **Unverifiable** | This is a normative/opinion claim, not a factual one. However, it is historically significant as a reversal: Trump made hundreds of documented statements between 2020-2023 calling mail-in and absentee voting fraudulent and catastrophic. The claim's significance is contextual, not factual. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Business hours post — 2:36 PM EDT (trial in New York) - Polished grammar with no typos or errors - Uniform structural all-caps rather than Trump's selective noun capitalization - No ad hominem attacks, no personal narrative, no grievance articulation - Identical register to campaign GOTV infrastructure messaging ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (campaign electoral strategy) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Imperative collective address ('REPUBLICANS MUST') creates in-group identity and shared obligation - Tricolon listing creates false comprehensiveness, implicitly validating all methods Trump previously condemned ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Silent reversal of 2020-2023 anti-mail-in-voting rhetoric without acknowledgment - Prior reality (mail-in voting = fraud) overwritten by new reality (all options are good) with no discursive bridge - Followers who acted on prior messaging (avoided mail-in voting) are given no cognitive scaffolding for contradiction - Rapid revisionism of years of documented statements executed through omission rather than retraction ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a normative/opinion claim, not a factual one. However, it is historically significant as a reversal: Trump made hundreds of documented statements between 2020-2023 calling mail-in and absentee voting fraudulent and catastrophic. The claim's significance is contextual, not factual. Sources: Trump Truth Social and Twitter archive 2020-2023; Campaign rally transcripts 2022 midterm cycle Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - GOTV (90%) - silent-reversal (95%) - aide-authored (92%) - voting-rights-pivot (90%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - institutional-denial (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Midnight Supply Raids and Afternoon Rage Spirals: A Defendant's Day of Displacement** Trump spent the day broadcasting from the shadow of his hush money trial, where Stormy Daniels had just delivered hours of graphic testimony and Hope Hicks had broken down on the stand. A late-night browsing session produced a burst of flattering article shares and Biden attacks after midnight, followed by a combative 2 AM broadside against Paul Ryan. The afternoon brought a rapid-fire barrage of trial grievances, all-caps outbursts, and a debate challenge to Biden, with the mood shifting from defiant bravado to visible strain by evening as surrogates were called in to do the talking. The day's 27 posts never once mentioned Stormy Daniels or the trial testimony by name -- the silence was louder than the shouting. Full digest for 2024-05-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 9). ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412575520548743 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE..." Truth Social, 9 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412575520548743. 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