# Post ts_112779106425561119 - Post ID: `ts_112779106425561119` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-07-13T12:09:55.603Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112779106425561119 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112779106425561119/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112779106425561119.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Join me today in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5:00PM Eastern. Will be on @NewsMax, @RSBN, @OAN, @realamericasvoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble video, among others. Big crowd—MAGA2024!!! https://rumble.com/v56pgu7-live-president-trump-in-butler-pennsylvania.html ## Engagement - Likes: 19,355 - Reposts: 4,198 - Replies: 1,488 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.344Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T10:22:34.042Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Routine pre-rally announcement for the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania event — historically significant as the rally at which Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump that afternoon. The post itself is unremarkable: clean, aide-written logistics copy listing broadcast venues and a Rumble stream link. Authorship attributed with high confidence to campaign staff (likely Scavino) based on business-hours posting time (08:09 ET), professional grammar, event-logistics structure, and complete absence of authentic Trump style markers. Psychological state reflects campaign maintenance mode: supply-seeking through anticipated crowd size and multi-platform visibility, consistent with grandiose narcissistic functioning. No narcissistic injury, no rage, no vulnerability signals present. Rhetorically minimal — social proof via "Big crowd," tribal mobilization via "MAGA2024!!!," authority signaling through five-platform broadcast listing. No danger indicators in post content. The post's significance is entirely contextual: it advertised the site of an assassination attempt hours before it occurred, rendering it a document of extraordinary historical weight despite — and because of — its psychological ordinariness. ## Analysis: Butler, Pennsylvania Rally Announcement — July 13, 2024 ### Overview This post is a standard pre-rally mobilization announcement, published at **08:09 ET** on July 13, 2024 — the morning of the Butler, Pennsylvania campaign event at which Thomas Matthew Crooks would shoot Trump in the ear later that afternoon. As a psychological document, the post is routine and unremarkable. Its historical significance is entirely contextual: it is the last known pre-event announcement before one of the most consequential moments in recent American political history. That context is noted for longitudinal archival purposes; it does not alter the post's psychological or rhetorical analysis. --- ### Authorship Attribution (Confidence: High → Aide-Written) The post exhibits a dense cluster of aide-written indicators: 1. **Timing**: Posted at 08:09 ET, squarely within campaign operational hours. While slightly early for strict business-hours framing, this is consistent with pre-rally logistics coordination, not with Trump's documented pattern of late-night/early-morning posting. 2. **Grammar and formatting**: No typos, correct punctuation, professional structure. The sentence "Will be on @NewsMax, @RSBN, @OAN, @realamericasvoice, and Donald J. Trump @Rumble video, among others" is logistically precise and formatted for broadcast reach — a communications-staff signature. 3. **Genre**: Pure event logistics — time, location, network listings, URL. This is announcement copy, not authentic Trump rhetorical production. 4. **Absence of authentic markers**: No stream-of-consciousness digression, no hostile targeting, no ALL CAPS outbursts, no emotional discharge. The sole authentic-Trump stylistic echo is "MAGA2024!!!" with tripled exclamation points, which appears on branded campaign content regardless of authorship. Attribution: Scavino or campaign communications staff, with possible Trump approval. --- ### Psychological State: Maintenance / Supply-Seeking No narcissistic injury, rage, or vulnerability signal is present. The post reflects **campaign maintenance mode** in a **grandiose narcissistic state** — projecting confident expansion, anticipating mass validation. The phrase "Big crowd" is a characteristic pre-emptive social proof declaration: it sets audience expectation as fait accompli, priming attendees to confirm the prediction. **Trigger type**: Supply-seeking. The rally is the primary narcissistic supply mechanism — massive live audience, physical adulation, multi-platform broadcast, movement brand reinforcement. The multi-network listing (NewsMax, RSBN, OAN, Real America's Voice, Rumble) is not merely logistical; it signals reach, relevance, and authority to the base. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits**: Limited inference given aide-written nature. Extraversion is implicitly salient (crowd-size emphasis, multi-platform visibility). Low agreeableness and low openness are embedded in the MAGA tribal branding, consistent with established baseline. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations**: Dominant agency motive: **status/power maintenance**. The platform-proliferation listing functions as a status display — "I am everywhere, I reach everyone." Communion motives are absent; the post is directed at followers as a collective, not as individuals. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity**: The protagonist is the returning champion summoning the movement. "Join me" positions Trump as the gravitational center. No redemption or contamination sequence is discernible in this standalone logistical post. The narrative arc is implicit: the king returning to his court. **Level 4 — Clinical**: No clinically significant patterns observable in the post content itself. --- ### Defense Mechanisms None observable in this post. No threat, injury, or psychological pressure requiring defense is present. The post operates from a position of confident forward momentum. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Anticipatory social proof**: "Big crowd" pre-frames the event as already validated by mass attendance. - **Multi-platform authority signaling**: Five named broadcast platforms project reach and importance without requiring substantive content. - **Tribal mobilization**: "MAGA2024!!!" functions simultaneously as shibboleth, rallying cry, and campaign brand reinforcement. - **Direct call-to-action**: "Join me today" — economical, unelaborated, effective. - **No propaganda or dehumanizing techniques**: The post makes no outgroup reference, deploys no fear appeal, and contains no eliminationist language. --- ### Cognitive Assessment The post is too brief and too aide-written to yield meaningful cognitive data. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, temporal confusion, or semantic paraphasia is present. Syntactic complexity is appropriately low for the genre. Baseline deviation: none. This post does not contribute to cognitive trajectory assessment. --- ### Danger Assessment The post contains **no danger indicators**. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no target identification, no stochastic terrorism pattern. The historical reality — that this post advertised the site of an assassination attempt — is contextually sobering but is not a signal generated by the post's content. The danger in this case came from outside the post. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5:00PM Eastern on July 13, 2024" | **True** | The Butler, PA rally occurred as announced; it is the event at which Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump, confirming the event took place as described. | | "Event to be broadcast on NewsMax, RSBN, OAN, Real America's Voice, and Trump Rumble channel" | **True** | All named outlets are established right-leaning media/streaming platforms with documented history of carrying Trump campaign events live. Consistent with their standard coverage patterns. | | "Rumble URL links to live rally stream" | **Mostly True** | URL structure is consistent with Trump campaign's established Rumble presence and naming conventions. Stream cannot be verified post-hoc as live streams expire, but no reason to doubt the link was accurate at time of posting. | Overall Veracity: 93% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 08:09 ET — campaign operational hours, not Trump's documented late-night pattern - Grammatically correct with no typos or misspellings - Pure event logistics content: network listings, location, time, URL - Professional formatting with tagged handles (@NewsMax, @RSBN, etc.) - Absence of stream-of-consciousness style, ALL CAPS outbursts, or emotional discharge ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (anticipated rally crowd and multi-platform broadcast audience) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 25% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('Join me today') creates intimate invitation to mass audience - MAGA branding activates tribal identity and belonging ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5:00PM Eastern on July 13, 2024 **TRUE** The Butler, PA rally occurred as announced; it is the event at which Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump, confirming the event took place as described. Sources: Established historical record — July 13, 2024 Butler PA assassination attempt > Event to be broadcast on NewsMax, RSBN, OAN, Real America's Voice, and Trump Rumble channel **TRUE** All named outlets are established right-leaning media/streaming platforms with documented history of carrying Trump campaign events live. Consistent with their standard coverage patterns. Sources: General knowledge of named outlets' programming patterns > Rumble URL links to live rally stream **MOSTLY TRUE** URL structure is consistent with Trump campaign's established Rumble presence and naming conventions. Stream cannot be verified post-hoc as live streams expire, but no reason to doubt the link was accurate at time of posting. Sources: Trump campaign's documented Rumble channel history Overall Veracity: 93% ## Tags - rally_announcement (95%) - aide_written (85%) - mobilization (85%) - butler_pa_rally (100%) - supply_seeking (70%) - grandiose_state (65%) - social_proof (60%) - pre_assassination_attempt_document (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Last Ordinary Day: Routine Campaign Posts End Hours Before the Butler Assassination Attempt** The day was almost entirely routine — endorsements, rally logistics, and standard campaign promotion. The only flash of genuine emotion came the night before, when Trump publicly named and shamed six Republican House members who voted against an amendment that would have blocked his prosecution. By the afternoon, the feed was pure campaign autopilot: a retweet of the rally link, a book plug, and a platform page. Posting stopped a couple of hours before the Butler, Pennsylvania rally — the same event where a gunman's bullet grazed Trump's ear, killed one attendee, and critically injured two others. Full digest for 2024-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 13). Join me today in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5:00PM... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112779106425561119 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Join me today in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5:00PM Eastern...." Truth Social, 13 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112779106425561119. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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