# Post ts_112863912910773800

- Post ID: `ts_112863912910773800`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-07-28T11:37:19.875Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112863912910773800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Does anybody really want this to be President of the United States?

## 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:

> There are reports that say that you have the lowest approval rating of any vice president. Well there are polls that also say I have great approval ratings. Swing voters don't like Harris. How big a drag is Kamala Harris on the ticket? She's a pretty big drag. I think she was arguably Biden's worst political decision. They don't like her. There's lots of reasons they don't like her. Kamala Harris's approval rating is now at 28%, which is an historic low for any modern vice president. I hear you from mainstream media, one outlet after another, one league after another. Kamala Harris is the worst vice president ever, the worst politician ever. We don't see the vice president. What people are saying to me, and I'm sure they're saying it to you, where is the vice president? Some might ask officials a feeling that she came off looking unprepared for inevitable questions about when she might visit the southern border. We've been to the border. You haven't been to the border. And I haven't been to Europe, and I don't understand the point that you're making. The point that Lester Holt was making was obvious to anyone else who was watching this interview, which is that the issues at the border are inextricably linked with the portfolio that she's been given. The border is secure. We have a secure border. Vitamix is working. Prices have gone up. And families and individuals are dealing with the realities that bread costs more, that gas costs more. And we have to understand what that means. That's about the cost of living going up. He picked Kamala Harris to be his running mate. She was ranked, and is ranked as the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. So he could have gone the other way, but he went to the left. Joe Biden is running for reelection, and I will be his ticket mate. We'll stop. We'll stop. Sit.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/863/912/750/018/050/original/2526049c88a02d2e.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T01:41:10.125Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 7:37 AM EDT amid a coordinated multi-post assault on Kamala Harris following Biden's withdrawal, this sparse attack consists of a single rhetorical question paired with a video exhibit. Authorship is assessed as primarily authentic Trump: early morning timing, idiomatic 'does anybody really' construction, and the spontaneous-contempt register all match documented patterns. The post's most clinically notable feature is the pronoun 'this' — a deliberate or habituated dehumanization technique that denies Harris personhood, reducing her to a demonstrative object for collective ridicule. This is consistent with splitting (Harris as self-evidently all-bad) and devaluation defenses operating from a grandiose narcissistic state. The post does not exhibit narcissistic rage but rather cool contempt — a higher-functioning devaluation posture suggesting Trump perceives Harris as beneath serious argumentation. Rhetorically, the question enacts epistemic closure: it presupposes universal agreement within the in-group, foreclosing deliberation. The video functions as visual argumentum ad verecundiam — 'see for yourself' — bypassing verbal reasoning. Within the day's broader posting pattern, this is one saturation node in a Firehose-style multi-vector attack covering policy, character, and fitness. No danger indicators or gaslighting markers are present. Danger level: none.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_112863912910773800
**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2024-07-28 | **Time:** 7:37 AM EDT | **Age:** 78

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## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Primarily Authentic (Medium Confidence) | Score: 0.75**

Published at approximately **7:37 AM EDT** (11:37 UTC, Eastern Daylight Time — Trump was likely still in Florida before traveling to St. Cloud, Minnesota for the evening rally documented in his same-day posts). This falls within the early morning portion of Trump's authentic posting window.

The text is a single colloquial rhetorical question with the intensifier "really" — a documented Trump verbal pattern ("Does anybody really believe...", "Does anybody really think..."). The register is too casual and emotionally spontaneous to be aide-drafted prose. The video attachment may reflect minor staff logistics support (sourcing and encoding the clip), but the verbal content reads as authentically Trump. No typos, but the sentence is too idiomatic for full aide authorship.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

**Trigger:** Preemptive attack in response to Kamala Harris replacing Biden as presumptive Democratic nominee (Biden withdrew July 21; Harris's candidacy was consolidating rapidly by July 28). The trigger carries a comparison-injury dimension: Trump had been campaigning against a cognitively impaired incumbent; Harris presents a more dynamic contrast.

**Narcissistic State: Grandiose**

The post does not exhibit narcissistic rage — it is too composed and contemptuous for that. Instead it reflects the cooler posture of the grandiose narcissistic state: Harris is not worthy of serious engagement, only a dismissive rhetorical shrug. Trump implicitly casts himself as the obvious, self-evident alternative without stating it directly — the rhetorical question does the work.

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## The Operative Word: "This"

The most clinically significant element of this brief post is the pronoun **"this"** rather than "she," "her," or "Harris." This is a pronoun substitution dehumanization technique — using a demonstrative pronoun appropriate for objects rather than a personal pronoun appropriate for persons. The effect is to strip Harris of personhood, reducing her to an exhibit, a specimen, a *thing* held up for collective ridicule.

This usage may be habituated (Trump has employed similar constructions with other targets) or deliberate, but the psychological function is the same: **othering via grammatical dehumanization**. It is subtle compared to Trump's more overt dehumanizing language ("animals," "vermin") but operates on the same continuum.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Devaluation (Immature):** Primary defense. Harris is cast as self-evidently unworthy, requiring no substantive argument — only the video and a rhetorical question.
2. **Splitting (Immature):** Binary logic: one candidate is obviously fit (implied: Trump), one is obviously not (Harris). No complexity admitted.
3. **Projection (Immature):** "Does anybody really want this" may project Trump's own electoral anxieties — he faces a recalibrated, more energetic opponent — outward as imagined popular consensus.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Extremely low **agreeableness** (antagonism, contempt), very high **extraversion/assertiveness**, low **openness** (rigid categorical thinking), moderate **conscientiousness** (focused attack message). **Neuroticism** is suppressed here — the cool contempt register keeps it low relative to rage-state posts.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motive** dominates overwhelmingly (power, status, dominance). **Communion motive** is nearly absent — this post is not building connection but executing dominance display. Schema: the world divides into those worthy of power and those obviously unfit for it; Trump occupies the former category by self-evident right.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** The self-evident superior alternative; the obvious choice revealed by contrast
- **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — America suffered under unworthy leadership; Trump's return restores proper order
- **Identity claim:** Implicitly, "I am what a president looks like; *this* is not"
- **Contrasting other:** Harris as the foil, defined as object rather than subject

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators
Pattern consistent with **malignant narcissism** cluster: grandiosity (superiority implied), devaluation of others, splitting, pronoun-based dehumanization. The sadistic component is mild in this post — the contempt is cool rather than heated — but the pleasure in public humiliation of the target is structurally present.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

| Technique | Evidence |
|-----------|----------|
| **Erotesis** (rhetorical question) | Implies obvious negative answer without requiring argument |
| **Pronoun dehumanization** | "this" → object; "she/her/Harris" → personhood denied |
| **Argumentum ad populum** | "anybody really" invokes imagined universal consensus |
| **Visual appeal** | Video framed as self-evident proof; bypasses verbal reasoning |
| **Firehose saturation** | One node in a multi-post same-day attack pattern on Harris across policy, character, and fitness |

**Epistemic Closure:** The rhetorical question forecloses deliberation. Within the in-group, only one answer is socially permissible. The post functions as a loyalty test: agreeing (implicitly) signals membership.

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## Day-Pattern Context

Within the July 28 posting cluster, this post plays a specific rhetorical role. The surrounding posts are substantive attacks covering policy (defunding police, cash bail, border), biography ("Marxist DA"), and visionary promise (MAGA policy platform). This post is the **affective anchor** — the visceral dismissal that doesn't argue but *feels*. It is the rhetorical pause between policy attacks: a contemptuous exhale. The coordinated multi-vector structure (policy + character + fitness + visceral dismissal) is consistent with a Firehose-of-Falsehood saturation approach to the new opponent.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Implicit claim: Kamala Harris is manifestly unfit for the presidency (via rhetorical question)" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion claim embedded in a rhetorical question; fitness for office is a normative judgment not subject to factual verification. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: None.** The post is dehumanizing at the pronoun level but contains no eliminationist language, no stochastic terrorism markers, no calls to mobilization, and no violent imagery. The contempt is political rather than incitement-oriented.

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## Archetypal Analysis
**Primary archetypes:** **King/Tyrant** (sovereign dismissing an unworthy claimant) + **Trickster** (the mock-incredulous question as a jester's move, puncturing pretension). The rhetorical question is inherently a trickster device — it appears to be asking but is actually declaring. **Shadow projection:** Harris embodies what Trump projects — incompetence, unseriousness, unfitness — qualities that his base fears about him are redirected onto the opponent.

**Order/Chaos:** Trump positions as **order restorer** (the proper candidate) against **chaos** (the unworthy usurper elevated by Democratic chaos). The post implicitly invokes a hierarchical order in which Trump belongs at the top and Harris does not belong at all.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- 7:37 AM EDT (11:37 UTC) — early morning timing consistent with authentic posting window
- Single punchy rhetorical question matches Trump's authentic dismissive attack style
- Colloquial 'Does anybody really...' phrasing is a documented Trump verbal pattern
- Brevity and rhetorical question format suggest spontaneous emotional reaction to Harris candidacy
- Video attachment may suggest aide coordination for media sourcing, slightly reducing pure authenticity score

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Kamala Harris replacing Biden as presumptive Democratic nominee)

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question positions followers as co-judges sharing Trump's contempt
- Collective framing ('anybody') creates in-group consensus around dismissal of Harris
- Video evidence implied to be self-explanatory, requiring no explanation — shared reality creation

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-25._

> Implicit claim: Kamala Harris is manifestly unfit for the presidency (via rhetorical question)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion claim embedded in a rhetorical question; fitness for office is a normative judgment not subject to factual verification.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- devaluation (90%)
- rhetorical_question (95%)
- anti-harris (100%)
- dehumanizing_pronoun (80%)
- grandiose_state (70%)
- preemptive_attack (85%)
- video_attack_ad (90%)
- firehose_saturation (75%)

## That day

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

**One Week Post-Biden Exit: Trump Launches Coordinated Harris Attack Campaign From Grandiose Peak**

Trump spent the day in full campaign mode, one week after Biden dropped out, rolling out a coordinated barrage of attacks against Kamala Harris as his new opponent. The evening started with endorsements and post-rally energy from a Minnesota event, then shifted into a rapid-fire sequence of anti-Harris posts hitting her on policing, crime, Medicare, and immigration. One post crossed into genuine anger, labeling Harris a "Marxist" who "destroyed San Francisco." The mood was confident and expansive throughout, with no signs of vulnerability or defensiveness. The day's most provocative moment was a sparse five-word post invoking Minneapolis's 2020 civil unrest, pairing racially charged imagery with Harris as the implied cause.

Full digest for 2024-07-28: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 28). Does anybody really want this to be President of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112863912910773800
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Does anybody really want this to be President of the United..." Truth Social, 28 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112863912910773800. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Does anybody really want this to be President of the United...," Truth Social, July 28, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112863912910773800.

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