# Post ts_112905797156967615

- Post ID: `ts_112905797156967615`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-08-04T21:09:02.753Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> We have lost over 125,000 family farms since Crooked Joe Biden, and his even more incompetent Vice President, Crazy Kamala Harris, took over our government. THEY HATE OUR FARMERS, AND WANT THEM DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS — WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! FARMERS FOR TRUMP = MAGA2024! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 23,347
- Reposts: 7,968
- Replies: 1,418
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.342Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T05:33:39.213Z (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 post is representative of Trump's high-mobilization agricultural base rhetoric and is psychologically routine within his 2024 campaign corpus. The dominant dynamic is populist coalition activation using the paranoid schema that converts a genuine structural economic phenomenon — decades-long family farm consolidation — into evidence of deliberate malice by named opponents. The graduated ALL CAPS escalation arc and "VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!" closer are authentic stylistic signatures, placing authorship probability at ~82% authentic Trump. The primary defenses are splitting (farmers as pure victims, Biden/Harris as pure destroyers) and projection (attributing hatred and destructive intent without evidentiary basis). The central factual claim — 125,000 family farms lost "since Biden took over" — is mostly false as stated: farm consolidation is a structural multi-decade trend. The causal attribution to specific administration actors is unsupported. Cognitive complexity is consistent with established baseline; no deviation warranting clinical note. Danger level is none. The post's primary significance for longitudinal tracking is the rhetorical pivot elevating Harris above Biden as the primary antagonist ("even more incompetent"), signaling rapid adaptation to Biden's withdrawal from the race and the emerging Harris candidacy.

## Post Analysis: ts_112905797156967615 | 2024-08-04

### Authorship Attribution

**UTC timestamp:** 21:09:02 — **Local time:** 5:09 PM EDT (Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ, his summer residence, on a Sunday in early August 2024). This falls squarely within business hours on a weekend, a liminal zone for authorship.

**Style markers strongly favor authentic Trump:** use of established nicknames ("Crooked Joe Biden," "Crazy Kamala Harris"), graduated escalation into ALL CAPS with triple exclamation marks, the rhythmically repetitive "VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!" closer (a documented Trump signature), and the blunt emotional accusation structure ("THEY HATE OUR FARMERS"). The syntax is compressed and reactive rather than polished. The campaign hashtag and call-to-action format are consistent with self-composed posts during high-mobilization periods.

**Assessment:** High probability of authentic Trump authorship, possibly with minor formatting assistance from staff.

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### Psychological State and Triggers

**Context:** Biden withdrew from the 2024 race in mid-July and endorsed Harris, forcing a rapid rhetorical pivot. This post is part of a pattern of recalibrating attacks toward Harris while retaining Biden as a co-villain. The timing coincides with the NABJ controversy and Harris's emergent momentum, constituting a mild narcissistic injury — unfavorable comparison (Biden's replacement galvanizing the opposition) — that activates supply-seeking and preemptive attack modes simultaneously.

**State:** Primarily **grandiose** (savior/protector of rural America) with an undergirding of **vulnerable** (enemies are destroying something beloved). The oscillation is managed by the mobilization close ("VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!"), which restores a sense of agency.

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Traits:**
- **Extraversion:** High; assertive, dominant, excitement-generating.
- **Agreeableness:** Very low; interpersonal hostility, contempt for opponents.
- **Conscientiousness:** Low; factual sloppiness, impulsive attribution of complex structural trends to malicious intent.
- **Neuroticism:** Moderate-high; angry hostility is the dominant facet. The escalation into ALL CAPS mid-post signals impulsive emotional discharge.
- **Openness:** Low; rigid binary framing (us/them, love/hate).

**Level 2 — Motives and Schemas:**
- **Agency motives:** Power and status dominant. The post constructs a power transfer: farmers are being stripped of agency by malevolent actors; Trump restores it.
- **World schema:** Fundamentally paranoid — opponents do not merely disagree on farm policy, they *hate* farmers and actively seek their destruction. This is intention-assignment to systemic outcomes, a hallmark schema in this corpus.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** Warrior-Savior hybrid. He does not appear personally in the narrative except as the implied rescuer encoded in "FARMERS FOR TRUMP."
- **Contamination sequence:** Thriving farm culture → deliberate destruction by Biden/Harris. No redemption arc offered within the post itself; implied redemption is the election.
- **Identity claim:** Champion of the "forgotten" rural working class.
- **Contrasting other:** Biden (incompetent) and Harris (even more incompetent) — notably, Harris is positioned as worse than Biden, a rhetorical move serving the electoral pivot.

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### Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):**
- *Narcissistic features:* Implicit grandiosity (he alone can fix the farmers' plight), entitlement to define the enemy's interior mental states ("THEY HATE").
- *Antisocial features:* Flagrant disregard for factual accuracy; misattributing decades-long structural agricultural decline to specific actors with no evidentiary support.
- *Paranoid features:* Intent-assignment without evidence; belief that the outgroup actively *wants* farmers "driven out of business."
- *Ego-syntonic sadism:* Mild; pleasure evident in the derogatory labeling ("Crooked," "Crazy").

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. No overt vulnerability signaling.

**Trigger:** Mixed — supply-seeking (farmer coalition-building) and preemptive attack (neutralizing Harris momentum before it consolidates).

**Narcissistic Rage:** Absent or very mild. The hostility is instrumentalized rather than dysregulated; the ALL CAPS reads as performative rather than dissociative.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting (immature):** Farmers = pure victims; Biden/Harris = pure malevolent destroyers. No complexity, no policy nuance. Classic black-and-white object relations.
2. **Projection (immature):** "They hate" attributes an internal affective state (hostility toward rural communities) to opponents without evidentiary basis. The projection displaces and externalizes the competitive aggression Trump himself is enacting.
3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The framing that farm consolidation — a structural multi-decade trend driven by commodity markets, land costs, corporate agriculture, and trade policy — is reducible to the intentional acts of two named politicians provides the post hoc logical shell for the emotional conclusion that was reached first.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Populist grievance amplification:** Farmers as archetypal "real Americans" victimized by coastal elites.
- **False attribution:** Structural, decades-long agricultural consolidation recast as deliberate policy outcome of the current administration.
- **Intentionality injection:** "THEY HATE" and "WANT THEM DRIVEN OUT" escalate from policy criticism to motive-claim — a move that forecloses good-faith disagreement.
- **Graduated typographic intensity:** Lower case → ALL CAPS → triple exclamation marks → repeated imperative ("VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!"). Classic escalation arc used to simulate emotional crescendo and prime reader arousal.
- **Identity fusion CTA:** "FARMERS FOR TRUMP = MAGA2024" collapses occupational identity into political identity, a tribalization technique.
- **Derogatory labeling:** "Crooked Joe Biden," "Crazy Kamala Harris" — consistent lexical dehumanization, reducing opponents to their nicknames.
- **False dichotomy:** Implied: you either support farmers (Trump) or you want them destroyed (Harris/Biden).

**Dehumanizing language:** Mild. Nicknames "Crooked" and "Crazy" function as contempt-markers rather than full dehumanization.
**Violent imagery:** Absent.
**Stochastic terrorism:** Absent. No target designation + grievance + mobilization toward violence.

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### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

- The conversion of a structural economic trend into evidence of deliberate malice constitutes mild **reality distortion** — not gaslighting in the strict interpersonal sense, but a collective epistemic manipulation. Followers who accept "they hate farmers" as fact are required to deny the observable, decades-long nature of farm consolidation.
- No DARVO pattern in this specific post.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "We have lost over 125,000 family farms since Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took over" | **Mostly False** | Farm consolidation is a documented multi-decade structural trend predating Biden by 40+ years, driven by commodity markets, interest rates, corporate agriculture, and land costs. USDA Census of Agriculture data show continuous decline since at least 1950. The specific figure of 125,000 losses attributable to the Biden administration has no established USDA sourcing at this precision for this window; even if a number in this range has some statistical basis from aggregated data, the causal attribution to Biden/Harris policy is unsupported and ignores overwhelming structural determinants. |
| "THEY HATE OUR FARMERS, AND WANT THEM DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS" | **False** | This is an intent-claim presented as fact. No evidence that Biden or Harris hold animus toward farmers as a class. Policy disagreements (e.g., climate regulations, estate tax proposals) may affect farm operations but do not constitute 'hate' or deliberate intent to destroy farms. This claim conflates contested policy with malicious intent. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Established derogatory nicknames ('Crooked Joe Biden', 'Crazy Kamala Harris') — documented authentic Trump lexicon
- Graduated ALL CAPS escalation mid-post — authentic stylistic signature
- Triple exclamation marks
- 'VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!' closer — recurring authentic Trump mobilization formula
- Compressed, reactive syntax without polished sentence structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Harris emergent candidacy post-Biden withdrawal; farmer coalition-building pressure)

Sentiment: -0.45

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS escalation
- Triple exclamation marks
- Imperative repetition ('VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!')
- High-energy mobilization close
- Part of multi-post burst on same day (endorsements, congratulations, political attacks)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Identity fusion (FARMERS FOR TRUMP = MAGA2024 collapses occupational identity into political allegiance)
- Savior implication (Trump as only alternative to agricultural destruction)
- Tribal in-group activation (rural Americans as virtuous outgroup victims)

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Collective reality distortion: structural multi-decade economic trend reframed as evidence of deliberate Biden/Harris malice, requiring audience to deny observable history
- Intent-assignment as fact: 'THEY HATE OUR FARMERS' presented as established reality, not opinion, foreclosing legitimate policy debate

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> We have lost over 125,000 family farms since Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took over

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Farm consolidation is a documented multi-decade structural trend predating Biden by 40+ years, driven by commodity markets, interest rates, corporate agriculture, and land costs. USDA Census of Agriculture data show continuous decline since at least 1950. The specific figure of 125,000 losses attributable to the Biden administration has no established USDA sourcing at this precision for this window; even if a number in this range has some statistical basis from aggregated data, the causal attribution to Biden/Harris policy is unsupported and ignores overwhelming structural determinants.

Sources: USDA Census of Agriculture (2017, 2022); USDA Economic Research Service farm sector data

> THEY HATE OUR FARMERS, AND WANT THEM DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS

**FALSE**

This is an intent-claim presented as fact. No evidence that Biden or Harris hold animus toward farmers as a class. Policy disagreements (e.g., climate regulations, estate tax proposals) may affect farm operations but do not constitute 'hate' or deliberate intent to destroy farms. This claim conflates contested policy with malicious intent.

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- populist-grievance (90%)
- agricultural-policy (85%)
- anti-harris (80%)
- false-causal-attribution (80%)
- mobilization-rhetoric (85%)
- splitting-defense (75%)
- paranoid-schema (70%)
- identity-fusion (70%)
- authentic-authorship (82%)
- campaign-2024 (90%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Kingmaker Mode Dominates as Harris Anxiety Briefly Pierces the Grandiose Surface**

Trump spent most of August 4th in campaign maintenance mode, pushing out a wave of political endorsements and post-rally messaging from his Saturday night event in Atlanta. The afternoon brought a shift in tone as he seized on a global stock market selloff and turned his fire on Kamala Harris, calling her candidacy a "coup" and a "THREAT TO DEMOCRACY" -- a notable appropriation of language typically aimed at him. A minor but trackable oddity: he appeared to confuse the name of a congressional candidate he endorsed, swapping "Sessler" for "Kessler" across back-to-back posts.

Full digest for 2024-08-04: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 4). We have lost over 125,000 family farms since... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112905797156967615
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We have lost over 125,000 family farms since Crooked Joe..." Truth Social, 4 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112905797156967615. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "We have lost over 125,000 family farms since Crooked Joe...," Truth Social, August 4, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112905797156967615.

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