# Post ts_112923707208088642

- Post ID: `ts_112923707208088642`
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- Posted: 2024-08-08T01:03:48.444Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> “DEMS ROLL OUT MOST RADICAL TICKET YET”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (11:23), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> - Welcome to Jesse Waters Primetime tonight. - I spent 25 years in the Army. We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons were. - As soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his hat up and quit. - Walls lied about his military service, a stolen valor investigation. - If he would've went to Iraq, he'd still be hiding under his desk over there. - Niman Hama, Governor Tim Walz here, Happy Chinese New Year. (speaking foreign language) - The Chinese and Kamala's VP, a shocking report. - Mind your own damn business. - Have they give you guys an explanation for why she won't take questions from reporters? (crickets chirping) No? Nobody? Okay, great. - How long can Harris hide? - You 'bout to find out. (laughing) - Plus. - I'm coming to tear your kingdom down! (rock music) - Democrats must be losing this election by a landslide because they're trying to brainwash you into believing their ticket is Jackie Onassis and John Wayne. The CIA's propaganda organ, The New York Times, writes this about Kamala Harris. Are you ready? She marshals an arched brow, a studied hand flip, and carefully curated sentences. Her wave is controlled, her eyes always fixed on a distant point, her movement smooth. The last time the Times slobbered over a politician, this blatantly, Chris Matthews got a thrill up his leg. - She was John Wayne last night. She was a leader, a leader, and she was clear that she was the boss. To speak to that room as if she owned it, she was the MC of that room. - Laying on the flattery, this sticks. He kinda even makes Kamala uncomfortable. Even I don't like it when people kiss my butt that much. I'm looking at you, Gutfeld. There's rumors that walls may not make it to the convention. You can see how hard the media is straining to lift this guy. As of 48 hours ago, they hated middle America, avoided it like the Ebola virus, and mocked it as an ignorant back country. They're now praising the old white man from Minnesota as a relatable blue-collared family guy with a folksy charm. - All American definition of a man from middle America. A high school teacher, football coach. - He has this folksy, personal, informal vibe that has really appealed to a lot of Democrats. - He's kind of a folksy guy, very friendly, nice guy. - They're totally approachable. You get the feeling that he's got plenty of neighbors that wear MAGA hats and he picks up their paper and brings it to their friend door and they're his friends. - Walls has an ability to be, I know one person said cuddly. - Cuddly. Now when the media calls you folksy, it means they think you're a hick who can trick other hicks into voting Democrat. They're just trying to use Waltz' hick bait to lure white dudes for Kamala into their net. So what if he hunts, he wants to take away your guns? What kind of friendly guy castrates six-year-olds? Coach Walls, where are the tampons? I don't think football coaches stock tampons in the boys' locker rooms. Tampon Tim spent his honeymoon in China, which Chinese intelligence paid for, more on that later in the show. Waltz is a hoax. He's not middle-of-the-road, moderate, all-American dad. This is who he says he is. - Governor Waltz, are you a progressive or are you a centrist? - I'm a progressive. - Trump's running against a woke woman in a progressive VP named Tampon Tim, who deserted his army unit and lied about his rank. Minnesota nuts is such a control freak. Well, maybe he learned it the 30 times he went to China. He doesn't think the First Amendment guarantees free speech. Watch this. - I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy. - Makes perfect sense why he set up COVID snitch lines during lockdowns, so you can rat your neighbor out for walking his dog. Timmy's the kind of neighbor who calls the cops if your music's too loud. He didn't protect Minneapolis when it was barbecued by Black Lives Matter. Because I have friends in Minneapolis who were terrified that their homes were gonna be invaded. They had kids at home, fires burning all night long. You guys text us every night from Minnesota, telling us you had to move out. And most of you went to Florida. The media's inflated this guy's resume like he inflated his own. Waltz never went to war. He never saw combat. He was never in a war zone. But for years, he's been claiming otherwise. - I spent 25 years in the army and I hunt. We can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at. - Waltz never carried weapons in war. He's lying. And he's been giving reporters the impression that he's been a combat vet for years. Bloomberg putting out a piece saying Waltz served, quote, "in Iraq as part of Operation Enduring Freedom." Waltz never went to Iraq. And Bloomberg had to retract it. Waltz put out a campaign press release claiming he was a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, claiming he served on the ground in Afghanistan. He never served in Afghanistan. Waltz told the Atlantic he just returned from fighting in the war on terrorism. Waltz never fought anywhere. He abandoned his unit, left his battalion hanging, right before he was supposed to deploy to Iraq. - I was like, well, for Pete's sake, this guy quit. And if I say I'm not gonna do it, I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that? If a company would say that we're gonna deploy to Iraq or somewhere and you're gonna be gone for whatever amount of time, and then a foreman just says, no, I'm not going. I mean, what does that say to the 500 people that worked in that factory? He was a congressman. He bragged that he was a retired command sergeant major. I'm the highest ranking person ever in the house and all this lie that he was telling. And there was lots of public, lots of cards coming in the mail for him to be elected. They said right on, he's a retired command sergeant major, just tooting his own horn, just hanging on the coattails of people that actually are command sergeant majors that went through all the process and put all the time in, stolen valor is really what it is. I don't know if anybody else has done what he's done, but we called it the truth about Tim Waltz. - Waltz ditched his unit, got demoted, lied about his rank and lied about fighting overseas. And Kamala Harris chose him to be a heartbeat away from commander in chief. This is devastating to the Democrat ticket. Republicans and Democrats, every American, physically revolted by men who lie about their service. Did Kamala vet the so-called vet? It's the only decision she's ever made in the last four years. And she chose a Chinese honeymooning army unit abandoning child castrating to fund the police progressive with the nickname Tampon Tim. Maybe they did vet them, and they're so detached from mainstream America they didn't think this would matter. Or maybe they just thought the media would cover it up. Or maybe Eric Holder's trying to sabotage the ticket. Obama's wingman was in charge of vetting this guy. Remember when the media thought JD Vance was a problem? As far as we know, JD Vance didn't hand out tampons to little boys or let a city burn on national TV for four days. JD joined the Marines after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq. He actually brought back medals. You know what really bothers me about Tim Waltz? As a Marine who served his country in uniform, when the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do, and I did it honorably, and I'm very proud of that service. When Tim Waltz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him. I wonder, Tim Waltz, when were you ever in war? When was this, what was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to Iraq, and he has not spent a day in a combat zone? What bothers me about Tim Waltz is the stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you're not. This is the biggest political scandal in America today, and Waltz won't answer any questions about it. Instead, he's hiding behind Girl Scouts. Governor, fans of you, you have stolen valor, your response. Governor. Governor, fans of you, you have stolen valor, your response. Tim A. Wall and Haydn Harris, what a couple. J.D. Vance strolled over to Kamala's tarmac in Wisconsin this afternoon to shame the press for participating in this pathetic cover-up. I figured I'd come by and one, just get a good look at the plane, 'cause hopefully it's gonna be my plane in a few months, but I also thought you guys might get lonely because the vice president doesn't answer questions from reporters and hasn't for 17 days. Have they given you guys an explanation for why she won't take questions from reporters? No? Nobody? Okay, great. I hope that she changes her mind because it'd be good for the American people, and I think it'd be good for you all if she actually ran a real campaign instead of one from a basement with a teleprompter, so have a good one, guys, see ya. Kamala picked a lying weirdo to be VP after she found out her husband, Doug, got the nanny pregnant, and they're using Girl Scouts as human shields, and the media has to run a 91-day cover-up operation to get them out of the mess they're in. Didn't earn the nomination, stole her president's war chest since waltzing around the country with a Chinese cutout who lied about serving in Iraq while the media calls them joyful, jolly, old middle-of-the-road patriots. This is the stupidest campaign I've ever seen. It's not even a real campaign. It's like they're pretending the campaign. What kind of Democrat's afraid of the media? When you're a Democrat and you're in trouble, you run to the media so they can save you. Things have to be so bad that they know the media won't save 'em. It'll only make it worse. Toml is running a basement campaign without the COVID excuse or the age, and since she's too scared of interviews, she's paying people to say nice things about her. Watch. Last month, Sunae says she was hired by Protect Our Care, a progressive advocacy group that relies on anonymous donors. She made a video warning about Trump's second term agenda. They almost help you script it, right? Right, definitely. She takes their talking points and puts them into her own voice, saying she always discloses when she's being paid. What's your rate? So a video just for a creator in my size, an average, can go from $3,000 to $10,000, depending, and upwards. $10,000 to read Democrat talking points. It's what CNN calls journalism. This cannot last.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/923/706/601/956/442/original/fa7f6ee12f449e8e.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T07:17:04.649Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: "DEMS ROLL OUT MOST RADICAL TICKET YET" — 2024-08-08

## Authorship Attribution
**Confidence: Medium | Score: 0.45 (leaning aide-assisted)**

UTC 01:03:48 converts to **9:03 PM EDT** — ambiguous timing, neither the late-night window associated with authentic Trump posts nor clearly business-hours staff scheduling. The ALL CAPS styling is consistent with authentic Trump, but the absence of any elaboration, typos, or stream-of-consciousness extension is uncharacteristic. Critically, this post is one of at least five on this date that follow an identical pattern of sharing media or quoted headlines — a posting cadence consistent with coordinated campaign staff batch-publishing rather than spontaneous composition. The post functions as a caption for a campaign-produced video, further indicating staff-mediated content.

## Contextual Trigger
Harris officially won the Democratic nomination via virtual roll call (August 1–5) and selected Tim Walz on August 6. This post arrives approximately 36–48 hours after the ticket was completed. The trigger is a **competitive consolidation event** — the rival formally completed its configuration, representing both a status challenge and a comparative threat. The response is controlled and strategic rather than hot reactive, consistent with aide-mediated messaging calibrated to the moment.

## Psychological State: Controlled Grandiose Devaluation
The post exemplifies **grandiose narcissistic devaluation** in its most efficient form: a five-word verdict that pre-empts independent audience assessment. This is not narcissistic rage — there is no heat, no direct insult to a named person. Rather, it is cold categorical dismissal, assigning the opponent a position on an extreme of the political spectrum before any substantive exchange occurs. The defense mechanism is **splitting**: the world is divided into the radical (Democrats) and the implicitly stable center (Trump). **Projection** is present in that the labeling displaces threat onto the opponent, converting competitive anxiety into categorical superiority.

## Narrative Identity (Level 3)
The post activates a **contamination sequence narrative**: each Democratic ticket is worse than the last ("YET"), implying historical deterioration. Trump's implicit protagonist role here is the **Order Restorer** — not explicitly stated, but structured by the label applied to the opponent. The contrasting other is the "radical" Democratic ticket; Trump's identity is defined negatively as its antithesis.

## Rhetorical Assessment
The post is a **pure framing operation**. The superlative "MOST... YET" performs two functions simultaneously: (1) it establishes an objective-sounding verdict on a subjective political characterization, and (2) it situates the audience within an escalating danger narrative demanding continued attention and loyalty. The attached video functions as evidentiary packaging — the text sets the interpretive lens, the video provides the content to be interpreted through it. This is **agenda-setting** in its most compressed form: establish the frame, let media fill it in.

**Epistemic closure indicator:** The post offers no mechanism for falsification. "Radical" is undefined, the superlative is unanchored to any metric, and the video presumably provides the "evidence" for an already-delivered verdict.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Harris-Walz represents the 'most radical ticket yet'" | **Mostly False** | Harris and Walz are objectively center-left by comparative political science measures. Harris's Senate record (GovTrack: one of the most liberal, though this partly reflects Senate composition) and Walz's Minnesota record involve mainstream Democratic positions. Prior Democratic tickets have included candidates further left on various policy dimensions. 'Most radical' is a political characterization unsupported by cross-temporal policy comparison — though 'radical' is inherently subjective and audience-relative. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Cognitive Status
The post is too brief (five words) to yield any meaningful cognitive markers. No language production anomalies are observable; none could plausibly appear in a headline-format post. Assessment deferred.

## Danger Assessment: **None**
No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no target-plus-grievance-plus-implied-action structure. Standard campaign attack rhetoric.

## Archetypal Reading
The post invokes the **Warrior archetype** in its most economical form — a battle cry labeling the enemy before engagement. The "YET" also gestures toward a **Tyrant vs. Order Restorer** dynamic: the Democrats represent escalating disorder, Trump the corrective force. No Trickster energy is present here; this is straight hierarchical challenge rhetoric."

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS headline consistent with authentic Trump style
- Video attachment suggests campaign-produced content typical of aide curation
- UTC 01:03 = 9:03 PM EDT — evening post ambiguous between authentic and staff-scheduled
- No typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness — atypically clean
- Brevity (pure label with no elaboration) suggests sharing campaign video rather than composing original thought

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Harris-Walz ticket announcement)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared threat framing — audience positioned as united against the 'radical' other
- Superlative alarm — 'MOST... YET' implies escalating existential danger requiring continued loyalty

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Harris-Walz represents the 'most radical ticket yet'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris and Walz are objectively center-left by comparative political science measures. Harris's Senate record (GovTrack: one of the most liberal, though this partly reflects Senate composition) and Walz's Minnesota record involve mainstream Democratic positions. Prior Democratic tickets have included candidates further left on various policy dimensions. 'Most radical' is a political characterization unsupported by cross-temporal policy comparison — though 'radical' is inherently subjective and audience-relative.

Sources: GovTrack Senate ideology scores; Comparative policy analysis of Democratic presidential tickets

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- campaign-rhetoric (90%)
- devaluation (70%)
- splitting (70%)
- framing-operation (85%)
- Harris-Walz-response (90%)
- aide-mediated-probable (60%)
- contamination-narrative (65%)
- epistemic-closure (70%)

## That day

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

**Harris-Walz Ticket Triggers 51-Post Blitz: Multi-Vector Attack Campaign with Sustained Projection Dynamics**

Trump unleashed an unusually high-volume day of posting -- 51 in total -- almost entirely focused on defining the newly formed Harris-Walz ticket as dangerous, criminal, and illegitimate. The morning brought a long, emotionally charged attack on Harris that peaked in catastrophist language about national destruction, followed by a midday escalation where he labeled critics of his allied judges as "CRIMINALS" committing "ILLEGAL" acts. A brief flash of vulnerability appeared when he complained about media ignoring his crowd sizes while amplifying Harris's. The day closed with a sweeping demand that all his legal cases be dismissed, revealing the sustained pressure of Jack Smith's revised indictment running beneath the campaign bluster.

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

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 8). “DEMS ROLL OUT MOST RADICAL TICKET YET” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112923707208088642
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“DEMS ROLL OUT MOST RADICAL TICKET YET”" Truth Social, 8 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112923707208088642. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“DEMS ROLL OUT MOST RADICAL TICKET YET”," Truth Social, August 8, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112923707208088642.

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