# Post ts_112946363602787083

- Post ID: `ts_112946363602787083`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-08-12T01:05:37.593Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112946363602787083
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112946363602787083/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112946363602787083.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee of Los Angeles in getting the 2028 Olympics to come to the United States. There was tremendous competition from other countries. President Obama refused to speak to the International Olympic Committee (perhaps because of a previous rejection by them of a proposal personally made by him!), which needed the enthusiastic support and approval of the U.S. President - Without which they would not have chosen our Country. I gave them what they wanted to hear, and got the job done! It was my great honor to do so. Hopefully I will be President, and our Country will have reached new (and record!) levels of success. SEE YOU IN 2028. Thank you!

## Engagement

- Likes: 19,362
- Reposts: 4,825
- Replies: 1,682
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.340Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T09:47:25.852Z (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, triggered by the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony and the resulting LA 2028 spotlight, represents a textbook narcissistic supply-seeking episode: Trump retroactively inserts himself as the decisive agent in a national achievement he had minimal documented role in producing. The post's most clinically notable feature is its confident inversion of documented history — the claim that Obama "refused to speak" to the IOC directly contradicts Obama's well-documented personal appearance before the IOC in Copenhagen in 2009. This is not misremembering; it is motivated distortion deployed to construct a comparative narrative in which Trump succeeds where a rival failed. Three of four primary factual claims rate as mostly false or false. The "President-Elect" framing is anachronistic (the LA 2028 award occurred in September 2017, eight months into Trump's presidency). Psychologically, the post is in classic grandiose mode with no acute injury trigger: ambient cultural credit is available and must be claimed. Defense mechanisms are distortion and rationalization; the narcissistic state is expansive rather than wounded. Authorship indicators are consistent with authentic Trump: evening post timing, characteristic exclamation density, parenthetical editorial asides, and emotional reactivity to an ambient cultural moment. The post closes with a campaign appeal seamlessly embedded in the historical claim, consistent with Trump's habitual conflation of self, nation, and electoral need. No danger indicators present. Cognitive status appears baseline-consistent.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — August 11, 2024 (9:05 PM EDT)

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 01:05:37 on August 12 converts to **9:05 PM EDT** (August 11) on the U.S. East Coast. Trump's known activity on this date includes a rally in Bozeman, Montana (MDT, UTC-6), which would place local time at **7:05 PM MDT**. Either timezone yields an early-evening post — within plausible business or staff hours, but also well within Trump's personal posting window.

Style markers lean **authentic**: characteristic exclamation-point density (eight total), parenthetical asides with editorial flavor, stream-of-consciousness movement from historical claim to campaign appeal to valedictory closer, and the emotionally reactive hook to the closing Paris 2024 Olympics. The absence of formal event-announcement framing, the first-person braggadocio, and the mid-sentence self-interruptions ("(perhaps because of a previous rejection by them of a proposal personally made by him!)") are hallmarks of authentic Trump composition. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic authorship.**

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## Contextual Trigger

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony occurred on August 11, 2024 — the same day as this post. The global media shift toward the "Paris to LA handoff" and the LA 2028 spotlight provided direct stimulus for retrospective credit-claiming. This is a classic **narcissistic supply-seeking** post: the ambient cultural moment offers an occasion to insert the self into a narrative of national achievement.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "As President-Elect, Trump worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee to bring the 2028 Olympics to the US" | **Mostly False** | The 2028 Olympics were formally awarded to Los Angeles by the IOC at its Lima session on September 13, 2017 — nearly eight months into Trump's presidency, not during his President-Elect transition. Any pre-inauguration contact would have been preliminary at most; the decisive IOC vote occurred while he was President. |
| "President Obama refused to speak to the International Olympic Committee" | **False** | Barack Obama personally traveled to Copenhagen and delivered a speech before the IOC on October 2, 2009, lobbying for Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. Chicago was eliminated in the first round. Obama did not refuse to engage — he appeared and lost. |
| "There was tremendous competition from other countries for the 2028 Olympics" | **Mostly False** | The 2028 LA bid was effectively uncontested. Budapest withdrew in 2017. The IOC engineered a simultaneous award of 2024 (Paris) and 2028 (LA) precisely because of a shortage of credible bidders. The process involved minimal competitive tension. |
| "Trump personally secured the 2028 Olympics for the US through his communication with the IOC" | **Mostly False** | The LA 2028 award was primarily driven by IOC structural decision-making and the Paris co-award arrangement. While Trump may have expressed White House support, no credible reporting attributes the outcome to his personal intervention as the decisive factor. |

Overall Veracity: 15%

## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger and Narcissistic Dynamics
The trigger is unambiguous: the Olympics closing hands the baton to LA 2028, generating a cultural moment of national pride that Trump cannot allow to exist without his name attached. This is **supply-seeking** driven by an ambient achievement he wishes to own. There is no acute narcissistic injury present; the mood is expansive and grandiose rather than wounded.

### Narcissistic State: Grandiose
The post is in classic **grandiose mode**: self-as-decisive-actor, subordination of rivals (Obama cast as paralyzed by wounded pride), and the claim that his personal communication style ("I gave them what they wanted to hear") was the deciding variable. The construction erases institutional actors (the LA bid committee, the IOC structural process, Mayor Garcetti's leadership) and substitutes a single heroic agent.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Distortion** (pathological level): The claim that Obama "refused to speak" to the IOC inverts documented reality. This is not misremembering; the Obama Copenhagen speech was extensively covered. The claim reshapes external reality to serve the internal narrative of Trump-as-superior-dealmaker.
- **Rationalization** (neurotic level): The parenthetical "(perhaps because of a previous rejection)" provides a pseudo-logical explanation for the fabricated refusal, making the distortion feel coherent.
- **Idealization/Devaluation**: Self is idealized as effective and gracious ("my great honor"); Obama is devalued as too proud and ineffective.

### Narcissistic Rage
**Absent.** The post is emotionally positive and forward-looking. The derogation of Obama is competitive but not rageful — it serves self-elevation rather than punitive destruction.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

**Protagonist role:** The Dealmaker and Savior — the figure who intervened when the establishment failed and delivered results through personal charisma and strategic communication ("I gave them what they wanted to hear").

**Redemption sequence:** Obama attempted and was humiliated → Trump arrived and succeeded. This is a compressed redemption arc in which the antagonist's failure is the necessary backdrop for the hero's triumph.

**Contrasting other:** Obama — cast as prideful, avoidant, and ineffective. The contrast also implicitly positions Trump against Kamala Harris (given the campaign context of surrounding posts), suggesting that only he can represent America effectively on the world stage.

**Identity claims:** "I got the job done," "It was my great honor," capable of strategic charm ("gave them what they wanted to hear"). These construct an identity centered on personal efficacy, diplomatic skill, and national service.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Retroactive credit-claiming**: A structural technique of attaching the self to a favorable outcome post-hoc, with minimal accountability for accuracy.
- **Contrast framing**: The Obama foil is essential to the post's logic. Without the derogated predecessor, the achievement claim loses much of its impact.
- **Hyperbole/superlatives**: "tremendous competition," "record levels of success."
- **Enthymeme**: The implicit syllogism — "Obama couldn't do it, I could, therefore I am the superior leader" — is left for the reader to complete.
- **Campaign embedding**: The post pivots from historical claim to campaign appeal ("Hopefully I will be President"), converting Olympic nostalgia into electoral motivation.
- **False urgency/intimacy**: "SEE YOU IN 2028" closes with an inclusive valediction that positions the audience as co-participants in a shared national triumph Trump personally delivered.

No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present.

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## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

The Obama IOC claim is the post's most significant distortion. It does not merely exaggerate — it inverts a documented historical event (Obama's Copenhagen appearance). This pattern — asserting the opposite of what occurred regarding a political rival — functions as a form of **reality distortion** directed at an audience unlikely to fact-check in real time. Followers who accept the claim are implicitly required to hold a false belief about the historical record: a modest epistemic closure demand.

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## Cognitive Status Assessment

The post is coherent and goal-directed. Syntactic complexity is moderate; the parenthetical asides are characteristic and functional, not confused. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or temporal confusion detectable in this sample. **The "President-Elect" anachronism is more likely motivated distortion than genuine temporal confusion**, given the specificity of other details. **Baseline deviation: none.**

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** No targets, no grievance escalation, no violent imagery. Post is self-aggrandizing campaign content with historical distortions.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Evening post timing (9:05 PM EDT / 7:05 PM MDT) within Trump's personal window
- High exclamation-point density (8 instances)
- Parenthetical editorial asides with opinionated interjections
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from history to campaign appeal
- Emotionally reactive to ambient cultural moment (Olympics closing ceremony)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony / LA 2028 media spotlight)

Sentiment: +0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 48%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive valediction ('SEE YOU IN 2028') positioning audience as co-beneficiaries of Trump's personal achievement
- Appeal to national pride as vehicle for self-identification with subject
- Campaign embedding within historical narrative naturalizes electoral support

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Denial of documented event: Obama's 2009 IOC Copenhagen speech is erased and replaced with a fabricated 'refusal to speak'
- Reality inversion: the actual historical sequence (Obama appeared, lobbied, lost) is replaced with its opposite
- Implicit loyalty test: followers who accept the Obama claim must hold a false belief about documented history
- DARVO-adjacent: Obama's documented failure (Chicago lost) is reframed as willful avoidance, shifting the narrative from 'tried and failed' to 'too cowardly to try'

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> As President-Elect, Trump worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee to bring the 2028 Olympics to the US

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The 2028 Olympics were formally awarded to Los Angeles by the IOC at its Lima session on September 13, 2017 — nearly eight months into Trump's presidency, not during his President-Elect transition. Any pre-inauguration contact would have been preliminary at most; the decisive IOC vote occurred while he was President.

Sources: IOC Lima session records, September 2017

> President Obama refused to speak to the International Olympic Committee

**FALSE**

Barack Obama personally traveled to Copenhagen and delivered a speech before the IOC on October 2, 2009, lobbying for Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. Chicago was eliminated in the first round. Obama did not refuse to engage — he appeared and lost.

Sources: Documented IOC Copenhagen session, October 2, 2009

> There was tremendous competition from other countries for the 2028 Olympics

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The 2028 LA bid was effectively uncontested. Budapest withdrew in 2017. The IOC engineered a simultaneous award of 2024 (Paris) and 2028 (LA) precisely because of a shortage of credible bidders. The process involved minimal competitive tension.

Sources: IOC bidding process documentation 2015-2017

> Trump personally secured the 2028 Olympics for the US through his communication with the IOC

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The LA 2028 award was primarily driven by IOC structural decision-making and the Paris co-award arrangement. While Trump may have expressed White House support, no credible reporting attributes the outcome to his personal intervention as the decisive factor.

Sources: IOC procedural records; contemporaneous news coverage of LA 2028 bid

Overall Veracity: 15%

## Tags

- retroactive-credit-claiming (90%)
- supply-seeking (85%)
- grandiose-state (80%)
- historical-distortion (90%)
- obama-derogation (75%)
- olympics (95%)
- campaign-pivot (70%)
- authentic-authorship (80%)
- fact-check-failures (90%)

## That day

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

**Harris Obsession Dominates 20-Post Day as Trump Launches Preemptive DNC-Week Delegitimization Campaign**

Trump spent most of the day firing off attacks against Kamala Harris, targeting her policy shifts, border record, and campaign messaging in a sustained barrage that peaked around midday. The mood was combative but controlled — no meltdowns, just a relentless effort to define Harris as a fraud before the Democratic convention. He started the evening with an Olympics credit-grab, spent the morning and early afternoon hammering Harris from every angle, then wound down with campaign links and a teaser for his upcoming live conversation with Elon Musk on X. Twenty posts is a busy day, but he appeared to sleep normally and stayed on-message throughout.

Full digest for 2024-08-12: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 12). As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112946363602787083
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing..." Truth Social, 12 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112946363602787083. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing...," Truth Social, August 12, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112946363602787083.

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