# Post ts_112948746752564485

- Post ID: `ts_112948746752564485`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-08-12T11:11:41.576Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy she has supported and lived by for her entire career, from the Border to Tips, and the Fake News Media isn’t reporting it. She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything. She is conning the American public, and will flip right back. I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! There will be no flipping!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 28,802
- Reposts: 7,951
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.340Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T09:48:04.485Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Harris's policy convergence toward Trump's electoral positions (notably no-tax-on-tips) triggered a narcissistic injury rooted in brand-ownership schema: Trump's ideas are being appropriated without attribution, threatening his status as political originator. The post's psychological signature is grandiose-competitive rather than vulnerable-persecuted — he asserts ontological priority ('sounds more like Trump than Trump') and frames Harris's pivot as fraud ('conning the American public') rather than registering victimhood. Defense mechanisms include splitting (authentic original vs. derivative fake), projection (fraud accusation lacking evidentiary standard), and rationalization (media silence as suppression evidence). The 'Fake News isn't reporting it' construct creates an epistemic closure loop: absence of corroborating coverage confirms conspiracy rather than challenging the premise. Authorship is highly likely authentic given 7:11 AM EDT timing, stream-of-consciousness chaining, and emotional reactivity. Cognitive markers are within baseline — coherent argumentative sequence, no word-finding difficulty. Rhetorical strategy deploys brand-contamination framing to preemptively delegitimize Harris's centrist pivot: followers who credit her shift are positioned as marks; those who distrust it as insiders. No danger indicators. Longitudinally, this extends a deliberate two-post tactical sequence from August 11-12 targeting the tips issue as plagiarism evidence.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2024-08-12T11:11Z

## Situational Context

By mid-August 2024, Harris had pivoted from some of her 2019 primary positions to occupy more centrist ground, including adopting a no-tax-on-tips proposal that Trump's campaign had introduced. This pivot was receiving substantial favorable media coverage. The prior-day post linking to the IRS tip-reporting program ("This is the real Kamala!") establishes that Trump had already been tracking this perceived plagiarism. The current post is the full-throated follow-up: organized, reactive, and operating on a narcissistic injury dynamic.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

**Extraversion (high):** Assertive, energized, openly competitive. No ambivalence about public confrontation.

**Agreeableness (very low):** Zero charitable interpretation of Harris's policy evolution. Her shift is immediately attributed to deception, not persuasion or learning.

**Conscientiousness (moderate):** The post is organized around a thesis with supporting evidence references (Border, Tips), suggesting deliberate construction rather than pure impulsivity.

**Neuroticism — Angry Hostility (moderate-high):** The reactive urgency ('she is conning') and media-suppression complaint signal elevated hostility without reaching the disorganized fury seen in higher-intensity posts.

**Openness (very low):** Rigid ideological ownership framing. Policy positions are treated as proprietary brand assets, not as ideas that can be shared across political actors.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas

**Dominant motive: Agency/Status.** The core concern is not that Harris adopted the tip policy — it is that she is receiving credit and electoral momentum without acknowledging the source. This is a status-ownership injury. Trump's schema frames policy positions as intellectual property of his brand; unauthorized adoption is theft.

**World schema:** Zero-sum competitive marketplace where authenticity = priority and imitation = fraud. The word "conning" is significant — it frames the electorate as potential victims of Harris's deception, casting Trump as the protecting authority who sees through the con.

**Self-schema:** The Originator. Trump as the source from which political gravity emanates; others orbit and imitate.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The Authentic Original, surrounded by imitators and protected by superior vision.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination. A good situation (Trump's signature policies gaining traction) is being corrupted/stolen by Harris, enabled by media silence. The sequence: Trump creates → Harris steals → Media enables → Public deceived → Trump warns → MAGA restores order.

**Identity claims:** 'I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN' / 'There will be no flipping' — these are character assertions, not policy statements. They claim consistency, authenticity, and resolve as core identity markers.

**Contrasting other:** Harris as the hollow mirror — she reflects Trump's image without possessing his substance. This is a psychologically specific construction: the enemy is not powerful and different, but derivative and fake. This framing is more threatening to Harris's momentum than calling her radical, because it undercuts her novelty.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**Narcissistic features (moderate-high, ~0.72):** Grandiosity in the 'more like Trump than Trump' construction. Entitlement framing around policy ownership. The accusation of 'conning' reflects lack of empathy for alternative interpretation of Harris's evolution. No acknowledgment that policy convergence might reflect genuine persuasion of the electorate.

**Antisocial features (low-moderate, ~0.30):** The fraud accusation ('conning the American public') is a public character attack with no evidentiary standard offered. However, this remains within conventional attack-ad rhetoric.

**Paranoid features (moderate, ~0.45):** The media-suppression claim is the paranoid node: the fact that major outlets are not framing Harris's pivot as plagiarism is read as evidence of coordinated suppression rather than journalistic judgment. This is a closed epistemic loop.

**Sadism (low, ~0.15):** No pleasure-in-suffering indicators. This post is competitive, not cruel.

### Narcissistic Trigger and Dynamics

The trigger is a **narcissistic injury of comparison**: a competitor has adopted Trump's signature electoral position (no tax on tips) and is receiving positive coverage without attribution. For a subject with Trump's brand-ownership schema, this is experienced as identity theft. The grandiose response — asserting ontological priority — is the characteristic defense: I am the original; she is the copy; copies cannot compete with originals.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (immature):** The accusation of 'conning' is delivered without self-reflective awareness that Trump's own prediction of Harris's future behavior ('will flip right back') is itself a confidence claim with no evidentiary basis — the very epistemic structure he criticizes.

**Splitting (immature):** Harris = inauthentic/derivative/con artist. Trump = authentic/original/unwavering. No space for complexity.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** Media silence is reframed as proof of the story's importance rather than evidence against his thesis.

### Cognitive Status

No markers of word-finding difficulty, semantic paraphasia, or tangentiality. Sentence structure is simple but purposeful. The post constructs a coherent argumentative sequence: premise → evidence surrogate → media-suppression claim → competitive superiority → fraud accusation → slogan. Compared to baseline Trump speech patterns, this is within normal range — organized, repetitive, rhetorically effective. No deviation flagged.

## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.82 (likely authentic).** Post at 7:11 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) or 5:11 AM MDT (Montana, rally day). Either timezone places this in the early-morning authentic window. Stream-of-consciousness grievance chaining, ALL CAPS slogan close, emotional reactivity to prior-day news cycle, and triple-exclamation close are all authentic indicators. Not consistent with aide-written scheduling or event content.

## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis

The post deploys **brand contamination** as its primary rhetorical weapon: Harris is not attacked as dangerous or extreme (the usual register) but as counterfeit. This is strategically sophisticated — it addresses the political threat of Harris moving to the center by preemptively framing that move as fraudulent. The **epistemic closure** mechanism is also notable: followers who believe Harris's pivot is genuine are positioned as marks in a con, while followers who distrust her are positioned as savvy insiders. This creates a loyalty test embedded in the rhetorical structure.

The MAGA close functions as a **palate cleanser** — it resets the emotional register from anxious-competitive to triumphant-certain, providing followers with an identity affirmation after the destabilizing claim that the opponent is copying their leader.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy she has supported for her entire career" | **Mostly False** | Harris did shift positions on select economic policies (no-tax-on-tips, softened fracking ban stance) after becoming nominee, but core positions on abortion rights, climate policy, and democratic norms remained consistent. 'Virtually every policy' is unsupported hyperbole. |
| "The Fake News Media isn't reporting it (her flip-flops)" | **False** | Major outlets including NYT, WaPo, AP, CNN, and Fox News all covered and fact-checked Harris's policy evolution in August 2024, including explicit comparisons of her no-tax-on-tips proposal to Trump's earlier proposal. |
| "She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything" | **Mostly False** | Harris adopted the no-tax-on-tips position (similar to Trump's proposal) and softened some immigration rhetoric, but maintained distinctly different positions on abortion, climate, healthcare, and foreign policy. 'Almost everything' is not supportable. |
| "She failed to get even a single Primary Vote" | **True** | Harris dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary race on December 3, 2019, before any primaries were held. She received no primary votes in the 2020 cycle. The 2024 cycle had no contested primary after Biden withdrew and endorsed her. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or violent imagery. Standard competitive electoral attack framing. The 'con' accusation is character attack within conventional political rhetoric bounds.

## Archetypal and Order/Chaos Dynamics

Trump operates here as the **King/Originator** whose creative works are being stolen by a pretender. The implicit narrative is monarchical copyright: the King establishes, others imitate. The order being defended is not institutional but personal — Trump's brand hierarchy. The chaos agent in this framing is Harris (disruptor of authentic political order by running as a fake Trump). This framing positions Trump as the stabilizing force who exposes the con, not the disruptor.

## Longitudinal Notes

This post continues a 24-hour pattern (see prior IRS post) of tracking Harris's tip policy adoption as plagiarism. The prior post was evidentiary ('This is the real Kamala!'); this post is the argumentative synthesis. The pattern suggests deliberate tactical sequencing: plant evidence → make argument. Whether this is Trump's own strategy or staff-assisted framing is unclear, but the emotional register of this particular post feels authentic. The 'she sounds more like Trump than Trump' construction is one of the more rhetorically durable phrases in this period's output — it will likely recur in rally speeches.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Post at 11:11 UTC converts to approximately 7:11 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ, his August base) or 5:11 AM MDT (Montana rally destination) — either way, early morning, consistent with authentic Trump posting window
- Stream-of-consciousness construction without formal paragraph logic
- Emotional grievance chaining (flip-flop → media silence → copying → con → MAGA affirmation)
- ALL CAPS for emphasis on key slogan
- Triple exclamation mark construction at close

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Kamala Harris receiving positive coverage for adopting policy stances (no-tax-on-tips, border rhetoric) associated with Trump)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Kamala Harris and the Fake News Media
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to audience as fellow victims of media suppression
- Shared secret framing ('Fake News isn't reporting it') — positions followers as informed insiders
- Rhetorical closure with identity-affirming slogan that invites crowd participation

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claims Fake News Media 'isn't reporting' Harris policy shifts — directly contradicted by extensive mainstream coverage of her pivot on tips, fracking, and immigration rhetoric
- Frames media's failure to credit Trump as originator of tip policy as suppression conspiracy, inverting the epistemic burden
- Asserts future behavior as established fact ('will flip right back') — positions followers to reject future Harris consistency as evidence of current deception

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy she has supported for her entire career

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris did shift positions on select economic policies (no-tax-on-tips, softened fracking ban stance) after becoming nominee, but core positions on abortion rights, climate policy, and democratic norms remained consistent. 'Virtually every policy' is unsupported hyperbole.

Sources: General knowledge of Harris 2019-2024 policy record

> The Fake News Media isn't reporting it (her flip-flops)

**FALSE**

Major outlets including NYT, WaPo, AP, CNN, and Fox News all covered and fact-checked Harris's policy evolution in August 2024, including explicit comparisons of her no-tax-on-tips proposal to Trump's earlier proposal.

Sources: General knowledge of August 2024 media coverage

> She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris adopted the no-tax-on-tips position (similar to Trump's proposal) and softened some immigration rhetoric, but maintained distinctly different positions on abortion, climate, healthcare, and foreign policy. 'Almost everything' is not supportable.

Sources: General knowledge of 2024 campaign policy platforms

> She failed to get even a single Primary Vote

**TRUE**

Harris dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary race on December 3, 2019, before any primaries were held. She received no primary votes in the 2020 cycle. The 2024 cycle had no contested primary after Biden withdrew and endorsed her.

Sources: General knowledge of 2019-2020 Democratic primary calendar

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- policy-plagiarism-grievance (90%)
- brand-ownership-schema (85%)
- harris-attack (95%)
- media-suppression-claim (80%)
- grandiose-competitive (82%)
- splitting (75%)
- authentic-trump (82%)
- epistemic-closure (78%)
- no-danger (95%)
- maga-slogan-closure (70%)

## 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). Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112948746752564485
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy..." Truth Social, 12 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112948746752564485. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on virtually every policy...," Truth Social, August 12, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112948746752564485.

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