Analysis: If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 tim...

2y ago Aug 17, 2024 at 3:04 AM

Reposted Aug 16, 2024 at 8:15 PM

If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President. Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. She will abolish private health care, and make California's ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If you want more CASH and less TAX, VOTE TRUMP!!!

Video transcript 0:50

- I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food. - We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before. Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, et cetera. It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets. - It's essentially where we're talking about those gargantuan big government that controls everything. What we're talking about is a war on capitalism. - It's not gonna be markets, it's not gonna be supply and demand that's determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs. It's gonna be some bureaucrat in D.C., which seems like totally unworkable. - It's always, always about control. They want to control, they want to be able to pick winners and losers, and also be able to punish those losers.

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-25. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

UTC 03:04 converts to ~11:04 PM EDT — within authentic late-night window
Self-retruth of own content is consistent with Trump's self-amplification behavior
No text present, eliminating stylometric analysis
Late-night timing during high-pressure pre-DNC week consistent with authentic impulsive posting

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance (Pre-DNC counter-programming cycle)

Sentiment

0.00

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

Antisocial

Paranoid

Sadism

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Post Analysis: ts_112975143893226393 — August 17, 2024

Overview

This post is a self-retruth (RT of Trump's own account: realDonaldTrump/statuses/112973535972114721) with a single attached MP4 video and no accompanying text. The analyzable textual content is effectively zero. The linked original post appears to correspond to the blank entry in the provided previous-posts log for 2024-08-17, strongly suggesting the original was also media-only.

Critical limitation: Without access to the video content, all substantive psychological, rhetorical, and narrative analysis is withheld rather than confabulated. Confidence on nearly all dimensions is low.

Authorship Attribution

UTC: 2024-08-17T03:04:49Z

Estimated local time: ~11:04 PM EDT (Trump likely in the Northeast or traveling back from Asheville, NC, where he delivered an economy speech earlier that day)

Late-night timing (11 PM local) is strongly consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns. However, the absence of any text — the post is purely a reshare action — makes stylometric analysis impossible. Self-retruthing one's own video is a known campaign behavior and could represent either authentic self-amplification or a coordinated aide-assisted boost. The late hour tips the balance slightly toward authentic.

Contextual Framing

The surrounding post cluster from August 16–17 reveals a coherent attack campaign against Harris and Walz on the eve of the Democratic National Convention (August 19–22). The immediately preceding posts deploy economic fear (price caps → famine), immigration threat framing, and a direct attack on Walz's VA voting record. The RT-of-self with video is consistent with amplifying a specific campaign asset — likely a video ad or rally clip — as counter-programming to the DNC buildup. The adjacent post ("RIP Corey Comperatore 🙏") references the man killed at the July 13 Butler, PA rally, suggesting the day's posting cadence mixes martyrdom/victimhood framing with aggressive counter-DNC messaging.

Psychological State (Inferred from Context)

The broader posting cluster exhibits a grandiose-to-vulnerable oscillation characteristic of malignant narcissism under electoral pressure. Posts from the same 24-hour window reflect:

Narcissistic supply maintenance: Rally-to-base messaging attacking opponents
Paranoid features: Framing Harris as a Communist and Venezuela-analogizer
Martyrdom/victimhood injection: RIP Corey post, sentencing delay legal framing

The video RT without text is anomalous in providing no direct affective signal — it neither amplifies nor departs from the surrounding pattern.

Summary

No clinically significant patterns are independently demonstrable from this post, which contains no text. Analysis would require video content. The timing is consistent with authentic posting behavior. The post is best interpreted as a routine amplification action within a coordinated pre-DNC counter-messaging cluster.