# Post ts_112975143893226393 - Post ID: `ts_112975143893226393` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-17T03:04:49.976Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112973535972114721 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112973535972114721 (2024-08-16T20:15:55.039Z (UTC)) > 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!!! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:50), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > - 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. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/975/143/740/384/706/original/4a3d028b43747f1f.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,551 - Reposts: 4,144 - Replies: 960 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.339Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T11:24:32.739Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## 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. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### 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: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Tags - self-retruth (100%) - video-only (100%) - pre-DNC (70%) - unanalyzable (100%) - late-night-post (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign Machine on Autopilot: Endorsement Flood Masks Pre-DNC Anxiety** Trump spent most of August 17 in campaign operations mode, flooding Truth Social with over 30 formulaic endorsements of Florida, Wyoming, and Alaska Republicans — almost all clearly written by staff. The day's real psychological content came in brief flashes: a late-night post amplifying a legal analyst defending his sentencing delay, an all-caps attack blaming Kamala Harris for "violent illegals," and a morning accusation that Google is running an illegal election interference operation. He held a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, his second visit to the state since the Butler assassination attempt. The overall mood was grandiose but hollow — a day driven by political machinery rather than personal engagement. Full digest for 2024-08-17: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 17). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 17 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, August 17, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_112975143893226393 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_112975143893226393 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_112975143893226393 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-17 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112975143893226393.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._