# Post ts_112981036786979975 - Post ID: `ts_112981036786979975` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-18T04:03:28.394Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/112978621725324339 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112978621725324339 (2024-08-17T17:49:17.477Z (UTC)) > THANK YOU WISCONSIN, I LOVE YOU ALL. IF WE WIN THERE, WE WIN THE ELECTION AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/978/621/577/496/890/original/be98327d846a1832.mp4 ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:08), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Mr. President, here we are back in the great state of Wisconsin. We are at the Dodge County Fair. The enthusiasm is building for you. Lots of people, people are registering to vote. People stopping by this booth and saying, we are for Donald J. Trump. He wants to make America great again. I says, yes, he does. With us here is the next senator from the great state of Wisconsin, Mr. Eric Huthby. We've got Janet. And the people here want you to know, the people want, they want you to know that they love you because they know you love them. They're going to vote for you on November 5th. People, what do you say about the greatest president in our lifetime? Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/981/036/300/843/927/original/e97373ec0f635af8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,081 - Reposts: 2,880 - Replies: 418 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.339Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T12:34:34.641Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social RT — August 18, 2024 (04:03 UTC / ~12:03 AM EDT) ## Post Overview This is a structurally minimal entry: a bare retruth of Trump's own earlier Truth Social post (ts from ~8 hours prior), accompanied by a video attachment. No original text is added. The linked post falls within the cluster of Wilkes-Barre, PA rally content posted on August 17–18, making this almost certainly a clip of rally footage. **The post offers negligible direct psychological signal.** Analysis is necessarily contextual and structural rather than content-derived. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.4 (slightly favors aide; low confidence)** The 12:03 AM EDT posting time creates mild support for authentic Trump authorship — late-night posting is a well-documented behavioral pattern. However, this is undercut by the total absence of any added commentary. Authentic Trump late-night posts almost invariably include reactive text, emotional punctuation, or stream-of-consciousness elaboration. A bare mechanical retruth with an attached video clip, no added words, and no emotional fingerprinting is structurally consistent with an aide (most likely Dan Scavino or equivalent) executing routine rally content amplification. The fact that it is a RT of *his own* post (not a third-party share) makes it slightly more likely to be aide-managed post-rally content strategy. **Confidence: Low** — insufficient signal for confident attribution. --- ## Contextual Framing The DNC was scheduled to open August 19 in Chicago, with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be formally nominated. The posting of rally footage at this juncture functions as counter-programming — keeping the Trump rally visual in circulation as Democratic content dominates the news cycle. Whether organic or aide-orchestrated, this is tactically coherent. --- ## Psychological Assessment **Nothing analyzable at the trait, motive, or narrative level from this post alone.** No language, no claims, no emotional content. The longitudinal context (same-day "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" posts, Wilkes-Barre rally amplification) indicates a standard post-event content cycle: rally → celebration post → video clip share. Cognitive status: **unassessable** from this entry. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Sole rhetorical function: signal amplification. The video attachment is the message carrier; without being able to view it, no further rhetorical analysis is possible. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No language, no targeting, no eliminationist rhetoric. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. The entry is analytically inert: a bare retruth with a video, no added text, no psychological signal beyond its timing and contextual placement.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - 12:03 AM EDT timing (late night) is consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns - However, a mechanical retruth with zero added commentary and a video attachment is consistent with aide-managed content amplification - No typos, emotional language, ALL CAPS, or impulsive commentary to signal authentic authorship - Rally post amplification (sharing own earlier post) is a common Scavino/aide function ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (post-rally amplification) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - rally footage replay extending parasocial participation for those not present ## Tags - retruth (100%) - rally_amplification (90%) - wilkes-barre (80%) - DNC_counter_programming (60%) - video_clip (80%) - low_signal (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Eve of the DNC: Trump Launches Sustained Communist-Labeling Campaign Against Harris as Convention Anxiety Peaks** Trump spent the day counter-programming the Democratic National Convention, which opens tomorrow. The morning hours saw a late-night post-rally burst from Wilkes-Barre, and the afternoon brought a concentrated barrage of attacks branding Kamala Harris a "Communist" across at least five separate posts. The mood was mostly confident and aggressive, but cracks showed in a grievance-laden rant about Van Jones and a heated dispute over rally crowd photos. The day's defining feature was the sheer repetition of McCarthyite red-baiting — "Comrade Kamala," "Marxist," "Communist" — hammered across post after post with escalating intensity into the early evening. Full digest for 2024-08-18: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-18/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 18). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 18 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, August 18, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975. ## 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_112981036786979975 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_112981036786979975 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_112981036786979975 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-18 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112981036786979975.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`._