# Post ts_112985992235961840 - Post ID: `ts_112985992235961840` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-19T01:03:42.547Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112985992235961840 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112985992235961840/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112985992235961840.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “TUCKER CARLSON UNCENSORED” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > And it's happening for political reasons. It's happening because the Democratic Party has ceased making the case for itself to Americans. And so in order to keep power, in fact, to expand their power and to preside over the one party state that they desire, they're going to need a brand new electorate. And this is their electorate. Foreigners will choose your leaders. You're not allowed to choose the leaders of foreign countries, but foreigners will choose your leaders, including in this election, this 2024 presidential election. Well, how that work? It's illegal, you say, for illegal aliens to vote in a federal election. Well, actually, it's not illegal, it turns out. Congress passed something in the US code, the federal code, a line that unbeknownst to the rest of us makes it legal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are citizens. It's a state of mind. Did you know that? We didn't know that. Most people didn't know that. Catherine Engelbrecht just found this provision in the US code. That's the kind of thing she reads because she's the founder of True the Vote and has been working on these issues for a few years now. And she joins us to explain what she's found. Catherine Albrecht, thank you so much for coming on. Oh, thanks for having me. So would you mind explaining what seems at first blush, a very far-fetched idea that the US code, as of right now, as of our speaking, would allow illegal aliens to vote in the upcoming presidential election? How would that work? Yeah, well, True the Vote, the organization I founded some years ago, has been long involved in looking at the accuracy of the voter rolls. And we've long maintained that inaccurate voter rolls lead to inaccurate elections. So with that as a backdrop, we've been very concerned about the lack of availability to determine citizenship status, not just by groups like ours, but by states themselves. They can't get close enough to a citizenship status database to make good determinations. That then led me to look a little deeper because as you rightly lay out, there's a motivation here. So what might that be? We've seen many, many videos of people coming across the border who are talking about their excitement about voting for Joe Biden and claiming that they are citizens. But yet we hear debates in Congress where the congressmen will say, "Don't worry, the non-citizens can't vote. It's a crime of perjury. It's a felony." So okay, we took a deep look at the criminal code. And Title 18 left us just gobsmacked because when you read all the way through it, as it lists all of the stipulations against non-citizen voting in federal elections and lays out the penalties, therefore, scroll all the way down to the fine print. And what you read is that non-citizens can vote without penalty if at the time they are voting, they believe themselves to be US citizens. Well, I mean, that seems insane. I mean, I'm taking your word for it. I'm not a lawyer, an expert in the federal code, but is there any other crime? Like if I can show that I didn't know I was robbing a liquor store, I had a gun in my hand, I was demanding money, but I didn't really think it was robbery. Does that shield me from being prosecuted for robbing a liquor store? No, certainly not. But I will say that this state of mind idea is something that we've come up against in the past related to domicile. As we've done reviews of the voter rolls and you see people that are registered, but they're registered to vacant lots, they're registered to fast food restaurants, and the press you get back from the state as well, but residency is a state of mind. This takes that to an entirely different level. And I'll tell you what I'm really concerned about, Tucker, is that when we lived through 2020 and we saw the landscape change, lawlessness take hold, we watched on the sidelines and said, surely this can't be what it looks like is happening. Surely this move to the mass mail of ballots and unmonitored drop boxes and third party election workers that have no proper training to support all of the ebbs and flows of process, surely this can't be what's about to play out. And then when it did, you're left with scant few days to try to pick up the pieces and prove what really happened. I'm seeing this now play out in 2024 on this issue much the same. And so it's my hope that we can awaken Americans to this problem and demand accountability before November so that we can decide if citizenship is truly a state of mind. Can I ask about the law itself, the code that you're referring to? Do you think that that suggests that the the foreigner, because the proposition here is that we're allowing foreigners to choose our leaders, which is insane, of course. But is the law written in such a way that that foreigner will not be punished for voting in our elections, but will that vote still count? Is that clear? Well, it's a great question. But, you know, you that mean the ballots are are anonymous. So once that ballot has been cast either by mail and it's been separated from the envelope with which it's carried to the central count. So you can't tell who voted if that's if that's been separated, the envelope from the ballot and certainly by machine. You can't tell. So no, there's no way there's no way to pull this back. It's it's why it is critical that we get on the front side of this and have a very national discussion about the tracks we're heading down. This is a very, very. Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. The Internet is crowded with interesting things that don't really matter. On TCN, we attempt to bring you interesting things that actually do matter. And a lot of them, interviews, long form and short videos, documentaries. You can find all of it tuckercarlson.com and we hope you will. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/985/992/063/013/316/original/3a2a1521fe47864a.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 19,835 - Reposts: 8,509 - Replies: 1,506 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.339Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-25T12:44:44.265Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "TUCKER CARLSON UNCENSORED" — Truth Social, 2024-08-19T01:03:42Z ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time Conversion:** In mid-August 2024, Trump's public schedule included events in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He was almost certainly on the East Coast (likely Bedminster, NJ or traveling). UTC 01:03 = **9:03 PM EDT, August 18**. This falls in the early evening range — not the classic 2–5 AM authentic window, but consistent with Trump's documented active evening posting hours. ALL CAPS usage and terse, punchy content align with authentic style. No grammatical polish or event-announcement structure to suggest Scavino authorship. The post is likely authentic — a spontaneous amplification of friendly media content. --- ## Contextual Frame The post lands on **DNC opening night** (August 19–22, Chicago). The Democratic National Convention was formally nominating Harris-Walz. Trump counter-programming by amplifying Tucker Carlson — who departed Fox News in April 2023 and had repositioned as an "uncensored" independent media voice on X — is a structurally deliberate (if superficially impulsive) media move. The word "UNCENSORED" does significant ideological work for a four-word post. The same-day posting cluster includes: - "THANK YOU—MAGA2024!!!" (rally energy) - "WALZ OF SHAME: SCANDALS PILE UP FOR VP PICK" (attack content) - Two blank/media-only posts This suggests a high-volume, emotionally activated posting session coinciding with DNC kickoff. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Four words offer limited direct signal, but the pattern is characteristic: - **Low Agreeableness**: The implicit framing ("uncensored" = others are censored) positions Trump within a persecution-and-truth-suppression schema. No warmth, no relational content. - **High Extraversion**: Amplification behavior — broadcasting, promoting, performing alliance — is consistent with assertive, attention-seeking trait expression. - **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation)**: No context, no sourcing, no explanation. Stream-of-consciousness repost energy. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency Motive (dominant):** Amplifying Carlson serves dual power functions: (1) signaling command over alternative media ecosystems and (2) delegating attack/narrative work to a surrogates while maintaining deniability for specific content. **Schema activation:** The "uncensored" label activates a standing cognitive schema: mainstream media = censors, Trump-aligned media = truth-tellers. This is not a novel claim but a schema maintenance behavior — reinforcing existing in-group epistemology. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Secondary here — Trump positions himself as the *curator* and *validator* of forbidden truth, not the direct speaker. The Carlson brand does the heavy lifting. **Identity claim (implicit):** "I have access to, and platform, voices that powerful forces want silenced." **Contrasting other:** The unnamed censors — mainstream media, "Big Tech" (ironic given Musk's X hosted the Trump-Musk interview days earlier), establishment gatekeepers. **Narrative sequence:** Neither redemption nor contamination is active here. This is an *epistemological maintenance* post — reinforcing the in-group information hierarchy. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators Insufficient textual content to assess meaningfully. The post is a promotional amplification, not a revelatory psychological document. Narcissistic supply dynamics are minimal — Trump is not seeking admiration for himself, but lending his platform to an ally. This is consistent with calculated alliance maintenance rather than acute narcissistic activation. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis Despite its brevity, the post deploys one potent technique: 1. **Loaded language / dog-whistle framing**: "UNCENSORED" carries substantial ideological freight in the right-media ecosystem — it encodes the claim that truth is being systematically suppressed by elites, and only alternative/dissident voices carry it. One word does the work of a paragraph. 2. **Implicit false dichotomy**: Uncensored Tucker = censored mainstream media. The binary is constructed without argument. 3. **Parasocial activation**: Sharing media content is a classic parasocial technique — followers feel they are receiving exclusive, privileged access. 4. **Counter-programming**: Timed against DNC opening night, this functions as competitive audience capture — give the MAGA base something to watch other than the opposing convention. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Cognitive Status Essentially unassessable from four words. ALL CAPS is stylistically consistent with baseline; no paraphasia, no neologism, no temporal confusion detectable. Complexity score reflects the minimal verbal output, not cognitive impairment. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** The post is a media amplification with no target identification, no grievance articulation, and no implied action. Context (DNC opening night) adds political significance but not danger. --- ## Summary This is a low-intensity, epistemologically significant post. Its brevity belies strategic function: on DNC opening night, Trump amplifies Tucker Carlson — the most prominent "censored truth-teller" figure in the right-media ecosystem — as counter-programming. The single loaded word "UNCENSORED" efficiently activates a standing schema in Trump's base (mainstream = censors, dissident media = truth) without requiring Trump to make any verifiable claim. Posting at ~9 PM EDT, authentic authorship is plausible. No clinical material of note; no danger indicators; narrative identity is in alliance-maintenance mode rather than acute narcissistic activation. The surrounding same-day posts (attack on Walz, rally energy posts) suggest an activated, high-volume posting session keyed to the DNC launch — consistent with competitive counter-programming behavior documented across previous election cycles. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Tucker Carlson operates as 'uncensored' (implicit: censored elsewhere)" | **Mostly False** | Carlson departed Fox News in April 2023 and subsequently launched independent programming on X (Twitter), reaching audiences freely. While Fox departure involved contractual dispute, Carlson has faced no governmental censorship and operates a widely distributed media platform. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS formatting consistent with authentic Trump style - Terse punchy content with no grammatical polish - Evening posting (9:03 PM EDT) within plausible authentic window - No event-announcement or scheduling language suggesting Scavino authorship - Spontaneous media amplification pattern consistent with authentic posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (DNC opening night counter-programming) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Platform amplification creating follower sense of exclusive access to suppressed content - Alliance signaling with dissident media figure reinforcing in-group identity ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-25._ > Tucker Carlson operates as 'uncensored' (implicit: censored elsewhere) **MOSTLY FALSE** Carlson departed Fox News in April 2023 and subsequently launched independent programming on X (Twitter), reaching audiences freely. While Fox departure involved contractual dispute, Carlson has faced no governmental censorship and operates a widely distributed media platform. Sources: General knowledge: Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News April 2023 and subsequent X/Twitter programming Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - counter-programming (90%) - media-amplification (80%) - epistemic-closure (70%) - DNC-response (80%) - tucker-carlson (90%) - loaded-language (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **DNC Opening Triggers Day-Long Counter-Offensive, 'Coup' Rhetoric, and War-Zone Framing of Chicago** Trump spent the day counter-programming the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A post-rally high from Pennsylvania gave way to combative morning attacks once the DNC dominated the news cycle, with Harris branded a "Comrade" and "Marxist" and Chicago labeled a "war zone" to be "handled accordingly." He repeatedly called Biden's voluntary withdrawal a "vicious coup" and complained about being prosecuted "for NOTHING." A brief flash of self-pity emerged midday before the attack posture resumed. The overall mood was reactive and agitated, driven by the loss of the media spotlight to a rival political spectacle. Full digest for 2024-08-19: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 19). “TUCKER CARLSON UNCENSORED” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112985992235961840 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“TUCKER CARLSON UNCENSORED”" Truth Social, 19 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112985992235961840. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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