# Post ts_113009441752078113 - Post ID: `ts_113009441752078113` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-23T04:27:13.764Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113009441752078113 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113009441752078113/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/113009177436070925 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113009177436070925 (2024-08-23T03:20:00.622Z (UTC)) > I’ll be going on Fox in a few minutes to discuss Marxism in America! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (10:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > >> Joining us now by phone, the 45th President of the United States, former President Donald Trump. Mr. President, thank you for joining us. You were truth-socialing along this speech. What is your first reaction to it, real time, tonight? >> Well, the biggest reaction is why didn't she do the things that she's complaining about? All of these things that she talked about, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, we're gonna do everything, but she didn't do any of it. She could have done it three and a half years ago. She could do it tonight by leaving the auditorium and going to Washington DC and closing the border. She doesn't need a bill, I didn't have a bill, I closed the border and created the safest border we've ever had in the history of our country. She could have done all of these things and she could still do them. She's got four and a half, five months left. She can go there right now. She can do all of the things, many of the things that she's talking about and complaining about. A lot of complaining. She didn't talk about China. She didn't talk about fracking. She didn't talk about crime. She didn't talk about 70% of our people are living in poverty. She didn't talk about housing, really. The trade deficit, she didn't talk about child trafficking that she's allowed to happen because she was the borders are and she presided over the weakest border in the history of our country. It's an invasion, I was there today, as you know, Brett, it's an invasion of our country taking place at our border, our southern border. It's a total invasion. And now it's starting at our northern border also through Canada. And she didn't talk about any of that because she talked, but she doesn't do it. It's no action. But you know, look, other than that, it was a nice looking room, Mr. President Martha McCallum here. She said that she hi there, she is promising middle class tax cuts. And she says that if you are elected, it will cost Americans $3,900 more a year in increased taxes. She's tying all of that to this Project 2025. That's where that number is coming from. What do you say to that? Well, she knows I have nothing to do with Project 25. They throw it out. A group of people got together. They did a thing. I haven't even seen it. I don't want to see it. I told them specifically, I don't want to see it. People know where I stand. I lower taxes. She's raising taxes. She's going to give a tax increase of four to five times what people and companies are paying right now. The country will go into a depression if they do it. She didn't talk about interest rates. I mean, the interest rates are now getting close to record rates. People can't do business. Nobody can borrow money. People can't go to the American Dream and buy a house because they can't afford the interest rate. And even if they could, the money isn't available. She didn't talk about any of that. Now, if she if she got in, look, she's a Marxist. She always was. She always will be. She's going to leave the border open. I was there today and the border patrol, as you know, gave me total endorsements and all of that. I've gotten endorsed by almost every major police group in the United States. But she is a Marxist with open borders. She's not going to have any fracking in Pennsylvania. She's going to close down the oil and gas industry. And our country is going to go bust. She didn't talk about the thirty five trillion dollars, which I was going to start paying off with liquid liquid gold that we have right under our feet. We were to start paying off debt, lowering, lowering taxes still further. And you know, she wants to raise the taxes on corporations. What they're going to do is pick up and move to another country like the pharmaceutical industry, move to Ireland and they move to other places. Many of these industries were just very their international companies. If she raises taxes like she wants to do on companies, there go those jobs. I'm more interested in the jobs than the companies. But there go those jobs and what's going to happen, Martha, they're going to pick up, they're going to move to another country, they're going to pick up and move to another country where they're going to be promised taxes at half the numbers that she's talking about. And more than that. Mr. President, on the issue of immigration, Vice President Harris, like many Democrats in this hall throughout this week, have used the bipartisan Senate bill and your efforts to lobby Republicans not to move forward with that, to use the issue in this election as part of this speech. She said she will sign that bipartisan bill. To your point, doesn't talk about executive orders that could have been launched in the beginning of the Biden administration. But how do you respond to that? And are you ready to debate Kamala Harris on September 10th, giving what you heard tonight? Well number one debate on September 4th at Fox and she turned it down because as you know, Brett, I was willing to debate with you and Martha. I was going to debate on September 4th. She turns it down and I'm willing to debate on I don't like ABC. I think ABC is probably the worst of the group, but I'm willing to do ABC. I was willing to do CNN with Joe Biden and you saw what happened there. I mean, CNN does not treat me or Republicans very good, but I was willing to do it because it was the only way I could get to debate him and ask him how that turned out. But look, I am willing to debate and I think we should do much more than one debate, but you know better than anybody. I'm ready, willing and able because I told you yes and she turned you down. And on the immigration issue? On the immigration, the it's very simple. The bill was horrible. It would have allowed millions of people to pour into our country would have been horrible. There was a horrible bill. It was a joke. She doesn't need a bill. I didn't have a bill. I closed the border. I have the safest border in the history of our country. I closed it up as president. Now she'll have to get Joe to do it, but she could probably have a lot to do with that. Right now. Joe's missing. He's on a beach in California. You know what, all she has to do or all he has to do is say, I want to close the border. The border is closed. As of now. They don't need bills. They don't want to close the border. I stood at the border today in 100 degree weather. And I will tell you, it's a dangerous place. And I was being told by Secret Service and a lot of other law enforcement, sir. It's really dangerous here. I think it's time to leave. You wouldn't believe the things that I saw at that border. She's the borders are. She wants to deny that. But she's the border. In any event, she was in charge of the border. She's the worst borders are in the history of the world. There's never been a border so unsafe as this one. 20 people, 20 million people have poured into our country, many of them from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylum and record number of parents and other countries are releasing their prisoners from their jails. They're emptying out their jails into the United States of America because of her incompetence and her bad border policies. She is a horrible, horrible person to run this country. We won't have a country if she gets elected. Let me ask you this, sir. There has been a huge appeal and momentum for women voters. She's trying to pull that the youth vote, the Hispanic vote, the black vote back in her direction polls show that she's having some success in that at this point. So what are you going to do? What's your strategy to rebuild the momentum that you had with those voters? Now, she's not having success. I'm having success. I'm doing great with the Hispanic voters. I'm doing great with black men. I'm doing great with women because women want safety. They want safety and they don't have safety when they have somebody allowing 20 million people into our country, many of them very dangerous people. No, it's only in your eyes that they have that, Martha. We're doing very well in the polls. We're leading in most of the polls and in in the swing state. We're leading in almost every one of them. Mr. President, the auto workers are voting for me because you're not going to have an auto industry if she gets elected to go into all electric cars. All electric cars are going to be made in China and you're not going to have you literally will not have an auto industry. The United auto workers ought to be ashamed of themselves. They sold the workers down the tube. Two quick things as we wrap up here, Mr. President. Tomorrow, do you expect to be endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and are you making a specific effort in Georgia to make up, if you will, with the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp? Well, I just saw Brian on a very good man. Did you ever hear of a man named Sean Hannity? And he was interviewed by Sean Hannity and he was very nice and he said he wants Trump to win and he's going to work with me 100 percent. And I think we're going to have a very good relationship with Brian Kemp. And that was on just before you people went on with that speech that we just listened to. And R.F.K. Jr.? It just it just happened. And as far as R.F.K., I've had a great relationship with him over the years. I respect him. He respects me. I have no idea if he's going to endorse me. I know he's got a news conference. We happen to be in the same state. Arizona will be in the same state, but in quite different parts of the state. But it's possible we will be meeting tomorrow and we'll be discussing it. He said, look, he was treated very unfairly by the Democrats. He would have beaten Joe Biden in a Democrat primary. I have no doubt about it. And they made it absolutely impossible for him. They made it that you have to get 60, 70 percent of the vote just to get in. And you know what? In the end, the Democrats did the same thing to Joe Biden. They threw Joe Biden out of the party. And that's why we saw a different night tonight. Mr. President, thank you so much for the time. We appreciate that large feedback. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/009/441/051/308/042/original/862375fe9a7830d1.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,988 - Reposts: 3,033 - Replies: 984 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.338Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T11:27:23.197Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This bare repost (RT + MP4) is individually unremarkable but clinically significant only as a single data point within a larger behavioral episode: a documented 50+ post volley on Truth Social during Kamala Harris's DNC acceptance speech on the night of August 22–23, 2024. Posted at approximately 12:27 AM EDT from Bedminster, NJ, it falls squarely in the authentic late-night posting window. The episode as a whole represents a textbook narcissistic rage response to a major narcissistic injury — a displaced electoral rival receiving massive national validation at a moment Trump can no longer occupy. The aggregate posting rate (50+ posts in a compressed window, past midnight) exhibits mild hypomanic behavioral markers: pressured output, reduced apparent sleep, racing topic shifts, and elevated emotional activation. Defense mechanisms operating at the episode level include acting out (direct impulsive discharge of anxiety) and splitting (Harris/DNC framed as purely malevolent Marxists with no nuance). The rhetorical strategy maps onto the RAND Firehose model: volume and speed overwhelm rather than rebut. The video content cannot be assessed without retrieval, but contextually functions as emotional counter-programming. No danger indicators are present in this specific unit. Longitudinal monitoring of posting rate as a proxy for psychological activation state is warranted. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social RT — 2024-08-23T04:27Z ## Overview This post is a bare repost (`RT: [URL]`) of Trump's own prior Truth Social content, with an attached MP4 video. In isolation, it contains no composed text and offers minimal direct rhetorical or psychological material. Its analytical significance derives entirely from **context**: it is one entry in a documented 50+ post overnight tirade Trump conducted in real time during Kamala Harris's DNC acceptance speech on the night of August 22–23, 2024. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High (0.85) — Authentic Trump** The UTC timestamp of `04:27:13` converts to approximately **12:27 AM EDT** at Bedminster, NJ (Trump's documented August residence). This falls within the deeply authentic late-night posting window (10 PM–6 AM local). The bare RT format — no composed prose, no event announcement, no professional polish — is inconsistent with aide-managed content. Most decisively, this post is embedded within a mass-posting episode of 50+ Truth Social posts in a single compressed overnight window, a behavior that is a documented signature of authentic Trump activity and operationally impossible to attribute to staff management at that hour and volume. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The salient Big Five profile activated in this episode: | Facet | Observation | |---|---| | **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility)** | Dominant driver — hyperactivated negative affect in response to rival's peak moment | | **Extraversion (Assertiveness)** | Expressed through output volume: flooding the information space rather than withdrawal | | **Agreeableness (Antagonism)** | Surrounding posts devalue Harris as "radical Marxist," show zero accommodative instinct | | **Conscientiousness** | Low deliberation evident — impulsive, reactive, no strategic pacing | | **Openness** | Rigid — surrounding posts admit no complexity about the DNC or Harris | --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant Motive: Agency/Power (0.92)** The real-time posting behavior is an assertion of relevance and dominance during a moment structurally designed to marginalize Trump (the DNC explicitly centered on his replacement with Harris as the new opponent). The posting volume functions as a refusal to be psychologically displaced. **Schema activated:** "I am the true authority; the DNC narrative must be contested in real time or it will calcify into accepted reality." **Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury via **unfavorable comparison and displacement** — Harris receiving the exact validation (crowd, speech, national broadcast) that Trump craves and from which he is now structurally excluded. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Warrior/Savior — the lone vigilant truth-teller monitoring and exposing the enemy while followers sleep - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a prior order (Trump as presumptive opponent, Biden as beatable foil) has been contaminated by Harris's rise and the DNC's energizing effect - **Identity claim:** "I am the real-time fact-checker; I am watching so you don't have to" - **Contrasting other:** Kamala Harris / "Marxist" Democrats / the DNC apparatus --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment | Component | Score | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic features | 0.85 | Grandiosity (self-appointed fact-checker of national broadcast), entitlement to dominate the information space during rival's speech | | Antisocial features | 0.40 | Disregard for norms of political engagement; flooding opponent's peak moment | | Paranoid features | 0.55 | Surrounding posts frame DNC as "gaslighting America," positioning self as target of coordinated deception | | Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.45 | Pleasure evident in the "Crazy Nancy Pelosi" and "WHERE'S HUNTER?" posts — humiliation as performance | ### Narcissistic Rage **Present. Intensity: 0.72. Proportionality: Low (0.20).** The response (50+ posts, midnight to early morning, attacking a speech in real time) is grossly disproportionate to the stimulus (a political rival giving a convention speech). The disproportionality itself is diagnostically informative — it signals that the injury is not primarily tactical (Harris giving a speech) but existential (Trump's displacement as the central figure in American political life). ### Narcissistic State: Oscillating The episode oscillates between: - **Grandiose pole:** "I am fact-checking this in real time; I am the authority" - **Vulnerable pole:** Hyperactivated posting rate suggests underlying anxiety that the DNC narrative may be successfully displacing him This oscillation within a compressed timeframe is consistent with the mixed narcissistic state described in Kernberg's later work on narcissistic pathology under threat. ### Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Acting out | Immature | Direct impulsive discharge — 50+ posts as behavioral expression of rage | | Splitting | Immature | Harris/DNC = pure evil Marxists; no nuance admitted | | Displacement | Neurotic | Specific anxiety (electoral threat from Harris) redirected into generalized attack output | ### Hypomanic Indicators (Mild) The episode-level behavioral profile warrants clinical notation: - **Pressured output:** 50+ posts in a compressed overnight window exceeds any plausible baseline - **Reduced sleep:** Midnight posting while monitoring a rival's live speech - **Racing ideation:** Rapid topic shifts (Pelosi → Fox appearance → Marxism → gaslighting → video amplification) across the post cluster - **Elevated activation:** The tone across surrounding posts is high-energy, reactive, lacking the deliberative spacing of typical political communication These indicators are **mild** and fall within the range observed in prior episodes of heightened political stress. They do not reach the threshold for a discrete hypomanic event based on this post cluster alone, but warrant longitudinal tracking. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **This specific post (bare RT + video):** The RT format contributes to the **RAND Firehose model** operating at the episode level. The technique is not the content of any single post but the **volume and velocity** of the aggregate — making it cognitively burdensome for followers to engage with Harris's speech on its own terms. Each individual post, including this RT, is a round in that sustained barrage. The MP4 attachment is the primary rhetorical instrument of this specific post. Without retrieving and viewing the video, specific techniques cannot be assessed, but contextually it functions as emotional counter-programming — a visual/auditory alternative to Harris's speech designed to occupy the same attentional space. **Propaganda techniques (episode-level):** - RAND Firehose: volume and inconsistency over substance - Reality contestation: surrounding posts pre-frame the DNC as "Marxist" and "gaslighting" before followers can form independent impressions - Parasocial co-viewing: inviting followers into Trump's real-time emotional experience, creating false intimacy --- ## Epistemic Closure **Present.** The surrounding posts admit no legitimate dimension to the DNC or Harris's candidacy. The framing ("Marxism," "gaslighting") functions as a closed epistemic system in which followers are asked to evaluate Harris's speech through Trump's pre-supplied interpretive frame rather than their own perception. This constitutes a mild **shared psychosis dynamic** — demanding acceptance of a distorted reality frame as a condition of in-group membership. --- ## Gaslighting **Not present in this specific post.** The broader episode contains gaslighting-adjacent framing ("WATCH KAMALA TRY TO GASLIGHT AMERICA") but the mechanism here is projection rather than gaslighting — Trump accuses Harris of reality manipulation while himself conducting a sustained reality-distortion campaign about her speech. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** for this specific post. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. The rage is channeled into information flooding rather than violence-adjacent rhetoric. --- ## Cognitive Status **Not assessable from this post** — no original composed text. At the episode level, the rapid topic shifts and volume are consistent with elevated activation but not with cognitive decline markers. No word-finding, paraphasia, or coherence anomalies observable across the surrounding post cluster, which, while impulsive, is internally consistent in its targeting logic. --- ## Summary Note This post is individually unremarkable — a bare repost with video at midnight, one of 50+ posts in a documented overnight tirade. Its clinical significance is entirely contextual: the episode as a whole represents one of the more extreme narcissistic rage responses documented in Trump's Truth Social record, triggered by a major narcissistic injury (rival's displacement of him as central political figure), expressed through information flooding, and marked by mild hypomanic behavioral indicators warranting longitudinal monitoring. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - Local time ~12:27 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ in August) — deep late-night window strongly consistent with authentic Trump posting - Retweet format with no composed text is consistent with impulsive amplification behavior documented in authentic posts - Part of a documented 50+ post tirade during Harris DNC speech — mass volume posting is a signature authentic pattern - No polished copy, no event announcement structure — not aide-formatted ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Kamala Harris DNC acceptance speech and Democratic National Convention) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Kamala Harris / Democratic Party - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - 50+ posts in a single overnight window constitutes pressured output well above any baseline rate - Late-night timing (12:27 AM) combined with hyperproductive posting rate is consistent with reduced sleep and elevated activation - Rapid topic shifts across the post cluster (Pelosi, Fox appearance, Marxism, Harris gaslighting, video amplification) suggest racing ideation ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 45% **Defense Mechanisms:** - acting out (immature) - displacement (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inviting followers into his real-time emotional experience of watching the DNC - Framing his mass-posting as a 'fact check' service — positioning himself as defender of truth - Use of video content to bypass text-based scrutiny and trigger emotional rather than analytical responses ## Tags - rage-posting-episode (90%) - DNC-counter-programming (85%) - narcissistic-injury (80%) - late-night-authentic (85%) - video-amplification (60%) - hypomanic-indicators (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **50+ Post Overnight Tirade During Harris DNC Speech Reveals Acute Narcissistic Crisis, Followed by Coordinated Swing-State Fear Campaign** Trump spent the day consumed by Kamala Harris's DNC acceptance speech, firing off more than 50 posts during and after her address in a marathon late-night session that stretched past 2 AM. The tone ranged from mocking commentary to genuine fury, with attacks escalating from sarcastic jabs to the claim that Harris personally caused the October 7th attack. By morning, the mood shifted to recovery mode with friendly media endorsements and aide-crafted policy messaging. The afternoon brought a coordinated series of identical posts blaming Harris for a "migrant crime epidemic" in six battleground states, followed by rally promotions as RFK Jr. endorsed Trump at an Arizona event. Full digest for 2024-08-23: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 23). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113009441752078113 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 23 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113009441752078113. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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