# Post ts_113013192029395548 - Post ID: `ts_113013192029395548` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-23T20:20:58.460Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113013192029395548 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113013192029395548/analysis ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/113012860677987239 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113012860677987239 (2024-08-23T18:56:42.436Z (UTC)) > Join me live in Las Vegas, Nevada at 3:15PM Eastern! #NoTaxOnTips https://rumble.com/v5bzy6r-live-president-trump-in-las-vegas-nv.html ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > (crowd cheering) (crowd cheering) ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/013/191/916/469/430/original/8666886664bd3648.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,322 - Reposts: 2,461 - Replies: 528 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.338Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T11:29:04.674Z (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 23, 2024 (20:20 UTC) ## Post Classification This post is a **self-retruth** — Trump retruthing his own earlier post (ts_113012860677987239) with a video attachment. There is no original text content to analyze beyond the RT mechanism and the attached media. Analysis is therefore necessarily limited and primarily contextual. ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** **Timing calculation:** 20:20 UTC on August 23, 2024. Trump was in Las Vegas, Nevada for a 3:15 PM ET rally (per known events). Las Vegas is PDT (UTC−7), making the local timestamp **1:20 PM Las Vegas local time** — solidly within business hours. This timing profile is consistent with staff-managed amplification of campaign content rather than authentic personal posting. **Additional indicators:** - A self-retruth is a mechanical action typically delegated to social media staff (Scavino operation) - The action functions as content amplification, not emotional expression — inconsistent with Trump's impulsive, text-heavy authentic posting style - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no reactive commentary appended — all consistent with aide management ## Contextual Embedding This post must be understood against the dense posting backdrop of August 22-23, during and immediately after Kamala Harris's DNC acceptance speech. Trump posted 50+ times during that speech in a documented real-time "fact check" tirade — that burst represents the authentic Trump psychological signature. The present RT is quieter, more instrumental, functioning as coordinated campaign messaging amplification. The surrounding posts — **"KAMALA HARRIS' MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC IN [SWING STATE]"** targeting Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina sequentially — represent a templated, geographically segmented attack campaign. This is coordinated political messaging, not spontaneous expression. The RT likely amplifies the Las Vegas rally content or one of these migrant crime posts (the linked post ID falls in the same timestamp cluster), serving the **#NoTaxOnTips** Nevada outreach simultaneously. ## Psychological Assessment (Contextual) While this specific post is analytically thin, the surrounding posting pattern warrants brief characterization: **Level 1 (Traits):** The migrant crime series reflects low agreeableness (dehumanizing framing), low neuroticism regulation (reactive volume), and high extraversion (performative dominance across multiple platforms simultaneously). **Level 2 (Motives):** Dominant agency motive — **power and status restoration** in response to the DNC's successful narrative moment. Harris's nomination represents a direct threat to Trump's dominance schema. The 50-post tirade during her speech, followed by coordinated attack amplification, reflects reactive threat-neutralization. **Level 3 (Narrative):** The "migrant crime epidemic" framing positions Trump as **order-restorer** against chaos attributed to Harris. The swing-state sequencing (PA → WI → GA → NC) is a narrative geography of electoral threat, not organic grievance expression. **Level 4 (Clinical):** The broader day's posting pattern is consistent with narcissistic injury response — Harris's successful DNC moment (a contamination event: "good" order disrupted by rival's ascension) triggering high-volume, aggressive counterprogramming. The authentic tirade posts would be the primary site for clinical assessment; this RT is downstream operational activity. ## Rhetorical Techniques The self-retruth with video is itself a rhetorical act: **authority amplification via repetition**. Retruthing one's own content signals that the original deserves elevated attention — a self-endorsement move. Combined with the swing-state migrant crime series, it participates in the **RAND Firehose model**: volume, multi-channel saturation, emotional priming around crime/threat. ## Danger Assessment **None** for this specific post. The migrant crime framing in surrounding posts uses dehumanizing categorical language ("epidemic," attributing crime waves to an ethnic/legal category) which carries elevated concern in aggregate, but this specific RT contains no extractable danger indicators. ## Summary *Not generated — post lacks clinically significant original content; it is a self-retruth with video, aide-managed during business hours, functioning as coordinated campaign amplification in the aftermath of Harris's DNC nomination. Clinical and psychological assessment is better served by the concurrent authentic tirade posts.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post time 20:20 UTC converts to 1:20 PM PDT (Las Vegas local) — squarely within business hours - Self-retruth is a mechanical amplification action typically delegated to Scavino/staff - No appended text, no typos, no ALL CAPS — inconsistent with authentic Trump posting signature - Functions as coordinated campaign content distribution, not impulsive personal expression ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Kamala Harris DNC nomination and acceptance speech (August 22-23)) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Geographic segmentation of attack messaging to target swing-state audiences by local identity - Self-retruth signals 'pay attention to this' — authority-by-repetition ## Tags - self-retruth (100%) - aide-managed (90%) - campaign-amplification (80%) - swing-state-targeting (70%) - DNC-response (70%) - video-attachment (50%) ## 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_113013192029395548 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 23 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113013192029395548. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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