# Post ts_113025446830880137

- Post ID: `ts_113025446830880137`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-08-26T00:17:31.884Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113025446830880137
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113025446830880137/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113025446830880137.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Polling against Kamala is looking very good. We spent all of our time, and a great deal of money, fighting Crooked Joe, then they unceremoniously dumped him and threw in an even worse person, Kamala, a Radical Left Marxist. She would destroy America, just like she did San Francisco and, indeed, California!

## Engagement

- Likes: 23,846
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.338Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:18:50.466Z (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 mid-intensity post exemplifies Trump's standard post-DNC reactive pattern: a grandiose-to-victimhood oscillation within a single short statement, functioning primarily as narcissistic self-regulation following the compound injury of Harris's nomination and convention bounce. The opening polling claim is counterfactual relative to contemporaneous data (Harris leading or tied post-DNC), suggesting denial operating at a pathological level. The pivot to resource-expenditure grievance ("all our time, a great deal of money, fighting Crooked Joe") constructs a victimhood narrative that binds followers through shared sense of unfair treatment. The closing San Francisco/California attribution is rhetorically effective but factually thin — Harris held no executive governance role in either jurisdiction. Splitting and projection dominate defensively: Biden was "Crooked Joe" (bad); Harris is "even worse, a Radical Left Marxist" (worse than bad), reflecting binary categorical thinking with escalating devaluation. No clinical markers of concern beyond the established baseline. No danger indicators. The post is part of a documented firehose campaign during DNC week (>50 posts), contributing to epistemic saturation. Authorship leans authentic based on stylistic markers but evening timing introduces mild uncertainty. Longitudinally consistent with prior attacks on Harris and the recurring "Radical Left Marxist" label deployed across multiple posts in this period.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social, 2024-08-26T00:17:31Z

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Likely authentic (confidence: medium, score: 0.68)**

Posted at **8:17 PM EDT** on August 25, 2024 — an evening hour outside the classic late-night authentic window (10 PM–6 AM) but not inconsistent with it. Trump's location was likely Mar-a-Lago or New York; either converts to EDT (UTC−4). Classic authenticators are present: the "Crooked Joe" nickname, escalating devaluation rhetoric, trailing exclamation mark, and informal asides ("and, indeed, California!") align with verified authentic post patterns. The absence of typos or ALL CAPS — and relative grammatical cleanliness — introduce mild uncertainty about possible light editorial touch.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive self-positioning ("polling is very good"), dominant framing throughout
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Peer devaluation ("even worse person"), zero communal framing
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive grievance expression, no deliberate policy argumentation
- **Neuroticism (elevated):** Grievance-laden victimhood narrative, emotional reactivity to DNC events
- **Openness (very low):** Rigid ideological labeling ("Radical Left Marxist"), no engagement with complexity

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate:** The post is oriented around control (managing the polling narrative), status (asserting competitive advantage), and power (defining the opponent's identity). Communion motives are functionally absent except for the inclusive "we" — a parasocial binding technique collapsing the Trump-follower distinction.

**Core schemas:**
- **Self:** Strategic, resourceful, victimized by rule-changes mid-game
- **Opponents:** Interchangeable radical threats, escalating in severity
- **World:** Zero-sum, adversarial, governed by unfairness toward him

**Trigger — Narcissistic Injury:** Harris's DNC nomination (August 22) and documented convention bounce represent a compound narcissistic injury: (a) the opponent Trump had invested resources attacking was removed, (b) the replacement is generating enthusiasm he is not, (c) polls do not yet support his "looking very good" framing. The post is partially self-soothing.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Resourceful-fighter-dealt-unfair-hand. Trump casts himself not as the aggressor but as the tactically agile competitor responding to bad-faith rule changes by the opposition.

**Contamination sequence:** *"We were winning the fight against Biden [good] → they cheated by swapping opponents [contamination] → now face an even worse radical [sustained threat]."* Classic contamination → rallying cry arc.

**Identity claims:**
- "I track polls and lead in them" (competence/prescience)
- "I have invested resources in this fight" (sacrifice/commitment)
- "I can identify radical threat accurately" (moral clarity)

**Contrasting other:** Harris is constructed as the maximally negative foil — not merely bad but "even worse" than the prior foil, "a Radical Left Marxist" who enacts national destruction. This escalating devaluation sequence is consistent with splitting as a core psychological defense.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment
- **Narcissistic features (0.72):** Grandiosity in polling claim; entitlement to a "fair" opponent; enemy-as-inferior framing
- **Antisocial features (0.35):** Factually thin but politically damaging attributions about Harris's record made without evident concern for accuracy
- **Paranoid features (0.42):** The switch from Biden to Harris is framed as a deliberate strategic ambush ("unceremoniously dumped him and threw in")
- **Sadism (0.25):** Low in this post; devaluation is functional rather than gleeful

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Splitting (immature):** Biden = "Crooked Joe" (bad); Harris = "even worse" — binary with escalating magnitude
2. **Denial (pathological):** "Polling is looking very good" asserts a positive reality contradicted by contemporaneous evidence (post-DNC Harris bounce)
3. **Projection (immature):** "Radical Left Marxist" label projects an extreme ideological identity onto a centrist-positioning opponent
4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Resource-expenditure grievance ("all our time, a great deal of money") constructs a logical framework to explain structural disadvantage

### Narcissistic State: Mixed Grandiose/Vulnerable
The post oscillates within a single paragraph: grandiose opening (polls look great) → vulnerable middle (resources wasted unfairly) → grandiose close (opponent will destroy America, implying I alone can stop it). This oscillation is consistent with narcissistic regulation behavior following injury.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post employs a **standard Trump tri-part rhetorical structure:**
1. **Reassurance** — polls look good (audience soothing)
2. **Grievance** — resources wasted, rules changed unfairly (victimhood binding)
3. **Threat amplification** — Harris is worse, will destroy America (fear activation)

The **San Francisco/California attribution** is the most rhetorically notable and factually problematic element. Harris served as SF District Attorney (2004–2011) — a prosecutorial role with no executive governance authority over city policy — then as California AG, then U.S. Senator. She held no executive governance role over either entity. Attributing the complex socioeconomic conditions of SF or California to her is a false equivalence, but it is spatially and emotionally vivid, inviting audiences to project images of urban decay onto the candidate.

**Propaganda techniques:** Part of a documented >50-post DNC-week barrage (firehose saturation model). "Radical Left Marxist" is a repetition-anchored label deployed across multiple posts to prime audience schema. "Destroy America" activates existential threat cognition disproportionate to evidence.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
- **Polling claim denial:** Asserts strong polling during a documented convention bounce period favoring Harris
- **Attribution revisionism:** Frames Harris as solely responsible for complex, multi-causal governance outcomes in jurisdictions where she held non-executive roles

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## Danger Assessment: None
No eliminationist language, no dehumanization of Harris as a person (attack is ideological/political), no violent imagery, no mobilization language. Standard campaign-attack register.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Polling against Kamala is looking very good" | **Mostly False** | Post-DNC polling in late August 2024 showed Harris with a documented convention bounce, leading or tied nationally and improving in key battleground states. The claim inverts the contemporaneous polling reality. |
| "She would destroy America, just like she did San Francisco and, indeed, California" | **Mostly False** | Harris served as San Francisco District Attorney (2004–2011), a prosecutorial role with no executive governance authority over city policy. As California AG she prosecuted cases. She held no executive governance role in SF or California. California's economy grew substantially during her AG tenure. The causal attribution is unsupported. |
| "They unceremoniously dumped him [Biden] and threw in an even worse person" | **Half True** | Biden did withdraw on July 21, 2024 under pressure from within the Democratic Party without a traditional primary process. 'Unceremoniously' is evaluative spin. The basic factual premise of an unusual transition is accurate; the characterization of Harris as 'worse' is opinion. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 68%)

### Indicators

- Evening post (8:17 PM EDT) — not classic late-night window but within plausible authentic range
- Classic Trump nickname 'Crooked Joe' is an authentic stylistic fingerprint
- Escalating grievance structure ('even worse person') reflects emotional reactivity consistent with DNC aftermath
- Casual comma splices and informal asides ('and, indeed, California!') match authentic stream-of-consciousness style
- Trailing exclamation mark and hyperbole align with verified authentic post patterns

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Kamala Harris DNC nomination and convention bounce)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Kamala Harris and Democratic Party establishment
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.62

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Part of documented >50-post barrage during DNC week reflecting elevated posting frequency
- Reduced deliberation evident in factually thin attribution claims
- Elevated rhetorical energy relative to baseline (multiple superlatives, exclamation punctuation)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 42%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 31%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'we' framing ('We spent all of our time') collapses distinction between Trump-as-candidate and supporter-as-fellow-victim
- Polling claim ('looking very good') offers followers a reassuring shared reality that contradicts external evidence
- Policy promise echo ('NO TAX ON TIPS' preceding post) followed immediately by fear-threat narrative creates emotional oscillation to sustain engagement

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Asserts strong polling position contradicted by contemporaneous post-DNC convention bounce data favoring Harris
- Attributes complex multi-causal governance outcomes in San Francisco and California to Harris despite her holding no executive authority in either jurisdiction

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Polling against Kamala is looking very good

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Post-DNC polling in late August 2024 showed Harris with a documented convention bounce, leading or tied nationally and improving in key battleground states. The claim inverts the contemporaneous polling reality.

Sources: General knowledge of 2024 polling averages; multiple public polling aggregators showed Harris advantage in this window

> She would destroy America, just like she did San Francisco and, indeed, California

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris served as San Francisco District Attorney (2004–2011), a prosecutorial role with no executive governance authority over city policy. As California AG she prosecuted cases. She held no executive governance role in SF or California. California's economy grew substantially during her AG tenure. The causal attribution is unsupported.

Sources: Harris public biography; California economic data

> They unceremoniously dumped him [Biden] and threw in an even worse person

**HALF TRUE**

Biden did withdraw on July 21, 2024 under pressure from within the Democratic Party without a traditional primary process. 'Unceremoniously' is evaluative spin. The basic factual premise of an unusual transition is accurate; the characterization of Harris as 'worse' is opinion.

Sources: Biden withdrawal announcement, July 21 2024

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- political-attack (90%)
- splitting (85%)
- victimhood-narrative (75%)
- polling-denial (70%)
- false-attribution (80%)
- DNC-reactive (85%)
- firehose-campaign (65%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Post-DNC Injury Processing: Harris Obsession Meets Afghanistan Anniversary Weaponization**

Trump spent the day recovering from the high of Harris's DNC acceptance speech, attacking her from every angle -- her record, her intelligence, her refusal to do interviews -- while simultaneously exploiting the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal as a political weapon. The morning brought a high-intensity post about the Abbey Gate bombing, timed to coincide with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery that would later become its own controversy when campaign staff clashed with a federal official. The evening before had included a notable rant about ABC News and the upcoming debate, complete with a mid-sentence stumble over a journalist's last name. Overall, a day of moderate volume and controlled aggression, clearly down from the 50-post meltdown during Harris's speech days earlier.

Full digest for 2024-08-26: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 26). Polling against Kamala is looking very good. We... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113025446830880137
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Polling against Kamala is looking very good. We spent all..." Truth Social, 26 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113025446830880137. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Polling against Kamala is looking very good. We spent all...," Truth Social, August 26, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113025446830880137.

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