# Post ts_113039938131903427 - Post ID: `ts_113039938131903427` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-28T13:42:51.592Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113039938131903427.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > THANK YOU—WAFFLE HOUSE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:22), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I want you to come home to Washington, D.C. Big booty Latinas for Trump. Every working woman for Trump. Alright, here we go. Come on, come on with it. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/039/938/058/322/700/original/bde2b70cd3bcdee8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,460 - Reposts: 3,468 - Replies: 725 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.337Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:15:45.720Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_113039938131903427 | Truth Social | 2024-08-28 ## Overview A six-word campaign-trail acknowledgment with video attachment. The post is among the lowest psychological complexity in the observable corpus—its primary analytical value is contextual and symbolic rather than intrinsic. ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.65 (leaning authentic) | Confidence: Medium** Local time in Savannah, GA (EDT, UTC−4): **09:42 AM**—technically business hours, which statistically favors aide-assisted posting. However, the post type is a real-time location acknowledgment tied to an active campaign stop, making live-dictation or direct posting plausible. The ALL CAPS register, trailing ellipsis, and em-dash are all authentic Trump stylistic signatures. Most likely: Trump is physically present at Waffle House and either posts directly or dictates to a nearby aide for immediate posting. The brevity is itself a Trump marker; aides tend toward more complete informational content. ## Personality Analysis (McAdams Multi-Level Framework) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits** In this post: - **Extraversion**: High. Public display of affection for crowd, geographic self-location. - **Agreeableness**: Elevated relative to baseline. Gratitude orientation. - **Neuroticism**: Not visible. This post is emotionally uncomplicated. - No meaningful signal on Conscientiousness or Openness in six words. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations** *Agency motives* dominate even in positive posts: "THANK YOU" positions Trump as the object of others' gratitude rather than the giver of it. The crowd thanks him by showing up; he acknowledges the transaction. Supply is harvested, not given. *Communion motives* are present but instrumental: the warmth is real-feeling but functions as audience bonding for political purposes. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity** The post instantiates the **Populist Hero** narrative in compressed form. Waffle House is not merely a restaurant; it is a cultural sigil for working-class Southern authenticity, an implicit rebuttal to any perception of Trump as a Manhattan billionaire disconnected from ordinary life. The geographic specificity (Savannah, Georgia) activates regional pride and signals active presence in an electorally relevant Southern state. The **contrasting other** is implicit: Harris at the DNC podium vs. Trump at a Waffle House counter. No elaboration needed; the image (video) carries the argument. ## Psychological State & Dynamics **State: Grandiose (mild, stable)** This is maintenance-mode narcissistic supply collection. No injury present, no paranoid content, no rage. The subject is in campaign performance mode—energized, present, positive. **Longitudinal note**: The same-day posting stream reveals sharp oscillation. Earlier posts reference "ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT ITS WORST," a retruthed legal complaint framing the Jack Smith appeal as a "political HOAX," and "FLIP-FLOPPING KAMALA." This post represents the affectively positive node in a biphasic day: reactive persecution posts alternating with warm populist displays. This oscillation pattern is consistent with prior analyses documenting rapid narcissistic state-switching, likely exacerbated by the high-stakes DNC week context. ## Defense Mechanisms None operationally evident in this post. The absence of defensive content is itself notable given the defensive hyperactivity visible in same-day posts. ## Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism**: No active features in this post (0.0–0.2 across all dimensions). **Cognitive markers**: Insufficient text to assess. Not applicable. **Hypomanic indicators**: Mild positive affect, ALL CAPS enthusiasm—consistent with campaign energy; insufficient for clinical elevation rating. ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques Minimal but symbolically efficient: - **Populist brand association**: Waffle House as working-class America synecdoche - **Direct address**: Creates parasocial warmth with both physical attendees and digital audience simultaneously - **Geographic anchoring**: Regional identity activation for Southern base - **Implicit contrast**: DNC spectacle vs. authentic diner visit—argument made by juxtaposition, not assertion No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** Routine campaign positive content. No threat signals. ## Summary Not clinically significant as a standalone post. Primary analytical value is contextual: it illustrates the rapid affective code-switching between persecuted-victim mode and triumphant-populist mode within the same posting day, consistent with documented narcissistic state oscillation under electoral stress. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS formatting is an authentic Trump signature - Ellipsis trailing ('…') is a habitual Trump stylistic tic - UTC 13:42 = 09:42 EDT in Savannah—business hours favor aide involvement in posting, but content is too brief and emotionally inflected to be aide-drafted copy - The 'THANK YOU—[LOCATION]' formula is a recurring Trump campaign-trail post pattern, seen across hundreds of rally acknowledgments - No typos or grammatical errors, but the post is too short to be diagnostic either way ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign trail stop at Waffle House, Savannah GA) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('THANK YOU') creates intimacy with both attendees and digital followers simultaneously - Geographic specificity invites regional identification and pride among Southern base ## Tags - campaign-trail (100%) - populist-signaling (90%) - maintenance-mode (80%) - southern-base-activation (70%) - narcissistic-supply-collection (60%) - affective-oscillation (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Storms and Harris Fixation Frame a Controlled Day on the Georgia Campaign Trail** Trump spent the day campaigning in Georgia, stopping at a Waffle House in Savannah and announcing transition team additions like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. The morning brought brief flashes of anger over Jack Smith's appeal to reinstate the classified documents case and the ongoing Manhattan gag order, but neither episode spiraled out of control. The dominant thread was a relentless, daylong focus on Kamala Harris -- attacking her social media numbers as fake, hammering her policy flip-flops, and blaming her for everything from farm income declines to the housing crisis. The overall mood was confident and combative, with most posts reading as routine campaign messaging rather than anything out of the ordinary. Full digest for 2024-08-28: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 28). THANK YOU—WAFFLE HOUSE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA… [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU—WAFFLE HOUSE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA…" Truth Social, 28 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "THANK YOU—WAFFLE HOUSE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA…," Truth Social, August 28, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427. ## 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_113039938131903427 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_113039938131903427 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_113039938131903427 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-28 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113039938131903427.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`._