# Post ts_113040371764450974 - Post ID: `ts_113040371764450974` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-28T15:33:08.300Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040371764450974 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040371764450974/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113040371764450974.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “HARRIS TO GIVE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH RUNNING MATE, WON’T DO SOLO—NEARLY 40 DAYS AFTER BECOMING DEM NOMINEE” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:28), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > >> This is one of the most difficult things, if you're President Trump, I can understand how he might be frustrated a little bit, because he doesn't know who he's running against. First, he really doesn't know who he's running against, because he spent about 100 million dollars running against Joe Biden. And then he raised another 200 million, and it looked like he was coasting to a victory. And then they switched out, and they said, well, don't worry about it. You got a vice president of the United States who flamed out as a candidate because of a left-wing principles, a lack of organization. They had no mission statement. They ran out of money. The whole staff turned against each other. His vice president also, just so you remember, 87% of her staff that she started with left because she wasn't reading a position paper, she was brutal to work with, berated her people nonstop, and had no sense of what she was doing. They gave her a choice when she started. Do you want to pick out five things and just work on them, or do you just want to wait for the president to assign you stuff? She goes, I'll wait for the president to assign me stuff. And then she gave up on election integrity, and she never got her feet underneath her with the borders are thing. She started to have success when it came to abortion. She loved talking about abortion and going to abortion clinics. But now that she is the candidate, the biggest surprise with me is flip-flop phobia that she's experiencing right now, but she realized how popular Trump's issues are. She's going to be asked about all this flip-flop, so we're going to go through some of those right now. But really quickly, when you do an interview with one of these candidates, they tell you the campaign says, okay, you have 30 minutes. You have 40 minutes. So having someone by her side is going to divide the time, 50% will go to him, 50% will go to her. And they have a lot of explaining to do with his stolen valor lying about his rank, with the award from the Chamber of Commerce that he did not get. And they asked him to remove it off his hand, putting it in a boy's bathroom, his progressive policies. And then she's going to have to answer, which is why the interview should be separate. Some of the policy positions that apparently the campaign says have changed since we go back to 2019, she supported the Green New Deal, which included federal jobs guarantees. But the campaign says she no longer supports a federal job guarantee at this moment. >> That's right, when it comes to energy in 2019, she endorsed a nationwide ban on oil and gas fracking. And now, according to the campaign sources who have spoken to the New York Times and others, she does not support a total ban on fracking because, and the advisors didn't say this to the New York Times, but it's because half the country loves fracking and loves that idea. >> Probably more than half because it lowers our energy costs. >> It's relaxing. You have a frack just to get away? The other thing is Senator Murphy came out over a couple of weeks ago and he goes, you know, he or she flip-flopped on fracking, I think Shannon asked. And he goes, yeah, it's gotten a lot better. >> We've done it, fracking's made progress, so now suddenly, when was the last time you fracked? >> I was fracking over the weekend, yeah, I fracked like crazy. >> Yeah, frick and frack. >> Right? I love the innovation. >> All right, so then when it comes to EVs, in 2019, she cosponsored the Zero Emissions Vehicles Act. By a certain time, she wants all of us to drive cars that are EVs. But now her campaign says that's all a lie. She supports EV mandates and that it's a lie that she does support it. When it comes to healthcare, 2019, she supported Medicare for All. Now her campaign says she will not push for Medicare for All. >> So this is a big one, right, when it comes to crime. So she ran as a progressive prosecutor looking in cash bail. But now the campaign is describing it as, describing her as a pragmatic prosecutor, taking on the predators and the fraudsters. And then this one is just incredible. I mean, I think the American people is just laughing at this point. >> In 2019, she called it the border wall, medieval in a vanity project and waste of taxpayer money. And now she says in 2024, according to the campaign, she vows to allocate millions of dollars to continue building the wall by supporting the border bill, her administration negotiated. >> And that's not surprising given the fact that Joe Biden also has said, the Republicans need to pass that thing and he would sign it. >> But you mentioned the vanity project that Kamala Harris referred to it a million times. We've got a little bit of those times. >> There's more. >> In a montage, watch this. >> On the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear. The President's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them. And he has held up the United States government and its workers around his vanity project called a wall. >> This president's medieval vanity project called a wall. >> And for him, he talks about that wall. He wants everyone to be preoccupied with his billion dollar multi-billion dollar vanity project. >> This issue is about a vanity project for this president. >> Right. >> Just keep in mind, this senator, she was Senator Harris. She co-sponsored the Zero Emissions Vehicle Act in 2019, a bill that initially proposed 100% of new cars sales to be EVs or otherwise emission free by 2040. She later campaigned during the 2020 on having all new car sales be zero emissions. So for people to say that she was not for an EV mandate, you haven't paid attention in 2020 because she never got to Iowa. She physically got to Iowa, but she never stayed around for the caucus. >> Also called the wall a terrible idea and stupid and un-American. But now all of a sudden, all the money that Donald Trump worked for to build that wall, she wants to use the rest of that money to continue building the wall. >> There was a guy on Fox and Friends first, and he said all the materials to build the wall are still not all of them, but the ones- >> You can see it. >> In his area. >> Right. >> Are on his property. He said, so after four years, they've been sitting on my property for four years. What is she gonna do? Send people out now to grab those materials. >> Tom Homan said, build it. Build it right now. Build it today. >> I just think it's an overall disservice to the American people, her not being herself. Like love or hate Donald Trump. There's some things that we wish he would do differently sometimes. Win, be disciplined. At least he's just himself. If he's gonna pick a fight, he's gonna pick a fight. If he's gonna stand and take a position on a policy, he's gonna take the position. Whoever Kamala Harris is, I think the voters deserve to know who she is. >> Right, but she does not know who she is. >> Candidate versus candidate. >> She does not know who she is. >> You can't paint us though. >> She wants to do what's necessary to win. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And then her staff is gonna run this whole thing. >> That's exactly right. >> So maybe that's why she said that stuff in 2019. Is that why she's saying this stuff now? She needs to explain the evolution, we'll get some answers tomorrow. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/040/371/453/984/573/original/26e0a961ecf3f8a0.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,514 - Reposts: 3,028 - Replies: 856 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.337Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:20:01.963Z (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 Post — 2024-08-28T15:33Z ## Authorship Attribution **Likely aide-authored or aide-curated (score: 0.30/1.0, medium confidence).** UTC 15:33 converts to **11:33 AM EDT** — Bedminster or Trump Tower territory in late August. The post has no first-person voice, no emotional punctuation, no idiosyncratic misspelling, and no signature rhetorical coda ("Sad!", "Witch Hunt!", "MAGA!"). It reads as a news headline formatted for amplification — consistent with the Scavino-style media-sharing operation. The ALL CAPS format is Trumpian but insufficient on its own to override the business-hours timestamp and complete absence of personal voice. ## Contextual Frame Posted six days after Trump's extraordinary 50+ post real-time tirade during Harris's DNC acceptance speech, this post is one node in a sustained post-convention counter-narrative campaign. Harris had just accepted the Democratic nomination on August 22, generating significant positive media coverage. The Trump apparatus was in full damage-mitigation posture, simultaneously managing the Arlington Cemetery altercation controversy and Jack Smith's 11th Circuit appeal. This post redirects audience attention toward Harris's press availability — a genuine, exploitable weakness in the Harris campaign's early rollout — and away from the Trump campaign's concurrent controversies. ## Psychological State **Narcissistic state: Grandiose (managed).** This is not reactive rage — the post carries none of the frenetic, punctuation-laden energy of Trump's DNC live-posting. Rather, it reflects a grandiose positioning maneuver: implicitly casting Trump as the open, press-accessible candidate against a hiding, dependent Harris. The choice to emphasize "won't do solo" is psychologically resonant: **dependence, weakness, and inability to stand alone are shadow projections** — attributes Trump's psychological structure cannot consciously acknowledge about itself and therefore locates in the adversary. **Trigger: Narcissistic injury via comparison.** Harris's post-DNC momentum (polling surge, positive convention coverage, historic nomination narrative) constitutes a sustained comparison-based narcissistic injury. This post is part of a systematic campaign to re-establish dominance by attacking her media record. ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature):** The attack on Harris's media avoidance is ironic given Trump's own documented selective media access — avoiding hostile press formats, declining certain interview environments, and managing his own exposure carefully. The charge of evasion is a mirror of disowned self-attributes. **Displacement (neurotic):** The Arlington Cemetery altercation (campaign staff assaulting a federal cemetery official, legally prohibited campaign activity on sacred grounds) was generating negative press simultaneously. Redirecting audience attention toward Harris's interview cadence constitutes textbook displacement — moving aggression from a threatening target (own controversy) to a manageable one (opponent's press strategy). ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Harris gave first interview with running mate rather than solo" | **Mostly True** | Harris's first post-nomination interview was indeed a joint CNN appearance with Tim Walz, conducted around August 29, 2024. She had not done a solo formal sit-down interview in the weeks following the nomination. | | "Nearly 40 days after becoming Democratic nominee" | **Mostly True** | Biden withdrew July 21, endorsing Harris; formal nomination August 22. From presumptive nominee status (July 21) to August 28 is approximately 38 days. 'Nearly 40' is a reasonable characterization. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Personality Analysis (Multi-Level) **Level 1 — Traits:** Low agreeableness (competitive contempt), low conscientiousness (reactive rather than principled critique), moderate extraversion (dominance-seeking framing). **Level 2 — Motives:** Agency motives dominant — power and status maintenance through comparative derogation of competitor. The post is designed to lower Harris's status in the audience's perception while implicitly elevating Trump's. **Level 3 — Narrative:** Trump cast implicitly as the **Warrior** (always in the arena) against Harris as the **Evader**. The archetypal Warrior defines his identity through contrast with the coward who won't face combat. The 40-day count is a rhetorical prosecutorial tool fitting the narrative of Harris-as-accountability-avoider. ## Archetypal/Order-Chaos Dynamics This post operates as **order defender** — positioning Harris as failing the democratic duty of press accountability (an inverted use of "order" norms, weaponizing journalistic access expectations against the opponent). Grievance is low-intensity and structural: Harris is not doing her democratic duty to the press. Trump implicitly claims the role of the press-accessible, transparent candidate, which is an ironic role reversal given the historical record. ## Cognitive Markers No cognitive markers assessable from this post. The headline-style format is too compressed and structurally constrained to yield meaningful language-production data. Baseline comparison not applicable here. ## Danger Assessment **None.** Standard campaign attack content targeting an opponent's press strategy. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist framing, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- *Summary omitted: post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. Routine campaign attack amplification, likely aide-curated.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - 11:33 AM EDT — business hours, consistent with aide-drafted content - No personal pronouns, no first-person voice, no emotional exclamation - Headline-style formatting suggests copy-paste or aide-composed press clip amplification - ALL CAPS consistent with Trump's stylistic preference, but absence of any personal commentary or signature rhetorical flourish reduces authenticity probability - Attached MP4 (likely a news clip) suggests a media-sharing operation typical of aide workflow ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Kamala Harris DNC momentum and media narrative) Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit invitation for followers to feel contempt for Harris's 'cowardice' - Framing Harris as hiding from scrutiny — reinforcing existing audience schema ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Harris gave first interview with running mate rather than solo **MOSTLY TRUE** Harris's first post-nomination interview was indeed a joint CNN appearance with Tim Walz, conducted around August 29, 2024. She had not done a solo formal sit-down interview in the weeks following the nomination. Sources: General knowledge of 2024 campaign events > Nearly 40 days after becoming Democratic nominee **MOSTLY TRUE** Biden withdrew July 21, endorsing Harris; formal nomination August 22. From presumptive nominee status (July 21) to August 28 is approximately 38 days. 'Nearly 40' is a reasonable characterization. Sources: General knowledge of 2024 campaign timeline Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide_authored (70%) - attack_on_harris (90%) - media_availability_critique (85%) - post_dnc_response (80%) - projection (65%) - displacement (60%) - business_hours (75%) - shadow_projection_weakness (55%) ## 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). “HARRIS TO GIVE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH RUNNING... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040371764450974 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“HARRIS TO GIVE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH RUNNING MATE, WON’T DO..." Truth Social, 28 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040371764450974. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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