# Post ts_113057028379429550 - Post ID: `ts_113057028379429550` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-31T14:09:08.074Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113057028379429550 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113057028379429550/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113057028379429550.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > THANK YOU, TOM HOMAN—MAGA2024! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:43), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > No, and look, this is so imperative that President Trump wins the next election, because these NGOs won't be getting billions of dollars, and these people will be sitting at an ICE bed, an ICE facility, at about $107 a night, rather than $500 a night, and they'll be deported. So you know, President Trump, look, I worked for six presidents, not with Ronald Reagan. President Trump's success on the board was unprecedented, what he did. It would even more grace than a 45-year low. It would even more grace than down 83% to 90%. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the first administration who came in office and unsecured the most secure border in my lifetime. Trump's going to win in December, we're going to secure that border and protect Americans and save lives. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/057/028/269/238/691/original/48f4ac945fbfb335.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 17,768 - Reposts: 5,580 - Replies: 1,381 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.337Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T12:23:15.684Z (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_113057028379429550 — "THANK YOU, TOM HOMAN—MAGA2024!" **August 31, 2024 | Truth Social | 10:09 AM EDT (est.)** --- ## Overview This is a seven-word caption attached to a campaign video — analytically thin by design. The post's function is operational rather than expressive: it amplifies a surrogate, rewards fealty publicly, and signals immigration enforcement as a priority axis heading into the 2024 election. No meaningful psychological state deviation is present. --- ## Authorship **Score: 0.62 (lean authentic)** | Confidence: Medium The UTC timestamp converts to approximately 10:09 AM Eastern — within aide-hours, which would normally suggest Scavino involvement. However, the post is so formulaic and minimal that it plausibly required zero aide composition. The `THANK YOU, [X]—MAGA[YEAR]` template is one of Trump's most recurrent patterns. The ALL CAPS throughout is a reliable authentic-Trump marker. Working hypothesis: Trump either typed this himself or verbally directed it in its entirety. The attached video was almost certainly produced and surfaced by the comms team, but the caption reads as his. --- ## Personality Framework Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post offers almost no trait signal beyond high extraversion (public, assertive affiliation) and notably low conscientiousness (zero elaboration). Neuroticism is absent — this is a positive-valence post with no threat perception. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominant.** The post positions Trump as patron-in-chief — dispensing recognition downward to a loyal lieutenant. This is power-motive behavior: the ability to confer public legitimacy on others is itself a dominance display. Homan's entire public identity is built around aggressive immigration enforcement and mass deportation advocacy; endorsing him is endorsing that policy posture without having to articulate it. **Supply dynamics:** Atypically, Trump is dispensing admiration rather than seeking it here. This is a relatively unusual post-type — the benefactor frame rather than the supplicant or the aggrieved. It suggests a stable grandiose state with enough surplus supply to share. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Patron-chief rewarding a loyal lieutenant - **Contrasting other:** Implicit — the open-borders Democrats, the Harris-Walz ticket - **Identity claims:** MAGA movement leader; immigration enforcement champion by proxy - **Narrative sequence:** Neutral — no redemption or contamination arc visible --- ## Clinical Indicators No clinical indicators are assessable from seven words. The post is behaviorally and linguistically unremarkable. ### Cognitive Status Sample size is insufficient for any meaningful assessment. No markers present, but absence of data is not evidence of cognitive health or impairment. ### Malignant Narcissism All four dimensions score near-zero in this post. No grandiosity, no antisocial content, no paranoia, no sadistic pleasure. This is the most prosocial post Trump routinely produces — the public affirmation of an ally. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post is a pure signal-boost mechanism. The substantive rhetorical content resides in the attached video (unanalyzed — MP4 inaccessible). The caption functions as: 1. **Amplification hook** — draws attention to the video 2. **Endorsement signal** — Trump's name attached to Homan's confers political capital 3. **In-group rallying** — MAGA2024 activates base identity No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Contextual Significance Tom Homan — Trump's former Acting ICE Director — was a prominent 2024 campaign surrogate whose public statements frequently included aggressive deportation rhetoric (promising the "largest deportation operation in American history"). This post, while bland on its face, functions as an ideological endorsement of that posture. The timing (late August 2024, amid the Arlington Cemetery controversy and the Harris-Walz campaign momentum) suggests this is part of a strategy to keep immigration enforcement front-of-mind as a contrast issue. --- ## Danger Assessment: **None** The post itself contains no danger indicators. Homan's broader rhetoric is separately documented; this post does not escalate it. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. Seven words of campaign maintenance content do not constitute a meaningful psychological document.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 62%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump posting pattern - Extremely terse, punchy construction ('THANK YOU, [NAME]—SLOGAN') matches Trump's habitual gratitude formula - Campaign slogan suffix 'MAGA2024' used as rallying signature, a routine Trump closer - UTC 14:09 = approximately 10:09 AM EDT (Washington DC / East Coast) — business hours, which nudges toward aide involvement - However, the post is so minimal and formulaic that it likely required no aide polish; could be Trump himself tapping it out ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Tom Homan campaign surrogate activity) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - in-group rallying ('MAGA2024') - loyalty display — public affirmation of ally as reward for fealty ## Tags - immigration (70%) - Tom Homan (90%) - campaign-surrogate-amplification (80%) - MAGA2024 (60%) - maintenance-post (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Arlington Cemetery Scandal Triggers Full DARVO Campaign: Seven Gold Star Families Deployed as Political Shields** Trump spent the day in damage-control mode after his campaign staff were caught physically pushing aside a federal official at Arlington National Cemetery. The evening before, he attacked Kamala Harris's CNN interview in a late-night posting session that stretched past 2 AM. By late afternoon, the real operation launched: a rapid-fire series of Gold Star family testimonial videos -- seven posts in under two hours -- designed to reframe the cemetery scandal as a story about honoring the fallen rather than violating federal law. The day's most intense moment was a sprawling attack post calling Harris a liar on seven different topics, driven by the sting of her direct criticism over the Arlington incident. Full digest for 2024-08-31: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-31/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 31). THANK YOU, TOM HOMAN—MAGA2024! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113057028379429550 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU, TOM HOMAN—MAGA2024!" Truth Social, 31 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113057028379429550. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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