# Post ts_113081768074873304 - Post ID: `ts_113081768074873304` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-04T23:00:45.870Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113081768074873304 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113081768074873304/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113081768074873304.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > OUR GREAT FARMERS OF AMERICA WERE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT…AND NOW THEY’RE NOT… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:33), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Our great farmers of America were making a lot of money when I was president, and now they're not. They're doing horribly. It's really hard for them to make it. Inflation is absolutely killing them. Interest rates are just absolutely a disaster for them. You vote for me. I'm saving our farmers. Our farmers are going to do like they did four years ago. They did better than they've ever done. Thank you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/081/767/654/365/071/original/f059e89c487e1c70.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,631 - Reposts: 4,647 - Replies: 1,153 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T14:36:11.466Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A brief, blunt entry in a coordinated five-post comparative campaign series on September 4, 2024, targeting farm income as an economic grievance. The post embodies Trump's Provider-King narrative identity — prosperity under his rule, decline under the adversary — via the contamination sequence (good past → degraded present, implicit redemption available at ballot box). Rhetorical mechanics are simple but efficient: ALL CAPS declaratory assertion, ellipsis-driven implied causation, possessive solidarity ("OUR GREAT FARMERS"), and antithetical contrast structure. The factual claims are materially misleading in both directions: the 2018–2019 trade war devastated farm income requiring $28B+ in emergency bailouts, and farm income was historically elevated in 2022–2023 under Biden/Harris. Coordinated posting pattern and video attachment suggest aide-executed content using Trump's verbal register, timed as counter-programming to the Harris-Biden Pittsburgh Labor Day rally. Psychologically, this reflects grandiose supply-seeking — reinforcing the economic guardian identity for rural constituencies — rather than acute injury or rage. Cognitive presentation is unremarkable; simple syntax consistent with habitual register, no markers of concern. No danger indicators present. ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 23:00:45 on September 4, 2024 converts to **7:00 PM EDT**. Per the events log, Trump was in the Eastern time zone that day (Harrisburg, PA town hall; Moms for Liberty summit in DC). 7 PM is firmly within campaign business hours, pointing toward aide-authored or aide-scheduled content. Countervailing authentic indicators: the unbroken ALL CAPS register, the trailing ellipsis (a habitual Trumpian tic deployed twice), and the blunt subject-predicate simplicity are consistent with Trump's verbal fingerprint. Most probable interpretation: Trump dictated the core utterance; aides attached the video asset and scheduled/posted it during the afternoon communications window. **Authorship score: 0.40** — aide-executed with Trump's verbal DNA. --- ## Contextual Pattern This post is one of at least five consecutive comparison posts on September 4, 2024, all following the same structural template: *[metric/constituency] flourished under Trump → collapsed under Harris*. Topics across the series: mortgage rates, personal savings, energy prices, national security, and now farm income. The tight thematic coherence and video attachment signal a coordinated campaign content push, plausibly timed as counter-programming to the Harris-Biden Pittsburgh Labor Day rally (IBEW Local #5) occurring the same day. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion**: High assertiveness; proclamatory rather than persuasive register. - **Agreeableness**: Very low; adversarial binary framing, zero acknowledgment of complexity. - **Conscientiousness**: Low deliberation; crude oversimplification of agricultural economics. - **Neuroticism**: Grievance orientation present but modulated — this is performative, not acute, distress. - **Openness**: Minimal; rigid Manichean frame imposed on a complex policy domain. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** dominate: Trump is cast as the proximate cause of farmer prosperity, reinforcing the Provider-King identity. This is pure power-through-results framing. **Communion motives** are instrumentalized: "OUR GREAT FARMERS" deploys possessive solidarity ("our") to construct in-group membership, but the substance is entirely metric-driven rather than relational. **Schema**: The leader's personal qualities directly determine national economic outcomes. Suffering under any other leader is caused by that leader's incompetence or malice, not by structural forces. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Provider-King — the ruler under whom the realm flourishes. - **Narrative sequence**: **Contamination** — a good era (Trump) degraded into a bad present (Harris), with an implicit redemption promise embedded in the contrast (vote Trump, prosperity returns). - **Identity claims**: "I am the president under whom American farmers thrived." - **Contrasting other**: Harris/Biden — unnamed but structurally present as the cause of the fall. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **State**: Grandiose — self-presented as economic savior to a key rural constituency. - **Trigger**: Supply-seeking and campaign maintenance. No acute narcissistic injury evident; this is proactive base mobilization. - **Rage**: Absent. Tone is declarative and confident, not wounded or retaliatory. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting** (immature): Stark binary — Trump era = agricultural abundance; non-Trump era = agricultural ruin. Completely erases the 2018–2019 trade war, which devastated farm income and required $28B+ in Market Facilitation Program emergency bailouts. - **Distortion** (pathological register): The erasure of causal complexity reaches the level of reality distortion — the mechanism by which "I caused the good; they caused the bad" is asserted without evidence. - **Rationalization** (neurotic): The selective memory is presented as self-evident truth requiring no argument. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **ALL CAPS throughout**: Urgency and emphasis signaling; also authentic Trumpian texture. - **Ellipsis (…) ×2**: Rhetorical pause; invites the listener to complete the implied syllogism. - **Antithetical contrast**: "WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT…AND NOW THEY'RE NOT" — clean structural opposition. - **Possessive solidarity**: "OUR GREAT FARMERS" — inclusive "our" + adulatory "GREAT" constructs affective bond between speaker and constituency. - **Post hoc ergo propter hoc**: Temporal co-occurrence (prosperity during Trump's term, decline during Harris's) asserted as causation with no mechanism specified. - **Appeal to economic anxiety**: Targeting a specific rural constituency with a direct pocketbook grievance. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Farmers were making a lot of money when Trump was president" | **Half True** | Net farm income rose to ~$119.6B in 2020 (highest since 2013), boosted significantly by COVID relief payments and commodity demand. However, 2018-2019 saw farm income collapse due to Trump's trade war with China, requiring $28B+ in Market Facilitation Program emergency bailouts — the largest farm bailout in U.S. history. The aggregate picture across the full term is mixed, not uniformly prosperous. | | "Farmers are not making money now (as of Sept 2024)" | **Mostly False** | USDA data shows net farm income reached approximately $160.5B in 2022 and ~$151B in 2023 — historically elevated levels driven by high commodity prices post-Ukraine war. Farm income was broadly strong at the time of this posting, directly contradicting the implied collapse narrative. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Danger Assessment **None.** Standard campaign economic contrast messaging targeting a key rural constituency. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, stochastic terrorism indicators, or mobilization calls. --- ## Summary A brief, blunt entry in a coordinated five-post comparative campaign series on September 4, 2024, targeting farm income as an economic grievance. The post embodies Trump's Provider-King narrative — prosperity under his rule, decline under the adversary — via the contamination sequence (good past → degraded present, implicit redemption available at ballot box). Rhetorical mechanics are simple but efficient: ALL CAPS declaratory assertion, ellipsis-driven implied causation, possessive solidarity ("OUR GREAT FARMERS"), and antithetical contrast structure. The factual claims are materially misleading: the 2018–2019 trade war devastated farm income requiring $28B+ in emergency subsidies, and farm income was historically elevated in 2022–2023. Coordinated posting pattern and video attachment suggest aide-executed content using Trump's verbal register, timed as counter-programming to the Harris-Biden Pittsburgh Labor Day rally. Psychologically, this reflects grandiose supply-seeking — reinforcing the economic guardian identity for rural constituencies — rather than acute injury or rage. Cognitive presentation is unremarkable; simple syntax is consistent with habitual register, no markers of concern. No danger indicators present. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS register throughout — authentic Trumpian texture - Double trailing ellipsis — habitual stylistic tic - Blunt subject-predicate simplicity consistent with Trump's verbal pattern - 7:00 PM EDT posting time — business hours, suggests aide scheduling - Video attachment implies pre-produced campaign content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (agricultural constituency mobilization, counter-programming to Harris-Biden Pittsburgh Labor Day rally) Sentiment: -0.25 **Mildly Hypomanic** - ALL CAPS register across entire post - Part of a rapid five-post series on a single day covering multiple economic topics - Elevated declaratory confidence without evidentiary support ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Possessive solidarity ('OUR GREAT FARMERS') creating affective bond between speaker and constituency - Implied promise: the good times can return if voters restore Trump to power ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-26._ > Farmers were making a lot of money when Trump was president **HALF TRUE** Net farm income rose to ~$119.6B in 2020 (highest since 2013), boosted significantly by COVID relief payments and commodity demand. However, 2018-2019 saw farm income collapse due to Trump's trade war with China, requiring $28B+ in Market Facilitation Program emergency bailouts — the largest farm bailout in U.S. history. The aggregate picture across the full term is mixed, not uniformly prosperous. Sources: USDA Economic Research Service net farm income data; USDA Market Facilitation Program disbursement records > Farmers are not making money now (as of Sept 2024) **MOSTLY FALSE** USDA data shows net farm income reached approximately $160.5B in 2022 and ~$151B in 2023 — historically elevated levels driven by high commodity prices post-Ukraine war. Farm income was broadly strong at the time of this posting, directly contradicting the implied collapse narrative. Sources: USDA Economic Research Service net farm income data 2022-2023 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - farm-income (90%) - economic-nostalgia (85%) - provider-king-archetype (80%) - coordinated-campaign-series (75%) - contamination-sequence (75%) - selective-memory (80%) - all-caps-register (70%) - supply-seeking (65%) - splitting-defense (70%) - rural-constituency-mobilization (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign-Mode Grandiosity Peaks as "Comrade Kamala" Branding Debuts Across 36-Post Blitz** Trump spent a busy campaign day in Pennsylvania, promoting a Hannity town hall and attending the Moms for Liberty Summit while firing off a sustained barrage of attacks against Kamala Harris. The central theme was branding Harris as "Comrade Kamala" -- a Communist label deployed across multiple rapid-fire posts, marking a clear rhetorical escalation in how he frames his opponent. He mixed in nostalgic economic claims about his presidency, a condolence for the Apalachee High School shooting, and a string of fear-focused immigration posts including one about migrants and a school bus that stood out for its intensity. The mood was overwhelmingly grandiose and combative, with only a brief flash of genuine anger over his gag order in the New York case. Full digest for 2024-09-04: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-04/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 4). OUR GREAT FARMERS OF AMERICA WERE MAKING A LOT OF... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113081768074873304 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "OUR GREAT FARMERS OF AMERICA WERE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY..." Truth Social, 4 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113081768074873304. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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