# Post ts_113093088998302807 - Post ID: `ts_113093088998302807` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-06T22:59:49.454Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093088998302807 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093088998302807/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113093088998302807.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > I can’t believe the NFL is effectively getting rid of the always exciting Kick Off Return. Such an exciting part of Football. What are they doing? BEGINNING OF THE END! ## Engagement - Likes: 11,504 - Reposts: 3,245 - Replies: 1,222 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T14:54:17.114Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: NFL Kickoff Rule Change — September 6, 2024 ### Authorship Attribution Posted at **22:59 UTC = 6:59 PM Eastern** (Trump was in Charlotte, NC following the FOP address, possibly en route back). Early evening — within business hours but trailing off. The stylistic fingerprints strongly favor authentic Trump: the colloquial "I can't believe," the rhetorical question ("What are they doing?"), the ALL CAPS flourish ("BEGINNING OF THE END!"), and the run-on emotional arc are consistent with his spontaneous, reactive posting style. Aide-written content tends toward polished event promotion; this is casual and unpolished with no organizational purpose. **Assessment: Authentic Trump, likely typed on his phone in transit or at hotel.** --- ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Unsolicited public commentary on sports, enthusiastic affect, audience engagement posture. - **Agreeableness (low):** Critical, complaining; no humility or qualification. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, no nuance or research apparent; sweeping conclusions from a rule change. - **Neuroticism (moderate):** "BEGINNING OF THE END!" represents disproportionate affect — a minor institutional change triggering catastrophic framing. - **Openness (low):** Resistance to institutional change; appeal to the familiar and traditional. --- ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Agency motives** are present but attenuated here. The post functions more as **parasocial communion** — positioning Trump as a fellow fan, sharing the audience's frustration, signaling tribal membership with the sports-watching populist base. **Schemas revealed:** - Institutions (NFL) = incompetent and destructive of beloved traditions - Self = culturally attuned populist who notices and names what "they" are ruining - The "exciting" framing signals Trump's preference for spectacle, physicality, and explosive entertainment — consistent with his media aesthetics more broadly. --- ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Defender of the people's entertainment against out-of-touch institutional actors. **Contamination sequence:** The kickoff return is constructed as unambiguously good ("always exciting") being degraded by unnamed institutional decision-makers. "BEGINNING OF THE END!" makes the contamination permanent and irreversible — a micro-rehearsal of his political narrative arc (America was great, elites destroyed it, this is the end unless something changes). **Identity claims:** Cultural guardian, sports fan, common-sense arbiter of what's worth watching. **Contrasting other:** The NFL's leadership — unnamed "they" — are cast as out-of-touch executives destroying something authentic and beloved. The structure mirrors his political messaging almost exactly: diffuse powerful "they," real people being deprived, apocalyptic stakes. --- ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics:** Minimal direct narcissism here. The post is notably outward-facing rather than self-referential. This is consistent with **supply-maintenance** posting: parasocial bonding through shared grievance. The lack of self-insertion ("I know more about football than anyone") is notable and represents a lower-narcissism post than baseline. **Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose (self-appointing as cultural critic), but stable and unremarkable. **Defense mechanisms:** Mild **distortion** — overstating the rule change's impact ("effectively getting rid of") inflates the threat to support the emotional register. Low severity. **Cognitive markers:** No concerns. The post is brief but coherent, appropriately responsive to a real news event (NFL's 2024 kickoff rule overhaul). Vocabulary is simple but consistent with casual sports commentary rather than cognitive decline. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or confabulation evident. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Hyperbole:** "BEGINNING OF THE END!" — catastrophizing a procedural sports rule change. This is structurally identical to his political hyperbole but deployed in low-stakes context, revealing the pattern as habitual rather than situationally calculated. **Rhetorical question:** "What are they doing?" — implies incompetence without requiring evidence; invites audience agreement; diffuses accountability to unnamed institutional actors. **Appeal to tradition/nostalgia:** "always exciting" — the kickoff return is framed as timeless and beloved, its loss as cultural diminishment. **False stakes escalation:** A rules adjustment becomes civilizational decline within three sentences. This compression of ordinary events into existential framing is a consistent rhetorical signature. **Parasocial technique:** Sharing an unsolicited sports opinion positions Trump as an ordinary fan, not a politician — a humanity signal deployed strategically within a heavy campaign period. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The NFL is effectively getting rid of the kickoff return" | **Mostly False** | The NFL implemented a restructured kickoff format for the 2024 season — the traditional alignment was replaced with a new setup designed to reduce concussions. Kickoff returns were not eliminated but significantly restructured. The 'effectively getting rid of' framing materially overstates the change. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS emotional punctuation ('BEGINNING OF THE END!') consistent with authentic posting pattern - Rhetorical question construction ('What are they doing?') is a habitual authentic Trump form - Casual, unpolished run-on sentence structure - No organizational or promotional purpose — purely reactive commentary - 6:59 PM Eastern timing is business-adjacent but trailing into personal hours ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (NFL kickoff rule change announcement) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Unsolicited sports opinion positions Trump as ordinary fan rather than politician - Shared grievance bonding — 'I can't believe' invites audience identification - Cultural guardian framing without self-aggrandizement — unusually outward-facing post ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-26._ > The NFL is effectively getting rid of the kickoff return **MOSTLY FALSE** The NFL implemented a restructured kickoff format for the 2024 season — the traditional alignment was replaced with a new setup designed to reduce concussions. Kickoff returns were not eliminated but significantly restructured. The 'effectively getting rid of' framing materially overstates the change. Sources: NFL 2024 kickoff rule change, general knowledge Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - sports-commentary (90%) - populism (70%) - hyperbole (80%) - catastrophizing (65%) - parasocial-bonding (70%) - appeal-to-tradition (60%) - authentic-authorship (72%) - low-narcissism-post (60%) - tonal-reset (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Relief and Police Endorsement Fuel a Grandiose Day, Until Cheney's Betrayal Pierces the Armor** Trump spent most of the day celebrating two pieces of good news: his hush money sentencing being delayed until after the election, and receiving an endorsement from the Fraternal Order of Police at their Charlotte conference. He framed the sentencing delay as proof of total innocence, and flooded his feed with links and quotes amplifying the police endorsement. The mood turned sharply hostile in the evening when he learned that Dick and Liz Cheney had endorsed Kamala Harris, triggering a long, angry post demanding investigations and calling them irrelevant. Throughout the day, he repeatedly branded Harris as "Comrade Kamala" and pushed false claims about immigrants accessing Social Security and Medicare. Full digest for 2024-09-06: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-06/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 6). I can’t believe the NFL is effectively getting... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093088998302807 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I can’t believe the NFL is effectively getting rid of the..." Truth Social, 6 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093088998302807. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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