# Post ts_113093407995372722 - Post ID: `ts_113093407995372722` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-07T00:20:56.960Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093407995372722 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093407995372722/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113093407995372722.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > HOW MUCH MORE YOU’RE PAYING UNDER COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > "Bidenomics is working." It's a term we're very proud of, I must tell you. Because "Bidenomics is working." It's working. "Bidenomics." [applause] "Bidenomics." [applause] And "Bidenomics is working." All of this is part of our blueprint together for what America can be. This is "Bidenomics." "Bidenomics." [applause] [laughs] [applause] That is called "Bidenomics." ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/093/407/925/510/569/original/868a2f983f217837.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,108 - Reposts: 3,411 - Replies: 755 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T03:43:56.150Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Terse pre-debate attack post deploying Cold War red-baiting ("Comrade") to frame VP Harris as an ideologically foreign economic actor responsible for consumer price pain. The post's primary clinical interest lies not in acute disturbance but in its demonstration of controlled strategic deployment of dehumanizing political language — a contrast to posts driven by reactive narcissistic rage. "Comrade" is among the stronger ideological-othering labels in Trump's campaign vocabulary, stripping Harris of American identity and recoding legitimate policy disagreement as enemy sabotage. Psychological state is grandiose and agentic: no wounded register, no victimhood. The post functions as pre-debate economic narrative priming, seeding the frame through which viewers will interpret the September 10 debate encounter. Defense mechanisms include splitting (binary economic good/evil) and projection (foreign ideological identity attributed to opponent while Trump's documented admiration for authoritarian foreign leaders goes unexamined). Authorship is likely hybrid: authentic Trump caption over aide-assembled video. Danger level is elevated — not due to violent content, but because repeated ideological dehumanization of a specific named target contributes cumulatively to a threat climate. Cognitively unremarkable; consistent with documented baseline for short economic-attack posts. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-09-07T00:20:56Z ## Overview A single-line, all-caps economic attack on VP Kamala Harris with an attached video. Posted approximately eight weeks before the presidential election and three days before the Harris-Trump debate. The textual content is minimal but rhetorically dense: the Soviet-era label "Comrade," the direct-address construction "YOU'RE PAYING," and the trailing ellipsis (implying ongoing, escalating harm) pack substantial psychological work into eleven words. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 00:20:56 — **Local (EDT, UTC−4):** 20:20 on September 6 Trump was in Charlotte, NC for the Fraternal Order of Police meeting and/or traveling back toward New York. 8:20 PM EDT is early-evening — within the plausible window for authentic Trump activity but not the classic late-night signature pattern. **Style indicators lean authentic:** ALL CAPS throughout, ellipsis trailing off, punchy imperative structure, no grammatical complexity. No event announcement or scheduling language. The attached video, however, suggests at minimum staff coordination (producing and uploading a video clip). Most likely interpretation: the caption is authentic Trump; the video was assembled with aide involvement, possibly as pre-packaged campaign content distributed across platforms. **Confidence: Medium.** Style is highly consistent with personal Trump posting; video attachment introduces ambiguity. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Low Agreeableness** (antagonism facet): "Comrade" signals contempt rather than policy disagreement; interpersonal hostility externalized to political opponent. - **High Extraversion** (assertiveness): Commanding direct address ("YOU'RE PAYING") without hedging or qualification. - **High Neuroticism** (angry hostility): ALL CAPS is a well-documented Trump marker for emotional arousal; the post shows no neutral register. - **Low Openness** (values rigidity): Binary framing — Harris = communist economic actor vs. implicit Trump = prosperity — reflects closed ideological schema. - **Low Conscientiousness** (deliberation): No evidence of careful construction; the rhetorical shortcut of "Comrade" substitutes a label for argument. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominant.** The post asserts economic causal authority: Harris is responsible for consumer pain, framing Trump as the corrective power figure. This serves the control motive by positioning Trump as the agent who *can* stop the harm (by implication). **Schema revealed:** - *Self-schema:* Implicit economic savior/protector — not named but implied by contrast. - *Other-schema:* Harris = ideological enemy acting against ordinary Americans' material interests; Soviet-era coding transforms a policy opponent into an alien threat. - *World-schema:* Zero-sum: when opponents hold power, Americans materially suffer. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Protector-of-the-people / economic avenger. The post speaks on behalf of the financially aggrieved second person ("YOU"). **Contrasting other:** "Comrade Kamala Harris" — the label performs dual work, both dehumanizing (stripping her of American identity) and invoking a Cold War villain archetype familiar to older voters. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a prior state of presumed prosperity (implicitly Trump's term) has been corrupted by Harris's ideology. **Identity claim implicit:** "I am the one who kept prices down; she is the one making you pay." **Ellipsis function:** Signals incompleteness, sustained threat — the contamination is still ongoing, still worsening. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** Moderate expression. Grandiosity is indirect (implied by contrast rather than self-praise). No explicit admiration-seeking in this post. - **Antisocial features:** Present in willingness to use demonstrably misleading causal attributions without apparent concern for factual accuracy. - **Paranoid features:** Mild. "Comrade" carries conspiratorial ideological accusation — Harris is not merely wrong but an agent of a foreign-style system. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Low in this specific post. No evident pleasure in Harris's suffering; focus is economic instrumentalization of voters' pain. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking combined with preemptive attack. With the September 10 debate three days away, this functions as pre-debate narrative priming — seeding the economic frame before the debate stage encounter. **Rage:** Absent as acute affect in this post. The post is *cold* rather than hot — controlled enough to deploy a strategic rhetorical weapon ("Comrade") rather than scatter-shot attacks. This suggests campaign-mode operation rather than reactive narcissistic rage. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (implicit). The post emanates from a position of confident authority, speaking *for* the aggrieved public rather than as a wounded party. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement (neurotic):** Economic grievances are attributed wholesale to Harris-as-individual rather than to structural/global inflationary factors. Redirects diffuse economic anxiety toward a specific, defeatable target. 2. **Splitting (immature):** Black-and-white binary — prices were presumably acceptable before, now intolerable; the cause is named as a single ideological actor. 3. **Projection (immature):** "Comrade" projects foreign-aligned ideology onto an opponent while deflecting scrutiny of Trump's own foreign entanglements. The accusation performs the disavowal. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques **"Comrade":** Red-baiting. Cold War–era label designed to activate threat schemas in older voters, strip Harris of American identity, and imply her economic policies are deliberate Marxist sabotage rather than ordinary policy disagreement. This is among the stronger dehumanization vectors in Trump's campaign vocabulary — not physical dehumanization, but ideological othering. **ALL CAPS:** Performative intensity. Signals urgency, outrage. Standard authentic-Trump arousal marker. **Direct address ("YOU'RE PAYING"):** Interpellation technique — recruits the reader as an economic victim, creating parasocial solidarity. The listener becomes participant in the grievance. **Trailing ellipsis:** Open-ended threat implication. Grammatically incomplete; rhetorically complete. Implies "…and it will get worse," extending the contamination narrative forward in time. **Hyperbole via comparison:** "HOW MUCH MORE" — the comparative without anchor invites the audience to supply their worst imaginings. **False attribution:** Treats inflation under the Biden administration as caused *by* Harris specifically and *intentionally*, laundering policy disagreement as ideological enemy action. **Stochastic terrorism assessment:** Not present. No target identification for violence, no grievance-to-action pipeline. Economic attack only. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **Complexity score:** Low, but contextually appropriate for single-line campaign slogan format. No word-finding difficulty detectable. **Baseline deviation:** None. Short ALL CAPS economic attacks are entirely consistent with Trump's documented posting baseline across 2020–2024. No phonemic or semantic paraphasia, no temporal confusion. **Perseveration:** "Comrade" framing had appeared in prior campaign messaging — consistent campaign rhetoric rather than pathological repetition. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** (not high). "Comrade" is ideological dehumanization — stripping Harris of American identity and coding her as a foreign-aligned enemy actor. In isolation this is campaign hyperbole; in aggregate across the campaign season, repeated enemy-of-the-people framing creates a climate in which extreme actors may perceive political violence as patriotic self-defense. The specific post contains no violent imagery, no mobilization call, and no explicit target. Elevated rather than high. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Prices are substantially higher under Kamala Harris" | **Half True** | Inflation did surge to 40-year highs (~9.1% CPI peak, June 2022) during the Biden-Harris administration. However, by September 2024 CPI had declined to approximately 2.5%, near the Fed's 2% target. The 'HOW MUCH MORE' framing ignores this declining trajectory. Cumulative price levels remain above pre-pandemic baseline, which is the real consumer pain point — but the framing implies ongoing acceleration rather than deceleration. | | "Harris is ideologically a 'Comrade' (i.e., communist/Marxist)" | **False** | Harris is a center-left Democratic politician with no documented Marxist policy positions. Her economic platform included standard Democratic proposals (child tax credits, housing subsidies, corporate minimum tax). 'Comrade' is a rhetorical red-baiting label with no substantive policy foundation. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary:** Warrior/Protector — fighting on behalf of the economically aggrieved. **Secondary:** Order Restorer — implicit promise that the former (Trump) order was economically sound; the current disorder is alien contamination. **Shadow projection:** "Comrade" projects the authoritarian/anti-democratic shadow onto Harris, while Trump's own documented admiration for strongmen (Putin, Orbán, Kim) remains unaddressed in the post's frame. **Mythological narrative:** The loyal citizens (real Americans) suffer under a foreign-ideological usurper. The hero-king will return to restore proper order. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Position:** Order Attacker (attacking the current "corrupt" economic order) + Order Restorer (implicit promise of return to stability). **Who gets order:** "YOU" — the interpellated everyday American consumer. **Who gets chaos attributed to them:** Harris, as the ideological agent of disorder. **Grievance intensity:** High. Economic pain is among the most potent mobilization levers; framing it as ideologically caused (rather than structural) escalates grievance from frustration to righteous anger against a named enemy. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump arousal marker - Extremely short, punchy construction with no grammatical complexity - Trailing ellipsis consistent with Trump's stream-of-consciousness incomplete-thought pattern - Posted at 8:20 PM EDT — evening window plausible for authentic posting - Attached video suggests at minimum staff coordination on media production ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Harris-Trump debate in 3 days (September 10, 2024)) Sentiment: -0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - ALL CAPS throughout single-line post — elevated arousal marker - High output day: multiple reposts, two URL shares, and this original post — consistent with elevated energy ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct second-person address ('YOU'RE PAYING') recruits reader as economic victim - Speaks on behalf of the aggrieved public, positioning Trump as their proxy voice - Ellipsis invites audience to complete the grievance narrative themselves ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Ideological dehumanization: 'Comrade' strips Harris of American identity, recoding her as a foreign-aligned enemy actor rather than a domestic political opponent - Repeated enemy-of-the-people framing across campaign season creates cumulative threat climate in which extreme actors may perceive violence as patriotic defense - False causal attribution (Harris personally caused inflation) intensifies grievance by transforming structural economic forces into deliberate enemy action **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._ > Prices are substantially higher under Kamala Harris **HALF TRUE** Inflation did surge to 40-year highs (~9.1% CPI peak, June 2022) during the Biden-Harris administration. However, by September 2024 CPI had declined to approximately 2.5%, near the Fed's 2% target. The 'HOW MUCH MORE' framing ignores this declining trajectory. Cumulative price levels remain above pre-pandemic baseline, which is the real consumer pain point — but the framing implies ongoing acceleration rather than deceleration. Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI data 2021-2024; Federal Reserve inflation tracking > Harris is ideologically a 'Comrade' (i.e., communist/Marxist) **FALSE** Harris is a center-left Democratic politician with no documented Marxist policy positions. Her economic platform included standard Democratic proposals (child tax credits, housing subsidies, corporate minimum tax). 'Comrade' is a rhetorical red-baiting label with no substantive policy foundation. Sources: Harris 2024 campaign platform documentation; Harris Senate voting record Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - red-baiting (95%) - economic-attack (90%) - dehumanization (70%) - pre-debate-priming (85%) - ALL-CAPS-arousal (80%) - splitting (75%) - projection (65%) - contamination-narrative (80%) - false-attribution (85%) - grandiose-state (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Debate Blitz Culminates in Quasi-Legal Threat to Election Workers** Trump split his day between three modes: a coordinated "Comrade Kamala" branding campaign ahead of the September 10 debate, a Wisconsin rally that fed his appetite for crowd energy, and simmering legal grievance over the Manhattan prosecution. Most of the day was strategically controlled rather than emotionally reactive, with at least five posts deploying the Cold War "Comrade" label in what appeared to be deliberate message discipline. The sharp exception came in the evening, when he posted a threatening "CEASE AND DESIST" directed at election workers, lawyers, and political operatives -- the day's most aggressive moment and a significant escalation from the otherwise measured tone. A minor but notable detail: he confidently described his role in Bloomberg's 2020 debate stage negotiations, an event he appears to have had no involvement in. Full digest for 2024-09-07: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 7). HOW MUCH MORE YOU’RE PAYING UNDER COMRADE KAMALA... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093407995372722 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "HOW MUCH MORE YOU’RE PAYING UNDER COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS…" Truth Social, 7 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113093407995372722. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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