# Post ts_113094007513959977 - Post ID: `ts_113094007513959977` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-07T02:53:24.893Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113094007513959977 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113094007513959977/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113094007513959977.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS “HIDING BEHIND STAFF…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (9:57), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > We haven't heard a word from Kamala about almost any of her flipping or flopping, and the list is quite long. Electric vehicle mandates, she's the one that supported him in 2019. Banning fracking, she said it many times. Banning offshore drilling, she said that many times. Supporting a mandatory gun buyback program, I think we'd call that confiscation. Does she still support that or not? Decriminalizing illegal immigration and offering free housing and health care and education, legal driver's licenses in Minnesota from her running mate, as well as free college education? You know, does she support the border wall? She mocked Donald Trump for the border wall and said he thinks that a bunch of terrorists are going to be invading the country. Well, that's exactly what has happened. We now have unvetted Harris-Biden illegal immigrants with known terror ties in the country. We don't know where they are and they won't tell us. Does she still want to eliminate ICE or not? Does she still want reparations or not? Does she still support defund, dismantle, no bail laws, reimagining the police or not? Does she still support the bill that she sponsored in the Senate, Medicare for All, $93 trillion? Well, Medicare for All, that would be universal health care. She sponsored the bill with Bernie Sanders and it would eliminate all private health insurance. That is a basic question. Will ABC ask it? The $93 trillion Green New Deal, that would eliminate capitalism as we know it. She co-sponsored that bill in the U.S. Senate. You know, federal job guarantees and federally guaranteed healthy food and health care and day care and child care and pre-care and I mean, the list goes on and on. Take a look. There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. Assault weapons that are already in circulation, what do you do about those? Well, there are approximately $5 million to your point, Craig. We have to have a buyback program and I support a mandatory buyback program. If someone crosses over the border, it's illegal and you would decriminalize it. I would not make it a crime punishable by jail. It should be a civil enforcement issue, but not a criminal enforcement issue. His quest to build a vanity project called The Wall, this is irresponsible. It's a height of irresponsibility. Should black people get reparations? I think there has to be some form of reparations and we can discuss what that is. As president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal. I support the Medicare for All bill, I think initially co-sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders. You're also a co-sponder on it. I believe it will totally eliminate private insurance. So for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it? Well, the list and the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. Who of us has not had that situation where you got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this. Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on. Anonymous campaign aides now say Kamala suddenly no longer believes any of that. Now we saw a very different story during Kamala's one and only interview of the election, a whopping 16 minutes and 30 seconds, 29 to be exact. And she emphasized that her values have not changed. And she said it over and over again. So does Harris still want to abandon the filibuster to pass the $93 trillion green new deal? Will she decriminalize the illegal immigration and give free housing, healthcare, education, and a path to citizenship, amnesty or not? Does she stand by her tweet supporting a bail fund for the rioters and insurrectionists in the summer of 2020 or not? Does she stand by saying the rioters won't stop, shouldn't stop, and we won't stop or not? Does she still support Medicare for all the elimination of all private healthcare or not? Is she still proud of Bidenomics? We call it Bidenomics and we're proud of it. She supported it or not. Does she still support defund, reimagine ice and the police or not? Does she still want Americans to have the courage to never say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien again or not? Does she still want to tax unrealized capital gains and give Americans the largest tax increase? Not only in American history, but world history or not? Does anyone believe she's changed her position on fracking or offshore drilling because she'd lied to CNN and even CNN fact checked it. And here's a good indicator of her true beliefs of radicalism. And she just hired a far left preacher who openly preaches against individualism, AKA capitalism, and even allegedly described America as a cult and a bloodthirsty imperial beast. They just hired this person. So are Kamala's campaign aides, are they willing to lie and hide and go into the witness protection program to win an election? And will Bob Iger's ABC Disney allow them to get a pass next week? What does Harris really believe? What are real policies? You know, there is still nothing listed in terms of policy on her campaign website. Her stump speeches are long winded, feel good platitudes about freedom and joy that are meaningless and attacks on Donald Trump delivered from a prompter. The same words in every speech in a variety of fake accents, depending on the crowd. Kamala wants to be elected president, but she won't tell anybody what she really believes on anything is, is that really okay with the so-called journalists at Bob Iger, ABC, Disney, and their quote, news department democracy dies in darkness, right? Even fake news. CNN is baffled by some of Kamala's nebulous positions. Take a look. There's really no greater symbol of Trump's presidency than the wall in the way that Democrats were attacking him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies. So we looked in that ad, and if you look at it, that exact area of wall is in Sasabe or Sasabe, Arizona, and that is a portion of wall that was actually built by Donald Trump. It was built in an area where there was not previous walls, actually pretty controversial when they were building it at the time. So just to see that, and there are other issues using his wall that he built to say, look at what I did. By the way, at the DNC, I was there, wasn't liked by many, but I was there. Guess what? They had walls all over the place, preventing people from getting in, and then you needed credentials. Picture ID. I just had to show it four times to get to the studio where I needed a broadcast from. So Kamala Harris is now taking credit for a border wall built by Donald Trump after trashing and mocking that same border wall dozens of times, and now wants you all to believe she has always been in favor of a border wall. This is insane. So the question is ABC news, Disney, are they truly going to bring up these fundamental basic questions that America needs to know? Kamala Harris has played a massive role in the border crisis. In fact, she played a major role in all of the Biden Harris administrations that merit many failures on the economy. Their failure in Afghanistan, according to Kamala, she's always the last person in the room. You know, when these major policies and these decisions are being made like 13 service members dying because of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the so-called inflation reduction act, which was a massive, you know, actually a massive environmental spending bill and a bill that actually empowered the IRS to go after service workers and their tips, you know, that caused inflation to go up. Don't take my word for it. Here's Joe Biden this week saying the quiet part out loud. You know, I'm proud to announce that my, uh, my investments that through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever, and by the way, it is a 369 billion dollar bill. It's called the, we should have named it what it was, but at any rate, Kamala Harris cast a tie breaking vote in the Senate to pass this phony inflation reduction act. Make no mistake. She owns inflation and America's struggling economy and every crime committed by every illegal immigrant in this country. Since last month, job growth fell short of expectations yet again, just over 140,000 new jobs created. By the way, more jobs, over 4.4 million, uh, now created for illegal immigrants. And get this, these jobs filled by farm born workers, you know, in the country and Americans are losing jobs. And by the way, ABC, Disney, they need to be very clear about one issue. Prices are not coming down, inflation continues to rise. Prices are up well over 20% under Biden and Harris. Gas prices up well over a dollar a gallon. No end in sight. Americans are suffering every time they go to the grocery store. Every time they fill up their gas tank, they pay their electric bill. So is Kamala Harris. You know, she says on day one, I'm going to deal with inflation and immigration. Day one was January 20th, 2021, not 2025. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/094/007/069/734/963/original/cf83175f5511ca0c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,064 - Reposts: 2,764 - Replies: 438 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T03:46:24.704Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post is a compact pre-debate campaign weapon, deploying 'COMRADE' as a Cold War reactivation device to delegitimize Harris as ideologically alien and 'hiding behind staff' to attack her authenticity. Posted at ~10:53 PM EDT — authentic Trump timing — amplifying staff-developed talking points and a sourced video clip. The psychological state is grandiose, not wounded: the FOP endorsement earlier that day reinforces expansive confidence. No narcissistic rage is present; this is programmatic delegitimization. The dominant defense mechanisms are splitting and projection, the latter particularly notable — the authoritarian collectivism, loyalty demands, and concealment dynamics implied by 'COMRADE' map more empirically onto Trump's own documented patterns than onto Harris. The repeated 'COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS' branding across multiple same-day posts constitutes RAND Firehose-style meme installation: volume plus repetition to make the false label automatic in followers' cognition. The communist framing, while not violent, systematically strips Harris of legitimate American political identity — a historically dangerous rhetorical move that elevates the danger rating to 'elevated.' Cognitive status is indeterminate from this fragment; no baseline deviation is observable. The post is clinically consistent with prior baseline across all dimensions. ## Post Analysis: "COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS 'HIDING BEHIND STAFF…'" — September 7, 2024 --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC timestamp:** 2024-09-07T02:53:24.893Z **Trump's location:** Charlotte, NC (spoke at National Fraternal Order of Police meeting at Hilton, University City; earlier press conference at Trump Tower, NY). Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) applies. **Local time:** ~10:53 PM EDT on September 6 — firmly in Trump's late-night self-posting window. The timing is strongly consistent with authentic Trump authorship. The ALL CAPS register, fragmented quoted headline style, and ellipsis are hallmarks of his authentic posting pattern. However, the repeated "COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS" branding across multiple posts on this date (also in "HOW MUCH MORE YOU'RE PAYING UNDER COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS…") suggests the *talking point* was staff-developed while the *act of posting* was likely Trump's own. Confidence: **medium-high** authentic with staff-seeded messaging. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) This single-fragment post, while too brief for deep syntactic analysis, displays characteristic trait signatures: - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, declarative, dominating register. ALL CAPS functions as performative volume — a show of force. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero relational warmth; the post is a pure attack vehicle. The "COMRADE" label signals contempt and dismissal, not engagement. - **Conscientiousness (low, stylistically):** Incomplete thought (ellipsis), no structured argument, no elaboration — intentional performative aggression rather than deliberative communication. - **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility facet (elevated):** The word "COMRADE" carries decades of Cold War emotional charge; it is not analytically neutral. Its deployment here is affectively loaded. - **Openness (low):** Rigid categorical labeling ("COMRADE") with no tolerance for nuance or ideological complexity. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives (dominant):** Power and status motives drive the post. The goal is hierarchical positioning — Trump as the exposer of hidden truths, Harris as the concealed/controlled figure. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self-schema:* Vigilant truth-teller, capable of penetrating the concealment apparatus surrounding his opponent. - *Other-schema:* Harris is not a genuine political actor but a puppet figure ("hiding behind staff") managed by unseen handlers; she is also a communist threat ("COMRADE"). - *World-schema:* The political arena is a concealment operation; ordinary citizens cannot see the truth without Trump's revelation. **Communion motives (absent):** No appeal to shared humanity, no solidarity framing beyond implicit tribal in-group solidarity with post viewers. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** *Warrior-Exposer* — the one who rips back the curtain the media and the establishment have drawn. **Contamination sequence (implied):** America's political space has been contaminated by a Communist figure hiding behind manufactured accessibility — implying a fall from a previous legitimate order. **Identity claims:** Implicitly, "I am the one who will tell you what they don't want you to know." The quoted format ("HIDING BEHIND STAFF…") frames Trump as relaying suppressed truth, positioning him as the vehicle of revelation rather than its origin. **Contrasting other:** Harris is constructed as the anti-self along two axes simultaneously: (1) ideologically alien ("COMRADE" = communist/socialist, foreign to American values) and (2) personally inauthentic ("hiding" = controlled, managed, fake). **Mythological resonance:** The Trickster archetype is operative — Trump as the figure who bypasses decorum to expose what the establishment conceals. "COMRADE" is a transgressive label no mainstream media figure would apply; its use signals rule-breaking, forbidden naming. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism Assessment:** - *Narcissistic features:* Devaluation of opponent is stark and categorical. The quoted headline format performs superiority through delegitimization rather than policy contrast. Entitlement to reframe Harris's identity is implicit. - *Antisocial features:* Mild — the "COMRADE" label is a deliberate falsehood used as a weapon (deceitfulness in service of dominance). - *Paranoid features:* Moderate — "hiding behind staff" reflects a conspiratorial perception of hidden management; the opponent is not merely different but concealing something. - *Ego-syntonic sadism:* Mild — the pleasure in applying a maximally delegitimizing label ("COMRADE") with apparent relish is consistent with this feature. **Narcissistic Trigger:** *Preemptive attack* combined with *supply-seeking.* The ABC News debate (September 10) was three days away; Trump was establishing attack frames in advance. The FOP endorsement posts from the same day suggest grandiose-state energy — the "COMRADE" attacks emerge from an expansive, confident narcissistic state, not a wounded/vulnerable one. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. Multiple posts on this date share a declarative, confident attack posture. This is not reactive rage but programmatic delegitimization. **Narcissistic Rage:** Absent in this specific post. The tone is contemptuous and assured rather than wounded. Proportionality is not applicable — there is no evident immediate trigger; this is maintenance/preemptive. **Defense Mechanisms:** 1. *Projection (immature):* The "COMRADE" label projects onto Harris a set of anti-American, alien, collectivist qualities. Notably, Trump's own authoritarian tendencies (centralized control, loyalty demands, antidemocratic rhetoric) are the shadow content being disowned and attributed to the opponent. 2. *Splitting (immature):* All-bad construction of Harris — no acknowledgment of her as a complex political figure. She is entirely delegitimized across ideology ("COMRADE"), authenticity ("hiding"), and competence (implied incompetence requiring staff management). 3. *Devaluation (immature):* The post's entire function is categorical devaluation — stripping Harris of legitimate political identity. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Techniques identified:** 1. **Red-baiting / Cold War reactivation:** "COMRADE" is a precisely chosen weapon that carries visceral anti-communist affect, especially for older voters who lived through the Cold War. It activates emotional memory structures rather than rational evaluation. 2. **Ad hominem (categorical):** The attack is on Harris's ideological identity and personal authenticity — not on any policy. 3. **Quoted fragment as amplification:** The quotation marks around "HIDING BEHIND STAFF…" allow Trump to attribute the attack to a third source while simultaneously endorsing and amplifying it — a rhetorical distancing device that maintains plausible attribution ("someone said this") while fully deploying its content. 4. **Ellipsis as implication:** The trailing "…" implies more is being withheld; it creates the sensation of a deeper scandal being gestured toward. 5. **Brand repetition:** "COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS" appears across multiple posts on this date, functioning as a memetic branding campaign rather than spontaneous expression. This is RAND Firehose-adjacent — volume and repetition to install a label. 6. **ALL CAPS as performative affect:** Functions as shouting, urgency-signaling, and attention capture in the social media register. **Dehumanizing language:** Moderate. "COMRADE" does not dehumanize in the physiological sense (no "vermin/animals" language) but does *delegitimize* — stripping Harris of authentic American political identity by casting her as an agent of a foreign ideology. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Not present in this post. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present, mild-to-moderate.** The "COMRADE" label is an objective falsehood — Kamala Harris is a centrist Democrat by any empirical policy measure, not a communist. Its repeated application constitutes deliberate reality distortion: demanding that followers accept an evidently false framing as a condition of in-group membership. "Hiding behind staff" has more empirical grounding (Harris's campaign had been criticized for limited press access) but is deployed in a conspiratorial rather than factual register. **DARVO pattern:** Partially present — Harris is recast as a threat and deceiver, which deflects from Trump's own legal exposure (hush money sentencing delayed to November 26, per the known events) and the day's FOP endorsement, which was a defensive legitimacy move. --- ### Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure The "COMRADE" label functions as an epistemic closure test: followers who accept it demonstrate in-group membership by agreeing to perceive Harris through a reality-distorted lens. The repeated branding across multiple same-day posts accelerates the meme installation. Confidence: **medium.** --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment The post is too brief (a headline fragment plus media) to assess word-finding, syntactic complexity, or coherence at any meaningful level. The format is deliberately compressed — campaign sloganeering. **No cognitive deviation from baseline is detectable** in this post; the style is fully consistent with Trump's established posting register. Baseline comparison: consistent with 2019–2022 ALL CAPS posting patterns. **Complexity score: 1.5/10** — by design, not deficit. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Kamala Harris is a 'COMRADE' (i.e., communist or socialist)" | **False** | Harris's legislative record and stated policy positions reflect mainstream Democratic centrism. No credible basis for communist/socialist classification by any standard political science metric. | | "Harris is 'hiding behind staff' (i.e., avoiding direct media contact)" | **Half True** | Harris's 2024 campaign did restrict press access and interview availability during this period, drawing criticism across the political spectrum. However, 'hiding' frames a communications strategy in conspiratorial rather than factual terms, and overstates the avoidance. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Late night EDT timing (~10:53 PM) falls in authentic Trump posting window - ALL CAPS register consistent with authentic Trump style - Fragmented quoted headline format is a Trump signature - Ellipsis trailing mid-thought is authentic Trump stylistic marker - 'COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS' branding repeated across same-day posts suggests staff-developed talking point ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (ABC News debate (September 10, 2024) three days away) Sentiment: -0.82 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 38% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Revelation framing — Trump positions as the one revealing what is hidden from followers - Tribal reinforcement — 'COMRADE' activates in-group/out-group identity sorting - Epistemic closure — repeated 'COMRADE' branding demands followers accept false framing as group membership condition ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'COMRADE' label delegitimizes Harris as ideologically alien to American political participation — a historical precondition for escalation against political opponents - Repeated cross-post branding amplifies delegitimization effect beyond a single post - Communist/foreign-agent framing historically associated with heightened threat environments for designated targets - No direct incitement present, but delegitimization architecture is a predicate for more extreme rhetoric ### Gaslighting - Repeated application of objectively false 'COMRADE' label demands followers accept distortion as factual - Epistemic closure mechanism: accepting 'COMRADE' framing as a tribal loyalty signal - 'Hiding behind staff' conspiratorial framing attacks followers' capacity to interpret normal campaign communications strategy at face value ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._ > Kamala Harris is a 'COMRADE' (i.e., communist or socialist) **FALSE** Harris's legislative record and stated policy positions reflect mainstream Democratic centrism. No credible basis for communist/socialist classification by any standard political science metric. Sources: Harris Senate voting record; DW-NOMINATE ideological scoring; General knowledge of Democratic Party policy positions > Harris is 'hiding behind staff' (i.e., avoiding direct media contact) **HALF TRUE** Harris's 2024 campaign did restrict press access and interview availability during this period, drawing criticism across the political spectrum. However, 'hiding' frames a communications strategy in conspiratorial rather than factual terms, and overstates the avoidance. Sources: Pre-researched campaign events context; General knowledge of Harris campaign media strategy circa August-September 2024 Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - red-baiting (95%) - preemptive-attack (88%) - delegitimization (92%) - shadow-projection (78%) - splitting (85%) - meme-installation (82%) - epistemic-closure (75%) - grandiose-state (80%) - late-night-authentic (70%) - pre-debate-framing (90%) - staff-talking-point (72%) - trickster-archetype (68%) ## 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). COMRADE KAMALA HARRIS “HIDING BEHIND STAFF…” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113094007513959977 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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