# Post ts_113109467117701901

- Post ID: `ts_113109467117701901`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-09T20:24:59.720Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113109467117701901
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113109467117701901/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/trump-crushing-kamala-in-cookie-war/

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,536
- Reposts: 2,006
- Replies: 257
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.335Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T04:38:12.714Z (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: Truth Social, 2024-09-09 — "Cookie War" Link Share

The post consists entirely of a hyperlink to a Todd Starnes article (originally published August 28, 2024 — **12 days prior** to this share) headlined "Trump Crushing Kamala in Cookie War." The page's own meta-description reads: *"The Democrats are losing their cookies in Pennsylvania."* This is a reference to an informal Pennsylvania bakery cookie-sales poll — a lighthearted American campaign tradition in which candidate-themed cookies are sold and tracked as a non-scientific gauge of local sentiment.

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### Authorship Attribution (High Confidence: Aide-Written)

UTC 20:24:59 converts to approximately **4:24 PM EDT**. Trump's documented schedule places him on a heavy travel day between New York (Trump Tower press conference) and Charlotte, NC (Fraternal Order of Police meeting at the Hilton). The post is a bare URL with zero original text, punctuation, reaction, or the characteristic capitalization/exclamation patterns of authentic Trump posts. Every surrounding post on this date follows the identical bare-URL pattern linking to conservative media outlets (Just the News, Townhall, Daily Wire, National Pulse, Spectator). The article itself is nearly two weeks old, eliminating the reactive/emotional overnight posting hypothesis entirely. This is a textbook **Scavino-pattern content aggregation session**: systematic curation of favorable right-media content during standard business hours for base maintenance. No authentic Trump stylometric fingerprints are detectable. Confidence: **high**.

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### Psychological Content

Despite the post being aide-written, content *selection* is psychologically informative. The piece amplifies a micro-victory narrative — Trump "crushing" a competitor — however trivial the metric. This maps onto the characteristic Trump-schema in which **all competitive domains constitute dominance hierarchies** and any win, however symbolic, is worth broadcasting. Pennsylvania targeting is strategically coherent: it is the most consequential battleground state days before the Harris debate, and the "losing their cookies in PA" framing attempts to naturalize Democratic decline as inevitable and locally validated. This is **supply-seeking/maintenance** behavior — feeding the base favorable competitive narratives to sustain enthusiasm in a high-stakes pre-debate window.

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### Rhetorical Analysis

- **"Crushing"**: dominance hyperbole disproportionate to the subject (cookie sales), but effective at projecting inevitability
- **Synecdoche**: trivial metric (bakery poll) inflated as signal of broader electoral momentum
- **Wordplay**: "losing their cookies" simultaneously means panic and literal cookie-poll defeat — double meaning naturalizes Democratic vulnerability
- **Outlet selection**: Todd Starnes occupies the reliable far-right Christian-nationalist media lane; amplifying him signals audience targeting toward evangelical and culturally conservative base voters
- **Pennsylvania emphasis**: strategic battleground-state framing embeds geographic competitiveness messaging into an apparently lighthearted post

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump-themed cookies are outselling Kamala-themed cookies at a Pennsylvania bakery" | **Unverifiable** | Article from Todd Starnes (Aug 28, 2024) references a Pennsylvania bakery cookie poll. The specific bakery and methodology are not recoverable from available metadata. Cookie-poll stories are typically accurately reported as raw sales figures, but the bakery's location, customer base, and sampling methodology are unknown. |
| "Pennsylvania cookie sales indicate Trump is 'crushing' Kamala in the state" | **Mostly False** | Bakery cookie polls have no scientific validity, suffer severe self-selection bias (customers who visit a specific bakery are not representative of the electorate), and have historically predicted outcomes unreliably. The inferential leap from cookie sales to electoral dominance is not supported by any established methodology. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- UTC 20:24:59 = ~4:24 PM EDT — standard business hours
- Bare URL with zero personal commentary or reaction text
- Article is 12 days old — no emotional/reactive impetus
- All five surrounding posts are identical bare-URL shares to conservative media
- Trump on heavy travel day (NYC → Charlotte) — unlikely to be personally posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (base maintenance / pre-debate campaign period)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 15%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victory amplification to sustain base enthusiasm
- Pennsylvania-specific targeting for geographic resonance

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._

> Trump-themed cookies are outselling Kamala-themed cookies at a Pennsylvania bakery

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Article from Todd Starnes (Aug 28, 2024) references a Pennsylvania bakery cookie poll. The specific bakery and methodology are not recoverable from available metadata. Cookie-poll stories are typically accurately reported as raw sales figures, but the bakery's location, customer base, and sampling methodology are unknown.

Sources: toddstarnes.com article metadata

> Pennsylvania cookie sales indicate Trump is 'crushing' Kamala in the state

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Bakery cookie polls have no scientific validity, suffer severe self-selection bias (customers who visit a specific bakery are not representative of the electorate), and have historically predicted outcomes unreliably. The inferential leap from cookie sales to electoral dominance is not supported by any established methodology.

Sources: General knowledge of non-scientific polling validity

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- aide-written (95%)
- content-aggregation (90%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- competitive-framing (75%)
- pennsylvania-targeting (70%)
- conservative-media-amplification (80%)
- pre-debate-period (65%)
- trivial-metric-inflation (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Pre-Debate War Room: 39-Post Barrage Targets Harris With Cold War Labels and a Dangerous Springfield Salvo**

The day before his presidential debate with Kamala Harris, Trump's team flooded Truth Social with 39 posts — mostly aide-managed article links and quote shares building an anti-Harris case across multiple fronts. The most notable original content introduced the "Comrade Kamala" label, branding Harris as a Soviet-style enemy rather than a political opponent. A post about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio stood out as the day's most dangerous moment, using dehumanizing language about a named community that would later face bomb threats and targeted harassment. Ironically, Trump endorsed marijuana legalization in Florida the same day he attacked Harris for supposedly changing her policy positions.

Full digest for 2024-09-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 9). https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/trump-crushing-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113109467117701901
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/trump-crushing-kamala-in-..." Truth Social, 9 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113109467117701901. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/trump-crushing-kamala-in-...," Truth Social, September 9, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113109467117701901.

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