# Post ts_113114665666328903

- Post ID: `ts_113114665666328903`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-10T18:27:03.277Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113114665666328903
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113114665666328903/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113114665666328903.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Former Pennsylvania Steel Worker: "I would believe Donald Trump. I don't believe Harris. She's been there three and a half years and hasn't done nothing."

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:39), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The Democrats at one time were for the working man. It's not that way anymore. Today they hear promises from both sides cast in the heat of this election to revive American industry. I would believe Donald Trump. I don't believe Harris. She's been there three and a half years and has done nothing. Now all of a sudden she's going to do something. You know, I don't believe her. She's against fracking, then she's for fracking, then she's against it. So I can tell which way you're going to vote. Right here's the hat, buddy. Bit of a clue. Yeah, I'm a hunter.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/114/665/586/722/848/original/132d1006eda9f8bb.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,020
- Reposts: 3,549
- Replies: 404
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.335Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T05:42:32.945Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-09-10T18:27Z

## Context
This post appears on **debate day** — the first Harris-Trump presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia that evening. Trump was traveling or already in Philadelphia. The post is one of a cluster of pre-debate validation assets, alongside a Border Patrol endorsement and an electoral security alarm post.

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## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Aide-produced (high confidence)**

Posted at 2:27 PM Eastern — peak business hours on the highest-profile day of the campaign week. The content is a professionally produced video testimonial with a third-party quote in clean, attributed format. No typos, no caps-lock bursts, no self-referential pronoun density. This is a campaign communications asset, not Trump at his phone. The geographic targeting (Pennsylvania steel worker, Philadelphia debate site) and thematic coherence with the day's news cycle confirm deliberate staffing rather than reactive posting.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post itself is too mediated (surrogate voice) to yield reliable trait signal for Trump. What is visible through the *selection* of this content:
- **Low agreeableness** via proxy — Harris is implicitly attacked as untrustworthy and ineffective
- **High agency motivation** — the surrogate frames Trump as the competent, trustworthy actor
- No neuroticism markers in this specific post (contrast with the caps-lock electoral security post from the same day: *"DON'T LET IT HAPPEN - CLOSE IT DOWN!!!"*)

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Motive: Power/Achievement via Validation**

The post serves a pre-debate narcissistic supply function. Ahead of a high-stakes public comparison event — where Trump faces direct, real-time contrast with a rival — the campaign front-loads validation assets. The steel worker's "I would believe Donald Trump" models the desired audience identification response before the debate performance.

**Schema activation:**
- Self-schema: Trump as trustworthy, proven, competent
- Other-schema (Harris): present but ineffective ("been there three and a half years and hasn't done nothing")
- World-schema: working-class Americans are the legitimate arbiters of political trust

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role activated:** The Competent Incumbent-in-Waiting

The narrative positions Trump through the steel worker's eyes as the figure who *does things* versus Harris who *has been there* without effect. This is a contamination-by-inaction narrative about Harris ("good situation → Biden-Harris arrives → nothing gets done"), contrasted against an implicit Trump redemption arc ("things worked before → will work again").

**Contrasting other:** Kamala Harris as the passive, untrustworthy placeholder

**Identity claim (through proxy):** "Donald Trump can be believed." This is a trust-framing claim that directly anticipates the debate context where credibility is at stake.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

No acute clinical signal in this specific post. The content is too staff-mediated to read Trump's psychological state directly. However, the **surrounding posts** from the same day show greater signal:
- The all-caps electoral security post ("CLOSE IT DOWN!!!") exhibits higher emotional activation and authentic Trump markers
- The pairing of FOP endorsement + Border Patrol quote + steel worker testimonial suggests a pre-debate anxiety mitigation strategy: assembling validation stockpiles before a performance where narcissistic injury risk is elevated

**Defense mechanisms identified:**
1. **Displacement (neurotic):** The Harris critique is voiced by a surrogate, providing distance
2. **Idealization (immature):** Trump is elevated through implied contrast without specifics required

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The double negative — "hasn't done nothing" — is the key forensic detail. A professional copywriter would have cleaned it to "hasn't done anything." Its retention is almost certainly deliberate, performing working-class authenticity. This is sophisticated plain-folks technique: the grammatical imperfection *is* the persuasion.

The testimonial format is one of the oldest propaganda techniques in the WWII-era taxonomy (Bernays, Institute for Propaganda Analysis, 1937): having a respected or relatable figure deliver the message. Combined with geographic synecdoche (one steel worker = all Pennsylvania working class), the post efficiently triangulates the day's strategic messaging.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Harris has been there three and a half years" | **Mostly True** | Harris took office January 20, 2021; by September 10, 2024 = approximately 3 years 7.5 months. 'Three and a half years' is an acceptable colloquial rounding. |
| "Harris hasn't done nothing [anything] in that time" | **Unverifiable** | This is a value judgment about VP performance dependent on evaluative criteria. The double negative ('hasn't done nothing') is working-class vernacular for 'hasn't done anything.' Whether this is true depends entirely on what actions the speaker considers meaningful — not a factual claim subject to binary verification. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: None**

Standard campaign contrast content. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no target identification with implied action.

---

## Summary
*Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. Content is aide-produced campaign communications with no acute psychological signal attributable to the subject directly.*

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 18:27 UTC = ~2:27 PM Eastern Time on debate day — squarely within business hours
- Polished campaign video attached (produced media asset, not reactive typing)
- No typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness syntax
- Content is a third-party testimonial quote, a standard campaign communications format
- Geographic targeting (Pennsylvania steel worker) on debate eve suggests deliberate comms strategy

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Debate day pressure; validation-seeking ahead of high-stakes public performance)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Working-class proxy identification — 'former Pennsylvania steel worker' signals to blue-collar voters that one of their own validates Trump
- Implicit parasocial trust-building: 'I would believe Donald Trump' models the desired viewer response

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Harris has been there three and a half years

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Harris took office January 20, 2021; by September 10, 2024 = approximately 3 years 7.5 months. 'Three and a half years' is an acceptable colloquial rounding.

Sources: General knowledge — Harris inauguration date January 20, 2021

> Harris hasn't done nothing [anything] in that time

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a value judgment about VP performance dependent on evaluative criteria. The double negative ('hasn't done nothing') is working-class vernacular for 'hasn't done anything.' Whether this is true depends entirely on what actions the speaker considers meaningful — not a factual claim subject to binary verification.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- aide_produced (90%)
- testimonial_propaganda (85%)
- pre_debate_content (90%)
- pennsylvania_targeting (80%)
- supply_seeking (60%)
- plain_folks_appeal (85%)
- harris_contrast (75%)
- working_class_signaling (80%)

## That day

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

**Debate-Eve Anxiety Engine: 23 Posts Build a Preemptive Fortress Before Harris Showdown**

The entire day was consumed by preparation for the evening's presidential debate against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia. The morning started with routine endorsements, but the afternoon turned into a rapid-fire barrage of anti-Harris attacks, surrogate quotes, and media grievances — all designed to frame the narrative before a single question was asked. A brief flash of anger at Fox News for airing a Harris spokesperson, and a more intense outburst demanding a government shutdown over unfounded voter fraud claims, were the day's emotional peaks. The most concerning moment was the continued amplification of debunked claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio — a campaign that had already triggered real-world bomb threats.

Full digest for 2024-09-10: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 10). Former Pennsylvania Steel Worker: "I would... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113114665666328903
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Former Pennsylvania Steel Worker: "I would believe Donald..." Truth Social, 10 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113114665666328903. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Former Pennsylvania Steel Worker: "I would believe Donald...," Truth Social, September 10, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113114665666328903.

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