# Post ts_113137828086906875 - Post ID: `ts_113137828086906875` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-14T20:37:33.772Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113137828086906875 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113137828086906875/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113137828086906875.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:35), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -We're not gonna let China and Mexico sell cars into the United States that are gonna just take back our jobs. They're gonna have to pay 100%, maybe a 200% tariff because we don't want those cars. We want to make our own cars in our country. We'll do it better than them. Other countries that make us pay a tax to do business with them will be charged the same tax when they send their product into the United States. It will be called the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act. In other words, if China or any other country charges us a 100, 200, or 300% tax, which they actually charge, then we will charge them a 100, 200, or 300% tax in return. Right now, we charge them nothing. My message is simple -- make your product here in America and only in America. That's what we wanted. My plan is that if you open your factory in Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or anywhere else in the United States, you don't pay a tariff. You don't have to pay anything. All you have to do is pay the workers, and the workers are gonna be you. But if you move your production outside of the United States and send it back here, you will have to pay a massive tariff, and we don't even want your product even if you pay it. We are going to very quickly supercharge our country. And when I'm back in that beautiful White House, we will pass larger tax cuts for workers, and we have a special tax that here is going to do, I think, quite well. It's called No Tax on Tips. No tax on -- no tax on tips. But you see, when I announced that a long time ago, all of a sudden, she announced it, and she was met with rebuke. And, you know, they can't do it anyway because they have so much legislation and it makes sure that you pay your tax on tips, and it didn't go over too well. But we are going to do it. We'll get it done fast. You know, they said they were gonna cut the school lending when you borrow money to go to school. They were gonna cut it. They were gonna cut it down to nothing. Guess what? A big thud never happened. It never happened. You know why? Because they're all talk and no action. And you saw that the other night at the debate. She was all talk, "I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna cut tax, and then I'm gonna give you 25,000 for hours, and then I'm gonna go," you know, over and over. And I said very simply at the end of my last little statement, "Why haven't you done it? You've been there for three and a half years. Why haven't you done it? Right, Michael? Why haven't you done it, Michael? Right, Michael? Why haven't they done it?" I said, "We will leave this debate stage, which is just a waste of time anyway. I will go with you to Washington, and you can announce the closure of the border." You know, she doesn't need a bill. I didn't have a bill. I said, "We're closing the border. We closed the border." And we had the greatest chart of all time. You want to put up that chart if you can find it -- the border chart, my all-time favorite in the history of charts. Yeah, I love that chart. I'm gonna sleep with that chart. That chart saved my life. Can you believe it? Just like that. I said, "Put up the chart." I went like that to look at it. Bing! That chart -- think of it -- illegal immigration saved my life. See that? That is the most beautiful document I've ever seen. But you see the arrow on the bottom? That's when I left office. That's the lowest point in the history of our country for illegal immigrants to come in, but also drugs and everything else that was coming in bad. That point is the lowest. And then, as soon as they took over -- look, it became a rocket ship. Look at that. Like a rocket ship. And our country was destroyed. We had it under control. That's the lowest point in the history -- that was done by Border Patrol, that chart. But regardless of the numbers, I love that chart. I'm sorry. Additionally -- additionally, I will fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts. No cuts. And we will have no tax on Social Security benefits for our seniors. (Applause.) No tax on Social Security. And then we wheeled out a great one. And I actually think this is going to be fantastic for the country, as well as the worker, because a lot of people are going to be working overtime. (Applause.) And just yesterday announced that there will be no taxes on overtime. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/137/827/808/844/840/original/f38f60dc7aa15a4a.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,732 - Reposts: 4,299 - Replies: 1,234 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.334Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T08:37:03.667Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!" — 2024-09-14 ## Overview This post consists entirely of Trump's campaign slogan in ALL CAPS followed by three exclamation points, accompanied by a video attachment. It is a textbook **maintenance/supply-seeking** post with minimal analyzable content. Its psychological and rhetorical signal is almost entirely carried by the attached media rather than the text. Accordingly, this analysis carries low confidence on most dimensions and no clinically significant summary is warranted. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 20:37:33 on 2024-09-14 **Location inference:** The known events place Trump at his Las Vegas rally around this period (The Expo at World Market Center). Las Vegas is in PDT (UTC-7), placing the post at **1:37 PM local time** — mid-afternoon business hours. **Conflicting signals:** - **Aide indicators:** Business-hours timing; video attachment suggests scheduled campaign content; formulaic, complete "sentence" - **Authentic Trump indicators:** ALL CAPS throughout; triple exclamation points; characteristic exuberance; no punctuation complexity **Assessment:** The timing strongly suggests aide (Scavino) scheduling, likely as a campaign rally promotion clip. However, the stylistic markers (ALLCAPS, triple `!!!`) are consistent with Trump dictating or approving the text verbally. Classified as **probable aide-executed, Trump-approved** — a hybrid production mode commonly observed with video-attached rally posts. Confidence: medium. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Five words across a campaign slogan is an insufficient sample for meaningful trait inference. What little signal exists: - **Extraversion:** Very high — assertive, exclamatory, maximum amplitude - **Conscientiousness:** Indeterminate — no deliberation visible - **Agreeableness:** Indeterminate - **Neuroticism:** Absent in this post — no hostility or vulnerability - **Openness:** Not assessable Confidence: low (insufficient text). --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency → Power/Status maintenance.** The slogan is a pure identity consolidation act — a claim on political meaning and cultural territory. No communion motive is present. **Schema:** The post implicitly encodes the core Trump worldview: (a) America is currently *not* great, (b) only Trump can restore it, (c) this restoration is imminent and inevitable. "AGAIN" encodes a contamination-then-redemption temporal arc compressed into a single word. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Savior/Restorer — the one who will return America to its prior greatness - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — implicit loss (America's greatness was taken) followed by promised restoration - **Identity claim:** "I am the instrument of national redemption" - **Contrasting other:** Implicit — whoever currently holds power (Biden-Harris administration) is the agent of America's diminishment - **Archetypal resonance:** Pure **Hero/Savior** archetype compressed to maximum density. Also contains the **Order Restorer** pattern — the chaos of the present will be resolved by the protagonist's return The slogan's enduring power is precisely its archetypal economy: it diagnoses decline, assigns blame by implication, and promises restoration in four words. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Insufficient signal for clinical assessment** from this post in isolation. The ALL CAPS and triple exclamation marks are *normative* for Trump's posting style and do not constitute deviation from his baseline. No cognitive markers, confabulation, or temporal confusion are assessable from a four-word post. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (ambient, non-reactive). No narcissistic injury trigger is evident. This is maintenance posting, not a reactive post. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Primary technique:** *Condensation symbol* — the slogan functions as a compressed ideological container capable of absorbing the listener's own grievances and aspirations. Its vagueness is its power. **Additional techniques:** - Hyperbole via superlative ("GREAT") - Appeals to nostalgia (implicit "before" state of greatness) - ALL CAPS as tonal intensifier (graphological shouting) - Repetition/perseveration at the macro level — this slogan has appeared thousands of times; its power is partly accumulated through repetition **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators.** This is campaign boilerplate at its most elemental. --- ## Contextual Reading Posted during a period of significant stress and activity: a debate loss (per CNN polling), Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris, Springfield bomb threats triggered by Trump's own debate rhetoric, and ongoing legal attrition in Georgia. The unmodified slogan — with no reactive content — functions as a **psychological anchor and identity stabilizer** both for Trump's audience and, likely, for Trump himself. When contextual noise is high, the slogan reasserts a fixed point. The attached video (not fetched per protocol) likely contains rally footage from the Tucson or Las Vegas events, making this a standard promotional post. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No threat indicators, no target identification, no eliminationist language. --- ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS throughout — consistent with authentic Trump stylistic signature - Triple exclamation points — characteristic of Trump's personal posting style - Post timestamp at 1:37 PM PDT (Las Vegas) — business hours, consistent with aide scheduling - Video attachment suggests pre-planned, scheduled campaign content rather than spontaneous reactive post - Formulaic campaign slogan with no idiosyncratic personal content — aide-compatible ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Condensation symbol — slogan absorbs audience's personal grievances - Repetition/accumulation — slogan's power built through thousands of prior exposures - Identity consolidation — post binds audience to shared tribal identity ## Tags - campaign-slogan (100%) - maintenance-post (90%) - grandiose-state (50%) - aide-hybrid (60%) - identity-consolidation (80%) - nostalgia-appeal (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Four Days After Debate Loss, Trump Mounts a Full-Day Counter-Reality Campaign From Las Vegas** Trump spent the day in Las Vegas, still visibly stung by his debate loss to Harris earlier in the week. His morning posts were the most intense -- insisting he won the debate, calling ABC News journalists "mentally challenged people" pitted against "one person of extraordinary genius," and attacking Harris over McDonald's employment claims in all-caps rage. The afternoon shifted to a mix of grandiose credit-taking for overturning Roe v. Wade, nuclear saber-rattling about Russia, and continued amplification of Haitian immigrant grievance content -- notably while Springfield, Ohio was still receiving bomb threats linked to his own debate remarks. An out-of-character inclusivity repost from the American Hindu Coalition stood in sharp contrast to the day's overall tone, reading as transparent damage control. Full digest for 2024-09-14: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-14/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 14). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113137828086906875 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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