# Post ts_113160648609518178

- Post ID: `ts_113160648609518178`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-18T21:21:07.308Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113160648609518178
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113160648609518178/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113160648609518178.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I LOVE NEW YORK—WE’RE GOING TO MAKE NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> What's your message for New York? I love New York. I always love New York. And we're going to give New York a big play. You know, I leave here, I mean you see the crowds and it's so friendly. I love New York. But New York has a lot of problems and we're going to make New York great again also. We're going to bring it back and we're going to hopefully win. I think we have a real chance of winning with hundreds of thousands of people coming from prisons and jails and from mental institutions and dumped into New York. The people don't want that. And we'll work with your mayor and your governor and we're going to do a lot of great things for New York. We want to do that and we have to bring it back. We can't let this happen to New York. It's so unfair. To have hundreds of thousands of people dumped into the city and the state, you just can't do that. No place can sustain that. Would that mean a lot to you since it's your home state? Well, I'd love to win New York. It hasn't been won in many, many decades by a Republican. But this time it should be won by, this is a Republican that loves it, that lived here for many, many years. And, you know, I'm all about New York. We have to bring New York back. And we're going to, we hopefully we're going to win New York. I mean, we're here because we want to win New York. And I think that's going to happen. Okay?

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/160/648/528/534/454/original/63745228fc9311ae.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,366
- Reposts: 3,935
- Replies: 1,015
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.334Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T10:54:20.909Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_113160648609518178 | 2024-09-18 | Truth Social

## Contextual Frame

This post was made at **17:21 EDT** on September 18, 2024, immediately following the Trump rally at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island — a high-profile event held with heightened security following the September 15 assassination attempt at his West Palm Beach golf course. The subject had just addressed a large home-state crowd while promising to win New York and restore SALT deductions. This post is the second in a same-day sequence of rally-exit posts (preceded by "WOW—THANK YOU, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK"), establishing a clear contextual frame: post-rally supply consolidation.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Mixed — likely aide-assisted (confidence: medium)**

The 17:21 EDT timestamp falls squarely within business hours, weakly favoring aide involvement. The attached video and promotional website URL suggest coordinated media deployment consistent with Scavino-style posting. However, the ALL CAPS register, emotional brevity, slogan adaptation, and lack of external attribution language are authentic Trump stylistic fingerprints. The most parsimonious interpretation is **dictated or co-authored content** — Trump's affective imprint with aide execution.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The dominant trait expression here is **extreme extraversion** — assertiveness, positive affect, and excitement-seeking at near-ceiling levels. Neuroticism is essentially absent in this post (no hostility, anxiety, or impulsivity of a negative variety). Agreeableness is briefly elevated by the love declaration — atypically warm for the subject's usual combative baseline, consistent with crowd-supplied affect elevation. Conscientiousness signals are absent; the post is maximally impulsive in form even if aide-executed in practice.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motives:** Status and power via territorial expansion of the MAGA brand into historically hostile Democratic terrain. New York functions as a conquest narrative — claiming it as winnable elevates the subject's status as a transcendent political figure not bound by conventional electoral constraints.

**Schema activation:** The subject's self-schema as universal restorer/champion is activated cleanly without threat, injury, or defensive elaboration. The "New York is broken, I will fix it" implicit frame reveals a world-schema in which decline is universal and recovery is personally authored by the subject.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

The subject casts himself as the **returning champion** of his home territory. The slogan adaptation ("Make New York Great Again") deploys his signature narrative move: absorbing local identity into the universal redemption arc. The implicit story is: *New York was great → it declined under others' stewardship → I, who love it, will restore it*. This is a classic **redemption sequence** applied at the territorial level. The contrasting other — left unstated — is Democratic governance, implicitly blamed for New York's degraded state.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The subject is flush with narcissistic supply from the rally crowd and broadcasting that supply outward. No vulnerable narcissistic elements (victimhood, persecution, wounded self-presentation) are visible.

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / post-supply consolidation. The rally crowd served as a massive admiration bolus; this post extends and amplifies that supply to the broader Truth Social audience.

**Malignant narcissism subscore:** Near-baseline for this post. Narcissistic features mildly elevated (grandiosity, entitlement implicit in promising to "fix" a major U.S. state). Antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic features absent.

**Mild hypomanic indicators:** ALL CAPS, superlative emotional declaration, post-rally affect elevation. Consistent with subject's known post-rally behavioral pattern and does not represent deviation from established baseline.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post's rhetorical efficiency is notable for its economy. Four elements do considerable persuasive work:

1. **ALL CAPS** performs emotional sincerity — the typographic equivalent of shouting with joy rather than anger (a rare variant of this subject's ALL CAPS usage, which more commonly signals hostility)
2. **Inclusive "WE'RE"** collapses the distance between subject and audience, constructing shared destiny
3. **Slogan localization** is among the subject's most consistent rhetorical habits — adapting MAGA to "Make [Location] Great Again" simultaneously flatters local identity and implies current degradation requiring the subject's intervention
4. **Love declaration** as rhetorical opener is unconventional for this subject (who more typically opens with attacks or grievances) and reflects the post-rally supply state

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** This post contains no threat vectors of any kind. It is entirely affirmative in content.

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## Longitudinal Note

This post is one of several same-day rally-exit posts forming a consistent pattern: immediate crowd acknowledgment ("WOW—THANK YOU"), followed by love/promise declaration (this post), followed by event promotion (Rumble links). This three-part post-rally communication template has been observed repeatedly across the campaign cycle. No deviation from baseline is detectable. The subject's affect appears elevated but within normal post-rally parameters given the historical context (first major New York rally, post-assassination-attempt security optics, large crowd).

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "We're going to make New York great again" | **Unverifiable** | Forward-looking campaign promise; not a verifiable factual claim. Context: Trump was polling at roughly 30–35% in New York state at this time, making an actual electoral victory extremely unlikely, but this is a campaign aspiration rather than a falsifiable fact. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS style consistent with authentic Trump posting
- Emotional directness and brevity match authentic Trump patterns
- Slogan adaptation ('Make New York Great Again') mirrors Trump's established linguistic habit of localizing MAGA brand
- Post time 17:21 EDT falls within business hours — slight indicator of aide involvement
- Website URL and attached video suggest promotional coordination typical of aide-assisted posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Nassau Coliseum rally crowd, Long Island)

Sentiment: +0.82

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS throughout entire post
- Superlative emotional declaration without qualification
- Post-rally energy amplification typical of crowd-induced affect elevation

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 12%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive pronoun 'WE'RE' collapses distance between subject and followers, creating shared destiny frame
- Direct love declaration builds parasocial intimacy at scale
- Localized slogan adaptation flatters regional identity of target audience

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> We're going to make New York great again

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Forward-looking campaign promise; not a verifiable factual claim. Context: Trump was polling at roughly 30–35% in New York state at this time, making an actual electoral victory extremely unlikely, but this is a campaign aspiration rather than a falsifiable fact.

Sources: General polling knowledge as of 2024

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- post-rally (90%)
- grandiose-state (70%)
- supply-seeking (80%)
- slogan-localization (80%)
- New York campaign (90%)
- aide-assisted (50%)
- ALL CAPS (70%)

## That day

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

**Routine Campaign Day Mixes Batch Endorsements with Debate Revisionism and Pre-Emptive Fraud Narratives**

A conventional campaign day split between a late-evening endorsement dump and afternoon rally promotion in Long Island. The most notable posts were a revisionist claim about winning the Harris debate eight days after the fact, and a heated demand that Republicans block a continuing resolution unless illegal voter registration is stopped -- a claim with no factual basis. The day was otherwise low-intensity and operationally focused, with no real rage spirals and a long overnight quiet period suggesting normal rest. Major world events, including the Fed's first rate cut in four years and a second wave of Hezbollah device explosions in Lebanon, went entirely unacknowledged.

Full digest for 2024-09-18: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 18). I LOVE NEW YORK—WE’RE GOING TO MAKE NEW YORK... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113160648609518178
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I LOVE NEW YORK—WE’RE GOING TO MAKE NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN!..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113160648609518178. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I LOVE NEW YORK—WE’RE GOING TO MAKE NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN!...," Truth Social, September 18, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113160648609518178.

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