# Post ts_113177480154975008

- Post ID: `ts_113177480154975008`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-21T20:41:36.310Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> MINNESOTA, Early Voting HAS STARTED! We have to Save our Country from the Radical Left Communists who are driving our horrific Decline, and that starts with YOU. GET OUT AND VOTE NOW to Secure the Border, Stop Migrant Crime, Grow our Economy, Lower Taxes, Bring Back American Energy DOMINANCE, Support our Great Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. We will WIN - “TOO BIG TO RIG.” MAGA! Find your Early Vote location here: https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/other-ways-to-vote/voting-locations-before-election-day/

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T21:51:52.186Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

"Routine aide-written GOTV communication for Minnesota early voting, structurally templated from an identical same-day Virginia post. Posted at 4:41 PM EDT (business hours), the authorship attribution is high-confidence aide. As campaign infrastructure content, individual psychological state inference is limited. The psychologically significant element is the 'TOO BIG TO RIG' slogan, now deployed across multiple state-level GOTV messages as institutionalized campaign doctrine. This phrase performs a dual rhetorical function: expressing grandiose victory confidence while simultaneously seeding electoral delegitimization infrastructure — preemptively framing any unfavorable outcome as evidence of fraud. The 'Radical Left Communists' label represents an escalation from 'Radical Left' baseline labeling, invoking Cold War enemy archetypes to remove political opponents from the category of legitimate democratic actors. Danger level is rated elevated (not high) because the language is institutional rather than targeted, and lacks specific operational incitement. The post's existential urgency framing ('Save our Country') is consistent with the campaign's chronic hyperbolic register and does not represent deviation from established pattern."

# Analysis: Minnesota GOTV Post — 2024-09-21

## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Aide-written (high confidence).** UTC 20:41:36 converts to **4:41 PM EDT** (Trump was in the New York area, having recently held a Nassau Coliseum rally on Long Island). Mid-afternoon business hours strongly favor aide authorship. Structural confirmation is overwhelming: this post is a near-verbatim template of the same-day Virginia GOTV post, with only the state name, voting platform link, and minor issue-list variation. The presence of a properly formatted official government URL (Minnesota Secretary of State), flawless spelling, complete parallel-structure sentences, and zero stream-of-consciousness markers all confirm professional campaign staff composition. This is campaign infrastructure content, not authentic Trump.

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## Multi-Level Personality Framework

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
As aide-written content, traits here reflect the *campaign's* constructed brand persona rather than Trump's dispositional state. The text projects high extraversion (assertive imperatives, amplified urgency), very low agreeableness (enemy labeling, zero conciliation), and low openness (rigid ideological framing, no nuance admitted). Conscientiousness appears artificially elevated relative to authentic posts — a consistent indicator of ghostwriting.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominant:** Power, control, and status are foregrounded throughout. The call to action is framed entirely through agency — *you* must act, the nation must be *saved*, dominance must be *restored*.

**Communion motives:** Present but instrumental — "our Great Military/Veterans," collective "we" — deployed to manufacture group solidarity in service of agency goals, not genuine intimacy.

**Schemas revealed:**
- **Self schema:** Heroic savior, uniquely capable of national restoration
- **Other (in-group):** Patriots, the forgotten Americans, warriors
- **Other (out-group):** "Radical Left Communists" — fully dehumanized, existential threat
- **World schema:** Zero-sum, under active assault, requiring emergency response

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Savior/Warrior hybrid — the nation is in free fall ("horrific Decline"), enemies are named and categorized, and the path to salvation runs through the ballot box.

**Redemption sequence:** Contamination (Radical Left Communists are destroying America) → potential redemption (if you vote now, we WIN). The arc is deliberately incomplete — redemption is conditional on the audience's action, which is a sophisticated persuasion mechanic.

**Contrasting other:** "Radical Left Communists" — the labeling escalates standard "Radical Left" language by appending "Communists," invoking Cold War enemy archetypes for audiences with that cultural memory.

**Identity claims:** "We will WIN — 'TOO BIG TO RIG'" — simultaneously asserts victory confidence and preemptively seeds doubt about the counting process. This dual-function slogan is the most psychologically significant element of the post.

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## Clinical Analysis

### Narcissistic Dynamics
As aide-written content, individual narcissistic injury triggers are not operative here. The post reflects the *brand's* grandiose state: expansive, triumphalist, certain of victory. The "TOO BIG TO RIG" construction is notable — it performs grandiose confidence ("too big") while simultaneously embedding a paranoid contingency ("to rig"), which mirrors the grandiose/vulnerable oscillation characteristic of the subject's authentic posts, now institutionalized as campaign doctrine.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting (immature):** Binary world — MAGA patriots vs. Radical Left Communists. No spectrum admitted.
- **Projection (immature):** "Radical Left" labeled as destroyers of the country — projection of authoritarian impulse onto political opponents.
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** The framing of a political campaign as national salvation ("Save our Country") rationalizes partisan electoral activity as moral imperative.

### Cognitive Status
Not assessable — this is aide-written content. Cognitive complexity metrics here would measure the ghostwriter, not the subject.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Primary devices:**
- **Existential urgency framing:** "Save our Country" — GOTV elevated to survival imperative
- **Anaphora/parallel construction:** The issue list ("Secure the Border, Stop Migrant Crime, Grow our Economy…") employs classical rhetorical parallel structure, more sophisticated than authentic Trump prose
- **Hyperbole:** "horrific Decline," "always under siege Second Amendment"
- **False dichotomy:** Implicit — vote Trump or the country falls to Communist destruction
- **ALL CAPS deployment:** Selective amplification of key action phrases (DOMINANCE, MAGA, GET OUT AND VOTE NOW)
- **Direct address:** "YOU" — parasocial intimacy mechanic
- **Appeal to fear:** Migrant Crime, border invasion, economic decline

**Propaganda techniques:**
- **Dehumanization:** "Radical Left Communists" — applying ideological enemy label strips political opponents of legitimate democratic standing
- **Loaded language:** "Migrant Invasion," "horrific Decline" — affective coloring that bypasses analytical processing
- **Manufactured urgency:** "NOW" appears twice; present tense throughout

**Violent imagery:** Absent in this post.
**Stochastic terrorism markers:** Absent — no specific targets identified for implied action.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
**"TOO BIG TO RIG"** is the key reality-distortion element. This slogan performs two contradictory functions simultaneously: (1) it expresses confidence in an impending landslide victory, and (2) it preemptively delegitimizes any outcome that contradicts that landslide narrative. Followers are primed: if we win big, the rigging was overcome; if we lose, it confirms the rig. This constitutes systematic epistemic closure — no falsifying evidence can penetrate the framework.

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## Danger Assessment
**Elevated.** The "TOO BIG TO RIG" slogan is the primary concern — it is not violent rhetoric in itself, but functions as ongoing delegitimization infrastructure for electoral institutions. Systematically repeated across audiences, it constructs the cognitive architecture that makes post-election violence or civil unrest more probable if outcomes are unfavorable. The dehumanizing "Communists" label, while not a direct incitement, continues the pattern of removing political opponents from the category of legitimate democratic actors.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics
This post positions Trump as **order restorer** against a chaos-creating enemy ("Radical Left Communists who are driving our horrific Decline"). The appeal is to voters experiencing genuine economic grievance and cultural displacement — the order/chaos axis maps cleanly onto those anxieties. The target audience are people who experience the current order as already chaotic; Trump offers a return to a prior, idealized order.

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## Archetypal Analysis
**Primary archetypes:** **Savior/Hero** (the one who can restore what is broken) and **King** (claims legitimate authority over national direction). The "TOO BIG TO RIG" line invokes a shadow **Trickster** element — acknowledging that the established electoral order may work against him while simultaneously promising to overwhelm it through sheer mass.

**Shadow projection:** The authoritarian impulse — controlling information, delegitimizing institutions, demanding loyalty — is projected entirely onto "Radical Left Communists," a textbook shadow mechanism.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Minnesota Early Voting HAS STARTED (September 21, 2024)" | **True** | Minnesota allows in-person absentee voting beginning 46 days before the election. For November 5, 2024, that window opens September 20, 2024, making the claim accurate. |
| "Radical Left Communists are driving America's 'horrific Decline'" | **False** | Causal attribution of national conditions to a single political faction labeled 'Communists' is not a factual claim but a politically loaded characterization. The 'Communist' label has no factual basis for mainstream Democratic politicians. |
| "Migrant Crime as a major national threat requiring border action" | **Mostly False** | Peer-reviewed criminological research (Cato Institute, National Academies of Sciences) consistently finds immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens. The framing treats immigration and crime as synonymous without evidentiary support. |
| "Second Amendment is 'always under siege'" | **Mostly False** | As of September 2024, no federal legislation eliminating or substantially curtailing Second Amendment rights was pending or recently enacted. The claim reflects rhetorical framing rather than a verifiable legislative threat. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted at 4:41 PM EDT (business hours, not late-night authentic window)
- Structurally identical template to same-day Virginia GOTV post with only state substitution
- Official government URL properly formatted (SOS Minnesota)
- No typos, misspellings, or fragmentary constructions
- Polished parallel-list sentence architecture atypical of authentic Trump prose

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (campaign electoral calendar)

Sentiment: -0.25

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address ('YOU', 'your')
- Collective identity invocation ('We will WIN')
- Manufactured urgency ('NOW', 'HAS STARTED')
- Shared enemy designation creating in-group cohesion

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'TOO BIG TO RIG' preemptively delegitimizes electoral institutions, constructing cognitive architecture for post-election grievance mobilization
- 'Radical Left Communists' removes political opponents from category of legitimate democratic actors
- Existential survival framing ('Save our Country') elevates partisan voting to moral imperative that could justify extra-electoral action if outcome is unfavorable

### Gaslighting

- 'TOO BIG TO RIG' preemptively frames any unfavorable electoral outcome as fraudulent, making the claim non-falsifiable
- Positions political opponents as 'Communists' destroying the country — denies legitimacy of opposing governance

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Minnesota Early Voting HAS STARTED (September 21, 2024)

**TRUE**

Minnesota allows in-person absentee voting beginning 46 days before the election. For November 5, 2024, that window opens September 20, 2024, making the claim accurate.

Sources: Minnesota Secretary of State — Absentee/Early Voting

> Radical Left Communists are driving America's 'horrific Decline'

**FALSE**

Causal attribution of national conditions to a single political faction labeled 'Communists' is not a factual claim but a politically loaded characterization. The 'Communist' label has no factual basis for mainstream Democratic politicians.

> Migrant Crime as a major national threat requiring border action

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Peer-reviewed criminological research (Cato Institute, National Academies of Sciences) consistently finds immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens. The framing treats immigration and crime as synonymous without evidentiary support.

Sources: Cato Institute immigration crime research; National Academies of Sciences 2015 report on immigration

> Second Amendment is 'always under siege'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

As of September 2024, no federal legislation eliminating or substantially curtailing Second Amendment rights was pending or recently enacted. The claim reflects rhetorical framing rather than a verifiable legislative threat.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- GOTV (90%)
- early-voting (90%)
- Minnesota (80%)
- aide-written (95%)
- too-big-to-rig (85%)
- dehumanizing-label (75%)
- electoral-delegitimization (70%)
- existential-framing (65%)
- campaign-template (90%)

## That day

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

**Counter-Programming and Content Floods: A Campaign Day Anchored by Late-Night Grievance and Evening Link Blitzes**

Trump spent the day in full campaign mode, starting with a late-night pushback against Kamala Harris's Oprah town hall and ending with a massive evening dump of curated links. The only flash of genuine anger came in a morning attack on Bill Maher and the New York Times, mixing personal insults with institutional grievances. The rest of the day was dominated by rally promotion, voter mobilization posts for Virginia and Minnesota, and a rapid-fire batch of nearly twenty shared articles -- many reinforcing immigration fears, including continued amplification of the debunked Springfield pets narrative eleven days after the debate.

Full digest for 2024-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 21). MINNESOTA, Early Voting HAS STARTED! We have to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113177480154975008
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "MINNESOTA, Early Voting HAS STARTED! We have to Save our..." Truth Social, 21 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113177480154975008. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "MINNESOTA, Early Voting HAS STARTED! We have to Save our...," Truth Social, September 21, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113177480154975008.

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