# Post ts_113193911847955604 - Post ID: `ts_113193911847955604` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-24T18:20:24.049Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113193911847955604 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113193911847955604/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113193911847955604.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The centerpiece of my plan for a manufacturing renaissance will be a 15% Made in America Tax Rate, cutting the business tax from 21% to 15%, but ONLY for those who make their product in the USA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:57), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > She is offering to companies to entice them to keep jobs in America instead of shipping jobs overseas. First, she wants to listen to this. She's called the tax queen. They love her in other countries because she forces everybody out of our country into their hands. The tax queen is demanding a 33 percent tax hike on all domestic production. Now, you know, you can hate companies and all that, but they still they feel growth and they feel jobs. They feel everything you tell these companies. They don't care. They just assume being Europe. They just assume they don't care. They want to go. Best price. It's called best deal. And they're going to leave our country in droves if she does that. It's nice to say you're going to pay 33 percent more. And one day you'll read, oh, gee, so and so they just signed with China. They just signed with Germany. They just signed with Great Britain is dying to have to give you free tax. Next, she wants the largest capital gains tax in the history of our country. We've never had a tax. And then she's telling people, build your place here, but we're going to have a brand new wealth confiscation tax. So if you make money, you're going to pay us a lot. But more importantly, it's called an unrealized capital gain. You know what that is? That means that you're going to pay a capital gain even if you haven't realized it, even if you haven't sold. So a lot of people are rich, but they don't have cash. Now they're going to have to get cash because if their thing goes up in value, they have to pay a massive tax. You're going to have deterioration. You're going to have a depression. If that happens, you have a 1929 style depression. This woman is grossly incompetent, grossly incompetent. Think of it. If a company succeeds, you have to sell it to give her half the value. Half the value is going to be owned by the government. So if it's successful, you'll have to sell it because you don't have the cash. It's a huge success. You're going to make a lot of money in the future. We don't care about the future. Sell your company now and bad things happen. And nobody's by the way, nobody's tried it. It's it's a communist kind of thing. You know that you could say it's a Marxist thing if you'd like. But communists, you understand better. In addition, Kamala is shutting down power plants nationwide, causing electricity prices to soar more than one hundred percent, going up one hundred percent. They will soon be totally out of control. They already are. And businesses will flee. They're going to flee our country. If they can't get energy, they're going to flee our country and they're going to flee fast. And yet we have more energy under our feet than any other country. I call it liquid gold. We have more than Saudi Arabia. We have more liquid gold than Russia. And yet we buy we're buying oil from Venezuela. Why? And it's not really oil. It's tar. You have to melt it. And you know where they melt it. Talk about the environment. We there's only one plant in the world that can take care of it because it's really not good. It's the worst. Only one. You know where it's located. Houston, Texas. So in Houston, Texas, they clean this stuff up. And you know where the stuff goes right up there. So if you're a big believer in the environment, this is not good. But we have the best oil on Earth and we have the most clean, beautiful stuff. And we have the most. And we're going to use it. As I say, drill, baby, drill, that's what we're going to be doing, drill, baby. And very importantly, she will close down all fracking and all fossil fuel development, which will bring our country into third world status. She's going to close down all fossil fuels. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/193/911/743/166/476/original/04e9f540b08305fa.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,998 - Reposts: 3,049 - Replies: 261 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.333Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T22:51:38.873Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post is an outlier in the day's posting pattern and warrants longitudinal note. Among five same-day posts — two featuring fear-and-disgust framing around immigration, one promoting an attack film on Harris, and one deploying the "Comrade Kamala" dehumanization framing — this policy post stands apart as constructive, numeric, and relatively affect-neutral. The timing (2:20 PM ET, rally day in Savannah) and polished structure suggest aide-drafted content with Trump's stylistic sign-off. The psychological register shifts to grandiose-constructive rather than grandiose-aggressive: the protagonist here is the competent dealmaker offering a reward rather than the warrior identifying a threat. The likely trigger is the competitive supply environment created by the Harris-Oprah town hall earlier that week, which drew 300,000 viewers and positive coverage, requiring a counter-narrative that demonstrates substance. Rhetorically, the conditional structure ("ONLY for those who make their product in the USA") creates in-group/out-group distinction without explicit villainization, a comparatively restrained technique. No cognitive concerns, no danger indicators. The factual core — 21% current rate, proposed 15% conditional rate — is accurate. This post is not clinically significant in isolation but is noteworthy as a data point in the oscillation between attack and builder personas within a single day's communications strategy. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-09-24 ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.35/1.0 (primarily aide-written, Trump-reviewed) | Confidence: Medium** Posted at **14:20 Eastern time** during an active campaign day in Savannah, GA — squarely within aide-managed communications hours. The post exhibits hallmarks of professional policy drafting: a single grammatically complete sentence, precise numeric anchoring (21% → 15%), and branded policy terminology ("Made in America Tax Rate"). These features are inconsistent with organic Trump composition. However, the ALL CAPS "ONLY" and triple exclamation closing signal Trump's characteristic stylistic intervention or sign-off review. Assessment: aide-drafted policy content, Trump-approved and lightly inflected. --- ## Narrative Identity (Level 3) The protagonist here is the **Competent Dealmaker** — a constructive identity mode distinct from the Warrior and Aggrieved Victim roles dominant in same-day posts. The narrative is explicitly **redemptive**: manufacturing has declined, and Trump possesses the precise mechanism to restore it. The contrasting other is implicit — Democrats/Harris who, per a companion post the same day, "give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas." The identity claim is clean: *I have a plan; it is specific; it rewards patriotism.* --- ## Multi-Level Personality Framework ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits Salient in this post: - **High Extraversion** (assertiveness, enthusiasm via all-caps and triple exclamation) - **Low Agreeableness** (competitive, self-referential "my plan") - **Achievement facet of Conscientiousness** (specific numeric goal, policy precision) - **Low Neuroticism** (no hostility, impulsivity, or vulnerability evident) - **Low Openness** (values rigidity — nationalistic economic framework, zero acknowledgment of trade-off complexity) ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Agency/Achievement** — the post is organized around demonstrating competence and delivering a reward to in-group members - **Schema: Transactional reciprocity** — loyalty to America is rewarded with a concrete benefit; disloyalty (offshoring) is taxed. The world is organized around exchange and leverage. --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic State: Grandiose (constructive mode) The grandiosity here is expressed through competence display rather than grievance or attack. "Centerpiece of my plan" and "manufacturing renaissance" are expansive, self-aggrandizing framings, but they are disciplined and policy-directed. This is the narcissistic personality deploying its most functional face: the visionary problem-solver. ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment | Dimension | Score | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic features | 0.40 | "Centerpiece of my plan," grandiose framing | | Antisocial features | 0.10 | Minimal; implicit exclusion of offshore producers | | Paranoid features | 0.00 | Absent | | Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.00 | Absent | This post is notably low on the malignant spectrum — one of the cleaner expressions in the dataset. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The complex structural problem of deindustrialization is resolved into a clean conditional tax policy, bypassing economic complexity. - **Idealization (immature)**: "Manufacturing renaissance" is utopian language projecting an idealized outcome. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The rhetorical architecture is built on **conditional benefit** (carrot) rather than fear or threat (stick). Key techniques: - **Policy branding neologism**: "Made in America Tax Rate" — creates a named, memorable, ownable concept - **Numerical precision as authority signal**: Specific percentages (21% → 15%) imply detailed planning even without policy specifics - **In-group reward framing**: Patriots who manufacture in America receive material benefit - **Exclusive offer structure**: "ONLY" in all caps functions as both emphasis and implicit rebuke of the excluded - **Slogan as emotional punctuation**: MAGA closes by code-switching from policy mode to tribal identity mode No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. This is one of the more benign rhetorical postures in the dataset. --- ## Contextual Interpretation The day's posting pattern is internally incoherent unless read as strategic: two immigration fear/disgust posts, one attack film promotion, one "Comrade Kamala" dehumanization post, and this constructive policy post. The likely strategic logic: the Harris-Oprah "Unite for America" town hall earlier that week (300,000 viewers, positive press) created competitive pressure requiring a counter-narrative with substantive policy content. This post is the answer — a positive economic vision rather than a pure attack, targeted at persuadable voters who might respond to policy specifics. --- ## Archetypal Analysis This post embodies the **King archetype** in its constructive form — the ruler who distributes rewards to loyal subjects (American manufacturers) and creates order through policy. The Warrior archetype dominant in surrounding posts is absent here. The Shadow projection (corrupt elites, criminal immigrants) that appears in companion posts is suppressed in favor of the benevolent sovereign offering a deal. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Current business tax rate is 21%" | **True** | The corporate tax rate was set at 21% by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Trump's first term legislation). This is accurate. | | "Trump proposes cutting to 15% only for US manufacturers" | **Mostly True** | This was a genuine Trump 2024 campaign proposal articulated in this period. The conditionality (domestic manufacturing only) is the distinguishing feature of the proposal vs. a flat-rate cut. Policy details on implementation mechanisms were not specified. | Overall Veracity: 90% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization cues, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This post is an outlier on the danger spectrum relative to same-day content. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Posted at 14:20 ET (business hours, during active campaign day in Savannah, GA) - Grammatically complete, polished single-sentence policy proposition - Specific numeric detail (21% to 15%) consistent with briefed/drafted content - Professional policy branding ('Made in America Tax Rate') indicates advance preparation - ALL CAPS 'ONLY' and triple exclamation on slogan are authentic Trump stylistic residue, suggesting light edits or Trump review of aide draft ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Campaign rally context and Harris 'Unite for America' Oprah town hall event same week) Sentiment: +0.52 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address to supporters ('my plan') creating ownership identification - MAGA slogan as tribal affirmation ritual - Policy framing that flatters audience as virtuous producers vs. exploitative elites ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._ > Current business tax rate is 21% **TRUE** The corporate tax rate was set at 21% by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Trump's first term legislation). This is accurate. Sources: 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, IRC §11 > Trump proposes cutting to 15% only for US manufacturers **MOSTLY TRUE** This was a genuine Trump 2024 campaign proposal articulated in this period. The conditionality (domestic manufacturing only) is the distinguishing feature of the proposal vs. a flat-rate cut. Policy details on implementation mechanisms were not specified. Sources: Trump 2024 campaign economic platform Overall Veracity: 90% ## Tags - economic policy (90%) - tax policy (85%) - manufacturing / Made in America (90%) - campaign messaging (80%) - 2024 election (75%) - grandiose self (60%) - constructive persona (70%) - aide-drafted (65%) - positive framing outlier (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign-Mode Grandiosity: Harris Border Visit Triggers Controlled Rage Bursts Amid Savannah Manufacturing Blitz** Trump ran a full campaign day — posting past midnight after a Pennsylvania rally, then traveling to Savannah, Georgia for an afternoon event. The morning featured a dark, high-intensity immigration post warning that migrants would destroy Pennsylvania's character, followed by a batch of media link shares. By midday, news of Harris's upcoming border visit triggered a pair of sharp, preemptive attacks branding her a fraud on his signature issue. The afternoon pivoted to an extended run of manufacturing promises during the Savannah rally, mixing optimistic economic vision with dire warnings that America faces industrial collapse and military defeat without him. The day closed with a creative reframing of Joe Manchin's non-endorsement of Harris as implicit praise for Trump — a characteristic move of claiming validation where none was offered. Full digest for 2024-09-24: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 24). The centerpiece of my plan for a manufacturing... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113193911847955604 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The centerpiece of my plan for a manufacturing renaissance..." Truth Social, 24 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113193911847955604. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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