# Post ts_113196691472985777 - Post ID: `ts_113196691472985777` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-25T06:07:17.765Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113196691472985777 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113196691472985777/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113196691472985777.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “ECONOMY REMAINS TOP ISSUE FOR VOTERS” https://www.DonaldJTrump.com ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:06), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Here with reaction, he is the host of Making Money on Fox Business, Charles Paine. So last August, Kamala is saying, "We call it Bidenomics and we're really proud of it." She said that. Now she's finally acknowledging what we have all been living through in two thirds of Americans, in their words, of gulping water financially and record high inflation. And they want to still go back and blame Donald Trump because they can't answer the question if that the economy is better off because it's not by every measure. Now she's saying on day one, she's going to fix inflation and immigration. Didn't day one start January 20th, 2021? No, there's no doubt about that, Sean. Let me just real quick with those questions, those answers to those questions were so disingenuous. When COVID hit and the whole world shut down, we did experience a very sharp recession. We also had the shortest recession in history. We had the shortest stock market bear market in history. And when Biden came into office, not only did he have a vaccine, households had the best balance sheet in the history of America. That's what Biden Harris inherited. Now maybe she could fix the border and inflation since she created the problem, you know? But let's admit Dr. Frankenstein didn't know how to control his own monster. As far as today, I'm glad you showed that headline. But that headline of consumer confidence, it doesn't, you have to go into the details. That's what I do. Two parts of that report are what I've been talking to you about on this show. One, we are in a jobs crisis. That's why the Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points, and they indicated to the American public, they're going to have to keep cutting radically 200 basis points. It's unheard of over the next year and a half. So inside this report, they ask, are jobs plentiful or hard to get? That ratio has an amazing correlation to where the unemployment number is. And if you look at what that ratio was today, the unemployment number in this country is 5.1%. The Fed said they'll try their best to keep it at 4.4%. There's another part in that report that says we are already in a recession. By the way, another report out today from the Richmond Federal Reserve, manufacturing jobs have fallen off a cliff. Even though this administration is throwing billions of dollars at the richest companies in the world, our manufacturing jobs are falling off a cliff. I can't, I can't understand, she says day one, I'm going to fix it. What the hell has she been doing the whole time? And she says she's going to fix inflation and the border with if she goes to the border on Friday, that's 39 days before election day. For four years, she's been the border czar. We've had 11 and a half million people, including murderers, rapists, violent criminals, gangs and known terrorists, they've let into the country unvetted. And now she, all of a sudden, oh, I'm going to go down to the border. Now I'm going to fix inflation four years later and we'll just act like the last four years didn't occur. How does that work out? Yeah, it doesn't work out. I think her great hope is she'll take a picture next to the border wall and the media will take it from there and maybe carry her water. It'd be great if she went to the part where they started to actually cut out holes in the wall. That's the situation. Cutting holes in the wall to make it easier for illegal access. No, they're in a real bind. The American public knows it. The Federal Reserve knows it. And that's why J-PAL took drastic action, John. We are hurting and we're going to start to see it more and more in the data. Yeah. And by the way, Jerome Powell, that 50 basis point cut to me was political. Don't forget, though, our vice presidential candidate wants to build a 30 foot ladder factory. Trump builds a 25 foot wall. What a great guy. And don't forget, you get sex change operations. If you're in the country illegally or you're a convict, free sex change operations for you. What a great country. All right. Charles Payne. Thank you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/196/691/160/749/976/original/ed588dd7e17a68ec.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,403 - Reposts: 3,281 - Replies: 654 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.333Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T23:01:18.523Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Psychological Analysis: ts_113196691472985777 **Post:** "ECONOMY REMAINS TOP ISSUE FOR VOTERS" + campaign link + video **Date/Time:** 2024-09-25, 06:07 UTC → ~02:07 AM EDT (Trump on southeastern campaign swing; Mint Hill, NC rally scheduled same day) --- ### Authorship Attribution The 02:07 AM Eastern posting time falls squarely within Trump's documented authentic late-night/early-morning posting window—the single strongest indicator of personal authorship. The ALL CAPS construction is a consistent authentic Trump stylistic marker. However, the content itself (a polished campaign slogan + official DonaldJTrump.com link + produced video asset) is characteristic of aide-prepared campaign material. The most parsimonious interpretation: **Trump personally amplifying professionally produced campaign content**, rather than composing from scratch. No typos, no stream-of-consciousness, no personal commentary added—but the timing signature is authentically his. **Verdict:** Authentic Trump transmitting aide-produced campaign asset. Confidence: medium. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** The post is too minimal to license strong trait inferences. The ALL CAPS reflects dominant assertiveness—an extraversion/low-agreeableness marker consistent with baseline. Absence of hedging language reflects the characteristic low neuroticism of grandiose-state posts. No openness or conscientiousness signals detectable. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** Primary motive: **agency/status maintenance**. By foregrounding economy as voters' top concern, Trump implicitly positions himself as the attuned, responsive candidate without making falsifiable policy claims. This is classic **supply-seeking**—routine audience engagement through content that reflects favorably on the poster by association. Notably, the post uses epistemic distancing: it's *voters* who certify the economy's importance, not Trump asserting it. This deflects accountability while still executing issue-ownership framing. A subtle but practiced rhetorical adaptation. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** Protagonist role: implicit **Responsive Champion of the People**. No explicit self-reference, but the economy frame casts Trump as the candidate who hears and reflects ordinary voter priorities. No redemption or contamination sequence. Identity claims: none explicit, but implicit identification with voter concerns over the economy. Contrasting other: absent explicitly; implicitly the Harris campaign (by framing the economy as *the* top issue, the post benefits Trump whose economic messaging was dominant in this cycle). **Level 4 — Clinical Indicators:** No clinically significant markers present in this specific post. The same-day Iran threat post contains far more notable material (grandiosity, vulnerability oscillation, veiled martyrdom themes). This post is operationally routine. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **ALL CAPS**: attention-capture device; simulates urgency and broadcast authority - **Authority transfer**: "voters say" construction lends democratic legitimacy to the economic framing without Trump personally asserting it—insulates against challenge - **Issue ownership framing**: links Trump brand to polling-validated top voter concern without committing to specific policy - **Minimalism as message**: brevity signals confidence; no defensive elaboration required when you own the issue - No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators present --- ### Clinical Observations **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (mild, implicit). Economy is a "winning" issue for Trump in this cycle; amplifying it is consistent with grandiose-state behavior (claim the terrain you dominate). **Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. Routine campaign content amplification. No injury response. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent. **Defense mechanisms:** None pathological. Mild rationalization embedded in the "voters think" framing (presenting a partisan tactical claim as neutral empirical observation). **Gaslighting:** None. **Reality distortion:** None. --- ### Cognitive Status Post is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment—this is intentional slogan register, not spontaneous speech. No language production anomalies detectable. Vocabulary complexity: minimal by design. No baseline deviation warranted from this sample alone. --- ### Contextual Note The same-day posting cluster is more clinically interesting than this individual post: Louisiana poll triumphalism, the Iran threat post (notable for its grandiose-vulnerable oscillation and martyrdom themes), and Georgia rally gratitude all appear alongside this routine economy post. The juxtaposition of the paranoid/grandiose Iran threat post with this sterile campaign signal on the same morning suggests compartmentalized social media management—personal emotional posts interspersed with professionally managed campaign amplification. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Routine campaign content. No threatening elements. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Economy remains top issue for voters" | **Mostly True** | Polling from September 2024 (Gallup, Pew Research, CBS/YouGov, Fox News) consistently ranked economy/cost of living as the top voter concern, outpacing immigration, abortion, and threats to democracy throughout the 2024 election cycle. The word 'remains' accurately reflects continuity. Minor caveat: no specific poll cited; attached video likely contains sourcing. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - 02:07 AM Eastern posting time (authentic late-night window) - ALL CAPS construction (consistent Trump stylistic marker) - Campaign website link and produced video suggest aide-prepared asset being personally amplified - No typos or stream-of-consciousness elements (atypical for fully spontaneous Trump) - No personal commentary appended beyond headline ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (campaign audience) Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Issue mirroring (reflecting voter concerns back to base) - Implied alignment between Trump and ordinary voter economic priorities ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._ > Economy remains top issue for voters **MOSTLY TRUE** Polling from September 2024 (Gallup, Pew Research, CBS/YouGov, Fox News) consistently ranked economy/cost of living as the top voter concern, outpacing immigration, abortion, and threats to democracy throughout the 2024 election cycle. The word 'remains' accurately reflects continuity. Minor caveat: no specific poll cited; attached video likely contains sourcing. Sources: Gallup polling Sept 2024; Pew Research Center 2024 election priorities; CBS News/YouGov Sept 2024 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - campaign-messaging (90%) - economy (90%) - issue-ownership (80%) - supply-seeking (60%) - aide-produced-content (60%) - late-night-post (70%) - all-caps (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign Trail Routine Punctured by Late-Night Iran Threat Martyrdom Display** Trump spent the day on the campaign trail, traveling from Louisiana to North Carolina for a rally in Mint Hill. The night before was marked by a sharp late-night attack on Stephen Colbert and a striking post about Iranian assassination threats, where he described being surrounded by unprecedented security while issuing a counter-threat. Most of the day's output was routine campaign promotion — sharing favorable polls, thanking supporters, and boosting volunteer recruitment. The Iran post stood out as the only moment of real intensity, briefly revealing a mix of fear and bravado before he quickly returned to standard messaging. Full digest for 2024-09-25: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 25). “ECONOMY REMAINS TOP ISSUE FOR VOTERS”... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113196691472985777 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“ECONOMY REMAINS TOP ISSUE FOR VOTERS”..." Truth Social, 25 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113196691472985777. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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