# Post ts_113238339926783025 - Post ID: `ts_113238339926783025` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-02T14:39:02.732Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113238339926783025 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113238339926783025/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113238339926783025.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > KAMALA HARRIS: “TAXES ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO UP.” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Kamala Harris is going to significantly raise taxes. Taxes are going to have to go up. Kamala's plan will raise families' taxes by nearly $2,600 a year. Under Kamala, prices have already soared. Now, she'd make it worse with even higher taxes. Taxes are going to have to go up. President Trump will cut taxes a dime. No taxes on tips, overtime, or social security. I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/238/339/759/272/219/original/064f81c86f402452.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,765 - Reposts: 6,239 - Replies: 1,364 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.332Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T00:04:03.663Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-10-02T14:39:02Z ## Post **"KAMALA HARRIS: 'TAXES ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO UP.'"** [Video attached] --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely aide-authored (confidence: medium)** UTC timestamp converts to **10:39 AM Eastern Time** — firmly within business hours. Trump was traveling to Georgia to survey Hurricane Helene damage on this date, making coordination with staff (likely Scavino operation) plausible. The post exhibits no markers of authentic Trump output: no typos, no stream-of-consciousness syntax, no self-referential boasting, no exclamation marks in the body text. The format — a precisely labeled opponent quote anchored by a professionally clipped video — is a campaign communication product, not an impulsive reaction. Contrast with the same-day authentic repost praising Elon Musk for Starlink: "Elon Musk, as usual, came through. Thank you Elon!!! DJT" — which contains informal syntax, exclamation stacking, and personal signature. That post's style is sharply distinct from this one. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Insufficient content for reliable Big Five assessment. The post contains nine words of attributed opponent speech. No trait expression from the subject is discernible; whatever psychological state underlies the decision to post this is mediated entirely through staff. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive (power/status)** is the operative frame: the post is designed to diminish a rival's electoral standing by weaponizing her own words. **Communion motives** are entirely absent. The schema activated is economic threat: "opponent = your money disappearing." --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity The subject is **absent from his own post**. Harris is constructed as the contaminating agent (taxes rise = degradation of the good economic order Trump represents). The implicit narrative is contamination-sequence: America was/will-be-good → Harris will corrupt it. The subject positions himself as the unstated contrast — the guardian of economic order — without ever appearing directly. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators No clinically significant signals are present. The post is too minimal and staff-mediated to yield actionable clinical data. No narcissistic injury trigger is evident; this is routine campaign maintenance. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The technique is **quote weaponization via decontextualization**. Harris's tax statements — made in the context of reversing 2017 TCJA provisions for corporations and high earners — are stripped of their class-targeting specificity and presented as a universal threat. The video attachment functions as an **authenticity anchor**, pre-empting the standard "out of context" deflection by appearing to show Harris in her own voice. ALL CAPS amplification intensifies the perceived severity of the statement. The brevity is intentional: no counter-argument is invited; the "evidence" is meant to speak for itself and close inquiry. **Propaganda technique:** selective quotation + appeal to economic fear. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Kamala Harris said 'Taxes are gonna have to go up'" | **Mostly True** | Harris made statements during the 2024 campaign about taxes increasing for corporations and high-income earners as part of reversing 2017 TCJA provisions. She did not advocate broad middle-class tax increases. The isolated quote is likely authentic in the literal sense but functions as decontextualized misrepresentation of who would face increases. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **None.** Standard electoral opposition content. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization signals. --- ## Summary Not clinically significant. Post is almost certainly aide-produced campaign content timed within business hours, featuring professional video coordination inconsistent with authentic Trump posting patterns. The subject's own psychology is not meaningfully expressed. The rhetorical operation is competent but unremarkable: opponent quote stripped of context, amplified via all-caps and video clip, designed to activate economic anxiety in the base. No cognitive, affective, or danger signals warranting clinical notation. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Business hours timing (10:39 AM ET) - Structured attribution format typical of campaign staff - Video clip attachment requires production coordination - No typos, stream-of-consciousness, or emotional eruption - No self-referential content or boasting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Harris tax policy statement) Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Base activation through economic threat framing - Shared outrage via opponent quote ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > Kamala Harris said 'Taxes are gonna have to go up' **MOSTLY TRUE** Harris made statements during the 2024 campaign about taxes increasing for corporations and high-income earners as part of reversing 2017 TCJA provisions. She did not advocate broad middle-class tax increases. The isolated quote is likely authentic in the literal sense but functions as decontextualized misrepresentation of who would face increases. Sources: Harris 2024 campaign tax policy statements Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (80%) - opposition-research (90%) - tax-policy-attack (90%) - decontextualized-quote (85%) - economic-fear-appeal (70%) - campaign-maintenance (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Debate Night Triumph Collapses Into Legal Siege as Jack Smith Brief Lands** Trump spent the first half of the day riding a high from the Vance-Walz VP debate, firing off dozens of rapid posts mocking Tim Walz and celebrating JD Vance's performance. The mood shifted sharply in the late afternoon when Jack Smith's 165-page immunity brief was unsealed, revealing that Trump allegedly said "So what?" when told Pence needed protection on January 6th. From that point forward, the tone turned defensive and aggrieved, with a barrage of posts attacking the DOJ, invoking election interference, and attempting to redirect blame to Pelosi. The day ended not with victory laps but with a seven-word post — "I didn't rig the 2020 Election, they did!" — a compressed mirror of the legal threat consuming his attention. Full digest for 2024-10-02: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-02/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 2). KAMALA HARRIS: “TAXES ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO UP.” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113238339926783025 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "KAMALA HARRIS: “TAXES ARE GONNA HAVE TO GO UP.”" Truth Social, 2 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113238339926783025. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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