# Post ts_113640684661990427 - Post ID: `ts_113640684661990427` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-12-12T16:00:36.176Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113640684661990427 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113640684661990427/analysis ## Post text > THANK YOU! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (12:22), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > That let me call to the stage the 45th President of the United States, the 47th President-elect, and the Person of the Year from Time, Donald J. Trump. [music] Across the plains of Texas From sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston And New York to LA Where there's pride in every American heart And it's time we stand and say That I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you And defend her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I'd love this land God bless the USA And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you And defend her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I'd love this land God bless the USA [applause] Well, thank you very much. This is an honor, a tremendous honor. I brought some of our compatriots along with us. They're going to do a beautiful job for you for the next four years. And it's really been something very special. And I have to say, Time Magazine getting this honor for the second time. I think I like it better this time, actually. But we did a good job. We had a great first term despite a lot of turmoil. Caused unnecessarily. But the media's tamed down a little bit. They're liking us much better now, I think. If they don't, we'll have to just take them on again, and we don't want to do that. But I do want to thank Time Magazine. I've been on the cover many times. I don't know who has a record, but I can only probably talk well about 25% of the covers. 25% are great. The others I just sort of hide. But it's been an honor. And every time it's an honor, I will tell you. And thank you very much for doing it. And thank the whole group at time. Really very professional people. Thank you very much. And to Jeff and all of the people from the New York Stock Exchange. He knows how much I like it because many years ago I bought a building across the street. I wasn't going to buy it. Then I said, you know, it's right next to the New York Stock Exchange. I'm going to buy it. We've had great success. 40 Wall Street, we've had tremendous success with it. But you've really had success with the New York Stock Exchange. It's an incredible group of people. And Jeff, you have done an incredible job. You and your group, and what a beautiful speech you made. Thank you very much. That was some introduction of all of us. But we've gone up since the election. I was just told by Scott, everybody said, you have to speak Scott. Scott Basanti has to be the one chosen for Treasury. Where is Scott? Let's see. He's around here someplace. He's around here. He told me we picked up three trillion dollars since the election day. And I said, well, that's good. But what about before the election day? He said, we picked up some money there because they thought you were going to win. I said, I like this guy. He's going to be my Treasury Secretary. I think we're going to have a tremendous run. We have to straighten out some problems, some big problems in the world. When we left, we didn't have any of these problems. We didn't have Russia with Ukraine. We didn't have Israel October 7th. We didn't have the Afghanistan disaster. We didn't have inflation. We had no inflation. And we had a very strong economy. And we're going to do that again. But I think we're going to even up it because now we have experience that we didn't have. And now I know everybody. When I first came in, we came down. Melania and I, a great first lady, who's very popular, by the way. She rang in. She rang in the bell. She rang in the bell. But we came down and we're driving down Pennsylvania Avenue, and it was so beautiful. I said, you know, I've never done this before. I didn't know anybody. I got to the Oval Office, and I'm picking all these big positions. And I didn't really know the people in Washington, but boy, did I get to learn fast. And now we do. And I think we have an incredible staff behind me and others that aren't here. And we're going to do a fantastic job. We're going to create the incentive theory again. In fact, I just announced yesterday, I didn't announce it for this reason. But anybody investing a billion dollars or more gets a very expedited approval process. Because, you know, the approvals, when people come into the country, it takes them, in many cases, 14, 15, 16 years to get the approval. We have Lee is around here someplace. He's in charge of the environment. And that's Lee Zeldin, who ran an incredible race for governor in New York, was a very, very successful guy. Before that, he was a great congressman. And he's a fantastic lawyer. He's in charge of environmental. And we'll try and push him as much as possible to get those permits very quickly. Like a nuclear power plant, I would say a week would be enough time. What do you think? Is that okay? We're going to get fast approvals. And it's great that we have Lee and all of the people behind. They're all stars in their own way. But it is an honor. And this is a double. Because usually they don't coordinate the man of the year, or the person of the year with the ringing of the bell. And brilliantly, you picked him both at the same time. And you were all friends. And you said, let's do it. And you only -- it takes one trip. It doesn't take two trips. That's okay. We like to save. We like to be able to do it properly. But this is a special group. So many friends in the audience, too, John. Great job you've done at ABC. I'm really proud of you. And you've been so nice to me. Otherwise, I wouldn't actually acknowledge you at all. But you -- you have been. That really is -- it's a terrific job you've done. But again, I want to thank you. We're going down to ring the bell now. And I could just say that the economy, I believe, is going to be very strong. We do have to solve some problems. We have wars going on that we didn't have. We have a lot of things happening that we didn't have. That would have never happened. They would have never happened. But now they have happened. And I want to get them solved. We have to get them solved. Because ultimately, the power of weaponry today is the biggest threat we have, in my opinion. It's not some of the other things that you read about. It's the power of weaponry. The weapons are so powerful, so devastating. And I rebuilt our military. I got to know every one of them, including nuclear weapons. I hated to do it. Actually, I hated to do it. But we did some nuclear weapons that are so devastating. It almost makes you very sad as you get them. And as they come online, it makes you very sad. Because you know what the purpose of them is. And you just hope to God that you never have to use them. Because if you do, the world will never be the same. So we have to be very, very smart. We have to be very sharp. We have to be very special to do a job. And I think we'll get it done. And I think we're going to get a lot of people in the room. We've seen it. We were in France, where President Macron did a fantastic job with the cathedral. An absolutely fantastic job of Notre Dame. And it was beautiful. The opening was the opening. And I just got back. And it was something really beautiful. And a lot of world leaders there. We had about 80 world leaders, different countries. And they were all coming together. They all wanted to meet us and meet me as representative of the U.S. And there was a lot of goodwill. But we're going to get some really tremendous goodwill. I was even thinking about inviting certain people to the inauguration. And some people said, wow, that's a little risky, isn't it? And I said, maybe it is. We'll see. We'll see what happens. But we like to take little chances. But that's not a bad chance. Here's a gentleman that's going to do a great job at HUD. Good luck, my friend, right? He's going to be a -- he's going to be a -- he's been my friend for a long time. It's nice to see you. I haven't shaken his hand yet. Come on. Congratulations. Thank you. Really, Terry, you're going to be great. And Ben Carson is your biggest fan in the world. You know that. Ben has been with us for a long time and he's done a fantastic job. Thank you. Good. So, ladies and gentlemen, go on. We're going to put it straight. We're going to give tremendous incentive like no other country has. We're cutting your taxes. We're going to cut them very substantially. We got them down to 21 percent from probably 42 or 44 percent, depending on where you are. And we got them down to 21. Everyone said that was a miracle. Now we're getting them down to 15. But only if you make your product here. Otherwise, you pay 21, which is not bad. It's in the middle of the pack. But 15 brings you down to among the lower. (Applause.) And for those that are running the big companies, those great, big, beautiful companies, nobody is going to be leaving us. You're going to be coming back. You're going to be bringing it back to the United States. We are incentivizing everybody to come back to the United States. We want you back here, car manufacturers, everybody. And we have one product that nobody has really to the extent that we do. It's called oil and gas. There is no country in the world that has more. We're number one. I brought it to number one during my first term in terms of production. We're going to be number one plus. We'll do numbers that nobody will really see before. And when that happens, prices are going to start coming down, because people can't afford their groceries and they're going to be affording their groceries very soon. I tell the story about a woman who -- an old woman, an old woman, no money, went to a grocery store, had three apples. She put them down on the counter and she looked and she saw the price and she said, "Would you excuse me?" And she walked one of the apples back to the refrigerator and came back to pay for the two apples. And she left with two apples. And the woman at the counter said that was so sad. And when I heard about the story, I said, "That should never happen in America and it's not going to happen in America. We're going to do it right and we're going to take care of our people and we're going to do things that nobody ever thought even were possible. But we're going to have an economy the likes of which nobody's ever seen before and everybody's coming back to America." I saw that the other day at the cathedral. They're all saying, "We want to come back. And with a couple of changes done by Howard and Scott and some of the great people up here with me, we're going to bring them all back. They're all coming back." So thank you very much. This is a great honor and ringing the bell will be fantastic. And go out and get them. We're with you all the way. Thank you very much. Thank you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/640/684/150/921/433/original/e05be0784526853e.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 24,042 - Reposts: 5,691 - Replies: 934 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-03T06:33:44.697Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "THANK YOU! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ" β€” Truth Social, 2024-12-12 ## Contextual Frame Posted at 16:00 UTC (11:00 AM EST), this post coincides with Trump's appearance at the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell β€” an event explicitly tied to his *Time* Person of the Year recognition. The video attachment almost certainly captures this moment or related celebratory footage. The post is among several on this date announcing appointments (Kari Lake/Voice of America, Grenell), referencing a meeting with Jill Biden, and linking to the *Time* honor. The subject is at peak supply moment: external, institutionally-validated affirmation. ## Authorship Attribution **Likely aide-assisted or collaborative.** Key indicators: - **Timing:** 11:00 AM EST falls squarely in business hours β€” outside the late-night/early-morning window associated with authentic Trump authorship. - **Video attachment:** Coordinated media packaging strongly implies staff involvement in post construction. - **Clean formatting:** The post contains no typos, no stream-of-consciousness drift, no mid-sentence capitalization inconsistencies beyond the intentional ALL CAPS "THANK YOU." - **Mitigating factors:** The brevity, the ALL CAPS gratitude, and the patriotic emoji are stylistically consistent with authentic Trump. The post may represent a hybrid β€” Trump dictating or approving a single phrase while staff handles media packaging and timing. Confidence: **medium** (content too sparse to be definitive). ## Psychological State **Grandiose pole of narcissistic oscillation.** This post represents the subject at the apex of a validation cycle: - *Time* Person of the Year confers elite institutional recognition. - NYSE opening bell provides a theatrical, high-status public platform. - Multiple appointment announcements the same day signal expansive power expression. - The brief "THANK YOU!" functions as performative supply absorption β€” publicly receiving admiration rather than generating it. It invites the audience to feel like participants in his success. **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking / supply-reception. No injury present. This is the grandiose state in its most uncomplicated form. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose, stable, non-defensive. ## Personality (McAdams Framework) **Level 1 (Traits):** Extraversion dominant β€” public performance, excitement-seeking, positive affect display. Low agreeableness markers are absent here; this is a rare moment of simple outward warmth. **Level 2 (Motives):** Pure agency/status expression. The power motive is satisfied rather than threatened, producing an unusually benign post by baseline standards. **Level 3 (Narrative):** The protagonist is "the winner accepting tribute." Redemption arc is implied but not stated β€” the post lands at the triumphant end-point of the redemption sequence that began with the 2020 election loss. The contrasting other is absent; no enemies needed when the supply is this rich. ## Defense Mechanisms No defensive operations detectable. Content is too minimal and affect too positive to require defenses. This is consistent with the grandiose state: defenses mobilize under threat; here, no threat is present. ## Rhetorical Analysis Minimal rhetorical architecture β€” a single exclamatory phrase. Techniques present: - **Parasocial reciprocity:** "THANK YOU" directed at the audience creates a felt relationship, manufacturing gratitude toward followers as a group. - **Flag symbolism (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ):** Nationalist identification without propositional content β€” pure affective signaling. - **Video as evidence:** The attached video performs the role of "showing, not telling" β€” the audience witnesses the triumph rather than being told about it. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. ## Cognitive Status **Insufficient data.** Two words plus an emoji provide no usable signal for cognitive assessment. No language production anomalies can be identified or ruled out from this sample. Baseline comparison is not applicable. ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None present. This post makes no propositional claims and therefore contains no distortions to assess. ## Danger Assessment **None.** Post is celebratory and content-free. No threat indicators of any kind. ## Summary Not clinically significant. This is a contextually explicable supply-reception post at a demonstrable peak in the subject's validation cycle (*Time* Person of the Year + NYSE bell). The brevity, ALL CAPS affect, and patriotic emoji are consistent with authentic Trump style, though business-hours timing and video packaging suggest staff involvement. The grandiose narcissistic state is stable and unthreatened β€” the post warrants no clinical flagging. It serves primarily as a longitudinal data point confirming the subject's emotional high in mid-December 2024, against which future posts showing a return to grievance or persecution themes can be contrasted. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Posted at 11:00 AM EST (business hours, aide window) - Video attachment implies staff coordination - No typos or stream-of-consciousness drift - ALL CAPS 'THANK YOU' and patriotic emoji are stylistically authentic Trump - Extreme brevity is consistent with both aide efficiency and authentic Trump impulsiveness ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 90% - Agreeableness: 55% - Conscientiousness: 30% - Neuroticism: 10% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Extraversion β€” assertiveness and positive affect display **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: status ### Narrative - **Role:** Triumphant winner accepting tribute - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** Absent β€” no enemies invoked at supply peak **Identity Claims:** - Recipient of national and institutional recognition ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Time Person of the Year recognition and NYSE opening bell appearance) Sentiment: +0.85 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Prolific posting day with multiple announcements and links - Expansive affect across all same-day posts - Grandiose framing of appointments and self-references ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Directed gratitude creating felt reciprocal relationship with audience - Invitation for followers to share in triumph ## Tags - supply-reception (90%) - grandiose-state (80%) - aide-assisted-probable (60%) - post-election-triumph (85%) - time-person-of-year (90%) - nyse-appearance (85%) - minimal-content (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Victory Lap in New York: Appointments, Honors, and Uncomplicated Grandiosity** Trump spent the day basking in institutional validation β€” named Time Person of the Year, ringing the NYSE opening bell, and rolling out a string of ambassador and agency appointments. The mood was uniformly expansive and self-satisfied, with zero flashes of anger or grievance beyond a passing swipe at "Fake News" in the Kari Lake announcement. The only notable flag was the appointment of a loyalist to lead Voice of America, a move that raises institutional-independence concerns but was buried in an otherwise celebratory day. Full digest for 2024-12-12: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 12). THANK YOU! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113640684661990427 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ" Truth Social, 12 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113640684661990427. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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