# Post ts_113647254141876924

- Post ID: `ts_113647254141876924`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-13T19:51:18.483Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113647254141876924
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113647254141876924/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113647254141876924.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.

## Engagement

- Likes: 56,097
- Reposts: 12,359
- Replies: 7,942
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:05:27.794Z (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: Truth Social Post, 2024-12-13, DST Policy Commitment

### Context & Timing
Posted at 14:51 EST on a day Trump was in New York for a high-profile NYSE opening bell appearance and celebrated as Time's 2024 Person of the Year. The post is a brief, mid-afternoon policy commitment — likely an impulsive extension of the euphoric grandiose state of that morning's supply-rich events.

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
This post presents low neuroticism and low agreeableness. The declarative authority tone is high extraversion (assertiveness facet), without the excitement-seeking of rally-style posts. Low openness — the position is rigid, the opposition's legitimacy dismissed without engagement.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives** dominate: Trump positions himself as the authoritative director of Republican Party policy, unilaterally committing the party to a specific legislative agenda. This is a power/status motive expression, consistent with the grandiose state observed throughout the transition period.

No communion motives are present. The relevant schema: *I speak for the party; what I decide is party policy.* This schema, repeated across multiple transition-period posts, reflects entitlement and the expectation of deference.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role**: Decisive leader / pragmatic problem-solver.
**Identity claim**: The Republican Party acts on my direction.
**Contrasting other**: The "small but strong constituency" that favors DST — framed as a special interest whose preferences are illegitimate ("shouldn't!").
**Narrative sequence**: Neutral-to-redemption — a minor national inconvenience will be corrected by the incoming administration.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators
Minimal in isolation. The "but shouldn't!" dismissal is consistent with the splitting and entitlement dimensions of NPD, but at very low intensity. No paranoia, no rage, no sadism. The previous post's "I know just about everything there is to know about [automation]" (Dec. 12) is a stronger clinical signal; by comparison this post is unremarkable.

### Authorship
Moderate probability of authentic Trump with light aide polish. Capitalization of "Nation," the "but shouldn't!" interjection, and the syntactically odd subordinate clause structure point to authentic origin or heavy Trump editorial influence. Business-hours timing is the main countervailing indicator.

### Cognitive Status
No markers of concern. Syntax is slightly informal but coherent. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion. Complexity score is below Trump's baseline (short, simple sentences), consistent with a low-effort, low-stakes post rather than cognitive change.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient" | **Mostly True** | Multiple polls (AP-NORC, YouGov) show consistent majority support (55-70%) for eliminating the biannual clock change, indicating widespread perception of inconvenience. |
| "Daylight Saving Time is very costly to our Nation" | **Half True** | Some peer-reviewed research finds modest costs: transition-related productivity loss, increased cardiac events in the weeks after spring-forward, and energy consumption debates. However, retail and recreational industries historically lobbied for DST extension citing revenue benefits. 'Very costly' overstates what the literature supports. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Capitalization of 'Nation' — a recurring authentic Trump stylistic tell
- 'but shouldn't!' mid-sentence interjection is characteristic of Trump's stream-of-consciousness parentheticals
- Slightly rambling subordinate clause structure ('which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't!') matches authentic Trump syntax
- Post time is 2:51 PM EST (NYC, where Trump rang NYSE bell this morning) — business hours, which slightly favors aide authorship
- Relatively clean grammar and brevity could indicate aide polish, but content is too idiosyncratic for pure staff output

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Routine political agenda-setting following high-profile day (NYSE bell, Time PoY))

Sentiment: -0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Speaking for entire Republican Party as if unilateral — creates sense of decisive leadership identity for followers
- Framing niche policy as populist common sense ('inconvenient, and very costly')

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Multiple polls (AP-NORC, YouGov) show consistent majority support (55-70%) for eliminating the biannual clock change, indicating widespread perception of inconvenience.

Sources: AP-NORC polling on DST; YouGov public opinion surveys

> Daylight Saving Time is very costly to our Nation

**HALF TRUE**

Some peer-reviewed research finds modest costs: transition-related productivity loss, increased cardiac events in the weeks after spring-forward, and energy consumption debates. However, retail and recreational industries historically lobbied for DST extension citing revenue benefits. 'Very costly' overstates what the literature supports.

Sources: Journal of Applied Psychology productivity studies; American Journal of Cardiology DST health research

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- policy-commitment (90%)
- daylight-saving-time (95%)
- party-authority-claim (70%)
- grandiose-state (40%)
- maintenance-post (80%)
- economic-framing (60%)
- low-intensity (90%)

## That day

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

**Light Day of Pre-Inaugural Authority Posturing Peaks With "Shoot Them Down" Drone Directive**

A quiet two-post day from Mar-a-Lago, with Trump sticking to afternoon hours and keeping volume well below his usual pace. He opened with a low-key policy pledge to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, then pivoted to the buzzy drone-sightings story with a much more forceful tone — demanding the government explain itself or "shoot them down." The drone post was the standout: conspiratorial framing, a false dichotomy between transparency and military action, and a clear performance of presidential authority weeks before taking office.

Full digest for 2024-12-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 13). The Republican Party will use its best efforts to... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113647254141876924
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate..." Truth Social, 13 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113647254141876924. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate...," Truth Social, December 13, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113647254141876924.

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