# Post ts_113747861555910898 - Post ID: `ts_113747861555910898` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-12-31T14:17:05.793Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113747861555910898 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113747861555910898/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113747861555910898.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Trump has left the building. We can now project the winner of the presidential race. Donald Trump wins the presidency. What started off as unlikely impossible is now reality. I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never, ever let you down. We have a president who actually fulfilled the promises he raised during the campaign. Securing the border to foreign policy. He now has a record as president. It's pretty damn impressive. Breaking news out of hold each war. The FBI has executed an unprecedented search warrant at President Donald Trump against a former president has both sides of the political aisle up in our-- He is a dangerous and unstable low end in American history. The Justice Department has just indicted former President Donald Trump. Seven years, they hated him, they targeted him, they hunted him. This is the epitome of the abuse of the prosecutorial power to preempt political decisions. I never thought anything like this could happen in America. The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. They're not coming after me, they're coming after you and I just happen to be standing in their way and I will never be moving. On November 5th, 2024, justice will be done. We will take back our country and we will make America great again. America will always rise to every challenge and overcome every danger. Donald Trump seems to always get stronger with challenge. These types of things, I think, give him strength. When I'm reelected, I will totally obliterate the deep state. As long as we have pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith in our God, then we will not fail. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/747/861/346/958/306/original/d4bc596836a9900c.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 38,723 - Reposts: 11,309 - Replies: 3,672 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:38:10.324Z (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 — 2024-12-31 | "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" ## Overview This is one of the most content-minimal posts in the corpus: five words of a pre-existing campaign slogan, ALL CAPS, exclamation-terminated, paired with a produced MP4 video. Posted on New Year's Eve at approximately 9:17 AM local time at Mar-a-Lago (UTC-5). As a text artifact, it is analytically thin. The video carries the actual communicative payload and cannot be assessed here. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Probable: Aide-produced (Scavino or communications staff)** - 9:17 AM EST is solidly within business hours — inconsistent with the late-night/early-morning authentic Trump posting pattern - The slogan-only text paired with a professionally produced video is a recognizable template for holiday content coordinated by staff - No idiosyncratic fingerprints: no typos, no reactive elaboration, no personal asides, no stream-of-consciousness - ALL CAPS is Trumpian, but the slogan itself requires no linguistic originality **Confidence: Low** — five words are insufficient for reliable stylometric attribution. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) Despite its brevity, the slogan encodes the entire mythological superstructure of the MAGA narrative in compressed form: - **Protagonist role:** The implied agent who *makes* — Hero, Restorer, King - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — America *was* great, became not-great (implied contamination by unnamed others), *will be* great again under Trump - **"AGAIN" as rhetorical pivot:** This single word does more work than any other element. It encodes nostalgia (recoverable past), blame (someone ruined it), and promise (I will fix it) — all without naming any of them explicitly. It is politically complete and deniable simultaneously. - **Contrasting other:** Entirely implicit here. The out-group (who made America un-great) is left to audience projection, which maximizes identification — each listener fills in their own preferred villain. --- ## Psychological Function **Trigger type:** Maintenance — calendar-driven holiday posting, not reactive. **Psychological state:** Grandiose-stable. No injury, no rage, no vulnerability markers. This is the narcissistic resting state: the self as indispensable national restorer, unchallenged in this moment. **Supply mechanism:** The post functions as a ritual call-and-response. The audience is invited to perform loyalty (share, react, repeat the slogan), generating narcissistic supply through collective affirmation without requiring Trump to engage substantively. The slogan itself is the parasocial bond — repeated exposure conditions the audience to associate the phrase with positive affect and group identity. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Devices employed:** - **Slogan as compression:** Five words encode an entire political program. This is efficient propaganda — memorable, repeatable, unchallengeable (greatness is never defined) - **Nostalgic appeal:** "Again" implies a recoverable golden past — factually vague, emotionally specific - **ALL CAPS:** Performative intensity without specific content. Signals urgency while committing to nothing - **Exclamation:** Emotional punctuation substituting for argumentative structure **Propagandistic dimension:** The RAND Firehose model typically involves volume and inconsistency; this post represents the *identity consolidation* function of propaganda — reinforcing in-group cohesion through ritual repetition. No new information is conveyed; the communicative act *is* the repetition itself. --- ## Contextual Note The preceding same-day post (Senate Democrats blocking nominees) and the prior days' reshared articles (Panama Canal, Christmas gift framing) represent the substantive political register. This post represents the symbolic/ritual register — a mode shift appropriate to the holiday. The two registers operate in parallel in Trump's communication ecosystem: the substantive posts do ideological work, the ritual posts maintain affective loyalty. Both are necessary components of the communication strategy. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization cues, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Limitations This analysis is necessarily thin given the textual sparsity. The MP4 video is the primary communicative artifact and could substantially alter the psychological and rhetorical assessment. Any conclusions drawn from the text alone should be treated as provisional. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - 9:17 AM EST local time — business-hours post, inconsistent with late-night authentic pattern - Minimal text (slogan only) paired with a produced MP4 video suggests staff-coordinated release - ALL CAPS usage is authentically Trumpian but the slogan itself is wholly formulaic — no personal elaboration or reactive language - New Year's Eve holiday posts of this type (produced video + brand slogan) are characteristic of Scavino-coordinated content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (New Year's Eve holiday calendar) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective identity fusion ('AMERICA' = the audience = Trump) - Slogan repetition as bonding ritual — the phrase functions as a congregation's call-and-response - Shared aspirational narrative creates in-group emotional charge with zero informational content ## Tags - holiday_content (90%) - slogan_only (95%) - maintenance_posting (90%) - aide_probable (60%) - redemption_narrative (80%) - grandiose_stable (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Quiet New Year's Eve of Power Consolidation and Loyalty Rewards** Trump posted only three times on New Year's Eve from Mar-a-Lago, making it one of his lighter days. The morning opened with a preemptive strike against Senate Democrats, warning Republicans not to let them slow down his cabinet confirmations. That was followed by a routine MAGA slogan post and an afternoon announcement rewarding a longtime loyalist with a White House appointment. The mood was consistently self-congratulatory with no signs of agitation or distress — a calm day spent reinforcing his mandate narrative and tending to his inner circle. Full digest for 2024-12-31: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-31/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 31). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113747861555910898 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Truth Social, 31 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113747861555910898. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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