# Post ts_113977224933701762 - Post ID: `ts_113977224933701762` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-02-10T02:27:13.192Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113977224933701762 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113977224933701762/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113977224933701762.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time. ## Engagement - Likes: 49,561 - Reposts: 9,439 - Replies: 3,264 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.322Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T02:44:33.799Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A low-intensity maintenance post deploying the DOGE efficiency narrative in its least threatening register. Authentic authorship is indicated by late-evening timing (9:27 PM EST), a missing apostrophe, and informal exclamatory register. The post activates the 'efficient reformer' protagonist role without requiring an outgroup attack — the villain is abstract waste, not a person, making this among the more clinically benign posts in this corpus. The penny-cost claim is factually grounded (production costs ~3¢ in FY2023), an unusual feature for this subject. The authority claim ('I have instructed my Secretary to stop producing pennies') overstates executive power — ceasing coinage requires Congressional action under 31 U.S.C. § 5112 — but this conflation of declarative intent with legal authority is consistent with baseline patterns of rationalization. The closing pun ('penny at a time') suggests either conscious wit or light aide polish; the surrounding markers favor authentic composition. No rage, no paranoia, no dehumanization, no danger indicators. This post is notable primarily for what it lacks: hostility, an antagonist, and reality distortion. It represents a stable grandiose state in a subject operating from perceived strength, concurrent with a 53% approval poll amplified the same session. Not clinically significant in isolation; useful as a baseline calibration point for lower-arousal authentic posts. ## Post Analysis: ts_113977224933701762 — Penny Abolition (2025-02-10) ### Authorship Attribution **UTC 02:27:13 → Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5): 9:27 PM on February 9, 2025.** In early February 2025, Trump was operating primarily from the White House (having been inaugurated January 20). 9:27 PM EST is squarely within the authentic Trump late-evening posting window. Stylistic markers further support authentic authorship: the missing possessive apostrophe ("great nations budget" vs. "great nation's budget"), the exclamation point mid-post ("This is so wasteful!"), and the closing pun ("penny at a time") carry the characteristic informal, self-satisfied register of Trump's unmediated voice. The sentence rhythm is declarative and short, matching his syntactic baseline. The pun, while slightly polished, is the kind of folksy wordplay Trump deploys in rally settings and is consistent with authentic posts. **Confidence: High** — timing, typo, register, and pun together indicate Trump composed this himself. --- ### Contextual Frame This post arrives amid DOGE's aggressive government-cutting operations (15+ agencies by Feb 10), the 70% "doing what he promised" CBS poll (which Trump amplified in a concurrent post), and the broader fiscal-disruption narrative the administration was managing. The penny post functions as a populist accessory to that narrative — low-stakes, bipartisan-adjacent, and with actual factual grounding. Canada eliminated its penny in 2013; the UK in 1984. This positions Trump as a common-sense reformer rather than an ideological disruptor. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five, state markers in this post):** - *Extraversion*: Moderate-high. Assertive declaration, positive frame, no retreat or hedging. - *Agreeableness*: Unusually moderate for this subject — no devaluation of an outgroup, no ad hominem. The "enemy" is abstract waste, not a person. - *Conscientiousness*: Performed high. The post constructs a fiscally responsible, orderly-management persona. - *Neuroticism*: Low. No hostile arousal, no victimhood frame, no impulsiveness beyond the mild exclamation. - *Openness*: Low. The argument is simple, the solution obvious; no complexity entertained. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - Dominant motive: **Agency/achievement** — "I have instructed" performs executive control. - Schema of self: *The efficient executive who sees what others have missed.* The framing "for far too long" implies prior leaders' negligence, elevating the narrator by contrast. - Schema of world: Government as inherently wasteful until reformed by strong will. - Communion motives: Absent. There is no care or intimacy appeal; the post is top-down managerial. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - *Protagonist role*: Efficient reformer / fiscal steward. Notably not warrior or victim — a calmer self-casting than baseline. - *Narrative sequence*: Mild redemption arc compressed into a single post: prolonged waste (contamination state) → decisive Trump action → restoration of common sense. - *Identity claim*: "I am the leader who eliminates waste others tolerated." The scale (pennies) is trivial but symbolically resonant — small inefficiencies as metonym for broader government dysfunction. - *Contrasting other*: Unnamed prior administrations implicated by "for far too long." - *Pun as signature*: "penny at a time" is a rhetorical flourish that signals self-awareness and wit — a softer identity facet than usual. **Level 4 — Clinical Indicators:** - *Narcissistic features (this post)*: Mild grandiosity ("I have instructed"), entitlement-assumption in unilateral executive declaration. Below typical arousal level for this subject. - *Antisocial*: Absent. - *Paranoid*: Absent. - *Sadism*: Absent. - *State*: Stable grandiose, low arousal. Maintenance mode. --- ### Psychological Dynamics **Trigger type**: Maintenance/supply-seeking. No narcissistic injury is apparent. The post is proactive, not reactive. The DOGE-efficiency zeitgeist provides an opportunistic frame; this is consistent with the CBS poll post amplified in the same session, suggesting a confident, supply-reinforcing mood state. **Narcissistic rage**: Absent. Remarkably low hostility for this subject. **Defense mechanisms**: - *Rationalization* (neurotic): The "pennies cost more than 2 cents" factual grounding is used to justify a unilateral executive action that may exceed statutory authority — making an impulsive-sounding decision appear logically compelled. - No projection, splitting, or distortion detected. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Populist appeal**: "Waste" is a universally legible villain. The penny is a cultural touchstone; its inefficiency has been debated for decades, giving Trump a factually defensible populist win. - **Hyperbole (mild)**: "For far too long" — vague temporal maximalism without specific false claim. - **Implied authority**: "I have instructed my Secretary" asserts unilateral executive power casually, normalizing unilateral governance. - **Wordplay/pun**: "penny at a time" — disarming, humanizing, potentially pre-meditated. Creates a memorable closer. - **Synecdoche**: Pennies as metonym for all government waste — the very smallness amplifies the rhetorical point (if even pennies are worth addressing, imagine the larger waste). - **Dehumanizing language**: Absent. - **Violent imagery**: Absent. "Rip the waste out" is mildly aggressive but targets an abstraction, not persons. - **Stochastic terrorism**: Absent. --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment Sentence structure is simple but coherent. Logical flow is intact — premise (pennies cost more than 2¢) → judgment (wasteful) → action (instructed Treasury) → rallying call (rip the waste). One orthographic error (missing apostrophe). No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, tangentiality, or confabulation detected. **No deviation from established baseline** — this is consistent with Trump's longstanding tweet/post register. Complexity score is low but unremarkably so. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Pennies literally cost us more than 2 cents to produce" | **True** | U.S. Mint Annual Reports document per-unit penny production costs have exceeded face value since FY2006. FY2023 unit cost: approximately 3.07 cents; FY2022: approximately 2.72 cents. The claim is factually accurate. | | "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies" | **Half True** | The policy intent appears genuine and consistent with the DOGE mandate. However, ceasing penny production requires Congressional action under 31 U.S.C. § 5112, which designates penny denomination and mandates its production. The Treasury Secretary cannot unilaterally halt coinage without statutory change. The claim is accurate as to intent but overstated as to executive authority. | Overall Veracity: 75% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - 9:27 PM EST — within authentic late-evening posting window - Missing possessive apostrophe: 'great nations budget' - Exclamation mid-sentence consistent with unmediated emotional register - Short declarative sentences matching syntactic baseline - Folksy closing pun ('penny at a time') consistent with rally-speech register ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 15% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared populist grievance (waste everyone intuitively opposes) - Inclusive rallying call ('Let's rip the waste out') inviting audience identification with action ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > Pennies literally cost us more than 2 cents to produce **TRUE** U.S. Mint Annual Reports document per-unit penny production costs have exceeded face value since FY2006. FY2023 unit cost: approximately 3.07 cents; FY2022: approximately 2.72 cents. The claim is factually accurate. Sources: U.S. Mint Annual Report FY2023; Congressional Budget Office analyses of coinage costs > I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies **HALF TRUE** The policy intent appears genuine and consistent with the DOGE mandate. However, ceasing penny production requires Congressional action under 31 U.S.C. § 5112, which designates penny denomination and mandates its production. The Treasury Secretary cannot unilaterally halt coinage without statutory change. The claim is accurate as to intent but overstated as to executive authority. Sources: 31 U.S.C. § 5112 (U.S. coinage denominations statute); Canada's penny elimination process (2012 legislation) as comparative precedent Overall Veracity: 75% ## Tags - penny-abolition (95%) - DOGE-efficiency-narrative (85%) - fiscal-populism (80%) - maintenance-mode (75%) - grandiose-stable (60%) - authentic-authorship (82%) - low-arousal (70%) - executive-authority-inflation (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Super Bowl Victory Lap Launches a Day of Expansive Cultural and Institutional Conquest** Trump spent the day riding a wave of triumphalism that began with the Super Bowl and never let up. The evening started in New Orleans with celebratory jabs at Taylor Swift, then shifted the next morning into a string of institutional moves — dismissing military advisory boards, installing loyalists at the Kennedy Center, and announcing ambassadors. The mood was uniformly boastful and expansive, touching everything from penny production to renaming the Gulf of Mexico, with no visible reaction to a federal judge blocking his birthright citizenship order that same day. The most notable feature was the sheer breadth of topics treated as personal conquests, capped by a rapid-fire trio of posts in under two minutes declaring cultural and national supremacy. Full digest for 2025-02-10: https://trump.fm/date/2025-02-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, February 10). For far too long the United States has minted... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113977224933701762 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "For far too long the United States has minted pennies which..." Truth Social, 10 Feb. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113977224933701762. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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