# Post ts_114061816777959152

- Post ID: `ts_114061816777959152`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-02-25T01:00:02.304Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114061816777959152/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114061816777959152.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just thinking, that the company building the Keystone XL Pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden Administration should come back to America, and get it built — NOW! I know they were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!

## Engagement

- Likes: 37,221
- Reposts: 8,762
- Replies: 1,884
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.320Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T23:42:39.446Z (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 — 2025-02-25, ~8:00 PM EST

## Authorship
High confidence authentic Trump (score: 0.78). The 8 PM EST timestamp (UTC 01:00) is evening rather than late-night, which mildly reduces probability; however, the stylistic fingerprint is decisive. The 'I was just thinking' daydream construction, the deployment of 'Sleepy Joe Biden,' impulsive capitalization ('NOW!'), em-dash cadence, and the unpolished trailing hedge ('If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company') are all incompatible with aide-written content. Staff would not insert a personal reverie opener or leave a vague fallback clause.

## Psychological State
Trump was in a grandiose, expansive mood consistent with a successful governing day — the Macron visit, tariff announcements, and executive order activity likely contributed to elevated self-efficacy. This post reads as maintenance supply-seeking from a comfortable position of power rather than a response to narcissistic injury. No rage is evident. The dominant register is magnanimous benefactor: he positions himself as offering redemption to an aggrieved corporate victim of his predecessor, performing powerful benevolence.

## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)
Classic redemption arc: Biden created contamination (vicious, incompetent cancellation) → Trump arrives as order-restorer (easy, immediate, welcoming). The protagonist role is the benevolent king correcting an unjust predecessor. TC Energy becomes a proxy audience for all businesses who felt wronged by the Democratic administration — an enrollment strategy broadening the coalition.

## Defense Mechanisms
**Splitting** (immature): The dichotomy is total — Biden's era is characterized by viciousness and incompetence; Trump's by ease and welcome. No complexity or ambiguity is permitted. **Devaluation** (immature): 'Sleepy Joe Biden' reduces a former president to a dismissive caricature. **Rationalization** (neurotic): The promise of 'Easy approvals, almost immediate start' papers over substantial binational regulatory complexity with performative confidence.

## Rhetorical Structure
Standard Trump contrast-and-invitation architecture. The word 'viciously' performs the heaviest ideological work: it recasts a legitimate executive policy action as a personal assault on a corporation, converting a regulatory dispute into a morality tale. The collective 'We want' enrolls the audience as co-principals in the demand. The invitation to 'another Pipeline Company' if TC Energy doesn't respond is an improvisational hedge that reveals the post's impulsive quality — a polished aide would not include an open fallback.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The company building the Keystone XL Pipeline was jettisoned by the Biden Administration" | **Mostly True** | Biden revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline presidential permit via executive order on his first day in office, January 20, 2021. TC Energy subsequently halted construction and formally abandoned the project in June 2021, writing off approximately $2.2 billion CAD. 'Viciously' is editorial characterization, not factual. |
| "Our Country's doing really well" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective claim with no defined metric. February 2025 economic indicators were mixed: employment remained relatively strong but tariff uncertainty was causing market volatility. |
| "Trump Administration will provide easy approvals and almost immediate start" | **Unverifiable** | Forward-looking promise. TC Energy has written off the project and abandoned it; Canadian regulatory approval would still be required as the pipeline crosses the US-Canada border. Legal and financial obstacles make 'almost immediate start' implausible on its face, but the claim cannot be fact-checked as a prediction. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Cognitive Status
No deviation from baseline. Low syntactic complexity, simple vocabulary, and mildly repetitive intensifiers ('very badly,' 'very different') are all consistent with Trump's established speech patterns since at least the early 2010s. No cognitive flags warranted.

## Danger Assessment
**None.** Post is entirely policy-advocacy in register. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization signals present.

## Summary Assessment
Routine maintenance post in grandiose register. Not clinically significant relative to baseline. The post is notable primarily as an illustration of the splitting defense and redemption-narrative structure Trump consistently employs to differentiate himself from Biden — a well-worn template applied to energy policy.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness opener: 'I was just thinking' — signature authentic marker
- Informal comma-splice construction throughout
- Signature nickname 'Sleepy Joe Biden' — never appears in aide-drafted content
- Em dashes as pacing device — consistent with Trump's authentic rhetorical cadence
- Capitalized emphasis: 'NOW!', 'Easy approvals' — authentic impulsive capitalization pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Macron visit / active governing day)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Performative benevolence toward the aggrieved company ('I know they were treated very badly')
- Collective 'We' inclusion ('We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built') — audience enrolled as co-principals

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The company building the Keystone XL Pipeline was jettisoned by the Biden Administration

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Biden revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline presidential permit via executive order on his first day in office, January 20, 2021. TC Energy subsequently halted construction and formally abandoned the project in June 2021, writing off approximately $2.2 billion CAD. 'Viciously' is editorial characterization, not factual.

Sources: Biden Executive Order 13990 (Jan 20, 2021); TC Energy announcement June 9, 2021

> Our Country's doing really well

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective claim with no defined metric. February 2025 economic indicators were mixed: employment remained relatively strong but tariff uncertainty was causing market volatility.

> Trump Administration will provide easy approvals and almost immediate start

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Forward-looking promise. TC Energy has written off the project and abandoned it; Canadian regulatory approval would still be required as the pipeline crosses the US-Canada border. Legal and financial obstacles make 'almost immediate start' implausible on its face, but the claim cannot be fact-checked as a prediction.

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- energy-policy (85%)
- biden-devaluation (75%)
- authentic-trump (78%)
- grandiose-state (65%)
- redemption-narrative (80%)
- splitting-defense (70%)
- keystone-xl (90%)
- maintenance-post (70%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Victory Lap: Grandiose Self-Validation on a Busy Diplomatic Day**

Trump spent the day in a steady, self-congratulatory mood, sharing articles praising his first month in office, endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor, and promoting Lara Trump's new Fox News show. The most striking moment was a late-afternoon all-caps declaration that he was "RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING." The evening brought a pair of policy-focused posts on EU tech regulation and copper tariffs that carried a mild edge but stayed well within his usual economic-nationalist register. Overall, a low-intensity day with no outbursts, no feuds, and no signs of distress.

Full digest for 2025-02-25: https://trump.fm/date/2025-02-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, February 25). Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114061816777959152
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just..." Truth Social, 25 Feb. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114061816777959152. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just...," Truth Social, February 25, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114061816777959152.

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