# Post ts_114215732492267429 - Post ID: `ts_114215732492267429` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-03-24T05:22:49.718Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114215732492267429 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114215732492267429/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114215732492267429.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE BOOKS” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (9:01), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > All right, it happened, after decades and decades of Republicans promising to intend or get around to sooner or later, President Trump, an executive order that will abolish the Department of Education and doing well, it never should have been done in the first place. We did not need that Department of Education. It was a big bloated mess. It was extraneous, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, unwarranted, very, very verbatious. That big, silly building sucking up so much money and not helping the children across the country. I did not realize though, when it was first established, did you actually know it was established right after the Civil War for a little while and they had the smarts to get rid of it all the way back then after like two minutes, but it was established by Jimmy Carter and the support that it had and did not have. There was nobody on the left who liked this thing either. When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board and the famed Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right, absolutely right. And we looked it up. It's true. They were afraid of the federal government and it would not be diversity in education that Washington would become too powerful. And Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the unions, the New York Times, they all lined up against the Department of Education. Of course, they're all crying about it being abolished now, except for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late great senator, no longer with us. More from President Trump today at a truly historic event with his executive order that will abolish the DOE. After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country and spends likewise, by far, more money per pupil than any country and it's not even close. But yet, we ranked near the bottom of the list in terms of success. It's an amazing stat. Those are two stats you don't want. The most money spent per pupil and you're at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are, like it or not. Like it or not. That's interesting. The Department of Education, they don't provide education. They study it. They put out a lot of studies. They monitor. They say things you can't do and say things you can and should do and must do, like the women playing in the girls' sports. That was coming from them. They were the filter. So Jimmy Carter was the guy initially. And like a lot of Democrats, it sounds good, right? It's a beautiful label. What could be wrong with it? Department of Education. But it was a power and money grab. It was sniffed out all the way back in the 1860s. The guy in the middle there, I think, is Andrew Johnson. He was the president. And for a short time, they had the Department of Education. There was a guy named Barnard, who was the superintendent of the Department of Education. And they got rid of it after about four months because it was highly dysfunctional and highly unnecessary. So fast forward to today. And they're acting like we just deprived students of their notebooks and pencils. Happening any minute now, Donald Trump will sign an order to eliminate the Department of Education, a dramatic and unprecedented overreach of his authority as president. And here you have an administration that says they care about children, but through their actions has made it crystal clear they do not. It will disrupt the educational services and delivery of those services to our kids overnight. When we're gutting these funds, we're taking all of this money away from our kids, we're depriving them of opportunity and we're depriving them of freedom. All right. We're taking all the money away from bureaucrats and giving it literally to the kids, to the states. And it's a lot of money, $268 billion a year. Can it be that high? Is that right? Not unnecessary. Some of the greatest education in our country took place in places like this, the one room schoolhouse. I don't think we ever did education as well since or the two room schoolhouses or on and on and on. No, forget those guys. Yeah. Remember? This is legendary. Abe Lincoln learned how to read in one of these things. Keep going through the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 2000s, school was direct. It was local. It was, well, the people, the communities know how to educate their children. Interesting that, well, once we had a department of education, it seemed like things started to, I don't know, go downhill a little bit. Where are we lately? Okay. Distracted kids. And now we have psychedelic kids. Right? I mean, take a look at this next one. All right. We got one with a fish head. Yeah. Kids are as goofy as ever. And the department of education, unnecessary. Just, it doesn't matter. Look, when we went to the moon, the engineers who took us to the moon, they didn't have a department of education either. Could we see that beautiful Apollo rocket launching with those engineers who managed to figure out math without a federal department of education? How about the brave souls who saved the world back in WW2? They call them the greatest generation. Right? Smart, tough, and they became that way without a federal department of education. How much was that budget again? Could it be 200 and something, something, $68 billion? Well, for all that money, you know what they couldn't do? Provide a decent lunch. Through local budgets, this is what a school lunch looks like. Very, very beautiful. Big hunk of chicken, vegetables, bread, fruit, dessert, you name it. It's on that plate. There's like 2,000 calories right there on a locally funded and served menu. This is what a federal lunch plan looks like. Do you remember the whole debate about cake? Can we pass off ketchup as a vegetable, right? And they actually worked the system so you could for a while. This is fantastic news that the federal government is officially getting out of education and letting the states do it. President Trump making it happen. And I do think this kind of sets him apart from all Republican presidents and especially Ronald Reagan. As President Trump accomplishes more and more, and we all love Ronald Reagan, right? But he's a little bit reduced, I think, because of the Trump presidency somewhat. We must cut out more non-essential government spending and root out more waste. And we will continue our efforts to reduce the number of employees in the federal workforce by 75,000. The budget plan I submit to you on February 8th will realize major savings by dismantling the Departments of Energy and Education and by eliminating ineffective subsidies for business. Well, it was a great statement. And he did a lot of very good and great things with Ronald Reagan, but he didn't work that hard. He didn't fight that hard. It was a different time. And he has been outclassed by President Trump and outdone and outperformed. Every moment when President Trump is giving a tour to Laura and Laura Ingram, and through the Oval Office, he poses an interesting question to the visitors in the Oval Office. I believe we have that clip. Where did it go? Do we? Hit it. I've asked this question maybe 200 times people come in. I said, "So who would you put in the place of prominence, George Washington or Ronald Reagan? Who would you put?" Washington. So far, it's 219-0, and they like Reagan. They like Reagan, but Washington, the father of our country, he gets the place of primacy in the Oval Office. But President Trump, compared to Ronald Reagan, it's quite clear now who is the more consequential president, in my opinion, and he still has a ways to go. We'll stay tuned. So the Department of Education, it's not happening overnight, and Congress and the courts will fight it, the DOE, the big building, all that stuff. But it's a process that has been initiated finally, and I think the country is going to be better off. I actually remember being educated before the Department of Education, and it was no big deal. It was fine. There I am in the back row, first grade. And I was oblivious to when they established the Department of Education. When I got to around sixth or seventh grade, it was like nothing changed. Nothing may have changed, but nothing else did. So a major step in the right direction, giving the freedom, the control, and the money to the states. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/215/729/195/510/265/original/e8dd27dbfdc72237.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 4,600 - Reposts: 1,197 - Replies: 487 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.315Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T00:22:08.434Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_114215732492267429 — 2025-03-24T05:22:49Z ### Overview An extremely minimal post: a quoted caption — `"A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE BOOKS"` — attached to a video. No original prose, no named subject, no direct expression of viewpoint. The content is almost entirely contained in the media attachment, which is unavailable for direct review. Given the known events of this period, the most probable referent is the return of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore on March 23–24, 2025, after 286 days aboard the ISS — an event widely characterized as historic. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** UTC 05:22:49 converts to approximately **1:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time** (EDT, UTC−4). Trump was almost certainly in Washington D.C. or Mar-a-Lago during this period; both are EDT. A 1:22 AM post is squarely in his documented late-night posting window. **Stylistic markers:** The use of quotation marks to frame someone else's phrase (likely a chyron or commentator clip from the video) is a classic Trump reposting pattern — curating praise or dramatic framing from media he is watching. The ALL CAPS use within the quote is consistent with his graphic/rhetorical sensibility. The extreme brevity and absence of original composition reduces confidence somewhat, but the timing is the stronger signal here. **Verdict:** Likely authentic (probability ~0.72). Late-night timing, characteristic brevity, and ALL CAPS quote are all consistent with Trump authoring this himself while watching television coverage. --- ### Psychological State **Trigger:** Supply-seeking through association with a culturally resonant, emotionally positive national event. Claiming ownership of or adjacency to "historic" moments is a documented pattern — by presenting this as implicitly related to his administration (SpaceX/Musk infrastructure facilitated the rescue), he amplifies his symbolic capital without explicit self-reference. **Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose. The gravitational pull toward "historic" superlatives is consistent with an expansive self-concept that collocates the subject with all significant events of the era. **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal and benign in this instance. The post functions more as supply intake than defense. No distortion, projection, or splitting is evident. **Contrast with longitudinal context:** The two preceding posts in the same 24-hour period are sharply hostile — savage attacks on NYT journalists ("Maggot Hagerman," "Liddle' Peter Baker") and judicial figures. The pivot to celebratory, nationalistic content in this post represents a rapid oscillation from persecutory/aggressive register to triumphalist register, consistent with the grandiose–vulnerable cycling documented across his posting history. The hostile posts register narcissistic injury responses; this post represents grandiose supply replenishment. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Hyperbole / superlatives:** "A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE BOOKS" is maximalist framing; not unusual for the astronaut return, but the subject's consistent use of "historic" for self-associated events is notable. - **Indirect self-aggrandizement:** By sharing this framing, he implicitly positions himself as presiding over a historic era, without making an explicit claim that invites scrutiny. - **Borrowed authority:** The quotation marks shift the claim to a third-party voice (commentator, chyron), giving plausible deniability while fully endorsing the framing. - **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric.** --- ### Cognitive Assessment The post is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment. Vocabulary and syntax cannot be evaluated from a five-word quoted phrase. No markers of word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or confabulation are observable. This is insufficient data for longitudinal comparison. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** No threat language, no target identification, no mobilization cues. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The astronaut return constitutes 'a historic moment for the books'" | **Mostly True** | Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore returned March 23–24, 2025 after 286 days aboard the ISS, vastly exceeding their planned 8-day mission. The extended duration, Boeing Starliner failure, and SpaceX rescue mission generated widespread 'historic' characterization in media. The superlative framing is editorial but grounded in fact. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 1:22 AM EDT — squarely within documented late-night posting window - Quoted ALL CAPS phrase consistent with TV-watching, caption-reposting pattern - Extreme brevity reduces confidence in stylometric analysis - No typos present, but the quote is only five words — insufficient to assess spelling patterns ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (NASA astronaut return / nationally celebrated event) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 25% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit self-association with nationally celebrated historic event - Borrowed third-party authority via quotation marks ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._ > The astronaut return constitutes 'a historic moment for the books' **MOSTLY TRUE** Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore returned March 23–24, 2025 after 286 days aboard the ISS, vastly exceeding their planned 8-day mission. The extended duration, Boeing Starliner failure, and SpaceX rescue mission generated widespread 'historic' characterization in media. The superlative framing is editorial but grounded in fact. Sources: Known events: Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore Return After 286 Days in Space Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - supply_seeking (80%) - grandiose_state (50%) - triumphalism (70%) - indirect_self_aggrandizement (65%) - late_night_post (80%) - video_share (100%) - oscillation_from_hostile_register (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Midnight Fury, Morning Pageantry: Nocturnal Grievance Cascade Yields to Daytime Institutional Consolidation** Trump's day split cleanly in two: a combative late-night session of personal grievances gave way to a full day of official announcements and achievement claims. The evening started with complaints about an unflattering state portrait, escalated into a vicious attack naming three New York Times journalists — including the dehumanizing "Maggot Hagerman" — and culminated after midnight with fury at a federal judge blocking deportation operations. By morning, the tone shifted sharply to presidential business: endorsements, a Venezuela tariff announcement, the appointment of personal attorney Alina Habba as a federal prosecutor, and a CDC director nomination. The most notable restraint came late in the afternoon, when a Babylon Bee satire link was the only response to the ongoing Signalgate scandal — a likely sign of staff intervention preventing something more explosive. Full digest for 2025-03-24: https://trump.fm/date/2025-03-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, March 24). “A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE BOOKS” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114215732492267429 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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