# Post ts_114455608513522948

- Post ID: `ts_114455608513522948`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-05T14:06:27.402Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455608513522948
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455608513522948/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114455608513522948.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Senator Markwayne Mullin: “President Trump is the first President we've had that actually has a backbone strong enough to stand up and say we've got to right this wrong, start manufacturing goods here. China has got rich off our country. We have spent trillions of dollars building China's economy…”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> What the president is trying to say is we got to put the American worker back. We're not making things here, and we have lost thousands of jobs because of our unfair trade deals we've had with countries since World War II. Listen, Nixon talked about this, Ford talked about this, Jimmy Carter talked about this, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama. The only president that hasn't talked about this is Biden, how we have been getting ripped off in this country, and we're no longer making products, and it's a serious issue. President Trump is the first one, first president we've had that actually has a backbone strong enough to stand up and say we've got to right this wrong, start manufacturing goods here. China has got rich off of our country. We have spent trillions of dollars building China's economy, 40% of all their goods they manufacture are sold back here in the United States, and they rip us off all the time. They rip off our technology, they rip off our companies that do business there, they have unfair business deals, and then they also take advantage of our farmers that ship goods over there by canceling products all the time, and then renegotiating the deal once they're already on the ships in the Pacific. So President Trump is standing up to the bully China and saying enough is enough, and by the way, we've all heard about the Belt and Road Initiative. China was trying to do that to make all countries dependent on them. What President Trump is doing is blowing holes all in the Belt and Road Initiative right now which good on President Trump.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/455/608/207/493/186/original/938c73fa72e45f3f.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,820
- Reposts: 2,053
- Replies: 432
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.311Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:20:44.211Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Repost of Sen. Mullin Quote on Manufacturing/China Trade

This post shares a video clip of Senator Markwayne Mullin praising Trump's stance on China trade and domestic manufacturing. It is a straightforward third-party validation share — someone else praising the subject's strength and decisiveness.

### Authorship
Posted at 10:06 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or White House). Business hours, no original text, just a quote attribution and video — classic aide/Scavino content curation pattern.

### Psychological Function
This is narcissistic supply aggregation. The Mullin quote provides two key supply elements: (1) Trump is uniquely strong ("first President... backbone strong enough"), and (2) Trump is correcting others' failures. The post requires no original composition — it's selected because the quote flatters.

### Rhetorical Notes
The Mullin quote itself uses hyperbole ("trillions of dollars"), false uniqueness framing ("first President"), and enemy externalization (China). Trump's sharing amplifies these without needing to produce them himself.

### Context
Fits the broader pattern of tariff-justification messaging during this period, alongside the anti-tariff-stacking EO and pharmaceutical permitting EO. This is maintenance-level content reinforcing the trade war narrative.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump is the first President with backbone to address manufacturing/China trade" | **False** | Multiple prior presidents addressed China trade — Obama pursued TPP partly to counter China, Bush imposed steel tariffs, Clinton negotiated China WTO accession with conditions. The claim of unique courage is rhetorical, not factual. |
| "We have spent trillions of dollars building China's economy" | **Half True** | US trade deficits with China have been substantial (cumulative ~$5-6 trillion since 2000), but characterizing this as 'building China's economy' oversimplifies complex bilateral trade relationships where US consumers benefited from lower prices. |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (10:06 AM ET)
- No original text beyond quote attribution
- Professional formatting with full senator title
- Video clip curation typical of staff

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Senator Mullin praise)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party testimonial
- authority endorsement

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> Trump is the first President with backbone to address manufacturing/China trade

**FALSE**

Multiple prior presidents addressed China trade — Obama pursued TPP partly to counter China, Bush imposed steel tariffs, Clinton negotiated China WTO accession with conditions. The claim of unique courage is rhetorical, not factual.

> We have spent trillions of dollars building China's economy

**HALF TRUE**

US trade deficits with China have been substantial (cumulative ~$5-6 trillion since 2000), but characterizing this as 'building China's economy' oversimplifies complex bilateral trade relationships where US consumers benefited from lower prices.

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- trade-policy (80%)
- third-party-validation (90%)
- china (70%)

## That day

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

**Victory Lap Day: Curated Praise and a Self-Contradicting WWII Holiday Decree**

Trump spent the day in sustained self-congratulatory mode, celebrating his first 100 days with a stream of praise quotes from allies and policy announcements. The evening before brought brief flashes of irritation — sharing an article about a Wall Street critic being publicly shamed by MAGA allies, and attacking Karl Rove as a "total Loser." The day's most notable moment came in the evening with a grandiose announcement of new national holidays for both World War victories, built on a false grievance that America "never took credit" — despite Veterans Day already commemorating the WWI armistice. The NFL Draft coming to Washington in 2027 got four separate posts in two hours. Overall a low-intensity day dominated by self-promotion with very little original content.

Full digest for 2025-05-05: https://trump.fm/date/2025-05-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, May 5). Senator Markwayne Mullin: “President Trump is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455608513522948
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Senator Markwayne Mullin: “President Trump is the first..." Truth Social, 5 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455608513522948. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Senator Markwayne Mullin: “President Trump is the first...," Truth Social, May 5, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455608513522948.

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