# Post ts_114455616542958903

- Post ID: `ts_114455616542958903`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-05T14:08:29.922Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455616542958903
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455616542958903/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114455616542958903.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to President Trump and his belief in the American worker, American industry, and Main Street.”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Our country was hollowed out by losing tens of thousands of factories, five million jobs. We are seeing a renaissance in this country of manufacturing, of onshoring, and strengthening the supply chains that we should have done after we saw the COVID impacts to our supply chains. President Trump is taking action now to do that, because for the last four years, the Biden administration ignored these problems. They let our trade deficits grow to $1.2 trillion. That was a 20 percent increase. This was going in the completely wrong direction. Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to President Trump and his belief in the American worker, American industry, and Main Street.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/455/616/300/918/224/original/f98c263baa57edf0.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,356
- Reposts: 1,884
- Replies: 544
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.311Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:20:01.305Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Small Business Promotional Post (2025-05-05)

This is a straightforward promotional post featuring a quoted statement about small businesses, accompanied by a video. The post refers to Trump in the third person ("President Trump"), which is a strong aide-written indicator.

### Authorship
Third-person reference, polished grammar, professional formatting with quotation marks, video attachment, and posting at ~10:08 AM ET (business hours for Mar-a-Lago) all point strongly to staff production. This is standard 100-days messaging.

### Psychological Content
Minimal direct psychological signal from Trump himself given aide authorship. The *selection* of this content reflects ongoing narrative maintenance: Trump as champion of ordinary Americans ("Main Street," "American worker") against implicit elite/globalist forces. This fits the 100-days victory lap pattern visible across today's posts.

### Rhetorical Function
The post serves as supply-seeking through proxy praise — someone else's words affirming Trump's greatness, which is a common pattern. The quote uses populist tropes (Main Street vs. implied Wall Street) and nationalistic framing ("American worker, American industry").

### Context
This post sits within a cluster of 100-days celebration content, interspersed with the authentic-sounding Karl Rove attack and China-manufacturing theme (Mullin quote). The aide-written posts provide the polished narrative frame while Trump's own posts (Rove attack) reveal actual emotional state.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to President Trump" | **Unverifiable** | Broad assertion without specific metrics. Small business sentiment indices showed mixed results in early 2025, with NFIB optimism index declining from post-election highs amid tariff uncertainty. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Third-person reference to 'President Trump'
- Business hours posting (10:08 AM ET)
- Professional formatting with proper quotation marks
- Video attachment suggesting coordinated media strategy
- Polished, complete sentence structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- proxy validation
- populist identification

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to President Trump

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Broad assertion without specific metrics. Small business sentiment indices showed mixed results in early 2025, with NFIB optimism index declining from post-election highs amid tariff uncertainty.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- aide-written (90%)
- 100-days-messaging (80%)
- populism (70%)
- supply-seeking (50%)

## 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). “Small businesses are back in the driver's seat... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455616542958903
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to..." Truth Social, 5 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455616542958903. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Small businesses are back in the driver's seat thanks to...," Truth Social, May 5, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114455616542958903.

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