# Post ts_114495819579444373

- Post ID: `ts_114495819579444373`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-12T16:32:39.575Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495819579444373/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114495819579444373.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the healthcare of foreign countries—and we'll no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma. EXECUTIVE ORDER: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/delivering-most-favored-nation-prescription-drug-pricing-to-american-patients/

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> But starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign countries, which is what we were doing. We're subsidizing others' health care, countries where they paid a small fraction of what -- for the same drug that what we pay many, many times more for, and will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma. But again, it was really the countries that forced Big Pharma to do things that, frankly, I'm not sure they really felt comfortable doing, but they've gotten away with it. These countries' European Union has been brutal, brutal. And the drug companies actually told me, "Sir, it was just brutal how they forced them." And European Union is suing all our companies -- Apple, Google, Meta -- they're suing all our companies. They end up -- they have judges that are European Union-centric, and they get rewarded 15 billion, 17 billion, 20 billion, and they use that to run their operation. It's not going to happen any longer, that I can tell you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/495/818/916/068/409/original/c8bb9f9ee57b7bf1.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:26:24.865Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Executive Order on Drug Pricing (May 12, 2025)

### Authorship
This is a polished, aide-written policy announcement. Posted at 12:32 PM ET (Trump likely at White House given the executive order signing event), during business hours. Professional formatting, correct grammar, no typos, includes official White House link and attached video. Classic Scavino-style communications shop output.

### Psychological Context
This post is part of a coordinated media blitz around the "Most Favored Nation" drug pricing executive order. The earlier post ("DRUG PRICES TO BE CUT BY 59%, PLUS!") was likely Trump's authentic contribution—ALL CAPS, exclamation marks, "LOVE, DJT" sign-off. This post and the two quote-posts from Kennedy and Bhattacharya are the official comms infrastructure built around it.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The framing employs several techniques: (1) nationalist populism ("subsidize the healthcare of foreign countries"), (2) anti-corporate populism ("profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma"), and (3) decisive action framing ("Starting today," "will no longer"). The post positions Trump as order-restorer fighting on behalf of ordinary Americans against both foreign free-riders and domestic corporate villains—a two-front populist frame.

### Clinical Significance
Minimal. This is a standard policy communications product. The psychological content is strategic rather than revelatory of internal state.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The US subsidizes the healthcare of foreign countries through drug pricing" | **Half True** | US consumers do pay significantly higher drug prices than other countries, partly because other nations negotiate prices. Whether this constitutes 'subsidizing' foreign healthcare is a contested framing—US prices fund R&D that benefits globally, but foreign systems negotiate independently. |
| "Drug prices to be cut by 59%" | **Unverifiable** | From the earlier companion post. The executive order aims for 'most favored nation' pricing but actual reductions depend on implementation, legal challenges, and industry response. The 59% figure likely represents the gap between US and lowest international prices for selected drugs. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (12:32 PM ET)
- Perfect grammar and punctuation
- Official White House URL included
- Attached professional video
- Policy announcement format

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Executive order signing event)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 60%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- populist identification
- decisive leader framing

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The US subsidizes the healthcare of foreign countries through drug pricing

**HALF TRUE**

US consumers do pay significantly higher drug prices than other countries, partly because other nations negotiate prices. Whether this constitutes 'subsidizing' foreign healthcare is a contested framing—US prices fund R&D that benefits globally, but foreign systems negotiate independently.

Sources: RAND Corporation drug pricing studies; Congressional Budget Office analyses

> Drug prices to be cut by 59%

**UNVERIFIABLE**

From the earlier companion post. The executive order aims for 'most favored nation' pricing but actual reductions depend on implementation, legal challenges, and industry response. The 59% figure likely represents the gap between US and lowest international prices for selected drugs.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- policy_announcement (100%)
- aide_authored (90%)
- populist_framing (80%)
- drug_pricing (100%)
- executive_order (90%)

## That day

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

**Prescription Drug Executive Order Dominates a Carefully Orchestrated Policy Day, Bookended by Grievance**

Trump's day was dominated by a coordinated rollout of an executive order on prescription drug pricing, which he promoted relentlessly across nearly half his posts. The morning opened with triumphant news about the release of American hostage Edan Alexander, followed by a midday policy blitz featuring quotes from administration officials. The day's only real flash of anger came in the late afternoon with an aggressive post about immigration and "radical left judges," but the overall tone was one of self-congratulation and policy promotion rather than sustained combativeness. Notably absent was any mention of the major U.S.-China tariff reduction deal announced the same day.

Full digest for 2025-05-12: https://trump.fm/date/2025-05-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, May 12). Starting today, the United States will no longer... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495819579444373
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize..." Truth Social, 12 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495819579444373. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize...," Truth Social, May 12, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495819579444373.

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