# Post ts_114495828046526222

- Post ID: `ts_114495828046526222`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-12T16:34:48.782Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495828046526222
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495828046526222/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114495828046526222.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> For the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness to America! 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** (1:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> But for the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness to America. Drug prices will come down by much more, really, if you think, '59. If you think of a drug that is sometimes 10 times more expensive, it's much more than the 59 percent. You know, it depends on the way you want to analyze it, but in one way you could analyze it that way. But between '59 and '80, and I guess even 90 percent. So when I worked so hard in the first term, and if I got prices down -- remember, I was the only one to ever get prices down for a full year, but I'd get them down like 2 percent, and I thought it was like a big deal. Well, we're getting them down 60, 70, 80, 90 percent, but actually more than that if you think about it in a way mathematically. And Farmer has to say we're sorry, but we'll not be able to do this any longer to these countries that have been so tough. They've been very tough. Nasty. It's trade. It's trade. And Farmer is also very powerful, and the Democrats have protected Farmer.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/495/827/331/087/178/original/1ea23b5487ffebca.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 2,472
- Reposts: 597
- Replies: 232
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.310Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:27:45.704Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Prescription Drug Executive Order Announcement (2025-05-12)

This post is a standard policy announcement promoting an executive order on prescription drug pricing ("Most Favored Nation" pricing). It is one of several posts in a coordinated series on the same topic, including quotes from Kennedy and Bhattacharya, and a companion post with different framing ("no longer subsidize healthcare of foreign countries").

### Authorship
Posted at 12:34 PM ET (Trump likely at White House given the executive order signing event). The post is polished, grammatically correct, uses professional formatting with a whitehouse.gov link and attached video. This is clearly part of a coordinated communications rollout — aide-written.

### Psychological Content
The post is low in psychological signal. It follows a simple template: promise + values claim + link. "For the first time in many years" establishes a redemption frame. "Bring fairness to America" is vague enough to be a boilerplate values appeal.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Hyperbole ("first time in many years" — drug pricing measures existed under Biden's IRA)
- Appeal to fairness/populism
- The series of posts (self-quote, expert quotes, policy link) creates a manufactured consensus effect

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "For the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs" | **Mostly False** | The Inflation Reduction Act (2022) included Medicare drug price negotiation, insulin price caps, and out-of-pocket spending caps. Trump's own first term attempted an MFN executive order in 2020. The claim of unprecedented action is overstated. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (12:34 PM ET)
- Perfect grammar and spelling
- Professional formatting with official WH link
- Part of coordinated multi-post rollout
- Attached produced video content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- inclusive 'we' language
- fairness framing

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> For the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Inflation Reduction Act (2022) included Medicare drug price negotiation, insulin price caps, and out-of-pocket spending caps. Trump's own first term attempted an MFN executive order in 2020. The claim of unprecedented action is overstated.

Sources: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; Trump EO 13948 (2020)

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- policy_announcement (100%)
- healthcare (90%)
- aide_written (90%)
- executive_order (80%)

## 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). For the first time in many years, we'll slash the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495828046526222
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "For the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of..." Truth Social, 12 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495828046526222. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "For the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of...," Truth Social, May 12, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114495828046526222.

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