# Post ts_114597726905289988

- Post ID: `ts_114597726905289988`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-30T16:29:01.889Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> The Democrat inspired and “controlled” Congressional Budget Office (CBO) purposefully gave us an EXTREMELY LOW level of Growth, 1.8% over 10 years. How ridiculous and unpatriotic is that! They did the same thing to us in 2017, and we DOUBLED their numbers. The information they recently released is even more absurd and indefensible. I predict we will do 3, 4, or even 5 times the amount they purposefully “allotted” to us (1.8%) and, with just our minimum expected 3% Growth, we will more than offset our Tax Cuts (which will, in actuality, cost us no money!).

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:45:24.848Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Psychological Analysis: CBO Growth Attack (2025-05-30)

## Context
This post responds to the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the Republican reconciliation bill ("Big Beautiful Bill"), which projected modest growth and significant deficit increases. The CBO score threatened the central narrative justification for the tax cuts. Notably, federal courts had just struck down Trump's tariff authority days earlier, adding economic policy pressure.

## Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Traits
Dominant facets are **assertiveness** (E) and **angry hostility** (N). Low agreeableness manifests as combative dismissal of institutional authority. Low openness appears in rigid rejection of unfavorable data rather than engaging with methodology.

### Level 2: Motives
Pure **power/control** motive. The post seeks to delegitimize an institution whose analysis threatens his policy narrative. The "unpatriotic" framing converts a technical disagreement into a loyalty test.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role**: Economic visionary who proved the experts wrong before and will again. **Redemption arc**: CBO doubted him in 2017, he exceeded expectations, same will happen now. **Contrasting other**: "Democrat-controlled" establishment institutions that deliberately undermine him.

## Defense Mechanisms
Primary defenses are **denial** and **distortion** (pathological level) — refusing to engage with CBO methodology and significantly overstating his 2017 record. **Projection** attributes partisan motivation to a nonpartisan body. **Rationalization** asserts tax cuts are costless through growth.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "CBO projected 1.8% growth over 10 years" | **Mostly True** | CBO's May 2025 scoring of the reconciliation bill projected modest growth. The 1.8% figure appears to reference their baseline GDP growth projections, though Trump frames it misleadingly as a deliberate undercount. |
| "CBO is Democrat inspired and controlled" | **False** | CBO is a nonpartisan agency. Its director is jointly appointed by the Speaker of the House and Senate President pro tempore. The current director was appointed during Republican congressional leadership. |
| "We DOUBLED their numbers in 2017" | **Mostly False** | After the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, GDP growth reached 2.9% in 2018 and 2.3% in 2019 vs CBO pre-TCJA projections of ~2%. Growth did not double CBO projections. The TCJA also added approximately $1.9 trillion to deficits over 10 years. |
| "With 3% growth, tax cuts will cost us no money" | **Mostly False** | Most mainstream economic analyses, including from conservative-leaning institutions, find that tax cuts do not fully pay for themselves through growth alone. The 2017 TCJA did not generate sufficient growth to offset its revenue loss. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Archetypal Pattern
**King/economic oracle** archetype — claiming superior knowledge of economic reality against institutional expertise. The "unpatriotic" framing invokes a loyalty hierarchy where disagreement with his projections equals disloyalty to the nation.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (12:29 PM ET)
- Coherent economic argument with specific numbers
- But has characteristic ALL CAPS, scare quotes, emotional reactivity
- Mix of polished structure and Trumpian flourishes

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (CBO scoring projecting low growth / large deficits from tax bill)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Congressional Budget Office
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose economic predictions escalating (3, 4, or even 5 times)
- Inflated confidence in outcomes

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Framing critics as unpatriotic creates in-group loyalty test
- Using 'us' and 'we' to merge his interests with the audience's

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframes nonpartisan CBO as 'Democrat inspired and controlled'
- Claims tax cuts cost nothing, contradicting mainstream economic analysis

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> CBO projected 1.8% growth over 10 years

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CBO's May 2025 scoring of the reconciliation bill projected modest growth. The 1.8% figure appears to reference their baseline GDP growth projections, though Trump frames it misleadingly as a deliberate undercount.

Sources: CBO scoring reports

> CBO is Democrat inspired and controlled

**FALSE**

CBO is a nonpartisan agency. Its director is jointly appointed by the Speaker of the House and Senate President pro tempore. The current director was appointed during Republican congressional leadership.

Sources: CBO organizational structure

> We DOUBLED their numbers in 2017

**MOSTLY FALSE**

After the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, GDP growth reached 2.9% in 2018 and 2.3% in 2019 vs CBO pre-TCJA projections of ~2%. Growth did not double CBO projections. The TCJA also added approximately $1.9 trillion to deficits over 10 years.

Sources: CBO historical projections; BEA GDP data

> With 3% growth, tax cuts will cost us no money

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Most mainstream economic analyses, including from conservative-leaning institutions, find that tax cuts do not fully pay for themselves through growth alone. The 2017 TCJA did not generate sufficient growth to offset its revenue loss.

Sources: CBO; Tax Foundation; Penn Wharton Budget Model

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- economic_grandiosity (80%)
- institutional_delegitimization (70%)
- supply_side_fantasy (60%)
- CBO (90%)
- tax_cuts (80%)

## That day

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

**Courts Strike Down Tariffs; Trump Retaliates by Raising Them Higher**

Trump opened the evening with a lengthy, heated reaction to a court ruling that struck down his tariff authority, lashing out at judges, Leonard Leo, and the Federalist Society in unusually personal terms. By morning he had shifted to a confident, self-congratulatory tone, reframing the U.S.-China trade compromise as an act of personal mercy and filling the rest of the day with a steady stream of endorsements, firings, and a farewell press conference for Elon Musk. The day ended defiantly at a U.S. Steel event in Pittsburgh where he announced a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs -- effectively asserting the very authority courts had just challenged. The overall mood was dominated by grandiosity, with the court ruling the only real crack in the armor.

Full digest for 2025-05-30: https://trump.fm/date/2025-05-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, May 30). The Democrat inspired and “controlled”... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114597726905289988
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Democrat inspired and “controlled” Congressional..." Truth Social, 30 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114597726905289988. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Democrat inspired and “controlled” Congressional...," Truth Social, May 30, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114597726905289988.

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