# Post ts_114599440115641983

- Post ID: `ts_114599440115641983`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-30T23:44:43.407Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599440115641983
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599440115641983/analysis

## Post text

_A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/114599330494282325

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599330494282325 (2025-05-30T23:16:50.715Z (UTC))

> It is my great honor to raise the Tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%, effective Wednesday, June 4th. Our steel and aluminum industries are coming back like never before. This will be yet another BIG jolt of great news for our wonderful steel and aluminum workers. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> -We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We're going to bring it from 25% to 50% -- the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Nobody's gonna get around that. So we're bringing it up from 25%. We're doubling it to 50%.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/599/439/957/758/753/original/4dbb9c36e9613680.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 4,814
- Reposts: 1,290
- Replies: 371
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.309Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:45:09.327Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Self-Repost with Video (2025-05-30)

This post is a simple "RT:" (repost/retweet) of Trump's own earlier post, accompanied by a video attachment (likely footage from the U.S. Steel Pittsburgh event announced earlier that day). The post contains no original text beyond "RT:" and a link back to his own prior post.

### Timing & Location
Trump was in Pittsburgh for the U.S. Steel tariff announcement event. Local time (EDT, UTC-4): **7:44 PM** — evening but not late night. Within range of either Trump or aide posting.

### Authorship
The "RT:" format with a link to his own post is a standard amplification technique commonly executed by staff (Dan Scavino) to boost visibility of key messaging. The lack of any original commentary, emotional language, or capitalization strongly suggests aide authorship. This is routine content management — re-amplifying the tariff/steel announcement, which was the marquee event of the day.

### Psychological Significance
Minimal. This is a maintenance/amplification post with no original psychological content to analyze. The decision to re-boost the steel tariff announcement reflects the campaign/communications priority of the day but reveals little about internal psychological state.

### Context
The reposted content likely relates to the tariff increase announcement (steel/aluminum from 25% to 50%) or the live Pittsburgh event — both posted earlier. This fits a pattern of repetitive amplification of policy wins, consistent with supply-seeking behavior at the institutional rather than personal level.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- RT format is standard Scavino amplification pattern
- No original text or emotional language
- 7:44 PM local time in business/evening hours
- Routine content management post
- No typos, caps, or stream-of-consciousness

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Steel tariff announcement — policy win amplification)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- content amplification

## Tags

- self-amplification (80%)
- tariffs (60%)
- aide-authored (70%)

## 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). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599440115641983
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 30 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599440115641983. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, May 30, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114599440115641983.

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