# Post ts_114767768162238035

- Post ID: `ts_114767768162238035`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-06-29T17:12:45.561Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114767768162238035
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114767768162238035/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114767768162238035.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Sen. Markwayne Mullin on the One Big Beautiful Bill: "What we're doing is cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse out of the Medicaid system—and make sure it's for the people that it was originally intended for…”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:09), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> What we're doing is cutting the waste, fraud and abuse, and I wanna use that word abuse, out of the Medicaid system and make sure it's for the people that it was originally intended for. Keep in mind right now, there's 35 million people that live under the poverty line inside the United States. Yet there's 70 million that's on Medicaid. Now it's unsustainable. Medicaid was designed for those in the most dire need, and that's what we need to make sure it's there for. Now what people are upset about, especially in states, is ever since Obamacare, there's been this loophole that allows the states to actually charge providers an exorbitant amount to pay their share. And so instead of the states paying their share, they're charging the providers, which one requires the United States taxpayers and other states to offset these high provider taxes inside different states. North Carolina has a high provider tax. What we're saying is it needs to be even. Every state should be the same, and so we're gradually bringing down what states provide and making it even across the board. And so there's an even playing field. So one state like Oklahoma is an offsetting high provider taxes in North Carolina or California.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/767/765/771/202/987/original/a936594a520dfacf.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,614
- Reposts: 2,106
- Replies: 246
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.307Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:23:11.180Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Repost of Sen. Markwayne Mullin Quote on Medicaid Reform

This is a straightforward amplification post sharing a video clip of Senator Markwayne Mullin defending the "One Big Beautiful Bill" legislation, specifically its Medicaid provisions. The post is a direct quote with no original commentary from Trump.

### Context
The Senate parliamentarian had just ruled a key Medicaid provision in the bill violated procedural rules (June 26). This post functions as part of a coordinated messaging push to maintain momentum for the legislation despite that setback.

### Authorship
This is almost certainly aide-written (likely Dan Scavino). The post is a clean quote attribution with a video clip—standard political communications formatting. Posted at ~1:12 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster), squarely in business hours. No personal voice, no editorializing, no typos, no emotional charge.

### Psychological Significance
Minimal. This is routine political messaging—amplifying allied voices to build legislative support. It fits a pattern visible in the surrounding posts where aide-produced content (senator quotes, video clips) is interspersed with authentic Trump posts (the Tillis attack, the "RECORD WEEK OF WINS" post).

### Rhetorical Note
The Mullin quote itself uses the classic "waste, fraud, and abuse" frame to euphemize Medicaid cuts, and the phrase "people it was originally intended for" carries implicit in-group/out-group signaling, but these are Mullin's words, not Trump's.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Clean quote attribution format
- Video clip attachment
- No personal commentary or editorializing
- Business hours posting (~1:12 PM ET)
- Professional formatting consistent with communications staff

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

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

## Tags

- legislative_push (80%)
- aide_produced (90%)
- medicaid (70%)

## That day

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

**Senate Victory Lap Punctuated by Targeted Destruction of Republican Dissenters**

The day was dominated by the Senate advancing Trump's signature "Big Beautiful Bill," triggering an extended victory lap that spanned nearly every post. But the celebration was interrupted repeatedly by targeted attacks on Republican senators who voted against it — particularly Thom Tillis, who was attacked four separate times before announcing he wouldn't seek re-election. The mood was overwhelmingly triumphant and self-congratulatory, with bursts of sharp anger directed exclusively at members of his own party. Late-night posting through 1 AM gave way to an afternoon blitz of shared senator quotes and interview clips, capping off what he called a "Record Week of Wins."

Full digest for 2025-06-29: https://trump.fm/date/2025-06-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, June 29). Sen. Markwayne Mullin on the One Big Beautiful... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114767768162238035
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sen. Markwayne Mullin on the One Big Beautiful Bill: "What..." Truth Social, 29 Jun. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114767768162238035. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Sen. Markwayne Mullin on the One Big Beautiful Bill: "What...," Truth Social, June 29, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114767768162238035.

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