# Post ts_114789968096151564

- Post ID: `ts_114789968096151564`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-07-03T15:18:29.670Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114789968096151564
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114789968096151564/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114789968096151564.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> We brought the price of Eggs back to what they were supposed to be. When I took over on January 20th, the Fake News was screaming that, “Egg prices have gone through the roof, quadrupled,” they said. Now they’re plentiful, and inexpensive. “Thank you President Trump!”

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/789/967/126/926/181/original/f48bcc2d966d9209.png

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,077
- Reposts: 2,138
- Replies: 1,162
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.306Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:35:19.385Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Egg Prices Victory Lap

### Post Overview
Trump claims credit for reducing egg prices, frames media as having exaggerated the problem, and ventriloquizes public gratitude ("Thank you President Trump!"). The post includes an attached image (likely a chart or graphic supporting the claim).

### Authorship Attribution
Posted at 15:18 UTC on July 3, 2025. Trump was in Iowa for the "Salute to America" rally that day. Central Time: ~10:18 AM. Business hours, but the content has authentic Trump markers: the self-quotation of imagined public gratitude, the "Fake News" attack, stream-of-consciousness credit-claiming. The characteristic quotation marks around fabricated dialogue and the self-congratulatory closing quote are signature Trump. Mixed signals—likely Trump-directed, possibly aide-polished.

### Psychological Analysis
Classic supply-seeking post. The structure is a three-act narcissistic narrative: (1) I inherited a crisis, (2) I fixed it, (3) the public thanks me. The invented quote "Thank you President Trump!" is particularly telling—manufacturing the admiration he seeks.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Egg prices quadrupled before January 20th" | **Mostly True** | Egg prices did spike significantly in late 2024/early 2025 due to avian influenza outbreaks, though 'quadrupled' is an exaggeration of the media's actual framing |
| "Trump brought egg prices back down" | **Mostly False** | Egg prices are driven primarily by avian flu outbreaks affecting hen populations and supply chain recovery. Presidential policy has minimal direct effect on egg commodity prices. The recovery reflects flock rebuilding and disease management. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Fake News epithet
- self-attributed public gratitude quote
- credit-claiming structure
- business hours posting
- reasonably clean grammar

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.70

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Part of a high-volume posting day with multiple self-congratulatory posts
- Grandiose credit-claiming

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- ventriloquized gratitude—putting thanks into the public's mouth
- modeling desired audience response
- framing self as provider/savior

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- False attribution of market-driven price changes to personal action
- Framing media's accurate reporting of high egg prices as 'Fake News'

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Egg prices quadrupled before January 20th

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Egg prices did spike significantly in late 2024/early 2025 due to avian influenza outbreaks, though 'quadrupled' is an exaggeration of the media's actual framing

Sources: USDA egg price data; BLS CPI reports

> Trump brought egg prices back down

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Egg prices are driven primarily by avian flu outbreaks affecting hen populations and supply chain recovery. Presidential policy has minimal direct effect on egg commodity prices. The recovery reflects flock rebuilding and disease management.

Sources: USDA poultry reports

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- supply_seeking (80%)
- credit_claiming (90%)
- media_attack (50%)
- grandiosity (70%)
- egg_prices (100%)
- ventriloquized_gratitude (80%)

## That day

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

**Victory Lap: Trump Celebrates "One Big Beautiful Bill" Passage After Midnight Pressure Campaign**

Trump's day revolved entirely around the passage of his signature tax bill through the House. The evening before, he alternated between premature claims of party unity and angry midnight outbursts pressuring holdout Republicans, with a particularly nasty personal attack on a Democratic congressman thrown in. By morning the mood had shifted to triumphal economic boasting, and after the bill passed in the evening, he spent over an hour systematically praising every Republican leader who helped deliver the win. A busy but psychologically uncomplicated day -- one flash of anger bookended by hours of self-congratulation.

Full digest for 2025-07-03: https://trump.fm/date/2025-07-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, July 3). We brought the price of Eggs back to what they... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114789968096151564
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We brought the price of Eggs back to what they were..." Truth Social, 3 Jul. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114789968096151564. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "We brought the price of Eggs back to what they were...," Truth Social, July 3, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114789968096151564.

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