# Post ts_114863410012919913

- Post ID: `ts_114863410012919913`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-07-16T14:35:44.386Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114863410012919913
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114863410012919913/analysis
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## Post text

> Fox Business: “Tariff revenues topped a record $113 billion for the first time during the fiscal year — a revelation that comes as President Donald Trump imposes near-weekly duties on some of the world’s largest economies…The U.S. received more than $27 billion in customs duties in June, the highest figure so far this year, according to the Treasury Department's ‘Customs and Certain Excise Taxes’ data…”

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/863/403/464/310/300/original/5b17524562e7c8c0.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,842
- Reposts: 2,134
- Replies: 951
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.305Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:45:46.954Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Tariff Revenue Record Post (2025-07-16)

This post is a straightforward repost of a Fox Business article reporting record $113 billion in tariff revenues, with $27 billion in June alone. It serves as supply-seeking validation of Trump's signature trade policy.

### Authorship
Posted at 10:35 AM ET (Trump likely at White House or traveling). The post is a clean quote-share of a news article with no original commentary, typos, or emotional language. This is characteristic of aide/Scavino content — curated positive media coverage shared during business hours.

### Psychological Function
This is a **narcissistic supply** post — using external validation (Fox Business reporting record numbers) to reinforce the grandiose self-narrative of policy success. The framing is implicit: "my tariffs are generating unprecedented revenue, proving critics wrong."

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Appeal to authority** (Fox Business, Treasury Department data)
- **Implicit self-aggrandizement** through letting the numbers speak
- **Cherry-picking** — tariff revenue is presented without context of consumer costs or economic impacts

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Tariff revenues topped a record $113 billion for the first time during the fiscal year" | **Mostly True** | Plausible given massive tariff escalation in 2025. However, the figure represents costs passed to importers and consumers, not revenue extracted from foreign governments as typically implied. |
| "U.S. received more than $27 billion in customs duties in June" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with Treasury reporting given tariff levels in effect. The word 'received' obscures that these are taxes on imports paid by American businesses. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (10:35 AM ET)
- Clean quote-share with no original text
- Professional formatting
- No typos or emotional language
- Curated positive media coverage

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fox Business favorable coverage)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- sharing validating data to reinforce in-group belief in policy success

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Tariff revenues topped a record $113 billion for the first time during the fiscal year

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Plausible given massive tariff escalation in 2025. However, the figure represents costs passed to importers and consumers, not revenue extracted from foreign governments as typically implied.

Sources: Treasury Department Customs and Excise Tax data; Fox Business reporting

> U.S. received more than $27 billion in customs duties in June

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Consistent with Treasury reporting given tariff levels in effect. The word 'received' obscures that these are taxes on imports paid by American businesses.

Sources: Treasury Department monthly data

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- tariffs (100%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- aide-written (85%)

## That day

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

**A Day of Presidential Victory Laps Punctured by a Single, Revealing Epstein Eruption**

Trump spent the day broadcasting a steady stream of policy wins from the White House — touting record tariff revenues, signing the HALT Fentanyl Act, announcing Coca-Cola would switch to real cane sugar, and pulling federal funding from California's high-speed rail project. The mood was almost entirely self-congratulatory, with one sharp exception: a lengthy, heated post attacking both Democrats and his own supporters over the Epstein files, declaring he no longer wanted the support of anyone questioning him on the topic. That outburst stood out starkly against an otherwise carefully curated day of presidential achievements, suggesting the Epstein issue remains a uniquely raw nerve.

Full digest for 2025-07-16: https://trump.fm/date/2025-07-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, July 16). Fox Business: “Tariff revenues topped a record... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114863410012919913
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Fox Business: “Tariff revenues topped a record $113..." Truth Social, 16 Jul. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114863410012919913. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Fox Business: “Tariff revenues topped a record $113...," Truth Social, July 16, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114863410012919913.

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