# Post ts_115021166810580379

- Post ID: `ts_115021166810580379`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-08-13T11:15:22.078Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115021166810580379
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115021166810580379/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_115021166810580379.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Will be speaking to European Leaders in a short while. They are great people who want to see a deal done.

## Engagement

- Likes: 16,996
- Reposts: 3,272
- Replies: 843
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.300Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T03:27:28.137Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Post ts_115021166810580379

### Overview
A brief, routine announcement that Trump will be speaking to European leaders shortly about a deal. The post is unremarkable — low intensity, low emotional charge, and reads as a standard schedule/status update.

### Authorship
Posted at 11:15 UTC = 7:15 AM EDT (likely at White House or Mar-a-Lago). Early morning but within business hours. The post is short, grammatically correct, and has a diplomatic tone ("great people who want to see a deal done"). This leans aide-written or dictated-then-polished, though Trump does produce brief coherent posts himself. The phrase "in a short while" and "great people" are consistent with Trump's own vocabulary.

### Context
Given the known events, the "deal" likely refers to the Ukraine peace process — Witkoff was meeting Putin ahead of a Friday deadline, and European leaders would be key stakeholders. The framing of Europeans as wanting a deal positions Trump as the central dealmaker.

### Psychological State
Grandiose but restrained. The post implicitly centers Trump as the indispensable negotiator. European leaders are characterized positively ("great people") but as subordinate participants who "want to see a deal done" — with Trump as the one who can deliver it.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Implicit self-aggrandizement through framing
- Positive in-group characterization of European leaders (unusual — typically more adversarial)

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Grammatically correct
- Business hours (7:15 AM ET)
- Brief and polished
- Diplomatic tone
- But 'great people' and 'in a short while' are Trump-consistent phrases

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Broadcasting access to world leaders as status signal

## Tags

- diplomacy (80%)
- dealmaker-framing (60%)
- routine-update (90%)

## That day

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

**Military Deployed to the Capital as a Manufactured Crisis Caps a Day of Grandiose Self-Promotion**

The day was dominated by routine self-promotion -- sharing positive media clips, quoting allies, and boasting about polling numbers -- with brief flashes of anger in the morning over Bolton's criticism of the upcoming Putin summit and old Schiff leak allegations. The most significant development came in the evening, when a lengthy post painted Washington DC as more dangerous than Fallujah and Bogota to justify deploying 800 National Guard troops, despite actual crime data showing 30-year lows. The contrast between "winning on everything" earlier in the day and the capital supposedly being a war zone by evening was striking and unresolved.

Full digest for 2025-08-13: https://trump.fm/date/2025-08-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, August 13). Will be speaking to European Leaders in a short... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115021166810580379
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Will be speaking to European Leaders in a short while. They..." Truth Social, 13 Aug. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115021166810580379. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Will be speaking to European Leaders in a short while. They...," Truth Social, August 13, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115021166810580379.

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