# Post ts_115750227263339859

- Post ID: `ts_115750227263339859`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-12-20T05:25:01.744Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115750227263339859/analysis
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## Post text

> Just leaving North Carolina, where the Crowd was amazing! They will hopefully be voting for Michael Whatley, to be the next Senator. His opponent, former Governor Roy Cooper, is a Radical Left Lunatic who let the people of North Carolina down, especially in time of need. Heading to Florida, with lots of meetings scheduled. Tremendous announcement today, in the White House, on "Most Favored Nation" Drug Pricing. There has never been anything like it in the Medical World. Prices are now dropping at levels never seen before. This alone should win the Midterms for Republicans! No Democrat could have come close to doing it. Prices will be dropping by 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and even 800%! On the plane I just got to watch the Jake Paul Fight, and he did really well, especially as a display of GREAT Courage against a very talented and large Anthony Joshua. Fantastic Entertainment, but Kudos to Jake for his Stamina, and frankly, Ability, against a much bigger man!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.287Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T06:35:54.288Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Post Analysis: December 20, 2025, 12:25 AM ET

## Authorship Attribution
Posted at 12:25 AM Eastern while traveling from Rocky Mount, NC to Florida. The late-night timing, stream-of-consciousness structure spanning four unrelated topics, characteristic capitalization, and mathematically impossible claims strongly indicate authentic Trump authorship. The spontaneous Jake Paul boxing commentary is particularly characteristic of unscripted, real-time personal posting.

## Psychological State
The post radiates **grandiose narcissistic supply** harvested from multiple sources: rally crowd energy, a policy announcement, and entertainment. The rapid cycling through topics—NC politics → drug pricing → midterm predictions → boxing—suggests mild hypomanic pressured communication, consistent with post-rally elevated states observed longitudinally.

## Reality Distortion: The 800% Problem
The central factual distortion is the claim that drug prices are "dropping by 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and even 800%." A price cannot mathematically decline more than 100%. This escalating enumeration functions as a rhetorical intensification device rather than a factual claim, revealing indifference to mathematical reality when grandiosity is the operative mode. This is consistent with longstanding patterns rather than new cognitive decline.

## Defense Mechanisms
**Distortion** (pathological): Grossly inflating actual pharma pricing agreements into impossible percentages. **Splitting** (immature): Binary framing—Cooper is a "Radical Left Lunatic," no Democrat could come close, while Republicans should win midterms on this alone.

## Archetypal Dynamics
The post embodies the **King archetype** (benevolent ruler delivering bounty) with secondary **Hero** elements (returning from the people, delivering historic achievements). The Jake Paul section briefly invokes the **Warrior** archetype through proxy admiration of physical courage.

## Rhetorical Techniques
Heavy superlative saturation ("amazing," "tremendous," "never seen before," "fantastic," "great"). Escalating enumeration (the percentage list) creates a sense of accelerating magnitude detached from factual grounding. Standard bandwagon appeal via crowd size validation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Drug prices dropping by 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and even 800%" | **False** | A price cannot drop more than 100%. The actual MFN agreements involve matching lower international prices, which represent significant but mathematically bounded reductions. Nine pharma companies agreed to lower prices in exchange for 3-year tariff exemptions. |
| "No Democrat could have come close to doing it" | **Mostly False** | The Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act included Medicare drug price negotiation provisions. Prior Democratic administrations also pursued drug pricing reforms. |
| "Roy Cooper is a Radical Left Lunatic who let the people of North Carolina down" | **Unverifiable** | Political characterization, not a factual claim. Cooper served as NC governor 2017-2025 as a moderate Democrat. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- 12:25 AM ET posting time (late night)
- Stream-of-consciousness multi-topic ramble
- Characteristic capitalization patterns
- Impulsive quality - jumping from politics to drug pricing to boxing
- Hyperbolic percentages (300-800%)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Rally crowd energy, drug pricing announcement, Jake Paul fight)

Sentiment: +0.70

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid topic-shifting across 4 unrelated domains
- Elevated mood and grandiosity
- Late-night posting while traveling
- Pressured quality to the writing

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Sharing personal real-time experience (on the plane)
- Positioning as man of the people (rally crowds)
- Casual sports commentary to seem relatable

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claiming drug prices dropping 300-800% when mathematically impossible
- Framing negotiated pharma discounts as unprecedented when prior administrations pursued similar

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Drug prices dropping by 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and even 800%

**FALSE**

A price cannot drop more than 100%. The actual MFN agreements involve matching lower international prices, which represent significant but mathematically bounded reductions. Nine pharma companies agreed to lower prices in exchange for 3-year tariff exemptions.

Sources: Known events: Nine Pharma Companies Agree to Lower Drug Prices

> No Democrat could have come close to doing it

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act included Medicare drug price negotiation provisions. Prior Democratic administrations also pursued drug pricing reforms.

> Roy Cooper is a Radical Left Lunatic who let the people of North Carolina down

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Political characterization, not a factual claim. Cooper served as NC governor 2017-2025 as a moderate Democrat.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- rally-recap (70%)
- drug-pricing (80%)
- grandiosity (80%)
- hyperbole (90%)
- mathematical-impossibility (90%)
- sports-commentary (30%)
- midterm-campaigning (50%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Day of Endorsements and Ally Maintenance, Bookended by a North Carolina Rally**

A low-key day dominated by political endorsements and ally maintenance. Trump attended a rally in North Carolina, praised several Republican allies, approved a Montana emergency declaration, and shared a single grievance video about a legal adversary late in the evening. No anger, no combativeness -- just routine political housekeeping with a brief flash of old legal wounds.

Full digest for 2025-12-20: https://trump.fm/date/2025-12-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, December 20). Just leaving North Carolina, where the Crowd was... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115750227263339859
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Just leaving North Carolina, where the Crowd was amazing!..." Truth Social, 20 Dec. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115750227263339859. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Just leaving North Carolina, where the Crowd was amazing!...," Truth Social, December 20, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115750227263339859.

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