# Post ts_115833542410700079 - Post ID: `ts_115833542410700079` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-01-03T22:33:10.005Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115833542410700079 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115833542410700079/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (7:03), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office, is that right? That is correct. And during that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy? From the loan program office in loans and commitments, 93 billion dollars. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years. So how do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days? One loan, much less 93 billion dollars. How do you do it? I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases. As I mentioned, I'm told I'm holding back clearly in place stuff. There are lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project worked. So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was going to leave office gave our loan money to entities that had no business plan? Correct. No financials? Correct. A number of those were before the 76-day period as well. I've come in with great concern about how this institution, this great American institution has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled. I'm sorry everyone's upset that we're taking some time to do it, but what we've seen and what the record shows is just responsible. I'm not upset. A lot of people say you haven't returned your calls. Could it be that you and your colleagues have returned the calls but the people calling just didn't like the answer? Could that be a possibility? I'm not aware of that. I give my cell phone number to any senator that wants it and I return my calls. Has your department gone dark? Somebody said your department's gone dark. Is it dark over there? It doesn't look dark behind me. I don't see any of you sitting on your hands. Somebody made that charge. I see everybody's hands. Let me ask you something else, Mr. Secretary. Does anybody ever come to the Department of Energy to get some of this free money and lie to you? I have not experienced that, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that that has happened. Does anybody ever come to you? Is it conceivable that some of these folks that heard about this free money came to you with a half-baked idea? I think it's very conceivable. In fact, I've seen such plans that were half-baked would be charitable. You said plans that didn't have a business plan, right? Correct. A promise to develop one, to find a location. Just give me the money and I'll develop the plan later. Correct. And now you're going back through, not money that's already been contracted, but you're going back through and checking each one of these loans and these grants to make sure there was no stealing, aren't you? We are. We are. Make sure there was no incompetence, aren't you? Is that correct? We're looking at that, and yeah, my blood pressure is rising right now, just thinking about what we have seen and what did happen at the Department. And you're going to tell some of these boondoggles no, aren't you? That's correct. And they're going to be upset, aren't they? That's correct. And they ought to be upset, shouldn't they? I don't think they should be upset. I think they should be ashamed. I am. It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want to be sure I understood the people running the Department of Energy for President Biden's administration shoveled 93 billion dollars, not million, 93 billion dollars out the door in 76 days. And it just happened to be the time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden, their boss was leaving. Is that right? It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining. My God. Look, I hope you take whatever time you need to go through all of these projects penny by penny. I mean, I've heard this testimony today. Well, it'll cost jobs in my state. If somebody steals 50 million dollars and goes and spends the money in their state, that's going to stimulate the economy, isn't it? Yes, it will. But that's still stealing, isn't it? And it's still illegal, isn't it? Yes. I mean, they were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditch water. Their budget went from 60 billion dollars to 160 billion dollars since fiscal year 2021. It just sounds to me like there were a lot of people coming to the Department of Energy who had all four feet and their snout in the trough. And I hope you'll turn down the boondoggles and refer the thieves to the Department of Justice. We will indeed. Senator, the one complication in there too is mixed in there are good companies doing good things honestly with credible plans. And you're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Yes, that's what we're trying to do. That's our job. And we're doing it. But there's a lot of chaff. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/833/539/291/548/748/original/ea0bf91f07130b5b.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,246 - Reposts: 2,889 - Replies: 377 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.286Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-08T17:39:55.816Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Overview This post carries **no original text** from the subject. It consists solely of a video clip — apparently Senate testimony/interview footage in which a questioner presses an (unnamed, transcript-truncated) Department of Energy official about $93 billion in loan-program commitments issued during the 76-day interval between Trump's 2024 election win and Biden's departure from office. The official concedes many of these loans lacked business plans or financial documentation. **The analyzable behavior is selection, not composition.** Trump attached no caption, commentary, or framing text — the entire communicative act is the choice to amplify this specific clip to his audience on this specific day. ## Level 1 (Traits) & Level 2 (Motives) With no written language, trait-level inference (assertiveness, hostility markers, lexical choices) is **not available** — scoring these from the video speaker's words would misattribute someone else's rhetorical style to the subject, which the instructions explicitly prohibit. At the motivational level, the *selection* itself is legible: it serves an **agency/power motive** (reinforcing a narrative of the subject's administration as a responsible corrective to a corrupt predecessor) rather than a communion motive. This is consistent with a long-running pattern in his repost behavior of amplifying content that contrasts his administration favorably against the Biden administration, without needing to add his own words. ## Level 3 (Narrative Identity) - **Protagonist role:** Implicit steward/investigator uncovering predecessor wrongdoing (via his administration's DOE). - **Contrasting other:** The outgoing Biden administration and its DOE leadership, cast as reckless stewards of taxpayer money in a "shovel it out the door before we leave" frame. - **Sequence type:** Contamination-then-redemption — the prior administration's tenure ends in an alleged scandal (money "shoveled out"), followed by the current administration's audit/cleanup, implicitly restoring order. This fits a broader, well-documented rhetorical pattern of using surrogate voices (interviews, testimony, news segments) to make an accusatory case against predecessors without personal exposure to fact-check liability. ## Level 4: Clinical/Behavioral Indicators - **Defense mechanisms:** The act of amplification (rather than the content's wording, which is not his) functions rhetorically as **splitting** — reinforcing an all-bad predecessor / implicitly-good current administration frame. This is inferred from selection pattern, low confidence. - **Narcissistic dynamics:** No self-referential grandiosity or injury is directly present since no first-person text exists. Cannot assess rage, grandiosity, or vulnerability states from this post alone. - **Danger indicators:** None. No dehumanizing language, no named individual targets, no eliminationist rhetoric — content is procedural/fiscal criticism of an institution, not a person or group. ## Authorship Attribution No stylometric evidence exists (no text). The only available signal is timing and posting pattern: - Posted 2026-01-03T22:33 UTC. Trump was very likely at Mar-a-Lago in this period (per adjacent events: NYE celebration, Netanyahu meeting). Mar-a-Lago sits in Eastern time (EST, UTC-5 in January), making this **~5:33 PM local** — early evening, not the late-night/early-morning window associated with his personal posting. - The surrounding posts on this date are almost entirely bare retweets/reposts with no text, consistent with a rapid-fire clip-sharing session (either by him or staff) rather than a single deliberated post. - Given the complete absence of text, this attribution rests on weak, indirect evidence only. Confidence is capped at low, and the judgment concerns **who selected the clip for posting**, not who authored any words (there are none to author). ## Summary Not clinically significant; no summary generated. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - No original text exists, so no stylometric evidence is available - Posting time converts to ~5:33 PM Eastern at likely Mar-a-Lago location — outside his typical late-night/early-morning authentic-posting window - Surrounding same-day posts are also bare retweets with no text, consistent with either a personal rapid clip-sharing session or staff-run amplification - Content aligns with a long-running narrative theme (Biden-era DOE mismanagement) that recurs across his own and his campaign's messaging, but this does not distinguish who clicked 'post' ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 0% - Agreeableness: 0% - Conscientiousness: 0% - Neuroticism: 0% - Openness: 0% Strongest facet: not assessable (no original text) **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** steward/investigator correcting predecessor's alleged mismanagement - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Biden administration Department of Energy leadership ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Tags - no-original-text (100%) - media-only-amplification (90%) - anti-predecessor-narrative (70%) - low-intensity (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A dawn regime-change announcement, then 34 posts in 35 minutes relitigating 2020** Trump announced the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Maduro at 4:21 in the morning from Mar-a-Lago, then went quiet for nearly seven hours before returning with celebration content — a trophy photo of Maduro aboard a Navy ship, patriotic clips, and a run of seventeen photos posted in four minutes. The strangest stretch came in the early evening, when he pushed out roughly 34 posts in 35 minutes, almost all of them other people's videos that he boosted and then immediately reposted. Most of that block had nothing to do with Venezuela: it was 2020 election-fraud claims, Minnesota fraud investigations, and one clip accusing a sitting governor of orchestrating a legislator's murder. He barely wrote anything himself all day — 62 posts, but only four contained his own words. He was in a triumphant mood throughout, with almost no anger, and he stopped posting before 7 PM. Full digest for 2026-01-03: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 3). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115833542410700079 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 3 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115833542410700079. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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