# Post ts_116161928118208278

- Post ID: `ts_116161928118208278`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-02T22:25:58.247Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> 'These people are crazy' is the campaign Democrats should fear: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4471615/these-people-are-crazy-campaign-democrats-should-fear/

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/161/926/115/678/942/original/bcc61307913f8058.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,457
- Reposts: 2,467
- Replies: 361
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-03T05:31:04.363Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:48:06.468Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Shared Washington Examiner Opinion Article

This post shares a Washington Examiner opinion column arguing that Democrats should fear a "these people are crazy" framing. It's a straightforward content share with minimal original commentary — the post text is essentially the article headline plus URL.

### Authorship Attribution
Posted at 22:25 UTC on March 2, 2026. Trump was likely in Texas (Corpus Christi visit) or back at Mar-a-Lago. Either way, ~5:25 PM ET or ~4:25 PM CT — squarely business hours. The polished format (headline + link + image preview) with no original commentary, no caps rant, no typos is classic aide/Scavino content curation.

### Psychological Function
This serves as **supply maintenance** — amplifying favorable media that validates the administration's framing of Democrats as extreme. The "these people are crazy" frame is classic outgroup devaluation through splitting. The post outsources the attack to a sympathetic columnist, lending third-party credibility.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The core technique is **appeal to authority** via sympathetic media — letting the Washington Examiner make the argument rather than stating it directly. The "crazy" framing employs **pathologizing language** to delegitimize political opposition, a standard propaganda technique.

### Context
This fits the day's pattern of high-volume posting mixing policy promotion (TrumpRx editorial), foreign policy (Iran, Netanyahu), grievance (Obama/Iran deal), and opposition attacks. This particular post is low-intensity routine content curation.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (~5:25 PM ET)
- Clean formatting with no original commentary
- Simple headline + URL structure
- No typos, caps, or emotional reactivity
- Professional content curation pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party validation
- outgroup delegitimization

## Tags

- content-share (90%)
- opposition-attack (60%)
- aide-authored (85%)

## That day

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

**The war's third day, and his busiest ninety seconds went to Indiana state-senate primary polls**

Three days into the war with Iran, Trump didn't start posting until nearly 1 PM and was done by 6:45 PM, with no overnight activity at all. Most of what he shared was flattering coverage collected from elsewhere: op-eds backing the Iran strikes, a piece praising his drug-pricing program, news that Melania would chair a UN Security Council session. His busiest stretch of the day was a rapid-fire dump of five Indiana state senate primary polling charts. The one genuinely angry post came in the early evening, aimed at Democrats criticizing the strikes, and it wandered mid-way into relitigating his State of the Union before swinging back to triumph. He never mentioned the six American soldiers killed by an Iranian drone in Kuwait that day, or the closed Strait of Hormuz, or gas prices.

Full digest for 2026-03-02: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 2). 'These people are crazy' is the campaign... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116161928118208278
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "'These people are crazy' is the campaign Democrats should..." Truth Social, 2 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116161928118208278. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "'These people are crazy' is the campaign Democrats should...," Truth Social, March 2, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116161928118208278.

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