# Post ts_116278890493192146

- Post ID: `ts_116278890493192146`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-23T14:11:02.454Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278890493192146
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278890493192146/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Image** (chart), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A chart/infographic showing a color-coded map of the continental United States (plus Alaska and Hawaii) titled "BLUE STATES DRIVE HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES," with a subtitle noting the figures are average 2025 year-to-date residential electricity prices in cents per kWh. States are shaded on a red-to-blue gradient scale (legend from 14.0 cents in red to 20.0 cents in blue) with each state's numeric price value overlaid. States with lower prices (mostly interior/Republican-leaning states like Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Texas, the Dakotas, Kentucky, Louisiana) are shaded red, while states with higher prices (California, Nevada, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and the Northeast states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Hampshire) are shaded blue. The highest values shown are California (32.2), Connecticut (30.3), Massachusetts (27.6), Alaska (26.1), and New York (26.2); the lowest are states like Wyoming (13.3), North Dakota (11.8), and Montana (11.7). The chart implies that Democratic ("blue") states tend to have higher electricity prices than Republican ("red") states.

Text in the image: "BLUE STATES DRIVE HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES (average 2025 YTD residential electricity prices, cents per kWh) Average 2025 YTD price (cents per kWh) 20.0 17.0 14.0 Washington 12.9 Oregon 15.3 California 32.2 Nevada 12.8 Idaho 11.7 Utah 13.0 Arizona 15.3 Montana 12.9 Wyoming 13.3 Colorado 15.8 New Mexico 15.2 North Dakota 11.8 South Dakota 13.4 Nebraska 12.4 Kansas 14.4 Oklahoma 13.1 Texas 15.3 Minnesota 15.9 Iowa 14.0 Missouri 13.7 Arkansas 12.8 Louisiana 12.5 Mississippi 13.8 Wisconsin 18.2 Illinois 17.7 Michigan 20.1 Indiana 16.2 Kentucky 13.4 Tennessee 13.3 Alabama 13.9 Ohio 16.8 West Virginia 15.5 Virginia 15.3 North Carolina 14.8 South Carolina 14.9 Georgia 15.2 Florida 12.5 (near label, actual near Gulf coast) Pennsylvania 19.0 New York 26.2 Vermont / New Hampshire / Maine area 27.6 Massachusetts / Connecticut 30.3 Alaska 26.1 Hawaii (unlabeled/no visible number)"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/278/890/178/206/890/original/61754eb87d00840c.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,242
- Reposts: 3,287
- Replies: 387
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-24T19:45:27.332Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-17T00:35:45.114Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

{
  "content": "No caption accompanies this post; what he chose to publish is a partisan-coded infographic titled \"BLUE STATES DRIVE HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES,\" posted at 10:11am Eastern on a weekday. The chart pairs a red-to-blue price gradient with a headline that converts a correlation (California at 32.2 cents/kWh, Connecticut at 30.3, against Wyoming's 13.3 and North Dakota's 11.8) into a causal claim about party control. That framing folds out real confounds — California's wildfire-liability surcharges, New England's lack of cheap in-state generation, population density, deregulated vs. regulated markets — into a single red/blue label, which is the chart's whole argumentative move and the reason its selection is worth reading rather than the raw figures, which are broadly consistent with published utility-rate data.

Publishing it extends the same in-group/out-group ledger running through the week's other posts: NATO cast as \"COWARDS,\" the border crisis pinned on \"Sleepy Joe Biden\" and Kamala Harris (\"she never even went to the Border!\"), a Black Lives Matter leader's indictment amplified, a BLM-adjacent police critic's daycare funding flagged. This image slots into that pattern as an economic-grievance entry: red-state governance rendered numerically favorable, blue-state governance rendered numerically costly, no individual named or blamed. That absence of a named target keeps this well short of any eliminationist or stochastic-terrorism reading: the target is a color on a map.

Nothing in the surrounding week points to a specific electricity-policy trigger, so this reads as routine reinforcement of a standing narrative rather than a reaction to criticism or a setback. The chart's causal-from-correlation move is a mild instance of splitting (costs attributed wholly to political color, with no accounting for the confounds above), but it is a shared partisan talking point built on real, if selectively framed, price data.

With no written text, there is no prose to attribute stylistically. The business-hours Eastern timing and the polished, statistic-dense design read as more consistent with staff curation than an impulsive share, but that only speaks to who selected the image — confidence on that point stays low given the total absence of stylometric evidence."
}

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Posted 10:11am Eastern (business hours), not the late-night/early-morning window typical of his own impulsive posting
- Professional, statistic-dense chart design with precise per-state figures rather than round-number framing
- No caption or written text of any kind to assess for idiosyncratic errors or stream-of-consciousness style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

## Tags

- energy-policy (80%)
- partisan-comparison (70%)
- correlation-as-causation (60%)

## That day

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

**Announces a five-day halt to Iranian strikes on the strength of talks Tehran denied within hours**

Trump announced that the US and Iran had held productive conversations and that he had ordered a five-day pause on planned strikes against Iranian power plants; Tehran denied within hours that any contact had happened at all. Most of the rest of the day was staff work, including ten charts posted in a five-minute stretch mid-morning blaming blue states for high electricity prices and crediting him for record oil and gas output, with the war driving the actual price spike absent from all of them. Two link posts in that same batch did the real damage: one named the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, a man with a documented history of death threats, and another recast a convicted election official as a political prisoner jailed for demanding honest elections. The anger was confined to the edges, a late-night ultimatum to Senate Democrats over the stalled shutdown bill and a midmorning riff on crime, and it faded rather than built. He slept a normal night and ended the day endorsing a candidate in a Florida state house race.

Full digest for 2026-03-23: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 23).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278890493192146
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278890493192146. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278890493192146.

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