# Post ts_116278892438747425

- Post ID: `ts_116278892438747425`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-23T14:11:32.141Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278892438747425
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278892438747425/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:

> This is a bar chart / infographic comparing changes in residential electricity prices in Democratic-leaning ("blue") versus Republican-leaning ("red") U.S. states from 2019 to 2024. A blue bar shows a rise of +4.4 cents/kWh for blue states (labeled CA, NY, MA), while a red bar shows a decline of -0.8 cents/kWh for red states (labeled ND, TX, NE). The chart asserts that price increases during the Biden administration were concentrated in Democratic-led states while Republican-led states saw a slight decrease.

Text in the image: "BLUE STATES LED BIDEN PRICE HIKES (2019 – 2024 increase in average real residential electricity prices, cents per kWh) +4.4c / kWh -0.8c / kWh Blue states (CA, NY, MA) Red states (ND, TX, NE)"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/278/892/202/077/816/original/84561bc02bdb9899.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,104
- Reposts: 2,435
- Replies: 160
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-24T19:45:26.140Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-17T00:40:08.616Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

The post carries no caption. The chosen artifact does the talking: a bar chart pairing three Democratic-led states (CA, NY, MA, +4.4c/kWh) against three Republican-led states (ND, TX, NE, -0.8c/kWh) under the header "BLUE STATES LED BIDEN PRICE HIKES." Publishing it without comment extends a pattern visible across the same day's feed — three other posts this date are bare links to stories indicting a BLM leader, questioning a Jan. 6 shooting officer's daycare funding, and canceling Colorado transit grants — all artifacts selected and forwarded with no framing added. The mechanism is the same here: pick a comparison, let its framing carry the argument.

The chart's own construction does the rhetorical work. Six states stand in for fifty; the two columns hold no note of population growth, fuel mix, or wholesale market structure, all of which move retail electricity rates independent of which party controls a statehouse. The binary "blue states / red states" split is a clean in-group/out-group frame — one side accrues the failure, the other the restraint — with no acknowledgment that red states such as Ohio or Louisiana also saw hikes in this period. That selective sampling is the post's defense mechanism: splitting a continuous, multi-causal phenomenon into a two-bar contest with a declared winner.

Nothing in the image names a person, calls for action, or uses eliminationist language — the object of blame is a policy record, not a class of people marked for harm. Against the same week's rhetoric ("COWARDS," "glad he's dead"), this post is comparatively low-temperature: political scorekeeping rather than a personalized attack.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted 10:11 AM Eastern on a Monday (UTC-4, EDT in effect since March 8), inside the business-hours window associated with staff-curated content
- Politically pointed but data/infographic-driven content of a kind aides routinely source and queue
- No caption or written text to weigh against known typing habits
- Consistent with the day's other posts, which are also bare link/image drops with no added commentary

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 40%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: values rigidity (ideological framing of a technical economic comparison)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 50%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** party defender / scorekeeper
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Democratic-led ('blue') states and the Biden administration's economic record

**Identity Claims:**
- Republican governance holds prices down where Democratic governance lets them rise

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

## Tags

- partisan-infographic (80%)
- electricity-prices (70%)
- cherry-picked-data (60%)
- no-written-text (100%)

## 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_116278892438747425
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278892438747425. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278892438747425.

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