# Post ts_116278893457439623

- Post ID: `ts_116278893457439623`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-23T14:11:47.684Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278893457439623
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278893457439623/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 bar chart graphic titled "BLUE STATES DRIVE HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES" with a subtitle noting it shows average 2025 YTD residential electricity prices in cents per kWh. It shows two bars: a blue bar labeled "Blue states (CA, NY, MA)" at 30c/kWh, and a shorter red bar labeled "Red states (ND, TX, NE)" at 13c/kWh. The chart asserts that Democratic-leaning ("blue") states have more than double the residential electricity prices of Republican-leaning ("red") states, using California, New York, and Massachusetts as examples of blue states and North Dakota, Texas, and Nebraska as examples of red states.

Text in the image: "BLUE STATES DRIVE HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES (average 2025 YTD residential electricity prices, cents per kWh) 30c / kWh 13c / 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/116/278/893/224/291/846/original/88edc0f62dd5f9d2.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,805
- Reposts: 2,680
- Replies: 219
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-24T19:45:25.521Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T10:21:26.571Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

This is a wordless share: a partisan bar chart claiming average 2025 residential electricity prices are more than double in "blue states" (CA, NY, MA, 30¢/kWh) versus "red states" (ND, TX, NE, 13¢/kWh). With no caption, the only behavior to read is the choice to post it, and where it lands in the week's timeline: sandwiched between a Gateway Pundit conspiracy link about Ashli Babbitt's shooter, an environmental-grant cancellation announcement, and — the day before — "Good, I'm glad he's dead" about Robert Mueller and a "COWARDS" broadside at NATO over the Iran war. Against that backdrop, this graphic is the outlier: a static policy-comparison chart with none of the register — no grievance, no first-person voice, no emotional charge — that marks his own authored posts this week.

The timing (10:11am Eastern, assuming a Washington-area base during active Iran-war messaging) falls inside business hours, and the artifact itself — titled headline, clean typography, a specific comparative statistic — matches the polished, pre-formatted look of content built by communications staff rather than dashed off from a phone. Absent any text of his own, there is no stylometric signal at all; the attribution below rests solely on posting-pattern evidence (timing, format) and speaks to who selected this clip for the feed, not who wrote or designed it — confidence is capped low accordingly.

Substantively, the chart advances a familiar red-state/blue-state contrast, implying state political affiliation causes the price gap while eliding generation mix, regulatory history, wildfire liability costs and population density — a real, if selectively framed, comparison rather than a fabricated one. Choosing to circulate it mid-week, alongside unrelated grievance content, reads as routine partisan-brand maintenance: no target is derogated, no threat is implied, and the piece carries none of the day's other rhetorical heat.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business-hours posting (~10:11am ET) rather than his typical late-night/early-morning window
- Polished, professionally designed infographic with title, subtitle and clean data labels
- No personal caption, first-person voice, or emotional language attached
- No stylometric evidence available since the post carries no text of his own

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 30%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 15%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: none salient — content is impersonal policy messaging

**Motives:**
- Agency: 30%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** none constructed — no first-person framing present
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Democratic-led states (CA, NY, MA) implied as mismanaged relative to Republican-led states

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.15

### Clinical

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

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

## Tags

- energy-policy (90%)
- partisan-messaging (80%)
- image-only-post (100%)
- selective-comparison (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_116278893457439623
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278893457439623. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278893457439623.

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