# Post ts_116278894937641301

- Post ID: `ts_116278894937641301`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-23T14:12:10.275Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278894937641301
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278894937641301/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 LED BIDEN PRICE HIKES," with subtitle "(2019 – 2024 increase in average real residential electricity prices, cents per kWh)." Two bars extend from a horizontal zero line: a blue bar labeled "Blue states" rising above the line to "+1.7c / kWh," and a red bar labeled "Red states" dropping below the line to "-0.7c / kWh." The chart asserts that residential electricity prices rose in Democratic-leaning ("blue") states while falling in Republican-leaning ("red") states over the 2019–2024 period, framing this as a negative outcome attributed to the Biden administration.

Text in the image: "BLUE STATES LED BIDEN PRICE HIKES (2019 – 2024 increase in average real residential electricity prices, cents per kWh) +1.7c / kWh -0.7c / kWh Blue states Red states"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/278/894/694/507/030/original/d8265470a66aa011.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,460
- Reposts: 3,012
- Replies: 209
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-24T19:45:24.915Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T22:25:26.906Z (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 entire communicative act is the choice to publish a partisan bar chart contrasting '+1.7c/kWh' in blue states against '-0.7c/kWh' in red states, captioned 'Blue States Led Biden Price Hikes.' Posted at 10:12am Eastern (14:12 UTC, assuming a New York/DC base in late March), the timing sits inside business hours, and the artifact itself is a polished infographic with no typos or stream-of-consciousness markers to examine — the kind of asset a communications aide would have prepared. Absent any written text from the subject, authorship attribution here can only speak to who selected this graphic for the feed, not who produced it, and the business-hours slot is the only signal available; it points weakly toward staff scheduling rather than proving it.

The selection functions as a clean in-group/out-group split: red states are cast as well-managed, blue states as mismanaged, with the Biden administration named as the cause. This is splitting rather than argument — a single aggregate statistic stands in for the far more complex mix of grid infrastructure, fuel mix, weather, and utility regulation that actually drives regional electricity pricing, and no such nuance survives the chart's two-bar framing. The rhetorical mechanism is a cherry-picked comparison dressed as causal proof, reinforcing an existing narrative frame (Democratic governance as economically damaging) rather than introducing new argument.

Nothing in the image touches a named individual, a threat, or a call to action; the analyzable behavior is confined to economic point-scoring against a political out-group, consistent with routine partisan content maintenance rather than a response to any acute trigger in the surrounding week's events (the Iran war coverage, the Mueller death reaction). No grandiosity, rage, or persecution register appears in an image with no textual voice of his own.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business-hours posting (10:12am ET) is more consistent with staff scheduling than late-night impulsive posting
- Polished, professionally designed infographic with no organic errors to assess
- No written text from the subject, so no stylometric evidence exists at all — this score reflects who selected the image for posting, not who created or wrote it

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

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

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

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

## Tags

- partisan-economic-messaging (70%)
- cherry-picked-statistic (60%)
- image-only-post (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_116278894937641301
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278894937641301. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116278894937641301.

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