# Post ts_117152866332433061

- Post ID: `ts_117152866332433061`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-08-24T22:34:35.435Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117152866332433061
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117152866332433061/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 graphic combining a headline, a photo, and a data chart. At top, white serif text on black reads "Violent Crime Keeps Falling in Biggest U.S. Cities." Below is a photo of Donald Trump in a dark suit and red tie, smiling and pointing off to the side, standing at a podium/event inside an industrial-looking facility with a crowd of onlookers behind blue barriers; a blue banner reading "AMERI..." and partial text "...RAL MOTO... NG GROUN... ORD, MICHIG..." (referencing a General Motors plant in Michigan) is visible in the background. Overlaid at the bottom is a white chart panel titled "Areas with the largest drops in homicides from H1 2025 to 2026," with a subtitle "Among 66 major U.S. law enforcement agencies reporting; Jan. 1 to June 30 each year." It shows a horizontal bar chart of percentage decreases in homicides by location: Newark, N.J. (-64.7%), Raleigh, N.C. (-63.6%), Baltimore County, M.D. (-60.0%), Arlington, Texas (-60.0%), Aurora, Colo. (-58.8%), Suffolk County, N.Y. (-58.8%), Boston (-52.4%), Miami (-50.0%), Washington, D.C. (-43.9%), and Memphis (-43.7%). A credit line reads "Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios." At the very bottom is The White House logo and text "The WHITE HOUSE," indicating this is an official White House-produced graphic.

Text in the image: "Violent Crime Keeps Falling in Biggest U.S. Cities AMERI... (partial, cut off "AMERICA" on blue banner) ...RAL MOTO... ...NG GROUN... ORD, MICHIG... (partial background banner text, likely "General Motors" plant location in Michigan) Areas with the largest drops in homicides from H1 2025 to 2026 Among 66 major U.S. law enforcement agencies reporting; Jan. 1 to June 30 each year. -64.7% Newark, N.J. -63.6 Raleigh, N.C. -60.0 Baltimore County, M.D. -60.0 Arlington, Texas -58.8 Aurora, Colo. -58.8 Suffolk County, N.Y. -52.4 Boston -50.0 Miami -43.9 Washington, D.C. -43.7 Memphis Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios The WHITE HOUSE"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/152/866/172/605/635/original/33dc55c4cfa496c0.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,570
- Reposts: 2,588
- Replies: 371
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-08-25T16:01:19.362Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-12T21:13:06.273Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A White House crime chart, posted with his photo and no comment

The post is a single image made by the White House: the headline "Violent Crime Keeps Falling in Biggest U.S. Cities," a photo of Trump smiling and pointing at what looks like a General Motors plant event in Michigan, and an Axios chart of the ten biggest drops in homicides from the first half of 2025 to the first half of 2026 ("Newark, N.J. (-64.7%)" through "Memphis (-43.7%)"). He added no words. What can be analyzed is his choice to repost it, and when.

### What the image claims for him

The headline makes no causal claim. The layout does. Putting his face, mid-gesture, right above a list of falling homicide rates implies he caused them, without anyone having to say so. This is credit by juxtaposition. It is also selective: the chart shows only "the largest drops" out of "66 major U.S. law enforcement agencies reporting," so readers see the best ten and none of the rest. Some cities fit an administration story. Washington, D.C. (-43.9%) and Memphis (-43.7%) both received federal law-enforcement surges in 2025. Others don't. Newark, Raleigh, Boston and Suffolk County had no comparable federal action, yet the same framing claims them too. Homicides were already falling nationally in 2024 and 2025, so a timeline that starts in H1 2025 leaves out a decline that began earlier. None of this is a factual claim Trump made in his own words, so it is discussed here and not in the fact checks.

The data credit, "Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios," is worth noting. The image borrows authority from a mainstream outlet and the Major Cities Chiefs Association, sources his own posts usually treat as hostile when their findings go against him. The pattern is to trust the press when it agrees with him. It shows up across the archive, but one image is thin evidence for it.

### Where it sits in the day

On the same day he attacked Doug Ford as "the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford," and posted several other wordless items. In the days before, he fought publicly with Carlson, Greene and Massie ("LOSERS ALL"), Greene answered "I Wish I Had Never Supported Him," his "not nearly long enough" remark about the USS Lincoln drew criticism, and a federal judge struck down his visa ban as "patently unlawful." Against that run of conflict and legal defeat, a chart of good news reads as routine counter-programming and a bid for credit, not a reaction to any single injury. Nothing in the image points to a specific trigger, so tying it to the Greene feud or the court ruling would be guesswork.

Psychologically, the post fits the grandiose, achievement-focused side of his self-presentation: the pointing, smiling figure as the man who restores order. In archetype terms that is the order restorer, "the King bringing back safety." Compared with the Ford post a few hours earlier, the mood is expansive, with no rage. The image names no enemy and assigns no blame, which means it cannot be read as mobilizing anyone. It is a claim of status, not an attack. And since he wrote nothing, there is no language to assess for cognition or style.

### Who chose it

The graphic came from White House communications staff, and the post went up at about 6:34 p.m. Eastern, the end of the working day. Reposting a staff-made chart with no caption, in a burst of other media-only posts, is consistent with staff or delegated posting. Nothing here rules out Trump picking it himself. The attribution concerns who selected and published the image, since no one wrote any text.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Graphic produced by White House communications, carrying the official logo
- Posted about 6:34 p.m. Eastern, at the edge of business hours
- No caption, so there is no stylometric evidence
- Part of a same-day run of media-only posts alongside a text attack on Doug Ford

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Achievement striving / assertiveness (credit-claiming)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: achievement

### Narrative

- **Role:** Order restorer and winner
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** None named in the image

**Identity Claims:**
- The leader under whom violent crime is falling

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Positive crime-statistics coverage (Axios/MCCA) repackaged by the White House)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Photo of the leader smiling and pointing, inviting followers to share a win

## Tags

- crime statistics (90%)
- credit claiming (80%)
- White House graphic repost (70%)
- cherry-picked data (50%)

## That day

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

**Trump answers Canada's retaliation vow by calling Doug Ford the 'unimpressive brother' of the late Rob Ford**

Trump posted in three bursts: Sunday night until well past midnight, Monday morning into the early afternoon, and a short run in the early evening. Most of it was other people's words, meaning headlines, old articles, photos, video clips and posts from loyal supporters. The few posts he wrote himself had the bite: Iran was "COMPLETELY COLLAPSING," Canada would face 50% tariffs, and bad polls were a Democratic trick to discourage Republicans from voting. Less than an hour after calling polls fake, he shared a column saying he wins big majorities on every issue, along with decade-old stories about how he saved Central Park's Wollman Rink. After Canada promised to hit back, he mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford as the "unimpressive brother" of the late Rob Ford, backing it with claims about Canada's economy that don't hold up, while the articles of impeachment filed against him that day never came up.

Full digest for 2026-08-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, August 24).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117152866332433061
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 24 Aug. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117152866332433061. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, August 24, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117152866332433061.

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