# Post ts_117230298017100144

- Post ID: `ts_117230298017100144`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-07T14:46:29.177Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country. These Deranged People, after fighting for 10 years, should finally acknowledge that your Favorite President (ME!), knows how to WIN! They should be exhausted by now but, sadly, they’re not. They’re going to give it one last shot at ruining America, but we’re not going to let that happen. We’re going to win the Midterms, BIG, and SAVE AMERICA! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-08T06:07:36.111Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A Labor Day greeting that pivots to attack within eleven words — a structure so consistent across this subject's holiday output since 2018 that it constitutes a perseverative ritual template rather than a spontaneous eruption. Clinical significance rests on form, not intensity: the apparent inability to produce a communal public utterance even on an occasion that structurally invites one.

State is predominantly grandiose ("your Favorite President (ME!)") with a thin vulnerable seam disclosed in one unguarded aside — "They should be exhausted by now but, sadly, they're not" — which registers fatigue at the adversary's persistence and frames eleven years as continuous siege. The demand that opponents "finally acknowledge" his winning is supply-seeking in pure form: what is sought is the enemy's testimony, the only admiration that would settle the matter and the only kind unobtainable.

Defenses are immature: splitting (three distinct referents fused into one antagonist), devaluation ("Lunatics," "Deranged People"), projection of destructive intent, and reaction formation at the structural level — hostility delivered inside a benediction. Note that pathologizing language sits a meaningful gradation below the dehumanizing register; the distinction should be preserved, not collapsed.

Cognitively unremarkable: multi-clausal syntax, intact counterfactual construction, no drift, no baseline deviation. "Dumocrats" is long-attested deliberate wordplay, not neologism.

Authorship authentic, high confidence, despite the 10:46 AM EDT timestamp. Danger elevated but not high: existential framing is channeled explicitly into electoral action.

## Overview

A Labor Day greeting that inverts within its first eleven words. The salutation ("Happy Labor Day to all") functions as a rhetorical runway for an attack, a structure now so well-attested in this subject's holiday output (Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, July 4th across at least 2018–2026) that it should be classified as a **stable ritual template** rather than a spontaneous eruption. The clinical significance lies not in intensity — which is moderate — but in the **perseverative fidelity** of the form: the inability to produce a communal, non-agonistic public utterance even on an occasion that structurally invites one.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Agreeableness — very low.** Immodesty is explicit and typographically marked ("your Favorite President (ME!)"). Out-group labeling is stacked four deep ("Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats," then "These Deranged People").
- **Extraversion — high.** Assertiveness and positive-affect display are both present; the post is energized rather than depleted, ending in an exclamatory mobilization cadence ("BIG, and SAVE AMERICA!").
- **Neuroticism — moderately elevated.** Angry hostility is the dominant facet. Note the small tell of dysregulation: "They should be exhausted by now but, sadly, they're not." This is an expression of *fatigue at others' persistence* — a rare, unguarded admission that the eleven-year conflict is wearing.
- **Conscientiousness — low.** Deliberation is absent; the greeting-to-grievance pivot is unedited.
- **Openness — low.** Values rigidity; no acknowledgment of legitimate opposition, only pathologized opposition.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

Agency motives dominate almost totally. The operative verbs are *win*, *destroy*, *ruin*, *save* — a zero-sum control schema. Communion appears only as a counterfeit: "to all" is immediately voided by the enumeration that follows, and "our Country" is a possessive that excludes the people just named. The self-schema is **the winner who is not credited**; the other-schema is **implacable, deranged, and destructive**; the world-schema is **a single continuous decade-long war**.

The demand embedded in "should finally acknowledge" is diagnostically important. It is not a demand that opponents change policy, or lose, or stop — it is a demand that they *concede recognition*. This is supply-seeking in its purest form: the wish is for the enemy's testimony, which is the only form of admiration that would settle the matter, and the only form that cannot be obtained.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** embattled victor. Both winner ("knows how to WIN") and besieged party (they "will do anything possible to destroy our Country").
- **Sequence:** **redemption**, forward-projected. Eleven years of struggle resolve into a coming midterm vindication.
- **Identity claim:** "your Favorite President (ME!)" — self-issued in the second person, i.e., the audience's affection is asserted on the audience's behalf rather than reported.
- **Contrasting other:** a fused composite of left, communist, and Democrat — three distinct referents collapsed into one antagonist, which is the linguistic signature of splitting.
- **Sign-off:** "President DONALD J. TRUMP" — the third-person proclamation frame, a monarchical rather than social-media convention.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant narcissism components.** Narcissistic features are prominent (grandiosity, entitlement to acknowledgment, need for admiration). Paranoid features are moderate: opponents are attributed maximal destructive intent ("anything possible to destroy our Country") without qualification. Antisocial features are low here — no deceit of consequence, no rights-disregard. Sadism is present but low-grade and dominance-flavored: the pleasure is in the taunt ("They should be exhausted by now"), in imagining the adversary worn down, not in graphic suffering.

**Narcissistic state: grandiose**, with a thin vulnerable seam. The grandiose register carries the post, but the aside about their non-exhaustion, and the framing of the opposition as an eleven-year unremitting siege, leak the vulnerable substrate.

**Defenses.** *Splitting* (all-good "we" / all-bad enumerated enemy) and *devaluation* ("Lunatics," "Deranged") are the primary immature defenses. *Projection* is operating on the destruction motif: destructive intent toward the polity is located entirely in the other. *Reaction formation* is visible at the structural level — the hostile content is delivered inside a benediction, hostility dressed as a holiday wish.

## Cognitive Status

No markers of decline in this specimen. Syntax is multi-clausal and correctly subordinated; the "They should be exhausted by now but, sadly, they're not" construction requires holding a counterfactual across a clause boundary. "Dumocrats" is a deliberate portmanteau insult, not a neologism in the clinical sense — it is long-attested in his corpus. "After fighting for 10 years" is a round-number approximation of an eleven-year span (June 2015 → September 2026), consistent with his lifelong preference for round figures rather than temporal confusion. Coherence is intact; the post is on-topic start to finish with no drift. **Baseline deviation: none.**

## Authorship

Authentic, high confidence. 14:46 UTC = **10:46 AM EDT** — business hours, which is the sole aide-leaning signal, and a weak one on a federal holiday when staff output is typically pre-scheduled and anodyne. Everything else is idiosyncratic: "Dumocrats," the parenthetical self-interjection "(ME!)", the second-person possessive "your Favorite President," irregular capitalization of common nouns ("Country," "Midterms," "Favorite President"), the comma splice in "exhausted by now but, sadly," and the emotional pivot away from the stated occasion. No aide drafts a holiday greeting that insults the holiday's addressees in the first sentence. The "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off marks this as a dictated or self-composed formal statement rather than a staff post, which would use third-person reference throughout.

## Rhetorical Analysis

Devices: bait-and-switch salutation, epithet stacking, ad hominem (the entire out-group characterization is a competence/sanity attack, never an argument), false dichotomy (destroyers vs. savers), hyperbole ("anything possible to destroy our Country"), all-caps emphasis as prosody, and a mobilization close. Propaganda techniques: name-calling, us-vs-them framing, appeal to fear of national destruction, and bandwagon ("your Favorite President" presupposes the consensus it seeks).

"Lunatics" and "Deranged People" constitute **pathologizing** rather than dehumanizing language — the targets remain people, but people rendered non-rational and therefore non-negotiable-with. This is a meaningful gradation below the vermin/animal/infestation register, and the distinction should be preserved for longitudinal tracking rather than collapsed.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated, not high.** The stochastic-terrorism triad is incomplete: targets are named only as a diffuse political category, grievance is articulated, but the implied action is explicitly and exclusively electoral ("We're going to win the Midterms"). Channeling existential stakes into voting is the mitigating feature. The elevation above baseline comes from the framing itself: opponents are cast as actively seeking national destruction and as mentally unfit, a construction that lowers the threshold for others to view them as outside legitimate political contest. "We're not going to let that happen" is the phrase to watch longitudinally — benign when the following clause is an election, considerably less so when it is not.

## Archetypal and Order/Chaos Positioning

Warrior-Savior composite, with the **King** register carried by the proclamation sign-off. He is positioned as **order restorer** against agents of chaos; order is promised to "we" and "our Country," chaos assigned to the enumerated left. The shadow projection is precise and worth flagging: the accusation is that *they* will "do anything possible" — a description of unbounded instrumental means that maps closely onto the accuser's own documented approach to institutional constraint. Grievance intensity is moderate; the blame is fully externalized.

## Longitudinal Note

This post's chief research value is as an instance of the **holiday-greeting-as-attack template**. The comparison worth running is against prior Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Christmas posts across 2017–2026, coded for (a) latency from salutation to first attack, (b) epithet count, and (c) whether any non-attacking holiday post exists in the corpus. The near-total absence of the last category would be the substantive finding.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "His political opponents have been 'fighting for 10 years'" | **Mostly True** | Measured from the June 2015 campaign announcement, organized opposition spans roughly eleven years as of September 2026. Ten is a round-number approximation consistent with his habitual numerical style; the underlying claim of a decade-plus of sustained political conflict is accurate. |
| "Democrats and the political left 'will do anything possible to destroy our Country'" | **False** | A characterization of motive, not a factual report. Ordinary partisan opposition — litigation, legislation, elections — is standard democratic contest. No evidence supports attributing deliberate national-destruction intent to a major political party. |
| "'your Favorite President (ME!)'" | **False** | Presented as consensus fact. Presidential approval in this period has consistently run well below majority, and 'favorite president' rankings in both scholarly and popular surveys do not place him first. |
| "'We're going to win the Midterms, BIG'" | **Mostly False** | The post is authentic. Multiple outlets (The Hill, HuffPost, NewsNation, Breitbart, IBTimes, Voz) reported this exact Truth Social message on Labor Day, September 7, 2026, quoting the closing line verbatim.

The 2026 midterms are scheduled for November 3, 2026, so the outcome is not literally settled as of the post date. However, this is not a claim without evidence — a large, convergent body of polling, forecasting, market, and historical data bears directly on it, and nearly all of it points the other way.

Polling: The generic congressional ballot averages showed Democrats ahead by roughly 6 points in early September 2026 — Silver Bulletin at D+6.6 (versus D+6.5 in early August, i.e. no meaningful movement), FiftyPlusOne at D+6 (49.7 to 43.7) as of September 6, Morning Consult at 46-42 among registered voters, and USPollingData at D+6.3. Trump's job approval averaged roughly 38 percent approve to 58 percent disapprove, with his approval among independents around 34 percent — below the 36 percent that preceded the Democrats' 41-seat wave in 2018.

Forecast models: A Cornell model released September 3, 2026 gave Democrats an 8-in-10 chance of winning the House, projecting roughly 226 Democratic seats to 209 Republican. Its lead author, Peter K. Enns, said that 'if Republicans hold the House, it likely means either everything has gone their way or something unprecedented has happened.' Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin forecast projected a 233-202 Democratic House with an 87 percent chance of Democratic control. Decision Desk HQ gave Democrats a 62 percent chance at the House with an average of 227 seats. Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball both favored Democrats to flip the chamber; Kyle Kondik of Crystal Ball wrote that 'Democrats should flip the House next year, and we favor them to do so.' A Brookings analysis titled 'GOP midterm prospects darken as Trump approval falls' projected a Democratic gain of about 21 seats to a 236-seat majority.

Prediction markets: Polymarket's balance-of-power market priced a Republican sweep of both chambers at 13 percent, a Democratic sweep at 52 percent, and a split Congress with a Democratic House and Republican Senate at 36 percent — meaning roughly 88 percent implied probability that Democrats take the House.

Special elections: Democratic candidates in 2026 special elections ran a median of about 11.5 points ahead of the 2024 presidential baseline, rising to nearly 13 points when late-2025 races are included. Democrats flipped four state legislative seats in 2026 after seven in 2025, including Texas Senate District 9 — a seat Trump carried by 17.4 points — on a 31.8-point swing.

Historical baseline: The president's party lost House seats in 18 of the 20 midterms since 1946, an average of 25 seats. Gallup's analysis found the average loss rises to 37 seats when the president's approval is below 50 percent, versus 14 seats when it is above 50. The only two exceptions since 1946 (1998 and 2002) both involved presidents with high approval ratings.

Track record on this specific prediction: Trump made a near-identical forecast in 2018, tweeting 'RED WAVE' on August 8 of that year. Republicans went on to lose 40-41 House seats and the majority.

Evidence that partially supports the claim: Republicans do hold real advantages. After ten states enacted new congressional maps, Republicans are positioned to gain up to 16 seats from redistricting versus roughly six for Democrats, and courts allowed the Texas and Missouri maps to be used in 2026 (California's Proposition 50 countered with about five Democratic-leaning seats). More importantly, Republicans were favored or close to even to retain the Senate: Decision Desk HQ gave them a 57 percent chance, and Pollsmax projected an average of 50.9 Republican seats, since Democrats need a net gain of four. Nate Silver has acknowledged a path for Republicans to hold the House, though he called it a 'fairly low-probability outcome' requiring substantial economic recovery, successfully painting Democrats as too far left, and a systemic 2016-style polling error; his analyst Eli McKown-Dawson said the environment would need to move from D+6 or D+7 to about D+3. Some Republicans pointed to tightening in late-July polling and a Washington Post finding that voters trusted the GOP more on the economy by 4 points, and NBC News reported the party feeling 'increasingly upbeat.' Countering that, Semafor reported on August 29, 2026 that Republican and independent consumer sentiment was 'starting to fade' going into the midterms.

Assessment: Because a Republican Senate hold is a genuine possibility, an extremely loose reading of 'win the Midterms' is not impossible. But the claim as stated — winning 'BIG' — is contradicted by the generic ballot, presidential approval, every major public forecasting model, prediction markets, the special-election record, and eight decades of midterm history. The election has not occurred, so this cannot be rated definitively false, but the preponderance of available evidence weighs heavily against it. |
| "He 'knows how to WIN'" | **Half True** | Two won presidential elections (2016, 2024) support a winning record electorally; one lost (2020), and the days immediately preceding this post included a nationwide preliminary injunction against his birthright citizenship order — the fourth adverse ruling on that issue. The claim is selectively true. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Idiosyncratic portmanteau insult 'Dumocrats' — long-attested in his personal corpus, absent from staff output
- Parenthetical self-interjection mid-sentence: 'your Favorite President (ME!)'
- Second-person possessive self-description ('your Favorite President') asserting the audience's affection on their behalf
- Irregular capitalization of common nouns: 'Country,' 'Midterms,' 'Favorite President,' 'Deranged People'
- Comma splice / conversational punctuation in 'exhausted by now but, sadly, they're not'

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 85%
- Agreeableness: 8%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 62%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: Angry hostility (Neuroticism) coupled with very low modesty (Agreeableness)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 94%
- Communion: 12%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Embattled victor — simultaneously the proven winner ('knows how to WIN') and the besieged party facing opponents who 'will do anything possible to destroy our Country'
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** A fused composite antagonist: 'Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats,' restated as 'These Deranged People' — three distinct referents collapsed into one, the linguistic signature of splitting

**Identity Claims:**
- 'your Favorite President (ME!)'
- 'knows how to WIN'
- Leader of an eleven-year struggle now approaching vindication
- Savior of the nation ('SAVE AMERICA')
- 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' — self-issued in proclamation register

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Cumulative opposition over an eleven-year span; proximally, the Sept. 3 federal injunction against the birthright citizenship order (fourth adverse ruling on the issue) and the approach of the 2026 midterms)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Democrats, the political left, characterized collectively as 'Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats' and 'Deranged People'
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.50

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Exclamatory cadence and escalating ALL CAPS toward the close
- Grandiose self-reference inserted mid-sentence
- Elevated energy inconsistent with the depletive content of the 'exhausted' aside
- Confident forward prediction of large-margin electoral victory

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 35%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- reaction formation (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 62%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Self-issued endearment in second person ('your Favorite President') asserting audience affection rather than reporting it
- Collective first-person fusion: 'we're not going to let that happen,' 'We're going to win'
- Shared-enemy bonding through stacked epithets
- Existential stakes framing ('SAVE AMERICA') that recruits the reader into a rescue narrative
- Proclamation sign-off positioning the reader as addressed subject rather than social-media peer

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Political opponents framed as actively seeking national destruction ('do anything possible to destroy our Country')
- Pathologization of dissent ('Lunatics,' 'Deranged People') placing opponents outside rational political contest
- Existential stakes framing ('SAVE AMERICA') applied to a routine electoral cycle
- 'we're not going to let that happen' — indeterminate prevention language, here mitigated by an explicitly electoral referent

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-08._

> His political opponents have been 'fighting for 10 years'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Measured from the June 2015 campaign announcement, organized opposition spans roughly eleven years as of September 2026. Ten is a round-number approximation consistent with his habitual numerical style; the underlying claim of a decade-plus of sustained political conflict is accurate.

> Democrats and the political left 'will do anything possible to destroy our Country'

**FALSE**

A characterization of motive, not a factual report. Ordinary partisan opposition — litigation, legislation, elections — is standard democratic contest. No evidence supports attributing deliberate national-destruction intent to a major political party.

> 'your Favorite President (ME!)'

**FALSE**

Presented as consensus fact. Presidential approval in this period has consistently run well below majority, and 'favorite president' rankings in both scholarly and popular surveys do not place him first.

> 'We're going to win the Midterms, BIG'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The post is authentic. Multiple outlets (The Hill, HuffPost, NewsNation, Breitbart, IBTimes, Voz) reported this exact Truth Social message on Labor Day, September 7, 2026, quoting the closing line verbatim.

The 2026 midterms are scheduled for November 3, 2026, so the outcome is not literally settled as of the post date. However, this is not a claim without evidence — a large, convergent body of polling, forecasting, market, and historical data bears directly on it, and nearly all of it points the other way.

Polling: The generic congressional ballot averages showed Democrats ahead by roughly 6 points in early September 2026 — Silver Bulletin at D+6.6 (versus D+6.5 in early August, i.e. no meaningful movement), FiftyPlusOne at D+6 (49.7 to 43.7) as of September 6, Morning Consult at 46-42 among registered voters, and USPollingData at D+6.3. Trump's job approval averaged roughly 38 percent approve to 58 percent disapprove, with his approval among independents around 34 percent — below the 36 percent that preceded the Democrats' 41-seat wave in 2018.

Forecast models: A Cornell model released September 3, 2026 gave Democrats an 8-in-10 chance of winning the House, projecting roughly 226 Democratic seats to 209 Republican. Its lead author, Peter K. Enns, said that 'if Republicans hold the House, it likely means either everything has gone their way or something unprecedented has happened.' Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin forecast projected a 233-202 Democratic House with an 87 percent chance of Democratic control. Decision Desk HQ gave Democrats a 62 percent chance at the House with an average of 227 seats. Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball both favored Democrats to flip the chamber; Kyle Kondik of Crystal Ball wrote that 'Democrats should flip the House next year, and we favor them to do so.' A Brookings analysis titled 'GOP midterm prospects darken as Trump approval falls' projected a Democratic gain of about 21 seats to a 236-seat majority.

Prediction markets: Polymarket's balance-of-power market priced a Republican sweep of both chambers at 13 percent, a Democratic sweep at 52 percent, and a split Congress with a Democratic House and Republican Senate at 36 percent — meaning roughly 88 percent implied probability that Democrats take the House.

Special elections: Democratic candidates in 2026 special elections ran a median of about 11.5 points ahead of the 2024 presidential baseline, rising to nearly 13 points when late-2025 races are included. Democrats flipped four state legislative seats in 2026 after seven in 2025, including Texas Senate District 9 — a seat Trump carried by 17.4 points — on a 31.8-point swing.

Historical baseline: The president's party lost House seats in 18 of the 20 midterms since 1946, an average of 25 seats. Gallup's analysis found the average loss rises to 37 seats when the president's approval is below 50 percent, versus 14 seats when it is above 50. The only two exceptions since 1946 (1998 and 2002) both involved presidents with high approval ratings.

Track record on this specific prediction: Trump made a near-identical forecast in 2018, tweeting 'RED WAVE' on August 8 of that year. Republicans went on to lose 40-41 House seats and the majority.

Evidence that partially supports the claim: Republicans do hold real advantages. After ten states enacted new congressional maps, Republicans are positioned to gain up to 16 seats from redistricting versus roughly six for Democrats, and courts allowed the Texas and Missouri maps to be used in 2026 (California's Proposition 50 countered with about five Democratic-leaning seats). More importantly, Republicans were favored or close to even to retain the Senate: Decision Desk HQ gave them a 57 percent chance, and Pollsmax projected an average of 50.9 Republican seats, since Democrats need a net gain of four. Nate Silver has acknowledged a path for Republicans to hold the House, though he called it a 'fairly low-probability outcome' requiring substantial economic recovery, successfully painting Democrats as too far left, and a systemic 2016-style polling error; his analyst Eli McKown-Dawson said the environment would need to move from D+6 or D+7 to about D+3. Some Republicans pointed to tightening in late-July polling and a Washington Post finding that voters trusted the GOP more on the economy by 4 points, and NBC News reported the party feeling 'increasingly upbeat.' Countering that, Semafor reported on August 29, 2026 that Republican and independent consumer sentiment was 'starting to fade' going into the midterms.

Assessment: Because a Republican Senate hold is a genuine possibility, an extremely loose reading of 'win the Midterms' is not impossible. But the claim as stated — winning 'BIG' — is contradicted by the generic ballot, presidential approval, every major public forecasting model, prediction markets, the special-election record, and eight decades of midterm history. The election has not occurred, so this cannot be rated definitively false, but the preponderance of available evidence weighs heavily against it.

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> He 'knows how to WIN'

**HALF TRUE**

Two won presidential elections (2016, 2024) support a winning record electorally; one lost (2020), and the days immediately preceding this post included a nationwide preliminary injunction against his birthright citizenship order — the fourth adverse ruling on that issue. The claim is selectively true.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- holiday-attack-template (95%)
- grandiose-self-reference (90%)
- splitting (85%)
- out-group-pathologization (82%)
- supply-seeking (80%)
- electoral-mobilization (70%)
- existential-framing (70%)
- projection (65%)
- vulnerable-seam (45%)
- cognitive-baseline-preserved (60%)
- warrior-savior-archetype (70%)
- order-restorer (65%)

## That day

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

**Mock-official maps rename New Mexico 'New America' in a two-minute Labor Day barrage**

He spent Sunday evening sharing flattering headlines and promoting a Victor Davis Hanson book that he said "understands me, perhaps better, than I understand myself." After a full night off, Labor Day morning opened with an angry attack on a think-tank guest who had said National Guard deployments didn't reduce crime. A fast run of images followed: half a dozen maps renaming New Mexico "New America," memes of Iran's navy on the ocean floor, and a ranking that put him above Lincoln and Washington. His holiday greeting went out "to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics," and in the early afternoon he declared that Canada's Bombardier would no longer sell planes in the US, a day before Canada's retaliatory tariffs kicked in. The evening was calm and boastful, and it ended with a promise that gas will fall below two dollars once the US wins the war with Iran.

Full digest for 2026-09-07: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 7). Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117230298017100144
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