# Post ts_117312531137546490

- Post ID: `ts_117312531137546490`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-22T03:19:27.015Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117312531137546490/analysis
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## Post text

> Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA rollback could save ratepayers $310 billion: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/trumps-epa-gets-action-roots-out-30-billion-waste-fraud-and-abuse

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,082
- Reposts: 4,221
- Replies: 768
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-29T20:02:09.034Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-22T03:44:12.410Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A headline pasted verbatim, under a mismatched link

The whole post is the headline of a Just the News article dated September 21, 2026, followed by its URL: "Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA rollback could save ratepayers $310 billion." No word in it is his own. The one oddity is the URL. Its slug reads "trumps-epa-gets-action-roots-out-30-billion-waste-fraud-and-abuse", while the article it loads covers the EPA's final repeal of the Biden-era Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants and never mentions $30 billion in waste or fraud. The outlet seems to have reused an older URL. Nothing indicates the poster noticed or cared, which fits sharing by headline with the article unread.

## Timing and hand

The post went up at 03:19 UTC, which is 11:19 pm Eastern on September 21. That evening he was in New York; an earlier post had him "on the way to... Gracie Mansion." Late-night posting in his local timezone points toward him. The content points nowhere: a copied headline has no typos, no drift and no self-referential aside, and staff produce the same headline-plus-link posts. Among the day's other posts, the three templated endorsements ("Complete and Total Endorsement... HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!") read as staff formatting, and the CNN/Politico lawsuit post, with its parenthetical jabs, reads as his own. This post could belong with either group. The timing tips it slightly toward him, and the attribution confidence is low.

## What the selection says

Because he wrote nothing, the psychological reading rests on which article he chose. The headline credits an agency action to him by name ("Trump EPA"), sets it up as a fight between ordinary people and an intrusive state ("Big Brother"), and turns it into a large consumer benefit ("save ratepayers $310 billion"). That combines achievement display with the order-restorer stance he takes often: government overreach threatens a basic service ("Keep the lights on"), and he rolls it back. The Orwellian label casts the previous administration's emissions rule as surveillance-style tyranny. That is a split framing, but the outlet wrote it, not him. The post has no grievance, no named enemy and no rage, so it cannot be read as a response to injury. Its function is supply-adjacent maintenance: it puts favorable coverage of his administration in his feed during a day otherwise taken up by endorsements and a media lawsuit.

The one defense-adjacent feature is rationalization by omission. The $310 billion figure is presented as a clean savings, with nothing said about the health and climate benefits the repealed rule was projected to deliver. The article relays that framing from the EPA itself, and reposting it spreads it without adding any distortion of his own.

## Rhetoric and risk

The rhetorical devices belong to the source outlet: an Orwell reference used as a slogan ("Big Brother"), a fear appeal about the grid ("Keep the lights on"), and a large round-sounding projection standing in for a disputed cost-benefit calculation. Nothing in the post targets a person or a group, so it contains nothing to mobilize against anyone. A copied headline gives no language sample, so it tells us nothing about his cognition.

## The $310 billion claim

The figure is an accurate quote of the EPA's own projection ("$310 billion through 2047," per the article, citing EPA announcements). Whether ratepayers will actually save that much is a separate question. The article doesn't lay out the method. Regulatory savings estimates from an administration defending its own repeal usually count avoided compliance and system costs, leave out forgone public-health benefits, and assume utilities pass the savings on to customers. The Biden-era analysis of the same rule estimated modest compliance costs that were far outweighed by health and climate benefits. The claim is best read as a contested projection: it is attributed correctly, but "save ratepayers" asserts an outcome, not a forecast.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump EPA rollback could save ratepayers $310 billion" | **Half True** | The linked article (Just the News, Sept. 21, 2026) attributes a projection of "$310 billion through 2047" to EPA statements on its final repeal of the Biden-era power-plant Carbon Pollution Standards. The figure is quoted accurately. It is the repealing agency's own estimate, the article doesn't explain its method, and it frames the savings without the forgone health and climate benefits that the Biden-era analysis said far outweighed compliance costs. Whether ratepayers see that much depends on utilities passing savings through, which the projection assumes and does not show. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- 11:19 pm Eastern posting time while in New York, favoring personal posting
- verbatim headline-plus-link format with no original words, a format staff also produce
- no typos, drift, caps or self-referential aside to discriminate either way
- URL slug mismatched with headline, consistent with sharing by headline without reading

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: assertiveness (achievement display)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: achievement

### Narrative

- **Role:** order restorer who protects ordinary ratepayers
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Biden-era regulators cast as "Big Brother"

**Identity Claims:**
- his administration lowers costs for consumers

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Just the News coverage of the EPA's final repeal of power-plant carbon standards)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- positions the leader as guardian of household utility bills ("Keep the lights on")

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-22._

> Trump EPA rollback could save ratepayers $310 billion

**HALF TRUE**

The linked article (Just the News, Sept. 21, 2026) attributes a projection of "$310 billion through 2047" to EPA statements on its final repeal of the Biden-era power-plant Carbon Pollution Standards. The figure is quoted accurately. It is the repealing agency's own estimate, the article doesn't explain its method, and it frames the savings without the forgone health and climate benefits that the Biden-era analysis said far outweighed compliance costs. Whether ratepayers see that much depends on utilities passing savings through, which the projection assumes and does not show.

Sources: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/trumps-epa-gets-action-roots-out-30-billion-waste-fraud-and-abuse

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- article-share (90%)
- energy-deregulation (80%)
- EPA (70%)
- achievement-display (50%)

## That day

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

**The UN address went unmentioned all day; the one post he clearly wrote denied a munitions shortage in absolute terms**

Trump was in New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly and never posted about it once. Five posts all day, mostly other people's material: two bare links to the same friendly news site, a repost about household income, and a quick thank-you to former ballplayer Johnny Damon for refusing to apologize for supporting him. The one post he clearly wrote himself came in the morning, insisting the US has more munitions than it could ever use and calling anyone who says otherwise cowards and traitors. He then went quiet for eleven hours, which is what a day of speeches and bilateral meetings looks like, and closed the evening with an uncommented link about an FBI agent in the Jack Smith investigation. By his standards a very slow day, with one sharp moment in it.

Full digest for 2026-09-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 22). Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117312531137546490
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA..." Truth Social, 22 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117312531137546490. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA...," Truth Social, September 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117312531137546490.

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