# Post x_1300640042105344000

- Post ID: `x_1300640042105344000`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-09-01T07:42:05.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1300640042105344000
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1300640042105344000/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1300640042105344000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Biden will also raise your taxes like never before. Sad! https://t.co/zgBJac6JmE

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 17,284
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.826Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T10:50:33.767Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Twitter Post — September 1, 2020, ~02:42 AM CDT (Kenosha)

## Authorship Attribution
**Confidence: High — Authentic Trump**

Sent at approximately 2:42 AM local time in Kenosha, Wisconsin (Trump's documented location that day per his visit to survey property damage). Late-night/early-morning timing is a well-established marker of personally authored posts. The post's structural fingerprints — single declarative sentence, trademark "Sad!" closer, floating hyperbolic intensifier, direct-address "your" — are consistent with hundreds of baseline authentic Trump posts. Scavino-attributed posts do not typically emerge at this hour and tend toward professional completeness absent here.

## Psychological State and Trigger
This is a **maintenance-mode, supply-seeking** campaign post. No acute narcissistic injury is detectable. Trump had just concluded the RNC (Aug 24–27) and visited Kenosha this same day in a show of law-and-order strength. He is in a mildly **grandiose** narcissistic state — not defensive or reactive, but offensively positioned as the implicit protector of audience financial interests against Biden as economic predator.

## Defense Mechanisms
Mild **projection** is detectable: framing Biden as the sole fiscal threat to Americans deflects from Trump's own fiscal record (significant deficit expansion under TCJA). The attack is forward-looking and mnemonic, not reactive.

## Rhetorical Techniques
A compressed, single-unit fear implant: one sentence, one target, one emotional valence. "Like never before" functions as a non-falsifiable intensifier that amplifies perceived threat while resisting factual rebuttal. "Your taxes" converts abstract policy into personal financial threat. "Sad!" performs contempt as dominance — signaling Biden is beneath argument rather than deserving engagement.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden will raise your taxes" | **Mostly True** | Biden's 2020 platform included corporate tax rate increase from 21% to 28%, income tax restoration to 39.6% for earners above $400k, and capital gains increases. Tax increases were a documented, explicit campaign position. |
| "like never before" | **Mostly False** | Biden proposed restoring rates largely to pre-TCJA (2017) levels — i.e., rates that existed under Obama and prior administrations. Characterized as unprecedented, this is unsupported; top marginal rates have historically been far higher (91% in 1950s, 70% pre-Reagan). The claim is standard hyperbolic campaign rhetoric. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment
None. Routine campaign attack rhetoric.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 'Sad!' is a well-documented Trump signature exclamation
- Short, punchy, non-subordinated syntax consistent with authentic style
- UTC 07:42 = ~02:42 AM CDT in Kenosha, Illinois (Trump's location per known events) — late-night timing strongly favors authentic authorship
- Hyperbolic 'like never before' phrase matches established idiolect
- No polished formatting or event-announcement structure typical of Scavino aide posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (2020 campaign cycle, post-RNC offensive phase)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address ('your taxes') creates personal financial threat to reader, pulling them into shared victimhood narrative

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Biden will raise your taxes

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Biden's 2020 platform included corporate tax rate increase from 21% to 28%, income tax restoration to 39.6% for earners above $400k, and capital gains increases. Tax increases were a documented, explicit campaign position.

Sources: Biden 2020 campaign platform; Tax Policy Center analyses of Biden tax proposals

> like never before

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Biden proposed restoring rates largely to pre-TCJA (2017) levels — i.e., rates that existed under Obama and prior administrations. Characterized as unprecedented, this is unsupported; top marginal rates have historically been far higher (91% in 1950s, 70% pre-Reagan). The claim is standard hyperbolic campaign rhetoric.

Sources: IRS historical tax rate data; Tax Foundation Biden tax plan analysis 2020

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- campaign-attack (90%)
- tax-policy (80%)
- fear-appeal (75%)
- authentic-trump (88%)
- late-night-post (80%)
- maintenance-mode (70%)
- hyperbole (85%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Campaign Marathon Gives Way to Afternoon Flashpoints Over Kenosha, Health, and NBA Protests**

Trump had a scattered, moderately active day bookended by a late-night posting burst and an afternoon cluster of politically charged messages. After promoting a Fox News interview and sharing links past 3 AM, he went quiet for about nine hours, then re-emerged with attacks on the NBA for its racial justice boycott and a heated denial of reports he had suffered mini-strokes. The Kenosha visit dominated the afternoon — he framed it as a law-and-order triumph while sidestepping the Jacob Blake shooting entirely. The day's overall mood was self-assured and promotional, punctuated by two brief flashes of defensiveness.

Full digest for 2020-09-01: https://trump.fm/date/2020-09-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, September 1). Biden will also raise your taxes like never... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1300640042105344000
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Biden will also raise your taxes like never before. Sad!..." X (Twitter), 1 Sep. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1300640042105344000. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Biden will also raise your taxes like never before. Sad!...," X (Twitter), September 1, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1300640042105344000.

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