# Post x_1305219365743153200

- Post ID: `x_1305219365743153200`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-09-13T22:58:41.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1305219365743153200
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1305219365743153200/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1305219365743153200.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> ...and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all rebates to middlemen, further reducing prices.

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 16,379
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.803Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T14:41:31.600Z (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 Tweet — September 13, 2020 (Drug Pricing Thread Continuation)

## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Likely authentic (medium confidence).** The ellipsis opening marks this as a thread continuation — a pattern more consistent with Trump personally amplifying a message than aide composition. The ALL CAPS "FAST!" is a reliable authentic stylometric marker. UTC 22:58 converts to approximately 6:58 PM Eastern (Trump was at or returning from the Freeland, MI rally), placing this in an ambiguous but plausible authentic posting window. The preceding thread tweet about the EO reads more formally; this continuation has the additive, unpolished energy of Trump personally piling on.

## Psychological State
Trump is in a **grandiose, supply-seeking mode** — presenting a policy action as a completed victory requiring audience validation. No rage or paranoid features are detectable. The psychological driver is **achievement display**: the drug pricing EO serves as evidence of his dealmaker identity and differentiates him from the "47 years in politics" Biden narrative running simultaneously in the day's posting sequence.

## Level 3 Narrative Identity
The **Dealmaker-Deliverer** protagonist role is central. Trump positions himself as the executive who cuts through institutional obstruction ("middlemen") to deliver tangible benefits directly to ordinary Americans. The "middlemen" construct is a populist villain device — diffuse enough to avoid specific defamation while channeling systemic grievance. The narrative sequence is **redemptive**: decades of pharmaceutical industry exploitation → Trump arrives and ends it.

## Defense Mechanisms
**Distortion** is the primary mechanism: claiming prices are "coming down FAST" on the day the EO was signed collapses the distinction between policy announcement and policy outcome. This is a consistent pattern in Trump's communication — the act of commanding is presented as equivalent to the accomplished result. **Rationalization** supports this: the EO is framed as a definitive termination ("just ended") when it initiated a contested regulatory process subsequently blocked by courts.

## Rhetorical Techniques
The ellipsis opening creates in medias res momentum — the reader enters a stream of victories already in progress. "FAST!" functions as an excitement injection into otherwise factual-sounding claims. "Middlemen" serves as a complexity-reduction device, collapsing the PBM rebate system into a single, intuitively villainous actor. The overall register is confident and acquisitive rather than combative, consistent with a day when Trump was on offense with positive policy messaging.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Prices are coming down FAST" | **Mostly False** | The Most Favored Nation executive order was signed the same day this tweet was posted. Drug prices do not respond to executive orders within hours. No empirical data supported an active downward price trend at time of posting. The MFN rule was later blocked by federal courts before taking effect. |
| "Just ended all rebates to middlemen" | **Half True** | Trump signed an EO directing HHS to pursue rebate reform for pharmacy benefit managers. However, 'ended' overstates the action — the EO initiated a regulatory process, not an immediate termination. A prior rebate rule from 2019 had been withdrawn under industry pressure; this EO revived similar intent but faced significant implementation obstacles. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Danger Assessment
**None.** Post contains no threatening language, dehumanization, or mobilization signals. Routine political supply-seeking with distortion of policy outcomes.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Ellipsis at opening signals this is a thread continuation — authentic Trump frequently chains tweets
- ALL CAPS 'FAST!' is a strong authentic stylometric marker
- Punchy, incomplete sentence structure consistent with stream-of-consciousness posting
- UTC 22:58 = ~6:58 PM EDT (Michigan/Eastern) — early evening, not late-night but not standard business hours either; Trump had just come from or was at the Freeland, MI rally
- Absence of polished policy language; aide-written drug pricing content tends toward complete, formal sentences

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Drug pricing executive order just signed — milestone achievement requiring audience validation)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct-address style creates sense of personal delivery of good news to followers
- Victory framing invites shared celebration and reflected glory

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Prices are coming down FAST

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Most Favored Nation executive order was signed the same day this tweet was posted. Drug prices do not respond to executive orders within hours. No empirical data supported an active downward price trend at time of posting. The MFN rule was later blocked by federal courts before taking effect.

Sources: General knowledge of MFN EO timeline and litigation history

> Just ended all rebates to middlemen

**HALF TRUE**

Trump signed an EO directing HHS to pursue rebate reform for pharmacy benefit managers. However, 'ended' overstates the action — the EO initiated a regulatory process, not an immediate termination. A prior rebate rule from 2019 had been withdrawn under industry pressure; this EO revived similar intent but faced significant implementation obstacles.

Sources: General knowledge of PBM rebate reform history

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- drug-pricing (90%)
- executive-order (85%)
- grandiosity (55%)
- victory-framing (80%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- distortion (60%)
- populism (65%)
- thread-continuation (50%)
- fact-distortion (75%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Grandiosity Masks Woodward Crisis as Late-Night Dehumanization Escalates to "Animals That Must Be Hit Hard"**

Trump spent the day barnstorming Nevada with indoor rallies that violated the state's pandemic gathering limits, posting dozens of times between campaign stops. The mood was overwhelmingly boastful and combative, fueled by crowd energy, but punctuated by flashes of real anger -- particularly at a Biden campaign ad using the "losers and suckers" story and at the ambush shooting of two LA deputies. The most alarming moment came well after 2 AM local time, when a burst of posts escalated from religious nationalism to outright dehumanization, calling unnamed people "animals that must be hit hard." Notably absent all day: any direct engagement with the Woodward recordings showing he knowingly downplayed COVID, the single most damaging story of the week.

Full digest for 2020-09-13: https://trump.fm/date/2020-09-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, September 13). ...and prices are coming down FAST! Also just... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1305219365743153200
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "...and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all..." X (Twitter), 13 Sep. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1305219365743153200. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "...and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all...," X (Twitter), September 13, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1305219365743153200.

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