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Analysis: Fragment Post on Trade Policy (Part 2 of Thread)

This post is the continuation of the previous post: "The U.S. is going to substantialy reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, but any business that leaves our country for another country," completing the thought with a threat of consequences for offshoring. The ellipsis ("......") signals a third part likely follows.

Authorship

Posted at 11:49 UTC = 6:49 AM EST. Trump was president-elect based in New York. This is early morning — consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns (pre-dawn/dawn Twitter sessions). The previous post in the thread contained "substantialy" (misspelling), reinforcing authenticity. The trailing ellipsis style is characteristic Trump threading.

Psychological Content

The post articulates a punitive economic nationalism: companies that leave, fire workers, and build abroad will face consequences for trying to sell back into the US. This is a power/control assertion — the incoming president positioning himself as enforcer of loyalty from corporations.

Rhetorical Structure

The three-step narrative (fires employees → builds elsewhere → thinks it can sell back) constructs a moral sequence where the company is cast as betrayer. "Thinks it will sell" implies delusion on the company's part — they don't yet know Trump will stop them.

Context

This thread follows the Carrier deal (late November 2016), where Trump claimed credit for keeping jobs from moving to Mexico, establishing the template for this rhetoric.