# Post x_923150966551171100

- Post ID: `x_923150966551171100`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-10-25T15:35:16.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_923150966551171100
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_923150966551171100/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_923150966551171100.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. Great support from so many sides. Big winners will be the middle class, business &amp, JOBS

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 14,892
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.012Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-12T00:44:49.633Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Tax Cut Promotion Post (2017-10-25)

A routine promotional post about the Republican tax reform effort, posted at 11:35 AM ET (Trump was in Washington during this period for Senate meetings). The post is a straightforward supply-seeking message with standard Trumpian hyperbole.

### Authorship
Business-hours posting, clean grammar, standard promotional framing — consistent with aide-drafted or aide-polished content. The "&amp," encoding artifact (likely "&" rendered incorrectly) suggests copy-paste or platform artifact rather than spontaneous composition.

### Psychological State
Grandiose but low-intensity. This is routine maintenance/supply-seeking rather than reactive posting. The same-day posts about Flake/Corker show the reactive emotional content; this post is the counterbalancing "presidential" message.

### Rhetorical Devices
- Superlative claim: "biggest tax cut in U.S. history"
- Bandwagon: "Great support from so many sides"
- Populist framing: "middle class" as primary beneficiary
- Tricolon: "middle class, business & JOBS"

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biggest tax cut in U.S. history" | **Mostly False** | The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (signed Dec 2017) was significant but not the largest as a percentage of GDP. Reagan's Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 was larger by that standard. Multiple fact-checkers rated this claim false. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (11:35 AM ET)
- Clean grammar
- Promotional/political messaging tone
- Encoding artifact suggests copy-paste

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- inclusive populist framing — 'Big winners will be the middle class'

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-12._

> Biggest tax cut in U.S. history

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (signed Dec 2017) was significant but not the largest as a percentage of GDP. Reagan's Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 was larger by that standard. Multiple fact-checkers rated this claim false.

Sources: Historical tax legislation comparisons; Treasury Department data

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- tax_reform (100%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- hyperbole (60%)

## That day

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

**Morning Grievance Burst Over Dossier and Senate Critics Yields to Controlled Presidential Routine**

Trump started the day in reactive mode, seizing on the news that the Clinton campaign helped fund the Steele dossier and taking a victory lap over Senators Flake and Corker exiting the Senate race. The morning posts carried a brief flash of anger and a pointed victim narrative, but both faded quickly. The rest of the day was dominated by routine presidential business — a call with China's Xi Jinping, a Texas hurricane briefing, tax reform messaging, and plugging a Lou Dobbs interview. Overall a controlled, low-intensity day with grievance confined to a narrow early window.

Full digest for 2017-10-25: https://trump.fm/date/2017-10-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, October 25). Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_923150966551171100
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. Great..." X (Twitter), 25 Oct. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_923150966551171100. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. Great...," X (Twitter), October 25, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_923150966551171100.

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