# Post x_971008238673068038 - Post ID: `x_971008238673068038` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2018-03-06T13:02:59.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_971008238673068038 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_971008238673068038/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_971008238673068038.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > We are getting it done - jobs and security! https://t.co/Ui8bubj7Yr ## Engagement - Likes: 52,999 - Reposts: 13,033 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.404Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-14T01:54:43.341Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "We are getting it done — jobs and security!" (2018-03-06) ## Overview This is a low-intensity, almost certainly aide-authored promotional post. Its psychological interest lies not in its content but in its **contextual contrast**: it was posted on one of the more turbulent days of the early Trump presidency, immediately adjacent to authentic posts exhibiting anxiety about "chaos" narratives. The post functions as counter-programming. --- ## Authorship Attribution (High Confidence: Aide-Written) **Local time: 08:02 EST** (Washington DC). The post falls squarely in business hours. It exhibits zero authentic Trump stylistic markers: no typos, no ALL CAPS, no personal grievance, no exclamation-point cascades, no stream-of-consciousness digression. The clean promotional structure — short positive assertion + outbound link — is a Scavino-era communications template. The pairing with an attached URL reinforces this: authentic Trump posts of this period rarely include curated media assets. Confidence: **high** that this is staff-authored. --- ## Psychological Context The post was published on a day featuring: - Hope Hicks resignation announcement - Gary Cohn resignation (tariff disagreement) - Stormy Daniels lawsuit filing - An active earlier post by Trump explicitly denying White House "chaos" The function of this post within that context is **reality-management via omission** — projecting competent forward motion without acknowledging any of the destabilizing events. This is consistent with a communications operation attempting to flatten the news cycle. --- ## Narrative Identity The post invokes the two-pillar campaign promise frame: **economic populism** ("jobs") + **national security** ("security"). The collective pronoun "we" serves a parasocial function, absorbing the audience into the success narrative and diffusing personal accountability. The protagonist role cast here is the **competent executive delivering results** — the campaign Trump rather than the besieged White House Trump visible in contemporaneous authentic posts. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis "We are getting it done" is a near-unfalsifiable positive assertion — designed to be felt rather than scrutinized. "Jobs and security" is a compression of the administration's full electoral coalition appeal (blue-collar economic anxiety + law-and-order/national security voters) into four words, functioning as brand reinforcement. No aggressive, dehumanizing, or dangerous rhetoric is present. --- ## Reality Distortion The singular notable element: the implicit claim of productive, stable governance on a day of acute institutional instability. This is not gaslighting in the targeted psychological sense — it is standard political counter-messaging — but it represents a curated misrepresentation of the day's actual events. --- ## Cognitive Assessment Post is too brief and aide-authored to yield meaningful cognitive signal. No markers detectable. Complexity is intentionally minimal. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No targeting, no grievance articulation, no mobilization language. --- ## Longitudinal Note Compare to same-day authentic post: *"The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong!"* — which shows defensiveness, capitalization, denial mechanisms, and emotional reactivity entirely absent here. The contrast between the two posts on the same day illustrates the divergence between authentic Trump affect (anxious, defensive) and staff-managed Trump persona (confident, promotional). No clinical summary generated — post does not meet threshold for clinically significant content in isolation. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "We are getting it done — jobs and security" | **Half True** | January 2018 jobs report showed strong employment figures, and the steel/aluminum tariff announcement (this week) was framed as a national security measure. However, 'getting it done' elides significant dysfunction: on this date, two senior officials (Hicks, Cohn) resigned, and the administration faced a lawsuit (Daniels) and congressional impasse (DACA, gun control). The claim is selectively accurate at best. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted at 08:02 EST (business hours, Washington DC) - Clean grammar, no typos or misspellings - No emotional reactivity or ALL CAPS - Polished brevity typical of staff-drafted promotional content - Outbound link suggests pre-packaged media asset ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Staff-directed messaging operation) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 15% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective 'we' framing to create in-group solidarity - Vague positive claim inviting attribution of success without specifying mechanism ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-14._ > We are getting it done — jobs and security **HALF TRUE** January 2018 jobs report showed strong employment figures, and the steel/aluminum tariff announcement (this week) was framed as a national security measure. However, 'getting it done' elides significant dysfunction: on this date, two senior officials (Hicks, Cohn) resigned, and the administration faced a lawsuit (Daniels) and congressional impasse (DACA, gun control). The claim is selectively accurate at best. Sources: BLS employment data Q1 2018; Context from provided historian events Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - image-maintenance (85%) - crisis-counter-narrative (80%) - promotional (75%) - low-intensity (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Chaos Denial Bookends a Morning of Grandiose Displacement Amid Crisis Cascade** Trump spent the morning aggressively deflecting media coverage of White House turmoil following the departures of Hope Hicks and Gary Cohn, opening and closing the day with nearly identical posts insisting there was "no Chaos, only great Energy." In between, he cycled rapidly through a grab bag of topics -- Oscar ratings, DACA, a favorable court ruling, and North Korea diplomacy -- in what reads as classic displacement from the week's real stressors. Notably absent was any mention of the Stormy Daniels lawsuit filed that same day, a conspicuous silence given how much else he addressed. The overall mood was performatively upbeat and grandiose, but the compulsive return to the chaos denial hours later, this time with more edge, suggested the wound hadn't closed. Full digest for 2018-03-06: https://trump.fm/date/2018-03-06/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, March 6). We are getting it done - jobs and security!... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_971008238673068038 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We are getting it done - jobs and security!..." X (Twitter), 6 Mar. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_971008238673068038. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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