Trump has takento referring to himself in the third person, so the usage here doesn't indicate whether he wrote it or not.
TBH I'm not sure if it's better or worse if he did.
Speaking of Wiles, she has apparently gone on record sayingshe thinks that he has the mind of an alcoholic, only without the booze. Dry drunk would explain a lot. But then again, so would dementia plus flagrant narcissism.
The grammar checker is good at catching most errors. It did suggest that "An unfortunate" should replace "A very sad". But that's a style choice.
But who writes 62-word run-on sentences on a social media platform without grammatical errors? It gives the impression of premeditation, not off-the-cuff.
I have been assuming that he wrote his own posts on the assumption that even his core supporters in his top admin aren’t dumb enough to write that shit.
Seems like a bad assumption. At least based on the stuff they say in public on their own behalf.
Hegseth has proposed a plan to significantly reduce the number of four-star generals. The proposal appears to be consistent with the recently released National Security Strategy: increase the focus on the Americas and reduce attention to Europe.
Previously to this discussion, I assumed that Trump's posts were all his and expressed who he is. I wondered why some staffer person wasn't assigned the job of constantly checking and removing his posts. Then I read this excerpt from a a discussion about his top office manager: “There is this idea that people have that I think was very common in the first administration,” he told me, “that their objective was to control the president or influence the president, or even manipulate the president because they had to in order to serve the national interest. Susie just takes the diametrically opposite viewpoint, which is that she’s a facilitator, that the American people have elected Donald Trump. And her job is to actually facilitate his vision and to make his vision come to life.” So Trump unleashed and uncensored, served straight without a mixer, is her goal. And if he stays up all night broadcasting out his character deficiencies and mental issues, so be it.
Gemini says that there's no explicit evidence of AI being used in the past two weeks of Trump's Truth Social postings.
"Based on an analysis of Donald Trump's Truth Social timeline from December 2, 2025, to December 16, 2025, there is no evidence that the text of his posts is AI-generated. Conversely, the text exhibits strong markers of his established human writing style."
"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"
The only error my grammar checker found was using "of" instead of "with." I would expect more grammatical errors unless whoever the writer is is using a grammar checker.
I pretty much agree with nous, and did so as soon as I read lj's post. Referring to himself in the third person in this way has been a frequent ploy of his (God knows what he thinks it conveys - I believe that psychiatrists categorise it as a sign of some kind of disorder, but can't remember which), and as for the illiterate grammar etc which cleek notes, I find that utterly unsurprising. I hadn't thought of the use of AI, but that would be unsurprising too.
I would not discount He Who Slumbers as the "author" of those based on the language and the weird syntax. There's often a disconnect between people's spoken and written vocabularies that happens because one is synchronous and extemporaneous and the other is asynchronous and somewhat iterative. The Ancient Orange One could very well type part of it, get suggestions from AI that get incorporated, and then riff on the AI suggestions in ways that undo part of the coherence forced upon the first draft by the suggestions. They all read like patchwriting to me. He could be pissed and ranting, set it aside for an AI check and a McNugget, seize hold of a suggestion and then try to kick that suggestion up with his own special spin on it.
What I see is not so different from any freshman first draft done too late at night in a fit of pique.
So put me down as a vote for "it's him - with slight input from an inanimate assistant."
I guess I have been assuming that he wrote his own posts on the assumption that even his core supporters in his top admin aren't dumb enough to write that shit.
I don't doubt that a significant portion of Orange's posts are written by someone (or something?) else, but I wouldn't necessarily attribute his late-night/early-morning posts to someone else just because of the time of day. That guy's a total f**king weirdo who is obsessed with himself and lacks impulse control.
He's patient zero for TDS. It's a different disease than he thinks it is.
An AI generating Trump's social media posts?
Seems plausible.
It's the modern equivalent of "infinite number of monkeys at typewriters", except that the "typewriters" are smartphones, the number of monkeys isn't infinite, and the monkeys are brain-damaged.
It's been obvious for some time that many (most?, virtually all?) of the Truth Social posts are written by someone else. Too many long sentences, too many big words, too long, just flat out too many posts. Which also may explain the use of the third person, althouth Trump has taken to doing that when speaking.
At minimum, Trump rants about something, a minion writes it down, cleans up the wording, and enters it -- which I would guess is what happened, at least in part, with the Rob Reiner post. More often, someone else drafts a post, reads it to Trump to get his approval, and then posts it. And sometimes (for example the middle of the night posts) someone just echoes his style. Albeit with better syntax and a far bigger vocabulary than Trump ever uses.
marching band is seen as a ‘girly’ thing in Japan.
When I was in college (late '60s), the Cal Band was still men only. I knew several women who had been in their (California) high school marching band, and were seriously miffed that they were excluded.
one of the comments on that Kyoto HS vid said the reason there were so many women in the band was because marching band is seen as a 'girly' thing in Japan.
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it being a former girls-only school makes more sense, though.
"...to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump..."
'of' is a very strange preposition to use here. i can't think of a way in which it could be considered correct.
and this:
"...with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before."
is a hideous mess.
whoever writes these doesn't care much about grammar.
Hartmut, I suppose one could read it like that, but I'm just pointing out that linguistically, the wording is a bit implausible as something authored by Trump, which then has me imagining some writers' room where they are churning out these truth social posts. Gemini tells me that he averages 15-20 a day but that's skewed, and it was mentioned that he posted 160 times in a single evening.
Isn't this in a sense a claim that one of HIS followers did the deed*?
Not even true but would be typical. It has to be about HIM.
The trolls take another angle: Biden's drug and immigration policy.
Without Sleepy Joe there would be no drug problem and no drug dealing and pet eating darkies in the country, so the son would never have gone down the dark path. Of course in that case it would be the liberal upbringing (or violent video games or satanic rock-n-roll or...).
Btw, some trolls have the audacity to compare HIS spoilt (b)rats favorably to Reiner's son (no drugs there and they would never go after HIM).
*which would make it by definition righteous, so no problem there.
On “Author, author?”
A tidbit: Michele Reiner photographed Trump for the cover of The Art of the Deal.
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Trump has takento referring to himself in the third person, so the usage here doesn't indicate whether he wrote it or not.
TBH I'm not sure if it's better or worse if he did.
Speaking of Wiles, she has apparently gone on record sayingshe thinks that he has the mind of an alcoholic, only without the booze. Dry drunk would explain a lot. But then again, so would dementia plus flagrant narcissism.
The man is not well.
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The grammar checker is good at catching most errors. It did suggest that "An unfortunate" should replace "A very sad". But that's a style choice.
But who writes 62-word run-on sentences on a social media platform without grammatical errors? It gives the impression of premeditation, not off-the-cuff.
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I have been assuming that he wrote his own posts on the assumption that even his core supporters in his top admin aren’t dumb enough to write that shit.
Seems like a bad assumption. At least based on the stuff they say in public on their own behalf.
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Charles, I think you need a better grammar checker!
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Hegseth has proposed a plan to significantly reduce the number of four-star generals. The proposal appears to be consistent with the recently released National Security Strategy: increase the focus on the Americas and reduce attention to Europe.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete-hegseth-to-slash-4-star-generals-in-pentagon-shake-up/ar-AA1St2RB
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CharlesWT - there's AI content, and there's AI generated autofill suggestions. He would not use the forer out of pride, but the latter is a fair game.
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Previously to this discussion, I assumed that Trump's posts were all his and expressed who he is. I wondered why some staffer person wasn't assigned the job of constantly checking and removing his posts. Then I read this excerpt from a a discussion about his top office manager: “There is this idea that people have that I think was very common in the first administration,” he told me, “that their objective was to control the president or influence the president, or even manipulate the president because they had to in order to serve the national interest. Susie just takes the diametrically opposite viewpoint, which is that she’s a facilitator, that the American people have elected Donald Trump. And her job is to actually facilitate his vision and to make his vision come to life.”
So Trump unleashed and uncensored, served straight without a mixer, is her goal. And if he stays up all night broadcasting out his character deficiencies and mental issues, so be it.
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Gemini says that there's no explicit evidence of AI being used in the past two weeks of Trump's Truth Social postings.
"Based on an analysis of Donald Trump's Truth Social timeline from December 2, 2025, to December 16, 2025, there is no evidence that the text of his posts is AI-generated. Conversely, the text exhibits strong markers of his established human writing style."
No AI Text, Some AI Media
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"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"
The only error my grammar checker found was using "of" instead of "with." I would expect more grammatical errors unless whoever the writer is is using a grammar checker.
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I pretty much agree with nous, and did so as soon as I read lj's post. Referring to himself in the third person in this way has been a frequent ploy of his (God knows what he thinks it conveys - I believe that psychiatrists categorise it as a sign of some kind of disorder, but can't remember which), and as for the illiterate grammar etc which cleek notes, I find that utterly unsurprising. I hadn't thought of the use of AI, but that would be unsurprising too.
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I would not discount He Who Slumbers as the "author" of those based on the language and the weird syntax. There's often a disconnect between people's spoken and written vocabularies that happens because one is synchronous and extemporaneous and the other is asynchronous and somewhat iterative. The Ancient Orange One could very well type part of it, get suggestions from AI that get incorporated, and then riff on the AI suggestions in ways that undo part of the coherence forced upon the first draft by the suggestions. They all read like patchwriting to me. He could be pissed and ranting, set it aside for an AI check and a McNugget, seize hold of a suggestion and then try to kick that suggestion up with his own special spin on it.
What I see is not so different from any freshman first draft done too late at night in a fit of pique.
So put me down as a vote for "it's him - with slight input from an inanimate assistant."
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I guess I have been assuming that he wrote his own posts on the assumption that even his core supporters in his top admin aren't dumb enough to write that shit.
On “Cory Doctorow and enshittification”
ironically, Doctorow used to be an editor for boingboing.com, which was once a great tech-nerd site. now, it's an ad-encrusted nightmare.
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Grok's take on Doctorow's arguments.
Doctorow's AI Critique: Hype vs. Reality
On “Author, author?”
Not US politics, sorry, but good news from the UK. Might this be the beginning of a bigger shift?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme
I still regret not having taken part in my time.
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I don't doubt that a significant portion of Orange's posts are written by someone (or something?) else, but I wouldn't necessarily attribute his late-night/early-morning posts to someone else just because of the time of day. That guy's a total f**king weirdo who is obsessed with himself and lacks impulse control.
He's patient zero for TDS. It's a different disease than he thinks it is.
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An AI generating Trump's social media posts?
Seems plausible.
It's the modern equivalent of "infinite number of monkeys at typewriters", except that the "typewriters" are smartphones, the number of monkeys isn't infinite, and the monkeys are brain-damaged.
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It's been obvious for some time that many (most?, virtually all?) of the Truth Social posts are written by someone else. Too many long sentences, too many big words, too long, just flat out too many posts. Which also may explain the use of the third person, althouth Trump has taken to doing that when speaking.
At minimum, Trump rants about something, a minion writes it down, cleans up the wording, and enters it -- which I would guess is what happened, at least in part, with the Rob Reiner post. More often, someone else drafts a post, reads it to Trump to get his approval, and then posts it. And sometimes (for example the middle of the night posts) someone just echoes his style. Albeit with better syntax and a far bigger vocabulary than Trump ever uses.
On “Weekend music thread #08 How do you get to Carnagie Hall?”
When I was in college (late '60s), the Cal Band was still men only. I knew several women who had been in their (California) high school marching band, and were seriously miffed that they were excluded.
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one of the comments on that Kyoto HS vid said the reason there were so many women in the band was because marching band is seen as a 'girly' thing in Japan.
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it being a former girls-only school makes more sense, though.
On “Author, author?”
"...to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump..."
'of' is a very strange preposition to use here. i can't think of a way in which it could be considered correct.
and this:
"...with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before."
is a hideous mess.
whoever writes these doesn't care much about grammar.
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Hartmut, I suppose one could read it like that, but I'm just pointing out that linguistically, the wording is a bit implausible as something authored by Trump, which then has me imagining some writers' room where they are churning out these truth social posts. Gemini tells me that he averages 15-20 a day but that's skewed, and it was mentioned that he posted 160 times in a single evening.
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Isn't this in a sense a claim that one of HIS followers did the deed*?
Not even true but would be typical. It has to be about HIM.
The trolls take another angle: Biden's drug and immigration policy.
Without Sleepy Joe there would be no drug problem and no drug dealing and pet eating darkies in the country, so the son would never have gone down the dark path. Of course in that case it would be the liberal upbringing (or violent video games or satanic rock-n-roll or...).
Btw, some trolls have the audacity to compare HIS spoilt (b)rats favorably to Reiner's son (no drugs there and they would never go after HIM).
*which would make it by definition righteous, so no problem there.
On ““We’re now poorer than Mississippi. It’s like Huckleberry Finn without the steamboats.””
Degree classifications went private decades ago. But I suppose she would have let it be known if hers were creditable.
Getting into Oxbridge is an achievement in itself,
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