# Posts from Saturday, September 12, 2026

5 posts on 2026-09-12.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-12/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T04:25:23.487Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**Trump wants the Smithsonian's modernist 'Infinity' replaced by a 30-foot 'Washington Colossus'**

On the night of the 9/11 anniversary, Trump's main post asked the Smithsonian to put up an 11-foot George Washington statue by Constitution Day and later swap a modernist sculpture for a 30-foot "Washington Colossus." He reposted it within the minute. He then shared a TV clip gloating over the capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, an operation from back in January, and followed it with an image of ornate white columns. After about five hours off he was back before dawn, calling someone, apparently himself, "such a great golfer" and complaining that he has "very little time to play," then went quiet into Saturday evening. The mood stayed confident and pleased with itself the whole way through; the harshest note was the clip's taunt that Maduro "found out," and he let someone else say it.

- Posts analyzed: 4
- Dominant state: grandiose
- Narrative arc: stable
- Aggregate rage level: 0.1
- Max danger level: elevated
- Claims: 7 (1 false)
- Era: Second Term

## Friday night into Saturday, Eastern time

The post-level analysis places him at the Pentagon's September 11 anniversary ceremony earlier on Friday, so the day is read in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). The UTC date runs from 8 PM Friday to 8 PM Saturday Eastern. All five posts fall between 10:31 PM Friday and 5:06 AM Saturday.

| UTC | EDT | Post | What it was |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:31 | Fri 10:31 PM | ts_117255718355537976 | Four-paragraph Smithsonian statue directive |
| 02:31 | Fri 10:31 PM | ts_117255720319253709 | Repost of the same directive, carrying one image |
| 03:21 | Fri 11:21 PM | ts_117255916246451243 | Uncaptioned broadcast clip on the Maduro apprehension |
| 03:53 | Fri 11:53 PM | ts_117256041596508411 | Uncaptioned two-panel render of white neoclassical columns |
| 09:06 | Sat 5:06 AM | ts_117257273512193853 | "Such a great golfer. Too bad I have very little time to play!!!" |

Four of the five posts land in an 82-minute evening cluster. Then comes a gap of five hours and thirteen minutes, one dawn caption, and nearly fifteen hours with nothing.

## The Washington Colossus directive

Most of the day's substance is in ts_117255718355537976. It asks the Smithsonian to install the 11-foot Washington statue "featured at the recent Freedom 250 Grand Prix Race" in the museum's Flag Hall and "dedicate it this Constitution Day, September 17, 2026." It also asks for a five-year exhibition and, after that, for the modernist sculpture "Infinity" to be replaced with a 30-foot "Washington Colossus" ahead of the 2032 tricentennial of Washington's birth.

The entitlement shows in the grammar. The post opens as a request, "So, I'm asking for," and its second paragraph is an order: "Immediately design and display a five-year exhibition." A private taste in public sculpture arrives as a dated work plan for a federal museum. The judgment behind it splits objects the way splitting more usually sorts people: "Infinity" "says nothing about America," while the replacement "says everything about America." Size takes the place of argument as the figure grows from "11-foot" to "30-foot."

The grandiosity works by association. A "Washington Colossus" makes Washington bigger, and the president who commissions it shares in the size. The 2032 horizon, when he would be 86, points to a wish for permanence pursued through monuments. The post-level analysis adds a displacement reading, at low-to-moderate confidence: the urge to commemorate, cut off from a Ground Zero ceremony he was excluded from, goes into a monument he gets to design. The timing, about 10:30 PM on the anniversary itself, fits that reading.

In the same minute he reposted the directive, carrying one image (ts_117255720319253709). Two of the day's five posts are this text, and it is the only thing he put up twice.

The writing is better organized than his recent baseline: four coherent paragraphs, intact syntax, the correct Constitution Day date and correct arithmetic to 2032. The post-level analysis compares it with the previous day's run-on "Trump Dividend" post and observes that his posts about building hold together better than his grievance posts. One caution applies. This text's authorship read is weaker than the dawn caption's, so some of the polish may belong to drafting help.

The America 250 program in the historian's record, which proclaimed 2026 a "Year of Celebration and Rededication," frames the whole directive: a Freedom 250 race, a Constitution Day dedication, a five-year exhibition and an end point in 2032.

## A replayed triumph at 11:21 PM

Fifty minutes later came ts_117255916246451243, a broadcast clip with no words of his own. It opens, "Last night, on the order of the President of the United States and in support of a request from the Department of Justice, the United States military conducted an apprehension mission in Caracas." It goes on: "He effed around and he found out." Later comes "don't play games with this president."

The Caracas capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, took place in January 2026. The clip's "last night" was therefore eight months stale, and he was replaying a victory, not reporting one. The record doesn't show what prompted the replay that night. Because he posted it without a caption, the old "last night" stands uncorrected for anyone scrolling past.

A successful operation offers plenty to celebrate. The part he amplified is the opponent's humiliation, "he effed around and he found out," and posting it without comment takes on that tone. The post-level analysis reads this as ego-syntonic sadism. The format does work of its own. "Don't play games with this president" is a warning addressed to no one in particular. Because the line comes from another speaker, he gets the boast and the threat out without writing either one. The clip also uses a third-party voice to answer a criticism the post-level analysis calls a chronic irritant: that he "just talks and does letters."

The day's risk sits in this clip and rests on two things: force is celebrated, and the warning is open-ended. It goes no further because the force being cheered was a completed arrest of an indicted foreign leader, and nothing in the clip, or anywhere else in the day, asks followers to act. The thing to watch is whether "found out" starts being aimed at opponents at home.

## Columns at midnight, then a five-hour gap

At 11:53 PM he posted ts_117256041596508411, a two-panel image of "highly ornate, all-white classical/neoclassical architecture, likely a digital render." It shows fluted columns, Corinthian capitals with acanthus leaves and "lion-head motifs," and dentil and egg-and-dart moldings. The description names no building or project, so the image can't be tied to one. After the clip's taunting, it brings the evening back to where the Smithsonian post began, with white classical ornament on a monumental scale. It is the least charged item of the day.

The next post came five hours and thirteen minutes later. The last evening post went up just before midnight and the first morning post at 5:06 AM, which leaves at most about five hours for sleep. That is short but in line with his long-reported habit, and he posted nothing between midnight and dawn. Five posts with that much space between them are nowhere near a hypomanic pace.

## The golf caption and a quiet Saturday

At 5:06 AM Saturday he wrote: "Such a great golfer. Too bad I have very little time to play!!!" The caption doesn't name the golfer. The post-level analysis reads it as self-praise. The second sentence fits that reading, though it would also fit praise of someone he'd like to play with. Either way, the regret works as a boast. "Too bad I have very little time to play" presents leisure sacrificed to the job, and it reads as a pre-emptive answer to the long-running criticism of how often he golfs. The idiom, "Too bad" plus three exclamation points, is plainly his.

Nothing followed for the rest of the UTC day, which ends at 8 PM Saturday Eastern.

## Borrowed size, start to finish

No item in the day shows hurt or retreat. The monument, the raid, the columns and the golf caption each make bigger something he attaches himself to: Washington at 30 feet, the military's reach into Caracas, classical ornament, a golfer's skill. The post-level analysis compares this unmixed grandiosity with the defensive coloring of the previous day's "Dumocrats" post. It puts the swing down to the praise on offer, not to any new injury. Nothing he wrote is angry. The clip's gloating comes closest, and those words belong to someone else. Intensity peaked with the clip and dropped off after it.

Monument-building accounts for three of the five posts, counting the repost, all within the one evening cluster. He didn't return to it, and nothing later in the day contradicts it. Two of the three evening items contain no words of his, so the day's cognitive evidence comes down to the long directive, which is well ordered, and the short caption, which is coherent.

### Narrative

Late on the night of the 9/11 anniversary he asked the Smithsonian to put up an 11-foot George Washington statue by Constitution Day and later replace a modernist sculpture with a 30-foot "Washington Colossus," and he reposted the request right away. Over the next hour and a half he added a months-old TV clip celebrating the capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and a picture of ornate white columns. After about five hours offline he posted before dawn about a great golfer with too little time to play, and nothing more came into Saturday evening. The day never turned angry or defensive. Every post was about something big: a statue, a military raid, a golf game.

### Dominant themes

- Monument-building and classical ornament in the America 250 frame (1 post)
- Military triumph over Maduro, replayed through a broadcast clip (1 post)
- Golf skill and the claim of too little time to play (1 post)

### Cognitive concerns

- The dawn caption 'Such a great golfer' leaves its subject unnamed, and the text alone does not settle whether it is self-praise
- All-or-nothing judgment of objects in the Smithsonian directive: 'Infinity' 'says nothing about America,' the replacement 'says everything about America'
- The day's best-organized text carries the weaker authorship read, so its structure may overstate how organized his unassisted writing is
- Two of the three evening items contain no words of his, leaving one long text and one short caption to assess

## Posts

### [ts_117257273512193853](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117257273512193853)

Truth Social · 2026-09-12T09:06:42.567Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> Such a great golfer. Too bad I have very little time to play!!!

**Video transcript** (0:07), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> (upbeat music)

22,102 likes · 3,976 reposts · 4,425 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117257273512193853.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117257273512193853/analysis

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### [ts_117256041596508411](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117256041596508411)

Truth Social · 2026-09-12T03:53:25.026Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

**Image** (photo), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A two-panel side-by-side image showing highly ornate, all-white classical/neoclassical architecture, likely a digital render. Both panels show elaborate Corinthian-style column capitals carved with acanthus leaves, scrolled volutes, and lion-head motifs, supporting a decorated entablature/cornice with dentil and egg-and-dart molding. The left panel shows a wider view of a row of fluted columns along a building facade under a blue sky with a wispy cloud visible in the upper right. The right panel is a close-up of a single capital, prominently featuring two carved lion heads with open mouths flanking a small decorative element, surrounded by scrollwork and acanthus leaves, with additional lion-head capitals visible in the blurred background. There is no visible text, caption, or watermark in the image, and no people are shown.

19,562 likes · 3,592 reposts · 1,358 replies · unknown views

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117256041596508411/analysis

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### [ts_117255916246451243](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255916246451243)

Truth Social · 2026-09-12T03:21:32.335Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

**Video transcript** (1:02), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Last night, on the order of the President of the United States and in support of a request from the Department of Justice, the United States military conducted an apprehension mission in Caracas, Venezuela to bring to justice two indicted persons, Nicholas and Cecilia Maduro. Nicholas Maduro had his chance until he didn't. He effed around and he found out. This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history. Like, I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out. And now, if you don't know, now you know, because this is the way it's going to play out. And I think people need to understand that this is not a president that just talks and does letters and press conferences. And, you know, if he says he's serious about something, he means it. Don't play games. Don't play games with this president in office, because it's not going to turn out well.

18,732 likes · 5,002 reposts · 1,056 replies · unknown views

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255916246451243/analysis

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### [ts_117255720319253709](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255720319253709)

Truth Social · 2026-09-12T02:31:42.724Z (UTC) · repost

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/117255718355537976 I am calling on the Smithsonian Institution to honor the Life and Legacy of George Washington, America’s Greatest Hero, with a five-year exhibition at the National Museum of American History, beginning now, and continuing through, February 22, 2032, the 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth.
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> I am also calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot “Colossus statue” of the Father of Our Country outside the Museum, to replace the so-called “Infinity” sculpture that stands there today. That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one, and honors none of our Great American Heroes.
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> George Washington does. He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist.
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> And yet, during our Nation’s 250th Anniversary Year, the Museum has failed to give George Washington and our other Founding Fathers the celebration they deserve. Washington’s Heroic Crossing of the Delaware on December 25, 1776—One of the greatest moments and turning points of the Revolution—is not even mentioned in the Museum. His Victory at Trenton, and the stories of the Americans who fought and died for our Independence, deserve far more attention.
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> Under recently ended leadership, the Smithsonian created a “Center for Restorative History,” and commissioned a “Decolonization Plan,” to focus attention overwhelmingly on those who have been oppressed, but there is almost no attention paid to those who triumphed over great oppression, and against great odds.
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> One current exhibit describes the period of 1492 to 1776, including Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and the European settlement of America, as the “Great Unsettling” of the Continent.
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> That tells you all you need to know about how twisted the thinking is today at the Smithsonian.
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> Instead of a Center for Restorative History, America’s National History Museum should have a Center for American Heroes.
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> Tell the stories of Americans who faced great challenges, overcame them, built great things, defended our Country, made America better, and helped our Nation more fully live up to our Founding Ideals.
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> That is a History worth teaching, because it is America’s story.
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> Instead of focusing on ideological activism, the leaders of America’s taxpayer-funded, National History Museum should be focused on telling America’s story—fairly, accurately, and coherently—and there is no better person to start with than George Washington.

Reposted [ts_117255718355537976](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255718355537976) (2026-09-12T02:31:12.761Z (UTC))

> So, I’m asking for the Smithsonian to install the 11-foot Washington statue that was featured at the recent Freedom 250 Grand Prix Race in the Museum’s Flag Hall, and dedicate it this Constitution Day, September 17, 2026.
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> Immediately design and display a five-year exhibition worthy of the Life, Sacrifice, and Contributions of George Washington.
>
> Then, as soon as it is ready, install a 30-foot Washington Colossus where “Infinity” stands today.
>
> Replace a sculpture that says nothing about America with the man who, more than anyone else, says everything about America.
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> This is how we should begin to honor George Washington in the lead-up to his 300th birthday in 2032. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/255/661/622/112/870/original/862dff864571b002.jpg

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### [ts_117255718355537976](https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255718355537976)

Truth Social · 2026-09-12T02:31:12.761Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment

> So, I’m asking for the Smithsonian to install the 11-foot Washington statue that was featured at the recent Freedom 250 Grand Prix Race in the Museum’s Flag Hall, and dedicate it this Constitution Day, September 17, 2026.
>
> Immediately design and display a five-year exhibition worthy of the Life, Sacrifice, and Contributions of George Washington.
>
> Then, as soon as it is ready, install a 30-foot Washington Colossus where “Infinity” stands today.
>
> Replace a sculpture that says nothing about America with the man who, more than anyone else, says everything about America.
>
> This is how we should begin to honor George Washington in the lead-up to his 300th birthday in 2032. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

19,312 likes · 4,303 reposts · 728 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117255718355537976.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117255718355537976/analysis

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