# Post ts_111058468708170714 - Post ID: `ts_111058468708170714` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-13T15:09:07.622Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714/analysis ## Post text > https://rumble.com/v3deudx-garrett-ventry-on-president-trumps-poll-numbers-donald-trump-has-a-strangle.html ## Engagement - Likes: 9,046 - Reposts: 2,220 - Replies: 113 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:33:25.401Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-13T15:09:07Z ## Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to a Rumble video in which commentator Garrett Ventry discusses Trump's poll numbers, with the title fragment suggesting a "stranglehold" framing of primary dominance. There is no original text from the subject. --- ## Authorship Attribution (High Confidence: Aide) Posting time converts to approximately **11:09 AM EDT** (Trump likely at Bedminster NJ or Trump Tower NYC in mid-September 2023). This falls squarely within business hours, inconsistent with Trump's documented late-night/early-morning authentic posting patterns. The complete absence of personal voice, emotional markers, typos, or commentary is the strongest indicator. This post is one of five same-day link drops — all sharing favorable coverage — reflecting a coordinated communications strategy characteristic of Scavino-managed content curation rather than organic Trump engagement. --- ## Psychological Assessment The post functions as **laundered narcissistic supply**: rather than self-asserting polling dominance (which would carry credibility costs), the subject's team amplifies a third-party commentator making the claim. This is a mature supply-procurement strategy — grandiosity at arm's length. The trigger is **supply-seeking** (reinforcing the "inevitable winner" narrative) rather than any injury or reactive state. Rage, paranoia, and clinical markers are absent. --- ## Same-Day Cluster Pattern The five same-day posts collectively constitute a multi-vector positive narrative push: constitutional legitimacy (14th Amendment), democratic virtue, foreign policy legacy (Abraham Accords/Nobel), economic retrospective, and polling dominance. This breadth suggests deliberate communications planning for a single news cycle. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump has a stranglehold on Republican primary polling (implied by video title)" | **Mostly True** | By September 2023, Trump was polling at approximately 55–60% in Republican primary surveys, with DeSantis dropping to roughly 14–16% and no other candidate above single digits. 'Stranglehold' is hyperbolic but directionally accurate. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Clinical Significance Post is analytically thin due to absence of original language. No clinically significant patterns detectable in isolation; the coordinated cluster pattern is more behaviorally informative than any individual URL drop. No danger indicators. No summary generated. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp converts to approximately 11:09 AM EDT (UTC-4, Trump likely at Bedminster NJ or NYC in mid-September) — solidly within business hours - Post contains zero original text; pure URL share is a hallmark of Scavino-style curation - No typos, emotional language, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness elements - Part of a same-day cluster of curated link drops, all sharing favorable coverage — consistent with a coordinated aide-managed content push rather than organic Trump engagement ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Republican primary polling dominance) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Amplification of favorable external validation to reinforce follower confidence in Trump's inevitability - Social proof via poll numbers — 'everyone agrees' ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump has a stranglehold on Republican primary polling (implied by video title) **MOSTLY TRUE** By September 2023, Trump was polling at approximately 55–60% in Republican primary surveys, with DeSantis dropping to roughly 14–16% and no other candidate above single digits. 'Stranglehold' is hyperbolic but directionally accurate. Sources: FiveThirtyEight Republican primary polling averages, September 2023; RealClearPolitics Republican primary aggregate, September 2023 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - supply-seeking (70%) - poll-amplification (80%) - coordinated-content-push (80%) - laundered-self-promotion (70%) - no-original-text (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grandiose Baseline Day: Late-Night Putin Validation, Romney Victory Lap, and a 14-Post Link Dump** A moderately busy day of 27 posts was dominated by self-congratulation and rival-bashing, with Trump celebrating Romney's retirement, mocking DeSantis's declining polls, and attacking Biden over inflation numbers. The most notable moment came after midnight when he cited Putin's criticism of America as validation of his own persecution claims — a rare instance of openly leveraging hostile foreign propaganda. A massive midday burst of shared links, mostly posted by staff, padded the count, while a two-part morning response to a New York Times article revealed disproportionate sensitivity to any suggestion of cognitive error. Full digest for 2023-09-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 13). https://rumble.com/v3deudx-garrett-ventry-on-presi... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://rumble.com/v3deudx-garrett-ventry-on-president-trump..." Truth Social, 13 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://rumble.com/v3deudx-garrett-ventry-on-president-trump...," Truth Social, September 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_111058468708170714 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_111058468708170714 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_111058468708170714 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-13 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111058468708170714.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._