# Post ts_111138709355116422 - Post ID: `ts_111138709355116422` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-27T19:15:22.731Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111138709355116422 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111138709355116422/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111138709355116422.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “WATCH The Stunning First 9 Minutes Of Kristen Welker’s Trump Interview That Were Edited Out Of Meet the Press” https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-the-stunning-first-9-minutes-of-kristen-welkers-trump-interview-that-were-edited-out-of-meet-the-press/ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:37), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > these are Biden indictments. This isn't God coming down and very fairly said, "Oh, you spoke badly about an election." The election was rigged. There's no question about that. There's so much proof on it. Even if you go to the more modern day proof with the, they call it Twitter files, FBI and Twitter, or you take a look at the Amazon stuff or the Google stuff, or you take a look at 2000 mules, you take a look at all of the ballot stuffing that's on tape, you take a look at the fact that the legislatures didn't approve a lot of the things that were done in the elections and they had to approve. And we could go on forever. We could go on forever. But no, I want somebody that's going to be strong, respected, tough and fair. Just to go back to a couple of the points you said, the ballot stuffing, that's something that's been debunked. It has, as you know, let's on camera. But let's, I do want to keep moving forward. Of course, it's on camera. Hundreds, even thousands and thousands of people. You take a look. True the vote. Take a look. It's on camera. They have thousands of pictures. You can't say it. They have thousands of pictures of people. I know you have to say that for your network, but you shouldn't say it. Because that's the problem. The news has lost such power. Let's stay on track though, Mr. President. Let's stay on track with this question. We have thousands of essentially motion pictures of people stuffing the ballot boxes. But Mr. President, they're not stuffing the ballot boxes. And you've been told that by your top law enforcement officials. But let's stay on track because we have so much ground to cover. You have people that went and voted in one place, another place, another place, as many as I understand, 28 different places in one day with seven, eight, nine ballots apiece. They can't do any more because it would look too phony. These were professional people. They were stuffing the ballot boxes. It's, it's there. I mean, it's there to sit here. A lot of people don't like looking at 60 different cases all across the country. You lost that. But let's stay on track. We lost because the judges didn't want to hear them, Mr. President. But if this were ever before a court, we would win so easy. There is so much evidence that the election was rigged. And you may not even put the section on your show and you'll have to decide what you want to do. But people know it was rigged. But the media, when I first got involved in politics, you know, there's no evidence of that. We have so many different evidence. I want to talk about what it was. Let me ask you this. You agree there was Twitter files, right? Mr. President, you agree there were 51 intelligence agents that lied. You agree with that. I'm not the one who's being interviewed. Let's stay on track because I want to talk about that's Let's rig in the election. That's what voters ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/138/709/032/342/126/original/d48a551ec1d0e230.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,561 - Reposts: 5,036 - Replies: 1,376 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.396Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T09:26:20.380Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_111138709355116422 **September 27, 2023 | ~3:15 PM EDT | Truth Social** --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** 19:15 UTC converts to approximately 3:15 PM EDT (assuming New York, consistent with Trump's presence during the NY civil fraud proceedings). This is squarely within business hours. **Style:** The post contains zero original prose — it is entirely a quoted Mediaite headline and a URL with an attached video clip. There are no Trump stylistic signatures: no ALL CAPS, no exclamation points, no personal commentary, no typos, no stream-of-consciousness. The format is a clean media amplification share. This pattern is strongly consistent with aide-coordinated (Scavino) content distribution rather than authentic Trump composition. **Confidence:** Medium-high for aide authorship. --- ### Contextual Frame This post arrives **one day after** one of the most significant legal blows of Trump's post-presidential period: Judge Engoron's September 26 summary judgment finding Trump and the Trump Organization liable for fraud, inflating asset values by up to $2.6 billion, and ordering cancellation of business certificates with court-appointed monitor oversight. The legal catastrophe creates acute pressure for counter-narrative construction and audience attention redirection. The Kristen Welker interview aired on NBC's *Meet the Press* on September 17, 2023 — Welker's inaugural broadcast as moderator. The controversy over edited content was a genuine media story: NBC's broadcast version omitted portions of the longer interview that appeared in streaming releases. However, the framing "edited out" converts routine editorial compression into implied ideologically motivated suppression, leveraging Trump's core media-victimization schema. Viewed in context of the full September 27 posting pattern — MAGAnomics favorable comparison, NY Sun coverage, Second Amendment content, "perfect phone call" framing, attack on Letitia James — this post is one element of a coordinated multi-post counter-programming blitz. The zone-flooding strategy is a documented response to crisis moments: dilute negative signal with high-volume positive signal. --- ### Psychological Analysis **Trigger:** The dominant trigger is narcissistic injury from the Engoron fraud ruling (legal defeat, public exposure). The post itself does not reference the ruling — its function is deflection and attention capture, not engagement with the injury. **Narcissistic Dynamics:** The post serves dual supply functions simultaneously: (1) grandiose framing — the interview was so impressive NBC had to suppress it; (2) vulnerable framing — Trump is victimized by media suppression. This oscillation between grandiose and persecuted states is characteristic. The "stunning" qualifier (even if borrowed from the Mediaite headline) implicitly validates Trump's performance while activating grievance about its concealment. **Defense Mechanisms:** - **Rationalization** (neurotic): Editorial compression is reframed as ideological suppression, providing a self-serving explanation for why media coverage trends unfavorable. - **Projection** (immature): Bad faith is attributed to NBC editorial decisions without evidence of intent, mirroring the pattern of projecting conspiratorial motivation onto perceived adversaries. - **Displacement** (neurotic): Grievance energy from the fraud ruling is redirected toward the safer, pre-existing target of mainstream media. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The word **"Stunning"** functions as a curiosity-gap superlative, engineered to compel click-through by implying suppressed revelatory content. **"Edited Out"** activates the suppression/censorship frame — converting what may be routine editorial compression into conspiratorial concealment. The mechanism of sharing a Mediaite headline allows the narrative to be laundered through an apparently independent source, giving it the appearance of third-party validation. The attached MP4 clip provides a parasocial reward: followers receive "forbidden" content, reinforcing in-group identity and the shared persecution narrative. Within the RAND Firehose model, this post is one node in a high-volume same-day blitz designed to overwhelm the Engoron fraud narrative with favorable content volume. Consistency of reality is not the goal; saturation is. --- ### Cognitive Markers Insufficient original language production for meaningful cognitive assessment. The post contains no authored prose. No markers can be evaluated from headline quotation alone. --- ### Danger Assessment No danger indicators present. This is a media amplification post with no eliminationist language, no target identification with implied action, and no mobilization call. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "First 9 minutes of Kristen Welker's Trump interview were edited out of Meet the Press" | **Mostly True** | The September 17, 2023 Welker/Trump Meet the Press interview was longer than the broadcast version; additional content was available in NBC's streaming/web release. The factual basis that broadcast content differed from the full interview is accurate. However, characterizing this as content 'edited out' implies intentional suppression rather than standard editorial compression, overstating the available evidence. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (3:15 PM EDT) - Zero original authored text — entirely a quoted headline and URL - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no exclamation points - Clean link-share format consistent with Scavino media amplification pattern - No stream-of-consciousness style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Judge Engoron fraud ruling (September 26, 2023)) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Sharing 'suppressed' content creates parasocial reward — followers receive forbidden material - Reinforces in-group identity through shared persecution narrative - Curiosity-gap headline ('Stunning') designed to compel engagement ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > First 9 minutes of Kristen Welker's Trump interview were edited out of Meet the Press **MOSTLY TRUE** The September 17, 2023 Welker/Trump Meet the Press interview was longer than the broadcast version; additional content was available in NBC's streaming/web release. The factual basis that broadcast content differed from the full interview is accurate. However, characterizing this as content 'edited out' implies intentional suppression rather than standard editorial compression, overstating the available evidence. Sources: NBC Meet the Press, September 17, 2023; Mediaite reporting on interview discrepancies Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - media-suppression-narrative (90%) - counter-narrative (85%) - aide-authored (75%) - zone-flooding (80%) - NBC (70%) - supply-seeking (65%) - interview-controversy (75%) - crisis-management (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Fraud Ruling Triggers All-Day Narcissistic Injury Cascade, Rally Deployment as Affect Regulator** Trump spent nearly the entire day reacting to a devastating court ruling that found him liable for fraud — a direct blow to his self-image as a great businessman. The morning brought a barrage of furious posts attacking the judge and attorney general by name, including fabricated claims that the ruling was a "KILL TRUMP decision." As the afternoon wore on, aides stepped in with softer campaign content, and Trump shifted focus toward his Michigan rally counterprogramming the GOP debate he skipped. But even on the way to the stage, the legal grievance kept breaking through, and his final posts before the rally mixed campaign hype with another round of "weaponized justice" complaints. Full digest for 2023-09-27: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-27/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 27). “WATCH The Stunning First 9 Minutes Of Kristen... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111138709355116422 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“WATCH The Stunning First 9 Minutes Of Kristen Welker’s..." Truth Social, 27 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111138709355116422. 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