# Post ts_114176205207352132 - Post ID: `ts_114176205207352132` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-03-17T05:50:31.215Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114176205207352132 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114176205207352132/analysis ## Post text > https://youtu.be/ZPUtA3W-7_I ## Engagement - Likes: 2,060 - Reposts: 638 - Replies: 202 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.316Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T00:00:30.596Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Bare YouTube Link (Paul Anka – "My Way") ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 05:50:31 converts to **1:50 AM EDT** at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL), where Trump characteristically spends weekends. March 17, 2025 was a Monday but a holiday weekend (St. Patrick's Day). The 1:50 AM posting time falls squarely within the authenticated late-night window associated with personal, impulsive Trump posts. The post is a bare, unformatted YouTube URL with zero explanatory text — precisely the aesthetic of an excited, impulsive share rather than a staffed communications product. Cross-referencing with the immediately preceding post ("Thank you to my very talented friend, Paul Anka, for doing a new version of 'My Way'"), this is clearly a companion share of that same video, posted at 1:50 AM with no polish. High confidence: **authentic Trump**. --- ### Content Inference No text content is present. Contextual triangulation from the adjacent post makes clear this is a Paul Anka recording of "My Way" — the Sinatra standard about living life entirely on one's own terms with no regrets. The symbolic resonance with Trump's self-narrative is significant but appears unconscious/incidental rather than strategically deployed here. --- ### Psychological State This post, considered alone, reflects an **elevated positive affect / mildly hypomanic baseline** consistent with the surrounding cluster: golf with a "terrific" player, a "wonderful" friend doing music for him, NASA astronauts thanking him and Musk. The narcissistic supply is flowing. Posting a YouTube link at 1:50 AM to share a song a friend made *for him* is consistent with grandiose-state supply absorption — he is pleased, excited, and sharing the gratification impulsively. The choice of "My Way" is psychologically resonant. The song's lyrical content ("I did it my way," "I faced it all and I stood tall," "the record shows I took the blows") maps precisely onto Trump's dominant self-narrative: the unconventional hero who defies convention, absorbs attacks, and remains unbroken. Whether or not this mapping is conscious, the selection reflects Level 3 narrative identity — a man drawn to stories that mirror his self-conception. --- ### Cognitive Markers No language production to evaluate. Cannot assess word-finding, syntax, or complexity from a bare URL. **No cognitive markers identifiable.** --- ### Rhetorical Analysis Minimal. A URL is not rhetoric. The implicit framing — sharing content produced as a tribute *to him* — is supply-seeking by proxy, but there are no active persuasion techniques. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Content is benign. --- ### Summary Not clinically significant as a standalone post. The post is a bare YouTube link shared at 1:50 AM, contextually a companion to the adjacent Paul Anka tribute post. Its primary analytic value is authorship confirmation (late-night, zero-polish, impulsive format = authentic) and a minor window into positive narcissistic supply absorption. The song selection ("My Way") has incidental resonance with the subject's dominant self-narrative archetype but requires no clinical interpretation here. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - Posted at 1:50 AM EDT (Mar-a-Lago/Palm Beach local time) — deep within authenticated late-night Trump posting window - Bare URL with zero explanatory text — hallmark of impulsive, unpolished personal share - Directly mirrors content of adjacent text post about Paul Anka ('My Way'), suggesting stream-of-consciousness companion post - No aide would post a standalone unformatted URL at 1:50 AM with no caption or event announcement framing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Paul Anka tribute recording) Sentiment: +0.60 **Mildly Hypomanic** - 1:50 AM posting of celebratory content - Cluster of positive affect posts on same date (golf, Paul Anka, NASA astronauts) - Impulsive bare-URL share with no explanatory text ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Sharing tribute content to broadcast that famous artists produce work honoring him ## Tags - authentic-trump (92%) - late-night-post (85%) - supply-absorption (50%) - positive-affect (60%) - my-way-narrative (40%) - minimal-content (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Executive Authority as Personal Weapon: Pardons Voided, Protections Stripped, and an Open-Ended Military Threat to Iran** Trump's St. Patrick's Day was dominated by a mix of executive power displays and personal grievance, bookended by a late-night declaration that Biden's pardons of January 6th committee members are void. Between rounds of appointments and link-sharing, he issued an open-ended military threat to Iran over Houthi attacks, announced the revocation of Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden, and publicly attacked The Atlantic magazine by name. The day's most notable thread was the repeated return to the autopen pardons argument — raised three separate times across the day — suggesting genuine fixation rather than strategic messaging. A calmer stretch emerged around an announced call with Putin about Ukraine, but the overall tone was one of a president wielding executive authority as both policy instrument and personal weapon. Full digest for 2025-03-17: https://trump.fm/date/2025-03-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, March 17). https://youtu.be/ZPUtA3W-7_I [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114176205207352132 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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