# Post ts_115091405547047211

- Post ID: `ts_115091405547047211`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-08-25T20:58:00.143Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/115091353360343813 This is a very special group of people who I have been with from the beginning…

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115091353360343813 (2025-08-25T20:44:43.836Z (UTC))

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- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/091/353/193/591/121/original/f53c51ba89d0a6aa.mp4

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (12:49), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Thank you very much. This is a very special group of people. I've been with them from the beginning. Abbeygate, you know, Abbeygate, one of the dumbest days in the history of our country by a previous administration, getting out of a place that we shouldn't have been. At a minimum, they should have been at Bagram, the big field, where, you know, we have hundreds of acres around it. Nobody's going to get near it. They left from a small airfield, and the consequences were horrible. And these people have been, my friends, have been with me, and I've been with them 100%. And we meet more than once a year, actually. I think our all-time meeting was in Bedminster, where we played music, right? Right. Late into the night. They thought I'd be there maybe for five minutes, maybe not at all, and I showed up for like four hours. We were listening to music all night long, and they were all crying because they lost their loved ones. But it's a lot of, it's four years, it's a four-year anniversary. So we're signing a proclamation honoring them, and honoring you, and honoring your loved one, and so sad, and so unnecessary. And you know, what people don't know, there were a lot of other people killed from the other side. I call that, you know, people killed, and the people that we also contact are, we have like 32, maybe more, but approximately 32 who lost their arms and their legs, and your kids didn't make it. They made it, but boy, they got to go through hell. And we have 32, at a minimum, 32. And then you had hundreds of people killed overall, you had hundreds of people killed that day. That was a rough day. We had 13 of our great ones, right? Yes. And somehow this group is just, we get together every once in a while. So I just want to thank you, we're four years now into this nightmare, we're just a nightmare. I think that that date also helped start the war with Putin and Ukraine, because he saw how incompetent our military was under Biden, and under Milley, and all these dopes, these dopey people. And that's not our military. You see what our military is now, we knock the hell out of people if we have to, or we settle because they don't want to play games with us. But I just want to say, I'm really honored to be with you again, and we'll be with each other for a long time. And your loved ones are looking down, and they're very proud. This is the new and improved Oval Office, we had an Oval Office, which was still the Oval Office, so I don't want to disrespect it, but now it's very special, and you see what's happened, and everyone loves it. It's all the real deal, 24 karat gold, and people come from all over, and I do believe they're serious, they're not rolling their eyes, you know, the roar of the eyes, but we don't have any of them. And we brought the pictures up, they were in the vaults, those are pictures of some of our great presidents, a lot of them, and they were in the vaults for over 100 years in many cases. And they were just, they're beautiful pictures, works of art, Lincoln, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, that's Monroe of the Monroe Document. All mostly great presidents, we have a couple of them, Benjamin Franklin, not a president, but we figured he'd make the cut, discovered electricity, a couple of other things, but we have a lot of great presidents. But think of it, they've been down there, there's George Washington, the big one, they've been down there for, in some cases, much more than 100 years, and we brought them out. I went through the vaults myself, I spent hours down there looking. That's in between Russia, Ukraine, China, all the other stuff, we do it. I want to thank Doug Collins for being here, the secretary who's done an unbelievable job, thank you very much. And JD, thank you very much, you've been fantastic. And all of the others, Pete, good, we did a little thing with Pete about Secretary of War today, and it seemed to be well received. We'll do it a couple of more times, and if everyone likes it, we'll make that change, Pete, you'll decide. But I just want to thank everybody for being here, very special to me, a very special day, four years is a very special time, and now it's lightening up, but it'll never be really light. But there are some great souls that are looking down on you right now, and they're very proud of their parents and brothers and sisters, but moms and dads especially, that's what I seem to have dealt with mostly, it's a tough, there's nothing tougher. So thank you very much. In the media, I want to thank you because you've been very respectful of this group of people, and they deserve it. They went through hell for no reason, it should have never happened. And I'm going to sign the proclamation now, and we will have our, we will have a very special proclamation done and completed, okay. Oh, that's a good one. That's our good one, we rate them. I don't put them under the auto pen, I don't say, have the auto pen sign it, right? We don't do that. I don't know how anybody's allowed to do that. They actually weren't. Good one, right? Yes, a couple of good questions today. It's been very fair, actually. Okay. Do you have any questions on this subject, please? Mr. President. Yes. The Defense Secretary's order a review of Afghanistan withdrawal that is ongoing. I'm curious if you have any update on that review. And then for the families, I know that there was frustration with previous investigations on Capitol Hill. Are you satisfied with the speed of this investigation thus far? Pete, do you want to answer that? Yes, sir. On behalf of this beautiful group, on behalf of these families, on behalf of your loved ones who fought for our nation, America deserves answers as far as what happened in Afghanistan. The military needs to answer for what happened in Afghanistan. So upon the President's direction, immediately we initiated an investigation which showed that there needed an even deeper dive. So Sean Parnell, our Pentagon spokesman, who himself is an Afghanistan veteran, is leading this effort. It's a top priority for us. We're getting access to all documents necessary, why decisions were made, why they weren't made, why certain force protection measures were ignored. Again, there's never been accountability for this. It's something that Joe Biden allowed to happen that never should have happened. Any objective observer knows that's not how you leave a country, and certainly these families know better than anyone else. These families deserve answers. We're going to be honest about it. We're going to get to the bottom of it. Sean Parnell, an Afghanistan vet, is leading it, and we're doing it on behalf of the American people. So I would anticipate middle of 2026, that's how thorough of a review we're doing. Probably a little bit sooner, but we're going into everything to get an understanding of what happened. So we remember these great 13 souls, but we also remember the people that were so badly injured, our soldiers, 32 of them, approximately. And we're in contact with them always also, but they lost arms and legs, and their faces were blown to pieces, and they're incredible, and they suffer with it. And so we understand that, it should have never happened, should have never been allowed to have happened, and they were in the wrong place. Bagram was the place to be. Big massive airfield with hundreds of acres surrounding it. Nobody could get near it, and who would not have done that, but we had a bunch of incompetent people running our country. So we are going to talk for a little while, and we'll talk about people that I've gotten to know. We have friends and daughters and others that died, and there were hundreds of people that died that day, hundreds, many from the other side, needless thing also. They did nothing to hurt anybody, but that was a terrible day, and I think it was the worst day, and in many ways the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. And yet, at the same time, we learned so much that it's, you know, we call it a big lesson. It won't happen again. I think like that can never be allowed to happen again. Doug, would you like to say something, please? You've been so fantastic. It would be great. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President. For these families here, I think you expressed the nation's grief of what happened. We saw just a tragic mistake that was there, someone who has been in the middle of -- I was in Iraq and others, but Afghanistan, when you saw that withdrawal, but what you suffered went through. And for those that you've mentioned, Mr. President, who are injured, who took the VA, the Department of Defense, we're taking care of those folks, and we're going to continue to do so at your direction. But with the families, it's just one of those times it's a place that never goes away. But I know from this president is he's made a commitment that that memory will not be forgotten and the Cabinet understands that and our American people understand that because of what she does. And this is actually our biggest gathering today. So you must have heard Oval Office and you said, "I want to get there and do a job in the Oval Office." But it is. And it is a special place. But this is our biggest gathering in terms of the numbers, everybody here, because there was always somebody couldn't be, everybody's here, and that's a great honor, I think it's a great honor. J.D., do you want to say a couple of words, please? Oh, sir, I just echo what you said. We're so honored to have all of you here. I know that days like today can't make the hurt go away, but hopefully four years on, we can start to remember with fondness and with a little bit of joy the people that were taken from us. We're so proud of you. We're so proud of your loved ones for giving their life for our country. And I think importantly today, this is a rectification of a wrong. The fact that the President of the United States lost your loved ones through incompetence, but never acknowledged it. And your government never actually put pen to paper to say we're grateful for your sacrifice. We correct that wrong today, and we're going to keep on fighting to understand, as Pete said, what happened so it never happens to another family again. But God love you all, God bless you, we're so thrilled to have you here in the People's Oval Office. Thank you. Thank you for having us. And I don't think they ever heard from Biden or anybody, did they? No. Nobody ever even called him. It's a terrible thing we suffered through for four years, so needless to say, yes, ma'am. I wanted to ask about veterans, and I wanted to say I'm so sorry for all of your loss. And I know we've covered it in the media, but I can't imagine what you all have been through. And thank you for being here. I wanted to ask, just on behalf of those veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I know we talked about this in the Oval previously, about making sure care for those, for example, exposed to burn pits while serving. Making sure that they have the care, are you considering maybe a streamlined service like the World Trade Center health care program, and maybe the Veterans Secretary can comment too, but are you considering something like that to make sure, because it seems like they're struggling to get care? Well, there's a lot of things. We take care of our vets. Nobody loves our vets more than me, and we take good care of our vets, great care of our vets. Do you want to just say a couple of words about what we're doing, Doug? Yes, Mr. President, through the PACT Act and through others of the burn pit, which is something I've been under as well, we're streamlining following the Congress direction, but we're also adding more services we've included, a lot who have applied. We're also streamlining our backlog under President Trump's direction also. We took that backlog that was under President Biden was up at over 260,000. We're down now, Mr. President, I get to tell you that, under 150,000 in just a little over six months. So we're making sure that what was bogged up in a bureaucratic system, we're streamlining it so they get that care quicker, and we're making sure that it is what they need. And then we're also doing that in our hospitals as well, so they get that care quicker in not only in our hospitals, but in our community as well. That's been the biggest difference. We're about the veteran at the VA, not about the bureaucracy, so we are making progress there. And the VA has a 93% approval rating. It was down in the low 40s when we did. So I had pretty close to that in the first term, we had a great first term, and it was pretty close to that. And then they took over and it went down into the 30s and 20s and 40s, but it went down at one point to 28 or 29%, which is terrible. They gave away choice and accountability, choice meaning you have the way to, as a veteran, you can go and you can choose who your doctor is, et cetera, et cetera. They gave that up, and accountability is getting rid of the people that were sadists and really bad people that abused our veterans and really badly abused them. And they got rid of both of them and we put them back. I couldn't believe when they did it. Anyway, but now you've blown everybody away, Doug, at 93%. So we're 93% approval for our vets, and I like that, so that's good.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/091/402/605/024/923/original/2579b3eece5ffbd0.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T03:46:52.766Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Loyalty Maintenance Post\
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A low-intensity retweet of his own content with sentimental framing about loyal supporters. The post functions as routine narcissistic supply maintenance — reinforcing parasocial bonds and implicitly establishing a loyalty hierarchy through the phrase \\"from the beginning.\\"\
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The video attachment (not viewable) likely shows Trump with supporters or staff, contextualizing the sentimental tone.\
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## Personality Framework\
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**Level 1 (Traits):** Low extraversion activation; mild agreeableness display (unusual — typically reserved for in-group).\
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**Level 2 (Motives):** Communion-adjacent but instrumentalized — warmth deployed strategically to maintain follower investment.\
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**Level 3 (Narrative):** Protagonist as beloved leader; \\"from the beginning\\" frames a shared origin story with loyalists.\
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## Context\
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This post appears amid a busy day including an Oval Office live stream, executive order signing on cashless bail, and law enforcement engagement. The sentimental tone may relate to interactions with law enforcement or early supporters during the day's events.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (4:58 PM ET)
- Polished sentence structure
- Sentimental but controlled tone
- RT of own content suggesting curation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group identification
- Loyalty signaling
- Personal connection framing

## Tags

- loyalty-signaling (70%)
- supply-maintenance (60%)
- in-group (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Evening Rage Spiral Targets Christie, Media Licenses; Day Resets to Presidential Performance Mode**

Trump's day split into two distinct halves. The evening before featured a rapid-fire series of angry posts attacking Chris Christie, a Republican senator, and broadcast networks — including threats to revoke media licenses and reopen a federal investigation as apparent retaliation. A notable calm settled in by morning, with the tone shifting to presidential business: boasting about the Intel deal, commenting on South Korea's political turmoil ahead of a White House summit, and sharing official executive order links. The afternoon was almost entirely staff-managed content. The sharpest moment was calling for journalism to be "terminated," escalating the media grievance into eliminationist language.

Full digest for 2025-08-25: https://trump.fm/date/2025-08-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, August 25). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115091405547047211
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 25 Aug. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115091405547047211. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, August 25, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115091405547047211.

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