# Post ts_115939552453122650 - Post ID: `ts_115939552453122650` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-01-22T15:52:54.883Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115939552453122650 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115939552453122650/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Tom Lemon is the dingleberry hanging off the ass of American journalism, okay? And let me tell you, when CNN got rid of them, they didn't wipe hard enough. But all that's colorful, and it'll be a headline tomorrow, I know, everywhere. Not as good as Nicki Minaj, by the way. And they can't deport me because my family's been there. She brought it. Oh, she was great. James Woodson, Nicki Minaj, whoever would have thought. Two peas and a pop. No. Anyway, you know, my family's been here since 1721. So I have a pretty good chance of not getting deported, I think. But here's the bottom line. This is a trick. It's a diversion. This small man, Don Lemon, is, you know, he was aware of everything that was going to go on. Oh, we're MAGA coded. He knew all the strategies because he planned it. He wasn't just embedded. He was literally one of the ringleaders of this heinous act. And of course, we're all enraged, disgusted, disappointed, just ready to just eat blood red meat to stop this kind of insanity. And that's what they want us to do. Because you know what they really are trying to do? Divertus? Distract from their fraud scandal? And it's not just a scandal, Megan. The Democratic Party, every single thing they do is centered on one strategy. How can we stay in power with nothing to offer the American people? ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/939/550/277/573/560/original/36c84a5339d16a76.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 565 - Reposts: 195 - Replies: 45 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.285Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-08T22:35:37.330Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This media-only post amplifies a live-speech clip (Trump's own remarks, not a third party's) attacking journalist Don Lemon in dehumanizing, scatological terms and escalating him into an alleged conspiratorial 'ringleader' of an unspecified 'heinous act.' The clip shows paranoid-tinged framing (unfounded coordinated-conspiracy attribution), mixed grandiose/vulnerable narcissistic content (self-comparison to Nicki Minaj alongside claims of persecution), and a false ancestral claim ('my family's been here since 1721') deployed to argue exemption from deportation risk — his actual paternal line emigrated in 1885. Defenses include projection (accusing Democrats of the fraud/diversion he is himself enacting), splitting, and displacement of broader scandal-related anxiety onto a personalized target. Rhetoric includes ad hominem, hyperbole, whataboutism, and violent-adjacent imagery ('eat blood red meat') describing supporter emotion, which elevates the danger rating without meeting a stochastic-terrorism threshold. No written text accompanies the post, so stylometric authorship analysis is unavailable; timing (business hours in plausible timezones) weakly suggests staff-driven clip selection, though confidence is necessarily low given the total absence of authored text. This pattern (personalized media vilification, ancestry-based deportation exemption claims) is broadly consistent with documented longitudinal baseline rather than a marked new deviation. ## Post Overview No caption text accompanies this post — the analyzable act is the selection and amplification of a video clip. The transcript indicates the primary speaker is Trump himself (first-person references: "they can't deport me," "my family's been here since 1721," "we're all enraged"), apparently excerpted from a live event (likely the marathon one-year-anniversary press briefing or an adjacent rally-style remark, both occurring 1/20–1/21 per the historian record). This is therefore closer to Trump re-broadcasting his own rhetoric than to him amplifying a third party's praise, though transcript garbling ("Tom Lemon," "Divertus," "James Woodson," "two peas and a pop") makes some passages unreliable. ## Level 1 — Traits Salient facets legible only through content selection: low Agreeableness (contemptuous, degrading insult toward Don Lemon), elevated Neuroticism/angry hostility (persecutory framing of a media figure as conspirator), high Extraversion/dominance (crude showmanship, comparison to Nicki Minaj for audience reaction). No stylometric trait evidence is available since there is no authored text. ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations Agency motive (power/status defense) dominates: the clip frames media criticism as an orchestrated "heinous act" requiring counterattack. Schema: the world is populated by conspiring adversaries (CNN, Don Lemon, "the Democratic Party") acting in coordinated bad faith against him, while his own supporters are cast as righteously "enraged." ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity Protagonist role: besieged fighter/victim who nonetheless remains untouchable ("pretty good chance of not getting deported"). Contrasting other: Don Lemon personified as a stand-in for "American journalism" writ large, and the Democratic Party as an entity with "one strategy" — clinging to power. No redemption or contamination arc; this is a maintenance-mode grievance narrative reinforcing an existing us/them frame. ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Paranoid features (moderate-high):** casting a cable-news personality as having "planned," been "aware of everything," and acting as "one of the ringleaders" of an unspecified "heinous act" reflects attribution of coordinated malicious intent without evidentiary basis — consistent with paranoid ideation rather than ordinary political criticism. **Narcissistic features (moderate):** self-referential aggrandizement even mid-attack (comparing his own newsworthiness favorably to Nicki Minaj), implicit demand that his ancestry render him exempt from immigration enforcement. **Sadism/contempt (mild-moderate):** the scatological insult ("dingleberry hanging off the ass") signals pleasure in degrading a named target for audience approval, a low-cost but genuine cruelty-as-entertainment display. **Rage:** present, moderate intensity, directed at Don Lemon/CNN/Democratic Party; the trigger (unspecified media coverage, likely of a scandal Trump characterizes as fabricated) appears disproportionate to the venom deployed, suggesting displacement of broader anxiety about "fraud scandal" coverage onto a personalized target. ## Defense Mechanisms - **Projection/DARVO-adjacent:** accusing the Democratic Party of fraud and of manufacturing "diversion" while he is simultaneously using the clip to divert from unspecified unfavorable coverage. - **Splitting:** binary framing of Lemon/media as wholly malicious conspirators versus his own base as purely righteous ("enraged, disgusted, disappointed"). - **Displacement:** channeling anger about a broader "scandal" narrative into a personalized attack on one journalist. ## Rhetorical & Danger Assessment Devices: ad hominem, dehumanizing/degrading language, hyperbole ("heinous act," "ringleader"), whataboutism (pivoting to "Democratic Party fraud"), grievance appeal. The phrase "ready to just eat blood red meat" is violent-adjacent metaphor describing supporter emotion rather than a call to action; combined with the dehumanizing insult of Lemon, this warrants an "elevated" rather than "none" danger rating, though there is no target-plus-grievance-plus-implied-action structure that would meet a stochastic-terrorism threshold. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump's family has been in the United States since 1721" | **False** | Documented genealogy shows Trump's paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany to the U.S. in 1885, and his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, emigrated from Scotland in 1930. No branch of the family has a documented U.S. presence dating to 1721. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Authorship Attribution No written text exists to analyze stylometrically. Posting time (15:52 UTC ≈ 16:52 CET if still near Davos, or ≈10:52 ET if returned to the U.S.) falls within business hours in either plausible timezone, which weakly favors staff-driven posting of a highlight clip from a recent public event rather than an impulsive late-night share. Confidence is capped at low, and this score reflects who likely *selected and queued* the clip for posting, not who authored the words spoken in it (which are Trump's own, delivered live). ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Posting time falls in business hours (~16:52 CET or ~10:52 ET), consistent with staff clipping/posting a highlight from a recent live event rather than impulsive late-night sharing - No original written text/caption to assess for stream-of-consciousness or typographical markers - Clip appears to be an excerpt of Trump's own live remarks rather than a third-party ad or supporter content, which is more consistent with a communications team packaging a highlight reel ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (Unspecified media coverage/scandal narrative referenced as 'their fraud scandal') **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Don Lemon / CNN / Democratic Party - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.60 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Rapid topic shifts within the clip (media attack, Nicki Minaj comparison, deportation claim, ancestral claim, conspiracy accusation) without pause ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 60% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Naming and personally degrading a media figure to consolidate in-group identity - Framing supporter emotion ('eat blood red meat') as validated collective righteous anger ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Dehumanizing insult directed at a named individual (Don Lemon) - Violent-adjacent metaphor ('eat blood red meat') describing collective supporter anger - Conspiracy framing casting a journalist as a coordinated 'ringleader' of a 'heinous act,' which can prime audience hostility toward a named target ### Gaslighting - Reframes ordinary press criticism as a premeditated conspiracy ('he planned it,' 'ringleader of this heinous act') without evidence - Projects 'fraud' and 'diversion' onto opponents while using the clip itself as diversion from unspecified unfavorable coverage **Dehumanizing Language Present** **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-09-08._ > Trump's family has been in the United States since 1721 **FALSE** Documented genealogy shows Trump's paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany to the U.S. in 1885, and his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, emigrated from Scotland in 1930. No branch of the family has a documented U.S. presence dating to 1721. Sources: Gwenda Blair, 'The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President'; Multiple genealogical records of Friedrich Trump's 1885 emigration Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - media-attack (80%) - paranoid-framing (60%) - dehumanizing-language (60%) - no-authored-text (100%) - self-clip-amplification (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Davos victory lap punctured by one poll, and a day that ends naming enemies instead of accomplishments** Trump wrapped up his Davos trip with a heavy posting day — 53 posts in about seven and a half hours, most of them a rapid-fire burst of video clips and self-reposts that looks staff-driven rather than personal. The mood turned sharply in the early afternoon when a New York Times poll put his approval in the low 40s: he fired off three posts in under twenty minutes calling polling fraudulent, threatening to fold the pollster into his lawsuit against the paper, and suggesting inaccurate polls should be close to a crime. That spiral crested minutes later with his angriest post of the day, calling former special counsel Jack Smith a "deranged animal" who deserves worse than legal consequences. He recovered for a few hours with travel notes, a lawsuit headline and a new World Expo bid for Miami, then closed the night by floating a fourth term, demanding an immediate criminal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar over an unverified wealth figure he'd picked up from a video earlier that day, and casting Supreme Court tariff litigants as China-aligned and only "in some cases Americans." Despite the volume, there's no sign of a sleepless night — everything landed inside normal waking hours in both his departure and destination timezones. Full digest for 2026-01-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 22). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115939552453122650 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115939552453122650. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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