# Post ts_115940140834473560

- Post ID: `ts_115940140834473560`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-22T18:22:32.870Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115940140834473560
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115940140834473560/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:05), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> In focus now, Tommy Pigott, State Department spokesperson, great to have you. First of all, we're learning more and more, so what can you tell us that is unfolding right now on this? And you just heard for the first time the foreign minister now talking about, "Yeah, this is a good deal." Peter Ducey said she looked a little nervous from Greenland wondering what was coming. Well, the real winners here are the American people, are the security of our alliance. What we saw is President Trump identifying a problem, a real problem, and taking steps to address it in only the way that President Trump can. He is truly showing that he is the dealmaker in chief, and what we're seeing are efforts to enhance the NATO alliance, enhance the security of Greenlanders, enhance the security of the United States. That is something that only President Trump could have delivered, and he's truly making this argument about addressing these modern threats we all face and making us all safer. Tommy, talk to me about the military component of this, though, because there are ... it's two-pronged. It's that, and it's also rare earth, and I will get to the rare earth in a moment, but just the military, when he took that military force off the table, it seemed to shift things a little bit. Did that make the deal easier? Well, I think ultimately what made the deal possible is President Trump, and President Trump has a suite of options, and he keeps those options open until he decides to rule them out. Ultimately, what we saw over the last couple days, weeks, really going back to the beginning of this administration is the art of the deal in action. This is something that presidents have wanted to see happen for many, many decades, and President Trump is actually taking steps to make it happen. It's a credit to his leadership. It's also a credit to the vision he has to address problems before they become problems. President Trump's really putting us on a great footing here and making sure that our security is truly enhanced. Yeah, well, and I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, the Alaska purchase, Greenland was originally part of that. That part of the deal didn't hold together, and so all these decades later, we see what we see now. It is the eighth place in the world when it comes to the reserves of the rare earth minerals needed to create and operate technology for pretty much everything. Most of those reserves are still untapped in Greenland. The Arctic nation is home to key minerals needed for consumer electronics, defense systems, medical devices, advanced computing, and clean energy. This is a critical part of that deal. Tommy, talk more. Well, ultimately, this is about access. It's about access for the United States. It's about access from a military perspective. It's about access from a perspective in order to ... from those critical minerals. These are part of all the concerns that President Trump laid out really from the beginning of this administration, talking about those critical minerals, talking about the encroachment of our adversaries on Greenland, talking about the defense of Greenland, the NATO alliance, our defense, modern threats, the Arctic, the list goes on. He's been identifying these threats, and what we're seeing here is President Trump addressing these threats, and also identifying opportunities, identifying opportunities that can make us all prosperous. That's the art of the deal in action, and President Trump is showing, once again, why is the dealmaker in chief? So is it time to hit the shores of Greenland as Americans? I mean, they don't have a lot of infrastructure there yet. Does our footprint in those small areas that I understand from the potential deal that's coming, we will have control over small footprints probably near military bases? Talk to me about that. Well, as President Trump said, details on this will be forthcoming, and I don't want to get ahead of the president, and as these discussions are being finalized. But again, I think it's important to stress the context here of President Trump identifying this problem. Everyone's saying, "A deal wasn't possible. Don't bring this up. Ignore this." President Trump's saying, "No. I'm not going to ignore this threat to our security. I'm not going to ignore the opportunities." He's having these hard conversations, and the people to have these hard conversations with are our security partners. So we're seeing President Trump in action, once again putting America first. But when he puts America first, that actually helps the NATO alliance. It helps everyone in terms of our security and prosperity. Talk to me about the board of peace, if you can. 25, upwards of 25 members now. Well, this is something that came out of the Gaza ceasefire deal that was announced, unprecedented global coalition that was put together by President Trump that saw the release of hostages, that saw humanitarian assistance entering Gaza in a way that wasn't being looted by Hamas. And so what we see now is President Trump building on this unprecedented global coalition, trying to see the implementation of peace and prosperity, making sure that we're seeing these peace deals put into action. President Trump, who has negotiated eight peace deals around the world in just a year, an unprecedented advancement of peace. We're seeing this board of peace being an effort to see that long-term peace and prosperity. So a really historic announcement that we saw on Davos here, building on the huge momentum, the global coalition that President Trump has put together. Yeah. I'm looking down at my notes. It's been 103 days since Israel and Hamas, the ceasefire agreement came into place. And of course, we've seen some bubbling up and the president and the secretary of state Rubio have said, you know, that can happen. But the peace is holding, the ceasefire is holding. And so that is a huge development in all of this. It is great to have you on the program. Tommy Pickett, come back. Thanks for having me on.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/940/132/334/845/330/original/18795f2c1d4d4750.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,507
- Reposts: 2,894
- Replies: 543
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.285Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-08T23:37:12.847Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Post ts_115940140834473560 (2026-01-22)

**Content nature:** This post carries no text from the subject. The attached media is a cable-news segment (State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott being interviewed) discussing the Greenland/rare-earth minerals deal, repeatedly praising Trump as "the dealmaker in chief" who succeeded where "presidents have wanted to see happen for many, many decades." The propositional content — the deal's terms, the rare-earth statistics, the historical Alaska-purchase framing — is entirely the speakers' assertions, not Trump's. The analyzable behavior is his choice to select and amplify this specific segment to his audience, with zero editorial commentary attached.

**Level 1 (Traits):** Not assessable from written language (none present). The *choice* to amplify third-party flattery is weakly consistent with high extraversion/exhibitionism and low modesty, but this inference is thin given the absence of his own words. Confidence: low.

**Level 2 (Characteristic Adaptations):** The clip is saturated with agency/power/status themes (dominance in negotiation, historical vindication, "only President Trump could have delivered"). Posting it without comment functions as supply-seeking — outsourcing self-praise to a "neutral" media validator rather than asserting it himself, which is a common pattern distinct from his usual first-person grandiosity.

**Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** The clip casts him in the "dealmaker/hero" role completing a redemption arc explicitly tied to unfinished business from the 1867 Alaska Purchase — implying he is resolving a century-and-a-half-old national failure. Contrasting others: past presidents who "wanted" but couldn't achieve this.

**Level 4 (Clinical):** Grandiose narcissistic state (via proxy validation rather than self-assertion). No rage present; no paranoid or antisocial content in the clip itself. Defense mechanism: idealization (delegated to the media surrogate). This is a maintenance/supply-seeking act, not a reaction to injury — consistent with the buoyant mood evident in same-day posts about the "Greatest Economy" and rare-earth/deal wins, contrasted with grievance-heavy posts (fake polls, Jack Smith, JPMorgan lawsuit) elsewhere that day, suggesting oscillation between grandiose and persecuted self-states within a single 24-hour window.

**Rhetorical/Propaganda technique:** Hyperbole ("dealmaker in chief," "only President Trump could"), appeal to historical legacy/nostalgia (Alaska Purchase framing), implicit legitimation via a state official's on-air testimony rather than self-testimony — a third-party-credibility technique.

**Danger assessment:** None. No dehumanizing language, no targets, no eliminationist rhetoric.

**Fact-checking:** No claims attributable to Trump himself are present; the rare-earth statistics, deal characterization, and historical claims originate with the interviewer/spokesperson, not the subject, so no entries are logged per instructions. Note for the record: the segment's claim that Greenland holds the world's 8th-largest rare-earth reserves is broadly consistent with USGS-adjacent estimates, though "most... still untapped" is standard industry framing rather than a precise, checkable figure — this observation is included in prose only, not as a scored claim.

**Authorship attribution:** No stylometric evidence exists (no original text). Posting time is 18:22 UTC = 1:22 PM ET (Trump was traveling back from/around the Davos trip per the pre-researched events; EST applies), placing this squarely in business hours rather than his characteristic late-night/early-morning window. Business-hours timing plus the polished, promotional, on-message nature of the clip (state department spokesperson delivering coordinated messaging) is weakly suggestive of staff selection/scheduling rather than an impulsive personal repost, but this is inferred entirely from timing and content-fit, not from any authorial voice. Confidence is capped at low, and the attribution question here is fundamentally about *who chose to publish this clip*, not who wrote any words — since none exist.

No summary generated: this post is a self-promotional video repost with no textual grievance, no rage, no danger indicators, and no marked deviation from baseline patterns warranting clinical flagging.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Posted 1:22 PM ET — business hours, not his typical late-night/early-morning authentic-posting window
- No original text attached; clip is polished, on-message cable-news content coordinated with State Department messaging
- No stylometric evidence available since there is no written text — attribution rests on timing and content-fit only
- This score reflects likelihood of who selected/scheduled the clip for posting, not who wrote any words, since none exist

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable cable-news coverage of the Greenland/rare-earth deal following the Davos trip and prior Nobel-snub grievance)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying third-party validation as if it were independent confirmation of his greatness
- Using a government spokesperson's on-air praise to reinforce a personal brand ('dealmaker in chief') without any disclaimer of coordination

## Tags

- media-only-post (100%)
- self-promotional-amplification (80%)
- greenland-deal (70%)
- narcissistic-supply-seeking (50%)
- grandiose-state (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_115940140834473560
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115940140834473560. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, January 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115940140834473560.

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