# Post ts_115976125483954617

- Post ID: `ts_115976125483954617`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-29T02:53:55.049Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115976125483954617
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115976125483954617/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:53), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> [Music] Our undercover people arrived at the tail end of the protest that evening, including myself. Watchdog, how are you doing? What's going on? It's J. O'Connell. Watchdog. Hey, dude, hey. My fiance is a teacher. Hey, she, where's, what's your teeth? Oh. What's your teeth? Special needs. Where are we going? We're going to PFI. Where are we going? We're going to PFI, please. Don't you have a thank you party affair? Like this. [Screaming] We heard chants of "ice out" and "fuck ice." Ice out. Ice out. Fuck ice. Fuck ice. Fuck ice. Fuck ice. Fuck ice. Hopefully, the audience will forgive this reporter for participating in these chants in order to fit in. [Music] We found teachers, nurses, and union organizers all telling us we appreciate you, neighbor. I appreciate you, neighbor. I appreciate you, neighbor. A guy came by before and he stopped here. It was a bunch of young kids and they handed out weed to everybody. It was so cool. I gave all right away. All but a little bit because I wanted to at least try it. You got anything better than weed? Uh, love? Are you a paid agitator? I'm just kidding. While many, probably many of you, might think this is all due to some specific centralized funding source, what we found is a hodgepodge of various NGOs and non-profits loosely tied together through ideology, funded in part by the government, featuring 501(c)(3)s with non-profit tax returns, a variety of funding sources. But most of these people we found were actually true believers there to live and die by their cause. Why did you send them out? Yeah, it's a very, um, independent association, very national association. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This woman, featured on a hidden camera, is Peggy Wang. Based in Boston, she works at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, active in the Massachusetts Teachers Association. She participates in pro-Palestinian protests, and her job is currently being threatened for doing so. While this footage is hard to hear, Peggy Wang lists the issues that her organization gets involved in. Immigration rights, abolishing ICE, stopping raids and deportations, justice for victims, and getting ICE out of cities like Minneapolis. I'd like to thank you for joining us today. Our union definitely needs to take a step by to get an ICE request from yourselves. How are you doing? I'm good, how are you doing? We're also talking about the preproductive rights in her home care. We're talking about the labor work department. We need a real political representation for working people, so we have a working class party. Oh, okay. Is this a party? We're an organization, independent socialist group. This other protester, we secretly recorded, talks about an organization called Make the Road New York. We've never heard of this organization, but apparently they have a budget of $30 million. They talk about one of the speakers that spoke earlier that day, April Verretti. April is the president of the SEIU labor union. I mean, if you're interested in an immigrant rights organization, you should look up Make the Road New York. Make the Road New York. Make the Road New York. But who are you with? I'm just with the, I'm with the union. Oh! SEIU service employees and credentials. We looked at the tax returns of Make the Road New York and found there were registered 501(c)(3) that file a 990, and they received $16 million in grants. Ice out! Fuck ice! We love our neighbors! As cars drove by, the agitators would ride on top of the cars. One man's spoiler was broken off his car as one agitator tried to climb on board the car. What happened? He accidentally broke his wing on his car. One of the comments they made was, there's no blood here, and you know there's no Trump people, there's no MAGA people, because if there was, there would be blood. The advantages of it being so cold is we were able to cover every single part of our skin, but these conditions were truly dangerous. Many of our DSLR cameras actually froze, our hidden cameras malfunctioned in minutes because it was so cold. And we watched water freeze in seconds. A bottle of water could quickly be turned into a weapon. Negative 17 degree weather. Let's see what happens to water. Let's see how fast that freezes. One, two, three. It's already frozen.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/976/120/935/568/010/original/da2851b335d8d28e.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 4,586
- Reposts: 1,280
- Replies: 161
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.283Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T01:45:44.352Z (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 an undercover-style video exposing anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, following fatal CBP shootings that damaged the subject's immigration approval ratings. With no original text, stylometric and cognitive analysis are inapplicable; authorship attribution rests solely on timing (~9:54pm ET) and is capped at low confidence, reflecting uncertainty about who selected the clip rather than who narrated it.

The clip frames the protest movement as substantially NGO-funded and inauthentic, employing guilt-by-association and financial insinuation, while conceding many participants are genuine believers. Most notably, it names a private citizen, a Massachusetts college employee and union activist, alongside her employer, while stating her job is already under threat for her activism. Amplifying this identification to a mass audience during an already volatile period, marked by two recent deaths and an assault on a sitting Congresswoman, carries a foreseeable risk of harassment escalation against a named private individual, warranting an elevated danger rating despite the absence of explicit violent or eliminationist language.

Psychologically, the selection reflects a preemptive delegitimization schema in response to reputationally damaging protests, employing splitting (authentic citizens vs. funded agitators) and displacement (attention shifted from the underlying fatal shootings to protester funding and identities) rather than direct emotional dysregulation. No claims are attributed to the subject for fact-checking, as all factual assertions originate from the video's third-party narrator.

## Analysis: Post ts_115976125483954617 (2026-01-29)

**Content note:** No original text from the subject. The post consists solely of an amplified undercover-style video (resembling Project Veritas/O'Keefe Media Group methodology) purporting to expose the funding, organizational ties, and identities of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, filmed in the days following the fatal CBP shootings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good. The analyzable act is the **selection and amplification** of this specific clip, not any language the subject produced.

### What was amplified
The video: (1) uses hidden cameras to interview protesters, portraying some as unwitting, drug-offering, or ideologically captured; (2) names a private individual, Peggy Wang, a Massachusetts art-college employee, along with her workplace and union affiliation, while noting her job is "currently being threatened" for her activism; (3) frames the protest movement as substantially astroturfed — funded through 501(c)(3) NGOs (Make the Road New York, SEIU) rather than organic — while conceding some participants are "true believers"; (4) includes protesters chanting "fuck ICE" and claims about violence/"blood."

### Level 2 (motives/schemas)
Selecting this clip serves a delegitimization schema: the protest movement opposing ICE enforcement — arising directly from incidents that damaged the subject's immigration approval numbers (39% approval per Reuters/Ipsos, down from 41%) — is recast as inauthentic, funded, and infiltrated by paid actors rather than a genuine backlash to recent deaths. This is consistent with a power/control motive: reframing a reputationally damaging grassroots response as manufactured opposition.

### Level 4 / clinical indicators
- **Paranoid features (moderate):** the clip's "hodgepodge of NGOs," "funded in part by the government" framing feeds a conspiratorial narrative of coordinated hidden funding behind visible dissent — amplifying suspicion without the subject needing to assert it directly.
- **Antisocial/disregard for safety (moderate-high):** amplifying content that names a private citizen and her employer, in a context where her job is explicitly stated to be under threat, to an audience of tens of millions carries a real and foreseeable risk of harassment escalation — a disregard for a third party's welfare that fits antisocial features of the malignant-narcissism construct, independent of what the subject himself said.
- **Defense mechanisms:** splitting (authentic "true believers"/agitators vs. implied illegitimate funded actors); projection-adjacent framing (protest funding scrutinized while the subject's own movement/PAC funding goes unexamined in this framing); displacement (channeling attention from the underlying fatal shootings onto the protesters' funding and identities).

### Rhetorical/propaganda techniques
Appeal to fear (undercover "expose" format), insinuation via financial figures ($16M grants, $30M budget) presented without full context to imply illegitimacy, guilt by association (linking protesters to SEIU, DSA-adjacent "independent socialist group"), selective quotation of inflammatory chants.

### Danger assessment
**Elevated.** This is not eliminationist or violent language from the subject, but it amplifies material that identifies a specific private citizen by name and workplace amid an already volatile, fatal situation (two deaths, National Guard/border-czar deployment, an assault on a sitting Congresswoman days earlier). The foreseeable effect — increased public/media pressure or harassment directed at a named individual whose job is already "threatened" — is a real-world safety concern even though it stops short of explicit calls to action.

### Authorship attribution
No stylometric evidence exists (media-only post). Resting solely on timing: ~21:54 ET (assuming East Coast location, consistent with recent DC/Iowa travel pattern), which is plausible but not decisively late-night. Video selection/amplification decisions for content like this are frequently made by campaign or communications staff monitoring conservative media ecosystems (this footage resembles a syndicated conservative-media investigative package) rather than personally sourced by the subject in real time. Confidence is capped at low, and the score reflects uncertainty about *who selected the clip*, not who narrated it.

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## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- No written text — no stylometric evidence available
- Media-only repost/share of third-party investigative content
- Posting time ~21:54 ET is plausible for personal use but within normal evening hours, not decisively late-night/early-morning
- Content matches syndicated conservative-media investigative packaging often surfaced by staff monitoring right-leaning media
- Cannot determine selector identity from content alone

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (Anti-ICE protest movement following fatal CBP shootings and falling immigration approval ratings)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying 'insider exposure' content that flatters the audience with privileged access to hidden truths
- Positioning the base as clear-eyed observers of manufactured opposition

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplification of content that names a private citizen (Peggy Wang) and her specific employer while noting her job is already threatened, in the midst of a volatile situation with two recent deaths
- Framing of protest movement as substantially inauthentic/funded, which can be used to justify further enforcement action or dismiss legitimate grievances
- Occurs in context of a Congresswoman being assaulted days earlier and fatal federal shootings, raising the real-world stakes of further identity exposure of activists

## Tags

- immigration-enforcement (90%)
- protest-delegitimization (85%)
- undercover-media (80%)
- named-private-citizen (60%)
- minneapolis-ice-protests (80%)
- no-original-text (100%)

## That day

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

**Fifty-four posts, forty-four of them wordless: a day spent defending Minneapolis through other people's voices, punctuated by three flashes of his own.**

Trump posted 54 times, but almost all of it was other people's work — 44 of those posts contained no words of his own, mostly videos fired off in two rapid bursts, one late the night before and one just before 6 AM. The through-line was Minneapolis: rather than address the immigration raids or the nurse killed by federal agents, he circulated clip after clip arguing the protests were secretly funded, naming two private citizens along the way. He broke his own silence three times — to call the Fed chair a moron for not cutting rates, to report a friendly call with Mexico's president, and, at the end of the day, to threaten Canada's entire aircraft industry over a certification dispute. He slept a normal night and posted nothing after 6:30 PM, so despite the volume this reads as heavy amplification rather than a manic stretch. The oddest note: eighteen minutes after posting that the economy was setting records in every way, he was threatening a 50% tariff on an ally.

Full digest for 2026-01-29: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 29).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115976125483954617
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 29 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115976125483954617. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, January 29, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115976125483954617.

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