# Post ts_116046106893215315

- Post ID: `ts_116046106893215315`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-10T11:31:06.678Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116046106893215315
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116046106893215315/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:59), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> When I see a total rip-off of this country by Japan, where they literally have no defense budget, where we have to borrow money from them in order to get them oil and defend the Persian Gulf, where most of the oil goes to Japan and other countries, not us, we get 4% of our oil. When I see Kuwait, a total rip-off, we're bringing the Bridgeston, you remember the Bridgeston? Their oil minister sat back and he laughed at how much money he's going to make. Why aren't we getting some of that money? Why are we getting it? They're taking in billions and billions of dollars and we can't even land a helicopter on Kuwaiti soil. You tell me that's right. Saudi Arabia, they wouldn't even be there except for us. And in Saudi Arabia, we couldn't even use their minesweepers, Phil, you know it. We said, could we use your minesweepers? Ours are old, outdated, not worth a damn. They said, no, you can't use our minesweepers to protect the Persian Gulf. I mean, it's a disgrace. What's going on? There are many other countries and taking tremendous advantage of this, including NATO. If you look at the payments that we're making to NATO, they're totally disproportionate with everybody else's and it's ridiculous. As far as other causes that are near and dear, this is the cause because if we can solve this, then we're able to take care of something that I consider to be ultimately of ultimate importance. And that is the homeless situation. That is the farmers. That is the sick. We don't have any money. We're going, this country is busted and it's busted because we're doing things that we shouldn't be doing. If we had business ability in this country, we'd be making lots of profit, so-called surplus profit. And that profit, that money could be going to defend our, and I literally mean defend our homeless and our poor and our sick and our farmers. And that's where we ought to be spending the money, not giving it to countries that don't give a damn for us to start offering. We don't give anything to our farmers. Our farmers are dying. There's no question about it. Farms that were for generations and families, they're being taken away. The homeless are all over the streets of the major cities, the sick and the problems, and yet we'll give billions of dollars in defending countries that have five times more money than we can ever hope to have. It's ridiculous.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/046/106/339/357/620/original/2c69d983318c9d33.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,064
- Reposts: 2,546
- Replies: 211
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-11T11:00:22.707Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T07:09:02.351Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Overview

This post carries no written text from the subject — only a re-shared video clip. The transcript is first-person ("When I see... I consider... I literally mean") and the content (Kuwaiti oil minister, Bridgestone/Firestone reference, Saudi minesweepers, the address "Phil") strongly indicates this is archival footage of Trump himself from a late-1980s media appearance (consistent with his 1987-88 Phil Donahue/talk-show circuit and his "America is being ripped off" stump argument that predates his political career). This is therefore not contemporaneous speech but a decades-old recording he chose to resurface and amplify to his 2026 audience with zero framing text.

**The analyzable act is selection, not composition.** Because the words are his own (unlike a broadcaster-narrated clip), the content does bear on his enduring worldview and narrative identity, but it cannot be used as evidence of his current linguistic/cognitive state, and it arrives with no fresh propositional claims about 2026 circumstances — the "4% of our oil," "NATO payments," and "Kuwait/Saudi minesweeper" claims describe conditions from ~35-40 years ago and are not treated as present-day factual assertions.

## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Agency motive dominates: control over resource allocation, resentment of being "played for a sucker" by allies. Core schema, unchanged across four decades: the world is transactional and zero-sum; allies are exploiters; the U.S. is a magnanimous but foolish benefactor; domestic needy (farmers, homeless, sick) are the opportunity cost of that foolishness. This is one of the most temporally stable schemas in his public record — the same Japan/Saudi/NATO free-rider grievance appears in his 1987 NYT ad and recurs into his presidencies.

## Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Protagonist role: prophet/truth-teller vindicated by time — implicitly inviting the 2026 audience to notice "I was saying this before it was fashionable." Contrasting others: wealthy free-riding allies (Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, NATO) versus neglected in-group Americans (farmers, homeless, sick). This functions as a redemption/vindication sequence rather than a contamination sequence — grievance reasserted as prescience.

## Contextual Note
Posted amid a rough stretch (racist AI-video backlash, Bad Bunny and Olympic-skier attacks, disengaged Prayer Breakfast coverage) and sandwiched between several policy-vindication reposts (TPS ruling, Vindman ethics probe, Bondi "slam dunk" claim). A nostalgic clip recasting him as a consistent, substance-focused statesman plausibly serves an image-stabilizing function during a week of unforced controversies, though this is inference, not evidence in the clip itself.

## Danger Assessment
None. Targets are foreign-government policies/allocations, not individuals or domestic groups; no dehumanizing or eliminationist language; no mobilization call.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- No written text exists to provide stylometric evidence; attribution rests solely on timing and the decision to post an archival self-clip
- Post timestamp 11:31 UTC converts to ~6:31 AM local (assuming Washington DC/Mar-a-Lago, EST) — within the early-morning window associated with authentic personal posting
- Bare media post with zero caption/framing text is consistent with impulsive, low-effort personal posting rather than a polished staff announcement
- Equally consistent with a staff social-media operator queuing a nostalgic/thematic clip without commentary

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: N/A — no fresh trait-level linguistic evidence; archival footage reflects longstanding low-openness, transactional worldview

**Motives:**
- Agency: 65%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** vindicated truth-teller / economic-nationalist prophet
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** wealthy allied nations (Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, NATO) portrayed as exploiters

**Identity Claims:**
- consistent critic of allied free-riding since the 1980s
- advocate for neglected domestic groups (farmers, homeless, sick)

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

## Tags

- archival-repost (80%)
- economic-nationalism (70%)
- grievance-allies (70%)
- no-original-text (100%)
- vindication-narrative (60%)

## That day

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

**A 2:30 a.m. start, an eight-minute burst of five-year-old grievances, and total silence on the day's actual news**

Trump posted 23 times, opening with a few news links just after 2:30 in the morning and closing before 7 p.m. with a rapid-fire block of seven near-identical endorsements of Florida Republicans. The middle of the day was an eight-minute burst of eleven old clips and images reposted from his own account — recycled 2020 election-fraud footage, a Hunter Biden laptop segment, and a complaint about Japan and Kuwait ripping off America that dates back decades. His one clearly personal moment came in the early afternoon, showing off renderings of the White House ballroom he's building and calling it on budget, ahead of schedule, and the finest ever built anywhere. There was no anger anywhere in the day, and no reaction at all to the two legal stories breaking around him: a grand jury refusing to indict six Democratic lawmakers, and Ghislaine Maxwell taking the Fifth while her lawyer floated a clemency deal. The mood was self-satisfied and low-key — but with under four hours of overnight quiet, and the day's grievances all pulled from the archive rather than the present.

Full digest for 2026-02-10: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 10).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116046106893215315
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 10 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116046106893215315. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, February 10, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116046106893215315.

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