# Post ts_116052480659116697 - Post ID: `ts_116052480659116697` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-02-11T14:32:02.628Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116052480659116697 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116052480659116697/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:35), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Last year, criticizing U.S. foreign policy, what would you do differently, Donald? I'd make our allies, forgetting about the enemies, the enemies you can't talk to so easily. I'd make our allies pay their fair share. We're a debtor nation. Something's going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can't keep going on losing $200 billion. And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade. If you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell something, forget about it. Just forget about it. It's almost impossible. They don't have laws against it. They just make it impossible. They come over here, they sell their cars, their VCRs, they knock the hell out of our companies. And hey, I have tremendous respect for the Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating the hell out of you, but they are beating the hell out of this country. Kuwait, they live like kings. The poorest person in Kuwait, they live like kings. And yet they're not paying. We make it possible for them to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us 25% of what they're making? It's a joke. This sounds like political, presidential talk to me, and I know people have talked to you about whether or not you want to run. Would you ever? Probably not. But I do get tired of seeing the country replace. Why would you not? I just don't think I really have the inclination to do it. I love what I'm doing. I really like it. Also, it doesn't pay as well. No, it doesn't. But, you know, I just probably wouldn't do it. I probably wouldn't, but I do get tired of seeing what's happening with this country. And if it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country, how we're really making other people live like kings, and we're not. What do you think of this year's presidential race, the way it's shaping up? Well, it's going to be very interesting. I think that probably George Bush has an advantage in terms of the election. I think that probably people would say that he's got like that little edge in terms of the incumbency, et cetera, et cetera. But I think Jesse Jackson's done himself very proud. I think Michael Dukakis has done one hell of a job. And George Bush has done a hell of a job. You know, they all went in there sort of as semi-underdogs, including George Bush. And they've all come out. I think people that are around all three of those candidates can be very proud of the jobs they've done. You've said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. Well, I don't know. I think I'd win. I tell you what, I wouldn't go in to lose. I've never gone into losing my life. And if I did decide to do it, I think I'd be inclined. I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning, because I think people, I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off. And I can't promise you everything, but I can tell you one thing. This country would make one hell of a lot of money from those people that for 25 years have taken advantage. It wouldn't be the way it's been, believe me. I know the truth, and the truth has set you free. Let's go. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/052/471/579/354/901/original/e88d6a77041c2480.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 317 - Reposts: 93 - Replies: 33 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-11T14:45:22.825Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T07:57:00.288Z (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 original text from the subject — it consists solely of a re-posted video clip: a c.1988 broadcast interview (recognizable by references to Bush/Dukakis/Jackson as active presidential candidates and Kuwait/Japan trade grievances predating the Gulf War) in which a young Trump discusses trade deficits with Japan, burden-sharing with Kuwait, and is asked whether he would run for president. The analyzable behavior is **selection and amplification**: what the subject chose to surface for his current audience, not any language he authored today. ## Level 3: Narrative Identity The clip functions as a **redemption/prophetic-vindication sequence**: footage of a private citizen decades ago diagnosing "unfair" trade arrangements and refusing to rule out a presidential run is now recirculated by a sitting president who did run, did win, and has pursued tariff and burden-sharing policy in line with the 1988 complaints. The implicit identity claim is "I saw this coming before anyone else and I was right." The contrasting others are the same categories named in the clip (Japan, Kuwait/Gulf allies) and, by extension, decades of subsequent administrations that (in this framing) failed to act. This is consistent with a longitudinal pattern of Trump amplifying old media to construct a prophet/outsider-turned-hero arc — the Trickster-turned-King archetype: the once-dismissed outsider whose warnings are retroactively vindicated by his own incumbency. ## Level 2 & Level 4 (thin evidence) Because there is no contemporaneous text, direct assessment of current agentic/communal motives, defenses, or clinical state is not possible from this artifact alone. What can be inferred at low confidence: the act of curating and resurfacing self-flattering archival material is consistent with a grandiosity/self-mythologizing motif (narcissistic feature: belief in own foresight/specialness), but this rests on selection behavior alone, not new self-referential language, so it should be weighted lightly. No rage, no attack targets, no dehumanizing or violent content, no danger indicators are present in the clip or its posting. ## Authorship Attribution No stylometric evidence exists (no original text). Posting time 14:32:02 UTC converts to approximately 9:32am ET (assuming a New York/DC-area baseline consistent with surrounding February 2026 activity — no travel event specifically dates this post). This falls within business hours, which is more consistent with staff/aide scheduling of curated legacy content than late-night impulsive posting. However, this is weak, single-variable evidence given the total absence of textual markers. Confidence is capped at low, and this assessment concerns who selected/scheduled the clip, not who "wrote" it, since there is nothing written. ## Rhetorical Devices None attributable to the subject in this instance — no accompanying caption, framing, or added commentary. The archival clip itself contains hyperbole and grievance framing, but this is the 1988 speaker's rhetoric, not evidence of the current post's rhetorical construction. ## Summary Judgment This is a low-intensity, low-evidence post. Its interest is limited to what it reveals about narrative self-construction (prophetic vindication) through curation rather than composition. No danger indicators, no gaslighting, no cognitive markers assessable (transcript predates any usable baseline-comparison window by decades and is not the subject's current speech). Confidence in all clinical-adjacent inferences is low. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Posted ~9:32am ET, business hours, more consistent with staff scheduling of curated legacy content than late-night impulsive posting - No written text accompanies the clip — no stylometric evidence available - Selection of a flattering archival vindication clip is consistent with either self-directed nostalgia or a communications team's narrative-building choice ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Nostalgic self-vindication via archival footage predating the presidency) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Nostalgic self-mythologizing via archival footage to construct a prophet/vindication narrative for the current audience ## Tags - archival-footage-repost (90%) - prophetic-vindication-narrative (60%) - trade-grievance-nostalgia (50%) - no-original-text (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A day of curated vindication ends in punishment: 41 posts, a triumphant jobs number, and an evening spent threatening his own party** Trump posted 41 times on Wednesday, and most of it was video — a burst of nearly 30 clips in roughly half an hour late morning, almost all of them archival footage of himself being doubted and then proven right, plus several clips of other people insisting he had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. He had real news to work with: a jobs report that came in more than double expectations, and a long meeting with Israel's prime minister, both of which he posted about approvingly. Then the mood turned in the evening. After Oklahoma's governor publicly misstated his position on a White House dinner and six House Republicans voted to undo his Canada tariff, he threatened primary challenges against any Republican who crosses him on trade and publicly regretted ever endorsing the governor. A day with plenty to celebrate ended with him punishing his own side instead. Full digest for 2026-02-11: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 11). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116052480659116697 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 11 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116052480659116697. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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