# Post ts_116247522086271962

- Post ID: `ts_116247522086271962`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-18T01:13:38.616Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116247522086271962
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116247522086271962/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A screenshot of a tweet/X post from a verified user named "Joe Kent" (@joekent16jan19), shown against a black background in X.com's dark mode styling, with the X.com logo in the top right. The account's profile picture shows a man with curly gray hair. The post is a reply directed at @realDonaldTrump, dated 7:38 AM · 1/8/20, arguing for military action against Iran's ballistic missile capability and withdrawal of troops from Iraq, following the January 2020 Soleimani strike and Iranian missile response.

Text in the image: "Joe Kent ✓ @joekent16jan19 @realDonaldTrump We should not sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran's ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq - they are only targets now. No US WIA/KIA is a tribute to the professionalism of our military and intel professionals not Iranian restraint. 7:38 AM · 1/8/20 X.com"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/247/521/451/474/779/original/3220da686aedd211.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 18,234
- Reposts: 5,617
- Replies: 2,324
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-19T01:45:53.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T23:40:07.188Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**What was published:** A six-year-old tweet from Joe Kent (dated January 8, 2020, in the wake of the Soleimani strike and Iran's missile retaliation) urging Trump to "wipe Iran's ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq." Trump reposted it with no caption on March 18, 2026 — three days after publicly needling NATO allies over Hormuz, one day after claiming Iran's military was "decimated," and in the middle of an active bombing campaign that has already targeted Iran's ballistic and oil infrastructure.

**Reading the selection:** The tweet isn't news; it's an artifact of vindication. Kent's 2020 call — "wipe Iran's ballistic capability out" — reads today as a preview of the current campaign, and surfacing it without comment invites the audience to draw that line themselves: I was right then, and I'm doing it now. That's a retrieval choice, not an argument, so it functions as rationalization by proxy — the justification for an ongoing war is outsourced to someone else's six-year-old prediction rather than argued fresh. It also fits the day's broader pattern (Venezuela statehood musing, Cuba "I can do anything I want with it," NATO grievance) of casting recent aggressive moves as long-foreseen inevitabilities rather than discretionary escalations.

**State and stakes:** Nothing here is defensive — no injury, no correction, no perceived attack — so this reads as grandiose maintenance rather than injury response: reinforcing a narrative of foresight and control during an active war, not answering a threat. The tweet's content ("wipe out," "targets now") is inherited, six-year-old phrasing about a different moment in the conflict; republishing it doesn't add a new threat or target, so it doesn't move the danger needle beyond the war already underway.

**Authorship:** Posted 9:13 PM Eastern (converting 01:13 UTC on 3/18 using EDT, in effect since March 8) — evening, not the small-hours window most diagnostic of unstaffed posting. A wordless repost carries no prose to test for style, so this rests entirely on timing, which is ambiguous enough to keep confidence low.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Posted 9:13 PM Eastern — plausible personal browsing window but not the late-night/early-morning range most diagnostic of unstaffed posting
- No caption or written text to assess for stylometric markers
- Wordless repost of a years-old tweet fits an impulsive scroll-and-share pattern more than a scheduled communications post, but this is weak evidence

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: assertiveness via curated third-party validation

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** vindicated strategist
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Iran / past restraint

**Identity Claims:**
- implicitly: current war action confirms years-old advocacy was correct

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (ongoing Iran military campaign, no specific precipitating criticism)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- curating supportive third-party content as implicit self-vindication

## Tags

- repost (100%)
- iran-war (80%)
- vindication-seeking (60%)

## That day

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

**He wondered aloud about "finishing off" Iran and leaving the Strait of Hormuz to allies, then reposted it an hour later to fix "Straight"**

The day centered on the Iran war. In a burst of morning posts he blamed Democrats for chaos at the airports during the DHS shutdown, then asked what would happen if the U.S. "finished off" Iran and left the Strait of Hormuz to allies he called "non-responsive." About an hour later he posted the same message again with the spelling of "Strait" fixed. Late morning turned to celebrating his endorsed candidates' wins in Illinois, a jab at Powell over interest rates and a correction of how the press names his voting bill. After a long quiet afternoon, the evening brought flattering videos and ended with an all-caps demand to free Tina Peters, the jailed Colorado election clerk.

Full digest for 2026-03-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 18).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116247522086271962
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 18 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116247522086271962. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116247522086271962.

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