# Post ts_116516566831328525

- Post ID: `ts_116516566831328525`
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- Posted: 2026-05-04T13:35:15.567Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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## What the media says

**Video transcript** (10:24), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> Hello and welcome to another edition of Prop Carson's What in the World. I for one am quite thankful that our president and his cabinet are okay. Donald Trump returned to the White House Correspondence Dinner and a madman no king supporter who gave money to Kamala Harris campaign and rallied against Trump using the language of Democrats and attempted to storm the ballroom to kill the president. And MS Now has no clue about his motivation. >> We do not yet know what the shooter's intended target was, yes, obviously. Okay, so we don't know what the intended target was. >> This was an event that was well publicized that the president would be attending. >> And now we know the intended target. >> He has not attended this event since 2015. >> And there's a reason why there that he was the intended target. >> But it was a room of over 1,000 people, there were reporters, there were lawmakers. >> He might have been there to go after the guy who had the basket with the bread and the tongs. And then he's like, the guy didn't want pumpernickel and like, how dare you give me pumpernickel? >> Nobody likes pumpernickel. >> Business leaders, they were members of Congress. >> Could have been a bartender for all we know. I asked for Chardonnay. >> Members of the administration, and yes, of course, they were the president and first lady Melania Trump. But we do not yet know who specifically was the target. >> The alleged gunman Cole Allen wrote a manifesto where he said of the president, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, coat my hands with his crimes. All of this verbiage has come from the mouths of Democrats over the past decade, intensifying since Trump was reelected. Democrat JB Raskin still acted clueless when asked about it by CNN's Dana Bash. >> You have, and as many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. >> You know, like a fascist, white supremacist, racist. >> And do you think twice about that when something like this happens? >> What rhetoric do you have in mind? >> Please. >> Talking about some of the fact that he is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand. >> Magafascist, enemy of democracy. >> That that's your democratic right? But overall, do you have a responsibility- >> I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all. >> Then why do you say all of those awful, awful things about him? >> I talked about the policies of this administration, the authority- >> No, actually you don't. You also name call. >> Criterionism like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets simply for exercising. >> Yeah, that isn't true. Not one little bit. It's also called a lie. >> The First Amendment rights, Renee Good, Alex Predi, and others- >> I mean, it's like you can't even try to run over an ICE agent and what happens? >> You know, died in custody- >> He is a cyborg, isn't he? Now we know. >> I'm talking about policies. I don't personalize it and I- >> Sure, it's about policy. >> Certainly they've never called the press the enemy of the people. I think the press are the people's best- >> No, but you've called the president the enemy of the people. >> Best friend and that's why it's written right there into the First Amendment. We need the press to be a vigilant watchdog against every level of government, federal, state, local, all of it. >> Yeah, that's like the big bad wolf sag. I don't know what happened to the three little pigs, straw and stick houses. I didn't see nothing. >> The morning of the White House Correspondent Center, Ken Martin, the chair of the DNC actually called Donald Trump a fascist. >> There are a lot of things that Republicans seem to be working on. >> I always forget if he's key or appeal. >> Whether they're in the judiciary or the White House or- >> Regardless, he's hilarious. >> Congress or advisors and folks on the ground that are gonna make it actually more difficult for you guys. >> Yeah, I mean, look, we are seeing a desperate man, a narcissist, a fascist in the White House who is so- >> Wow, he just called the president a fascist. See, that's not about policy there, Jamie. That's about name calling. >> Asper to hold on the power. I think over these next 191 days left until the election, we're gonna see an unprecedented assault on our elections. >> No, no, actually, we just wanna make sure there aren't any dead people or illegals voting. >> On voting rights, we've already seen that, right? >> Yeah, Democrats have been name calling and inciting people. It's called stochastic terrorism. It incites crazy people to commit acts of violence. >> In a statement that aged as well as spoiled Melch, CNN's Jake Tapper and 249 of his colleagues said before the event, they were going to forcefully demonstrate opposition to Donald Trump. Sounds like a big hug, doesn't it? Voice of America leader, Kerry Lake, told Newsmax when she saw Jake after the incident, she gave him a little what-fur. >> I will tell you, I'm sorry, but guys, I walked out and I walked out as a complete, I'm sorry, he's a fool. Walking out next to Jake Tapper and I looked- >> Wait, wait, wait, are you seeing him? >> Yeah, the guy that denied Joe Biden's cognitive decline for years until it was obvious that the debate that he hosted and then after Joe Biden left office and was defeated by Trump, he wrote a book about Joe Biden's cognitive decline is clueless. >> I said to him and I said, how dare you? You have caused so much division in this country pushing lives. I said, we're not gonna call it gas lighting anymore, you've lied to the people. How dare you do that? And I saw so many people from all of these news outlets who've just spread abject lies about President Trump over the years. >> Yeah, like the Russia collusion hoax and now the impeachment hoax and- >> They're part to blame of this and I don't mean to get dramatic tonight. >> I think you should be very dramatic because a third assassination attempt is pretty dramatic. >> But I, as an American mother and an American, I'm tired of it. And I'm tired of the fake news that has just spread nothing but lies, trying to hurt this president, trying to go against the American people. And I couldn't sit there silent and walk out next to somebody like a Jake Tapper and act like he's a good guy. >> Yeah, Jake apparently got his feelings hurt by being confronted by the truth with Carrie Lake. It's hard when rock tossers get rocks thrown back at him. >> But this crusade against Kimmel was predictable because the Trump administration's attempt to use Saturday shooting as justification to stop all critical coverage, whether journalists- >> Yeah, it's about ending all critical coverage, which by the way is CNN, 97% of the time. >> Or comedic of Donald Trump. That started even before the ballroom emptied because Carrie Lake, the election denier who's currently in charge of- >> Who, by the way, could totally kick your butt, clean up between your shoulders. >> Voice of America. She approached a CNN table after the shooting and blamed journalists for the attempted attack and personally insulted one of our correspondents as a quote midget is now being matched with social media posts and more from the White House trying to use this horrific tragedy to demonize any criticism. >> No, I'm thinking actually the demonizing of Donald Trump caused the incident, you see. >> It's calls for violence and the president has been making little calls for violence since 2015. >> No, he hasn't actually, he's been responding to vitriol and violence against him. >> I'm not even gonna go into them, you're familiar with them but- >> No, why don't you go ahead and get into them. Tell us the examples exactly, please. >> Literal calls for violence. Now, a reminder that the president's tone immediately after the attack on Saturday was praised by Democrats and Republicans. >> Which was much bigger than you guys would ever, ever consider being. >> And it was far more conciliatory. >> I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts and resolving our differences. >> This is what being a leader is all about, Jake. >> Conference peacefully, we have to resolve our differences. >> That sentiment clearly did not last long. >> Some reporters unlike Jake Taber had a bit of a come to Jesus moment as the president showed grace and bravery in the face of his third assassination attempt. Even ABC's George Stephanopoulos appeared slack-jawed as John Carl recounted what Trump did later that night. >> John, your phone rang early this morning? >> Yeah, my phone rang shortly after 7 AM. My landline, George, actually. >> Hold on, landline, that sounds like a news story. When was the last time you were somebody who had a landline? >> See a number that few people call and it was President Trump calling. He said at first, he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened. >> Well, he's clearly a Nazi and Hitler and white supremacist. >> The last night, are you okay? And then he- >> Who wants the press murdered? >> He reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment. >> Yeah, you might wanna take a dose of that unity there, Jake Taber. >> And he said absolutely, and he was quite firm about this, that dinner must be rescheduled. It must be rescheduled. >> He was kind of like returning to the campaign trail after Butler. >> He knows that I was a former president of the White House Corresponds Association and it worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during COVID. And he was saying, we've got to get this dinner back on, it has to happen. >> My God, what a monster Donald Trump is. Nora O'Donnell got to interview the president immediately following and she showed the grace and class of a Jerry Springer show panelist, while quoting from the attempted assassin's manifesto. And the president, of course, tossed it right back in her face. I like to call this verbal corporal punishment. >> The so called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. >> Yeah, let me go ahead and just read the screed from the attempted assassin who just tried to kill you. >> He writes this quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this, I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crime. >> Why the hell did she need to bring this up, I wonder, just right after the assassination attempt. >> What's your reaction to that? >> Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would. >> And now comes the corporal punishment. >> But you're horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist, I didn't rape anybody. >> No, you think he was referring to you? >> Excuse me, excuse me, what the what, what? >> I'm not a pedophile, you read that crap from some sick person. >> Crap, now we know what the C in CBS stands for. >> I got associated with- >> And the BS. >> All the stuff that has nothing to do with me, I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say Epstein or other things. >> Boom, Mr. President.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/516/559/128/048/956/original/f384cf372ec4f86e.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T18:13:34.245Z (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 post contains no original text — only a video amplifying a partisan commentary segment that frames an apparent assassination attempt on the subject as caused by Democratic and media rhetoric, while mocking MSNBC's cautious coverage and a CNN interview in which Rep. Jamie Raskin denies using inflammatory language. As a selection act, the post reveals a persecution-to-vindication narrative: the subject as a targeted victim whose survival exposes opponents' hypocrisy. This mirrors the immediately preceding day's Giuliani post, which similarly attributed harm to 'Radical Left Lunatics,' suggesting a consistent grievance-attribution schema active in this posting window rather than an isolated reaction. Defenses evident in the amplified framing include projection (attributing a violent act's cause entirely to opposition speech) and splitting (sympathetic victims vs. mocked, evasive adversaries). No explicit incitement or new-target identification appears in the subject's own act of posting, so danger is rated elevated rather than high, but sharing content that causally links political rhetoric to lethal violence against oneself carries meaningful escalation risk with a mass following. Authorship attribution rests only on ordinary daytime posting time given the complete absence of textual evidence, yielding low confidence about whether the subject or staff selected this clip.

## Post Overview

This post carries no original text from the subject — it is a single video attachment: a satirical partisan commentary segment ("Prop Carson's What in the World") reacting to an apparent assassination attempt on the subject at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, mocking MSNBC's ("MS Now") cautious hedging about the shooter's motive, and replaying a combative CNN exchange in which Jamie Raskin denies using inflammatory rhetoric against the subject while Dana Bash presses him on specific language ("fascist," "enemy of democracy," "MAGA-fascist"). The analyzable act is selection/amplification, not authorship of the words spoken.

## Level 1-3: Traits, Motives, Narrative

The choice of clip is diagnostic even absent text. It selects content that (a) casts the subject as a survivor of a targeted assassination attempt, (b) frames Democratic rhetoric as the proximate cause via the alleged shooter's manifesto, and (c) portrays a Democratic lawmaker as evasive/hypocritical when confronted with his own inflammatory language. This fits a **victim-into-vindicated-victim** narrative arc: persecution (attempted killing) transmuted into moral vindication (the media/opposition is exposed as complicit). The contrasting other is unambiguous: mainstream media ("MS Now," CNN) and Democratic officials (Raskin, Ken Martin) are cast as reckless rhetoricians who incite violence while disclaiming responsibility. Motivationally, this is agency/status-restorative (reasserting narrative control after a life-threatening event) rather than communion-seeking.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Paranoid features:** amplifying content that frames the subject as the target of coordinated hostile rhetoric ("MAGA-fascist," "enemy of democracy") that allegedly produced lethal action against him — consistent with a persecution schema, though here anchored to an actual claimed attack rather than free-floating suspicion.

**Narcissistic dynamics — state:** oscillation between vulnerable (survivor of an attempt on his life) and grandiose-adjacent vindication (the clip mocks and humiliates his accusers, restoring dominance). Trigger type: **narcissistic injury (defeat/exposure to lethal threat) → converted to preemptive attack** on the political and media class blamed for it.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- *Projection*: the clip attributes incitement of violence entirely to Democratic/media rhetoric, externalizing any role his own rhetoric might play in the broader climate.
- *Splitting*: sharp good/evil framing — mocking hosts ("cyborg," "big bad wolf," pumpernickel jokes) devalue the opposition while the subject and allies are cast as reasonable targets of unjust attack.
- *Identification with the victim role*, reinforced by the prior day's Giuliani post ("treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics... look at Rudy"), showing a consistent pattern of attributing harm to political enemies across posts in this window.

**Rhetorical techniques (of the amplified content, not his own words):** ad hominem, ridicule/mockery, whataboutism (turning press criticism back onto the press), selective quotation (manifesto language attributed to broad "Democrat" rhetoric).

**Danger assessment: elevated.** The clip's core claim — that an assassination attempt occurred and was causally linked to opposition political rhetoric — is inherently volatile content to amplify to a mass following, regardless of who voices it. It does not contain an explicit call to action or target identification from the subject himself, so it falls short of "high/critical," but the grievance-attribution pattern (opponents' words caused violence against him) creates conditions historically associated with retaliatory escalation. No stochastic-terrorism elements (explicit new target naming, call to mobilize) are present in what he authored by selecting this clip.

## Authorship Attribution

No stylometric evidence is available since the subject wrote no text. Attribution rests solely on timing and posting-pattern context: 13:35 UTC = approximately 9:35 AM local (Eastern), which is within his typical waking/business hours and does not itself indicate authentic late-night impulsivity. Video reposts of favorable partisan commentary are consistent with either the subject's own real-time media consumption/sharing habit (well documented) or staff curation for rapid narrative response after a major security incident. Given the complete absence of textual markers, confidence is capped at low, and this assessment concerns who selected the clip for posting, not who wrote or spoke its content.

## Cognitive Markers

Not assessable — no first-person language production in this post.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- No written text; no stylometric evidence available
- Posting time ~9:35 AM Eastern falls within business hours, weakly favoring staff curation but not conclusive
- Rapid amplification of a favorable partisan reaction clip following a major security incident is consistent with both personal real-time media consumption (well-documented habit) and staff rapid-response curation
- Attribution here concerns who selected/posted the clip, not who authored its spoken content

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Neuroticism (vulnerability/hostility) alongside low Agreeableness (suspiciousness)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** survivor/persecuted victim vindicated by exposure of opponents' hypocrisy
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Democratic officials and mainstream media (MSNBC/'MS Now', CNN) portrayed as inciting rhetoric while denying responsibility

**Identity Claims:**
- Targeted victim of politically motivated violence
- Vindicated by evidence that opposition rhetoric caused the attack

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and subsequent media/political framing of the event)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Sharing survivor/victim narrative to deepen audience identification with the subject as a persecuted figure
- Amplifying mockery of media figures to reinforce in-group solidarity against a common adversary

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplification of a narrative causally linking opposition political rhetoric to an alleged assassination attempt against the subject
- Persecution/grievance framing that historically correlates with retaliatory rhetoric or calls for accountability against named opponents, though no explicit call to action appears in this post itself

## Tags

- media-only-post (100%)
- victim-narrative (80%)
- persecution-framing (60%)
- media-criticism (60%)
- assassination-attempt-amplification (60%)

## That day

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

**After an attempt on his life, the ballroom project gets republished in borrowed words as a security perimeter**

Trump posted 34 times on Monday, and the afternoon belonged to a single subject: the planned White House ballroom. In roughly one minute he republished a wall of screenshots — commentators, House members, senators — all arguing the ballroom should be built immediately, several recasting it as a security measure after the recent attempt on his life at the Correspondents' Dinner. Around that sat a swipe at Van Jones over criminal justice reform, a flat denial that he had ever phoned ABC's Jonathan Karl to check on him, a triumphant update on the Navy escort mission near Iran, and a jab at Jerome Powell. There was no anger spiral; the sharpest moment came first thing in the morning and the day cooled into republished praise. He also hosted more than a hundred small business owners at the White House and posted nothing about it.

Full digest for 2026-05-04: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 4).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116516566831328525
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 4 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116516566831328525. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, May 4, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116516566831328525.

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