# Post ts_116559333373865983 - Post ID: `ts_116559333373865983` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-05-12T02:51:21.285Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559333373865983 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559333373865983/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > A newly released FBI file showed President Obama used a pseudonym to exchange emails with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Political advisers worried pay-to-play allegations could overshadow the beginning of her White House bid. And while he downplayed all of this on Sunday, Mook wrote a February 2015 email marked Foundation vulnerability points, which listed out two pages of problems that could hamper the campaign, including donations from foreign governments like Morocco, private jets and pricey hotels. These are stolen documents. And then there's a new email dragging President Obama deeper into the controversy over Clinton's private email account and server. Mr. President, when did you first learn that Hillary Clinton used an email system outside the U.S. government for official business while she was Secretary of State? At the same time, everybody else learned it through news reports. That comment triggered immediate alarm from Clinton's top advisers. Cheryl Mills writing, "We need to clean this up. He has emails from her. They do not say State.gov." White House spokesman Josh Earnest tonight is stressing the president never said he did not trade emails with Clinton. He just didn't know the details about her server. President Obama has a highly secured Blackberry that he uses to get emails, and it has two functions. One is to mask his physical location when he's using it, and the second is to make sure every email, every text message, every phone call has been vetted and preapproved for him to receive. It's called whitelisting. So if you or I had the president's email, if we sent him a message, it would be blocked and it would bounce back. So the question is, did he receive the Clinton emails on the Blackberry? And if so, when did his team direct the White House Communications Office to accept that email and whitelist it? Because it's a very deliberate act, it doesn't happen by accident. Yeah, you've got to get cleared in, right? Correct. Just like you've got to get cleared into the White House, you've got to get it cleared into the president's email list. Now we know that he did exchange emails with her when she was writing emails from her private server. Correct. Now the question, I guess, is whether he received those emails on a computer somewhere or whether he computed on his little Blackberry, which requires the extra step of getting it cleared, right? That's right. And the question here is whether his staff asked for her address to be added to that Blackberry before March of 2015. That's when he said, "I first learned about the server from news reports." That's when the New York Times reported the story. But everything that we see suggests that he was receiving emails from her on the Blackberry prior to that period. Right. And we know, of course, that those emails from her did not say Hillary Clinton at state got gov, right? That's right, exactly. Which would have been the normal internal system. That's right. But it's also understandable to me, however, that if she was in his address book, she would have been there under the name. And if I send you an email on the Fox system, I look up your name and I don't know the particulars of the address. I just know that it goes to you. I looked at it. I could find it. But you might not notice that. That's right. But someone, I was told, either the chief of staff or deputy chief of staff would have to take a directive from the president to add an address. And if you just look at that simple address, even if you're not an IT wizard, you see that it's not a government address. If you know it at state.gov, right? That's right. You see clintonemail.com. And that tells you that there is a registered domain for that address. And it was being used for government business. So either a staffer or the president himself must have done this. It would likely be the chief of staff. If he received them on his black brand, we don't know that, correct? Everything suggests that these emails were received on the black brand. It would make sense that they would be on the black brand. Because they had so many in-person meetings, it wasn't a situation where emails were being received routinely on a desktop computer in the Oval Office. At that particular time, I guess the blackberry was a thing, especially for Mr. Obama, who had gotten accustomed to using one before he took office. That's correct. And she wanted, remember, in the emails we saw released by the State Department, Cheryl Mills, her principal chief of staff at the State Department, wanted to see whether Hillary Clinton could also get one of these sort of Brinks truck type blackberries, like what the president had, so that she could communicate. But again, it goes back to when she was whitelisted. When did that email get approved to be received? And it takes us to the age-old question, what did the president know, and when did he know it? ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/559/330/698/197/972/original/714cb24453b59172.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 8,441 - Reposts: 2,514 - Replies: 308 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-05-12T17:01:22.451Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T19:38:05.984Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2026-05-12T02:51 UTC (Media-Only Repost) **Content note:** This post carries no original text. The attached video is a rebroadcast-style news segment (interview/panel format, apparent Fox News origin) rehashing the 2015-16 controversy over Hillary Clinton's private email server and a newly surfaced FBI file suggesting Obama used a pseudonym to email her. All propositional content in the transcript is the broadcaster's/interviewee's, not Trump's. Per instructions, this analysis treats the act of *selecting and amplifying* this clip as the behavioral data point, not the clip's language as his own speech. ### Level 1 (Traits) No stylometric data available (no written text). No trait inferences can be drawn from language use. The *choice* of content is weak, indirect evidence of low Agreeableness (continued targeting of political adversaries years after the underlying events) and openness rigidity (return to a fixed, decade-old grievance narrative), but this is behavioral/thematic inference only, not linguistic — confidence low. ### Level 2 (Characteristic Adaptations) **Motive:** Status/power-agency via discrediting rivals. Resurfacing the Clinton email/Obama pseudonym story serves to relitigate the "lock her up" grievance and implicitly argue that his own classified-documents controversies are comparatively minor or that the system was always corrupt toward Democrats and lenient toward them, never toward him. This is consistent with a longstanding schema: "my prosecutions were persecution; theirs was cover-up." **Schema:** World-as-rigged-system; enemies as chronically corrupt and protected; self as the exposer of hidden truths others suppressed. ### Level 3 (Narrative Identity) **Contrasting other:** Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, recast a decade later as still-unindicted wrongdoers. **Protagonist role (implicit):** Vindicated truth-teller / prosecutor-by-proxy, reasserting that the "email scandal" was real and the media/establishment under-covered it. **Sequence type:** Not a personal redemption/contamination arc — this is other-focused grievance archiving rather than self-narrative. No new content about self. ### Level 4 (Clinical Indicators) **Malignant narcissism:** No fresh evidence in this post's own content beyond continuity of paranoid features already documented longitudinally — chronic preoccupation with perceived vindication against Clinton/Obama, years after their political relevance has faded. This is more consistent with grudge-bearing (a paranoid-spectrum feature: "bearing grudges") than with in-the-moment grandiosity or sadism. **Trigger:** Most plausibly **preemptive attack / distraction**, arriving days after a Court of International Trade ruling invalidated his signature tariff policy (May 7) and amid intensifying Iran rhetoric. Redirecting audience attention to an old, emotionally resonant opposition scandal is a classic deflection pattern, though this inference about motive is speculative (confidence: low-medium) since no caption or accompanying text confirms intent. **Narcissistic state:** Cannot be scored from this post alone — no self-referential content. Longitudinal pattern (per prior posts this week: tariff loss, Iran escalation, AI-slop spree) suggests this may function as compensatory grandiose-adjacent activity (asserting narrative control by re-litigating a past "win" against enemies) following a real-world setback, but this bridges outside this single post's content. **Defense mechanisms:** **Displacement** (redirecting attention from current legal/policy setbacks to an old opposition scandal) and **rationalization-by-proxy** (using media surrogates to make the "they were worse" case without personal exposure) are plausible at low-to-medium confidence given the timing coincidence with the tariff ruling. Not confirmable as intentional strategy from the post alone. ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Whataboutism**: amplifying an old Democratic scandal invites comparison to his own concurrent legal exposure without directly engaging it. - **Appeal to grievance/nostalgia**: revisits a 2015-16-era controversy that resonates with his base's long-standing "rigged system" framing. - No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery — the clip is a standard cable-news panel segment. ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None directly attributable to Trump in this post; the segment's claims (Cheryl Mills quote, Josh Earnest response, whitelisting explanation) are journalistic reporting, not statements from Trump, and are not evaluated as his claims per instructions. ### Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no identified targets for mobilization, no violent imagery. Content is a historical political scandal rehash. # ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - No written text is available for stylometric analysis; attribution rests solely on timing evidence. - Post time converts to ~10:51 PM Eastern (assuming EDT, Washington-area location), within his documented late-night personal posting window. - This attribution addresses who likely selected and queued this video clip, not who authored any language — there is no language to attribute. - Media-only reposts of cable news segments are a low-effort action plausible for either Trump personally reacting to TV or staff curating content. ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 50% - Agreeableness: 20% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 40% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: suspiciousness/grudge-holding (low agreeableness, paranoid-adjacent) **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: status ### Narrative - **Role:** vindicated truth-teller (implicit, via proxy) - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Court of International Trade ruling invalidating his tariff policy (May 7) and ongoing Iran escalation pressure) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 100% - Antisocial: 100% - Paranoid: 100% - Sadism: 100% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Reinforcing shared grievance narrative with base by resurfacing a familiar opposition scandal ## Tags - media-only (100%) - whataboutism (50%) - clinton-email-scandal (60%) - deflection (40%) - grievance-narrative (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **On the day he left for Beijing, Trump called reporting on Iran's military strength "virtual TREASON"** The day started in the middle of a late-night posting binge before his trip to China. In under an hour he pushed out a stream of video clips about Obama, the Russia investigation and the 2020 election, many of them reposts of his own earlier material. After a short night he went after the New York Times over its story on the Reflecting Pool, posting the same attack twice. Just before leaving he put up a batch of memes: Iranian boats being destroyed, himself on a $100 bill, Democrats sitting in sewage. Late in the afternoon came the sharpest post of the day, calling news reports that Iran was holding up militarily "virtual treason" by "American cowards." In the evening he posted a "51st State" Venezuela graphic and an Uncle Sam "I WANT YOU!", then went back to the pool one more time. Full digest for 2026-05-12: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 12). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116559333373865983 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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