# Post ts_116584918663563894 - Post ID: `ts_116584918663563894` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-05-16T15:18:01.822Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584918663563894 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116584918663563894/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (4:10), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > You talk about Donald Trump, he made $3 billion last year. He moved up $118 billion. He left money this year than he did when he was out of office. He's the president, you're supposed to have me make $400,000. Okay, I know this is going to blow your mind. He was a billionaire and a businessman before he was president, unlike Obama. So he should continue to sell us out to people for the highest bidder. There is a for sale sign on the White House, the crypto scam. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. This is part of it when you hear that way from the vice president was talking about yesterday, which was we can work with states. Let's try to work with Democrats and governors and whatever to try to go after this because everybody agrees there is fraud within the system that would save everybody money if you get it under control. So I think we need to talk about that. I'm cool with that. I said that. I said Tim Walz was in trouble for this. You should weed out the fraud, but we just, I mean, we just saw that Donald Trump in Q1 made at least a $220 million of purchases in stocks, Paramount, Netflix, Warner Brothers, Palantir. So did I. He is in control. He is in control. But you're talking- He should not be able to do that. You want to talk about Nancy Pelosi's talente gelato drawer and you don't care what's going on here. I think it's important to point out also that they cannot get this stuff passed on Capitol Hill. People show up to Capitol Hill. Shannon, it's gone. He just said, oh, that's a good point. No, that's not what I said. I said you like your glasses. You did not. They are great glasses. These are beautiful glasses. They are my dads. But also can we talk about the fact that Capitol Hill can not get it together on insider stock trading and all that kind of stuff, so many of them show up there and they're thousand heirs and they leave as millionaires in a way on a salary that doesn't make a lot of sense. $3 billion in a year. You don't even have to ask me a question. Okay. First things first, a Democrat gets into power and then gets rich. Trump was rich before he got there and he's actually making less money. So your obsession over his profiting is a delusion. It's what you hear. First you say, here's how they're profiting. Then you switch to his foreign policy priority where he's saying Iran is more important right now than the gas prices. That was your justification. Then you move back. It was so convoluted. Look, libs have obsessions over things like ballrooms when taxpayers aren't paying for it. Meanwhile, as Jesse points out, and I got to make this clear because this is going to come back, there is a pattern of abuse and it is relentless. You mentioned Minnesota, the California hospice scam. You have the ghost, what do you call them? The ghost company fraud in Ohio. But the one that is going to blow your mind and is the Jenga piece in all of this, the GAO reports what, $3 trillion in improper payments, $3 trillion since 2003 because of weak controls over entitlement programs, Medicaid and Medicare. Now you know why they circle their wagons. Whenever you approach and you say, you know what, can we look at this? They call you a fascist. You're trying to starve people. You're trying to take money out of their health care. No, they're protecting their profit. It's not about people. Republicans have to go hard on these issues because these are the issues they want on and it's not finished by a long shot. You look how the Democrats lied about the border, trans, obviously, fraud, crime and President Biden. The horrible results of far left policies can be ads in and of themselves. Dead women, exploited kids, perverse dogma, billions in taxpayer fraud, government waste, insane taxes, driving businesses out of blue states. The point that I'm trying to make is that we just overturned the rock and watch how they're reacting. We overturned the rock. Let us finish the job. We got to almost swore we got to like, we got to clean that rock or it's all the rot is going to return and you're all going to be screwed. And honestly, this could be bipartisan. It could be enough of the bipartisan people around Democrats enough. I have Jessica and we love. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/584/911/264/123/609/original/587ef7b5c07e7589.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 6,717 - Reposts: 1,606 - Replies: 311 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-05-16T22:01:04.577Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T20:41:09.071Z (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 is a media-only post (no caption, no written text) sharing a video clip, apparently a cable-news panel segment (a reference to "Jesse" suggests Fox News). A sympathetic commentator defends Trump against an on-air claim of improper profiting from the presidency (crypto "for sale sign," stock purchases in Paramount/Netflix/Warner Brothers/Palantir), then pivots to alleging Democratic/government fraud (Medicaid/Medicare improper payments, a "ghost company" scheme, a hospice scam) and frames critics as hypocritical or "delusional." Because there is no first-person text, this analysis treats the *selection and amplification* of the clip — not its wording — as the behavior under study. The transcript's claims and phrasing belong to the on-air speakers, not to the subject. ## Multi-Level Analysis **Level 1 (Traits):** No direct trait evidence is available; there is no authored language to code for facet markers. Any inference rests solely on the choice to amplify a combative, pro-Trump segment, weakly suggesting continued low tender-mindedness toward critics and high excitement-seeking around conflict-framed media, but this is indirect, proxy-based, and low confidence. **Level 2 (Characteristic Adaptations):** The selection reflects a defensive-agentic motive: countering a narrative of self-enrichment (crypto dealings, large stock purchases) by outsourcing rebuttal to a friendly commentator rather than issuing a direct denial. This is consistent with validation-seeking via curated media allies and a schema in which personal-profit criticism is met with counter-accusation ("Democrats get rich in office," "the real fraud is entitlement spending") rather than engagement with the underlying facts. **Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** By proxy, the amplified segment casts the subject as a successful businessman-reformer, contrasted against career politicians who "arrive poor and leave rich" and a bureaucracy "circling the wagons" to protect fraud. The implied protagonist role is investigator/exposer ("we overturned the rock"); the contrasting other is the political/administrative establishment. No redemption or contamination sequence is present in the subject's own voice — this is an inherited narrative frame, adopted by amplification rather than composed. **Level 4 (Clinical Indicators):** Insufficient basis for clinical inference from a shared clip alone. No grandiosity, entitlement, or paranoid content is directly authored by the subject here; at most, the choice of clip suggests continued reliance on external validators to deflect scrutiny, which is thematically consistent with a broader pattern (seen in prior posts this week) of externalizing blame (Hochul/LIRR strike) and grievance amplification (Obama-focused posting spree days earlier). This is pattern-consistency, not new clinical evidence. ## Defense Mechanisms The clearest identifiable defense is **projection/displacement by proxy**: rather than directly rebutting the profiting allegation, the subject amplifies content that redirects scrutiny onto opponents' alleged financial fraud (entitlement "waste, fraud and abuse," Democratic officials "getting rich"). This is a passive form of **rationalization** (the segment argues profiting is fine because he was "already rich") and **whataboutism**, but because the words are not his own, confidence in attributing the defense mechanism to his psychology (versus simply endorsing a convenient argument) is low-to-moderate. ## Rhetorical Techniques (of the amplified content) The clip itself employs whataboutism, false-equivalence ("so did I" re: stock purchases), appeal to authority (GAO figures), hyperbole ("$3 trillion," "Jenga piece"), and a hero/investigator frame ("we overturned the rock"). Because these are the broadcast speaker's rhetorical choices, they are logged here as content characteristics of what was amplified, not scored as the subject's own rhetorical devices. ## Danger Assessment No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or violence-adjacent content. Danger level: none. ## Authorship Attribution No stylometric evidence is available since the post carries no original text. Attribution rests entirely on timing and posting pattern. The post time is 2026-05-16T15:18:01.822Z, i.e., ~11:18 AM Eastern (subject had recently returned from a state visit to China around May 12 and is presumed back in Washington/New York). This falls within business hours, which is more consistent with staff-timed content curation than the subject's characteristic late-night/early-morning posting bursts (e.g., the 55-post overnight rampage on May 11–12). However, video-clip reposts of friendly media segments are a format the subject is independently known to favor at all hours, so business-hours timing is only modestly informative. This attribution concerns who selected and posted the clip, not who is speaking in it or who might have drafted any language — there being none here. ## Summary Not clinically significant enough to warrant a full summary; the post is a wordless amplification of a favorable news-panel defense, thin in direct psychological content, with authorship uncertain and confidence capped at low. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Business-hours timestamp (~11:18 AM ET) is atypical for subject's characteristic late-night impulsive posting - No written text/caption to provide stylometric signal - Video-clip amplification of friendly media coverage is a known recurring format regardless of poster - Posted amid a week of other same-day posts (text-bearing) attributed with higher confidence to the subject directly ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (On-air allegations of financial self-enrichment via crypto and stock purchases while in office) Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Outsourcing rebuttal to a sympathetic on-air validator rather than direct response ## Tags - media-only (100%) - self-defense-via-proxy (60%) - government-fraud-allegations (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **An open casting call for a Boebert primary challenger, filed in the middle of the Beijing photo album** Late Friday night he announced that American and Nigerian forces had killed ISIS's second-in-command, then slept a normal night and woke to a queue of friendly-news links about the FBI and James Comey. Most of Saturday was self-display: a long album of photographs from the Beijing trip with Xi Jinping, progress shots of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, a new granite floor outside the Oval Office, and two AI posters of himself as a military commander. Two flashes of temper broke through during the morning, one at a Louisiana senator who voted to impeach him five years ago and one at New York's governor for blaming him for a railroad strike. The day closed with about an hour of anger at his own party: after a Fox News story and two Laura Loomer links, he went after Thomas Massie, Rand Paul and Lauren Boebert for campaigning together in Kentucky, then asked publicly whether anyone wanted to run against Boebert. He posted 60 times, roughly double his own record-setting May average, but the rhythm reads as a busy Saturday rather than a sleepless one. Full digest for 2026-05-16: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-16/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 16). 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