# Post ts_116597368849997374

- Post ID: `ts_116597368849997374`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-05-18T20:04:16.522Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116597368849997374
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116597368849997374/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:34), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> I hope you're going to put him out of business tomorrow. I'm in the Oval Office, and we're in a fight against the worst congressman in the history of our country. His name is Thomas Massey. He's from Kentucky. I hope you're going to put him out of business tomorrow. He is so bad. Got an election coming up. He's running against a great guy, a great patriot, Ed Gilrain. He's fantastic. But forget that. Massey is the worst congressman in the history of our country, always voting against Republicans and good values. So get rid of Thomas Massey.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/597/368/533/720/429/original/44f345e5abe1e51b.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,396
- Reposts: 5,109
- Replies: 2,136
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-05-19T20:01:15.659Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T21:31:17.241Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: Video Clip Attacking Rep. Thomas Massie (2026-05-18)

### Content Note
This post carries no written caption — it is a video only. Unlike typical "amplification" cases, however, the transcript's first-person markers ("I'm in the Oval Office," "I hope you're going to put him out of business tomorrow") indicate the speaker in the clip is Trump himself, recorded in the Oval Office, rather than a third party praising or discussing him. The analyzable material is therefore his own spoken content, selected and posted by him (or on his behalf) without additional commentary. Standard stylometric markers (typos, capitalization, punctuation, syntax) are unavailable since there is no authored text accompanying the post — this constrains the reliability of the authorship call to timing/posting-pattern evidence only.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits
- **Agreeableness (low):** Blunt devaluation of a fellow Republican ("worst congressman in the history of our country") with no softening.
- **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Combative, dismissive tone toward an in-party critic; repetition of the attack ("get rid of Thomas Massey") signals fixation.
- **Extraversion (assertiveness/dominance):** Direct command to the audience to act against Massie tomorrow (Kentucky primary), positioning himself as directing collective action.
- **Openness (low, values rigidity):** Binary framing — loyalty to him and "Republicans and good values" vs. betrayal — leaves no room for principled dissent (Massie is known for fiscal-conservative/anti-war positions, not policy positions Trump engages substantively).

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
- **Agency motive (power/control dominant):** The clip functions as a top-down directive to primary voters, an assertion of authority over intra-party discipline.
- **Schema:** Congress is divided into loyal instruments ("great guy, a great patriot") and internal enemies ("worst congressman in history") — a persecutory, us-vs-traitor schema applied even within his own party.
- **Communion:** Minimal; warmth is extended only instrumentally to Massie's opponent, Ed Gilrain (likely "Ed Gerlach/Gilrane" — transcript garbled), as a loyalty reward.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** Party enforcer/commander directing an electoral purge from the seat of executive power ("I'm in the Oval Office...we're in a fight").
- **Contaminating sequence:** Massie is cast as having gone from acceptable Republican to the worst in national history — a pure contamination arc (good-to-bad), with no acknowledgment of nuance or specific votes.
- **Contrasting other:** Massie (disloyal, "bad") vs. Gilrain (loyal, "fantastic," "great patriot") — classic in-group idealization / out-group devaluation pairing.
- **Identity claim:** Self as final arbiter of Republican legitimacy — "good values" is defined as agreement with him.

### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators
**Narcissistic features:** Grandiose hyperbole ("worst in the history of our country") reflects an inflated, absolutist frame rather than measured criticism; implicit entitlement to unconditional legislative loyalty; low tolerance for principled dissent within ranks.
**Paranoid features (mild):** Massie's votes against him are framed as attacks on "good values" rather than policy disagreement — a persecutory reading of ordinary legislative dissent.
**Splitting (defense, immature-level):** Sharp black-and-white division between Massie (wholly bad) and Gilrain (wholly good) with no mixed evaluation of either.
**Devaluation/idealization (defense):** Textbook pairing — one figure diminished totally, the other elevated totally, in the same breath.

Sadism/cruelty is not strongly evidenced here; "put him out of business" and "get rid of" refer to electoral defeat in a primary, not violence — this is aggressive intra-party campaigning rhetoric, not eliminationist language in the stochastic-terrorism sense.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Hyperbole/superlative ("worst congressman in the history of our country")
- Ad hominem (attacking Massie's character/loyalty rather than specific votes)
- Us-vs-them framing applied to fellow partisans
- Direct call to mobilization (primary voting "tomorrow")

### Danger Assessment
**Level: none.** "Put out of business" and "get rid of" are clearly electoral/political idioms tied to a specific primary election, not dehumanizing or violence-adjacent language. No targets, grievances, and implied physical action converge here — this is ordinary (if unusually harsh) primary-endorsement rhetoric.

#

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- No written caption text — no stylometric evidence available (typos, capitalization, syntax) to assess who wrote/posted this
- Video content shows Trump speaking in first person from the Oval Office, indicating the spoken content is authentically his own words, but this does not establish who selected/posted the clip
- Posted 2026-05-18T20:04:16Z, which converts to ~4:04pm Eastern (Trump's likely location, given Oval Office reference) — mid-afternoon business hours, a time window used by both Trump personally and staff
- Timing tied to a concrete next-day event (Kentucky primary 'tomorrow'), consistent with either Trump's own real-time reaction or a staff-scheduled reinforcement post timed to the election

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: angry hostility / low agreeableness toward an in-party dissenter

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** party enforcer directing an electoral purge from the Oval Office
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Rep. Thomas Massie, cast as disloyal and the 'worst congressman in history'

**Identity Claims:**
- Final arbiter of what counts as 'good values' within the Republican Party
- Commander directing collective electoral action from the seat of executive power

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Rep. Thomas Massie's history of voting against Trump-backed legislation, timed to influence next-day Kentucky Republican primary)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Rep. Thomas Massie
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.50

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Assertive, high-energy directive tone urging immediate audience action ahead of a next-day election

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Directive framing positioning followers as instruments of his will ('I hope you're going to put him out of business tomorrow')
- Simple in-group/out-group loyalty test applied to a fellow Republican

## Tags

- intra-party-attack (80%)
- primary-endorsement (70%)
- splitting (60%)
- grandiose-hyperbole (55%)
- video-only-post (90%)

## That day

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

**Trump calls off a "scheduled" Iran strike at the request of three Gulf rulers, five hours after mocking how the press would cover an Iranian surrender**

Trump spent the day before a big round of Republican primaries at the White House. He put out a long run of nearly identical endorsements, one every minute or two, while hammering Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie from mid-morning into the evening. Massie came up in his own posts, in videos, and in a repeated share of a Laura Loomer interview with Massie's ex-girlfriend. In the middle of all this he announced that he had called off a planned military attack on Iran because the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE asked him to wait. He kept a full-scale assault on the table. The tone was boastful and combative more than angry, the posting stayed within normal waking hours, and the day closed with a shared argument that presidents don't need Congress's permission to go to war.

Full digest for 2026-05-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 18).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116597368849997374
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 18 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116597368849997374. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, May 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116597368849997374.

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