# Post ts_116816735268373974 - Post ID: `ts_116816735268373974` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-06-26T13:52:02.465Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116816735268373974 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116816735268373974/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116816735268373974.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%, and more! Like Journalists, Honest Pollsters are very rare and hard to find! President DJT > https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/mclaughlin-poll-iran/2026/06/25/id/1260918/ ## Engagement - Likes: 14,402 - Reposts: 3,395 - Replies: 1,393 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-07-03T13:01:21.978Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-06-26T14:12:21.725Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Routine but characteristic grandiose supply-seeking. The subject amplifies a single friendly outlier poll (McLaughlin, a Republican-affiliated pollster, via Newsmax) claiming a 65% approval rating, then elevates its source as one of the 'rare' honest pollsters/journalists — implicitly devaluing the broader field. Psychologically the post is supply maintenance rather than injury response: an expansive, dominant state harvesting external validation. Core defenses are distortion (asserting an unsupported figure against documented polling consensus) and splitting (binary sorting of pollsters/journalists into rare-honest versus implicitly-dishonest), with idealization of the validating source. Rhetoric relies on hyperbole, false dichotomy, and manufactured consensus. Authorship is high-confidence authentic given signature capitalization, exclamatory cadence, and the 'President DJT' sign-off. No rage, paranoia escalation, cognitive markers, or danger indicators. Consistent with baseline; no marked deviation. ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Authentic Trump (high confidence).** The post bears the subject's signature stylistic fingerprint: idiosyncratic mid-sentence capitalization of common nouns ("Polls," "Approval Rating," "Journalists," "Honest Pollsters"), staccato exclamatory cadence, the aphoristic comparison structure ("Like Journalists, Honest Pollsters are very rare and hard to find!"), and the self-applied "President DJT" sign-off. The UTC timestamp (13:52) converts to ~09:52 ET — the subject was in the Washington/East Coast orbit during the America 250 State Fair launch period, placing this in mid-morning local time. While that is nominally "business hours," the content is first-person, evaluative, emotionally self-referential, and contains no policy precision, schedule, or third-person "President Trump" framing that would indicate staff drafting. The selective amplification of a friendly outlier poll is a recurring authentic behavior. The round-number figure ("65%") and vague attribution ("Other Polls") are consistent with the subject's known quantitative style. ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion (high):** positive affect, self-promotional assertiveness. - **Agreeableness (low):** implicit derogation of out-group ("dishonest" pollsters/journalists by negation). - **Openness (low):** rigid epistemic frame (honest vs. dishonest binary). - **Neuroticism (moderate, latent):** the need to broadcast favorable numbers signals underlying status-vigilance rather than overt hostility here. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations Dominant **agency/status motive**: the post is an act of self-validation, curating an external metric (approval rating) as evidence of dominance and legitimacy. Communion motives near-absent. Schema of self as singularly validated, world divided into "rare honest" allies versus an implied dishonest majority. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity Protagonist cast as the vindicated **winner** whose true standing is suppressed by a dishonest establishment but confirmed by the "honest" few. This rehearses the subject's enduring contamination-of-truth narrative — genuine success obscured by corrupt gatekeepers (media, mainstream pollsters) — with the "honest pollster" functioning as the loyal witness who restores the rightful (redemptive) reading. ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators Grandiose narcissistic presentation: inflated self-metric, need for admiration (supply-seeking), and an entitlement to favorable measurement. The trigger is **maintenance/supply-seeking** rather than injury — there is no wound being defended, but rather supply being harvested and amplified. No rage. No paranoid escalation beyond the habitual "honest vs. dishonest" framing. Sadism absent. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Denial/Distortion (pathological-to-immature):** selective elevation of a single sympathetic outlier ("Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%") against the documented polling consensus, reshaping reality to match internal need. - **Splitting (immature):** binary moral sorting of pollsters and journalists into "honest/rare" versus an implicitly dishonest mass. - **Idealization:** of the validating pollster. ### Rhetorical Techniques Hyperbole/superlative inflation, false dichotomy (honest vs. dishonest), implicit ad hominem against the broader press and polling industry, and in-group/out-group construction. A "firehose" reality-distortion element via confident assertion of an unsupported figure. ### Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist, dehumanizing, or mobilizing language. ### Longitudinal Note This post is highly consistent with baseline self-promotional behavior; no cognitive markers (word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality) are present in this short, coherent text. Comparison to the adjacent praise post (Sen. Marshall) confirms a stable mid-morning, sign-off-bearing authentic cluster. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Other polls have Trump's approval rating at 65% (or higher)." | **False** | No credible polling aggregate placed Trump's job approval anywhere near 65% in mid-2026; mainstream averages have consistently shown him in the low-to-mid 40s, occasionally low 50s at peaks. The cited source is a McLaughlin & Associates survey — John McLaughlin is Trump's own longtime campaign pollster — reported via Newsmax, a partisan outlet. A single friendly outlier from an affiliated pollster does not constitute 'other polls,' and 65% exceeds even McLaughlin's typically favorable figures. | | "Honest pollsters and journalists are very rare and hard to find." | **Half True** | This is fundamentally a subjective value judgment — 'honest' is undefined and not directly measurable for either profession — so it cannot be cleanly proven true or false. However, contrary to the first-pass finding of 'no evidence either way,' deep research surfaced substantial relevant evidence on the measurable dimensions, and it cuts in both directions, which is why the verdict is half true rather than unverifiable. Where the claim is contradicted by evidence (the polling half): Reliable, accurate pollsters are neither rare nor hard to find. The 2024 election produced the most accurate polling in over a decade — competitive-state polls landed within about 2.2 points of the result on average, and top performers such as OnMessage, AtlasIntel, and Patriot Polling had only ~1.2-1.5 points of error. Transparent, public rating systems (FiveThirtyEight/ABC News and Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin) grade essentially every American pollster, making accurate ones easy to identify rather than hard to find. The claim's internal logic also undercuts itself: the pollster Trump elevates as one of the 'rare honest' ones, McLaughlin & Associates, carries a low FiveThirtyEight rating (around 0.8 out of 3) and a measured Republican house effect of roughly R+4 to R+6; John McLaughlin is one of Trump's own campaign pollsters, and analysts advise largely discounting such partisan internal polls. Trump's actual approval averaged about 37-41% in June 2026 per RealClearPolling and aggregate trackers, far from the 65% McLaughlin figure being praised — making this a friendly outlier, not evidence of unique honesty. Where the claim has a real kernel (the journalism half): Public trust in journalism is genuinely at record lows. Gallup's 2025 survey found just 28% of Americans express a 'great deal' or 'fair amount' of trust in mass media — an all-time low, down from 40% five years earlier and 68-72% in the early 1970s — with trust at single digits (8%) among Republicans. So the sentiment that trustworthy journalism feels scarce reflects a documented, widespread public perception. Crucially, though, this measures confidence/perception, not actual journalistic honesty, and is heavily driven by partisan polarization and by sustained attacks on the press (including by the speaker himself), so it does not establish that honest journalists are objectively rare. Net assessment: a hyperbolic opinion that bundles a real, measurable phenomenon (collapsing media trust) with a framing that the testable proxy for pollsters (accuracy, which is high and readily auditable) directly contradicts — and that is further undermined by the speaker praising a low-rated, partisan pollster as exemplary. Mixed evidence supports a half true rating. Note: I attempted to fetch the original Newsmax source article but the request timed out; this did not affect the verdict, since the relevant figures were corroborated through independent polling aggregators and the first-pass analysis. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - Idiosyncratic capitalization of common nouns ('Polls', 'Approval Rating', 'Journalists', 'Honest Pollsters') - Self-applied 'President DJT' sign-off - First-person evaluative voice, no third-person 'President Trump' staff framing - Aphoristic comparison cadence with exclamation points - Round-number figure ('65%') and vague attribution ('Other Polls') consistent with subject's quantitative style ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 80% - Agreeableness: 25% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: Extraversion: self-promotional assertiveness / positive affect **Motives:** - Agency: 85% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: status ### Narrative - **Role:** Vindicated winner whose true standing is confirmed by rare honest witnesses - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** Dishonest pollsters and journalists (the implied dishonest majority) **Identity Claims:** - Broadly popular and approved - Object of suppressed but real public support ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable McLaughlin (Republican-affiliated) poll cited via Newsmax) Sentiment: +0.55 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Exclamatory cadence - Expansive self-promotional affect - Inflated self-metric ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 40% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared-grievance framing against 'dishonest' media/pollsters - Inviting followers to accept a flattering metric as in-group truth ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-06-26._ > Other polls have Trump's approval rating at 65% (or higher). **FALSE** No credible polling aggregate placed Trump's job approval anywhere near 65% in mid-2026; mainstream averages have consistently shown him in the low-to-mid 40s, occasionally low 50s at peaks. The cited source is a McLaughlin & Associates survey — John McLaughlin is Trump's own longtime campaign pollster — reported via Newsmax, a partisan outlet. A single friendly outlier from an affiliated pollster does not constitute 'other polls,' and 65% exceeds even McLaughlin's typically favorable figures. Sources: General knowledge of 2026 polling averages; Public record that John McLaughlin/McLaughlin & Associates is Trump's campaign pollster > Honest pollsters and journalists are very rare and hard to find. **HALF TRUE** This is fundamentally a subjective value judgment — 'honest' is undefined and not directly measurable for either profession — so it cannot be cleanly proven true or false. However, contrary to the first-pass finding of 'no evidence either way,' deep research surfaced substantial relevant evidence on the measurable dimensions, and it cuts in both directions, which is why the verdict is half true rather than unverifiable. Where the claim is contradicted by evidence (the polling half): Reliable, accurate pollsters are neither rare nor hard to find. The 2024 election produced the most accurate polling in over a decade — competitive-state polls landed within about 2.2 points of the result on average, and top performers such as OnMessage, AtlasIntel, and Patriot Polling had only ~1.2-1.5 points of error. Transparent, public rating systems (FiveThirtyEight/ABC News and Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin) grade essentially every American pollster, making accurate ones easy to identify rather than hard to find. The claim's internal logic also undercuts itself: the pollster Trump elevates as one of the 'rare honest' ones, McLaughlin & Associates, carries a low FiveThirtyEight rating (around 0.8 out of 3) and a measured Republican house effect of roughly R+4 to R+6; John McLaughlin is one of Trump's own campaign pollsters, and analysts advise largely discounting such partisan internal polls. Trump's actual approval averaged about 37-41% in June 2026 per RealClearPolling and aggregate trackers, far from the 65% McLaughlin figure being praised — making this a friendly outlier, not evidence of unique honesty. Where the claim has a real kernel (the journalism half): Public trust in journalism is genuinely at record lows. Gallup's 2025 survey found just 28% of Americans express a 'great deal' or 'fair amount' of trust in mass media — an all-time low, down from 40% five years earlier and 68-72% in the early 1970s — with trust at single digits (8%) among Republicans. So the sentiment that trustworthy journalism feels scarce reflects a documented, widespread public perception. Crucially, though, this measures confidence/perception, not actual journalistic honesty, and is heavily driven by partisan polarization and by sustained attacks on the press (including by the speaker himself), so it does not establish that honest journalists are objectively rare. Net assessment: a hyperbolic opinion that bundles a real, measurable phenomenon (collapsing media trust) with a framing that the testable proxy for pollsters (accuracy, which is high and readily auditable) directly contradicts — and that is further undermined by the speaker praising a low-rated, partisan pollster as exemplary. Mixed evidence supports a half true rating. Note: I attempted to fetch the original Newsmax source article but the request timed out; this did not affect the verdict, since the relevant figures were corroborated through independent polling aggregators and the first-pass analysis. Sources: https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx; https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/trust-media-all-time-low-gallup/; https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/mclaughlin-associates/; https://abcnews.com/538/2024-polls-accurate-underestimated-trump/story?id=115652118; https://www.natesilver.net/p/pollster-ratings-silver-bulletin; https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-you-should-mostly-ignore-internal; https://aapor.org/polling-accuracy/; https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_second_Trump_presidency; https://researchhub.blog/mclaughlin-associates-polling-bias-accuracy Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - narcissistic_supply_seeking (80%) - distortion (70%) - splitting (60%) - false_dichotomy (60%) - hyperbole (60%) - authentic_trump (85%) - polling_self_validation (80%) - media_delegitimization (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grievance by proxy at night, glory by daylight — and one ninety-minute window where the mask of the showman slipped into "plague" and "animals."** Trump posted 23 times, and the day split cleanly in two. It opened with a late-evening run of wordless videos — other people's voices making his arguments about a stolen 2020 election, Democrats who "are going to cheat," and hidden communists at home — then he slept a full nine hours and woke up in an entirely different mood. Most of the daylight hours went to self-celebration: a friendly poll putting his approval at 65 percent, a boast that his deportation numbers crush Obama's, a street named after him in India, a passport with his face on it, and a Fourth of July airshow he promised would be the biggest in American history. He also threatened a 100 percent tariff on any country taxing American tech, and reported Iranian drones hitting a cargo ship with striking calm on a day U.S. jets struck ten Iranian targets. The one sharp break came right before a speech to a religious conservative group, where he called newly elected progressives "godless Communists," a "plague," and "animals" — and he never said a word about Tucker Carlson, who had just told him to shut up. Full digest for 2026-06-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, June 26). Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%, and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116816735268373974 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%, and more! Like..." Truth Social, 26 Jun. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116816735268373974. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%, and more! 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