# Post ts_116868270794415402

- Post ID: `ts_116868270794415402`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-07-05T16:18:12.149Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868270794415402
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868270794415402/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Image** (document), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A document/screenshot combining a typed biographical text block with an embedded photograph. The text, under the bold heading "Scott LoBaido:", describes him as an American artist and activist known for patriotic artwork. Below the text is a color photo taken indoors (appears to be a shop or gallery with string lights and wood beams overhead) showing two men standing on either side of a framed painting on an easel. The painting depicts a stylized image of a man (resembling Donald Trump) with a raised fist, set against a blue background with an American flag waving above. The man on the left wears sunglasses, a light pink/tan short-sleeve shirt, and tan pants, with his hands clasped in front of him. The man on the right, resembling Donald Trump, wears a dark suit with a white shirt and no tie, standing with a neutral expression.

Text in the image: "Scott LoBaido: Scott LoBaido is an American artist and activist best known for his bold, patriotic artwork celebrating the United States, first responders, and military service members. Originally from Staten Island, New York, LoBaido gained national attention for transforming ordinary spaces into large-scale American flag murals and public art installations that emphasize themes of patriotism, freedom, and national pride. His work often blends pop culture, political commentary, and Americana, making his style instantly recognizable through vivid colors and dramatic imagery. Beyond traditional painting, he has become known for attention-grabbing public projects and advocacy efforts supporting veterans, police officers, and firefighters. LoBaido's art has been featured across the country on buildings, vehicles, and landmarks, earning him a reputation as one of the most outspoken patriotic artists in contemporary American culture."

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/868/270/463/349/452/original/9174f9585175d0cf.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 5,896
- Reposts: 1,431
- Replies: 152
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-07-12T16:00:59.037Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-12T16:34:59.641Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A morning of gilded statues, ending in a portrait of himself

The account's July 5 output up to this point is a block of Interior Department restoration items, most of them quoted verbatim from a departmental spokesman: the "Valor" statue "being completely regilded," Theodore Roosevelt Island "repaired, cleaned, and beautified," Jackson's captured Spanish cannons "returned to their rightful location around the statue," Dupont Circle's fountain "beautified." Public memory in bronze and granite, refurbished under his administration, itemized.

This post lands in that sequence and swaps the subject. The frame is no longer a monument to a dead president; it is "a framed painting on an easel" of him, with him standing beside it. Nothing is written over it. The juxtaposition does the work: the day's theme of restoring national icons closes on an icon of the living occupant, presented in the same register.

## What the painting is doing

The described composition — "a stylized image of a man (resembling Donald Trump) with a raised fist, set against a blue background with an American flag waving above" — reproduces the fixed visual grammar of the Butler photograph, fist up, flag overhead. The description is literal and I am not going to stack a survival narrative on one sentence of vision output, but a raised fist under a flag is not a neutral pose, and it is the single element of the image a viewer's eye is meant to land on.

His own bearing in the photo is flat: "a dark suit with a white shirt and no tie, standing with a neutral expression," hands not raised, no gesture toward the canvas. The painted version supplies the heroism; the physical one stands next to it and lets it. That division of labor is the most characteristic thing in the post — admiration arrives as somebody else's artifact, and he is merely its distributor.

## The blurb raises the flatterer's standing

Above the photo is a typed encyclopedia-style paragraph about the artist, ending on "one of the most outspoken patriotic artists in contemporary American culture." It is not his prose and carries none of his habits. Its function in the composite is to credential the admirer: a painting is worth more when the painter is established, so the tribute is worth more when the tributor is "best known for his bold, patriotic artwork." The post publishes its own endorsement of its own endorsement.

A genuine communal thread runs alongside — the blurb's "first responders, and military service members," the "advocacy efforts supporting veterans, police officers, and firefighters." Those constituencies get honored, but the honoring routes through a canvas whose center is him, and he is the one circulating it.

## Who selected the file

12:18 p.m. Eastern in Washington, mid-workday, dropped into an unbroken run of departmental press material quoting a named Interior official. That placement points toward staff assembly of the day's feed, and the artifact itself is a prepared composite — text block plus photo, laid out in advance rather than snapped and posted. With no words of his own anywhere in it there is no stylometric evidence at all, so the score rests on clock and context and stays weak; and what it estimates is who queued the picture, not who authored anything.

## The week this sits in

A court-ordered deadline for the DOJ to unredact further Epstein records lapsed on July 2 without compliance. The feed in the days after runs to fountains, regilding, fireworks, and now a portrait. No grievance appears, no denial, no counterattack — the absence of any reference to the legal matter is what stands out against this subject's usual pattern of answering pressure directly, and it is consistent with a feed being curated around him rather than by him at this hour.

## Nothing is aimed at anyone

There is no adversary in the frame, named or depicted. The raised fist is iconographic rather than directed — it points at no person and issues no instruction, which is what separates display from mobilization here. No dehumanizing content, no eliminationist language, nothing an audience could act on.

## Reading it

Straightforward self-enhancement through proxy: a flattering object made by someone else, republished without comment so that the flattery is technically the artist's opinion. Grandiose register, low heat, and cheap — it costs nothing to post and returns admiration without requiring a claim he would have to defend. The only unusual feature is its placement, which lets the restoration of national monuments and the painting of a sitting president share a single afternoon's frame.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Posted 12:18 p.m. Eastern — mid-workday, the window associated with staff posting
- Embedded inside an unbroken run of Interior Department press items quoting a named official (Greg Wischer), which reads as a scheduled communications block
- The artifact is a prepared composite: typed biographical paragraph laid out above a photograph, not a spontaneous share
- No written text of any kind, so no stylometric signal exists — no typos, capitalization, syntax or drift to score
- Content type (flattering portrait of himself) is consistent with his own selection habits, which is the only pull toward authentic

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 35%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 35%

Strongest facet: Low modesty (Agreeableness) — self-presentation through a heroic likeness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Icon — the figure worth painting, standing beside his own portrait
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None present in frame; the post defines him by association rather than against an opponent

**Identity Claims:**
- He is the embodiment of American patriotism rather than merely its officeholder
- He is a fit subject for commemorative art, alongside the statues his administration is restoring
- He is the defiant figure with the raised fist

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (an artist's tribute portrait and a photo opportunity with its painter)

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Republishing a supporter's tribute, which models the admiring posture for the audience while attributing the admiration to a third party
- Credentialing the admirer in-frame ("one of the most outspoken patriotic artists in contemporary American culture") so the tribute carries more weight
- Fusing self-image with shared symbols — flag, first responders, veterans — so affection for the symbols routes to him

## Tags

- tribute art (90%)
- self-iconography (85%)
- proxy praise (80%)
- patriotic symbolism (70%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- wordless post (90%)
- monument restoration sequence (50%)

## That day

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

**A record-setting Fourth gave way to a morning spent on reflecting-pool algae and one judge's foreign birth**

Trump was still posting well past midnight, riding the high of the July 4th celebration he had headlined on the National Mall, and by the time he stopped the next evening he had posted more than a hundred times. Most of it was self-congratulation — the record fireworks, a crowd number he inflated, TikTok view counts, family photos, and a surprising amount of attention to how clean the Lincoln Reflecting Pool looked compared with Obama's. Running underneath was a harsher stream of borrowed material: six posts attacking the federal judiciary, four of them naming and picturing the same judge over her birth in Trinidad, plus a video claiming Haitian immigrants are part of a plot to replace American communities. Almost none of that angrier content was in his own words — it was two-week-old screenshots from other accounts, dumped out in one burst before lunch. He closed the day by reposting six of his own posts, then reposting the same six again eight minutes later.

Full digest for 2026-07-05: https://trump.fm/date/2026-07-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, July 5).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868270794415402
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 5 Jul. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868270794415402. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, July 5, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116868270794415402.

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