# Post ts_117136610993218864 - Post ID: `ts_117136610993218864` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-08-22T01:40:38.642Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117136610993218864 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117136610993218864/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > A screenshot of an Instagram post from the verified account "thejerusalem_post" (The Jerusalem Post), posted 16 weeks ago. The image shows a black news-graphic slide with a headline, below which are photos of three women's faces (portrait-style photos of Iranian women). The post caption below the image gives details about the story: sexual abuse reports in Iranian prisons during a ceasefire, a protester's account of rape during interrogation, a man's suicide attempt, and arrest statistics from human rights groups. A "Read more through the link in bio" line follows. Text in the image: "thejerusalem_post - Follow thejerusalem_post 16w Sexual abuse in Iranian prisons sharply rises during ceasefire. One protester told The Media Line she was raped with a baton during interrogation. Another man attempted suicide after agents claimed they desecrated his wife's body. Human rights groups say at least 3,646 Iranians have been arrested since the war began, with internet shutdowns hiding the true scale. Read more through the link in bio. Sexual abuse in Iranian prisons surges during ceasefire Photo: Social media/Via section 27a of the Copyright Act" ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/136/610/756/866/640/original/9bfc2af05a344d16.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 10,075 - Reposts: 3,697 - Replies: 1,136 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-08-24T03:01:11.162Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T03:03:07.538Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A four-month-old atrocity report, posted the night of a rally The post is a screenshot of a Jerusalem Post Instagram slide with no words from him. The slide is headlined "Sexual abuse in Iranian prisons sharply rises during ceasefire." Its caption reports a protester who says she was "raped with a baton during interrogation," a man who "attempted suicide after agents claimed they desecrated his wife's body," and human rights groups counting "at least 3,646 Iranians" arrested "since the war began." The Instagram timestamp reads "16w," so the story was about four months old when he posted it. What there is to analyze is the choice to publish it, and when. **Timing and the week around it.** 01:40 UTC on August 22 is 9:40 p.m. Eastern on August 21. Earlier that day he posted that he was "getting ready to land in the Great State of South Carolina" for a rally, so this went up during or just after that event, probably from the venue or on the flight home. Two things from the same day matter here. He had said the USS Lincoln's extended deployment was "not nearly long enough," which angered military families and lawmakers. He had also posted a long attack on Carlson, Greene and Massie, whose anti-war circle was floating primary challenges. An image showing the Iranian regime torturing and sexually abusing its own citizens gives a moral reason to keep the war going on the day that war was drawing criticism from his own coalition and from military families. The link is inferred from timing, not stated. Still, the post's age suggests someone went looking for it rather than reacting to breaking news. **What publishing it does.** The image works as an appeal to moral outrage. Iran's government is shown only through its cruelty to women and protesters, which makes the conflict read as rescue rather than a war of choice. The headline points to one causal story: things got worse "during ceasefire." Readers who follow that story end up where his "not nearly long enough" remark already stood, that easing pressure lets the abuse grow. It is a quiet form of splitting: the enemy regime is entirely bad, so there is nothing to weigh against continued military pressure. He attaches no caption, so the argument is carried entirely by the borrowed outlet's credibility. The source is also chosen for its audience. The Jerusalem Post is a pro-Israel outlet that his base already trusts on Iran. Some care is needed on one point. The same week, the Supreme Court denied his rehearing request in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case. Someone could read this post as displacement, pointing to sexual abuse committed by a foreign enemy days after his own liability was made final. Nothing in the post refers to Carroll, and the war context explains the choice well on its own. The overlap in subject is worth noting, but it is not evidence of motive. **Who picked it.** A screenshot of another outlet's Instagram post, with no commentary, is not how he usually posts. He tends to share links, reposts, or text of his own. That, plus the rally schedule, makes it more likely a staffer found and posted it for him. He could have forwarded it from a phone after the rally, and nothing in the post settles the question either way. **Danger and cognition.** The image names a foreign government, not a domestic group or person, and it contains no call to action. It pushes support for a war that is already underway rather than inciting anyone against a target at home. With no written language, the post tells us nothing about cognition. The image's figures, including the 3,646 arrests and the individual testimonies, belong to The Jerusalem Post and The Media Line. They are not his claims, so none of them is fact-checked here. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - No written text; no stylometric evidence available - Posted 9:40 p.m. Eastern, during or right after the South Carolina rally - Uncaptioned screenshot of a third-party Instagram post is not his usual sharing format - Four-month-old content suggests it was looked up on purpose, which fits staff curation ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 40% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 50% - Neuroticism: 30% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: values rigidity (adversary seen only through its atrocities) **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 20% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** war leader facing an evil regime - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** The Iranian regime ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Criticism of the Iran war and the extended USS Lincoln deployment) Sentiment: -0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Tags - Iran war (90%) - human rights abuses (70%) - war justification (60%) - The Jerusalem Post (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump brands Carlson, Massie and Greene "LOSERS ALL" and signs off "PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!"** Friday night, after a rally in South Carolina, Trump celebrated the return of an American missionary held by ISIS and slipped in a swipe at Biden and Obama. Minutes later he turned on Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling them "LOSERS ALL," branding Greene a traitor and signing off "PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!" After a long overnight break he was in a builder's mood, boasting that his White House ballroom is under budget and later posting photos of himself with his name set in stone. Through the afternoon he let other people tell the Iran war story: a TV joke that Democrats would have run the dead Ayatollah for president, a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz "NEW U.S. Territory," and a pundit arguing the bombing stopped too soon. He never mentioned his three critics again, and he said nothing about the steep new tariffs on Canada that took effect that day. Full digest for 2026-08-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, August 22). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117136610993218864 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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