# Post ts_117151459351935981 - Post ID: `ts_117151459351935981` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-08-24T16:36:46.620Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117151459351935981 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117151459351935981/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 a social media post (X/Twitter format) from a verified account "Mark R. Levin" (@marklevinshow), showing a cartoon avatar of a bald man. Below the post text is an embedded link-preview card from aol.com featuring a photo of a man with gray hair and beard (Mark Levin) speaking, with a headline about him criticizing Trump. The post is timestamped 9:08 AM · Jul 9, 2026, with 65.1K views. Text in the image: "Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow FAKE NEWS NO, I am not and have not turned on President Trump. I remain a strong supporter and that will not change. The media narrative is utterly false. But they love to stir the pot and create controversy. There is no controversy. I have my own opinions about certain matters, including my opposition to the sale of F-35s to Turkey and my belief the Iranian regime must be eliminated. These would be my views no matter who the President is. And they're views I have held for years. To be clear: I am a proud Trump supporter, and his decisions are always aimed at what's best for our country. Unlike the Democrats, he loves America and the American people. aol.com Fox News host turns on Donald Trump as he condemns pr... Mark Levin has criticized Donald Trump's comments about considering lifting sanctions on Turkey, calling it a 'big ... 9:08 AM · Jul 9, 2026 · 65.1K Views" ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/151/458/302/036/035/original/9c2952760511ff20.png ## Engagement - Likes: 4,934 - Reposts: 1,295 - Replies: 203 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-08-24T23:00:50.657Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T01:02:19.845Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A six-week-old loyalty pledge, reposted mid-feud The post is a screenshot of Mark Levin's July 9 post on X, with no words from the subject attached. In it Levin rejects an AOL/Fox-sourced story headlined "Fox News host turns on Donald Trump": "NO, I am not and have not turned on President Trump. I remain a strong supporter and that will not change." Everything below reads the decision to publish it. **Timing is the reason to look.** The screenshot was 46 days old. It went up on August 24, three days after Trump called Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie "LOSERS ALL," and two days after Greene answered, "I wish I had never supported him." All three had broken with him over the Iran war. Levin is one of the war's loudest media backers, and the image carries his line that "the Iranian regime must be eliminated." Posting it that week sets up a contrast without saying so: some prominent figures on the right leave, and this one says publicly that he never will. The same feed that day has "IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!!" and a complaint about "Fake Polls" and "Demoralization Operations." The Levin image belongs with those posts. All three argue that reports of his coalition splitting are media inventions. **What he let stand.** Levin's post also disagrees with Trump. It names "my opposition to the sale of F-35s to Turkey," and the attached headline says Levin criticized Trump's talk of lifting sanctions on Turkey. Trump published that disagreement under his own account. That fits a pattern where policy dissent is tolerable if it arrives wrapped in "I am a proud Trump supporter" and "his decisions are always aimed at what's best for our country." Carlson, Greene and Massie disagreed without that wrapper and were called losers. What he is enforcing looks like public loyalty rather than agreement on policy. One repost is thin evidence for that, but it lines up with the attacks earlier in the week. **Mechanisms, through the borrowed text.** The motive looks like supply-seeking during an injury. A defection is a defeat of the kind the framework calls abandonment, and the answer is to show a supporter who stayed. Splitting runs across the week: Levin's "Unlike the Democrats, he loves America" marks the good side, and "LOSERS ALL" marks the other. Levin's "FAKE NEWS" and "The media narrative is utterly false" let Trump push the idea of a rupture back onto the press while someone else's voice does the talking. That is a mild denial of a documented split. Greene's rupture on August 22 was on the record and could not be written off as a media narrative. The image does not claim otherwise, though; it only disputes the story about Levin. **Narrative and archetype.** He is cast as the leader whose real allies hold firm while the fair-weather ones fall away, a contamination story (supporters turning) answered by a loyalty display. The Warrior frame from the Iran posts carries over: the approved ally is the most hawkish one. Order is kept for the loyal. Disorder is blamed on "the media" that "love to stir the pot." **Limits.** There is no text to score for style or cognition. The screenshot's capitals ("FAKE NEWS," "NO") are Levin's. The only language that could raise danger is "the Iranian regime must be eliminated." It is Levin's, it names a government during a declared war, and it points at no domestic target, so it adds no danger rating to this post. The posting time was about 12:36 p.m. Eastern, a daytime slot that staff often handle. Screenshot reposts of allies' posts are common on this account, whether he picks them himself or an aide does. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Posted ~12:36 p.m. Eastern (16:36 UTC), within business hours - No written text; no stylometric evidence available - Screenshot repost of an ally's defense is a format used by both Trump and staff (e.g., Scavino) - Topical fit with Trump's personal feud with Carlson/Greene/Massie that week suggests personal interest in the selection ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 60% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: Low trust / loyalty vigilance (agreeableness) **Motives:** - Agency: 70% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** Leader whose true allies hold firm while disloyal ones fall away - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Defecting allies (Carlson, Greene, Massie) and the media **Identity Claims:** - Commands enduring loyalty from serious conservatives - Reports of coalition fracture are media fabrications ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Abandonment (Public defections by Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie over the Iran war (Aug 21-22)) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - denial (pathological) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Displaying a trusted media figure's loyalty pledge as a model for followers - Borrowed-voice validation: an ally says what the subject wants the audience to believe ## Tags - loyalty display (90%) - MAGA rift (80%) - Iran war (60%) - screenshot repost (70%) - fake news framing (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump answers Canada's retaliation vow by calling Doug Ford the 'unimpressive brother' of the late Rob Ford** Trump posted in three bursts: Sunday night until well past midnight, Monday morning into the early afternoon, and a short run in the early evening. Most of it was other people's words, meaning headlines, old articles, photos, video clips and posts from loyal supporters. The few posts he wrote himself had the bite: Iran was "COMPLETELY COLLAPSING," Canada would face 50% tariffs, and bad polls were a Democratic trick to discourage Republicans from voting. Less than an hour after calling polls fake, he shared a column saying he wins big majorities on every issue, along with decade-old stories about how he saved Central Park's Wollman Rink. After Canada promised to hit back, he mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford as the "unimpressive brother" of the late Rob Ford, backing it with claims about Canada's economy that don't hold up, while the articles of impeachment filed against him that day never came up. Full digest for 2026-08-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, August 24). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117151459351935981 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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