# Post ts_117273026439561125

- Post ID: `ts_117273026439561125`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-15T03:52:53.163Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:07), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> former White House deputy chief of staff and president now the AI advocacy group innovation council so Taylor am I wrong I mean am I completely wrong I mean after all David Sachs is the smartest guy about all this stuff and he said basically if you guys want to restrain it and slow it down go on ahead and slow it down but don't bring the whole government regulatory state with it I mean that's the way I'm reading it Larry you're exactly right this is not about safety it's about control with President Trump you have the greatest president for the worker the greatest president defending America America's national security and somebody who understands the importance of the economy and the importance of this industry to it and he stood up and fought he stood up and led he sees around the corner on this and he sees through some of the the bull that we're seeing out there online from some of these companies now going back to the control it the Democrats the left has tried this cycle after cycle decade after decade they tried it as you pointed out correctly with the Paris Climate Accords it's not about the climate it's about control and now they're trying to blackmail the American people with this idea of safety like they're going to release a world-ending technology if we don't regulate it and now take Dario the CEO of anthropic at his word he didn't say the American government he said the global war world order right because now we talk about our two frontier labs as well there are two frontier labs are American companies built here in the United States of America yet he wants to outsource the regulation the oversight to what the Europeans who are building nothing no I think the president is exactly right what this actually is about is controlling the future limiting competition and shifting a liability and that's I think an important part it's a it's a point that David Sachs made in his right which is shifting liability like you don't roll a car off of an assembly line without testing the brakes if if something goes wrong it's on the company that produced the product there is tremendous consumer protections already in place and these companies should be liable for for the product they built which it goes to the final point if they think that the next step with this current moment calls for a pacing of the technology and the innovation then so be it these are private company currently they're private companies they all want to IPO and continue creating new products but if they think that it's so important to posit then they should and we should respect that that's on them but right now the president sees around the corner on this he understands what China is trying to do he understands that China is not going to play by the same rules of some global world order and he's not going to back down and kowtow to whatever these silicon elites want to say because they don't they don't want him to have power or they won't want Republicans to be in control again we're split seven weeks out for an election this is nothing to do about safety this is control in politics

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/273/025/413/586/343/original/f66de204d721726e.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T07:48:43.610Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A wordless video drop, posted near midnight Eastern, carrying a Fox Business segment in which a former deputy chief of staff now leading an AI advocacy group tells Larry Kudlow that "this is not about safety it's about control" and compares AI oversight to the Paris Climate Accords. That is the same analogy the subject himself posted the previous day ("The AI Hoax... reminiscent of their Global Warming Scam"), returned to him by a broadcast voice and republished without comment — a frame going out and coming home as apparent corroboration.

About a third of the clip is praise in the third person: "the greatest president for the worker," "he stood up and fought," "he sees around the corner on this." Publishing it unaccompanied asserts those claims while keeping authorship at arm's length, which is how the supply is obtained without the boast.

The premise adopted by the selection is that critics of AI regulation do not believe their own stated concerns — an unfalsifiable motive attribution that forecloses argument rather than answering it, and that mirrors the control interest the frame itself serves. Splitting is total: American labs and the president on one side, "the Democrats the left," "silicon elites," and "the Europeans who are building nothing" on the other.

Hostility remains rhetorical. Dario Amodei is devalued, not marked; the grievance is discharged into a vote ("seven weeks out for an election").

## A clip that repeats yesterday's post back to him

Twenty-four hours before this video went up, he had written: "The AI Hoax being perpetrated by the Radical Left Dumocrats is reminiscent of their Global Warming Scam of not so long ago." The segment he then published — a Fox Business exchange between Larry Kudlow and a guest identified as a "former White House deputy chief of staff" now running an "AI advocacy group" — makes the same move almost line for line: "they tried it as you pointed out correctly with the Paris Climate Accords it's not about the climate it's about control." The analogy he reached for on Sunday comes back to him on Monday night in a broadcaster's mouth, and he puts it on his feed without a syllable of his own.

That is the behavior worth reading. He is not adding an argument; he is collecting a confirmation and showing it to his audience as an independent one. The frame did not travel outward from him and get tested — it traveled outward and came home wearing a suit.

## Praise received in the third person

Roughly a third of the transcript is direct laudation: "the greatest president for the worker, the greatest president defending America, America's national security," "he stood up and fought he stood up and led," "he sees around the corner on this," "he's not going to back down and kowtow." Publishing this wordlessly is a way of asserting it while keeping the fingerprints off. A self-authored "I am the greatest president for the worker" would be read as a boast; the same sentence sourced to a cable guest reads, to a sympathetic audience, as corroboration. The supply is real either way — what changes is deniability.

The superlative stack here is not incidental to the policy content. It arrives welded to it: the case against AI regulation is delivered as a case about his perceptiveness ("he sees through some of the the bull that we're seeing out there online from some of these companies"). Adopting the argument requires adopting the characterization.

## The bad-faith premise, amplified

The clip's organizing claim — "this is not about safety it's about control," repeated three times and closed with "this is nothing to do about safety this is control in politics" — does not dispute that AI risk arguments are wrong. It asserts that no one making them believes them. That is an unfalsifiable attribution of motive, and it forecloses the debate rather than joining it. Applied to a named individual, it becomes devaluation: "take Dario the CEO of anthropic at his word he didn't say the American government he said the global world order," followed by "he wants to outsource the regulation the oversight to what the Europeans who are building nothing."

These are the broadcaster's words, not his, and they are not scored as his factual assertions. But the selection is an endorsement of the premise — and the premise is the same projection structure his own AI posts have been running: a stated concern about a risk is recoded as a concealed grab for power. The imputed motive is the one the frame's beneficiary is himself pursuing. His prior-day "Hoax" framing did the projection in his own hand; this does it by proxy, with a surrogate's credential attached.

The splitting is clean and total. On one side, "our two frontier labs are American companies built here in the United States of America," the president, the worker, national security. On the other, "the Democrats the left," "silicon elites," "the Europeans who are building nothing," and a global body invoked as "the global world order." Nothing occupies the middle; no AI safety claim in the segment is granted even provisional good faith.

## What the clip stops short of

The hostility stays inside argument. Amodei is characterized as wrong and self-interested, not as subhuman or as someone to be dealt with physically; the Democrats are accused of wanting "control," not marked for removal. The electoral closing — "we're seven weeks out for an election" — routes the grievance to voting, which is where the prior post also sent it ("JUST GET OUT AND VOTE!!!"). There is no target-plus-action structure here, and reading one in would require importing it from elsewhere in the feed.

## Authorship and cognition

With no written text, stylometry has nothing to work on. The timestamp converts to roughly 11:52 PM Eastern on September 14 — he had returned from Ireland by then, commenting publicly on Flock cameras that day — which puts it inside his long-established late-night window and matches his habit of pushing a TV segment hours after it airs. That evidence bears on who picked the clip, not on who composed anything, and it is thin enough on its own to hold the confidence low.

Nothing here supports a cognitive reading in either direction. He produced no sentences, so vocabulary, syntax and coherence are all unobservable; the transcript's rough edges ("we're split seven weeks out," "the global world order") belong to the speaker on screen and to the speech-to-text, not to him. Judgment of topical consistency is the one thing the post does show, and it is consistent: three consecutive days on AI regulation, the same analogy, the same imputed motive.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Posted 2026-09-15T03:52Z — approximately 11:52 PM Eastern on Sept 14, inside his established late-night window (he had returned from the Ireland trip by Sept 14, commenting publicly on Flock cameras that day)
- Cable-segment clip pushed out hours after the broadcast aired — a long-standing personal habit rather than a communications-shop pattern
- Topically continuous with his own self-authored post 24 hours earlier using the identical climate-policy analogy
- No announcement, schedule, third-person 'President Trump' framing, or other aide markers present
- Wordless media-only format gives no stylometric signal in either direction

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 68%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: low modesty — grandiosity accepted by proxy rather than asserted

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** The lone figure who saw it first and refused to yield — 'he stood up and fought he stood up and led', 'he's not going to back down and kowtow'
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** 'silicon elites' and 'the Democrats the left', personified in Anthropic's CEO and backed by 'the Europeans who are building nothing'

**Identity Claims:**
- 'the greatest president for the worker'
- 'the greatest president defending America, America's national security'
- 'somebody who understands the importance of the economy and the importance of this industry to it'
- 'he sees around the corner on this'
- 'he sees through some of the the bull'

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fox Business segment praising his AI-deregulation stance, airing amid the reported Obama push for a Democratic 'AI control bill')

Sentiment: -0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 62%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 48%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Praise delivered in the third person by a surrogate, republished without comment — the claim is made while authorship of it is disclaimed
- Credential framing ('former White House deputy chief of staff', 'AI advocacy group') presented as independent corroboration of his own prior-day post
- Perceptual superiority attributed to him twice ('he sees around the corner on this', 'he sees through some of the the bull'), casting the audience as beneficiaries of foresight they cannot verify
- Electoral deadline pressure — 'we're seven weeks out for an election' — binding the policy frame to a mobilization window

## Tags

- wordless amplification (90%)
- supply by proxy (85%)
- projection (75%)
- splitting (70%)
- bad-faith motive attribution (85%)
- AI regulation (95%)
- midterm mobilization (45%)
- Dario Amodei / Anthropic (50%)
- frame confirmation loop (70%)

## That day

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

**Kennedy Center closed as unsafe, but its repair 'will not take place' if the courts reject its new name**

On Monday night he promised $5,000 for adult citizens if Republicans hold Congress, shared news of federal maps renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," and posted four video clips in under three minutes, reposting each one himself. Tuesday opened with an attack on the Supreme Court over rulings that went against him, including one on mail-in voting: justices he appointed were now "a shell of their original selves," and Democrats, he said, would be free to cheat. Two hours later he said former FBI director Christopher Wray "should pay a price" over the Butler shooting, which he called a Democrat plot even though the gunman was a registered Republican and no investigation found one. The Kennedy Center filled the afternoon: a claim that a guard came within 60 seconds of death from falling debris, a polished engineering video, and word that the building is closed and won't be rebuilt if the courts reject its new name. He finished by plugging two allies' books, one of them linked to a paid stock-picking subscription, by which point the morning's anger had cooled.

Full digest for 2026-09-15: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-15/analysis

## Citation

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