# Post ts_117282599441012397 - Post ID: `ts_117282599441012397` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-16T20:27:25.574Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117282599441012397 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117282599441012397/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Hey, my name is Jason Bartlett. I'm a white South African that fled South Africa because I was persecuted based on the color of my skin and now I'm living in North Alabama and I'm thriving in the United States of America Living my very own American dream So I just want to give you an update to show you how the white South Africans are actually assimilating in America This is what everything I have done so far I've taken over as a superintendent of a stunning golf course You'll notice that there's not a single fence Around any of the houses because it is safe as houses over here And there's no one coming to break in and slit your throat because you white and then I also all by myself alone on a farm Have 150 acres where I raise cattle and sheep and I now sell online as well as at farmers markets and Supply my local community and society with fresh grass-fed hormone and vaccine free meat I mean, that's awesome I also started a small rugby team to make sure that I help preserve Masculinity in the United States because you guys are under so much attack from every single angle and Christianity needs to be preached. So Not only am I thriving I am growing and I'm safe and I'm sound and it is absolutely awesome I mean after I work on the golf course, I'm gonna drive out to the farm I'm not even gonna hesitate when I stop at the gate because no one's gonna try and kill me They're just gonna leave me alone. It's really really awesome to live in the United States of America. Look at that My little footsteps and no one's running behind me to kill me It's so cool to live in such a free country full of wonderful people that are so giving and so generous I go to church on Sundays. I go to the farmers market on Saturday mornings I go for runs before the Sun comes up and I'm always safe Even my wife goes for a walk by herself You can't believe it. She goes to town and she takes a walk by herself. No one steals her handbag No one rips her earrings out and he's so insane. It's so cool. It's so incredible to Assimilate with like-minded people now. I understand why Trump is trying to help the Afrikaners by bringing the Afrikaners over here because we just alike we're the same type of people we serve God We want the community to grow we want to live in safety We want good neighbors and we want to work and we want to pay taxes and we want to drive somewhere safely and be safe That's all there is to it. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/282/595/017/226/332/original/5584203f80544b6e.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,197 - Reposts: 2,302 - Replies: 427 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-09-23T20:00:57.381Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T20:33:52.974Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Trump posted a selfie video, with no words of his own, from a white South African refugee in Alabama who credits Trump's Afrikaner resettlement program with his safe, prosperous life. The clip praises Trump through someone else ("now I understand why Trump is trying to help the Afrikaners") and treats one man's success as proof the race-selective policy was right. Its main contrast is racial. America is safe among "like-minded people" who "serve God." South Africa is a place where someone will "break in and slit your throat because you white." The clip never names the attackers, but the implication is clear. It restates the white genocide story Trump has pushed before, and crime data do not support its claim of racial motive. It also cuts against Trump's usual picture of dangerous American cities by placing safety in a rural Christian community, not in the nation as a whole. There is no call to action and no named target. The risk lies in lending presidential reach to a race-based victim story that has been used to justify hostility toward Black people and immigrants. ## A refugee testimonial posted as a policy vindication The clip is a selfie-style video from a man who says he is Jason Bartlett, "a white South African that fled South Africa because I was persecuted based on the color of my skin," now living in North Alabama. He lists his gains: superintendent of a golf course, a 150-acre cattle and sheep farm, a rugby team started "to make sure that I help preserve Masculinity in the United States," and Sunday church. The clip closes on the line that explains why it was posted: "now I understand why Trump is trying to help the Afrikaners by bringing the Afrikaners over here because we just alike we're the same type of people." Trump attached no words. Posting it puts a success story in front of his audience for the Afrikaner refugee program his administration built in 2025, at a time when refugee admissions from almost everywhere else were cut back. The speaker does the persuading. The post turns one immigrant's testimony into a verdict on the policy, and it praises Trump by name without Trump having to praise himself. ## What the clip says about South Africa, and about America Most of the video is about violence the speaker left behind, described through what no longer happens to him: "there's no one coming to break in and slit your throat because you white," "no one's gonna try and kill me," "no one's running behind me to kill me," "No one steals her handbag / No one rips her earrings out." The attackers are never named, but the claim that whites are killed "because you white" implies that Black South Africans are the threat. It rests on the "white genocide" story that Trump has pushed before, most openly in the May 2025 Oval Office meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa. Farm murders in South Africa are real. South African police data and independent researchers do not show that white farmers are killed at rates set apart from the country's very high overall murder rate, or that race is the motive. The clip states the racial motive as plain fact, and posting it spreads that claim. The clip also cuts against something Trump says often. His usual picture of the United States is of cities run by crime that he has to fix. Here America is a place with "not a single fence" where a wife "goes to town and she takes a walk by herself." The two pictures fit together only because safety is placed in a rural, Christian, white Alabama community, next to a South Africa defined by Black crime. The clip does not treat safety as a national condition. It treats it as a question of who your neighbors are: "Assimilate with like-minded people." That is the us-versus-them split inside the video. The group he calls "the same type of people" who "serve God" and "want to pay taxes" is set against an unnamed group that cuts throats. The video also carries side themes Trump's base will recognize: "hormone and vaccine free meat," masculinity "under so much attack from every single angle," "Christianity needs to be preached." Posting these adds nothing new to Trump's own positions. It shows him adopting the whole cultural package the speaker brings. ## Motive and state No injury is visible in the surrounding days. The day before, he posted book promotions, praise for a supporter, and a Kennedy Center announcement. This post fits that run: it looks for approval and keeps his audience engaged. The approval comes through a third party, "I understand why Trump is trying to help," which lets praise reach him as testimony instead of self-promotion. The mood is expansive and warm. There is no rage and no named domestic enemy. Defenses show up mostly through what the clip takes on. The racial split between a safe, godly in-group and a murderous out-group is the organizing idea. It is the speaker's, and Trump adopts it by posting. The success story works as a justification after the fact for a refugee policy that ranked applicants by race. It answers the critique that the program favored white applicants by showing an applicant who thrives, without addressing the critique. ## Where the risk sits The clip never calls for action and never names a person as a target. The risk comes from the "slit your throat because you white" framing: it spreads a racialized story of victimhood that, in its online forms, has been used to justify violence against Black people and immigrants. Trump's reach adds weight to a claim that South African courts and crime data do not support. That puts the post above baseline, but nothing in it points at a specific person or asks for mobilization. ## Who put it up The upload came at 20:27 UTC, which is 4:27 p.m. Eastern. After the Ireland trip that ended around September 13, Trump was most likely back in Washington, so this was mid-afternoon. A found, supporter-made video that endorses an administration program by name is the kind of thing staff pull from social media and post. It is also the kind of video Trump himself shares. The timing leans slightly toward staff, and there is no text to go further. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - No written text; attribution concerns who selected and posted the clip - Posted about 4:27 p.m. Eastern, likely in Washington after the Ireland trip, during business hours - Supporter-made testimonial praising an administration program by name, the kind of content staff often pick - Fits Trump's personal, long-running interest in the Afrikaner persecution story ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 60% - Agreeableness: 35% - Conscientiousness: 50% - Neuroticism: 30% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: values rigidity (preference for ethno-religious in-group sameness) **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 35% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** rescuer of a persecuted people - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** Unnamed South African attackers of whites; by implication critics of the Afrikaner program **Identity Claims:** - Protector of persecuted white Christians - Benefactor whose policy delivers safety and prosperity ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Supporter video crediting Trump's Afrikaner refugee policy) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party testimonial naming Trump as benefactor - Selfie-style direct address creating intimacy with the audience - Shared-identity appeal ('we're the same type of people') ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Spreads the claim that white South Africans are murdered 'because you white,' a core element of the white genocide narrative - Implied Black South African out-group cast as throat-slitting attackers, without naming them - Violent imagery ('slit your throat,' 'rips her earrings out'), though no call to action or named target **Violent Imagery Present** ## Tags - South Africa (90%) - Afrikaner refugees (90%) - white persecution narrative (80%) - immigration (60%) - Christianity (40%) - masculinity (30%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **On Fed decision day, the only new words he wrote demanded interest rates of '1%, or less'** Almost nothing he posted was in his own words, and most of it came in a burst of a little over two hours in the late afternoon. The exception landed on the day the Federal Reserve announced its rate decision: he demanded interest rates of '1%, or less,' bragged that America has the best credit in the world, and claimed that cutting off trade with countries the U.S. buys more from than it sells to would bring in a trillion and a half dollars a year. Minutes earlier he had posted a white South African refugee's video praising his program for Afrikaners, then posted it again; its story of white people in South Africa being killed for their race, which crime data don't support, was the most troubling thing he shared. The night before, he had linked a column calling leaks about the Iran war 'disloyal' and treating them as proof he'd been right, and he wound down with upbeat links about poverty numbers, convention viewership and a friendly author's book. Full digest for 2026-09-16: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-16/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 16). [Social media post]. 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