# Post ts_117289656153250166

- Post ID: `ts_117289656153250166`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T02:22:02.455Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289656153250166
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289656153250166/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> This fight is real and the other side really does want to eliminate America and replace it with a very different place. It's chilling the way you say it. So then how does, through the prism of history, how will Donald Trump be judged, in your view? You're the great historian. Tell me the results of the election. Ask you after the election. It's too late. This podcast will be over. If Donald Trump can pull off a victorious midterm and keep the House and Senate, he will rank third. Behind? After Washington and Lincoln. No doubt. No doubt. Because he will have achieved, not just in the U.S., but in the world, a level of change that will be astonishing.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/289/648/346/629/719/original/1940c9046d02b3c8.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,464
- Reposts: 3,702
- Replies: 673
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T02:00:53.086Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T02:34:21.425Z (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 media-only post: a podcast clip in which a guest introduced as a historian says Trump will "rank third... After Washington and Lincoln" if Republicans hold Congress in the midterms. The same clip says "the other side really does want to eliminate America and replace it." It was posted about a day after Trump asked the Smithsonian for an 11-foot Washington statue and a future 30-foot "Washington Colossus." The sequence puts him beside Washington through a borrowed voice, grandiosity he never has to say in his own words. Making the ranking depend on a "victorious midterm" merges his historical standing with the party's November result, so the election becomes a referendum on him. The opening line casts the opposition as wanting to eliminate the country, which is splitting at the national scale, and its "replace" wording sits near replacement-theory rhetoric. It names no individual and calls for no action. The post arrives in a late-evening cluster of praise-giving and praise-receiving posts that began with Fox segment reactions, consistent with supply-seeking. Two things are worth tracking into November: whether founder comparisons recur, and whether election-as-legacy framing escalates.

## Ranked third after Washington and Lincoln, posted the night after the Washington statue

The video is a podcast exchange with no caption from Trump. A guest, addressed by the host as "the great historian," first says "the other side really does want to eliminate America and replace it with a very different place." Asked how history will judge Trump, he answers that if Trump can "pull off a victorious midterm and keep the House and Senate, he will rank third," and confirms the order: "After Washington and Lincoln. No doubt. No doubt." Trump put this in front of his followers: an outside voice with a historian's credentials placing him behind only the two most revered presidents.

The timing gives the clip context. On September 17, Constitution Day, he asked the Smithsonian to install an 11-foot Washington statue in Flag Hall, run a five-year Washington exhibition, and eventually build a 30-foot "Washington Colossus." Within about a day he posts a clip that seats him next to Washington. He never makes the claim himself. The historian's authority carries it, so the post gets founder-tier status while he stays silent. This is idealization by proxy, and it fits the rest of his evening feed: Andrew Ferguson was "FANTASTIC tonight on FoxNews," thanks went to Charlie Hurt "for a great interview," and a congressman was praised as "MAGA all the way." The run reads as supply-seeking: TV praise received, praise handed out, and then a clip of praise directed at him.

## Greatness conditional on November

The ranking comes with a condition. "If Donald Trump can pull off a victorious midterm" ties his place in history to an election roughly seven weeks away. That turns a legacy claim into a turnout argument: keeping Republican control of Congress becomes the test of whether he joins Washington and Lincoln. The party's result and his personal standing are fused, so the midterm becomes a referendum on him. The awe in the exchange ("It's chilling the way you say it," "a level of change that will be astonishing") adds to the flattery. The ranking is a forecast and cannot be checked. It is also conditional, and a rank-order prediction about someone whose term is still unfinished is a partisan's view, whatever the speaker's credentials.

## "Eliminate America and replace it"

The opening line casts the opposing party as an existential threat to the country itself: they "really" want to "eliminate America." The phrase "replace it with a very different place" sits close to replacement-theory language. The clip frames it in civilizational terms and names no demographic group, so the link stays suggestive. This is splitting at the national scale: one side is America, and the other wants it gone. The danger comes from what the framing permits. If the opponents' goal is the elimination of the country, then losing an election to them stops being ordinary politics. The clip still names no individual target and gives no instruction, and that absence keeps it short of the stochastic pattern. The claim about Democrats' intent is the speaker's, stated without evidence. Trump amplified it but did not assert it himself, so it is left out of the fact checks.

## Who chose the clip

02:22 UTC converts to 10:22 p.m. Eastern on September 17. His Constitution Day post and his reaction to a Fox segment "tonight" suggest he was back in the U.S. after the Ireland trip. The clip lands inside a cluster of media-only posts and a Fox-reaction post signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP," the pattern of an evening spent curating his own feed. There is no text, so the only authorship question is who selected the video. The hour and the surrounding posts lean toward Trump. Staff also push flattering clips, so the lean is modest. The clip contains none of his speech, which leaves nothing in his own language to compare against baseline.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- 10:22 p.m. Eastern posting time, assuming he was back in the U.S. after Ireland
- Part of an evening cluster of media-only posts
- Follows a Fox-reaction post signed 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' that praises a segment aired 'tonight'
- Content matches his Washington-statue post of the prior day
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence is available

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Low modesty (Agreeableness)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** Historic founder-tier leader on the verge of ranking with Washington and Lincoln
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** 'The other side' that wants to 'eliminate America'

**Identity Claims:**
- Third-greatest president, conditional on the midterms
- Agent of 'astonishing' change in the U.S. and the world

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Evening media consumption. The post follows Fox-reaction posts and his Washington statue request of the prior day.)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 5%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Borrowed authority ('You're the great historian')
- Inviting followers to share in his historical destiny
- Tying followers' midterm votes to his personal legacy

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Opposition framed as wanting to 'eliminate America'
- 'Replace it with a very different place' echoes replacement rhetoric
- Existential framing of a domestic election about seven weeks before the midterms

## Tags

- grandiosity-by-proxy (80%)
- historical-legacy (80%)
- washington-comparison (70%)
- midterms-2026 (70%)
- existential-opposition (60%)
- media-only-repost (50%)
- supply-seeking (70%)

## That day

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

**CNN, MSNOW and Politico banned from the White House "effective immediately," with "Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow"**

Trump spent Thursday night posting Fox News clips of other people praising him, including a historian who ranked him behind only Washington and Lincoln. Just after midnight he threatened whoever leaked his advisers' warnings about the Iran conflict: "When we find you, you will pay a big price." On Friday afternoon his account put out fifteen identical endorsements in about twenty minutes, and several carried campaign videos with harsh personal attacks on Democrats, including one tying a Muslim-American Senate candidate in Michigan to Hamas and 9/11. Soon after, he banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House, said more outlets would follow, and posted a fan video of a lion that has to "show the jackals who he is." The evening turned to celebration, with a Greenland security deal he called "a dream come true" and a list of accomplishments from what he called his "Term Three."

Full digest for 2026-09-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 18).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289656153250166
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289656153250166. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289656153250166.

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