# Post ts_117289658560181496

- Post ID: `ts_117289658560181496`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T02:22:39.184Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117289658560181496/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> all right here with more by the way very proud of this uh i think he's the intellectual thought leader of the conservative movement at this moment he is brilliant he's the author of now the number one new york times best seller the counter revolution the fall and rise of donald trump and the maga movement our friend victor davis hansen first congratulations debut number one new york times um you're you are you're you're brilliant there's no other way to put it you you heard everything i said everything caroline said everything stephen morris said and then you know about the dsa agenda and i can scroll it as you're talking again tell me what what do you see in our future in 47 days well i i think all the economic data that you you describe will help there's going to be some redistricting and red states if they have a three-prong agenda if the republicans can show what they have done and the data that all of your guests showed is pretty convincing and then they say and this is what's going to follow and here's what we're going to do the next two years it's going to get even better and then third they show and you've outlined that what the democratic socialists are like and what they want to do to america then they have a very good chance of breaking the historical precedent because 39 out of 41 of the last midterm elections went to the out party in the white house the party not occupying the white house but we got to remember that the reason that they're so crazy is that don trump is not bob dole he's not john mccain he's not mit romney he is staging a counter revolution he is saying i'm not going to treat just the symptoms of this progressive project i'm going to go to the root causes and it's the media i'm going to go after pbs and nprs demagoguery i'm going to go after the indoctrination of the universities that they graduate the the legions in the left i'm going to look at the civil rights violations i'm going to tax their endowments and i'm not just going to say crime i'll try to help crime i will send the national guard to cities that are out of control and the same thing with the immigrant i'm not just going to build a wall i'm not just going to stop immigration i'm going to actually try to end illegal immigration for good i'm going to deport people so he's looking at all the symptoms of their power that they exercise when they don't have the white house and they don't have the congress and they don't have the supreme court but they have the institution that's why he had doge 400 000 employees are not with us anymore that we're mostly highly politicized so this is we're in the middle of a historic effort within just four years to overturn this march through our institutions that's gone on for 50 and that explains why they're so hysterical and they're so crazy and why the democratic party are socialists and why the socialist are democrats they've merged and there's no difference between them but they do share this frenzy and this paranoia that don't trump is the first president they've seen that could put an end to their dominance of our culture or economy or military and our politics and that's why they're so terrified do you agree with my framing of this as a group of people that want to shred the constitution frankly versus those of us that love our constitution our country liberty and freedom is it does it come down to that basic choice and it has it ever been this starker contrast you were absolutely right but i would say they've already done it i mean they tried to get don't trump off the ballot in 25 states they raided his home they impeached him twice they tried him as a private citizen they dragged him before five civil and criminal courtrooms they tried to destroy him psychologically physically spiritually politically career wise we've never seen the politicization of the fbi the cia the director of national intelligence the steel dossier hoax the laptop folks that could go on forever they really destroyed the confidence of the american people and the american government they want to destroy the electoral college without going through the amendment process so yeah you're absolutely right they're revolutionaries and that's why don't Trump is a counter-revolutionary. He wants to stop that.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/289/628/689/797/936/original/0346343f3d1548b5.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 13,572
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- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T02:00:52.872Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T02:28:50.699Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A Fox interview with Victor Davis Hanson, posted mid-evening

The post is a video clip with no caption. In it a Fox host, probably Sean Hannity going by the 9 p.m. format and the question "do you agree with my framing", introduces Victor Davis Hanson as "the intellectual thought leader of the conservative movement" and author of a book subtitled "the fall and rise of donald trump and the maga movement." The two then discuss the midterms, "47 days" away, which matches the November 3 election date. The subject did not speak in the clip. Everything below concerns what he chose to put in front of his audience.

The post went up at 02:22 UTC, which is 10:22 p.m. Eastern on September 17. He had returned from Ireland by Constitution Day, so Eastern time applies. The same evening he wrote a signed post praising Andrew Ferguson, who was "FANTASTIC tonight on FoxNews," and thanking Charlie Hurt "for a great interview." Four other media-only posts sit beside it in the feed. The media ID was issued about seven and a half minutes before the post ID, so the clip was cut and uploaded soon after the segment aired. Together these point to a night spent watching Fox and reposting the segments that praised him.

## What the clip claims for him

Hanson gives the subject a place in history. He sets Trump apart from the party's recent nominees: "don trump is not bob dole he's not john mccain he's not mit romney he is staging a counter revolution." He voices Trump's agenda in the first person on his behalf ("i'm going to go after pbs and nprs," "i will send the national guard to cities that are out of control," "i'm going to deport people"). He presents that agenda as treating "the root causes" of a fifty-year "march through our institutions" rather than its symptoms. By posting this, the subject passes along a flattering account he did not have to write himself: he is exceptional, his policies form one coherent theory, and his predecessors were timid. The pull is toward admiration and status. Nothing in the preceding week, which included the Ireland trip, the Xi visit preparations and the Washington statue post, reads as an injury that this clip answers.

The clip also contains a second register. The host asks whether the contest is "people that want to shred the constitution" against "those of us that love our constitution," and Hanson replies that "they've already done it." He then lists the grievances: "they tried to get don trump off the ballot in 25 states they raided his home they impeached him twice ... they tried to destroy him psychologically physically spiritually politically career wise." In one segment the subject appears as both a revolutionary who cannot be stopped and a man persecuted on every front. The grandiose and the vulnerable states arrive together and need no bridge. The book title's "fall and rise" is a redemption arc, and the clip leaves him at the "rise."

## Defenses carried by the clip

Splitting runs through the segment. Opponents are "so hysterical and they're so crazy." Democrats and socialists "have merged and there's no difference between them." One side wants to "shred the constitution" and the other loves "our constitution our country liberty and freedom." Projection shows in how Hanson describes opponents' fear: they "share this frenzy and this paranoia." He says this in the same breath as a list of persecutions that is itself paranoid in structure, with the FBI, CIA, DNI, "the steel dossier hoax," and "the laptop" all lined up as one campaign against one man. The workforce cuts get a rationalization: "400 000 employees are not with us anymore that we're mostly highly politicized" turns layoffs into a purge of adversaries. These are Hanson's words. The subject's part is that he found them worth broadcasting under his own name, which is how he adopts them without saying them.

## Claims amplified but not made

The clip's factual claims belong to Hanson and the host, so they are left out of the fact-check list. Several are loose. The federal workforce reduction was reported at roughly 300,000 departures during 2025, so "400,000" runs high. "39 out of 41" midterms going to the out party overstates a real pattern. The president's party has lost House seats in all but a handful of midterms since the 1930s, but not in 39 of 41. The ballot challenges were filed in more than two dozen states, and only Colorado and Maine acted before the Supreme Court reversed them, so "tried to get him off the ballot" is closer to accurate than "got him off." The "number one new york times best seller" debut is the host's statement and was not checked. Reposting these figures puts them into circulation. Posting the clip does not amount to asserting them.

## Midterm framing and risk

The call to action in the clip is electoral: a "three-prong agenda" of record, promises and a portrait of "what the democratic socialists are like." The existential language ("shred the constitution," "tried to destroy him ... physically") raises the stakes, but it names no individual target and asks for nothing beyond votes. The National Guard and deportation lines restate policy already in force. They are not calls on followers to act. With no language of his own in the post, it offers no evidence about his speech or cognition.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- Posted 10:22 p.m. Eastern, within his usual evening Fox-viewing window
- Media uploaded about 7.5 minutes before posting, consistent with fast capture of a segment that had just aired
- Same evening as a signed post reacting to Fox ('FANTASTIC tonight on FoxNews', thanks to Charlie Hurt)
- Several other caption-less media posts in the same burst, a pattern also typical of staff clip-posting

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: assertiveness, shown in taking on a 'counter revolution' identity

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Counter-revolutionary hero, also persecuted martyr
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Democratic socialists and the institutional left ('the legions in the left')

**Identity Claims:**
- Unlike Dole, McCain and Romney
- Treats root causes, not symptoms
- Survived efforts to destroy him on every front

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fox segment in which Victor Davis Hanson praises him as leading a 'counter revolution')

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Borrowed authority: an 'intellectual thought leader' endorses him
- Shared grievance list invites followers to identify with the persecution
- Midterm countdown ('47 days') gives the audience a shared stake

## Tags

- third-party-praise (90%)
- fox-news-repost (80%)
- midterms-2026 (70%)
- persecution-narrative (70%)
- grandiose-vulnerable-composite (60%)
- victor-davis-hanson (60%)
- democratic-socialists (50%)

## 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

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