# Post ts_117307289681145880

- Post ID: `ts_117307289681145880`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-21T05:06:28.739Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117307289681145880
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117307289681145880/analysis

## Post text

_A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._

> https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117304284426928910 (2026-09-20T16:22:12.199Z (UTC))

>

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/304/284/266/226/919/original/5a5996d1edc8710a.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,541
- Reposts: 3,329
- Replies: 610
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-23T04:00:37.696Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-21T05:21:11.686Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A bare link back to his own post, sent at 1 a.m.

The whole post is one URL pointing to another status on the same account, @realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910. Truth Social shows a post like this as an embedded quote card, so what readers saw was an earlier Trump post pushed back to the top of the feed with nothing added. The linked page would not load when fetched (it returned only the account header). Truth Social status IDs carry a timestamp, and the gap between the two IDs puts the original about 12.7 hours earlier, near 16:20 UTC on 20 September (about 12:20 p.m. Eastern on Sunday). What the original said is unknown, so nothing here reads its message. The analysis covers the act of re-posting and the moment it happened.

## Timing and the surrounding run

At 05:06 UTC it was 1:06 a.m. Eastern on Monday 21 September. The other posts from the same date don't place him anywhere outside the Eastern time zone: "Hitting balls with Bryson D." points to a golf outing, and nothing suggests he was abroad. The post came in a burst that also held three Just the News links ("Prosecutors zero in on John Brennan's role…", the Kennedy Center inspection piece, and "Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House") and a signed line of his own: "Gas prices were much higher under Biden than under 'TRUMP.' … President DJT."

The late hour and the signed sentence in the same run point toward Trump himself working the account overnight. What cuts against it is how easy this post is to delegate. A pasted permalink carries no spelling, syntax or tone that could fingerprint an author, and a queue of headline links is the kind of work staff often do. The attribution rests on timing and company, so it stays tentative.

## What re-posting himself does

Pushing a half-day-old post back into view is a way to prolong attention. The earlier post either needed more reach or drew a reaction that he wanted to keep going. Without the original text, the analysis can't tell which. This fits a maintenance or supply-seeking pattern, where the account keeps producing activity with little new content. It is the smallest kind of self-amplification the account does. It shows no reactive quality: no reply to a critic, no rising tone, no capitals. In the nearby posts, the defensive material sits in the shared headlines. Casting Brennan as a target of prosecution, blaming the Kennedy Center's disrepair on the "Biden-era," and comparing prices under Biden with prices under "TRUMP" all repeat his long-running habits of assigning blame outward and seeing his own term as all good. None of that can be pinned on this post, which carries only a link.

## What can't be read from a link

A bare URL produces no language, so it gives nothing to judge vocabulary, syntax or coherence against his baseline. There is also no claim, target or call to action in it. The danger reading is none because the post itself says nothing. If the quoted original held a threat or a named target, this re-post would spread it. The rating should be revised if that original turns out to carry one.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Content of the quoted Truth Social post 117304284426928910 (shared without comment)" | **True** | The quoted post can be retrieved, and the re-share did add nothing to it. The first pass failed because truthsocial.com status pages are a JavaScript app, so a plain fetch gets only the account shell. The public API endpoint (api/v1/statuses/117304284426928910) returns the full status.

What the quoted post is: a Truth Social post from @realDonaldTrump created 2026-09-20T16:22:12.199Z, which is 12:22 p.m. EDT on Sunday, September 20, 2026. The ID decodes to the same instant (ID >> 16 = 1789921332198 ms). Its text field is empty ("<p></p>"), so it is an image-only post. It has one 933x560 JPEG attachment with no alt text, no card, no quote and no reblog. It has not been edited (version 1, edited_at null) and has not been deleted. When fetched it showed 2,183 replies, 5,120 ReTruths and 20,087 likes.

What the image shows: I downloaded the attachment from Truth Social's CDN and looked at it directly. It shows the White House North Portico from the North Lawn in winter, with bare trees, dormant grass and the U.S. flag on the roof. In the foreground on the grass sit three tied black trash bags, each carrying a news outlet's wordmark: CNN (its red logo), MSNBC (white lettering) and Politico (its blue logo). The image is a composite mocking the three outlets as garbage put out at the White House. The trump.fm media pipeline's own description (stored 2026-09-20 17:13 UTC, classified as a meme) matches, with OCR text "CNN / MSNBC / Politico".

Independent confirmation: The trumpstruth.org archive (status 41814) lists the same status ID as an image-only post from Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM EDT, showing "three large black garbage bags" on the White House lawn with the CNN, MSNBC and Politico logos. The Daily Beast (Sarah-Jane Collins, Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 PM EDT, syndicated on Yahoo) reported that on Sunday afternoon Trump posted an image with no text showing the White House and three trash bags labeled Politico, CNN and MS NOW's old MSNBC logo. Joe.My.God., Showbiz411 and AzerNews carried the same description on Sept. 20. Several of those outlets called the image AI-generated, while trumpstruth.org called it a manipulated photograph. The picture itself can't settle which tool made it, but either way it is an edited composite, not a real scene.

Context: On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at 19:04 UTC (3:04 p.m. EDT), Trump posted on Truth Social that he was "banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW ... and Politico ... from the White House." CBS News, ABC News, CNN, The Washington Post, CNBC, NBC and NPR all reported the ban, and reporters from the three outlets were denied entry on Saturday, Sept. 19. The image uses the name MSNBC, which the network dropped on Nov. 15, 2025 when it became MS NOW (Variety, The Hill). Trump's own ban post noted that name change.

The re-share: The post under review (created 2026-09-21T05:06:28.739Z, 1:06 a.m. EDT Monday) consists only of the URL https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910, so it was shared with no added comment. That puts the original about 12 hours 44 minutes earlier, which matches the first pass's estimate. Seven minutes before the re-share (04:59 UTC), Trump posted a Just the News link headlined "Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House." So the bare-link re-share re-surfaced his trash-bag image right after he shared a story about the ban.

The image makes no factual assertion to test. It is ridicule of three outlets. The event it refers to, the White House ban on those outlets, is real and well documented. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Posted 1:06 a.m. Eastern (Monday), inside the late-night window
- Part of an overnight burst that includes a first-person signed line ('President DJT')
- Bare permalink with no text gives no stylometric signal
- Link-reposting is easily delegated, and the neighboring headline links resemble staff curation

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: attention-seeking through re-broadcast

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Broadcaster of his own message
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None in this post

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: 0.00

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Re-surfacing own content to keep audience attention

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-21._

> Content of the quoted Truth Social post 117304284426928910 (shared without comment)

**TRUE**

The quoted post can be retrieved, and the re-share did add nothing to it. The first pass failed because truthsocial.com status pages are a JavaScript app, so a plain fetch gets only the account shell. The public API endpoint (api/v1/statuses/117304284426928910) returns the full status.

What the quoted post is: a Truth Social post from @realDonaldTrump created 2026-09-20T16:22:12.199Z, which is 12:22 p.m. EDT on Sunday, September 20, 2026. The ID decodes to the same instant (ID >> 16 = 1789921332198 ms). Its text field is empty ("<p></p>"), so it is an image-only post. It has one 933x560 JPEG attachment with no alt text, no card, no quote and no reblog. It has not been edited (version 1, edited_at null) and has not been deleted. When fetched it showed 2,183 replies, 5,120 ReTruths and 20,087 likes.

What the image shows: I downloaded the attachment from Truth Social's CDN and looked at it directly. It shows the White House North Portico from the North Lawn in winter, with bare trees, dormant grass and the U.S. flag on the roof. In the foreground on the grass sit three tied black trash bags, each carrying a news outlet's wordmark: CNN (its red logo), MSNBC (white lettering) and Politico (its blue logo). The image is a composite mocking the three outlets as garbage put out at the White House. The trump.fm media pipeline's own description (stored 2026-09-20 17:13 UTC, classified as a meme) matches, with OCR text "CNN / MSNBC / Politico".

Independent confirmation: The trumpstruth.org archive (status 41814) lists the same status ID as an image-only post from Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM EDT, showing "three large black garbage bags" on the White House lawn with the CNN, MSNBC and Politico logos. The Daily Beast (Sarah-Jane Collins, Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 PM EDT, syndicated on Yahoo) reported that on Sunday afternoon Trump posted an image with no text showing the White House and three trash bags labeled Politico, CNN and MS NOW's old MSNBC logo. Joe.My.God., Showbiz411 and AzerNews carried the same description on Sept. 20. Several of those outlets called the image AI-generated, while trumpstruth.org called it a manipulated photograph. The picture itself can't settle which tool made it, but either way it is an edited composite, not a real scene.

Context: On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at 19:04 UTC (3:04 p.m. EDT), Trump posted on Truth Social that he was "banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW ... and Politico ... from the White House." CBS News, ABC News, CNN, The Washington Post, CNBC, NBC and NPR all reported the ban, and reporters from the three outlets were denied entry on Saturday, Sept. 19. The image uses the name MSNBC, which the network dropped on Nov. 15, 2025 when it became MS NOW (Variety, The Hill). Trump's own ban post noted that name change.

The re-share: The post under review (created 2026-09-21T05:06:28.739Z, 1:06 a.m. EDT Monday) consists only of the URL https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910, so it was shared with no added comment. That puts the original about 12 hours 44 minutes earlier, which matches the first pass's estimate. Seven minutes before the re-share (04:59 UTC), Trump posted a Just the News link headlined "Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House." So the bare-link re-share re-surfaced his trash-bag image right after he shared a story about the ban.

The image makes no factual assertion to test. It is ridicule of three outlets. The event it refers to, the White House ban on those outlets, is real and well documented.

Sources: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910; https://truthsocial.com/api/v1/statuses/117304284426928910; https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/304/284/266/226/919/original/5a5996d1edc8710a.jpg; https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/41814; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-unleashes-ai-slop-to-mock-banned-reporters/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-unleashes-ai-slop-mock-175600498.html; https://www.joemygod.com/2026/09/trump-depicts-banned-outlets-as-bags-of-garbage/; https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/09/20/trump-posts-picture-of-white-house-with-trash-bags-outside-marked-cnn-ms-now-politico-after-locking-out-reporters-our-version-is-here; https://www.azernews.az/region/264175.html; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-banning-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house/; https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-banning-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house/story?id=136569980; https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/09/18/trump-says-hes-banning-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house/; https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/media/trump-claims-ban-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house; https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-white-house-ban-msnow-cnn-politico.html; https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/trump-bans-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house-rcna598609; https://www.npr.org/2026/09/19/nx-s1-5974854/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-ban; https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/msnbc-switches-name-ms-now-november-15-1236561512/; https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5608474-msnbc-leaves-nbc-universal/

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- self-amplification (80%)
- late-night-posting (50%)

## That day

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

**Trump calls his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW 'an assault on the FAKE NEWS,' then goes after the judge hearing their suit**

Trump's posts ran from Sunday night into Monday afternoon, when he left Washington for New York, and the thread through them was his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House. Overnight he shared a friendly article about the ban; by morning he was insisting he was going after "fake news," not the free press, and likening the media to cancer; by afternoon, with the outlets suing, he was attacking the judge on the case by name before any ruling. In between he pressed Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster, warning he'd otherwise be "the last Republican President" and hinting that Republican election losses would be illegitimate. The anger stayed inside the press fight. The rest of the day was golf, a pitch for artificial intelligence that waved off fears about it as a hoax, endorsements, a first ride from a new White House heliport he thanked Lockheed Martin's chief for, and a friendly note about visiting Gracie Mansion at Mayor Mamdani's invitation.

Full digest for 2026-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 21). https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117307289681145880
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910" Truth Social, 21 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117307289681145880. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117304284426928910," Truth Social, September 21, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117307289681145880.

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