# Post ts_117318365806497574

- Post ID: `ts_117318365806497574`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-23T04:03:16.999Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318365806497574
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318365806497574/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:17), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> My life is someone who tells lies all day long. First I get up, then I put on my fake news outfits. I just can't wait to make up a bunch of false rumors about Trump today. Alright, let's go bash Trump 24/7. Here we go!

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/318/365/110/425/508/original/b5b4d5a6e85011bc.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,157
- Reposts: 3,947
- Replies: 1,257
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-30T04:01:29.185Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-23T04:47:20.462Z (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 post at 12:03 a.m. New York time, hours after his own bylined attack on CNN's Kaitlan Collins for covering him at the UN after saying the network would not. The clip is a performer impersonating a journalist — "First I get up, then I put on my fake news outfits… let's go bash Trump 24/7" — and the mechanism is ventriloquism: the verdict he argued for in writing is restaged as a confession from the accused's own mouth.

The two posts pair usefully. The written one worked by contempt ("sleazebags… treasonous, and demented"); the clip works by caricature, which recruits the audience into the premise rather than the anger. Both rest on the same totalizing claim — that unfavorable coverage is invented rather than mistaken — which closes the loop in which a story's existence proves the motive behind it. That the humiliation script he selected is specifically a confession of habitual lying invites a projective reading, though one repost does not establish it.

The trigger is a minor slight (attention withheld, then given) handled as evidence of obsession either way, which is consistent with his longstanding treatment of press attention. No individual is singled out for action, no violent or dehumanizing imagery appears, and the target is the press as a class. With no text of his own, there is no language sample here bearing on cognitive status.

## A midnight clip at the end of a day spent on the press

The post carries no words of his own — a single MP4, published at 04:03 UTC, which is 12:03 a.m. in New York, where he was during UN General Assembly week. Hours earlier that same night he had posted his own bylined attack on "Third Rate 'Reporter,' Kaitlan Collins, of Fake News CNN," complaining that the networks "said they weren't going to be covering me" and then "were ranting and raving like Lunatics, in the Press Area, at the United Nations." The clip lands in that slot: same grievance, same night, but with the argument handed to someone else's voice.

## What the clip is made to confess

The audio is a performer doing a bit in the persona of a network journalist — "First I get up, then I put on my fake news outfits. I just can't wait to make up a bunch of false rumors about Trump today. Alright, let's go bash Trump 24/7." (The opening phrase transcribes as "My life is someone who tells lies all day long," almost certainly "My life as someone who…"; nothing here rests on that line.)

The device is ventriloquism. The written post earlier that evening had to argue the case — Collins is addicted, CNN is sick, the coverage is dishonest. The clip skips the argument by staging the verdict as a confession from the accused's own mouth. What he cannot obtain in fact, he circulates in parody: a reporter announcing that the falsehoods are deliberate, scheduled, and total. The premise is not that coverage is unfair or sloppy but that it is manufactured from nothing, every day, by people who know it. That is the same totalizing claim as "make up a bunch of false rumors," and it is what makes an unfavorable story unfalsifiable in advance — the story's existence is the evidence of the motive.

## Ridicule where the earlier post used contempt

The 11 p.m. post ran on hostility: "sleazebags," "treasonous, and demented." The midnight clip runs on mockery, which does different work. Contempt asks the audience to be angry; caricature asks them to be in on it, and an in-joke that requires accepting "they lie 24/7" as its setup enlists agreement as the price of the laugh. Posting it bare, with no comment, leaves the audience to supply the reading — a lower-cost move than writing the accusation himself, and one that carries no claim he would have to defend.

There is also a projective reading worth stating plainly rather than asserting: the content of the fantasy is an admission of habitual, knowing falsehood, delivered by the figure he is most often accused of being. That his chosen humiliation script is a confession of lying is suggestive, not demonstrated by a single repost.

## What the selection does not show

The trigger is legible but modest. Collins and CNN reporting they would not cover his UN appearance, then appearing in the press area, is a slight of the kind that reliably draws a response — not being covered is the injury, and the two posts together treat their attention and their inattention as equally proof of obsession ("She's got a 'TRUMP' addiction"). Nothing in the clip identifies an individual for action, names a location, or uses violent or dehumanizing imagery; the target is the press as an undifferentiated class, and the register is ridicule rather than threat.

With no written text there is no sample to score for word-finding, syntax, or coherence, so this post contributes nothing to the cognitive series either way — a fact about the post, not a finding about him.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Posted 04:03 UTC = 12:03 a.m. ET in New York during UN General Assembly week — his habitual late-night window
- Falls hours after his own bylined post attacking Kaitlan Collins and CNN over UN coverage; same grievance, same night
- Bare media with no caption — a format consistent with his own scrolling-and-reposting behavior rather than staff output
- Content is third-party satire with no schedule, policy detail, or third-person 'President Trump' framing that would point to an aide

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 25%

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** the truthful man surrounded by professional liars
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** national news media, personified as a journalist who lies on schedule

**Identity Claims:**
- the sole accurate account of events is his
- coverage of him is manufactured rather than reported

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (CNN/Kaitlan Collins coverage around his UN General Assembly appearance)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Wordless posting that leaves the audience to supply the commentary, making them the author of the conclusion
- In-joke structure whose setup ('they lie 24/7') must be accepted before the humor lands
- Surrogate voice delivers the accusation, so the claim circulates without his signature on it

## Tags

- media grievance (90%)
- ventriloquized confession (85%)
- projection (70%)
- video repost (100%)
- fake news frame (80%)
- late night posting (60%)
- CNN (50%)
- epistemic closure (60%)

## That day

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

**Eleven minutes from "sick, treasonous, and demented" to a foreign official's tribute**

Just before midnight in New York, during UN General Assembly week, he lit into CNN's Kaitlan Collins for turning up in the UN press area after the network said it wouldn't cover him. That was the only real anger of the day, and it was gone within one post — minutes later he was posting friendly Newsmax links, including one where a foreign official calls him a peacemaker. After a full night's sleep he returned mid-morning to thank two supportive TV figures and to write a post predicting Canada's collapse under immigration, then closed out the afternoon with a Marine One photo and the cover of a book pairing him with Winston Churchill. Ten posts in all, nearly all of them packed into three short bursts with hours of empty feed in between. What he skipped is as notable as what he wrote: not a word about his Zelensky meeting, the Ukraine arms deal, or the government funding deadline a week away.

Full digest for 2026-09-23: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 23).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318365806497574
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318365806497574. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, September 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318365806497574.

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