# Post ts_117318368847920040

- Post ID: `ts_117318368847920040`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-23T04:04:03.407Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Netanyahu Bloc Takes Lead in Latest Israeli Election Poll: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-likud/2026/09/17/id/1269830/

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-09-30T04:01:28.936Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-23T04:29:06.983Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Midnight in New York, UNGA week

The timestamp is 04:04 UTC, which is 12:04 a.m. Eastern. Trump was in New York for the UN General Assembly — the post immediately preceding this one in the record places him there ("ranting and raving like Lunatics, in the Press Area, at the United Nations"). So this is a man awake just past midnight during the most heavily scheduled week of his diplomatic calendar, scrolling a friendly aggregator and pasting what he finds.

That is the strongest evidence for his own hand. The text itself carries none: a copied headline and a URL, with nothing added. The omission that matters is the sign-off — his other posts from the same 24 hours close with "President DONALD J. TRUMP" or "President DJT," and this one closes with nothing, which is the single detail that keeps staff authorship on the table. The headline's clean spelling belongs to Newsmax's copy desk, not to him, so the usual error-based tells are unavailable in either direction. What remains is the habit — the bare link-drop is a long-running fixture of his feed — and the hour.

## What the poll actually said, and when

The Newsmax piece is dated September 17. On that date the reading was real: a survey showed the pro-Netanyahu bloc edging ahead of Gadi Eisenkot's opposition, though Likud itself slipped as a party. By the time the link was posted, six days later, a Channel 12 poll had the Eisenkot bloc back in front, 54 seats to 50, and none of the week's four surveys put either camp at the 61 needed to govern. The word doing the work is "Latest." It was not.

Whether that staleness is deliberate or simply the accident of what surfaced in a midnight feed cannot be separated from a single share. The pattern it sits in is legible enough: an American aggregator rather than an Israeli outlet, and the one week-old reading that runs the direction he wants, circulated while fresher numbers ran the other way.

## The interest being served

Netanyahu's political survival and Trump's own record are welded together — the Gaza arrangement, the Iran strikes, the claim of having delivered a settlement no predecessor could. A poll showing Netanyahu's coalition ahead is a poll showing that Trump backed the winner. The share is an act of alliance maintenance with the self-reference deleted; the "I" is implied by the selection and never written down.

## What isn't here

Nobody is cast as an enemy. In a feed where the neighboring entries run to "sick, treasonous, and demented," that one absence is what marks this post out, and it rules out reading the share as an attack vehicle carrying a target in the headline. Netanyahu himself reaches the page only through Newsmax's wording; Trump endorses an ally without once writing his name. The whole thing is closer to a bookmark: something noticed, approved of, passed along, and not thought about further.

This also means the night's sample of his own language is the Collins post, not this one. Nothing here was composed, so nothing here bears on syntax, word retrieval, or coherence. Fluency claims about this date have to rest on the posts where he actually wrote sentences.

## Register

Calm, brief, outward-facing — and entirely consistent with baseline. He has posted this way for years between the rages, and the alternation itself is not new. The share tells us where his attention went at midnight and which outlet was open; it does not tell us much more than that.

Sources: [Haaretz, Sept 17](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-17/ty-article/israeli-election-poll-sees-pro-netanyahu-bloc-edge-ahead-of-eisenkot/000001a0-ad41-dea8-afe0-eded00220000), [Haaretz, Sept 23](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-23/ty-article/israel-election-poll-eisenkots-bloc-beats-netanyahu-as-likud-gains-ground/000001a0-cafa-dfbe-a3ff-ffffd6250000), [Jerusalem Post](https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908444).

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The pro-Netanyahu bloc took the lead in the Israeli election poll reported by Newsmax on September 17, 2026." | **Mostly True** | Haaretz reported on September 17, 2026 that the pro-Netanyahu bloc edged ahead of Gadi Eisenkot's opposition in the latest survey. The bloc-level finding is accurate for that poll. The headline omits that Likud itself dropped in the same survey, and that no bloc reached the 61 seats needed to form a government. |
| "As of the September 23 posting, the Netanyahu bloc led in the latest Israeli election polling." | **Mostly False** | By September 23, 2026 a Channel 12 poll put Eisenkot's bloc ahead of the governing coalition 54 seats to 50, and Jerusalem Post coverage that week described Likud and Eisenkot's Yashar trading leads across surveys with the picture unresolved. The shared article's finding was six days old and had been superseded when the link was posted. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted 12:04 a.m. Eastern while in New York for UNGA — his established late-night posting window
- Sits in a same-night cluster with an unmistakably personal post about Kaitlan Collins and CNN
- Bare headline-plus-URL share with no added comment is a long-standing fixture of his feed
- No aide markers: no third-person 'President Trump' framing, no event announcement, no policy detail
- Counter-indicator: no sign-off, where the adjacent authentic posts carry 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' and 'President DJT'

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 45%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 30%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 25%

**Motives:**
- Agency: 40%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Unstated patron — the figure whose backing the headline implicitly vindicates
- **Arc:** neutral

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Source curation — passing a friendly outlet's framing to followers as the state of the world, with the intermediary step invisible

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-23._

> The pro-Netanyahu bloc took the lead in the Israeli election poll reported by Newsmax on September 17, 2026.

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Haaretz reported on September 17, 2026 that the pro-Netanyahu bloc edged ahead of Gadi Eisenkot's opposition in the latest survey. The bloc-level finding is accurate for that poll. The headline omits that Likud itself dropped in the same survey, and that no bloc reached the 61 seats needed to form a government.

Sources: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-17/ty-article/israeli-election-poll-sees-pro-netanyahu-bloc-edge-ahead-of-eisenkot/000001a0-ad41-dea8-afe0-eded00220000; https://israel2026.co.il/en/election-polls.html

> As of the September 23 posting, the Netanyahu bloc led in the latest Israeli election polling.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

By September 23, 2026 a Channel 12 poll put Eisenkot's bloc ahead of the governing coalition 54 seats to 50, and Jerusalem Post coverage that week described Likud and Eisenkot's Yashar trading leads across surveys with the picture unresolved. The shared article's finding was six days old and had been superseded when the link was posted.

Sources: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-23/ty-article/israel-election-poll-eisenkots-bloc-beats-netanyahu-as-likud-gains-ground/000001a0-cafa-dfbe-a3ff-ffffd6250000; https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908444; https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908921

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- link share (95%)
- foreign policy (70%)
- israel (90%)
- netanyahu (85%)
- allied incumbent support (60%)
- friendly media sourcing (55%)
- late night posting (70%)
- low affect (80%)

## 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). Netanyahu Bloc Takes Lead in Latest Israeli... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318368847920040
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Netanyahu Bloc Takes Lead in Latest Israeli Election Poll:..." Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318368847920040. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Netanyahu Bloc Takes Lead in Latest Israeli Election Poll:...," Truth Social, September 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117318368847920040.

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