# Post ts_117320581360547091

- Post ID: `ts_117320581360547091`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-23T13:26:43.671Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (14:25), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Here's the official Canadian and left-wing version. The United States is back again, bowling portal to Canada. And we are a liberal EU progressive nation, and now they're in the dark ages. So what they did to us, we were going to have a trade agreement. And then they said we want to destroy indigenous culture and the French language. And we said we're going to stick up for the little guy. And then they said we were no longer sovereign. And they were going to come in here and tell us with whom we could trade. Can you imagine that? And if you don't believe me, look at all the names that Trump has called us. And that's what we're in. I'm in here to save you as Carney. That's the narrative. And now they're all ginned up, and they're like lemmings, and they're all headed over a cliff. So here was the reality. The reality is that the United States is nine times larger than Canada in population. And it has an economy 13 times larger, not nine times, 13 times larger. And Canada sits on the third largest gas and oil reserves in the world, and probably of the top 20 minerals, potash, precious, has in the top five natural resources. And probably has, along with Russia, the greatest timber resources. So it's one of the most naturally blessed countries. And this country, in World War II, used those resources and supplied the British Empire when no one else did, from '39 to '41. And they had one of the best per capita militaries in the world. And they had their own beach at D-Day. And then they became socialists. And they're not utilizing these. So of all the 30 industrial states at Economic Forum, they ranked the last in per capita income, 1.1. They have let into their country so many immigrants from so many poor places, 45% of the Canadian population was either not born in the United States-- excuse me, in Canada, or their parents were not born in Canada, 45%. And they come from Latin America, Africa, Asia, India, with enormous needs for public health, for public food, for public housing, for public legal, everything, education. And that socialist economy, which by the way, the population of Canada at roughly 41 million is about the same as California, the worst run state in the states. Everything is-- all the data show unemployment, taxes, product, it's the worst. And yet, its GDP is double Canada's. So in other words, Trudeau and Carney have this wonderfully rich state. And they decided that they were going to basically shut down the fossil fuel. So they have this Alberta that's got all of these minerals, and that's where most of the oil is. And they will not let it ship across lines to-- they can't export it. And it's heavy, sulfurous oil. So we come along and say, well, we don't-- we're not going to be like your own provinces. I know we're a foreign country, but we'd like the oil, and we'll pay top dollar. So you can send it right across, and we have the only refined reason in the vicinity that can refine this tar state. So we'll do it. And you'll benefit, and we'll benefit. And then you know what we'll do? If you need a pipeline to supply Quebec, and you need a pipeline for Ontario, you can go-- we'll just tap in here, and then you use it there, and it'll go through the United States back to those provinces. For there, we find fuels. We're happy to do that. We'll charge you, of course. And then we're all in a free trade zone. That's the spirit. So Trump comes along and says, if we're all in a free trade, why are they running 50 to 20 billion trade surplus, and why is Mexico running 200? And I can tell you why, and he tells everybody why. So he says, you have a 250% tariff on agricultural goods over a certain level. And they say, no, we-- yeah, but you never-- we never really inflict it. And we say, we don't inflict it, because we don't go over your little level. You know, I don't know what it is, 10 or 12 billion or 2 billion. After that, we just voluntarily restrict our exports to you. And you-- we're not impinging on our-- your sovereignty. It says in the agreement that a non-market economy, you cannot import things below the cost of production for a non-market economy. That was a euphemism for China. In other words, the United States said, we are trying to deal with this crooked China that dumps product below the cost, violates copyright, violates patent, has slave labor. And one of the ways they get around it is, they dump cheap aluminum and steel into Canada and into Mexico, where it is assembled, and that assembled truck or car or refrigerator comes into the United States cheaper than what we can produce it domestically. And they claim it is indigently made, but they don't even use their own steel and aluminum. They try to import it from Canada. And as far as culturally insensitive, our digital media companies, if you look at software, digital media, AI, you name it, eight or nine out of the top 10 countries are American, not because we made them that way, because they are the best. So naturally, they have world global markets, and they offer a service. You don't have to buy it. You charge income, tax, on all their revenues in your country. But now you want to come along and say, well, you're so successful, and we love your product so much, we feel that we don't have enough French stuff, and we don't have enough Native American stuff. So we're going to tell you what you can put on social media, and we're going to charge you an additional, sir, an extra tax of 5%. And the American said, wait a minute, we operate all over the world, we let you do that every single country is saying that you're impinging on our Welsh people or Gaelic people or Saxon people who need their own culture. So we're going to make Facebook and Amazon have a little, they're going to pay us money so we can subsidize a bunch of these activists so that they can get paid so their culture doesn't die out. Nobody's going to do that. And by the way, we're not going to let China leverage us by using you because and why would you want to do that anyway, there are, you're already running up a $50 billion surplus, and they are a communist godless country that swallowed to bed has a million people in a work camp has forced abortion, harvest organs, and you want to lie themselves with them against us to undermine our tariffs. And by the way, why did you walk out Mr. Carney on a Friday afternoon, and I can tell you why you did you had elections coming up in Quebec, and Ontario, Alberta, excuse me, and there were nationalist movements in Alberta, they were sick and tired of supplying the energy for Canada and they couldn't export it on pipelines, because your environmental regulations and these various provinces would not allow them to go into their province. And you didn't tell the Canadians that only the Americans allowed you to build a pipeline into our foreign country, and they your own country wouldn't let you go anywhere else. If you want to go build a pipeline to, you know, British Columbia, go ahead and do it. We are we're the biggest producer of oil and gas in the world will be fine, and then try to export it but you don't do that do you and who's stopping you not us. You are and that is basically we said that and then we said and Mr. Carney, you know, you pick this date, not just so that the Quebec people and the Alberta people would vote for semi or complete independence. He wanted to gin up a public enemy the orange man is now back at it calling and now everybody hates him they boo when the American National Anthem is played at sporting event we get that and they're all going to vote for you and you ginned it up and then as soon as this is over you're going to come crawling back and saying well the August job reports came in and unfortunately Canadians the last week these tariffs were included and we lost forty one thousand jobs and I told you we were going to hurt the Americans worse but they got a hundred and sixty thousand new jobs so it didn't quite work out what I wanted and now that we stopped the Nationals movement in Quebec and the National Movement in Alberta and I targeted Michigan Minnesota Maine Wisconsin with special tariffs to hurt Americans and I got useful idiots like Gavin Newsom to cut videos that Trump was worse than I am and that Republicans lost the midterms and they want to impeach Donald Trump and they want to cut off funds for the Iran war now I want to have a deal yeah that's my plan so let's go let's be friends and I oh by the way I want my fifty billion dollar yearly surplus to and Trump said he said I don't like I don't want to deal with you anymore I like Canadians but you're the most dishonest people in the world and by the way you know as he said thirty two NATO nations had promised for ten years to spend two percent of their GDP on defense but you never did you tried to last year and you may or may not we'll look at your bookkeeping it looks a little fishy but for nine straight years you wouldn't even do that you know why you wouldn't do that because you were depending on the US military and norad and our missile defense and our huge Air Force to protect you so you could shoot your mouth off about Ukraine and Russia and if Russia ever said to you we're gonna take icebreakers right through the northwest path each and spit on you you knew the United States Navy which was the biggest Navy in the world would stop it and when somebody just said you know what we'll send a missile over northwest Canada just just give them a message you know that we would stop it unless you want with your 79 jets 779 and we have five thousand and so we're gonna you know we're going to piggyback on you we want you to carry you but you know what we're gonna do we're gonna attack you everywhere about the Iran war everything but you because you're so strong and you're so powerful and you're such a big bully you owe us to protect and subsidize our defense and you have to subsidize our socials economy by running up surpluses so we can let in 45 percent and this is the killer because we have a project and it's called the centennial initiative and we want to have 100 Canadian 100 million Canadians within 15 years that's their goal wait hold on I'm so sorry Baker wait I've never heard I bet that's a yes yeah I think you just said they had like 40 million people yes they want 100 million because they want to rival the United States I was gonna ask you why the open borders when because they think that I think that the Canadians because they're socialist and they don't really have to worry about anything or not having children and they're not there their fertility rate is about 1.4 1.3 like Europe and they're static or shrinking and they've let in all these people and their population has grown dramatically and they think the more people from India the more people from China the more people from Latin America the more people from Africa we're gonna get this huge population they're gonna be all left-wing it'll never be a conservative Canada again and then we'll have a hundred million people with all these resources then we're really gonna be tough on the Americans and it it's just like they're committing suicide because they all come over there and they hate the Canadians and they have enormous social needs and the economy in its socialist mode won't support it okay but it's it's it's so it's not the Canadians though and Mark Carney has got to be a pawn for the globalists correct because this is got he's got a passport until recently in three different countries right right so he's about as Canadian as I am and so I mean he was ran the Bank of England for a while I think and so yeah he's a globalist and he hates everything about Trump and he thought that he would just punch in like Trudeau and there would be a Biden or Obama there and say your surpluses don't matter because you're a good old leftist like us and we're going to make a leftist North America together okay and we'll we'll subsidize your trade we'll subsidize your defense we'll subsidize everything yep and that's what we did and Trump came along and said you know the free rides over sorry I'm gonna play the bad guy and the same thing I'm not picking on you I'm doing the same thing with Mexico

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/320/579/923/621/982/original/51f2c075b0d1f0cd.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-23T13:35:48.519Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Hours after writing his own attack on Canadian immigration policy and signing it, he published a long commentator monologue arguing the same thesis with an apparatus he did not supply — reserve rankings, immigrant-share percentages, dairy tariff rates, a World War II digression. He attached nothing. The pattern is vindication sought at one remove: assert first, then let a credentialed-sounding voice arrive at the same place with numbers that mostly hold up.

The clip is organized around an explicit sorting device — "Here's the official Canadian and left-wing version," answered later by "So here was the reality." Canadian objections never get engaged, only reclassified; the public holding them is described as "like lemmings, and they're all headed over a cliff." This conveniently disposes of the one criticism that attaches to him personally, since "look at all the names that Trump has called us" is voiced inside the column already marked as narrative.

Defenses run through the selection rather than through any words of his: splitting the wartime Canada that "had their own beach at D-Day" from the one that "became socialists," devaluing Trudeau and Carney as the deciding culprits, and rationalizing tariff leverage as declined generosity ("we'd like the oil, and we'll pay top dollar"). No rage, no target, nothing called for. The immigration passage's cost-ledger portrayal of arrivals "with enormous needs for public health... public housing" is the speaker's wording, but it restates what he had already published himself that morning.

## He made the claim in the morning; the clip arrives to testify

Earlier the same day he wrote, in his own voice and signed "President DJT," that "Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the Country, essentially unchecked and unvetted." That post is an assertion with nothing behind it but his say-so. The video he publishes here — a long commentator monologue in the register of a conservative academic lecture — is the same assertion with an apparatus bolted on: census-style percentages, oil reserve rankings, a World War II digression, tariff line items. "They have let into their country so many immigrants from so many poor places, 45% of the Canadian population was either not born in the United States-- excuse me, in Canada, or their parents were not born in Canada."

The numbers in the clip mostly land in the right neighborhood, which is what makes the sequence worth noting. Canada does hold among the world's largest proven oil reserves; California's economy is roughly double Canada's; over-quota Canadian dairy tariffs do run in the 200-300% range; the second-generation-plus-immigrant share is in the vicinity of 40%. He did not produce any of this and does not repeat it. He puts a speaker in front of his audience who can, and lets the speaker's command of detail settle on the position he had already taken without it.

## The device the clip is built on, and why it suits him

The monologue's spine is an explicit two-column structure: "Here's the official Canadian and left-wing version," followed several minutes later by "So here was the reality." Everything in the first column is attributed to Carney — "I'm in here to save you as Carney. That's the narrative" — and everything in the second is presented as arithmetic. The speaker then describes the Canadian public as mass-deluded: "they're all ginned up, and they're like lemmings, and they're all headed over a cliff."

This is a closure device, not an argument. It does not engage the sovereignty objection; it reclassifies anyone holding it as a lemming. That matters for what publishing it accomplishes: the clip also addresses, and dissolves, the one line of criticism that actually attaches to him personally. "And if you don't believe me, look at all the names that Trump has called us" is voiced as the Canadian case against him — and by placing it inside the column marked narrative, the speaker converts a real record of insults into evidence of the other side's credulity. He gets to be answered without answering.

## Carney and Trudeau as the spoilers of a blessed country

The story the clip tells about Canada runs good-to-bad with named culprits. Canada "supplied the British Empire when no one else did, from '39 to '41," had "one of the best per capita militaries in the world," "had their own beach at D-Day" — "And then they became socialists." The resources are still there ("one of the most naturally blessed countries"), so the deficit must be volition: "Trudeau and Carney have this wonderfully rich state. And they decided that they were going to basically shut down the fossil fuel."

That split — pristine nation, corrupt leadership, remedy available if the leadership is removed — is the same shape he applies domestically, and it is presumably why this clip rather than another. The proposed American role is rendered as pure benefaction: "we'd like the oil, and we'll pay top dollar," pipelines "through the United States back to those provinces," "You'll benefit, and we'll benefit." Coercive leverage is restaged as an offer Canada is too ideological to accept. What the tariff fight looks like from the other side of the border is handled by the earlier reclassification.

## The immigration passage is the part he had already said himself

The clip's account of immigrants is entirely one of cost: arrivals "from Latin America, Africa, Asia, India, with enormous needs for public health, for public food, for public housing, for public legal, everything, education." No countervailing contribution is registered. This is not dehumanizing language in the vermin-and-infestation sense he has used elsewhere; it is the ledger version, people as a line item against public services. It is also the precise content of his own morning post, which already asserted the consequence — "Big unemployment" — that the clip supplies a mechanism for. Amplifying it is behavior worth recording even though the wording is someone else's.

No target is named for action, nothing is called for, and the grievance stays economic. The word that carries the most heat in twenty minutes of speech is "lemmings," and it belongs to the speaker.

## Timing and who was at the device

13:26 UTC is 9:26 AM in New York, where he was after addressing the UN General Assembly the day before. Business hours cuts toward staff, but the surrounding run does not: four Newsmax links, a thank-you to "the Great Robert Greenway and Jesse," and a Canada post signed in his own idiom, all the same day. That is his morning link-dump pattern, and the video sits inside it as a continuation of the subject he had just written about unprompted. With no text of his own attached there is no spelling, punctuation or syntax to measure, so this rests on sequence and habit alone.

The only sample of his own language nearby is that short Canada post, which is coherent and on-topic. It is too small to say anything about longer-range change, and this post contributes no language at all to that record.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Posted 09:26 ET, inside his usual morning link-dump window rather than the overnight window
- Sits in a same-day cluster with a self-voiced, self-signed Canada post ('President DJT') on the identical subject
- Adjacent posts include his characteristic Newsmax link drops and a first-person thank-you note
- Media-only publication with no caption, no event announcement, no third-person 'President Trump' framing
- No written text at all, so no spelling, syntax, capitalization or punctuation evidence exists

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: low modesty via proxy — the vindication is accepted rather than claimed

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** The one who reads the ledger correctly while a neighboring country believes a flattering story about itself
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Carney and Trudeau's Canada — resource-rich, ideologically self-hobbled, and convinced it is the victim

**Identity Claims:**
- The tariff fight is arithmetic, not aggression
- American terms are an offer Canada is too ideological to accept
- The insults attributed to him are a story Canadians tell, not the substance of the dispute

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing Canada trade and immigration dispute; his own same-day written post on Canadian immigration)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Delegating the argument to a third party whose detail-command lends borrowed authority to a claim he made bare hours earlier
- Publishing a long-form monologue with no caption, so the audience experiences the position as independently arrived at rather than instructed

## Tags

- canada (90%)
- trade-and-tariffs (80%)
- immigration (70%)
- mark-carney (60%)
- outsourced-validation (85%)
- media-only (100%)
- narrative-vs-reality-frame (75%)
- socialism-decline-story (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

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