# Post ts_117322065119445871 - Post ID: `ts_117322065119445871` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-23T19:44:04.035Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117322065119445871 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117322065119445871/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117322065119445871.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The Great Gary Player, Bryson DeChambeau, Mikayla Demaiter, and Susan Waterfall, on Marine One! President DONALD J. TRUMP ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/322/052/611/357/513/original/c66324f06e1ed97d.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 12,513 - Reposts: 2,569 - Replies: 536 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-09-30T19:01:28.314Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-23T19:58:07.177Z (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 four-name photo caption from Marine One, signed with the full presidential title. Clinically low-amplitude, and the reason is a single absence: there is no opposing figure anywhere in it, which rules out reading the post as injury-driven or as combat in a friendly register. The day's surrounding posts (two flattering Newsmax links, a thank-you note) put it in a supply-rich stretch. The mechanisms present are mild and familiar — status transfer through proximity to a Hall of Fame golfer, and idealization in the conferred honorific "The Great Gary Player," a formula that also lands on Robert Greenway the same day. Conferring greatness seats the conferrer above the recipient, which is the post's only self-elevating move. One item is flagged for tracking rather than interpretation. Three guests resolve to identifiable public figures; the fourth, "Susan Waterfall," does not correspond to a recognizable person in golf or media. A private guest listed among famous ones is the likely explanation and is probably correct. It is recorded at low confidence because unresolved proper nouns are worth counting over time in a feed where names are usually precise, not because one instance supports any inference. Authorship splits: the honorific construction and all-caps signature are personal idiom, but 3:44pm Eastern on a New York working day, in a sentence that holds one subject straight through to the signature, is staff-shaped. The estimate lands just past even odds toward authentic. The attached image was not available for description, so the guest list and setting remain unverified. ## Four names and a helicopter The post is a caption: four guests, a location, an exclamation point, a signature. `The Great Gary Player, Bryson DeChambeau, Mikayla Demaiter, and Susan Waterfall, on Marine One!` Nothing is argued and nobody is attacked. What carries the weight is the setting. He does not write "on the flight" or "heading to Bedminster." He writes `Marine One`, the one detail in the sentence that only a president can supply. The guests provide recognition; the aircraft is what he brings to the exchange. ## Handing down an adjective `The Great` is a standing habit in this feed — the same word lands on Robert Greenway in a post from the same day. It reads as generosity and functions as ranking. Conferring greatness requires standing above the person receiving it, so the compliment quietly seats the host at the head of the table. Gary Player's nine majors are not in dispute; the point is who is in a position to certify them. The signature does matching work from the other end. `President DONALD J. TRUMP`, full legal name in capitals, turns a phone snapshot into something issued. Most people captioning a photo with friends do not sign it with their title. ## The absence that changes the reading Hours earlier the same account published a post about Canada with a named target, an assigned cause, and a forecast of collapse. This one has no opposing figure at all. That absence is what rules out reading the honorifics as combat in a friendly key — there is no one in frame for the status claim to be measured against. Two Newsmax links from the same morning, both with headlines flattering to him, put the day in a supply-rich stretch rather than a defensive one. Nothing here is a response to injury. ## One name that does not resolve Three of the four guests are identifiable: a Hall of Fame golfer, a tour player, and a Canadian model and former goaltender. The fourth, `Susan Waterfall`, does not map onto a public figure in golf or media. The ordinary explanation is that a private guest was listed beside famous ones, and that explanation is probably right. It is logged rather than interpreted, because in a feed where proper nouns are usually precise, a name that does not resolve is worth having on the record if similar instances accumulate. One instance is not a finding. ## Authorship The tells point in opposite directions and split the estimate. `The Great [Name]` and the all-caps signature are personal idiom, and the verbless exclamatory fragment is the shape his own captions take. But 3:44pm Eastern is the middle of a working afternoon in New York, the day after his UN General Assembly remarks. More telling than the clean spelling, which proves little either way, is that the sentence holds one subject from first word to signature: it never swerves mid-clause into a grievance or a self-referential aside, the structural drift that usually marks a post he typed himself. A staffer posting a cabin photo with his standard sign-off would produce exactly this. The idiom tips it past even odds toward him; the timing and the intact structure keep it short of confident. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Gary Player, Bryson DeChambeau, Mikayla Demaiter and Susan Waterfall were aboard Marine One with Trump." | **Mostly True** | The flight is confirmed and dated. On Saturday, September 19, 2026, Trump abruptly cut short a weekend at Camp David and returned to Washington aboard Marine One. A White House Press Pool report puts the landing at the Ellipse at 7:57 p.m. and notes POTUS "was not alone on M1 but it wasn't immediately clear who the gentleman was who was seated across from him," adding that the pool had asked for a manifest. No manifest was ever published. The early departure coincided with a State Department security alert for the Middle East (Newsweek, The Hill). Three of the four named guests are independently confirmed by multiple outlets working from press photographs taken through the helicopter windows at the landing: Raw Story (Sept 20, 2026), Yahoo Entertainment (Sept 21), Yahoo News Canada (Sept 21, updated), Sportsnaut (Sept 21) and Yahoo Sports (Sept 22) all report Gary Player (90), Bryson DeChambeau (33) and DeChambeau's girlfriend Mikayla Demaiter (26), the former Canadian hockey goaltender turned model, aboard with Trump. Outlets describe one photo showing DeChambeau seated alongside Player, another showing DeChambeau seated near Trump, and Demaiter photographed disembarking. I retrieved and examined the image attached to the post itself. It is that same press photograph, not a White House handout: a night exposure shot from outside the aircraft through two cabin windows. The left window shows an elderly man with white hair and a heavily lined face in a maroon top, seated beside a younger man in a white polo shirt, consistent with Player and DeChambeau. The right window shows a young blonde woman consistent with Demaiter, a second and visibly older light-haired figure, and a man in a dark suit with the president's distinctive hair. At least four guests are visible besides Trump, matching the four names in the caption. The post itself is verified in an independent archive: trumpstruth.org status 41852, timestamped September 23, 2026, 3:44 p.m., with the same image. Note that the post therefore captions a flight that had occurred four days earlier. The single unconfirmed element is Susan Waterfall. She is a real and well-documented person (Gary Player's girlfriend, see the companion claim), and her presence alongside Player is consistent with the photograph and with her being his regular travel companion, but no news outlet independently named her aboard. Press identifications that weekend were made from photographs alone, and reporters did not identify the older woman in the cabin. Nothing contradicts the claim; it simply rests on Trump's own caption plus strong circumstantial corroboration, which is why this falls short of fully verified. | | ""Susan Waterfall" was a guest on the flight." | **Mostly True** | The premise of the first-pass doubt is wrong: Susan Waterfall is a real and readily identifiable person. She is golf legend Gary Player's girlfriend, and her identity has been reported by mainstream outlets since December 2024. Biographical detail is consistent across independent sources. Fox Sports, carrying an AP golf roundup dated December 24, 2024, names her as Susan Waterfall, 83, of New York, and describes how they met: mutual acquaintances had tried to introduce them at events in South Africa and New York without success, and they finally connected when she approached Player on the putting green at a Miami golf club where he is an honorary member. Player is quoted saying "I love this country, America, so much. I've got to have an American girlfriend." Golf Digest ran the story from the 2024 PNC Championship under the headline "At 89, Gary Player is loving life with his new ... girlfriend!" EssentiallySports (December 21, 2024) covers the same account. South Africa's News24 published "Gary Player has found love again with an American widow who shares his passion for golf" on April 11, 2025, naming Waterfall in the headline and photo caption. Newsweek followed on November 1, 2025 with "Why Gary Player Credits Girlfriend for Keeping Him Young at 90," giving her age as 84 and quoting Player: "She loves golf, she loves gymnasium, she loves to travel and she laughs all day long," and "It's incredible you can find a woman like that at 90. It's an act of God." He nicknames her "Susan Tsunami." Player's wife Vivienne died of pancreatic cancer in 2021. So the name is precise, not garbled, and not a private individual with no public profile. She is simply golf-adjacent rather than a golfer or a media figure, which is why a search scoped to professional golf and the political press missed her. What remains unconfirmed is only her presence on this specific flight. Gary Player was independently confirmed aboard by several outlets, and Waterfall is his established companion, so her travelling with him is highly plausible. The attached photograph shows an older light-haired figure in the cabin alongside Demaiter and Trump, consistent with an 84-year-old woman, though the image resolution (678x452) does not permit positive facial identification. No outlet independently named her, because the White House never supplied a manifest and reporters identified passengers from photographs alone. No source contradicts the claim. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 62%) ### Indicators - "The Great Gary Player" — the honorific-before-name construction is a long-running personal idiom, not house style - "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off in his own capitalization, matching "President DJT" on the Canada post hours earlier - Fragment-as-sentence caption with an exclamation point and no verb: "...on Marine One!" - Against authorship: 3:44pm Eastern, inside business hours, on a day he was working out of New York after the UN General Assembly - Against authorship: no spelling or punctuation errors, no drift off-topic, no grievance aside ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 82% - Agreeableness: 45% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 15% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: gregariousness / positive affect **Motives:** - Agency: 70% - Communion: 45% Primary drive: status ### Narrative - **Role:** impresario — the man who convenes the notable and photographs the result - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** None — unusually for this feed, no opposing figure appears, which is what separates this from the Canada post published hours earlier **Identity Claims:** - Host with access to the presidential aircraft - Arbiter of who counts as "Great" - Sitting president, asserted through the signature rather than the sentence ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Marine One flight with golf-world and media guests, day after the UN General Assembly address) Sentiment: +0.65 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% Cognitive Markers: - name confusion **Parasocial Techniques:** - Access display: readers are shown the inside of a cabin they cannot enter - Roll call of recognizable names, inviting the audience to feel present at a gathering they are only reading about - Personal signature block, which frames a mass post as a note from him specifically ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-09-23._ > Gary Player, Bryson DeChambeau, Mikayla Demaiter and Susan Waterfall were aboard Marine One with Trump. **MOSTLY TRUE** The flight is confirmed and dated. On Saturday, September 19, 2026, Trump abruptly cut short a weekend at Camp David and returned to Washington aboard Marine One. A White House Press Pool report puts the landing at the Ellipse at 7:57 p.m. and notes POTUS "was not alone on M1 but it wasn't immediately clear who the gentleman was who was seated across from him," adding that the pool had asked for a manifest. No manifest was ever published. The early departure coincided with a State Department security alert for the Middle East (Newsweek, The Hill). Three of the four named guests are independently confirmed by multiple outlets working from press photographs taken through the helicopter windows at the landing: Raw Story (Sept 20, 2026), Yahoo Entertainment (Sept 21), Yahoo News Canada (Sept 21, updated), Sportsnaut (Sept 21) and Yahoo Sports (Sept 22) all report Gary Player (90), Bryson DeChambeau (33) and DeChambeau's girlfriend Mikayla Demaiter (26), the former Canadian hockey goaltender turned model, aboard with Trump. Outlets describe one photo showing DeChambeau seated alongside Player, another showing DeChambeau seated near Trump, and Demaiter photographed disembarking. I retrieved and examined the image attached to the post itself. It is that same press photograph, not a White House handout: a night exposure shot from outside the aircraft through two cabin windows. The left window shows an elderly man with white hair and a heavily lined face in a maroon top, seated beside a younger man in a white polo shirt, consistent with Player and DeChambeau. The right window shows a young blonde woman consistent with Demaiter, a second and visibly older light-haired figure, and a man in a dark suit with the president's distinctive hair. At least four guests are visible besides Trump, matching the four names in the caption. The post itself is verified in an independent archive: trumpstruth.org status 41852, timestamped September 23, 2026, 3:44 p.m., with the same image. Note that the post therefore captions a flight that had occurred four days earlier. The single unconfirmed element is Susan Waterfall. She is a real and well-documented person (Gary Player's girlfriend, see the companion claim), and her presence alongside Player is consistent with the photograph and with her being his regular travel companion, but no news outlet independently named her aboard. Press identifications that weekend were made from photographs alone, and reporters did not identify the older woman in the cabin. Nothing contradicts the claim; it simply rests on Trump's own caption plus strong circumstantial corroboration, which is why this falls short of fully verified. Sources: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-marine-one/; https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bryson-dechambeau-spotted-marine-one-205142388.html; https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-did-worlds-sexiest-hockey-151807727.html; https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/president-trump-spotted-golfer-bryson-214111469.html; https://sportsnaut.com/golf/bryson-dechambeau-mikayla-demaiter-trump-helicopter; https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/41852; https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2101465065362800650; https://bnonews.com/whpool/G_3pcn1i; https://www.newsweek.com/trump-cuts-camp-david-trip-short-as-us-issues-middle-east-travel-alerts-12464894; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6100118-trump-returns-camp-david-early/; https://www.essentiallysports.com/golf-news-golf-world-joke-about-bryson-dechambeau-as-hes-spotted-with-his-gf-and-donald-trump/ > "Susan Waterfall" was a guest on the flight. **MOSTLY TRUE** The premise of the first-pass doubt is wrong: Susan Waterfall is a real and readily identifiable person. She is golf legend Gary Player's girlfriend, and her identity has been reported by mainstream outlets since December 2024. Biographical detail is consistent across independent sources. Fox Sports, carrying an AP golf roundup dated December 24, 2024, names her as Susan Waterfall, 83, of New York, and describes how they met: mutual acquaintances had tried to introduce them at events in South Africa and New York without success, and they finally connected when she approached Player on the putting green at a Miami golf club where he is an honorary member. Player is quoted saying "I love this country, America, so much. I've got to have an American girlfriend." Golf Digest ran the story from the 2024 PNC Championship under the headline "At 89, Gary Player is loving life with his new ... girlfriend!" EssentiallySports (December 21, 2024) covers the same account. South Africa's News24 published "Gary Player has found love again with an American widow who shares his passion for golf" on April 11, 2025, naming Waterfall in the headline and photo caption. Newsweek followed on November 1, 2025 with "Why Gary Player Credits Girlfriend for Keeping Him Young at 90," giving her age as 84 and quoting Player: "She loves golf, she loves gymnasium, she loves to travel and she laughs all day long," and "It's incredible you can find a woman like that at 90. It's an act of God." He nicknames her "Susan Tsunami." Player's wife Vivienne died of pancreatic cancer in 2021. So the name is precise, not garbled, and not a private individual with no public profile. She is simply golf-adjacent rather than a golfer or a media figure, which is why a search scoped to professional golf and the political press missed her. What remains unconfirmed is only her presence on this specific flight. Gary Player was independently confirmed aboard by several outlets, and Waterfall is his established companion, so her travelling with him is highly plausible. The attached photograph shows an older light-haired figure in the cabin alongside Demaiter and Trump, consistent with an 84-year-old woman, though the image resolution (678x452) does not permit positive facial identification. No outlet independently named her, because the White House never supplied a manifest and reporters identified passengers from photographs alone. No source contradicts the claim. Sources: https://www.foxsports.com/articles/golf/gary-player-is-89-and-has-a-new-girlfriend-nelly-korda-has-dog-sledding-in-her-holiday-plans; https://www.golfdigest.com/story/gary-player-pnc-championship-new-girlfriend; https://www.essentiallysports.com/golf-news-who-is-89-year-old-gary-players-girlfriend-everything-about-the-mystery-woman/; https://www.news24.com/you/celebs/local/gary-player-has-found-love-again-with-an-american-widow-who-shares-his-passion-for-golf-20250411; https://www.newsweek.com/sports/golf/why-gary-player-credits-girlfriend-for-keeping-him-young-at-90-10975361; https://sports.yahoo.com/gary-player-89-girlfriend-nelly-141633452.html; https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/41852; https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2101465065362800650; https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-did-worlds-sexiest-hockey-151807727.html Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - photo caption (90%) - status display (80%) - honorific epithet (75%) - signature block (70%) - golf (65%) - presidential access (60%) - idealization (45%) - unresolved name (30%) ## 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). The Great Gary Player, Bryson DeChambeau, Mikayla... [Social media post]. 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