# Post ts_117326000312372207 - Post ID: `ts_117326000312372207` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-24T12:24:50.314Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117326000312372207 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117326000312372207/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > So, Trump, you know, he can be at a press conference and you get the typical New York Times person who's, you know, thinks they're really clever but they're pretty dense and they ask a leading question, "Do you approve of torture or something like that?" And he says, "You have a low IQ. Where did you come up with that stupid question?" And everybody's shocked. And the next day, Trump calls the reporter low IQ and da-da-da-da-da. But everybody was thinking that. And he comes out, that's his fate. He comes out and I think he would make the argument, if we were to have him, that that methodology that repulses and causes controversy is sort of the jet fuel for the radical agenda to undo the revolution. Because if you're sober and judicious and you talk in therapeutic language, you're not going to create deterrence. The thing about him is he's trying to tell people, "I am capable of saying anything to anybody at any time, anywhere. I just want you to let you know. I don't care." And that creates a lot of hatred, of course, anxiety, but also creates uncertainty why he pushes through this agenda. And you can see it with a press corps, when they ask questions, they're nasty but they are very worried and anxious and they're confused by him and that's what he wants. It's like he pulls out a six-gun and shoots one of them, I don't mean that literally. Like he's in a cowboy thing and they don't know what he's going to do. And so that's why they hate him so much. They want everybody to be really nice to them and praise them and say the American Bar Association is going to adjudicate which law school gets credited. And they're all leftists and they only credit things with leftist professors and he comes along and says, "I don't know who they are. They're just a bunch of bogus people, as far as I'm concerned. They're not fair. Get rid of them." And that's how he is. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/325/999/066/084/779/original/cf1791e737f714ca.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 7,771 - Reposts: 1,981 - Replies: 197 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-01T12:01:31.193Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-24T13:05:32.654Z (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 media-only post: nearly three minutes of an unidentified commentator theorizing, in the third person, that his abrasiveness is deliberate statecraft. No words of his own attached, published at 8:24 a.m. Eastern inside a morning run that also produced a Fake News grievance post. What makes it clinically notable is which self-description he chose to endorse. The speaker recounts him telling a reporter "You have a low IQ. Where did you come up with that stupid question?", then argues that "that methodology that repulses and causes controversy is sort of the jet fuel for the radical agenda," because "if you're sober and judicious... you're not going to create deterrence." A first-person creed is placed in his mouth — "I am capable of saying anything to anybody at any time, anywhere... I don't care" — with the yield named: hatred, anxiety, and the uncertainty that lets him push through. Forwarding that converts conduct usually read as dysregulation into chosen instrument, a rationalization arriving pre-built from an admiring outsider, which is both cheaper and more credible than making it himself. Two devaluations come with it and are adopted by publication: a press corps recast as status-hungry rather than adversarial, and the ABA as "a bunch of bogus people... Get rid of them." The clip's central image is a reporter shot with a six-gun, immediately disclaimed as not literal and framed as a Western. No target, no directive — but the figure was amplified, unlabeled, the same morning he wrote that the press invents stories about him. ## A three-minute theory of himself, published without comment At 8:24 a.m. Eastern — he had been in New York for the UN General Assembly two days earlier, so the clip goes up mid-morning in his own timezone, inside the same posting run that produced the Ford's Theatre complaint and the compliment to Xi — he published a nearly three-minute video of an unidentified commentator explaining what his aggression is *for*. He attached not one word. The speaker is talking about him in the third person, to what sounds like an interviewer ("if we were to have him"), and the argument is a defense dressed as analysis. The press-conference anecdote comes first: a "New York Times person who's, you know, thinks they're really clever but they're pretty dense" asks whether he approves of torture, and the answer is "You have a low IQ. Where did you come up with that stupid question?" Then the load-bearing claim: "that methodology that repulses and causes controversy is sort of the jet fuel for the radical agenda," because "if you're sober and judicious and you talk in therapeutic language, you're not going to create deterrence." ## What the clip does for him that his own posts cannot His written grievance posts make the case that he is treated unfairly. This clip makes a different and more useful case: that the behavior critics catalogue as cruelty and instability is instrument, chosen and load-bearing. The speaker puts a first-person creed in his mouth — "I am capable of saying anything to anybody at any time, anywhere. I just want you to let you know. I don't care" — and then names the payoff: "that creates a lot of hatred, of course, anxiety, but also creates uncertainty why he pushes through this agenda." Publishing that is an endorsement of a self-description most people would treat as an accusation. Calling a reporter low-IQ becomes deterrence doctrine; not caring becomes a capability. The rationalization arrives pre-built and he only has to forward it, which is cheaper than arguing it himself and carries better, because it comes from an admiring third party rather than from the man it excuses. The same transaction supplies the admiration: the clip's register is connoisseurship, an analyst marveling at a technique. Two devaluations ride along and are adopted by publication. The press corps is rendered as a status-hungry class that "want everybody to be really nice to them and praise them" — the hostility reframed as wounded vanity rather than adversarial function. The American Bar Association's accreditation role is dispatched as "a bunch of bogus people, as far as I'm concerned. They're not fair. Get rid of them," with "they're all leftists and they only credit things with leftist professors" supplied as the warrant. That is an institutional-capture claim carried at the speaker's word, not his, and it is the clip's one concrete policy implication: an accrediting body should be removed because its output is presumed partisan. ## The six-gun, and the disclaimer The clip's most vivid image is a reporter being shot: "It's like he pulls out a six-gun and shoots one of them, I don't mean that literally. Like he's in a cowboy thing and they don't know what he's going to do." The disavowal is immediate and unprompted, the frame is explicitly a Western, and the target is a class of people already named as antagonists rather than any individual. There is no instruction, no grievance stated in his own voice, and no person identified. What remains is that a figure of a journalist being gunned down, offered admiringly as an account of how he governs a briefing room, was put in front of his audience with his approval and nothing else — the same morning he wrote that the press conspires to "make up false stories" about him and that the country is "desperately seeking a Free and Fair Press." That pairing is the reason this sits above routine: the written post asks for sympathy from the press's victims; the video asks for appreciation of the press's fear. ## Who chose it With no text, stylometry has nothing to work on and the question narrows to selection. The 8:24 a.m. slot, the absence of framing copy, an event announcement or any third-person "President Trump" construction, and its place in a same-morning sequence of first-person posts all point to his own hand on the repost. None of that is strong evidence, and a staffer queuing flattering media in the morning produces an identical artifact. His written posts that morning cast him as wronged. This one, chosen rather than composed, casts him as the man everyone is right to be afraid of — and lets someone else say it. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - 8:24 a.m. Eastern — his customary personal posting window, not an announcement slot - No framing copy, no third-person 'President Trump' construction, no event or policy detail - Sits inside a same-morning sequence of first-person posts (Ford's Theatre grievance, Xi compliment) that read as self-authored - Content is self-flattering commentary rather than communications material an aide would normally caption ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 70% - Agreeableness: 15% - Conscientiousness: 35% - Neuroticism: 45% - Openness: 25% Strongest facet: low modesty (endorsed by proxy) **Motives:** - Agency: 85% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** The gunfighter whose unpredictability is the instrument of restoration - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** The press corps and credentialing institutions, cast as leftist, vain, and frightened **Identity Claims:** - The abrasiveness is method, not temperament - 'I am capable of saying anything to anybody at any time, anywhere... I don't care' - Hated because he cannot be predicted or flattered ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Admiring long-form commentary about his press-conference conduct) Sentiment: -0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party testimonial: admiration delivered by an apparent analyst, so the boast is not his to defend - In-group flattery: the audience is positioned as the people who already understood what the press cannot ('but everybody was thinking that') - Silence as assent — no caption, so followers supply the endorsement themselves ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Amplification, without comment, of an image of a journalist being shot: 'he pulls out a six-gun and shoots one of them' (speaker's own immediate disclaimer: 'I don't mean that literally') - Eliminationist phrasing applied to an institution: 'They're just a bunch of bogus people... Get rid of them' - Press corps fear described approvingly as the intended effect: 'they are very worried and anxious... and that's what he wants' - Published the same morning as his written post accusing the press of conspiring to invent stories about him **Violent Imagery Present** ## Tags - proxy-endorsement (90%) - uncaptioned-video-repost (85%) - grandiose-by-proxy (80%) - rationalization-of-aggression (80%) - press-corps (70%) - american-bar-association (45%) - violent-metaphor-disclaimed (50%) - eliminationist-phrasing (40%) - fear-as-instrument (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Xi's state visit went out in staff-posted video while the posts in his own voice chased the Ford's Theatre rumor** Xi Jinping came to the White House for the first visit by a Chinese leader in more than a decade, and most of the day's posting about it was official video — the arrival ceremony, a military review, a tour of Marine One — that almost certainly went out under someone else's hand. What Trump wrote himself went elsewhere: three separate denials that he wanted his name on Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was shot, the last of them saying reporting like that "shouldn't be allowed to happen." In one eighteen-minute stretch that morning he put out thirteen posts, four of them uncaptioned videos of a commentator on immigration, demographics and the press, and six of them reposts of his own earlier posts. After the summit he complained that CNN and MSNBC skipped Xi's arrival because they didn't want him getting credit. He kept ordinary hours around all of it — a full night's break beforehand, nothing after early evening. Full digest for 2026-09-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 24). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117326000312372207 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 24 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117326000312372207. 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