# Post ts_117337563385196014

- Post ID: `ts_117337563385196014`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-26T13:25:28.803Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117337563385196014
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117337563385196014/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:50), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Look at this lion. He's the king of the jungle. Huge mane out there. For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. The jackals are heinous. The barking at them, laughing at them. We are transferring power back to you, the people. And if his toes leave the food that's in his domain. Tonight, New York State's Attorney General Letitia James saying she's prepared to seize Donald Trump's assets. Then I get closer and closer and bolder and bolder. Until one day, that lion gets up and tears his **** out of everybody. I know what I am. I can feel it coming in the air tonight. I know what I am. I'm waiting in this moment for my life, for my life, for my life, for my life. Whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all believe the same red blood of patriots. Because every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/337/560/717/692/878/original/21b3d515d18b0160.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,971
- Reposts: 4,115
- Replies: 1,204
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-03T13:01:29.595Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-26T13:39:00.475Z (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: a fan edit casting Trump as a lion and his critics as jackals, scored to "In the Air Tonight," splicing his 2017 inaugural audio with a broadcast clip about New York AG Letitia James preparing to seize his assets. The arc runs from encirclement — jackals "barking at them, laughing at them," growing "bolder and bolder" — to retaliation: "that lion gets up and tears his **** out of everybody," resolved by "the lion has to show the jackals who he is."

Publishing this pairs an apex-predator self-image with the dehumanization of opponents as scavengers, and places a named prosecutor inside the sequence that ends in tearing. The violence is displaced onto a species, which keeps it deniable while still showing an audience what befalls whoever the jackals represent. Idealization and devaluation arrive fused in the metaphor; the recycled inaugural lines ("a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards") convert jungle hierarchy into populist mandate, and "we all bleed the same red blood of patriots" enlists the viewer in the lion's kingdom.

No fresh injury is evident in the preceding week (UNGA address, Xi state visit, Zelensky meeting). The grievance is archival, replayed from restored power, and the edit dwells on the interval before retribution rather than its outcome — an invitation to relish the wait. Attribution rests on timing alone and is weak; the only Trump audio present is a 2017 recording, so nothing here speaks to current language production.

## A predator reel, published without a word of his own

The post carries no text. What was put in front of the audience is a fan-made montage that runs nature-documentary narration about a lion over archival audio of Trump's own 2017 inaugural address, a news clip about a prosecutor moving on his money, and Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight." The editing does the arguing; he supplied the decision to publish it.

The clip's spine is a single allegory. Narration opens on "Look at this lion. He's the king of the jungle. Huge mane out there," and closes on "every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is." Between those two beats sits the retribution: the jackals grow "closer and closer and bolder and bolder. Until one day, that lion gets up and tears his **** out of everybody." The violence is displaced onto a species, which is what makes it publishable — no person is threatened by name, and a viewer is nonetheless shown what happens to whoever the jackals stand for.

The montage names them. The one piece of contemporary-sounding reporting in the edit is a broadcast line — "New York State's Attorney General Letitia James saying she's prepared to seize Donald Trump's assets" — spliced directly into the passage about jackals circling. That is a prosecutor's name set inside a sequence whose resolution is a predator tearing everybody apart. The claim about James is a broadcaster's, not his, and the segment is years old; the edit strips its date and lets it play as the present tense of the grievance.

## Self as apex animal, critics as scavengers

The identity claim is not argued but asserted through species: he is the lion, "king of the jungle," and the people who investigate, prosecute, and cover him are jackals — "barking at them, laughing at them." Idealization of self and devaluation of the other arrive in a single metaphor, with no middle category available. The soundtrack's "I know what I am" recurs as a refrain, which is the montage's way of making grandiosity sound like self-knowledge rather than a boast.

Two of his own inaugural lines are recycled to launder the animal frame into political legitimacy: "For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost," and "We are transferring power back to you, the people." The jungle hierarchy and the populist one are made to rhyme — the lion's dominance becomes the people's restoration. "Whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all believe the same red blood of patriots" (the transcript garbles "bleed") extends the kingdom to the viewer, so that the coming retaliation is theirs as well as his.

## Injury kept warm rather than newly inflicted

Nothing in the week's record points at a fresh wound — the days before this were a UN General Assembly address, a Xi state visit, a Zelensky meeting, a funding fight. The grievance material in the clip is retrospective: an asset-seizure threat from the civil-fraud era, replayed now from a position of restored power. The structure is a comeback story told from the far side of it — encirclement, endurance, then the turn. The pleasure is in the anticipation, not the resolution: the music holds on "I'm waiting in this moment for my life," and the narration lingers on the jackals getting bolder before the lion moves.

What distinguishes this from ordinary boasting is the appetite the edit assumes in its audience. It is not enough that the lion prevails; the viewer is invited to want the tearing, and to enjoy the interval before it. That relish, aimed at identifiable people through an animal proxy, is the element worth logging — not because the post plans anything, but because it trains a taste.

## What the transcript can and cannot support

Only one voice in the clip is his, and it is a nine-year-old recording of a prepared speech, so nothing here measures how he currently produces language. There is no writing to score for spelling, syntax, or drift. The 9:25 a.m. Eastern timestamp, in a morning cluster of posts, fits either him or staff; the judgment available concerns who picked the video, and that judgment is weak.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- No written text: no spelling, syntax, capitalization, or punctuation evidence exists to score
- 13:25 UTC = 9:25 a.m. Eastern; he was in the New York/Washington corridor following UNGA week and the Xi state visit, so the timestamp falls in business hours, which slightly favors staff
- Part of a same-day cluster of posts, consistent with either a personal morning scroll-and-share habit or a staffed content queue
- Genre (supporter-made hype montage with music, grievance clips, and animal allegory) is one his account shares heavily, but both he and staff have posted such reels

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: angry hostility (Neuroticism) coupled with low modesty (Agreeableness)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: revenge

### Narrative

- **Role:** Apex predator who tolerates encroachment until he chooses to end it
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Jackals — prosecutors (Letitia James named in the spliced clip), the barking and laughing press, and "a small group in our nation's capital"

**Identity Claims:**
- The lion, "king of the jungle"
- "I know what I am"
- The one "transferring power back to you, the people"

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting prosecutors, press, and the "small group in our nation's capital" — figured collectively as jackals, with Letitia James named via the spliced broadcast
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 50%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- "whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all [bleed] the same red blood of patriots" folds the viewer into the lion's kingdom, making his retaliation collective
- The music cue ("I can feel it coming in the air tonight") invites the audience to feel the reckoning arriving alongside him
- Nature-documentary narration lends a neutral, authoritative voice to a claim about his own rank

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Opponents labeled as a scavenging animal species ("jackals"), the standard preliminary to treating them as outside ordinary obligation
- Violent retribution imagery: "that lion gets up and tears his **** out of everybody"
- A sitting state prosecutor named in a broadcast splice immediately before the retribution passage
- Anticipatory scoring ("I can feel it coming in the air tonight") that asks the audience to look forward to the reckoning
- Endorsement without comment, which leaves the target set of "everybody" open to the viewer's interpretation

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Tags

- lion_and_jackals_allegory (95%)
- retribution_fantasy (80%)
- dehumanization (75%)
- grandiose_self_presentation (85%)
- letitia_james (60%)
- archival_self_quotation (55%)
- supporter_made_montage (90%)
- persecution_narrative (65%)
- warrior_king_archetype (70%)
- order_restorer (50%)

## That day

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

**He answered a Republican congresswoman's criticism without writing a word, republishing strangers' attacks from accounts with as few as seven views.**

He posted 82 times, and most of it was not his own writing: wordless video reels of other people praising him, pasted links from a single friendly news site, and screenshots of strangers. The morning ran on one grievance, that his coverage is almost entirely negative despite his election win, and it hardened over five hours from an argument into a flat demand that the offending outlets be barred from the White House. At midday he denied a report that a Florida candidate he had endorsed was dropping him from campaign materials, named nine news organizations as "sick people," and said something had to be done about it. The afternoon was ordinary by his standards: the Tennessee-Texas game, a rollback of fuel economy rules, a promise of $5,000 to every adult if Republicans win. Then he spent the last half hour republishing anonymous attacks on a Republican congresswoman who had criticized him, several from accounts almost nobody reads, without adding a word of his own.

Full digest for 2026-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 26).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117337563385196014
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 26 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117337563385196014. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, September 26, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117337563385196014.

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