# Post ts_117346773878574094 - Post ID: `ts_117346773878574094` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-28T04:27:49.779Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117346773878574094 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117346773878574094/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:47), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege to welcome the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. (Applause.) Thank you very much. You know, the fake news media will say I got a very bad reception. (Applause.) But we get a good reception. We love what we're doing, what the country is doing right now. Brian said, "Could you make a short speech?" And I said, "No, I don't have the courage to make a speech. These people want to speak up. They don't want to hear speeches." I'll only say this. Our country is doing great better than ever before. (Applause.) I want to remind you, the greatest players in the world go out and play and dance. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/346/771/264/353/685/original/4bcda3674cd73602.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,306 - Reposts: 2,392 - Replies: 203 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-06T20:02:30.540Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-29T01:13:49.472Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Getting ahead of the boos at Medinah The clip is Trump's own first-tee remarks at the Presidents Cup on Sunday, September 27, where he was honorary chairman. He posted it with no caption at 04:27 UTC, which is 11:27 p.m. Central in Chicago or 12:27 a.m. Eastern if he had already flown back. Either way it went up late that night, hours after an appearance the historian record describes as drawing "both cheers and boos amid heavy security and nearby protests." After the announcer's introduction, the voice on the clip is his. His first substantive line is a forecast: "You know, the fake news media will say I got a very bad reception." He follows it with a counter-claim: "But we get a good reception." Coverage of a mixed crowd was already out, so posting the clip that night puts his version back in front of his audience before the press account settles. He names the unfavorable reading first, labels it in advance as "fake news," and asserts the opposite. Inoculation is the right name for this: the negative report is discredited before his followers meet it, so any later mention of boos confirms his prediction and does not count against him. ### What the defenses rest on - **Denial / distortion (pathological level).** "We get a good reception" is offered against a crowd that was documented as mixed. On the tape itself the applause cues follow his lines, which helps his version. Whether any booing can be heard can't be told from the transcript. - **Projection onto the press.** The hostility is placed with "the fake news media," not with the people in the gallery who booed. The crowd stays his ("These people want to speak up"), and the disapproval gets reassigned to a familiar outside enemy. - **Splitting.** The audience is sorted into an approving "we" and a lying media, with no room for a crowd that did both. - **Rationalization.** The short remarks are explained as deference to the crowd: "They don't want to hear speeches." The trigger reads as exposure. His audience saw a public event where part of the crowd turned on him, in the same week as the record-low approval polling that surrounded his "Retribution will be through success" video on September 25. The narcissistic state is mixed. The words are grandiose ("Our country is doing great better than ever before"), but opening by pre-empting an unflattering story shows the vulnerable side, since he is anticipating injury. No rage is present. The media jab is mild and routine, and it is framed as a prediction, not an attack. ### Rhetoric and archetype The devices are small in scale: a superlative ("better than ever before"), the "fake news" label used as a shield before the fact, and an us-versus-media frame. The Victim-turned-Hero pattern shows in miniature, with the press cast as persecutor and the crowd's applause as vindication. On the order/chaos axis the clip defends a status claim: the president as popular host of a national sporting event. It isn't attacking any hierarchy. Nobody is dehumanized and no action is urged, so there's nothing here for a danger assessment to work with. ### Language on the clip Two phrases are odd: "I don't have the courage to make a speech" and "the greatest players in the world go out and play and dance." Both could be speech-to-text errors ("courage" may be a mishearing, and "dance" may be a clipped word). Offhand first-tee banter could also explain them. One garbled transcript is too thin to support a cognitive reading, so no marker is scored. The syntax otherwise fits his improvised remarks: a quoted exchange with "Brian," short declaratives, and a run-on superlative. ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "We get a good reception (at the Presidents Cup, contrary to what the media will say)" | **Half True** | Reporting on his September 27 appearance at Medinah described a mix of cheers and boos, with protests nearby. The applause on the clip is real, but the reception was not uniformly good. | | "Our country is doing great, better than ever before" | **False** | The quote is accurate. The Chicago Sun-Times headline ('Trump says U.S. is doing better than ever before at Presidents Cup golf tournament in suburban Medinah', Sept. 27, 2026) and GOLF.com both report the line, spoken from the first tee after PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp introduced him. (The clip's transcript has 'These people want to speak up'. GOLF.com has the actual words as 'These people want to see golf.') Neither outlet gave any metric with it. 'Doing great' is opinion. 'Better than ever before' is a historical superlative, and it can be tested against the official indicators available the week he said it. Almost every major measure was worse than at some earlier point, and several had worsened over the past year: - Inflation: the BLS August 2026 CPI release shows prices up 3.4% over 12 months, driven by energy (+16.3%) and gasoline (+27.4%). The Fed's Sept. 16, 2026 projections have PCE inflation at 3.7% for 2026, well above its 2% target and above 2025 levels. - Gas prices: AAA put the national average at $4.48 on Sept. 24-27, 2026, the highest ever for that time of year. September was on track to beat the previous September record of $3.83, set in 2023. Reporting tied the rise to Strait of Hormuz volatility during the Iran conflict. - Real wages: the BLS Real Earnings release for August 2026 shows average hourly earnings up 3.1% against 3.4% inflation. Real hourly pay fell 0.3% year over year, the second straight annual decline. - Growth: BEA's second estimate put Q2 2026 real GDP growth at 1.5% annualized, down from 2.1% in Q1 and below forecasts. RBC Economics estimates that without AI-related capital spending, first-half growth would have been under 1%. - Unemployment: 4.1% in August 2026, down from 4.3% in early summer, but well above the roughly 3.4-3.5% lows of 2019 and 2023. - Consumer sentiment: the University of Michigan's final September 2026 index was 48.1, a four-month low near historically weak levels and 15% below January 2026. Views of personal finances fell about 10%, and year-ahead inflation expectations rose to 4.6%. There are real counterpoints. The S&P 500 set 27 record closes in 2026 and closed at 7,743 on Sept. 25. Monthly job gains (about 80,000) were well above 2025's pace (about 10,000), and the Fed projects 2.3% GDP growth for 2026. Nominal stock records are routine, though, and don't make the country as a whole better than at any previous time. Public opinion points the same way as the data. A Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded Sept. 17-20, 2026 put Trump's approval at 32%, his lowest across both terms. Among Republicans, approval of his handling of the economy fell from 80% to 56%, and of the cost of living from 70% to 44%. Other polling that month found 72% calling the economy poor. Approval is not a measure of national conditions, so the verdict rests on the official data above, not on the polls. The stock market is the only broad indicator at a record. Inflation, gas prices, real wages, GDP growth and consumer sentiment were all worse than in earlier periods, several of them worse than a year before. Taken as a checkable claim, 'better than ever before' is false. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Posted ~11:27 p.m. Central / 12:27 a.m. Eastern, the same night as the event - Clip answers that day's reception story (cheers and boos at Medinah) - No written text, so no stylometric evidence - Reposting his own event footage is also a standard staff task ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 75% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 25% Strongest facet: assertiveness paired with angry-hostility sensitivity to criticism **Motives:** - Agency: 75% - Communion: 35% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** popular leader misrepresented by the press - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** the fake news media **Identity Claims:** - Well received by the public - Presiding over a country 'better than ever before' ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (Boos and protests at the Presidents Cup appearance, and the coverage of them) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inclusive 'we' shared with the crowd and followers - Casting the audience as co-witnesses against the media's version ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Labels accurate reports of boos as 'fake news' in advance - Asserts a uniformly 'good reception' against a crowd documented as mixed ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-09-29._ > We get a good reception (at the Presidents Cup, contrary to what the media will say) **HALF TRUE** Reporting on his September 27 appearance at Medinah described a mix of cheers and boos, with protests nearby. The applause on the clip is real, but the reception was not uniformly good. Sources: Historian event record: Trump Attends Presidents Cup Final Day at Medinah, 2026-09-27 > Our country is doing great, better than ever before **FALSE** The quote is accurate. The Chicago Sun-Times headline ('Trump says U.S. is doing better than ever before at Presidents Cup golf tournament in suburban Medinah', Sept. 27, 2026) and GOLF.com both report the line, spoken from the first tee after PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp introduced him. (The clip's transcript has 'These people want to speak up'. GOLF.com has the actual words as 'These people want to see golf.') Neither outlet gave any metric with it. 'Doing great' is opinion. 'Better than ever before' is a historical superlative, and it can be tested against the official indicators available the week he said it. Almost every major measure was worse than at some earlier point, and several had worsened over the past year: - Inflation: the BLS August 2026 CPI release shows prices up 3.4% over 12 months, driven by energy (+16.3%) and gasoline (+27.4%). The Fed's Sept. 16, 2026 projections have PCE inflation at 3.7% for 2026, well above its 2% target and above 2025 levels. - Gas prices: AAA put the national average at $4.48 on Sept. 24-27, 2026, the highest ever for that time of year. September was on track to beat the previous September record of $3.83, set in 2023. Reporting tied the rise to Strait of Hormuz volatility during the Iran conflict. - Real wages: the BLS Real Earnings release for August 2026 shows average hourly earnings up 3.1% against 3.4% inflation. Real hourly pay fell 0.3% year over year, the second straight annual decline. - Growth: BEA's second estimate put Q2 2026 real GDP growth at 1.5% annualized, down from 2.1% in Q1 and below forecasts. RBC Economics estimates that without AI-related capital spending, first-half growth would have been under 1%. - Unemployment: 4.1% in August 2026, down from 4.3% in early summer, but well above the roughly 3.4-3.5% lows of 2019 and 2023. - Consumer sentiment: the University of Michigan's final September 2026 index was 48.1, a four-month low near historically weak levels and 15% below January 2026. Views of personal finances fell about 10%, and year-ahead inflation expectations rose to 4.6%. There are real counterpoints. The S&P 500 set 27 record closes in 2026 and closed at 7,743 on Sept. 25. Monthly job gains (about 80,000) were well above 2025's pace (about 10,000), and the Fed projects 2.3% GDP growth for 2026. Nominal stock records are routine, though, and don't make the country as a whole better than at any previous time. Public opinion points the same way as the data. A Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded Sept. 17-20, 2026 put Trump's approval at 32%, his lowest across both terms. Among Republicans, approval of his handling of the economy fell from 80% to 56%, and of the cost of living from 70% to 44%. Other polling that month found 72% calling the economy poor. Approval is not a measure of national conditions, so the verdict rests on the official data above, not on the polls. The stock market is the only broad indicator at a record. Inflation, gas prices, real wages, GDP growth and consumer sentiment were all worse than in earlier periods, several of them worse than a year before. Taken as a checkable claim, 'better than ever before' is false. Sources: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/09/27/trump-appears-sunday-at-the-presidents-cup-golf-tournament-in-suburban-medinah; https://golf.com/news/trump-attended-presidents-cup-what-saw/; https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/trump-attends-presidents-cup-at-medinah-country-club/; https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/presidents-cup-2026-live-updates-chicago-area-medinah-country-club-dupage-county-hosting-pga-golf-competition-sept-24-27/19862373/entry/19880604/; https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm; https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm; https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/09/11/real-hourly-earnings-see-inflation-devour-wage-gains; https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-second-estimate-and-corporate-profits-2nd-quarter-2026; https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2026/08/26/q2-gdp-second-estimate-real-gdp-at-1-5-unchanged; https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcprojtabl20260916.htm; https://www.rbc.com/en/economics/us-analysis/us-featured-analysis/september-executive-briefing-what-to-watch-in-the-final-quarter-of-2026/; https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-confidence/news/586955; https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2026/09/25/consumer-sentiment-falls-again-in-september; https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mi/michigan/news/2026/09/25/consumer-sentiment-survey-michigan; https://gasprices.aaa.com/national-average-climbs-nearly-5-cents-since-last-week/; https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/us-gas-prices/; https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/p-500-hit-27-record-110100517.html; https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/investing/us-stock-market; https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-09-21/exclusive-trump-approval-falls-to-career-low-of-32-as-high-costs-bite-reuters-ipsos-poll-finds; https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/republicans-rating-trump-cost-living-declines; https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-falls-to-record-low-on-economy-poll-12411571; https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-23-september-strength-in-numbers-verasight-poll-release Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - presidents-cup (90%) - fake-news (80%) - crowd-reception (80%) - inoculation (70%) - self-vindication (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump calls Axios's Iran sanctions-relief story a hoax, a day after talking to Axios himself** Trump spent Sunday at the Presidents Cup outside Chicago. Late that night his account posted a batch of clips from it: his arrival, a short speech in which he got ahead of any reports of a bad reception, and the winning captain giving him credit for the win. Monday morning was about the midterms and television, with links on noncitizen voting and a Supreme Court win, a call for supporters to "pretend I am on the ballot," and ratings jabs at Bill Maher and Joe Scarborough. After a long quiet afternoon, an Axios report that he had offered Iran sanctions relief and frozen funds drew the day's only angry post. He said he offered "NOTHING," called the story a hoax and demanded it be pulled, a day after giving Axios an interview himself, and nothing he posted touched the government funding deadline two days away. Full digest for 2026-09-28: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 28). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117346773878574094 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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