# Post ts_117362507109086060 - Post ID: `ts_117362507109086060` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-30T23:08:59.824Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117362507109086060 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117362507109086060/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:54), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > President Trump proves every day he's the greatest president in my lifetime and I mean that. God bless President Trump for giving us the authorities, the resources to do this job. President Trump is the greatest president in my lifetime, I say it all the time, based on facts and data. The less ICE agents on the street, the more angel moms and dads are gonna be coming. And that's why this is important that we support President Trump. - It's always an honor for me to be in the Oval Office with the greatest president of my lifetime. Yes, I said it and I meant it. I toured the border in California, Arizona, Texas. I did it in four-wheel drive, I did it on the river, I did it from the air. Hundreds upon hundreds of miles of border. I didn't see one illegal alien, not a single one. I worked for six different presidents. No one has done more than President Trump. What he has done is gave us the most secure border in the history of this nation. Hard to stop, secure border saves lives. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/362/506/418/864/362/original/2a581f74e6c7ccca.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 7,274 - Reposts: 2,092 - Replies: 282 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-07T23:01:00.166Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-30T23:42:21.131Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A praise reel from his own officials, posted without a word The video strings together testimony from what appear to be at least two administration officials. One says he "worked for six different presidents" and toured the border "in four-wheel drive, I did it on the river, I did it from the air." That résumé and the "angel moms and dads" vocabulary fit border czar Tom Homan, though the transcript alone doesn't settle who is speaking. A second voice opens with "It's always an honor for me to be in the Oval Office with the greatest president of my lifetime." The phrase "greatest president in my lifetime" comes up three times in well under a minute, and each speaker adds a sincerity clause: "and I mean that," "Yes, I said it and I meant it." The speakers seem to expect doubt and answer it before anyone raises it. The subject's act was to put this in front of his followers with no caption. The clip does two things for him. It ranks him above every president the speaker served ("No one has done more than President Trump"), and it credits him personally with an outcome: "the most secure border in the history of this nation." Subordinates praising their principal in superlatives has been a regular feature of this administration's Cabinet-room settings. Reposting it moves the praise out of a room of appointees and onto a public feed, where it reads as outside testimony, even though every speaker serves at his pleasure. ## The same afternoon's complaint explains the reel Hours earlier he wrote that "the Public just doesn't know how well we're doing" because the "Fake News Media refuses to disseminate our Record Setting Numbers, so I'm doing the best I can to do it myself!" In another post he complained that Fox puts Schumer, Jeffries and Tarlov on more than "Pro Republicans." This reel is the do-it-myself remedy in practice: if the networks won't carry the praise, he carries it. Set against the week's record-low approval polling and his September 25 "Retribution will be through success" video, the post reads as supply-seeking, presented as a correction to hostile coverage. I hold that reading with medium confidence. The grievance is stated outright in his own words the same day, but a reel like this is a stock product of the White House digital operation and may simply have been queued. The self in this post is grandiose, and all of it is built from other people's idealization. The day as a whole swings between states. The Fox post is wounded and embattled ("The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on!"), and this post answers that wound with admiration from others. ## What the clip claims on his behalf Two assertions come with the praise. "The less ICE agents on the street, the more angel moms and dads are gonna be coming" is a fear appeal. "Angel parents" is the movement's term for families of people killed by immigrants in the country illegally, so the line turns a staffing and policy dispute into a future death toll. It then makes loyalty the safe choice: "that's why this is important that we support President Trump." The second assertion, "I didn't see one illegal alien, not a single one," uses one tour of "hundreds upon hundreds of miles" as proof of a result across the whole border. Southwest border apprehensions did fall to multi-decade lows in 2025, so CBP data supports the direction. But "most secure border in the history of this nation" is a superlative that no single metric settles, and a guided tour can't establish it. "Based on facts and data" is claimed, and no data is given. These are the speakers' claims, so they are left out of the fact-check list. What belongs to him is amplifying them without qualification. ## Defenses, archetype and the order he promises Idealization is done by proxy: "No one has done more than President Trump," and "greatest president" three times over. Splitting shows up in the ICE line, which allows only two positions: more agents, or more grieving parents. The archetype is the Hero-King, with his officials as retainers reporting his deeds back to him in the Oval Office. The order-restorer frame gives protection to the "angel moms and dads." The threat stays abstract, an "illegal alien" the speaker says he could no longer find. The fear appeal names a category of harm but no person or group to act against, and its call is "support President Trump," not any action. "Illegal alien" is statutory language here, not eliminationist imagery. ## Timing and whose hand The post went up at 23:08 UTC, which is 7:08 pm Eastern. He was most likely in Washington, where he announced the Iraq drawdown the same day. That is just past the end of the business day. It falls in a dense run of posts, several of them clearly in his own voice. Nothing in the post shows whether he or a staffer pressed publish. His own language is absent, so the grammar in the transcript ("What he has done is gave us") is the speaker's and says nothing about his cognition. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - No written text, so no stylometric evidence exists - Posted 7:08 pm Eastern, just after business hours, likely from Washington - Polished multi-speaker reel typical of White House digital-team production - Same-day posts in his own voice complain the media won't carry his record, which fits a personal choice to broadcast praise ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 70% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 50% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: low modesty (agreeableness) **Motives:** - Agency: 75% - Communion: 20% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** savior-king whose deeds are reported back by his retainers - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** prior presidents the speaker served under, and anyone who would reduce ICE staffing **Identity Claims:** - greatest president of the speaker's lifetime - has done more than any of six presidents - delivered the most secure border in history ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Same-day grievance that media, including Fox, won't carry his 'Record Setting Numbers'; week of record-low approval polling) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) - splitting (immature) **Parasocial Techniques:** - Presenting appointees' praise as independent testimony - Loyalty framed as protection: 'that's why this is important that we support President Trump' ## Tags - self-promotion via proxies (90%) - border security (80%) - immigration enforcement (70%) - fear appeal (50%) - media grievance context (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump announces the last U.S. troops leaving Iraq as his own choice, on a date fixed in 2024** Trump spent Wednesday complaining that the press won't report how well the country is doing, and then did the reporting himself. Around midday he attacked Fox News for putting Democrats on air and said real MAGA supporters "will never like Fox." He then announced that the last American troops were leaving Iraq and called it a choice he alone made, although the date had been agreed in 2024. In the afternoon he used a watchdog report on the Federal Reserve's headquarters renovation to demand Jerome Powell's ouster and ask the Attorney General to decide what to do about him. In the evening he posted a quick burst of video clips praising him, one of which urged a bombing run on Iran's oil economy, and he finished by reposting his own Iraq announcement, all without a word about the government funding deadline that fell the same day. Full digest for 2026-09-30: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-30/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 30). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117362507109086060 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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