# Post ts_117363251732231828

- Post ID: `ts_117363251732231828`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-01T02:18:21.871Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117363251732231828/analysis
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## Post text

> Trump met with roaring cheers at University of Tennessee-Texas Longhorns college football game: https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/us-news/trump-met-cheered-at-university-of-tennessee-ut-football-game/

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,665
- Reposts: 1,860
- Replies: 182
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-08T02:01:46.201Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-01T02:23:47.605Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A four-day-old crowd story, reposted at night

The post is a New York Post headline and link with nothing added: "Trump met with roaring cheers at University of Tennessee-Texas Longhorns college football game." The event was Saturday, September 26, when Trump flew into Knoxville for No. 1 Texas at No. 14 Tennessee at Neyland Stadium. The post went up at 02:18 UTC on October 1, which is 10:18 pm Eastern on September 30. An earlier post the same day says "In New York, I met with Lee Jae Myung," so he was on Eastern time whether he was in New York or back in Washington.

It sits in a run of same-day posts in one format, headline then colon then NY Post URL. The pocket-rescission story from September 25 is another, and several of the others are empty-bodied shares. That points to a batch of saved links worked through in one sitting. The four-day gap points the same way: this is something kept and posted later.

## Late hour, borrowed words

The evidence on who posted it is split. The late-evening hour and the batch habit match Trump's documented nighttime link sprees, which he is widely reported to run himself. The text, though, is third-person headline copy ("Trump met with…"). Every word belongs to the Post, so there is no sample of his own voice to test, and anyone with access to the account could have picked a pro-Trump headline and pasted it. The hour pushes slightly toward Trump. The wording pushes the other way. Without his own words in the post, the attribution rests on habit and timing alone.

## Knoxville kept, Medinah dropped

All the psychology here is in the choice of item, so the choice is where to look. The historian's list for the same week has three relevant items. A September 25 video ran under "record-low approval polling." SNL mocked him on September 27. And at the Presidents Cup final day the same weekend, he "drew both cheers and boos amid heavy security and nearby protests." Out of a weekend that had both kinds of crowd, the post brings back the one with only cheers. The picture is supply-seeking. Crowd adoration, written up by a friendly outlet, is offered to his audience as proof of popularity against the polls. The motive is status and validation through numbers ("roaring"). It is agency, and the crowd figures as a mirror for him.

The narcissistic state is a mild grandiose one. Nothing in the text is aggrieved or wounded, and there is no named enemy to answer, which leaves the item as maintenance with no counterattack in it. Any defensive work is in what was left out. The cheering stadium stands for the whole country, and the booing at Medinah is gone. That is a mild selective idealization of the base. It is too thin to call denial, because the post asserts nothing false about the other event. It just doesn't mention it.

At the narrative level the post fits a familiar story: the people's champion, at home in a big SEC crowd, set against elite institutions such as pollsters, comedians, and the press he jabbed at in Chicago. Here the contrast is left implied. In Jungian terms it is the King being acclaimed, with the Warrior offstage.

## Letting the Post say "roaring"

The devices are social proof and borrowed credibility. "Roaring cheers" is the outlet's word, so the hyperbole arrives with a third party's authority, and the poster carries none of the risk of the claim. The post's form, headline as the entire statement, packs the persuasion into one verifiable-sounding fact. There is no dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or mobilizing call. Nothing here points at a target, so the danger reading comes down to the absence of anyone named.

## Checking the cheers

Coverage from OutKick/Fox News and BroBible reports that "the crowd in Neyland gave President Trump a huge cheer when the announcer introduced him" and that the stadium "went nuts" at the Air Force One flyover. Trump told Clay Travis at halftime that it was "a lot of friendly people." The central claim holds up. The sources found are friendly ones, and no report of booing in Knoxville turned up. Whether there was any is open, and given the mixed reception at Medinah a day later it is a reasonable question. "Roaring" is the outlet's adjective and measures nothing.

## Language

There is no original prose to read for cognitive markers. The sentence is NY Post copy, so it says nothing about his current language production either way. The posts around it that are in his voice, such as the Korea announcement with "HUGE Construction Projects" and "AMERICAN JOBS," are the better material for that.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump was met with roaring cheers at the Tennessee-Texas football game" | **Mostly True** | Coverage of the September 26 game at Neyland Stadium reports the crowd gave Trump 'a huge cheer' when introduced and 'went nuts' at the Air Force One flyover. The sources found are sympathetic outlets (OutKick/Fox News, BroBible), and they make no mention of booing either way. 'Roaring' is the outlet's characterization. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Posted 10:18 pm Eastern, in the late-evening window of his known link-sharing sprees
- Part of a same-day batch of 'headline: URL' NY Post shares in identical format
- Text is verbatim third-person headline copy ('Trump met with...'), with no first-person voice
- No capitals, typos, asides, or editorial comment from the poster
- Posted four days after the event, which looks like curation, not a live reaction

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: positive affect / attention to crowd adulation

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Popular champion acclaimed by ordinary fans
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Implied: pollsters, comedians, and press portraying him as unpopular

**Identity Claims:**
- Beloved by heartland crowds

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Record-low approval coverage and the mixed reception at the Presidents Cup the same weekend)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shares crowd adoration with followers as collective proof of popularity
- Invites the audience to identify with the cheering SEC crowd

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-01._

> Trump was met with roaring cheers at the Tennessee-Texas football game

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Coverage of the September 26 game at Neyland Stadium reports the crowd gave Trump 'a huge cheer' when introduced and 'went nuts' at the Air Force One flyover. The sources found are sympathetic outlets (OutKick/Fox News, BroBible), and they make no mention of booing either way. 'Roaring' is the outlet's characterization.

Sources: https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/sec-crowd-greets-trump-massive-cheers-ahead-tennessee-texas-showdown.print; https://brobible.com/sports/article/president-trump-cheered-in-tennessee-during-texas-tennessee-game/; https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/09/donald-trump-attends-a-big-college-football-game-with-plan-in-place-to-protect-communications/

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- crowd-size (80%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- link-share (70%)
- college-football (60%)
- selective-amplification (60%)

## That day

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

**He pushes a 'maybe you blow them up' Iran clip at night, then says he ended the Iran threat 'in one night'**

He posted in two long stretches. The first was a late-evening run that included a rapid dump of week-old flattering headlines. The second was a daytime run that ended with him on the road to an Oklahoma event after bad weather grounded his aircraft. Iran was the story that didn't hold together: at night he pushed a clip musing that "maybe you blow them up," and the next afternoon he said he had ended Iran's nuclear threat "in one night." With the midterms a month off, much of the day went to polls and blame, waving off bad polls while touting good ones and pinning prices on the "Dumocrats." The sharpest moment came last, a revenge video casting him as a lion and New York's attorney general as a jackal, followed minutes later by a cheerful note that he was driving to Oklahoma rather than cancel.

Full digest for 2026-10-01: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 1). Trump met with roaring cheers at University of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117363251732231828
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Trump met with roaring cheers at University of..." Truth Social, 1 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117363251732231828. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Trump met with roaring cheers at University of...," Truth Social, October 1, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117363251732231828.

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