# Post ts_117367000302830501 - Post ID: `ts_117367000302830501` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-01T18:11:40.519Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117367000302830501 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117367000302830501/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:43), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Okay, MAGA GOP on Trump, in the 2024 election versus Kamala Harris, he got 99% of the MAGA GOP vote. Perhaps surprisingly, I might have thought it'd be 100%, but it was 99%. Compare that to his approval rating now with the MAGA GOP. It's 98%. That is, there's been no real decline in MAGA support. These folks say that they're going to vote for congressional Republicans come the midterm elections. Again, that's the 99% that Trump got against Kamala Harris. Look now, in terms of the congressional vote, 98% of them say they're going to be voting for House Republican candidates. So that support is actually really holding up strong. It's really, really strong when it comes to MAGA GOP and Republicans holding on to that vote. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/366/999/164/549/626/original/2475468b480d3e84.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,624 - Reposts: 3,138 - Replies: 459 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-08T18:02:18.141Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-01T18:19:20.884Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A loyalty poll posted in a week of record-low approval The post is a video with no caption. In it, a television analyst reads out polling on one narrow group of voters, "MAGA GOP": 99% voted for Trump against Harris in 2024, 98% approve of him now, and 98% say they will vote for House Republican candidates. The analyst ends by saying "that support is actually really holding up strong." The phrasing ("MAGA GOP," "come the midterm elections," "Perhaps surprisingly, I might have thought it'd be 100%") sounds like a cable data segment of the kind Harry Enten presents on CNN. That identification comes from style alone and is not confirmed. What matters here is how small the slice of the electorate is. The historian's notes for the week before this post record "record-low approval polling," and the subject's own video on September 25 tried to turn that pressure into "Retribution will be through success." This clip does not dispute the overall numbers. It changes the subject to the one group where his numbers cannot look bad. A respondent who calls themselves MAGA has already sorted themselves by loyalty to him, so 98% approval inside that group is close to true by definition. The post therefore shows that the subject went looking for a denominator that flatters him. It does not show that his standing is strong. This is a common pattern in his media reposts when broad polling turns against him: he amplifies a favorable crosstab and lets the audience treat it as the whole picture. Putting a hostile network's analyst on screen to deliver the good news also fits a familiar pattern. When the subject reposts mainstream outlets, he usually picks segments where a channel he calls "fake news" ends up confirming his strength, and that borrows the outlet's credibility against itself. Earlier in the week, at the Presidents Cup, he had jabbed at "fake news media." If the source is CNN, the repost carries a small "even they admit it." This depends on the attribution, which is not confirmed. ## What the selection reveals psychologically The trigger looks like a need for supply under steady narcissistic pressure, not acute injury. Nothing in the clip responds to a specific attack. It works as reassurance: the people who matter most to him have not left. The state is grandiose but defensive, a show of strength that only holds up because the frame is so narrow. The main defense is selective attention close to denial. The unfavorable whole (low overall approval) goes unmentioned, and a favorable part is presented as the measure. A mild form of splitting also sits in the framing: the base is the group whose judgment counts, and everyone else is outside the frame. On the narrative level, the clip casts him as a leader with an unbreakable following, a durable-strength story told in a period of electoral risk before the midterms. The analyst's line that there has been "no real decline in MAGA support" makes the case for him that nothing has been lost, so he does not have to argue it himself. The motive is agentic and centered on status and validation. The communal element, loyalty from followers, is valued for what it confirms about him. The same afternoon he posted that he got rid of "THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT" "in one night," against his own estimate of "4-6 weeks." Taken together, the day's output is a run of claims of vindication: the military promise beaten, the political base intact. Each post answers a doubt that is not named. ## Rhetoric, risk, and authorship The clip uses selective statistics and a bandwagon appeal ("really, really strong"), and it uses outside media as validation. It names no opponent and contains no hostile language, so it gives no basis for a danger rating. The factual content belongs to the analyst, not the subject, and is not entered as his claim. The point worth recording is the circular construction of the subgroup, not whether the specific percentages are accurate. The post went up at about 2:11 p.m. Eastern, in working hours, on a day when the account also published a formal judicial nomination in staff style. Clip reposts during business hours could plausibly come from either the subject or his digital team. The behavior on record is that someone chose this segment. Nothing in the post shows who did. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - Media-only post with no written text; no stylometric evidence available - Posted ~2:11 p.m. Eastern, inside business hours - Same-day feed includes staff-style judicial nomination announcement - Clip type (favorable cable-news poll segment) matches content the subject has repeatedly shared personally ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 60% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Neuroticism (vulnerability to status threat, managed through reassurance-seeking) **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** Leader with an unbreakable following - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** Implicit: the broad polling picture and the media narrative of decline **Identity Claims:** - His base has not wavered - His political strength is intact heading into the midterms ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Record-low approval polling reported in the preceding week; upcoming midterm elections) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Reassuring followers that they remain part of a near-unanimous in-group - Using third-party media voice to deliver praise he does not have to claim himself ## Tags - polling (90%) - MAGA base loyalty (80%) - midterms 2026 (60%) - supply-seeking (70%) - cherry-picking (70%) - media validation (50%) ## 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). [Social media post]. 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