# Post ts_117368266436035432

- Post ID: `ts_117368266436035432`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-01T23:33:40.180Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117368266436035432
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117368266436035432/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/117/368/259/090/161/027/original/1b8284d8ac8444fe.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,409
- Reposts: 3,570
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- Metrics collected: 2026-10-08T23:01:41.221Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-02T00:12:36.649Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

He posted, with no caption, a fan-made montage in which a lion, the 'king of the jungle,' puts up with jackals 'barking at them, laughing at them' until it 'tears his **** out of everybody.' The edit inserts a news line about Letitia James seizing his assets into the build-up, which makes her the only named jackal. Lines from his 2017 inaugural address frame the revenge as restoring power to 'the people,' and 'In the Air Tonight' cues an approaching reckoning. The clip pairs grandiose identification ('I know what I am') with a grievance about being mocked. The likely triggers are the week's ridicule and boos, plus the long-running New York case. Six days earlier he posted 'Retribution will be through success'; this clip swaps that line for physical destruction of opponents. Animal-metaphor dehumanization, explicit violent imagery and a named official come together here. The actor in the metaphor is the lion, meaning him, and the audience is not called to act, so this reads as a promise of his own retribution, not a mobilization call. Danger is elevated because a sitting president's audience can read 'show the jackals who he is' as signaling state action against an official he has already pursued.

## A lion video, a week after "retribution will be through success"

The clip is a montage, and he added no words to it. A narrator describes a lion, "the king of the jungle," that puts up with jackals "barking at them, laughing at them" until "one day, that lion gets up and tears his **** out of everybody." Cut into it are two lines from Trump's 2017 inaugural address ("For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost"; "whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots"). There is also an old news line, "New York State's Attorney General Letitia James saying she's prepared to seize Donald Trump's assets," and Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" ("I can feel it coming in the air tonight") over a repeated "I know what I am." The inaugural lines are the only words in the clip that are his. The lion narration, the news anchor and the lyrics belong to other people. Versions of this lion-and-jackals edit have circulated among his supporters for years, so the likeliest explanation is that he reposted a fan edit, not that his team produced it.

### What the clip does on his behalf

Posting it casts him as the lion and his opponents as jackals. The montage ties that casting to one named person: the only identifiable adversary in the clip is Letitia James, and she appears in the slot where the narration builds toward the lion's patience running out ("closer and closer and bolder and bolder"). The arc is a revenge sequence in which the hero tolerates humiliation and then strikes, and the closing line states the moral outright: "every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is."

This sits uneasily beside the video he posted on September 25, which said "Retribution will be through success." Six days later he posts a clip in which retribution is physical: the lion "tears" everybody apart. The two framings, one measured and one violent, now sit side by side in his feed. This matches the firehose pattern, where inconsistent messages each serve a different audience and neither is retracted.

### Self-image and defenses

The grandiosity comes through identification with the lion ("king of the jungle," "Huge mane," "I know what I am"). Splitting divides the clip's world into one sovereign animal and a pack of scavengers, with no middle ground. The jackals' supposed behavior, "barking," "laughing," mocking from a safe distance, mirrors grievances that show up repeatedly in his recent context: SNL's September 27 Weekend Update, the boos at Medinah the same day, and record-low approval. That makes ridicule the most plausible injury behind the post. The clip doesn't answer the ridicule. It turns it into the fuel for an eventual counterattack, a defensive move that recasts mockery as a sign of the mockers' weakness and his own coming dominance. He is in the grandiose state, holding back a vulnerable layer: the lion's whole story is about enduring disrespect.

The inaugural lines work as legitimation. They slot the personal vendetta (James, the asset seizure) into a populist frame ("We are transferring power back to you, the people"), so the lion's revenge is presented as being on the public's behalf. That is rationalization carried by the edit itself.

### Violent imagery and a named target

Comparing opponents to jackals is animal-based dehumanization. It is milder than "vermin," but it does the same job of turning human adversaries into scavengers. The violence in the clip is explicit, "tears his **** out of everybody," and it is pointed, by editing, toward a named state official. The three elements of the stochastic pattern are close to present: a named target (James), a grievance (seizing his assets), and violent action. What keeps it short of a mobilization call is that the actor in the metaphor is the lion, meaning him, not his audience. Nobody is told to act. The clip promises his own reckoning. That distinction matters for how the post is read, but it isn't much protection for James. The New York case has been a recurring grievance, she was federally indicted in 2025 under his administration, and a sitting president's audience is primed to read "show the jackals who he is" as a signal of action by the state.

### Timing and authorship

The post went up at 7:33 PM Eastern, presumably from Washington, in a day of several wordless media posts. One of the same day's few written posts blamed the "Dumocrats" for prices. The evening hour and the rapid run of media posts fit his own handling of the account more than staff scheduling. Still, a clip with no caption shows only who chose it, and no stylometric evidence is available.

### What can't be read from this post

The transcript has no language of his beyond inaugural lines delivered nearly a decade ago, so it gives no cognitive information. The James asset-seizure line is a broadcaster's report from the 2024 civil fraud judgment, which an appellate court later voided as to the penalty. The clip brings it back without that update, and that omission is a choice worth noting, but the line is not his claim to fact-check.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- No written text; attribution concerns who selected and posted the clip, not who wrote it
- Posted 7:33 PM Eastern, evening hours outside a typical staff schedule
- Part of a cluster of wordless media posts on the same day, consistent with personal reposting bursts
- Clip appears to be a supporter-made fan edit rather than a campaign or White House production

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 70%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: angry hostility

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: revenge

### Narrative

- **Role:** Patient king-predator who will eventually crush his mockers
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Jackals: mocking opponents, embodied by Letitia James

**Identity Claims:**
- King of the jungle
- 'I know what I am'
- Restorer of power to 'the people'

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Accumulated ridicule and public rebuke (SNL Weekend Update, boos at Medinah, low approval) plus the standing grievance against Letitia James's civil fraud case)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Political opponents cast as 'jackals,' with Letitia James the only one named
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 50%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inviting the audience to share the lion identity and its eventual triumph
- Cinematic music cue ('In the Air Tonight') to build anticipation of a reckoning
- Inaugural 'you, the people' address to merge his grievance with followers' interests

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Violent imagery ('tears his **** out of everybody') directed by editing toward a named state official
- Dehumanizing animal metaphor for opponents ('jackals')
- Named target plus grievance (asset seizure) plus implied violent reckoning
- Revenge framing posted by a sitting president who has already pursued the named official through federal prosecution

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Tags

- lion-jackals-allegory (90%)
- letitia-james (80%)
- violent-imagery (80%)
- dehumanization (60%)
- retribution (80%)
- media-only-repost (70%)
- grandiose-identification (70%)

## 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]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117368266436035432
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 1 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117368266436035432. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 1, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117368266436035432.

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