# Post ts_117383720639661747 - Post ID: `ts_117383720639661747` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-04T17:03:52.613Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117383720639661747 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117383720639661747/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Image** (meme), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > A political meme: a side-by-side of two formal portrait photos of men in suits on a black background, with bold white captions above and below. The left man has short dark hair and wears a dark suit, light blue shirt, blue striped tie and a small flag lapel pin, standing in front of an American flag and another flag. The right man has dark slicked-back hair and wears a navy suit, white shirt, dark patterned tie and a flag lapel pin, with a flag behind him. The caption asserts that one of the two is the most corrupt US president in history and that the other is Richard Nixon. It names only Nixon and doesn't say which man is which. The joke is that the unnamed man is being called as corrupt as Nixon or worse. I am not identifying either man from his face. Text in the image: "ONE OF THESE MEN IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES THE OTHER IS RICHARD NIXON" ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/383/720/414/426/312/original/f8b9b500171c1d7f.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 14,244 - Reposts: 4,071 - Replies: 766 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-09T06:01:38.883Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-04T17:59:08.924Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A borrowed punchline about presidential corruption, posted into a Sunday grievance run The post is one image with no words of his own: two formal portraits and the caption "ONE OF THESE MEN IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES / THE OTHER IS RICHARD NIXON." The joke depends on the viewer knowing who the unnamed man is. The description doesn't identify him, and I won't infer an identity from described hair colour or ties. The template has circulated for years aimed at Democratic presidents, and his own archive points that way: "Crooked" is one of his most-used prefixes for Democratic opponents. Who the target is remains an inference, though, not something the image shows. ### What publishing it does The meme ranks presidents by corruption and puts Nixon in second place. That framing concedes Nixon as the historical reference point for presidential corruption. Coming from someone who has spent a decade rejecting comparisons between his own legal troubles and Watergate, that is a notable concession, and it only works because the meme's rhetorical aim is elsewhere. The format is a setup and reveal ("the other is Richard Nixon") that delivers an accusation as a joke. The accuser never has to make the claim in his own voice, so he can't be fact-checked on it. The defense on show is devaluation: an opponent is placed below the most disgraced figure in modern presidential history. It sits inside a splitting frame that runs through the whole morning. The same Sunday he wrote "Deranged Jack Smith is a Crooked Prosecutor!" and complained that Fox & Friends was "not covering our packed house" rallies. Corruption is a charge that sits on him too, through his federal indictments, emoluments litigation and recent questions about foreign gifts and family crypto ventures. Pushing that charge onto a predecessor fits projection. My confidence in that reading is low, because a political rival would post the same meme for purely tactical reasons. ### Where it sits in the day This is one item in a cluster of Sunday posts that move between two states. Some are wounded: Fox is ignoring the rallies, the "old undercurrent at FoxNews," media burying good economic numbers. Others are expansive: "I won all 7 Swing States, the Popular Vote, 86% of Counties," "I AM ON THE BALLOT!" The meme belongs to neither. It is routine partisan ammunition a month before the midterms, the kind of content he forwards in bursts. Its likeliest function is maintenance: keeping the base's picture of the opposition as uniquely corrupt in circulation while he casts the election as a referendum on himself. I see no sign of a fresh injury behind this specific image. The grievance in the Fox post is about coverage, not corruption. At the trait level, the choice shows low agreeableness (mockery as the point) and the dominance-oriented agency his feed shows every day. In archetype, it is the Trickster's move: the insult arrives as a gag, which lets the poster deny he meant it seriously. ### What the image does not carry The caption makes a superlative claim, "most corrupt president in history." That is an evaluative ranking, not a checkable fact, and it is the meme's wording rather than his, so no fact-check is entered under his name. The image calls for nothing, names no living target, and contains no violent or dehumanizing imagery. Its hostility is reputational and stays within ordinary partisan ridicule. Since he wrote no words, it gives no evidence either way about his language or cognition. ### Authorship The timestamp converts to about 1:03 p.m. EDT on a Sunday, the morning after an Ohio rally, assuming he was back on the East Coast (he was in Washington or Bedminster on most weekends this season). Midday weekend posting fits both his own habits and staff activity. Meme reposts in fast clusters on Sunday mornings are a long-standing personal pattern on Truth Social, which tilts the score slightly toward him. The attribution concerns who chose to post the image. Nobody in his circle drew it. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - No written text, so no stylometric evidence exists - Posted around 1:03 p.m. EDT Sunday, a daytime slot consistent with either him or staff - Part of a fast Sunday cluster mixing personally voiced grievance posts with shared links and memes - Meme resharing in bursts is a documented personal habit on Truth Social ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 60% - Agreeableness: 15% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 45% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: Low agreeableness: mockery and derogation of opponents **Motives:** - Agency: 75% - Communion: 20% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Implied clean contrast to a corrupt predecessor - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** An unnamed president, most likely a Democratic predecessor ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Pre-midterm partisan messaging within a Sunday posting cluster) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared in-joke that rewards followers who know who the unnamed man is ## Tags - meme (90%) - corruption-accusation (80%) - nixon-comparison (60%) - devaluation (60%) - midterm-messaging (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **After Fox & Friends skips his Ohio rally, Trump spends the afternoon posting portraits of himself, one captioned "Super Intelligence"** Trump spent Sunday morning angry that Fox & Friends skipped his Ohio rally. He called a Fox contributor "stupid" and predicted the network would lose its viewers. He also shared a video that names a woman who protests at his properties, asked who is paying her, and called Jack Smith a "Crooked Prosecutor." Early in the afternoon he put up a fast string of flattering pictures of himself, including one labeled "Super Intelligence," along with photos beside China's Xi Jinping and a swipe at the judge in the Kennedy Center naming fight and at the judge's wife. The anger came in short flashes and never built, and every post went up in daytime hours. Full digest for 2026-10-04: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-04/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 4). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117383720639661747 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 4 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117383720639661747. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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