# Post ts_117419345256359809

- Post ID: `ts_117419345256359809`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-11T00:03:41.124Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117419345256359809
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117419345256359809/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> of this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that. Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this this is six seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53% easily crushing a blink in at 8% and the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well. Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/419/344/251/580/754/original/90bc0430a0c0aa90.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,646
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- Metrics collected: 2026-10-12T04:01:03.357Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-11T00:31:40.106Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A poll clip as the answer to Friday's "unpopular" post

The post has no words of its own. It is a broadcast segment, apparently a cable-news data segment, in which a presenter walks through a poll of Republicans: "53% say he's the Republican president they most admire," against "Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that... at just 18%" and "Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time... at 8%." The presenter calls it "a historic comparison" and says Trump is "easily crushing" Lincoln. The ratios are internally consistent (53 to 18 is "nearly triples," 53 to 8 is "six seven times"). A garbled phrase near the end ("the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well") is too damaged to read anything into.

Context explains the selection. Hours earlier on October 10 he wrote that the "Dumocrats" and "Fake News Media" were pushing "the false narrative that, Donald Trump is so 'unpopular,' the Republicans are going to lose," and answered with "I'm so 'popular,' that the Republicans are going to WIN." The same day he called pollster Doug Schoen a "TRUMP DERANGED, STONE COLD LOSER." This clip is the documentary follow-up to both: an outside voice, on a mainstream set, ranking him above the two presidents Republicans are taught to revere.

### What the clip proves and what it is used to prove

The poll measures admiration among Republicans only. The grievance it is posted against concerns general-electorate popularity heading into midterms. Answering a question about swing voters with an in-party admiration ranking is the substitution worth recording: it reads as rationalization, swapping a measure he wins for the one being disputed. The poll's own numbers are the presenter's assertions, not his, and are not graded here; amplifying them is the behavior. The comparison is also lopsided by design. Recency and an active partisan identity favor a sitting president in any "most admired" question asked of his own party, so "historic comparison" overstates what a cross-sectional preference poll can show.

### The joke he posted along with the praise

The segment closes on a host's aside: "Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk." That is a gentle jab at his appetite for flattering charts, and the clip was posted with it intact. Publishing the slide confirms the host's prediction in public. Either the line went unnoticed or the praise outweighed the teasing. In both readings the need for the ranking dominated attention to how the posting would look, which is the supply-seeking pattern in its plainest form: third-party validation pulled in immediately after an injury to perceived popularity.

### State and defenses

The day runs from wounded to expansive. The morning attack on Schoen and the "false narrative" post carry the vulnerable register (the media is lying about him, critics should not "be allowed on Television"). By evening, en route to or at the Tennessee rally, the register flips to grandiose by proxy: he is placed above Reagan and Lincoln. The idealization runs through the clip's own superlatives ("greatest president of all time," "easily crushing"), with the self-elevation outsourced to a broadcaster, which makes it look like reporting rather than boasting. Splitting is implicit only in the pairing with the prior posts; the clip itself names no opponent and carries no hostility, so there is no rage and no target to assess for danger.

### Who chose it

The UTC stamp converts to about 8:03 PM Eastern, or 7:03 PM Central if he was already in Tennessee, at the hour of his announced rally. Clip curation of this kind is routinely handled by his social media staff, and a posting during an event makes direct selection by him less likely, though the clip fits his own stated grievance from that morning closely. Any attribution concerns who picked the clip, not who wrote anything.

No language production from him is available, so the post adds nothing to cognitive tracking. Longitudinally it belongs with the recurring sequence in which an attack on his popularity is followed within hours by a flattering poll or media segment.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Media-only post with no written text; no stylometric evidence
- Posted ~8:03 PM ET / ~7:03 PM CT, around the time of the announced Tennessee rally
- Video clip curation is a task commonly handled by social media staff
- Content tracks closely to his own 'unpopular' grievance post from earlier the same day
- Clip posted unedited including a host's jab about printing the slide

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: assertiveness / status display

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Most admired leader in the party's history
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Reagan and Lincoln as benchmarks; implicitly the media pushing the 'unpopular' narrative

**Identity Claims:**
- More admired by Republicans than Reagan or Lincoln
- Popular, contrary to media claims

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Same-day media narrative that he is unpopular and will cost Republicans the midterms; Doug Schoen commentary)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 5%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party media validation offered to followers as shared vindication
- Ranking against revered predecessors to invite in-group pride

## Tags

- polling (90%)
- presidential-legacy (80%)
- supply-seeking (80%)
- grandiosity-by-proxy (60%)
- bandwagon (50%)
- video-clip (70%)

## That day

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

**Trump thanks Karoline Leavitt and hands the press podium to Katie Zacharia, starting Columbus Day**

Trump spent Sunday making announcements. He declared an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine that he said both sides had accepted, said goodbye to press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and named Katie Zacharia to replace her the next day. In between he relied on other people to praise him, sharing poll clips, applause, a fan meme and a Nashville speaker who called the press "public enemy number one." The mood was upbeat and pleased with itself, with no outbursts, though a Columbus Day greeting posted a day early turned into a swipe at "Dumocrats" who tore down statues. He closed the evening by endorsing Michael Whatley for Senate with an attack on Roy Cooper that reused the old Willie Horton playbook and got its main example wrong, after a full night off in which he posted nothing between Saturday night and mid-morning Sunday.

Full digest for 2026-10-11: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 11).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117419345256359809
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 11 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117419345256359809. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 11, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117419345256359809.

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