# Post ts_117431307261297275 - Post ID: `ts_117431307261297275` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-13T02:45:46.833Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117431307261297275 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117431307261297275/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117431307261297275.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics that China and Russia are helping the “wonderful” Islamic Republic of Iran. If they are, it’s at a very low level, but I don’t believe they are at all. They have too much to lose, and we would know about it, and know about it very fast! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP ## Engagement - Likes: 17,360 - Reposts: 4,414 - Replies: 2,193 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-14T00:00:55.319Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-13T02:55:32.681Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Late on the night of the Youngstown rally, Trump denied that China and Russia are helping Iran: "If they are, it's at a very low level, but I don't believe they are at all." The sentence first shrinks the help and then denies it, keeping the first clause as a fallback. In July 2026 his own Defense Secretary told senators that both countries were helping Iran, and earlier intelligence reporting described Chinese air-defense preparations and Russian satellite intelligence. The post assigns the claim to "Radical Left Morons and Lunatics" anyway. That makes a security assessment from his own Pentagon into a sign of out-group membership, so accepting the denial becomes a loyalty marker. The scare-quoted "'wonderful' Islamic Republic of Iran" casts critics as admirers of the enemy, which is splitting by straw man. The likely trigger is exposure. In a week of Hormuz ship attacks, Brent above $105 and a pledge not to strike before the midterms, outside support for Iran would mean his blockade is leaking. The hostility goes to domestic critics while Beijing and Moscow are excused ("They have too much to lose"), which fits displacement onto a safer target. Language is coherent and consistent with his baseline. ## A denial that his own Defense Secretary contradicted The post went up at 10:45 PM Eastern on October 12, about four hours after the scheduled 6 PM rally at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio. Trump was most likely on the flight home or back at the White House. It came the same evening as the Doral "doctored photo" grievance and the rally posts, and it carries the rally phrase "Radical Left ... Lunatics" from earlier in the day ("Radical Left Socialists, Communists, and Lunatics"). The central sentence takes two positions that can't both hold: "If they are, it's at a very low level, but I don't believe they are at all." It concedes that the help might exist, shrinks it, and then denies it. That is minimization followed by **denial**, with the first clause left in place as cover if the denial fails. The reason given, "They have too much to lose, and we would know about it, and know about it very fast!", is **rationalization**. It rests on deterrence and on his own knowing, not on evidence. The repeated "know about it, and know about it very fast" turns a claim about intelligence into a claim of personal omniscience. The denial runs against his own administration's record. In July 2026, Defense Secretary Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee that Russia and China were helping Iran, "at different levels." In April, U.S. intelligence leaks reported that China was preparing air-defense transfers and that Russia was sharing satellite intelligence. China and Russia also vetoed the April 7 Security Council resolution on protecting Hormuz shipping. The post assigns this claim to "Radical Left Morons and Lunatics," but his own Pentagon chief said it on the record. That shift in who owns the claim is the post's main move. A national-security concern becomes a sign of belonging to the out-group, so anyone who repeats it is marked a "Moron." ## What set it off The likely trigger is **narcissistic injury by exposure**. The week's events make "China and Russia are helping Iran" a charge of ineffectiveness: Iran hit at least nine vessels in Hormuz, Brent passed $105, he pledged on October 8 not to strike Iran before November 3, and an Iran-backed Houthi strike on Riyadh's airport killed 12. If outside powers are sustaining Iran, then the blockade he is relying on in place of a strike is leaking. The post doesn't argue the point. It attacks the people raising it. The opening, "I see so many comments," shows he was reacting to commentary he had just seen, not to an intelligence briefing. The scare quotes in "the 'wonderful' Islamic Republic of Iran" set up a **straw man**. They put admiration for Iran in the critics' mouths, although nobody in the dispute praised Iran. This is **splitting** at work: questioning the administration's account gets coded as siding with the enemy. ## Self, others, and the sovereign who knows Trait expression is low agreeableness (the insult "Morons and Lunatics" is aimed at domestic critics, not at Iran), with assertiveness and angry hostility at a moderate level. The motive is power in its informational form: control over what counts as known. He casts himself as the sovereign whose intelligence apparatus would catch any betrayal "very fast" (the King archetype). The contrasting other is the domestic left, not Beijing or Moscow. Notably, the post protects China and Russia from blame ("They have too much to lose"), so the hostility lands on Americans rather than on the foreign actors. That redirection fits **displacement**: the anger has a safer target at home than the diplomatic cost of accusing two great powers in the middle of a crisis. On the order/chaos axis, the post defends order. It reassures readers that the strategic picture is under control, and it pushes the disorder onto the critics, the "Lunatics." ## Authorship and language The authorship signals point to Trump himself. The post went up late at night after a rally. The scare quotes are sarcastic, the epizeuxis ("know about it, and know about it very fast!") reads like speech, and the contradictory hedge in the second sentence is the kind of thing an aide's draft would have cleaned up. "Thank you for your attention to this matter" and the signature are his habitual closers in 2026 and don't point to a staff draft. There's no third-person framing and no policy detail. The syntax is coherent, and each sentence follows from the one before. The "if they are / I don't believe they are" construction is a long-standing rhetorical hedge in his baseline, not a sign of disorganization. I found no word-finding, paraphasic or temporal errors. ## Danger and reality claims The insults are personal ("Morons," "Lunatics") but not dehumanizing. The post names no target for action and implies no mobilization. Its risk lies in what it does to shared reality, not in any call to violence. It asks supporters to reject a claim his own Defense Secretary made under questioning, and it makes that rejection a test of whose side they are on. That counts as mild gaslighting and in-group epistemic closure, aimed at a live foreign-policy question in which both oil prices and the midterm timetable are at stake. Sources: [Morung Express, Hegseth: Russia, China helping Iran](https://morungexpress.com/russia-china-helping-iran-hegseth); [FDD / Washington Post, How China and Russia keep Iran armed and dangerous (Aug 18, 2026)](https://fdd.org/analysis/2026/08/18/how-china-and-russia-keep-iran-armed-and-dangerous); [Forbes Argentina, cómo China y Rusia pueden estar ayudando a Irán](https://www.forbesargentina.com/money/trump-alerta-como-china-rusia-pueden-estar-ayudando-iran-guerra-n89171); [Ekantipur, US media reports China may send weapons to Iran](https://ekantipur.com/world/2026/04/12/en/us-media-reports-that-china-may-send-weapons-to-iran-58-46.html); [StratNews Global, how Russia and China are quietly arming Iran](https://stratnewsglobal.com/iran/how-russia-and-china-are-quietly-arming-iran/) ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "China and Russia are helping Iran only at a very low level, if at all, and he doesn't believe they are at all" | **Mostly False** | Defense Secretary Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee in July 2026 that Russia and China were helping Iran, at different levels, while declining to give details. In April 2026, reporting based on U.S. intelligence described China preparing air-defense transfers to Iran and Russia sharing satellite intelligence. China and Russia vetoed an April 7, 2026 Security Council resolution on protecting Hormuz shipping. The scale of the help hasn't been made public, so "a very low level" can't be ruled out, but "not at all" contradicts his own administration's testimony. | | "The claim that China and Russia are helping Iran comes from the Radical Left" | **Mostly False** | The claim was made on the record by his own Defense Secretary in July 2026 Senate testimony and was reported from U.S. intelligence sources in April 2026. Some left-leaning critics may have repeated it, but it didn't originate with them. | | "If China or Russia were helping Iran, "we would know about it, and know about it very fast"" | **Half True** | The literal claim, that US intelligence would detect Russian or Chinese help, is borne out. The trouble is that it did detect such help, and Trump's own officials said so publicly. The sentence is offered as proof that no help exists, and the record contradicts that. The 'very fast' part is uneven. What US officials and intelligence actually knew before the post (October 12, 2026): - Russia: The war began February 28, 2026. By March 6, CNN and the Washington Post, citing US officials, reported that Russia was giving Iran targeting intelligence on US warships, aircraft and troop positions. That is about a week, which counts as 'fast.' AP reported upgraded Russian drones on March 27. On April 30, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia was helping Iran ('There's definitely some action there'). Bloomberg reported on June 12 and again on October 9-10, citing Western officials, that Russia was supplying missiles to rebuild Iran's arsenal. - China: In May the administration sanctioned three Chinese satellite firms (Earth Eye, Chang Guang, Meentropy) for giving Iran geospatial intelligence that 'threatens American and partner personnel.' On September 12 the WSJ reported that Chinese satellite imagery was used in the July 17 strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three US service members. On September 25 CNN, citing four sources on US intelligence assessments, reported that Chinese groups' imagery was improving Iran's targeting of US bases and Hormuz shipping. - Hegseth: At a July 21-22 Senate Appropriations hearing, Sen. John Hoeven asked whether Russia and China were helping Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said yes, that the two were 'enabling some of the things Iran is doing,' and that details should stay classified. So the US did know, and a capable intelligence system was the reason it knew. But Trump uses 'we would know' to imply that no such knowledge exists and therefore no help is happening. That inference is contradicted by his own Defense Secretary, his Joint Chiefs chairman, Treasury and State sanctions, and the intelligence assessments described to the press. The speed is mixed: - The Russian intelligence sharing surfaced within about a week. - Other help came out slowly or stayed unclear. The FT reported in April 2026, from leaked Iranian military documents, that the IRGC had secretly acquired the Chinese TEE-01B reconnaissance satellite in late 2024. When US intelligence first learned of it is not public. - The link between Chinese imagery and the July 17 Jordan strike was reported about eight weeks later. - NBC reported on May 29 that an F-15E shot down the previous month was probably hit by a Chinese-made MANPADS. - CNN's September sources said it was 'difficult to precisely quantify the scope of China's assistance' and that officials disagreed on how much Beijing was helping. - In August, asked about Zelenskyy's claim that Russia had passed Iran satellite imagery of US Gulf bases, Trump said, 'We'll find out if that's true. I'll ask Putin.' That does not fit the claim that the US learns such things very fast. - Trump's own earlier statements wavered too. In March he said Putin 'might be helping them a little bit,' and in July he said 'there could be some things they did.' Verdict: half true. The capability claim is partly accurate, and the US did come to know about the help, sometimes quickly. But the sentence is used to support a denial that the known record contradicts, and the 'very fast' part fails for several of the documented channels of Chinese assistance. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - Posted 10:45 PM ET, roughly four hours after the Youngstown rally - Reacting to commentary just seen: "I see so many comments" - Sarcastic scare quotes around "wonderful" - Speech-like repetition: "know about it, and know about it very fast!" - Unedited contradictory hedge: "If they are... but I don't believe they are at all" ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 70% - Agreeableness: 15% - Conscientiousness: 35% - Neuroticism: 60% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Angry hostility (low agreeableness) **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 10% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** All-knowing commander whose intelligence would catch any betrayal - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** Radical Left Morons and Lunatics **Identity Claims:** - We would know about it, and know about it very fast - The situation is under control ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Commentary that China and Russia are aiding Iran, implying that his Hormuz blockade and no-strike pledge are failing) **Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Domestic critics ("Radical Left Morons and Lunatics") - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 25% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 40% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shares his own viewing ("I see so many comments") as if with confidants - Ritual sign-off "Thank you for your attention to this matter" - Invites followers into an inclusive "we would know" ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Denies Chinese and Russian help to Iran that his own Defense Secretary confirmed to the Senate in July 2026 - Labels those repeating the assessment "Morons and Lunatics" - Asserts certainty ("we would know about it, and know about it very fast!") in place of evidence ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-10-13._ > China and Russia are helping Iran only at a very low level, if at all, and he doesn't believe they are at all **MOSTLY FALSE** Defense Secretary Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee in July 2026 that Russia and China were helping Iran, at different levels, while declining to give details. In April 2026, reporting based on U.S. intelligence described China preparing air-defense transfers to Iran and Russia sharing satellite intelligence. China and Russia vetoed an April 7, 2026 Security Council resolution on protecting Hormuz shipping. The scale of the help hasn't been made public, so "a very low level" can't be ruled out, but "not at all" contradicts his own administration's testimony. Sources: https://morungexpress.com/russia-china-helping-iran-hegseth; https://fdd.org/analysis/2026/08/18/how-china-and-russia-keep-iran-armed-and-dangerous; https://ekantipur.com/world/2026/04/12/en/us-media-reports-that-china-may-send-weapons-to-iran-58-46.html > The claim that China and Russia are helping Iran comes from the Radical Left **MOSTLY FALSE** The claim was made on the record by his own Defense Secretary in July 2026 Senate testimony and was reported from U.S. intelligence sources in April 2026. Some left-leaning critics may have repeated it, but it didn't originate with them. Sources: https://morungexpress.com/russia-china-helping-iran-hegseth > If China or Russia were helping Iran, "we would know about it, and know about it very fast" **HALF TRUE** The literal claim, that US intelligence would detect Russian or Chinese help, is borne out. The trouble is that it did detect such help, and Trump's own officials said so publicly. The sentence is offered as proof that no help exists, and the record contradicts that. The 'very fast' part is uneven. What US officials and intelligence actually knew before the post (October 12, 2026): - Russia: The war began February 28, 2026. By March 6, CNN and the Washington Post, citing US officials, reported that Russia was giving Iran targeting intelligence on US warships, aircraft and troop positions. That is about a week, which counts as 'fast.' AP reported upgraded Russian drones on March 27. On April 30, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia was helping Iran ('There's definitely some action there'). Bloomberg reported on June 12 and again on October 9-10, citing Western officials, that Russia was supplying missiles to rebuild Iran's arsenal. - China: In May the administration sanctioned three Chinese satellite firms (Earth Eye, Chang Guang, Meentropy) for giving Iran geospatial intelligence that 'threatens American and partner personnel.' On September 12 the WSJ reported that Chinese satellite imagery was used in the July 17 strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three US service members. On September 25 CNN, citing four sources on US intelligence assessments, reported that Chinese groups' imagery was improving Iran's targeting of US bases and Hormuz shipping. - Hegseth: At a July 21-22 Senate Appropriations hearing, Sen. John Hoeven asked whether Russia and China were helping Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said yes, that the two were 'enabling some of the things Iran is doing,' and that details should stay classified. So the US did know, and a capable intelligence system was the reason it knew. But Trump uses 'we would know' to imply that no such knowledge exists and therefore no help is happening. That inference is contradicted by his own Defense Secretary, his Joint Chiefs chairman, Treasury and State sanctions, and the intelligence assessments described to the press. The speed is mixed: - The Russian intelligence sharing surfaced within about a week. - Other help came out slowly or stayed unclear. The FT reported in April 2026, from leaked Iranian military documents, that the IRGC had secretly acquired the Chinese TEE-01B reconnaissance satellite in late 2024. When US intelligence first learned of it is not public. - The link between Chinese imagery and the July 17 Jordan strike was reported about eight weeks later. - NBC reported on May 29 that an F-15E shot down the previous month was probably hit by a Chinese-made MANPADS. - CNN's September sources said it was 'difficult to precisely quantify the scope of China's assistance' and that officials disagreed on how much Beijing was helping. - In August, asked about Zelenskyy's claim that Russia had passed Iran satellite imagery of US Gulf bases, Trump said, 'We'll find out if that's true. I'll ask Putin.' That does not fit the claim that the US learns such things very fast. - Trump's own earlier statements wavered too. In March he said Putin 'might be helping them a little bit,' and in July he said 'there could be some things they did.' Verdict: half true. The capability claim is partly accurate, and the US did come to know about the help, sometimes quickly. But the sentence is used to support a denial that the known record contradicts, and the 'very fast' part fails for several of the documented channels of Chinese assistance. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_2026_Iran_war; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_2026_Iran_war; https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/politics/china-intelligence-iran-targeting-hormuz; https://abc17news.com/politics/national-politics/cnn-us-politics/2026/09/24/intelligence-from-chinese-groups-aiding-in-irans-increasingly-effective-targeting-of-us-sites-sources-say/; https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/artc-report-us-links-chinese-satellite-imagery-to-iranian-strike-that-killed-3-troops; https://cdm.press/news/middle-east/2026/09/12/wsj-chinese-satellite-firms-gave-iran-the-targeting-data-used-to-kill-three-american-troops-in-jordan/; https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china/article/329356/Iran-used-Chinese-spy-satellite-to-target-US-bases-FT-reports; https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604155672; https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-trump-russia-iran-war; https://www.newkerala.com/news/a/russia-china-helping-iran-hegseth-101.htm; https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5982033-emergency-funding-military-leaders-iran-war-senate-hearing/; https://english.nv.ua/nation/russia-supporting-iran-against-u-s-cjcs-caine-50604534.html; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/why-trump-downplaying-reports-russia-china-helping-iran; https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2026/07/24/trump-says-china-and-russia-pledged-not-to-arm-iran/; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/24/trump-maintains-china-russia-staying-iran-war-citing-relationship-xi/; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5988554-trump-china-russia-iran-support/; https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/politics/trump-russia-iran-us-troops; https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2026-10-10/ty-article/russia-supplying-iran-with-missiles-as-tehran-rebuilds-arsenal-report-says/000001a1-259c-d0ca-a7b7-bfbeebee0000; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/iran-likely-added-russian-made-missiles-as-it-rebuilt-arsenal; https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-putin-may-helping-iran-163451226.html; https://www.forexfactory.com/news/1431131-trump-doesnt-think-china-russia-are-helping-iran; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5789941-iran-russia-china-intelligence-sharing/ Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - Iran (90%) - China (70%) - Russia (70%) - denial (80%) - Radical Left (70%) - Strait of Hormuz (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump tells the Houthis he'll "be there after the Elections," putting a midterm date on retaliation** Trump spent the day between an Ohio rally and a flight to Alaska, and most of what he posted was campaign material: TV clips praising his work ethic, endorsements, and footage of crowds lining up for his Alaska rally. The moment that stood out came around noon. A Navy birthday message bragging about the Hormuz blockade was followed minutes later by a promise to deal with the Houthis "after the Elections," which tied a military threat to the midterm calendar. Late in the afternoon he went after three Democrats in a row, Ilhan Omar, Letitia James and Abdul El-Sayed. He mostly used loaded questions that suggested crimes or contempt without saying so outright. The anger peaked with the attack on James and faded within half an hour into rally logistics, and a full night's break from posting shows no sign of lost sleep. Full digest for 2026-10-13: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 13). I see so many comments from the Radical Left... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117431307261297275 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and..." 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