# Post ts_117437575496539011

- Post ID: `ts_117437575496539011`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-14T05:19:52.514Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117437575496539011
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117437575496539011/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> "If," by Redyard Kipling, "if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools, if you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and booze and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss, if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but a none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man, my son.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/437/542/707/187/065/original/270342b10e9305aa.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,051
- Reposts: 849
- Replies: 109
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-15T16:00:37.927Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-14T05:57:52.284Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A recitation of Kipling's "If—", posted without comment on a rally night

The post is a video of someone reciting Rudyard Kipling's "If—" in full (the transcript renders the name "Redyard"). No caption accompanies it. Nothing in the transcript identifies the reader, so none of the wording is treated as his. The behavior under analysis is that he put this particular poem in front of his audience, late on a campaign day, in the middle of a run of media-only posts. The same day's only captioned post was "THIS IS WHERE WE SEND OUR KILLERS, DRUG DEALERS & THUGS."

### What the poem claims on his behalf

Posted without a caption, the poem works as a self-portrait offered for the audience to accept. Several of its lines fit the persecution-and-comeback story he has told since 2020 closely enough that the fit is probably the point:

- "keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you" and "trust yourself when all men doubt you" place the speaker as the calm center of a hostile crowd.
- "being lied about, don't deal in lies" and "bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools" match his long-running complaint that the press and opponents distort what he says.
- "watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools" and "risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings" track his 2020 loss and 2024 return. This is a redemption sequence he doesn't have to narrate himself, because the poem does it for him.
- "walk with kings, nor lose the common touch" fits the populist-billionaire identity he projects at rallies, which suits a post made the night of a stop in Wasilla, Alaska.

The poem is addressed to "my son." By posting it he takes the place of the man the father describes, as the finished example of the virtues.

### Where the self-portrait and the record part ways

Much of the poem advises restraint, and that advice runs against his public conduct. It recommends "being hated don't give way to hating," "don't look too good, nor talk too wise," and, most pointedly, "never breathe a word about your loss." He has never conceded the 2020 election and still regularly calls it stolen. His same-day "KILLERS, DRUG DEALERS & THUGS" post is the opposite of "don't give way to hating." The poem's stoic virtues come from a self-image that his own captioned posts contradict, which makes this idealization of the self more than a statement of shared values. A narrower reading also fits: he may be responding only to the lines about being doubted and lied about and ignoring the ones about restraint. The evidence cannot separate the two readings. Either way, the poem has been chosen for its vindication lines.

The "knaves" who twist the truth and the doubters who blame him are an enemy class that is named but given no face. Casting critics as liars "making a trap for fools" also casts his supporters as the people who see clearly. It is a mild form of the in-group truth frame, inherited from a 1910 poem rather than stated by him.

### State and trigger

The tone is grandiose but composed. Nothing in the post shows the injured, retaliatory register of his captioned attacks. There is no named target and no complaint about a specific event, so this reads as identity maintenance aimed at supporters, which costs little and pays off in admiration. It does not read as a reaction to a particular injury. The vulnerable state shows up only in borrowed form: the poem's speaker is besieged, doubted and lied about, but he endures. Pairing the stoic victim with the eventual winner ("yours is the earth and everything that's in it") is his usual swing between persecution and triumph, toned down.

### Timing and who chose the clip

The post went up at 05:19 UTC, about 9:19 PM Alaska Daylight Time. That is roughly two hours after the scheduled 7:30 PM start of the Wasilla rally, which the historian's list does not yet confirm as held. For a body still on Eastern time it was 1:19 AM. It came in a cluster of caption-free media posts. Rally nights are when campaign staff push out batches of clips, and that points toward an aide-assembled queue. The literary choice is unusual for his feed, but an uncaptioned inspirational video is also a standard staff format. The evidence leaves the question open.

### Danger and factual content

The poem carries no call to action, no dehumanizing language and no violent imagery. "Knaves" and "fools" are the harshest words in it, and neither points at a group that could be identified. The transcript makes no checkable factual claim, and he asserts nothing himself, so the fact-check list is empty.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- No written text, so there is no stylometric evidence at all
- Posted 05:19 UTC, about 9:19 PM Alaska time, roughly two hours after the scheduled start of the Wasilla rally; 1:19 AM Eastern
- Part of a same-day cluster of caption-free media posts, the pattern of a staff-queued rally-night batch
- An uncaptioned inspirational video is a common staff format; a literary poem is unusual for his own selections

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 35%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 40%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness carried through an idealized self-image

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Besieged stoic who endures doubt and lies and comes back to win
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Unnamed doubters and 'knaves' who distort his words

**Identity Claims:**
- Keeps his head while others blame him
- Speaks truth that knaves twist
- Rebuilt what was broken and started again
- Walks with kings yet keeps the common touch

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Rally-night batch of supporter-facing media posts)

Sentiment: +0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Uncaptioned self-portrait for supporters to recognize him in
- Paternal 'my son' address inviting followers into a mentor relationship

## Tags

- kipling-if (100%)
- uncaptioned-media (80%)
- comeback-narrative (70%)
- idealized-self (60%)
- rally-night-batch (50%)

## That day

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

**'This is the final battle' and 'my retribution is going to be success' went up in the same minute of his Alaska rally night**

Most of the day's posting came in a three-hour burst on the evening of his Alaska rally. His account put out a long run of uncaptioned campaign videos: a lion turning on the jackals that mocked him, a parody casting him as God's chosen caretaker, his old "final battle" speech against the deep state, and military reels on the Maduro raid and the Iran strikes. Twice in that run the account replayed his line that his "retribution" would be "success," once in the same minute as the final-battle clip. The next morning a batch of copied headlines called the federal search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home a "reckoning" and mocked Democrats for objecting to it. By afternoon the mood had turned to deal announcements for Alaska gas and a New York chip plant, plus a cheerful note from Air Force One about watching TV interviews with people waiting in his rally lines on the way to Montana.

Full digest for 2026-10-14: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 14).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117437575496539011
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 14 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117437575496539011. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 14, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117437575496539011.

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