# Post ts_117442762383256176

- Post ID: `ts_117442762383256176`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-15T03:18:58.123Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:47), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> It's crazy because as I was saying to one of the guys, Oscar Colton who was talking to me here They tell you mag is dead and they're trying to convince you that mag is over. It's finished Well, when you go to these you see the passion for President Donald Trump They care deeply about President Donald Trump and these frauds that are out there trying to tell you Maggie is dead You know you have also the podcast people you have people like the Tucker Carlson's you have the Alex Jones these people that have turned on President Donald Trump. These people aren't here for them They didn't come out here for that. That's not why they got motivated to get to the ballot box It wasn't because of something they get Kelly said it wasn't something because of what? Tucker Carlson said or Candace always said they're here because of President Donald Trump That's why you're here. And so the people trying to tell you that bag is broken apart are Full of nonsense and they're just trying to make their money off of the audience They grew by telling you they supported President Donald Trump. They spent their whole career They built their entire audience off the back of President Trump That's what they did. And now that they got their audience, they're trying to turn him against Trump and it's a disgrace President Trump needs the mag of crowd to come out to support him in the midterms That's what he needs if those cry babies like the ones you see in the chat Like the ones you see on social media if those cry babies are like, well, we're not coming out to vote. We're gonna stay home That's fine. As long as MAGA shows up we can win the midterms. That's what's gonna determine it So President Donald Trump understands this and that's why he's hitting this campaign trail So hard as if he is out of the ballot and he keeps saying pretend that I'm out the ballot and that's why he does it Now it's funny because they put the CNN poll Saying that Oh 98 percent of MAGA supports Trump. Well, of course they do MAGA simply means I support President Trump. President Trump is MAGA. He is the MAGA movement There is no MAGA without Trump, right? That's that is MAGA. So when they say MAGA supports Trump 99 percent I mean it doesn't work. What are the 1 percent? What are they doing? MAGA is just about supporting President Donald Trump and that's what he needs to show up big on November 4th of November 3rd. Now up here in Montana, they have same-day registration So if you're not registered you could do it the same day that you're gonna vote But they have the early voting and no matter where you are if they have the early voting You got to do it because whenever they show the results early voting the Democrats always dominate that and we always say I want to Vote on election day in person and that is the way it should be but we got to play the game that they're playing

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/442/294/248/224/354/original/8ffb7ae346c8b136.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-10-15T19:00:29.805Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-15T03:50:34.882Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On a Montana rally night, the subject posted without comment a line host's monologue. Its argument is that "There is no MAGA without Trump" and that MAGA "simply means I support President Trump." The host calls Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens "frauds" and "cry babies" who "built their entire audience off the back of President Trump." Under the clip's definition of the movement, internal dissent becomes defection, and a reported 98–99% loyalty figure becomes a tautology ("What are the 1 percent?"). This is epistemic closure: belonging is measured by loyalty to one person. The post is best read as a response to injury from abandonment by former amplifiers. A supporter's voice carries the splitting and devaluation, while the subject's own name stays off the attack. The clip also says the defectors don't matter ("As long as MAGA shows up we can win"), which contradicts how much of its length it spends on them. It ends by urging early voting while treating it as a concession to the other side's "game." The named targets are media figures, and the clip asks nothing of viewers beyond turnout.

## A line-host monologue that defines the movement as one man

The clip is a livestream host speaking from a rally line "up here in Montana," the kind of line interview the subject praised hours earlier when he wrote that he was "watching Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) from Air Force One" and loved "the Interviews they do of the people that are in line." The speaker mentions viewers "in the chat," refers to Trump in the third person throughout, and corrects himself on the election date ("November 4th of November 3rd"). None of the wording is the subject's. What he did was take this monologue and post it with no caption.

The clip makes three claims on his behalf:

1. **MAGA and Trump are the same thing.** "MAGA simply means I support President Trump. President Trump is MAGA. He is the MAGA movement. There is no MAGA without Trump." The speaker then treats a reported CNN figure of 98–99% MAGA support as a near-tautology: "What are the 1 percent? What are they doing?" Under this definition, disagreement inside the movement cannot happen. A dissenter has left MAGA by definition. This is the clearest instance of epistemic closure in the clip, and it does more than praise him. It redraws who counts as part of the group.
2. **Former allies are frauds who profited from him.** Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly (garbled in the transcript as "they get Kelly") and Candace Owens are "frauds," "cry babies," and people who "built their entire audience off the back of President Trump" and are "trying to make their money off of the audience." The charge is exploitation: they took from him and then turned. For the subject, posting this lets a supporter's voice voice a grievance about defection without his name on it.
3. **The defectors don't matter.** "As long as MAGA shows up we can win the midterms." This is a rationalization that turns a public split into something irrelevant. It also contradicts point 2, since the clip spends most of its length on people it says don't count.

## Reading the choice

The trigger is most likely injury from abandonment. The clip's whole case answers a narrative that "MAGA is dead" because prominent podcasters have broken with him, and it was posted on a rally night in the middle of a 32-day midterm tour. The state is grandiose but defensive. The clip says nothing about policy. Its content is loyalty, and specifically that the crowd came "because of President Donald Trump," not because of "what Tucker Carlson said."

The defenses are carried by the speaker, but the subject endorses them by posting:
- **Splitting**: the loyal crowd ("they care deeply about President Donald Trump") against the "frauds."
- **Devaluation** of former amplifiers as "cry babies."
- A **projection-shaped exploitation charge**: "they built their entire audience off the back of President Trump." This is a complaint that others turned a relationship into a source of supply, made on behalf of someone whose platform runs on the same exchange. This reading is inference, with medium-low confidence.

Rage is present but secondhand and moderate. "It's a disgrace" is the peak.

## Early voting reversal

The clip ends by urging early voting: "whenever they show the results early voting the Democrats always dominate that... we got to play the game that they're playing." The speaker keeps the subject's long-standing framing that in-person, election-day voting "is the way it should be," while treating early voting as a regrettable tactical necessity. That fits the subject's campaign-season pattern of disparaging early and mail voting while needing his voters to use it. Here the reversal comes in a supporter's voice instead of his own.

## Risk and facts

The four people named are public media figures, and the attack on them is reputational ("frauds," "disgrace"). There is no call to act against them, so the mobilization in the clip points only at turnout. The factual assertions are the speaker's: the November 3 midterm date is correct, and a "CNN poll" showing 98–99% MAGA support for Trump is reported loosely and not sourced. Since the subject asserted neither, neither is graded here. The clip passes along the poll framing without checking it.

## Authorship

The post went up at 03:18 UTC, which is about 9:18 PM Mountain time on October 14, the night of the Montana stop. It came the same day he described watching RSBN line interviews. That makes it plausible that he picked this clip himself, though campaign social staff run rally-night media too. The attribution concerns who selected the clip. No written text exists to examine.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Posted ~9:18 PM Mountain time, rally night in Montana
- Same day he posted that he was personally watching RSBN line interviews and enjoying them
- No caption, so there is no stylometric evidence
- Rally-night media is also routinely handled by campaign social staff

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: angry hostility toward defectors, combined with a need for admiration

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Indispensable leader who embodies the movement
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Former allied podcasters recast as frauds and profiteers

**Identity Claims:**
- He is the MAGA movement
- Crowds come for him alone

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Abandonment (Public breaks with Trump by formerly allied podcasters and the 'MAGA is dead' narrative)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens (former allied media figures)
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-person adoration from a line host
- Crowd devotion presented as proof of the leader's indispensability
- Identity fusion: movement equals person

## Tags

- Tucker Carlson (70%)
- Alex Jones (50%)
- Megyn Kelly (40%)
- Candace Owens (50%)
- MAGA identity (90%)
- midterms 2026 (70%)
- early voting (40%)
- RSBN line interview (50%)

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 15).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117442762383256176
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 15 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117442762383256176. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 15, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117442762383256176.

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