# Post ts_117462292255470282

- Post ID: `ts_117462292255470282`
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- Posted: 2026-10-18T14:05:40.324Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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## What the media says

**Video transcript** (7:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> the violence is gripping the streets of France at some of the largest riots that France has ever seen continues to grow by day to the painter joining us now with the very latest on the unrest morning Chan Lee. >> Hey good morning guys so at least 1200 people were arrested across the country yesterday in what the French government has described as an escalation in violence. More than 550,000 people taking to the streets Saturday to protest education standards and rising cost of living riot police clashing with demonstrators amid widespread looting vandalism and arson police resorting to tear gas and water cannons as protesters became more violent around 150 officers were injured during the clashes and a 140 plus year-old town hall that survived both world wars was also set ablaze. French president Emmanuel Macron posting that there is quote no room for violence in our republic those who have broken attacked the prefectures and as well as businesses looted even our town halls will be prosecuted and punished protests across the country have been ongoing for nearly 5 weeks across schools and universities, the French prime minister pointing to quote the ultra left groups and delinquents as escalating the chaos guys. >> All right channel later. Thank you very much you guys it's just heartbreaking to see that that building that gorgeous town hall. A 145 almost 150 years old. >> So I'm to war wars. And then these people burned to the ground. >> Well, and you know it has nothing to do with a lack of school books or shortage of teachers remember why this all started that was the claim. Yeah, and look at what it's spread into this and it's not just in one town or one area, it's not just in Paris. It was in Limoges that we were watching the town hall being burned down and some spread to other parts of Europe and Italy as well and you know vice president J D Vance had a tweet overnight that that really puts in perspective exactly what we're witnessing right now he writes on X this Western liberals imported the 3rd world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility they were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen. I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn and I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country. >> Of course, he is absolutely right. He's absolutely right about it. And the reason that he's vice president the reason Donald Trump is president is because they are the first people president Trump is the first person to step forward on the global stage and identify this problem and do something about it. And I think it's really interesting if you read the this quote unquote mainstream press about their coverage of this they talk about the school funding they talk about poor people not getting services they talk about they say nothing they had not that you read the BBC you read the New York Times you read the Wall Street. They say nothing about the fact that many of these protesters are immigrants from other countries that were hauled into the country never assimilated they say nothing about the fact that we're looking at a French flag right there. But if in a lot of the shots you don't see French flags you see Palestinian flags and I don't know if the reporters doing these stories are just too old or they're afraid to get down there and do something about the actual coverage where you actually talk to people but they don't tell that part of the story and it takes the vice president United States of America to actually identify the real what is going on here and if and France may not like people like JD Vance or Donald Trump, but there we go with the Palestinians like they're going to wind up with a Marine Le Pen as because of no one else because she's one of the few people in that country was actually willing to identify the problem and talk about it. And there was an organized effort to move those people over to your politicians by politicians and by billionaires like like for the billionaires like exactly like open society George Soros Foundation and other foundations who these NGOs want to destabilize Europe, they hate Europe. They hate the idea of of nationalism and and and that's the same thing that that that happened here of course the other thing I want to bring up is that I is what something that JD Vance talked about which is a simulation, you know there's a lot of consternation on the left, we're fighting ice. We got to stop all these deportations the reason we have to deport people is because they came here with a legal process that would assimilate them into our country, our customs are more our history our culture and that's the kind of thing my mother did she decided she wanted to become an American citizen after she married an American G I and she said I'm going to learn English and then I'm going to go take a course and learn the history of America and then I'm going to pass a test about civics and history in America and through that process she became proud to be an American the people you're seeing here have no love for that country for France, they don't love France, they don't care about its people and all the shop owners right now who are in living in fear, they wish they had a Donald Trump there they only wish there was somebody brave enough to withstand the insults and the and the and the and the insults about being a xenophobe or racist. They wish they had someone that strong but unfortunately they don't they have a crime. >> It's fascinating to when you watch a lot of these violent riots, they're not even protests at this point you do see the Palestinian flag and you under so what does that look like along there. I do want to touch though because Charlie you got me thinking you're talking about the media coverage did you see several people on social media were flagging a CBS report yesterday that said scuffles had broken out in parts of France does that look like a scuffle would you describe that as a scuffle it's hardly a scuffle but listen to I think there's a bunch of Palestinians in France right now doing this. No this is all astroturf remember we had the LM as well. Here these are anti West forces these are anti West NGOs who are we're pushing this up just like BLM their Marxist. We had as a no money she talks about this green red alliance these the the Muslim socialist Marxist alliance. These are people that they're essentially anarchists.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/462/276/438/489/239/original/c1a088909d87a607.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-18T14:57:21.407Z (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 Sunday morning he posted, with no caption, a morning-show segment on riots in France. Earlier that day he had written his own post blaming the unrest on "people with hatred in their hearts" from "an entirely different world." The clip echoes that claim, reads Vice President Vance's line that liberals "imported the 3rd world," and has a host credit Trump as "the first person to step forward on the global stage and identify this problem." So the post does two jobs: it confirms what he had just said, and it praises him for saying it first.

The segment undercuts itself. Its reporter says the protests are about education standards and the cost of living, and the French prime minister blames far-left groups. The immigration explanation comes only from the studio hosts, who point to Palestinian flags as proof. He shared the version that fits his own account.

The clip ends by tying France to "congressional Democrats" about two weeks before the midterms. That turns a burning town hall abroad into a warning to American voters. The concern is blame placed on immigrants as a group rather than any call to act. Using European unrest as a lesson for home matches his long record: Sweden in 2017, and the 2018 French riots, which he blamed at the time on the Paris climate agreement.

## The broadcast that backs up his own morning post

Earlier on Sunday, 18 October, he wrote in his own words: "France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!" This video, posted later the same day with no caption, is a weekend morning-show segment. The co-host banter and the 10:05 AM Eastern posting time fit Fox & Friends Weekend, though the show isn't identified on screen. It adds three things his text post could not supply on its own:

- **News-format figures:** "at least 1200 people were arrested," "More than 550,000 people taking to the streets," "around 150 officers were injured," and a town hall in Limoges "that survived both world wars" set on fire.
- **A senior ally saying it:** Vice President Vance's X post, read on air: "Western liberals imported the 3rd world into France... This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country."
- **Credit to the subject:** a host says Trump "is the first person to step forward on the global stage and identify this problem and do something about it."

The order of the day is his own claim first, then a broadcast that repeats it with outside authority and names him as the person who saw it first. The clip works as corroboration and as tribute at once, and posting it bare lets the tribute speak for him.

## The segment carries its own counter-account

The reporter's portion gives the stated cause as protests over "education standards and rising cost of living," says they have run "for nearly 5 weeks across schools and universities," and quotes the French prime minister blaming "the ultra left groups and delinquents." Neither French official quoted on air mentions immigration. The immigration reading comes in only in the studio, when a host says "it has nothing to do with a lack of school books or shortage of teachers" and offers "Palestinian flags" seen "in a lot of the shots" as evidence that "many of these protesters are immigrants from other countries that were hauled into the country never assimilated." So the shift from an education-and-prices protest to a story about civilizational replacement happens within the clip's own runtime, and his morning post had already taken the second version as settled.

The figures and the Limoges arson are the broadcaster's claims, not his, and they fall after the limit of what I can confirm. They are discussed here as content he chose to amplify and are not graded. The host's charge that the BBC, New York Times and Wall Street Journal "say nothing" about immigrant participation is a media-delegitimization move that the subject's audience gets with no way of checking it.

This framing has a baseline. In February 2017 he cited "what's happening last night in Sweden" as an immigration warning. In December 2018 he blamed the French yellow-vest riots on the Paris climate agreement ("The Paris Agreement isn't working out so well for Paris"). The cause he assigns to French unrest changes with whatever argument he is making at home. Treating European disorder as a lesson for American voters is a long-running pattern, not a departure from it.

## From France to the midterms

Vance's quoted line ends on "This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country." With the 3 November midterms about two weeks away, and the subject in the middle of a rally tour (Youngstown, Wasilla), the clip turns French street violence into a domestic electoral claim through transfer: arson abroad is pinned on a named American party. The fear appeal is explicit in "before more of its landmarks burn" and "I hope Americans are paying attention," and the burning 145-year-old building gives it an image.

The danger rating rests on three features. Violence is attributed collectively to a population defined by origin ("the 3rd world"). The word "imported" treats people as cargo. And that population is linked to a domestic opposition party during an election. What holds the rating at elevated rather than high is that the remedy on offer, both in the clip and in his own earlier post, is a policy ("Close your Borders"), and no individual or group in the United States is singled out for action.

## What the choice to post it shows

The likeliest driver is supply-seeking. The segment's most personal lines are about him: Vance is "absolutely right," and "the reason Donald Trump is president" is that he identified the problem first. His narrative role here is the prophet proved right: someone else's house is burning, and he warned about it. His own post sets up a contamination arc ("once great country" turned "shattered"), with restoration saved for America under his leadership.

Defenses appear through the material he picked:
- **Splitting:** France as "a beautiful country of amazing people" set against an imported "3rd world." Disorder is assigned wholly to the outsider group.
- **Projection:** in his own post, the motive placed on immigrants is "hatred in their hearts." That is an inner state attributed to a whole category of people, with no evidence offered.
- **Devaluation of the press:** the host's suggestion that reporters are "just too old or they're afraid to get down there."
- **Idealization:** of the Vance–Trump pairing as the only ones willing to "identify the real what is going on here."

In Jungian terms the post combines Hero and Warrior, with the Shadow (violence, disorder, hatred) placed on immigrants and on "Western liberals." On the order-and-chaos axis he casts himself as the restorer of order. Order goes to native-born citizens and borders. Chaos goes to migrants, liberal elites, and the legacy press, whose status the clip lowers while it raises his own and his vice president's.

There is no written language from him in this post, so it offers nothing on cognitive status. The same-day text post on the topic is short and coherent.

Authorship is about who chose the clip, not who wrote it. It went up at about 10:05 AM Eastern on a Sunday, shortly after the morning segment aired and soon after his own written post on France. That pairing suggests he was following the story himself. But pulling a broadcast clip and posting it without a caption is a task staff routinely do, so the timing doesn't settle who did it.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- Posted about 10:05 AM Eastern on a Sunday, inside weekend-show hours and shortly after the segment aired
- Follows his own written 'France is burning!' post on the same topic the same day
- No caption, so there is no stylometric evidence
- Pulling and uploading a broadcast clip is a task staff commonly do

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism toward out-groups) with values rigidity

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Prophet proven right; first world leader to name the threat
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Immigrants from 'the 3rd world', Western liberals, congressional Democrats, mainstream press

**Identity Claims:**
- The first to identify the immigration problem on the global stage
- Defender of borders and Western nations

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Morning-show segment validating his earlier 'France is burning!' post and crediting him as first to identify the problem)

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party validation in broadcast format
- Uncaptioned amplification that lets others voice praise of him
- Same-day follow-up that rewards followers who saw the first post with confirmation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Collective attribution of riot violence to immigrants defined by origin ('the 3rd world')
- 'Imported' frames people as cargo
- Foreign unrest linked to a named domestic party two weeks before the midterms
- Arson footage used as a fear appeal

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Tags

- immigration (90%)
- France riots (90%)
- midterms 2026 (60%)
- media delegitimization (50%)
- third-party praise (70%)
- JD Vance (60%)
- uncaptioned video (50%)

## That day

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

**Nine days before Israel votes, Trump makes America's help against Iran conditional on Netanyahu winning**

Trump spent a Sunday mostly on foreign affairs. The standout was an open letter endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu nine days before Israel's election, which warned that if anyone else won, America was "not inclined" to finish the job against Iran on its own. Hours later he posted Netanyahu's video thanking him, and the video doubled as a pitch to American voters about gas prices. Earlier he had revived his 2019 impeachment as a "scam" with a promise that "you have not heard the last of this," and blamed France's riots on immigrants, though the news clip he shared to back that up had its own reporter pointing to protests over schools and the cost of living. His only flashes of anger both involved Ukraine. He posted only in daylight, stopped by early evening, and filled the gaps with a Washington golf course plan and clips of other people praising him, several of them posted twice.

Full digest for 2026-10-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-18/analysis

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