# Post ts_117471355631906922

- Post ID: `ts_117471355631906922`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-20T04:30:36.474Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471355631906922
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471355631906922/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by the account "Daniel Baldwin" (@baldwin_daniel_), which has a blue verified checkmark, a black "Subscribe" button, and a small round profile photo of a person in dark clothing. The post is text only. It says a crowd in Kansas was extremely loud for President Trump, that the arena roof was nearly blown off when he came out, and that thousands of Americans lined up for miles to greet his motorcade.

Text in the image: "Daniel Baldwin @baldwin_daniel_ Subscribe Absolutely wild crowd for President Trump in Kansas. The crowd basically blew the roof off the arena when President Trump came out. And that's not to mention the thousands of Americans lined up for miles to greet him as he motorcaded over."

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/471/355/381/522/680/original/f2dc597a542e32c7.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 5,475
- Reposts: 1,265
- Replies: 62
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-21T15:00:17.382Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-20T04:33:09.765Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A stranger's crowd report, reposted at the end of rally day

The post is a screenshot of an X post by Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_), a verified account, with no words of the subject's own. The screenshot says the Kansas crowd "basically blew the roof off the arena when President Trump came out" and that "thousands of Americans lined up for miles to greet him as he motorcaded over." The behavior under analysis is the choice to publish someone else's praise of him, in that person's voice, on the night of the rally.

It went up at 04:30 UTC, about 11:30 pm Central or 12:30 am Eastern, depending on whether he was still in the Midwest or back on the East Coast after the rally. It is one of a run of posts that night. The previous post in the feed shares Breitbart's "Trump's Kansas Crowd 'Blew the Roof Off the Arena'", and the screenshot repeats the same image almost word for word. Posting one claim twice through two sources is how crowd size usually travels in his feed: the second voice makes the first look independent, though Breitbart's headline and Baldwin's post likely come from the same moment of coverage.

### What the timing points to

Two days earlier, on October 18, a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at 33%, a record low, and the nationwide "No Kings" rallies on October 17 drew large crowds against him. A late-night reposting of "absolutely wild crowd" and "thousands... lined up for miles" fits supply-seeking set against that injury. Arena noise and roadside crowds stand in for the approval that the poll denies, the old move of treating rally turnout as the real measure of public feeling. The post does not mention the poll, so the link is an inference from the sequence, with medium confidence. The grandiose state here is calm. Nothing in it attacks anyone. The only defense visible is selective attention: he keeps the friendly measure of support and leaves the hostile one unaddressed. That is too mild to count as denial in the clinical sense.

Using a third party matters. "The crowd basically blew the roof off" in his own words would be boasting. Coming from a verified stranger, it reads as testimony. This is borrowed admiration, and the third-person "President Trump" in the screenshot makes the praise look like it came from outside.

### Claims in the image

The screenshot's claims, an arena "roof" figuratively blown off and crowds "for miles" along the motorcade route, are Baldwin's, not the subject's. "For miles" is the kind of distance figure that can't be checked from a description and usually goes beyond what a motorcade route shows. Arena attendance for the event was not established in the provided material. None of this is attributed to him as an assertion, so it is not fact-checked here.

### What the post rules out

There is no target. Nobody is named or blamed, and no group is set against the cheering crowd, so the post adds nothing to the threatening rhetoric of the same week (leakers who should "be shot," election workers who "will all go to jail"). It is a validation post from a midterm rally night, low in intensity and ordinary for his feed. Without written text, nothing can be said about his language or cognition.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Posted around 11:30 pm Central / 12:30 am Eastern, late night in any plausible location after the Kansas rally
- Part of a late-night cluster that includes a Breitbart link about the same crowd claim
- Screenshot-of-X-praise format matches his self-curated amplification habit, though aides such as social media staff use it too
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence either way

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: excitement-seeking and need for positive affect from crowds

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Beloved leader drawing massive crowds
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named; the unmentioned poll is the implied foil

**Identity Claims:**
- Draws wild, roof-raising crowds
- Greeted by thousands along his motorcade route

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Kansas rally night, two days after a record-low 33% approval poll)

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Borrowed third-party admiration presented as independent testimony
- Crowd-size validation shared with followers as a collective win

## Tags

- crowd size (90%)
- midterm rallies (60%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- screenshot repost (80%)

## That day

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

**Back from Kansas, Trump spends the hour after midnight reposting other accounts' screenshots of his own claim that France is being "burned to the ground"**

Monday night's Kansas rally for Senator Roger Marshall dominated the start of the day. Pieces of the speech went up on his account while he was still on stage, from a promised $5,000 "Trump Dividend" to a long passage describing France as being "burned to the ground" by migrants and claiming Democrats want the same for America. After midnight he reposted a fast stream of screenshots from friendly outlets, party accounts and supporters quoting that France line back to him, mixed in with praise for the size of the crowd. In the same late hour he went after the federal judge in his Washington golf-course lawsuit and posted photos "for the Judge to study." Tuesday was quieter and mostly routine (early-voting reminders, news links about a women's health order, and an announcement he tied to France), and every call to action all day was a call to vote.

Full digest for 2026-10-20: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 20).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471355631906922
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 20 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471355631906922. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 20, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471355631906922.

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