# Post ts_117471385009015527

- Post ID: `ts_117471385009015527`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-20T04:38:04.733Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471385009015527
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471385009015527/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 an X (Twitter) post from the account "Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022)", handle @TeamTrump, with a gold verified badge. The small avatar shows a person in a red cap. The post text says President Trump encourages Kansas to vote early while calling out a protester in the crowd, followed by a quoted line attributed to him about voting to get rid of "idiots like that". Interface icons (a slashed-circle/Grok-style icon and a "..." menu) appear at top right.

Text in the image: "Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) @TeamTrump President Trump encourages Kansas to vote early while calling out a loser protester in the crowd: "Whatever you do, get out and vote so we can get rid of idiots like that!""

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/471/384/781/161/990/original/ae6779b0a932c7b4.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,881
- Reposts: 1,625
- Replies: 114
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-21T15:00:16.033Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-20T04:51:37.199Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Near midnight, he reposted his campaign's screenshot of a Kansas rally moment in which he told the crowd, "get out and vote so we can get rid of idiots like that," pointing at a protester. The caption, which he adopts by posting it, calls the man a "loser protester." The repost has no new words, so the behavior to read is the choice to replay a crowd victory over a dissenter. "Like that" turns one heckler into a category, and "get rid of" presents the election as a way of removing that category. The stated mechanism is voting, and no individual is named or threatened, which keeps this short of incitement. The concern is the sequence: the same week he said leakers should "be shot" and election workers "will all go to jail." This clip adds a third piece of punitive language aimed at domestic opponents. It also follows No Kings rallies that urged people to vote early, and his "get out and vote" turns that message against the protesters. Authorship of the repost is uncertain: the hour fits his habits, the format fits staff.

## Republishing his own insult of a protester, around midnight

The post adds no words of its own. It is a screenshot of a @TeamTrump post on X that captions a rally clip: "President Trump encourages Kansas to vote early while calling out a loser protester in the crowd," followed by his own line from the stage, "Whatever you do, get out and vote so we can get rid of idiots like that!" What he did was take his campaign's write-up of something he said hours earlier and post it again under his own name. Two layers of contempt reach the feed this way: his word "idiots," spoken live, and the campaign's word "loser," added in the caption. By reposting it he endorses both.

**Timing and setting.** The timestamp, 04:38 UTC on Oct 20, falls at 11:38 pm Central on Oct 19 if he was still in the Kansas region, or 12:38 am Eastern if he had flown back. The Kansas event does not appear in the historian's list. The setting comes from the screenshot alone. Either way, the post went up within hours of the event, close to midnight, as one of five media-only posts on the same date. That looks like a burst of re-sharing coverage of his own appearance after the event.

**What drives it.** This reads mainly as supply-seeking and replay of a win: the campaign packaged a confrontation he won in front of a friendly crowd, and he circulates it. A secondary trigger is plausible but rests on inference. The Oct 17 "No Kings" rallies urged people to vote early, and his own line, "get out and vote," takes over that message and turns it against the protester. The Oct 18 Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at 33%. A clip of a crowd cheering him against a heckler is the opposite picture, and it is the picture he chose to put on his feed. The low poll as a motive is a guess. Nothing in the post refers to it.

**Defenses and splitting.** The structure is splitting. The crowd and the voters he addresses are the people the election is for, and the dissenter is placed outside them as one of the "idiots" an election should "get rid of." Devaluation sits in "idiots like that" and in the caption's "loser." The phrase "like that" turns one heckler into a type: the target is a category of people, not a single act of disruption. No projection or denial shows in an artifact this short.

**The phrase "get rid of."** Read literally, the sentence asks for something an election cannot do. A protester holds no office and cannot be voted out. The most likely meaning is defeating the protester's side at the polls, so the line asks for electoral removal and not physical removal. Still, the wording treats a citizen's protest as grounds for removing a type of person, and it lands in a week when he said leakers should "be shot" (Oct 14 events) and that election workers counting noncitizen ballots "will all go to jail" (Oct 16). In that sequence, "get rid of" adds to a pattern of exclusion aimed at domestic opponents. The phrase on its own does not cross into a call to action: it names no individual target and implies no act beyond voting. The danger rating rests on the cumulative pattern and the dehumanizing frame, with the explicitly electoral mechanism keeping it from rising further.

**Rhetoric and archetype.** The devices are ad hominem ("idiots," "loser"), us-versus-them framing, and mobilization tied to contempt for an enemy. The archetype is the Warrior in front of his troops: the heckler is useful as a foil who makes the crowd's loyalty visible. On the order-and-chaos axis, the protester stands for disorder and the vote for the restored order, so the hierarchy runs supporters up and dissenters down.

**Authorship.** Without written text there is nothing to analyze stylometrically. The near-midnight timing fits his own late-night habits, while screenshots of @TeamTrump posts moved onto Truth Social are also a routine staff task. The evidence does not settle who selected this screenshot.

**Fact checks.** None recorded. The only words he asserts are an exhortation and an insult, neither of which is a factual claim. The caption is the campaign's wording, not his.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Posted 04:38 UTC: about 11:38 pm Central or 12:38 am Eastern, late enough to fit his own posting habits
- Screenshot of an official @TeamTrump X post, a format staff routinely move onto Truth Social
- One of five media-only posts on the same date, consistent with a re-sharing burst
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence either way

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 80%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism): public insult of a dissenter, endorsed again by republication

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Fighter who puts down a heckler in front of his crowd
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** The protester, generalized to "idiots like that"

**Identity Claims:**
- The leader whose voters can remove his opponents

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Campaign clip of his own rally confrontation with a protester)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Rally protester and, by extension, dissenters as a class ("idiots like that")
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 25%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Re-living a crowd victory for followers who were not there
- Inviting followers into the crowd's contempt for the protester

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- "get rid of idiots like that" frames a protester as one of a class of people to be removed, though the stated mechanism is voting
- Follows the same week's remarks that leakers should "be shot" (Oct 14) and that election workers "will all go to jail" (Oct 16), a run of punitive language aimed at domestic opponents
- Rewards public contempt for a dissenter by re-circulating it to a national audience

## Tags

- protester derogation (80%)
- splitting (60%)
- midterm mobilization (70%)
- self-amplification (60%)
- get rid of (40%)

## 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_117471385009015527
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 20 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471385009015527. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 20, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471385009015527.

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