# Post ts_117471412913926533

- Post ID: `ts_117471412913926533`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-20T04:45:10.528Z (UTC)
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## 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:

> Scan of the front page of the Ravalli Republic newspaper (Bitterroot Valley, Montana), dated Thursday, October 15, 2026. The main photo shows a large crowd of people, many in jackets and some in red, white and blue, walking across a grassy field toward the camera, with mountains and a blue sky behind them. The caption says they are attendees lining up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of a rally hosted by President Donald Trump. Other items are a top story on a judge halting a Forest Service reorganization, a sidebar on wolf protections, a story on a Stevensville student who is a National Merit semifinalist (with a photo of a young person with long hair standing in front of a school entrance labeled YELLOWJACKETS), and two small teaser photos at the top (football players, and a children's book cover).

Text in the image: "SERVING THE BITTERROOT VALLEY SINCE 1889 RAVALLI REPUBLIC CORVALLIS • DARBY • FLORENCE • HAMILTON • STEVENSVILLE • VICTOR Idaho Vandals to visit Missoula for second straight year. PAGE B1 Spooky reads for kids, adults as fall chill hits the air. PAGE A5 A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated Newspaper — Majority shareholder, David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group Thursday, October 15, 2026 RavalliRepublic.com Judge halts Forest Service reshuffle SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com The ongoing reshuffling of the Forest Service, along with much of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was paused Tuesday after a federal judge in Northern California found the reorganization was "almost certainly" violating federal law by diverting funds without congressional approval. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria granted a temporary stay that bars the department and many of its agencies from closing any more offices or relocating employees, pending action by Congress. "Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices or relocate employees," wrote Chhabria, with the U.S. District Court of Northern California. "To the contrary, Congress was actively working to restrict the agency's ability to do so." The USDA announced a sweeping plan in 2025 to reorganize the massive department, with an eye toward reducing its footprint in Washington, D.C., and staffing up regional hubs across the country. The USDA employs 3,100 full-time workers in Montana, according to the federal Office of Personnel Management. Of those employees, 2,700 work for the Forest Service. Forest Service officials are planning to eliminate the agency's longstanding Please see USFS, Page A2 TRUMP IN KALISPELL 'WE LOVE TRUMP' BEN ALLAN SMITH, MISSOULIAN Hundreds of attendees line up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of the rally hosted by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Big crowd turns out for rally in GOP stronghold SEABORN LARSON, CARLY GRAF, GRIFFEN SMITH AND BEN ALLAN SMITH A star-spangled spectacle was brewing in the Flathead Valley on Wednesday afternoon as thousands descended on Majestic Valley Arena to see President Donald Trump. Trump was in Montana to campaign for GOP candidates, namely conservative radio host Aaron Flint, who is running to replace U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke as the representative in Montana's 1st Congressional District. Democrat Sam Forstag is running a tight race against Flint; polling has shown the race in a statistical tie for the last several weeks. Those in line to see the president on Wednesday came from nearby communities and from as far as California. At least eight sitting or hopeful legislators had been spotted at the rally as of 2 p.m. "I've been to over 30 of these Please see TRUMP, Page A4 Feds, wolf advocates duel over species' future SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com When is a gray wolf "significant" enough to earn federal protections? And after a decades-long recovery returned the species to one-third of its historic range, is it time to remove the protections that brought them back? A panel of three appeals court judges visited Missoula's federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon as the bottom of those questions — along with a multitude of others — in a trio of lawsuits that could shape the future of the iconic species in the contiguous United States. In one case, the Center for Wildlife Biology, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other environmental groups are suing to overturn the federal government's rejection of their petition to relist wolves under the Endangered Species Act across the entire Lower 48 states. The lawsuit previously played out in the same courtroom in Missoula's Russell Smith Federal Courthouse, where District Judge Donald Molloy last year ruled against the Fish and Wildlife Service and found the agency failed to apply the best available science in its analysis and ignored the predators' historic range. Wolves once roamed across most of the North American continent, but were nearly eliminated south of Canada Please see WOLVES, Page A3 Stevi scholar drums up success Svaren is Bitterroot's only National Merit semifinalist NICOLE GIRTEN nicole.girten@ravallirepublic.com Stevensville senior Zane Svaren's ultimate dream is to be a rock star, drumming on the biggest stages. So far, though, one of Svaren's biggest accomplishments is being the only student in the Bitterroot named a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist. He will compete with about 16,000 other kids around the country next spring for 6,700 merit scholarships worth about $24 million. He said it "feels cool" to be among such an elite few. "Sometimes going to a school like Stevensville, it almost feels like maybe it's a 'big fish, little pond' thing because our school's kind of underfunded," he said. To qualify to be a semifinalist, applicants have to first score high on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Applicants also need an "outstanding academic record" and to submit an application Please see SCHOLAR, Page A5 YELLOWJACKETS Stevensville senior Zane Svaren is the Bitterroot's only Merit Scholar semifinalist in the 2027 cohort. He will go on to compete for one of more than 6,000 scholarships totaling more than $24 million. NICOLE.GIRTEN@RAVALLIREPUBLIC.COM GET THE FULL BENEFITS OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! Activate your digital account to get updated stories, videos, and hundreds of additional puzzles and comics. Visit ravallirepublic.com/activate and download our app for the E-edition and breaking news on the go! Weather Mostly sunny, nice High: 59 Low: 29 Forecast: A10 Inside Opinion A6 | Sports B1 Nation/World A7 | Classified B8 Weather A10 $2.50 • TTS • Volume 137, Issue 288 • Copyright 2026 Follow us online: /RavalliRepublic /RavalliRepublic"

## Media

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-20T04:49:25.547Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A local paper's crowd photo, posted at 12:45 a.m.

The post is a scanned front page of the *Ravalli Republic*, a small Lee Enterprises daily serving Montana's Bitterroot Valley, dated Thursday, October 15, 2026. The page's dominant image shows a crowd crossing a field toward Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell before his rally the day before, under the kicker "TRUMP IN KALISPELL," the pull quote "'WE LOVE TRUMP'" and the headline "Big crowd turns out for rally in GOP stronghold." He added no words of his own.

**What the choice asserts.** The page is useful to him for its source. It is ordinary local press, not a friendly outlet, and its own words are "big crowd" and "thousands descended." Posting it lets an outside voice make the crowd-size claim for him. The timing makes the selection easier to read. It went up five days after the rally and two days after a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at a record-low 33%, with nationwide "No Kings" protests the day before that. A front page showing crowds and adoration answers both without naming either. This fits the long-running pattern in which rally attendance stands in for popularity whenever survey numbers turn against him. The poll is the likely trigger, and it is inferred from timing alone; nothing in the post refers to it.

**What else is on the page.** The lead story, above the fold and larger than the rally item, reports a federal judge halting his administration's USDA and Forest Service reorganization as "almost certainly" unlawful. The judge is quoted: "Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices." He posted the whole page anyway, so either the adverse story didn't register with whoever chose the image or it mattered less than the photo. The selection says nothing either way about how he regards the ruling, and reading a defense into an uncropped scan would be overreach. The most that holds is that the flattering element counted for more than the critical one.

**Psychological reading.** The behavior points to supply-seeking more than injury. The page offers admiration ("WE LOVE TRUMP") and size ("big," "thousands"), the two currencies he most often reaches for after bad numbers. The state is grandiose but quiet: no rival is attacked and no grievance is voiced. If the poll is the trigger, the defense is substitution. A contrary measure of standing goes unaddressed and is outweighed by a preferred one, which sits near denial but takes no explicit position that could be checked. No defense mechanism can be tied to quoted words of his own, because there are none.

**Rhetoric.** Appeal to popularity, with third-party press doing the work. The only implied argument is "the crowds show the polls are wrong," and the post never states it. The page contains no enemy figure, dehumanizing language or call to action.

**Timing and authorship.** The UTC stamp of 04:45 on October 20 converts to 12:45 a.m. Eastern. He was last placed in Palm Beach on October 16, and Mar-a-Lago and Washington share that timezone. The post sits in a run of at least five other wordless posts the same day, which looks like a late-night burst of flattering clippings. That timing is the main evidence he picked it himself. Staff routinely gather favorable regional press, though, and the scan could come from such a file.

No fact checks are logged, because he made no claim. The newspaper's description of a big crowd is the paper's statement. The photo caption says "hundreds" at the line, the article says "thousands" at the arena, and the two figures don't conflict.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Posted 12:45 a.m. Eastern, inside his typical late-night window
- Part of a same-day run of at least five other wordless media posts, consistent with a self-directed clipping burst
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence either way
- Favorable regional press scans are also a routine staff-compiled item

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: need for visible admiration (crowd display)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** beloved leader drawing crowds
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Implicitly, the polls showing record-low approval

**Identity Claims:**
- Popular with ordinary voters in Republican country, as the local press reports

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Likely the Oct. 18 Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll at 33% approval; inferred from timing only)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Showcasing adoration from supporters ('WE LOVE TRUMP') to invite followers to see themselves in the crowd

## Tags

- crowd-size (90%)
- press-clipping (80%)
- midterm-rallies (60%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- media-only (60%)

## 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_117471412913926533
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 20 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471412913926533. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 20, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117471412913926533.

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