# Post ts_117475495905141210 - Post ID: `ts_117475495905141210` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-20T22:03:32.031Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117475495905141210 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117475495905141210/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:03), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > [CHEERING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [CHEERING] From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas. From sea to shining sea, from Detroit down to Houston, and New York to LA. Where there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say, that I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that fight to me. And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that fight to me. And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/475/468/127/660/060/original/c421ceb46df457e1.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,019 - Reposts: 2,510 - Replies: 825 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-21T15:00:13.737Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-20T22:49:40.448Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A rally anthem with nothing added The clip has crowd noise and music, and the only words in it are the chorus and second verse of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" ("From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee... 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land"). For a decade the song has been his rally walk-on, and with "[CHEERING]" bracketing the transcript, this is almost certainly arena footage from the current midterm swing. The likeliest source is the Kansas stop he had linked a few posts earlier under the headline "Overflow crowds greet President Trump." The transcript can't confirm which venue it was. He wrote no caption. The lyrics make no claim about him, his opponents or the election, so the post contains nothing to fact-check, and his own words are absent, so there is nothing to read for style. ## What the posting does He is showing an audience a picture of an audience. The run of posts that day sets the pattern: four reposted headlines about the women's health executive order, then the Kansas "overflow crowds" link, then this clip. Each one puts favorable coverage or visible enthusiasm in front of followers. The clip adds no information to the Kansas headline. Its job is to make the crowd's size and noise felt. The timing matters. In the week before, a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at 33%, and the "No Kings" protests drew national crowds. Posting cheering arenas set to a patriotic anthem answers both, though only by implication. Approval numbers get set against the evidence of the room. Read this way, the post is supply-seeking: he reflects the crowd's admiration back to a wider audience, and the source stays in the frame. The link to the poll is an inference from proximity, and the post never mentions it, so the confidence is moderate at best. The song does one specific rhetorical thing. It ties the patriotic lines ("I'm proud to be an American," "I won't forget the men who died") to his entrance, so love of country and support for him arrive as one feeling. That merging is a standing feature of his rallies, and the post carries it onto the feed unchanged. It is an appeal to nostalgia and national belonging. The clip never names an out-group, so no splitting is visible here, though the same song at the same rallies sits next to speeches that do. Earlier that week, in Bullhead City, he said leakers should "be shot." ## Defenses and state The material is thin. If the poll context drove the post, it fits a mild compensatory move: displaying admiration in place of engaging with a bad number. That would be closer to denial by substitution than to distortion, because nothing false is asserted. The narcissistic state shown is grandiose and calm. The clip has no grievance, no wound and no attack, which sets it apart from the same week's posts about Zelensky and election workers. ## Authorship The post went up at 22:03 UTC, which is 6:03 PM Eastern or 5:03 PM Central if he was still in the Midwest. That is the end of a working day. Rally clips with no caption are routinely posted by the campaign and communications staff who cut the footage, and the surrounding block of reposted headlines reads like a staff-run queue. The attribution concerns who chose the clip, since nobody wrote any text. The timing and the pattern lean toward staff selection, and nothing in the post rules out his own hand. ## Longitudinal note Caption-free rally footage set to the walk-on song is a common, low-variance genre in his feed and does not depart from baseline. What would be informative is whether its frequency rises as poll numbers fall before the November 3 midterms. One post cannot show that. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Posted 6:03 PM Eastern / 5:03 PM Central, end of business hours - Caption-free edited rally footage, the typical output of campaign video staff - Sits inside a block of reposted news headlines that reads as a staff-managed queue - No written text, so no stylometric evidence either way ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 80% - Agreeableness: 50% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 20% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Extraversion: positive affect and excitement-seeking through crowd display **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 50% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** Beloved leader received by cheering crowds - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** None named in the clip **Identity Claims:** - Embodiment of American patriotism (implied by the anthem) - Commands large, enthusiastic crowds (implied) ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Rally crowd footage; possibly the 33% approval poll and No Kings protests earlier in the week) Sentiment: +0.70 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Puts the follower inside the arena through crowd audio - A shared anthem as a ritual of belonging ## Tags - rally_footage (90%) - media_only (90%) - patriotism (70%) - crowd_size (60%) - midterms_2026 (60%) - supply_seeking (50%) ## 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]. 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