# Post ts_117484043744815606 - Post ID: `ts_117484043744815606` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-22T10:17:21.712Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484043744815606 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484043744815606/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 by the account "GRANDPA's FREE ADVICE" (@GOP_is_Gutless), shown with a verified checkmark and a profile picture of an old engraved-style portrait. The post is a long text attributing quotes to Henry Kissinger praising Donald Trump, followed by a 13-item list of "What Americans actually want", hashtags, and two photos side by side: on the left a portrait of an older man with swept blond-white hair in a navy suit, white shirt, red tie and a flag lapel pin; on the right an elderly man with white hair and rectangular glasses in a dark jacket. The post is timestamped 6:18 AM, Oct 21, 2026, with 129K views. The text asserts Kissinger said Trump is the only true leader and that Trump is the only one speaking to a populist wish list; the quotes are presented without a source. Text in the image: "GRANDPA's FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless Henry Kissinger on Trump: “Donald Trump is a phenomenon foreign countries have not seen before… the only true leader. The man is making changes like never before and he does everything for the good of the people of this nation. After eight years of tyranny, we finally see a difference.” “Trump puts America and its people first. There’s nothing wrong with him and people need to open their eyes.” He forces allies and enemies to recalculate after Obama’s withdrawal. The weak grow strong at the frontier; the strong grow weak by inhibition. Trump is dismissing inhibitions and putting America first. What Americans actually want: 1. Hillary held accountable 2. Put God back in America 3. Borders closed or protected 4. Congress on the same retirement & health plans as everyone else 5. Congress obeys its own laws 6. English as the language 7. Constitution & Bill of Rights 8. Drug-free America 9. No giveaways for non-citizens 10. Balance the budget 11. Stop sending money to foreign countries 12. Term limits for Congress 13. Respect our military, flag, and law enforcement Trump is the only one speaking to this. We the people are coming. #AmericaFirst #Trump #Kissinger 6:18 AM · Oct 21, 2026 · 129K Views" ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/484/043/467/745/923/original/230c3dcd7fa7d903.png ## Engagement - Likes: 4,989 - Reposts: 1,691 - Replies: 406 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:01:29.135Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T10:40:19.793Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A dead statesman's endorsement, reposted at dawn The post is a screenshot of an X post from the account "GRANDPA's FREE ADVICE" (@GOP_is_Gutless), with no words added. The screenshot quotes Henry Kissinger calling Trump "the only true leader," saying "There's nothing wrong with him and people need to open their eyes," and adding "After eight years of tyranny, we finally see a difference." A 13-item populist wish list follows, then the line "Trump is the only one speaking to this. We the people are coming." What he did was choose to publish this and put a praise text he didn't write in front of his own audience. **What the image claims, and where it comes from.** Kissinger died in November 2023, so these lines can't be a fresh endorsement. The first clause, "a phenomenon foreign countries have not seen before," closely matches something Kissinger said on CBS in December 2016. The rest of the passage, including "the only true leader," "eight years of tyranny," and "nothing wrong with him," appears in no known Kissinger interview or writing. It has the shape of the meme that has circulated since 2017, which grafts partisan lines onto one real remark. On the record, Kissinger's view of Trump was ambivalent. His best-known assessment, given to the Financial Times in 2018, cast Trump as a figure who "marks the end of an era," and that is not an endorsement. The wish list is an old chain-email genre. Its "Hillary held accountable" and "after Obama's withdrawal" belong to the 2017 news cycle, not to October 2026. None of this is Trump's own assertion, so nothing is fact-checked as his claim. What the repost does is lend a famous name to text with no source behind it. **Why this, why now.** The likeliest driver is supply-seeking. The week's events include a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll putting approval at a record-low 33%, nationwide "No Kings" protests, a bipartisan backlash over waiving Russia sanctions, and a press secretary who resigned within days. The repost answers those pressures from outside: an elder statesman, now dead and unable to object, rules that "There's nothing wrong with him." That line is a defensive rebuttal, not plain praise. It assumes an audience that thinks something is wrong with him and tells them to "open their eyes." Picking the line that speaks to his fitness, on an 80-year-old's early-morning feed, fits a vulnerable-to-grandiose regulation pattern: outside doubt about him is answered with borrowed authority, not his own argument. The confidence on that motive is medium. Nothing in the post shows he read the text closely, as opposed to taking in the headline and the photos. **Defenses on display.** *Idealization* works in two directions. The source is idealized ("Kissinger"), and the subject is idealized through him ("the only true leader," "does everything for the good of the people"). *Splitting* sits in the framing of the Obama years as "eight years of tyranny" against a present where "we finally see a difference." That framing is nine years stale and ignores both his own first term and the Biden years. There is no rage. The post's emotional register is self-soothing. **Rhetoric he amplified.** The image runs on appeal to authority (a famous strategist's name with no citation), superlatives ("only true leader," "like never before"), and a populist checklist that claims to speak for everyone ("What Americans actually want"). The closer, "We the people are coming," is a vague mobilization line. Read next to "Hillary held accountable," it echoes the prosecution-of-opponents theme from the same week, when the administration threatened to jail election workers. Here, though, it comes from a stale chain list and points at no current target, action, or date. It goes no further than generic rally rhetoric. **Who chose it.** The post went up at 10:17 UTC, which is 6:17 a.m. Eastern. That is the morning after the scheduled Clemson, South Carolina rally, so he was most likely back in Washington. The source is a small partisan X account, screenshotted a day after it was posted. Early-morning reposts of fan-made praise from fringe accounts are a recurring personal habit. It also fits that the same day's feed has other media-only posts beside more polished messages that read like an aide's work (the Apple titanium announcement, the Klavan book plug). With no written text, this attribution is only about who picked the image. **Cognition.** None of the words are his, so this post gives no language sample. The only cognitive question is about selection. Publishing a text that treats 2026 as following "eight years" of Obama rule doesn't show temporal confusion on his part, because the anachronism belongs to the meme's author. It does show that the framing either wasn't checked or didn't matter once the content was flattering. **Longitudinal note.** Fabricated or recycled endorsements from dead or absent authorities are an established category in this archive. It is worth comparing how often these reposts appear in weeks of bad polling against calmer weeks, because that is the cleanest behavioral test of the supply-seeking reading. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Posted 6:17 a.m. Eastern, inside the early-morning window typical of personal posting - Screenshot of a fringe partisan X account, the kind of source his personal repost bursts usually draw on - Same-day feed has several media-only posts alongside polished, aide-style announcements - No written text, so there is no stylometric evidence ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 60% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 30% - Neuroticism: 55% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: low modesty (agreeableness) **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: validation ### Narrative - **Role:** singular leader vindicated by elite authority - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** Obama-era 'tyranny' and Hillary Clinton **Identity Claims:** - the only true leader - puts America and its people first - nothing wrong with him ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Record-low 33% approval poll and a week of political setbacks ahead of the midterms) Sentiment: +0.50 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) - splitting (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party praise passed to followers as validation - Populist wish list that casts followers' wants as his program ('Trump is the only one speaking to this') ## Tags - supply-seeking (80%) - misattributed-quote (80%) - appeal-to-authority (70%) - fitness-rebuttal (50%) - media-only-repost (60%) - kissinger (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump cheers the Ohio ad in which Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wishing 'the mothers of my opponents would be so brave'** Nearly two-thirds of the day's posts were campaign machinery. The same early-voting notice and endorsement list went out for state after state, usually reposted from his own account a minute or two later, in a morning burst and a much bigger one in the early evening as he headed to a rally in Iowa. The morning also filled with videos and screenshots of other people praising him, including a supporter calling him a 'genius' playing '4D chess' and a Ted Nugent speech about eliminating the Democratic Party. The few posts that sounded like him ran on grievance: a second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's ballot was a Democratic 'SCAM,' Iran was faking attacks to push oil prices up before the election, and LeBron James owed fallen soldiers an apology over the anthem. The sharpest came in the early afternoon, when he praised an Ohio ad in which Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wished his own opponents' mothers were as 'brave,' and called Ohio's Republican governor 'disloyal' for objecting. Full digest for 2026-10-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 22). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484043744815606 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484043744815606. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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