# Post ts_117484741288465425

- Post ID: `ts_117484741288465425`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T13:14:45.384Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484741288465425
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484741288465425/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> ♪ To the hills of Tennessee ♪ ♪ The clouds and the rains of Tennessee ♪ ♪ I don't see a shadow in the city ♪ ♪ I'm detouring them to useful ♪

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/484/741/028/633/099/original/0f812083006b6dad.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 2,246
- Reposts: 522
- Replies: 43
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:01:24.890Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T13:32:07.022Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A song about Tennessee, posted between early-voting templates

The attachment is music. What the transcriber picked up is lyric: "To the hills of Tennessee," "The clouds and the rains of Tennessee," then "I don't see a shadow in the city" and the garbled "I'm detouring them to useful," which probably reflects the transcriber failing on sung audio and shouldn't be read for meaning. The clip makes no claim and names no opponent or policy. There is nothing in it to fact-check or to read for argument.

That leaves context, and the context points one way. The post went up at 13:14 UTC, 9:14 a.m. Eastern, on the morning he was due in Iowa for Ashley Hinson, Zach Lahn and four House candidates. It sits among a run of identical state-by-state early-voting notices ("🚨 ARIZONA!", "🚨 COLORADO!", "🚨 GEORGIA!", "🚨 SOUTH CAROLINA!"), each built on the same paragraph with only the state name and deadline swapped. A Tennessee-themed music video in that stream reads as part of the same get-out-the-vote cycle. It could be a state-pride spot, a campaign montage, or a supporter-made tribute, and the transcript can't tell those apart. Without the visuals, I can't say whether he appears in it or what it is selling.

## What the choice shows

Posting a sentimental place-song with no caption fits the regional-identity appeal his midterm messaging has leaned on all week: the "Great State of" formula in the neighboring posts, the Kentucky rally's promise of a local pharmaceutical plant. The appeal is warmth toward a home ground ("the hills of Tennessee"), and it is the opposite of the grievance register in other recent posts, such as the jail threat against election workers or the "Impeaching Impeachment" link posted the same morning. No opponent is set up as a foil and no persecution is invoked, so the usual paired readings (grandiose against vulnerable, splitting into allies and enemies) have no material here. This looks like routine audience engagement. I see no sign of an injury response, even with the 33% approval poll from four days earlier in the background.

## Who pressed post

The question is who chose the clip, since nobody wrote anything. A weekday morning in business hours, a slot inside a templated campaign batch, and no caption all point toward the staff operation that produces the state notices. That inference rests only on timing and neighboring posts. He does post uncaptioned videos himself, so this evidence can't settle it either way.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- 9:14 a.m. Eastern, business hours, on a scheduled travel day (Iowa)
- Posted inside a batch of templated state-by-state early-voting notices
- No caption or added words; nothing written to examine for style
- Uncaptioned video reposts are also a habit of his own, which limits the inference

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 50%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion (positive affect, audience engagement)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 50%
- Communion: 50%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Not cast; the clip centers place rather than self
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None present

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm early-voting push; same-morning batch of state GOTV posts)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Regional identity appeal via place-song ("the hills of Tennessee")

## Tags

- midterms-2026 (60%)
- tennessee (70%)
- music-video (80%)
- regional-appeal (50%)

## 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_117484741288465425
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484741288465425. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484741288465425.

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