# Post ts_117484759382385894

- Post ID: `ts_117484759382385894`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T13:19:21.475Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759382385894
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759382385894/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 verified account "MAGA Voice" (@MAGAVoice). The post text is "THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FRIENDS" followed by goat, handshake, goat emojis. The attached photo shows two men in suits posing side by side with raised fists, in front of a gray banner with orange/brown lettering. On the left is a light-skinned man with swept blond-brown hair, wearing a dark pinstripe suit, white shirt and blue striped tie, with a slight smile. On the right is a dark-skinned man with short black hair and a mustache, wearing a dark double-breasted suit, white shirt and patterned tie, smiling slightly. A third fist is visible at the bottom left edge. The photo looks like an older, early-1990s style press photo. The post has a Follow button and shows a timestamp of 5:28 AM, Oct 22, 2026 and 12.2K views. The image does not name the two men.

Text in the image: "MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice Follow THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FRIENDS 🐐 🤝 🐐 9, 5:28 AM · Oct 22, 2026 · 12.2K Views"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/484/758/884/792/918/original/69d51a9c33ae8840.png

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,991
- Reposts: 939
- Replies: 83
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-22T16:00:49.746Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T13:42:24.681Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A friendship photo, reposted without comment

The post is a screenshot of an X post by the fan account MAGA Voice: the caption "THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FRIENDS" with two goat emojis around a handshake, above an older press photo of two men in suits raising fists. The described man on the left (swept blond-brown hair, pinstripe suit) fits a younger Trump. The man on the right, a dark-skinned man with short black hair and a mustache in a double-breasted suit, is not named in the image or the description, and nothing in the material identifies him. The reading has to stop there. Who he is decides what the post means (a reconciliation, an endorsement, a rebuttal to a claim of racial animus, or simple nostalgia), and identifying him from a literal description of hair and clothing would be guesswork.

What the selection does carry without the name: three claims, all made by someone else and adopted by reposting. "Always" claims continuity, a relationship that predates and outlasts whatever current question prompted the caption. The goat emoji ("greatest of all time") ranks both men at the top, so the subject gets superlative praise passed through a third party and shares it with the other man. The raised fists and the early-1990s look of the photo point back to his New York celebrity years, a period he often invokes as proof of status that came before politics.

## What it suggests about state

In the frameworks used here, this is supply-seeking at low intensity: the image flatters him by association and carries a loyalty theme, without grievance. Read as a defense, it fits idealization (both figures as "GOAT") more than anything defensive. There is no named opponent, and that absence matters. If the repost were answering an accusation, the caption would typically point at the accuser. Here it only asserts the bond. The emotional tone is warm and self-congratulatory, consistent with the routine maintenance posting of a midterm campaign day.

## Where it sits in the day

The post falls in a run of same-morning output: a South Carolina early-voting appeal, a Just the News link about the 2019 impeachment testimony, and several posts with no text that look like more reposts. A fan-account screenshot dropped into that run reads as amplification of supporters' content during the final midterm stretch, with an Iowa campaign trip scheduled for the same day. It fits his long habit of reposting MAGA-aligned accounts that praise him. No cognitive markers can be read, because he wrote no words.

## Timing and selection

At 13:19 UTC he was most likely on Eastern time ahead of the Iowa trip, so local time was about 9:19 AM. That is business hours, inside a burst that mixes a polished get-out-the-vote post with bare reposts. It does not settle who chose the screenshot. Any attribution is about who picked it, since neither he nor an aide wrote the caption.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- No written text, so no stylometric evidence
- Posted about 9:19 AM Eastern, business hours
- Part of a same-morning burst mixing a polished GOTV post with bare reposts
- Fan-account screenshot of a kind he has long reposted himself

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 50%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: positive affect and status display

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 40%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** Celebrity peer among champions
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named

**Identity Claims:**
- Long-standing loyal friend
- One of the greatest of all time

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Flattering fan-account post praising him and an unnamed longtime associate)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying a fan account's praise
- Nostalgic celebrity-era imagery offered to supporters

## Tags

- fan-account amplification (70%)
- nostalgia (50%)
- status by association (60%)
- midterm campaign day (30%)

## 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_117484759382385894
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759382385894. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759382385894.

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