# Post ts_117484759649101356

- Post ID: `ts_117484759649101356`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T13:19:25.545Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759649101356
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759649101356/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:27), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> First of all, I'm, I'm, I'm thankful to be here and I thank Donald Trump. I had a great relationship with him in Boston and, and every time I fought, I fought to win and, uh, he gave me the opportunity and I'm so happy for him to be our president. And so thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/484/759/405/629/400/original/146d4f6b93adaed3.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,025
- Reposts: 628
- Replies: 54
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-22T16:00:49.198Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T13:31:30.035Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A short testimonial reposted without a caption

The clip is about twenty seconds of an unidentified speaker giving thanks at what sounds like an event or a recorded tribute: "I'm thankful to be here and I thank Donald Trump," followed by a reference to a "great relationship with him," the line "every time I fought, I fought to win," and "I'm so happy for him to be our president." Calling him by full name in the third person and talking about one's own fighting suggests an athlete, probably a combat-sports figure. The transcript doesn't name the speaker, so that reading stays tentative. "In Boston" may be a transcription error and isn't used here.

Trump attached no words of his own. The behavior under analysis is putting someone else's gratitude in front of his followers. The clip does two things for him. It makes him a patron ("he gave me the opportunity"), the person who gives a fighter his chance, and it ties the speaker's own winning record to that relationship. The Trump being praised here is generous and loyal to people who compete hard, which matches the "winner" identity he usually claims, without him having to claim it himself.

## Timing against the week's news

This was one of several media-only posts on the same morning. It went up a few days after a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at 33%, and on the day of a scheduled Iowa trip for midterm candidates. Posting a supporter thanking him personally fits a supply-seeking pattern: admiration is borrowed from a third party, so it reads as unprompted affection rather than self-praise. Nothing in the clip responds to the poll or to any critic, so linking the post to the approval number is an inference from timing. The text gives no evidence for it. Most likely this is routine maintenance of a supportive feed during campaign travel.

## Defenses, rhetoric and risk

The only defense visible is idealization, and it happens at one remove. The clip shows a mutually admiring relationship, "I'm so happy for him to be our president", and posting it endorses that picture. No opponent appears, so there is nothing to project, split or devalue. The rhetorical device is the testimonial, a standard endorsement technique: an outside voice vouches for him, and the audience can see itself in the speaker's gratitude. The language is warm and personal, with no threat, no target and no call to action, so nothing in it points toward violence.

## Who posted it, and what can't be assessed

The post went up at 13:19 UTC, 9:19 a.m. Eastern. On an Iowa travel day he was most likely in Washington then. That is business hours, and a run of captionless video posts like this is typical of staff-managed uploads. The speech in the clip isn't his, so it says nothing about his language or cognition, and the speaker's description of their relationship is the speaker's claim, not Trump's.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted 9:19 a.m. Eastern, inside business hours, on a scheduled Iowa travel day
- No caption or added text: no stylometric evidence at all
- Part of a run of several media-only posts the same morning, typical of staff uploads of campaign or event clips

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: assertiveness (status display via third-party praise)

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

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** patron and benefactor to fighters
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** none present

**Identity Claims:**
- Gives people the opportunity to win
- Loyal to those who fight hard

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Third-party testimonial posted during midterm travel, days after a 33% approval poll)

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

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

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party testimonial of personal gratitude
- Presentation as benefactor ('he gave me the opportunity')

## Tags

- testimonial repost (90%)
- supply-seeking (50%)
- media-only (80%)

## 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_117484759649101356
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759649101356. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117484759649101356.

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