# Post ts_117485114128057793

- Post ID: `ts_117485114128057793`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T14:49:34.464Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485114128057793/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Listen to me. I'm 78 years old. Underneath this beard is a one handsome young guitar player. I promise you. But I'm not going to let my beloved United States of America continue down the toilet for my grandkids. Those men that spoke tonight, and Ms. Kansas, the best attorney general in America, you have the best attorney general in America. Hey, hey, hey ATF, it's a muffler. I don't need permit for a muffler. I got one on my tractor. Do you even know what I'm talking about? Anyhow, so the words of iron from these people who are dedicated, it's a pain in the ass to be in politics, but politics is we the people thanking those flag-drape coffins for their sacrifice by voting for the beliefs they died for. I was at a campfire yesterday, and at my campfire, you know, I'm a smart ass, but I'm humbled. I'm honored. I'm genuinely reflecting at the altar of my responsibility to vote for the freedoms that they died for. I had the U.S. Army with me yesterday. I had the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. I had the Coast Guard. I had the U.S. Marine Corps at the campfire with me. That's why I'm like this, because I owe them. And so you've always seen me rock and roll on stage, but I've always stood up for the truth, logic, and common sense, the God-given individual freedoms that they died for that is guaranteed in that sacred United States Constitution. But here's the here's the kicker, my friends. This is awesome. You're awesome, but this ain't good enough. You being here doesn't mean jack squat unless your entire family, your co-workers, people at church and school, at the deer camp, at the bar, at the bowling alley—anybody still bowl? I bowl with a 10 millimeter. Anyhow, if you don't go out and get everybody you know to vote for Christian, constitutional, conservative, conservation, this is the heartland. You are the heartbeat. Let's hear from the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department and the Wichita Police Department. Let's hear from the Kansas State Troopers. Let's hear from the Secret Service. Let's hear from the FBI. Let's hear from Sheriff Nugent. Oh, it's real, and you're under arrest. Anyhow, that's the kicker here. Again, you being here, I love it. It's moving. I'm inspired. I'm motivated. I'm stimulated. You can tell. But if you don't, number one, inspire like-minded Christian, constitutional, conservative, conservationists, if they don't vote, Hillary Clinton would like to thank them. You see this hat? This hat says Hunter Nation, and we found, much to my heartbreak, that in Kansas, 50 percent of Kansas licensed hunters didn't vote. Hunter Nation texted and emailed, and I called them, and I did robocall things, techno gonzo stuff. I'm so good at gonzo stuff. And when we get those licensed hunters and fishermen and trappers and landowners real constant, when we get them to vote, we could eliminate the Democrat Party. That's the goal. They're not Democrats. They're communists. I don't like communists. I want them out of here. Vote, God, family, country. Thank you for even allowing me to speak to you. I'm humbled. I'm honored. And I'm a dangerous force because I'm going to fight like the third monkey trying to get on Noah's Ark. So my kids don't have to live with jihadists and communists. Thank you, Kansas. Thank you, real Kansas. Thank you, Donald Trump. Thank you, real conservatives. Thank you, shit kickers. [Music]

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/485/112/949/768/270/original/d1c1c6853fff743e.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:01:19.751Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T15:10:28.532Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Trump posted, with no caption, a Ted Nugent turnout speech from a Kansas event, on the morning of a midterm trip to Iowa and days after a 33% approval poll. The clip's instruction is electoral: get family, co-workers and church members to vote. Its framing is not limited to elections. Nugent says "we could eliminate the Democrat Party. That's the goal," then "They're not Democrats. They're communists... I want them out of here," and later names "jihadists and communists" as what his grandchildren must be spared. Gun humor ("I bowl with a 10 millimeter"), an ATF suppressor joke and a "Sheriff Nugent... you're under arrest" bit give the speech an armed persona. Trump appears only as a name in the closing thank-yous. By posting the clip he puts this enemy-framing of the opposition in front of his audience without writing any of it, which lets him keep his distance from the wording. The danger reading is elevated, not higher, because every explicit call to action is to vote and no individual is targeted.

## A Nugent stump speech, posted on the morning of an Iowa trip

The post is a video with no caption. The speaker is Ted Nugent, not Trump. He identifies himself through "Underneath this beard is a one handsome young guitar player," "Sheriff Nugent," and the "Hunter Nation" hat. He is addressing a Kansas audience at what sounds like a Republican turnout event: he thanks "Ms. Kansas, the best attorney general in America" and asks for applause for the "Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department and the Wichita Police Department." Trump's only presence in the clip is a line near the end, "Thank you, Donald Trump," which Nugent lists among his thank-yous to "real conservatives" and "shit kickers." The recording date is uncertain. Nugent calls himself 78, and his "Hillary Clinton would like to thank them" line is an old turnout joke, so the clip could be from an earlier cycle. Both details belong to the speaker and say nothing about Trump's cognition.

What Trump did was put a celebrity surrogate's turnout pitch in front of his audience fourteen days before the midterms. He did it the same day he was due in Iowa for Senate, governor and House candidates, and four days after a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll put his approval at 33%. The clip's working message is mobilization. Nugent says attendance "doesn't mean jack squat unless your entire family, your co-workers, people at church and school, at the deer camp, at the bar, at the bowling alley" vote. That matches the referendum framing Trump used at the Kentucky rally on October 17. The likely motive is maintenance and turnout, aimed at a rural, gun-owning, hunting slice of the base. Nothing in it reacts to a particular slight.

## What the clip says for him

Trump gets three things from posting it without having to say them himself:

- **Opponents recast as enemies.** "When we get them to vote, we could eliminate the Democrat Party. That's the goal. They're not Democrats. They're communists. I don't like communists. I want them out of here." The first sentence is about winning elections. The next three shift from defeating a party to removing people ("out of here") who have been relabeled "communists." Later Nugent adds "So my kids don't have to live with jihadists and communists." This is splitting: the in-group is "Christian, constitutional, conservative, conservation," and everyone else becomes an ideological foreign enemy. By posting it, Trump endorses that frame, and he did not draft the wording.
- **Hostility to federal gun regulation.** "Hey, hey, hey ATF, it's a muffler. I don't need permit for a muffler" is a joke about suppressor regulation. "I bowl with a 10 millimeter" and "Oh, it's real, and you're under arrest" mix firearm display with law-enforcement role-play. The tone is jocular, and the imagery is weapons, not attacks on named people.
- **Sacrifice as a voting duty.** "Politics is we the people thanking those flag-drape coffins for their sacrifice by voting" makes a turnout appeal out of military death. It turns a midterm vote into a debt owed to the dead, which raises the moral stakes of not voting.

Nugent also claims that "50 percent of Kansas licensed hunters didn't vote." That is his figure, not Trump's, so it stays out of the fact-check record. No source is given, and claims like this usually come from matching voter files against license rolls, which Hunter Nation does as part of its pitch.

## Danger reading

The danger rating rests on one passage: "eliminate the Democrat Party," then "communists... I want them out of here," then "jihadists." Every explicit instruction in the clip is electoral: vote, recruit, text, call. Nobody in the audience is told to do anything beyond that, and no individual is named as a target. What lifts the clip above routine campaign content is the pairing of a political opposition relabeled as communists and jihadists with an armed, law-enforcement-costumed persona ("Sheriff Nugent," the 10 millimeter). The president is circulating it in a month when his own posts threatened election workers with jail. The eliminationist wording stays inside a voting frame, and that limits how far the reading can go.

## Who chose it

There is no written text, so there is no stylometric evidence. The post went up at 10:49 a.m. Eastern, during working hours, on a travel day. It is one of several media-only posts that day, and a campaign-surrogate clip is the kind of thing a political media staff would queue. Trump does repost video in bursts himself, so the attribution score covers only who selected the clip. Nobody but Nugent wrote any of it.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- No written text; no stylometric evidence available
- Posted 10:49 a.m. Eastern, business hours, on the day of a scheduled Iowa campaign trip
- Campaign-surrogate turnout clip of the type a political media team circulates
- Part of a multi-post media burst the same day, a pattern Trump also produces personally

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism) expressed through a proxy

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Leader thanked by an armed, patriotic base
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Democrats recast as communists and jihadists

**Identity Claims:**
- Aligned with Christian, constitutional, conservative, hunting America
- Backed by law enforcement and the military

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm turnout push on the day of an Iowa campaign trip, against a backdrop of record-low approval)

Sentiment: +0.05

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Surrogate celebrity endorsement
- In-group identity labeling ('real Kansas', 'real conservatives', 'shit kickers')
- Personal recruitment appeal to family, church, workplace networks

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplified 'we could eliminate the Democrat Party. That's the goal', paired with 'I want them out of here'
- Political opponents relabeled as 'communists' and 'jihadists'
- Armed persona and gun humor alongside an enemy framing of opponents
- Posted during a month in which Trump threatened election workers with jail

## Tags

- surrogate-amplification (90%)
- midterm-turnout (85%)
- opponents-as-communists (75%)
- eliminationist-adjacent (50%)
- gun-culture (50%)
- media-only-post (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_117485114128057793
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485114128057793. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117485114128057793.

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