# Post ts_117555192941614752 - Post ID: `ts_117555192941614752` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-11-03T23:51:32.297Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117555192941614752 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117555192941614752/analysis ## Post text _No text of its own. The post is its media, below._ ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > of this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that. Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this this is six seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53% easily crushing a blink in at 8% and the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well. Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/555/192/637/633/590/original/d9b826f898ae7d06.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 15,315 - Reposts: 3,361 - Replies: 1,517 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-11-04T16:01:00.600Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-11-04T00:59:36.753Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On midterm election night, a few posts after calling Fox News polling "BULLSHIT" and its analyst Jessica Tarlov "DUMB AS A ROCK," he posted, with no words of his own, a cable segment reporting that 53% of Republicans name him their most admired Republican president, ahead of Reagan (18%) and Lincoln (8%). The evening's posts judge polls by their verdict on him: the hostile one is a "hit job," the flattering one is broadcast. The clip offers a within-party ranking, the one number that holds up when general-electorate forecasts favored Democrats, which reads as compensation for the injury in the neighbouring posts. He published the segment with the analyst's closing joke still attached, that the slide would "end up on a printout at his desk." The mockery did not stop him from sharing the praise. No attack, no target and no violent content appear in the post. ## A friendlier poll on election night The clip is a cable news segment, apparently a data-analyst slot (the delivery, "Donald John Trump," and the closing aside fit a CNN-style numbers segment, though the speaker is not named in the transcript). The analyst reports a poll in which 53% of Republicans name Trump as the Republican president they most admire, against 18% for Ronald Reagan and 8% for Abraham Lincoln, "who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time." The segment ends with a gibe: "Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk." He posted it with no words of his own, at 23:51 UTC on midterm Election Day, 6:51 pm Eastern. He spent the final days of the campaign tele-rallying from Mar-a-Lago, so Eastern time applies whether he was in Florida or Washington. ### What the clip does for him The clip ranks him above the two presidents his party treats as its canon. It gets the effect it wants from the Lincoln comparison: the analyst calls Lincoln the consensus greatest president and then says Trump is "easily crushing" him at roughly six or seven to one. Posting it puts that ranking in front of his audience on the night his party was forecast to lose the House. A within-party admiration poll is the one kind of number that stays favorable when the general electorate is not. The historian's notes put his NBC disapproval at 60% days earlier. The closing joke matters most for reading the post. The analyst is teasing him for exactly this habit, saying the slide will end up printed out on his desk, and he publishes the segment anyway, joke included. Either the teasing did not register or the flattering numbers outweighed it. In both cases the post makes the joke come true. The archive shows the same thing in other clips: praise reaches him even when it arrives inside mockery. One garbled phrase ("the Elon poll," probably "the Gallup poll" or similar) should not carry any reading. ### The evening's run of posts The neighbouring posts from the same evening make the motive clearer. In one he calls the Fox News poll "always the worst" and says "every answer is 'BULLSHIT!'" In another he says he has to change the channel because of Jessica Tarlov, "DUMB AS A ROCK... that LOSER." Unfavorable polling gets called a "hit job," and favorable polling gets broadcast. That is splitting applied to evidence. A survey's credibility follows its verdict on him, not its method. This clip is the good-object half of that split, and it works as compensation. After a Fox poll he experienced as "insulting," he turns to a measure that restores the grandiose self-image. The trigger reads as supply-seeking. It sits against a background injury: hostile polling, adverse forecasts, and an election night in which the results were his to lose. The post itself contains no attack. All the hostility that evening went into the Fox and Tarlov posts, which is why this one comes across as self-soothing and not combative. The narcissistic state oscillates across the evening, wounded and contemptuous toward Fox, then expansive here. ### Narrative and archetype The identity claim being amplified is historical: he is not just the current leader but the party's greatest, displacing Reagan and Lincoln. The contrasting others are revered predecessors, not enemies, which makes this a status claim within a hierarchy, not a grievance. It places him at the top of the Republican pantheon, the King archetype in its most flattering form, and it reorders the hierarchy by demoting the figures that defined it. ### Claims carried, not made The poll figures belong to the broadcaster, so they are not in the fact checks. The 53/18/8 split is plausible for a partisan "most admired" question. Such surveys usually show recency and incumbency effects: a sitting president's own partisans rate him highly, which says more about present loyalty than historical standing. The analyst's own framing, "a historic comparison," is the part the post leans on, and that is where the claim is weakest. A popularity poll of current partisans is not a historical judgment. Historians' rankings put Trump near the bottom. The post contains no violent or dehumanizing material and names no targets. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### Indicators - Posted 6:51 pm Eastern on election night, outside business hours but not late night - Sits in a run of evening posts with clearly personal TV-reaction content (Fox poll, Tarlov) - Clip of a TV segment about his own ranking fits his habit of recirculating flattering coverage - No written text, so no stylometric evidence ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 70% - Agreeableness: 30% - Conscientiousness: 40% - Neuroticism: 55% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Low modesty (agreeableness) **Motives:** - Agency: 85% - Communion: 20% Primary drive: status ### Narrative - **Role:** Greatest of the party's presidents - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** Reagan and Lincoln as surpassed predecessors **Identity Claims:** - Most admired Republican president - Surpasses Reagan and Lincoln ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Fox News polling and adverse midterm forecasts on Election Day) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - idealization (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Sharing third-party praise so supporters see his standing confirmed - Election-night reassurance to the base ## Tags - supply-seeking (80%) - poll-splitting (60%) - election-night (70%) - historical-grandiosity (60%) - amplified-praise (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **He spends election eve and morning on Alaska's other Dan Sullivan, a retired teacher he calls "FAKE" and maybe "kidnapped"** It was Election Day, and almost everything on his account was an endorsement: well over a hundred candidate write-ups and a voting list for every state from Wyoming to Alabama, most of them published in under two hours of the morning, faster than anyone could type them. The posts in his own voice came at the edges of the day. After midnight he claimed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed hates Jews, Blacks and Whites. He also kept coming back to a retired Alaska teacher who shares the Republican senator's name, calling him a fake candidate who might have been "kidnapped" by Democratic lawyers. At midday he argued at length that naming the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "TRUMP" had been a joke, and by evening, with forecasts favoring Democrats, he said he had to stop watching Fox because of Jessica Tarlov's voice, called the network's poll "BULLSHIT," and comforted himself with clips about how much Republicans admire him. Full digest for 2026-11-03: https://trump.fm/date/2026-11-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, November 3). [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117555192941614752 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 3 Nov. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117555192941614752. 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