# Post x_912629775629418501

- Post ID: `x_912629775629418501`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-09-26T10:47:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_912629775629418501
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_912629775629418501/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_912629775629418501.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem. Big progress being made-we all love our country!

## Engagement

- Likes: 85,702
- Reposts: 15,275
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.386Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T23:26:59.080Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: NFL Anthem Post (Victory Framing)

This post reframes the Dallas Cowboys' pre-anthem kneeling as a concession to Trump's position. The team knelt in unity *before* the anthem, then stood for it—a compromise gesture. Trump selectively highlights only the standing, claiming "big progress being made."

### Personality Framework

**Level 1 (Traits):** Low agreeableness (competitive framing of cultural moment), high extraversion (assertive claim-staking), moderate neuroticism (ongoing grievance about anthem protests).

**Level 2 (Motives):** Power and dominance—claiming credit for others' behavior. The framing converts a protest (which included kneeling) into submission to his demands.

**Level 3 (Narrative):** Protagonist as culture war victor. "Big progress" positions Trump as the agent of change. "We all love our country" deploys inclusive language while implicitly excluding those who knelt during the anthem in other games.

### Authorship
Posted at 6:47 AM ET (Trump likely in DC/NYC). Early morning, consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns. Near-duplicate of a previous post (note the earlier version has "it knees" typo, this version corrects to "its knees" and adds "all" before "love"). This appears to be a self-correction repost—highly characteristic of authentic Trump behavior.

### Key Dynamics
The post exemplifies **reality distortion as dominance display**. The Dallas Cowboys were actually *protesting*—they knelt as a team in solidarity with players Trump attacked. Trump reframes this as compliance. This is a textbook splitting defense: extracting the standing-for-anthem component while erasing the protest component.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Dallas dropped to its knees as a team then stood for the National Anthem" | **Mostly True** | The Cowboys did kneel together before the anthem and then stood for it, but the kneeling was itself a protest gesture against Trump's comments—context Trump omits. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Early morning post (6:47 AM ET)
- Self-correction repost of earlier typo version
- Stream-of-consciousness connective 'But while'
- Exclamation point ending

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (NFL anthem controversy he initiated)

Sentiment: +0.60

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Sustained multi-post engagement with single topic
- Early morning posting
- Victory-claiming energy

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- inclusive 'we all'
- claiming shared values
- victory narrative inviting audience celebration

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframes team protest (kneeling together before anthem) as submission to his demands
- Claims 'big progress' when teams were actually protesting against his comments

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-11._

> Dallas dropped to its knees as a team then stood for the National Anthem

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Cowboys did kneel together before the anthem and then stood for it, but the kneeling was itself a protest gesture against Trump's comments—context Trump omits.

Sources: Known events context

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- NFL anthem controversy (100%)
- reality distortion (80%)
- victory framing (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**While Puerto Rico Drowns, Trump Fixates on Kneeling NFL Players and a Doomed Senate Candidate**

Trump spent the day juggling three storylines — Puerto Rico's humanitarian catastrophe, the NFL anthem controversy, and Alabama's Senate primary — but his energy was wildly uneven. The NFL protests consumed far more personal attention than the three million Americans without power and water in Puerto Rico, where he offered tepid reassurances and preemptively blamed the island's debt and infrastructure for the crisis. He pushed hard for Luther Strange in Alabama's Republican runoff, a bet he would lose the very next day. The afternoon and evening shifted into diplomatic autopilot with staff-written posts about a Spanish state visit and UN meetings, revealing a stark contrast between the raw, high-energy culture-war tweets and the flat, formulaic presidential messaging.

Full digest for 2017-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2017-09-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, September 26). But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_912629775629418501
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all..." X (Twitter), 26 Sep. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_912629775629418501. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all...," X (Twitter), September 26, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_912629775629418501.

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