# Post ts_109737165274760883

- Post ID: `ts_109737165274760883`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-23T06:44:17.247Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737165274760883
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737165274760883/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109737165274760883.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/ScottAdamsTruth/statuses/109637563919682307 Thank you Scott, I accept your Endorsement. I knocked out ISIS, I will knock out the Cartels!

## Engagement

- Likes: 18,123
- Reposts: 3,964
- Replies: 524
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.423Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:52:14.824Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: RT of Scott Adams Endorsement + Cartel Promise

**Post:** "Thank you Scott, I accept your Endorsement. I knocked out ISIS, I will knock out the Cartels!"

### Authorship
Posted at 1:44 AM ET (Trump at Mar-a-Lago in January). Classic late-night timing. Brief, punchy, self-aggrandizing — consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a straightforward supply-seeking post. Trump retweets an endorsement (narcissistic supply) and uses it as a platform for grandiose self-assertion. The structure is notable: accept praise → make inflated historical claim → promise future dominance. The equation of ISIS (a terrorist state requiring multinational military operations) with drug cartels reflects characteristic grandiose simplification — complex geopolitical problems reduced to strongman narratives.

### Rhetorical Devices
"I knocked out ISIS" uses past military action as personal achievement (personalization of institutional action). "I will knock out the Cartels" mirrors the construction, creating a parallelism that implies inevitability. The exclamation point adds characteristic Trump energy.

### Defense Mechanisms
Grandiosity serves as the primary mechanism — inflating personal agency over complex military/policy outcomes. The ISIS claim is a significant oversimplification (ISIS was degraded but not eliminated; it involved coalition forces, not personal action).

### Cognitive Notes
Coherent, syntactically simple, on-message. No markers of concern. Typical brevity for late-night posts.

### Danger Assessment
"Knock out the Cartels" is militaristic language but within normal political rhetoric bounds. No specific targeting of domestic groups or individuals.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I knocked out ISIS" | **Mostly False** | ISIS territorial caliphate was largely destroyed by 2019 through a multinational coalition effort spanning Obama and Trump administrations. ISIS continues to exist as an insurgency. Trump accelerated the campaign but attributing it solely to himself is a major oversimplification. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 1:44 AM ET posting time
- brief punchy style
- exclamation point
- personal grandiosity
- simple sentence structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Scott Adams endorsement)

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- savior positioning
- strongman promise

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> I knocked out ISIS

**MOSTLY FALSE**

ISIS territorial caliphate was largely destroyed by 2019 through a multinational coalition effort spanning Obama and Trump administrations. ISIS continues to exist as an insurgency. Trump accelerated the campaign but attributing it solely to himself is a major oversimplification.

Sources: Operation Inherent Resolve coalition records; DOD reporting

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- narcissistic_supply (80%)
- grandiosity (70%)
- military_strongman (60%)
- endorsement (50%)

## That day

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

**Golf Trophies and Grievance Spirals: A Day of Whataboutism Over Classified Documents**

Trump opened the day celebrating a senior golf championship at his own club, then spent most of the remaining hours hammering a single theme: that Biden's classified documents situation proves the Mar-a-Lago search was unjust. The mood shifted from self-congratulation to agitation as the day wore on, with a late-night cluster of posts after 1 AM showing rising anger about the Special Counsel investigation. The most heated moments came around midday, when he used a racist nickname to attack Mitch McConnell's wife, defended his imprisoned former CFO Allen Weisselberg, and repeatedly demanded his own exoneration. The Monterey Park mass shooting, which killed eleven people the night before, went unacknowledged except as a vehicle for grievance about January 6th defendants.

Full digest for 2023-01-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 23). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/ScottAdamsTruth/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737165274760883
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/ScottAdamsTruth/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 23 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737165274760883. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/ScottAdamsTruth/statuses/1...," Truth Social, January 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737165274760883.

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