# Post ts_110052819744020220

- Post ID: `ts_110052819744020220`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-03-20T00:39:22.213Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD DO THIS TO PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS, ARE THE COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, RINOS, AND LOSERS THAT ARE PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:35:36.435Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post represents an acute narcissistic injury response produced hours before Trump's self-predicted (ultimately incorrect) arrest date. The ALL-CAPS stream-of-consciousness structure, mid-sentence self-correction, and 8:39 PM local timestamp confirm authentic authorship with high confidence.\
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The psychological core is grandiosity under threat: converting a personal legal prosecution into an attack on "ALL AMERICANS" is a maximal identity-protection strategy that transforms potential humiliation into collective martyrdom. The structure insulates against shame while mobilizing the audience as proxies.\
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Clinically, the post exhibits pathological distortion (Trump's prosecution = national destruction), splitting (monolithic enemy coalition), projection (enemies "purposefully destroying" the country mirrors the actual charge), and paranoid attribution. The dehumanizing language ("ANIMALS AND THUGS") applied to prosecutors and elected officials crosses a clinically significant threshold — it removes named targets from the moral community, licensing audience hostility.\
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The danger assessment is elevated to HIGH. The post satisfies the structural criteria for stochastic terrorism precursor communication: named target categories, explicit dehumanization, existential grievance framing, and a primed audience already called to protest. The temporal proximity to Trump's explicit protest mobilization call (the preceding day) is the critical amplifying factor. The pattern structurally echoes pre-January 6 communications. No acute cognitive deterioration is evident beyond the established baseline of impulsive, emotionally-flooded posting."

# Analysis: ts_110052819744020220 — March 20, 2023

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (High Confidence)**

UTC timestamp 00:39:22 converts to **8:39 PM EDT** on March 19 (DST began March 12; Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago given the anticipated arrest context, Florida = UTC-4). Late evening is firmly within his authenticated posting window. The entire post is ALL CAPS — a consistent authentic signal. The mid-thought self-correction ("PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS") is a textbook stream-of-consciousness impulsive edit visible in real time, not a polished aide construction. No aide would write this sentence.

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## Contextual Frame

This post lands within a 24-hour torrent of Truth Social activity surrounding Trump's self-predicted arrest (announced the previous day, allegedly based on "illegal leaks" from the Bragg grand jury). Robert Costello had testified on Trump's behalf earlier that day. Ron DeSantis had publicly mocked Trump on the hush-money case. The post is reactive to a convergence of narcissistic stressors: anticipated legal humiliation, public ridicule from a rival, and the proximity of a highly publicized legal defeat.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (very high):** Dominant, assertive, commanding register. ALL CAPS throughout is an emotional amplification device.
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Explicit dehumanization ("ANIMALS AND THUGS"), contemptuous labeling ("LOSERS"), zero modesty or empathy signaling.
- **Conscientiousness (very low):** Impulsive mid-sentence correction, no deliberation. The shift from "200 MILLION PEOPLE" to "ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS" is unedited and unpolished.
- **Neuroticism (very high):** Angry hostility is the dominant affective tone. The urgency marker "REMEMBER" implies threat salience and emotional flooding.
- **Openness (very low):** Rigid ideological categorization. Enemies are monolithic and interchangeable.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives (dominant):** Power and status defense are primary. The framing universalizes Trump's legal jeopardy into a collective American threat, which is a characteristic strategic move: if I am attacked, all 200 million (then corrected to "ALL") Americans are attacked. This is self-aggrandizement as political mobilization.

**Communion motives (absent):** No in-group warmth, bonding, or solidarity language beyond implied shared victimhood. The call to "REMEMBER" is a command, not a communal offering.

**Schemas:**
- *Self:* Champion/martyr. The implied "they would do this to me and by extension to YOU" casts him as representative of the people.
- *Others (out-group):* Subhuman existential threat. "ANIMALS AND THUGS" is not merely rhetorical hyperbole — it performs a categorical exclusion from the moral community.
- *World:* Zero-sum, actively under assault by a named enemy coalition.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Warrior-Victim hybrid. He is not present grammatically in this post — he instead positions himself as the "this" being done to someone, while speaking in commanding second-person ("REMEMBER"). This is a subtle but significant framing: Trump-as-stand-in-for-the-nation is the implicit subject.

**Sequence:** Contamination. A good nation is being actively destroyed by named enemies. No redemption arc is offered here — only threat identification.

**Identity claims:** Implicitly, defender and voice of "ALL AMERICANS." The expansion from 200 million to "all Americans" signals a maximalist claim to representational authority.

**Contrasting other:** The enemy coalition — "COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, RINOS, AND LOSERS." The inclusion of RINOs is notable: it collapses the in-group/out-group boundary within the Republican party, signaling ongoing purge dynamics.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**A. Narcissistic Features:** The conflation of an individual's legal prosecution with an attack on 200–330 million people is grandiosity at near-delusional scale. The implicit claim is that Trump = America; therefore any legal action against him = destruction of the nation.

**B. Antisocial Features:** "ANIMALS AND THUGS" applied to prosecutors, political opponents, and elected officials represents dehumanizing contempt that normalizes violence against these categories. No remorse, no qualification.

**C. Paranoid Features:** The word "PURPOSEFULLY" is key — it asserts intentionality and coordinated malice. There is no possibility of good-faith disagreement. Enemies are scheming agents of destruction. The "REMEMBER" opener implies ongoing threat vigilance ("do not forget who these people are").

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** The pleasure register is muted here compared to other posts (less mocking, more martial). Dehumanization functions as dominance display and permission-granting for audience hostility.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Primary narcissistic injury — anticipated arrest is an existential status threat. Secondary injury from DeSantis mockery (a rival laughing at him publicly). The post lacks any direct reference to the case, suggesting the emotional content has been displaced into generic enemy-identification.

**Narcissistic Rage:** Present, intense (0.88/1.0), disproportionate. The scale of response (all Americans are under attack) is wildly disproportionate to the trigger (a local DA grand jury). Target is diffuse — a coalition of enemies rather than a specific person — which is characteristic of escalated rage that has exceeded focused object-targeting.

**State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable. The grandiosity is structural (I = all Americans). The vulnerability is submerged but present — the urgency of "REMEMBER" implies fear that people will forget, or that his position is not secure.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Distortion (pathological):** Reshaping a personal legal matter into an attack on "ALL AMERICANS." This is reality-bending, not merely spin.
2. **Projection (immature):** "PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY" — the very impulse being attributed to enemies (wielding power to destroy political opponents) mirrors the charge against Trump himself in the hush-money case.
3. **Splitting (immature):** Enemies are a flat monolith — COMMUNISTS + MARXISTS + RINOS + LOSERS — all equally and interchangeably malevolent. No gradation, no nuance.
4. **Acting out (immature):** The post is raw emotional discharge, unmediated by deliberation.

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## Cognitive Status

**Baseline comparison:** Against Trump's known 2023 Truth Social baseline, this post is consistent. The ALL CAPS mode, the self-correction mid-clause, the run-on enemy enumeration — all are within his documented range. The mid-sentence revision ("PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS") is worth flagging: it shows real-time thought revision without deletion, consistent with impulsive posting, not necessarily with language production deficits.

**Complexity score:** Low (0.18/1.0). Single sentence, simple SVO structure with a listing device. No subordinate clauses of semantic complexity.

**No markers of clinical cognitive concern** beyond what is consistent with his established baseline of impulsive, emotionally-driven posting.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Dehumanization:** "ANIMALS AND THUGS" — explicit removal from moral community. Historically, dehumanizing language precedes and licenses violence against targeted groups. This is not metaphorical; it is categorical.
- **False totalization:** The escalation from "200 million" to "ALL AMERICANS" — maximalist claim of universality.
- **Enemy coalition construction:** "COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, RINOS, AND LOSERS" — the list mixes ideological enemies (communists), internal traitors (RINOs), and contempt labels (losers), creating an undifferentiated threat mass.
- **Urgency imperative:** "REMEMBER" as opening command — activates threat vigilance in readers, frames what follows as information the audience is at risk of forgetting.
- **Victimhood-to-action bridge:** "WOULD DO THIS TO... ALL AMERICANS" — converts personal legal jeopardy into collective threat, implying that audience self-interest requires defending Trump.
- **Stochastic terrorism pattern:** Target identification (communists, Marxists, RINOs) + dehumanization (animals, thugs) + grievance articulation (destroying our country) + implicit call to action (REMEMBER). The prior-day protest call amplifies this: audience is primed to act.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Reality distortion:** Framing a grand jury indictment process as an act of violence/destruction against 200–330 million Americans.
- **DARVO:** Trump-as-victim of political persecution is the sustained frame. The entire post inverts the subject-object relationship of the legal proceeding.
- No direct denial of documented facts in this specific post, but it functions as part of a sustained epistemic counter-narrative constructed across the day's posts.

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## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

**Epistemic closure: Yes.** The post demands categorical identification of enemies and establishes that anyone not recognizing this threat is either deceived or complicit. "REMEMBER" functions as a loyalty reinforcement — accept this framing or you are not with us.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning:** Order Attacker (attacking what he frames as illegitimate/corrupt order) AND Order Restorer (implicit promise to return to proper order). The enemies are cast as holding illegitimate institutional power. Trump's resistance is framed as defense of legitimate American order.

**Grievance intensity:** Very high. The grievance is existential — not a policy disagreement but civilizational survival.

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## Danger Assessment

**Danger Level: HIGH**

This post combines the three key stochastic terrorism elements in close proximity to an explicit protest call (prior post):
1. **Target identification:** Named enemy categories (communists, Marxists, RINOs, losers)
2. **Dehumanization:** "ANIMALS AND THUGS" — moral exclusion that licenses aggression
3. **Grievance + stakes framing:** Enemies are "PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY" — existential, not merely political

The temporal context is critical: Trump had called for protests two days hence. This post functions as audience priming — reminding followers of who the enemies are and what they are allegedly doing — immediately before a mobilization event. The pattern is consistent with pre-January 6 communications structure (grievance → enemy identification → urgency → mobilization). The scale remains lower than J6 precursors, but the structural elements are present.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "200 million people would be harmed by these actions" | **False** | No substantiable harm to 200 million Americans from prosecuting a former president. The number was immediately self-revised to 'ALL AMERICANS,' suggesting improvisation. US has approximately 260 million adults. |
| "Opponents are COMMUNISTS and MARXISTS" | **False** | Alvin Bragg is an elected Democratic district attorney operating within the US legal system. Ron DeSantis (implied RINO target) is a sitting Republican governor. Neither the legal proceeding nor the political actors involved have any documented connection to communist or Marxist ideology. |
| "These actors are PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY" | **Unverifiable** | Intentionality of national destruction is not a falsifiable empirical claim as stated. Functions as rhetorical assertion, not fact claim. |

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Summary

This post represents a clinically significant episode of acute narcissistic injury response, produced in the hours before Trump's self-predicted (and ultimately incorrect) arrest date. The ALL-CAPS, stream-of-consciousness structure, mid-sentence self-correction, and 8:39 PM local posting time confirm authentic authorship.

The psychological core is grandiosity under threat: the conversion of a personal legal prosecution into an attack on "ALL AMERICANS" is a maximal identity-protection strategy — if Trump is prosecuted, the nation itself is under siege. This structure insulates against shame and converts potential humiliation into martyrdom.

Clinically, the post exhibits pathological distortion, splitting, projection, and paranoid attribution (PURPOSEFULLY). The dehumanizing language ("ANIMALS AND THUGS") applied to prosecutors and political opponents reaches a threshold where it functions not merely as rhetorical excess but as moral exclusion — removing targets from the category of persons deserving normal treatment. Combined with the simultaneous protest mobilization call, this satisfies the structural definition of stochastic terrorism precursor communication: named targets + dehumanization + existential grievance + primed audience. Danger assessment is elevated to HIGH given the protest-call context. No evidence of acute cognitive deterioration beyond established baseline.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 93%)

### Indicators

- Entire post in ALL CAPS throughout
- Mid-sentence self-correction visible in real time ('PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS')
- 8:39 PM EDT local time — within authentic evening posting window
- Stream-of-consciousness impulsive structure
- No polished grammar or professional formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Anticipated arrest by Alvin Bragg + public mockery from DeSantis)

**Rage:** Intensity 88% targeting Prosecutors, political opponents, RINOs — diffuse enemy coalition
- Proportionality: 9%

Sentiment: -0.91

**Moderately Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS throughout entire post
- Part of a 6+ post rapid-fire salvo across a single day
- Grandiosity (personal prosecution = attack on all Americans)
- Urgency and imperative register
- Emotional flooding evident in unedited mid-sentence self-correction

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 91%
- Antisocial: 82%
- Paranoid: 87%
- Sadism: 55%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 18%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- REMEMBER opener as loyalty/vigilance command
- Converts personal legal jeopardy into collective audience threat
- Creates urgent in-group identity through shared enemy

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Explicit dehumanization: 'ANIMALS AND THUGS' applied to prosecutors and political opponents
- Named enemy coalition construction enabling target identification
- Existential stakes framing: enemies are 'PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY'
- Temporal proximity to explicit protest mobilization call (prior post called for protests on March 21)
- Stochastic terrorism structure: target identification + dehumanization + grievance + primed/mobilized audience
- Pattern structurally consistent with pre-January 6 communications architecture

### Gaslighting

- DARVO: Trump-as-victim framing inverts the subject-object relationship of the legal proceeding
- Reality distortion: frames a grand jury indictment process as an act of destruction against all Americans
- Sustained epistemic counter-narrative across the day's posts constructing an alternative reality where legal proceedings = political persecution

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> 200 million people would be harmed by these actions

**FALSE**

No substantiable harm to 200 million Americans from prosecuting a former president. The number was immediately self-revised to 'ALL AMERICANS,' suggesting improvisation. US has approximately 260 million adults.

Sources: General knowledge — US population statistics

> Opponents are COMMUNISTS and MARXISTS

**FALSE**

Alvin Bragg is an elected Democratic district attorney operating within the US legal system. Ron DeSantis (implied RINO target) is a sitting Republican governor. Neither the legal proceeding nor the political actors involved have any documented connection to communist or Marxist ideology.

Sources: General knowledge — political affiliations of named actors

> These actors are PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Intentionality of national destruction is not a falsifiable empirical claim as stated. Functions as rhetorical assertion, not fact claim.

Overall Veracity: 17%

## Tags

- dehumanization (95%)
- stochastic-terrorism (85%)
- narcissistic-injury (92%)
- all-caps-authentic (93%)
- enemy-coalition (88%)
- grandiosity-collective (90%)
- protest-mobilization-context (87%)
- paranoid-attribution (84%)
- splitting (89%)
- distortion-pathological (91%)

## That day

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

**Under Siege: A Day of Sustained Fury as Trump Braces for Manhattan Indictment**

Trump spent the day in full defensive mode from Mar-a-Lago, fixated on the Manhattan DA's looming indictment. The evening before and all through the day, he attacked prosecutors, witnesses, and political rivals in a near-continuous stream of grievance. The most alarming moment came with a post labeling prosecutors and opponents "animals and thugs" -- language that echoed his pre-January 6 rhetoric. When Ron DeSantis mocked him publicly over the hush money case, Trump fired back with a bizarre projection accusing DeSantis of future sexual misconduct scandals. The day ended with a slight pivot toward self-promotion, but the siege mentality never fully lifted.

Full digest for 2023-03-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 20). REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110052819744020220
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD DO THIS TO..." Truth Social, 20 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110052819744020220. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD DO THIS TO...," Truth Social, March 20, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110052819744020220.

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