# Post ts_110249203115529419 - Post ID: `ts_110249203115529419` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-04-23T17:02:14.649Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110249203115529419 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110249203115529419/analysis ## Post text > https://justthenews.com/videos/trump-promises-obliterate-deep-state-2024 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,085 - Reposts: 3,385 - Replies: 431 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.413Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:28:09.278Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A bare URL share, aide-authored at 1:02 PM local time, amplifying a campaign video in which Trump pledges to 'obliterate the deep state' in 2024. Despite its minimal form, the post warrants clinical flagging on two grounds. First, it employs eliminationist language ('obliterate') directed at a diffuse but real target class — federal employees, judiciary, law enforcement, intelligence personnel — meeting threshold criteria for stochastic terrorism: named enemy group, articulated existential grievance, and implied annihilatory action by a powerful actor. Second, its timing 48 hours before the E. Jean Carroll battery/defamation trial begins suggests a preemptive narcissistic counter-offensive: rather than engaging the proximate legal threat, the post redirects aggression toward the maximally expansive 'deep state' construct, recasting legal accountability as conspiratorial persecution. The post is one of five published the same day targeting educators (CRT), medical providers (gender-affirming care), and border officials — a high-volume enemy-identification cluster consistent with the RAND Firehose propaganda model. Paranoid features are salient (persecutory 'deep state' framing). Grandiose narcissistic state is intact; no vulnerability display. No original text precludes cognitive marker analysis. Authorship confidence is high: aide-managed content distribution. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, April 23, 2023 ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to a Just The News video clip in which Trump pledges to "obliterate the deep state" as a 2024 campaign commitment. There is no original text from the subject. Despite its minimal form, the post merits careful analysis for what it amplifies, when it was published, and how it fits within a same-day content cluster. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-authored (high confidence)** | Factor | Evidence | |---|---| | Local time | 1:02 PM EDT — solidly within business hours | | Content format | Bare URL, zero original text | | Pattern | One of five same-day link shares; batch-distribution signature | | Style markers | No typos, no emotional register, no ALL CAPS | The post bears every hallmark of Scavino-managed content distribution: a curated campaign video clip dropped during business hours with no added commentary. Nothing in the post can be attributed to authentic impulsive Trump composition. --- ## Contextual Framing **Critical timing**: The E. Jean Carroll battery/defamation trial was scheduled to begin **April 25** — 48 hours after this post. The Fox News/Dominion settlement (largest known media defamation settlement in U.S. history) had just been announced in the same period, reinforcing the subject's narrative that institutional and media forces conspire against him. Rather than engaging the proximate legal threat, this post — even if aide-distributed — reflects a strategic preemptive counter-offensive: redirect audience attention toward the maximal enemy construct ("deep state") against which Trump is cast as the obliterating hero. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The amplified content reveals high **extraversion** (assertive dominance assertion), extremely low **agreeableness** (contempt for institutional norms), moderate-low **conscientiousness** (the promise is impulsive/total rather than deliberate/procedural), elevated **neuroticism** (angry hostility channeled outward), and low **openness** (rigid conspiratorial worldview with no ambiguity tolerance). The dominant facet is assertiveness/dominance — consistent with the subject's established Big Five profile. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency (score: 0.90)** — the post is about control, destruction of enemies, and dominance restoration. Communion motives are entirely absent. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self schema*: "I am the singular force capable of destroying the enemy" - *Other schema (in-group)*: Followers as persecuted victims who need a protector - *Other schema (enemy)*: A monolithic, corrupt conspiratorial entity ("deep state") deserving annihilation - *World schema*: Zero-sum, existential combat between righteous populists and corrupt institutions --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: Warrior-Savior hybrid — the singular fighter who will return to destroy the enemy and restore order. **Narrative sequence**: Contamination → Redemption arc. The existing order (deep state) is framed as corrupt contamination of rightful American governance; Trump's return is the redemptive arc promising obliteration of that contamination. **Contrasting other**: "The deep state" — a deliberately vague enemy construct that can expand to encompass any opposition (judiciary, FBI, career officials, political opponents). **Identity claims**: *I keep my promises* (pledge framing); *I am the only one who can do this* (implicit savior claim). --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Personality Features - Grandiosity: Implicitly claiming unique capacity to destroy a vast institutional enemy - Fantasies of unlimited power: "Obliterate" implies total destruction, not reform - Entitlement: The assumption that executive power will be wielded for personal vendetta against perceived persecutors - Lack of empathy: No acknowledgment of the human cost of "obliterating" government institutions ### Paranoid Features - The "deep state" construct is the defining paranoid schema of this subject's political psychology — an unfalsifiable conspiratorial enemy that explains all setbacks and justifies all retribution - Timing relative to Carroll trial suggests acute paranoid ideation is elevated ### Antisocial Features - "Obliterate" as governance philosophy reflects disregard for rule-of-law norms - The framing implicitly licenses followers to view accountability institutions as legitimate targets ### Ego-Syntonic Sadism - The pleasure evident in "obliterate" (versus "reform" or "restructure") suggests the destruction itself is part of the appeal, not merely a means to governance ends --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature)**: The subject — facing a civil battery trial and multiple legal proceedings — projects malevolent coordinated intent onto government institutions, transforming legal accountability into conspiratorial persecution. **Delusional projection (pathological)**: The "deep state" construct reshapes reality to meet the inner need: all opposition becomes evidence of a vast enemy conspiracy rather than legitimate institutional function. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Obliteration of perceived enemies is framed as righteous governance action — campaign promises, executive orders — rather than retribution. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Eliminationist language**: "Obliterate" is not reform rhetoric. It implies total destruction of the named enemy class, which in practice refers to real federal employees, judicial officers, law enforcement personnel, and intelligence officials. This is categorically different from "dismantle," "reform," or even "drain." **Enemy construction**: "Deep state" is a master signifier — empty enough to include anyone the speaker designates as enemy, concrete enough to feel real to believers. It collapses diverse institutional actors into a single dehumanized monolith. **Firehose model**: Five posts in one day targeting educators (CRT), medical providers (trans healthcare), border officials, transgender athletes, and now federal institutions — consistent with the RAND Firehose propaganda model's volume and multi-front attack pattern. **Savior narrative**: The post positions Trump as the singular agent capable of and committed to this obliteration — a parasocial contract with followers who feel persecuted by these same institutions. --- ## Stochastic Terrorism Assessment This post meets threshold criteria for **stochastic terrorism indicators**: 1. **Target identification**: Named enemy class ("deep state" — diffuse but real, encompassing thousands of federal workers) 2. **Grievance articulation**: Implicit — the entire "deep state" framing encodes the grievance 3. **Implied action**: "Obliterate" — a prominent political figure with a large, mobilizable following announcing obliterative intent 4. **Amplifier**: 7+ million Truth Social followers; the post was distributed as a campaign video The probabilistic risk: not that Trump himself acts violently, but that some percentage of a radicalized follower base internalizes the eliminationist framing and acts on it independently. This is the stochastic mechanism. **Danger level: ELEVATED** --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype**: Warrior/Destroyer — not the measured King archetype, but the champion who fights and destroys rather than governs and sustains. **Secondary archetype**: Hero/Savior — the returning figure who will rescue the people from the corrupt order. **Shadow projection**: What is disowned (corruption, lawlessness, abuse of power) is projected entirely onto "the deep state" — externalizing the subject's own documented patterns of institutional norm violation. **Mythological narrative**: The warrior who returns from exile to destroy the usurpers — a resonant archetype in collective psychology that bypasses rational evaluation. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Positioning**: Order attacker (targeting corrupt/illegitimate institutional order) + Order restorer (promising to return "real" American governance). **Asymmetric application**: Chaos is directed at institutions ("deep state"); promised order is for "forgotten Americans" who trust Trump's governance. **Grievance intensity**: High — "obliterate" signals maximal grievance, not moderate reform impulse. --- ## Cognitive Status *Not assessable from this post.* The post contains no original text from the subject. The headline language ("obliterate the deep state") originates with the media outlet's characterization. No linguistic markers for word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration, or confabulation can be assessed. Cognitive tracking requires posts with substantive original text. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump promises to obliterate the deep state in 2024" | **Mostly True** | Trump has made repeated public statements about dismantling what he terms the 'deep state' as a core 2024 campaign pledge, including in speeches and interviews during this period. The word 'obliterate' appears to be the outlet's characterization of his language. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Summary of Contextual Significance The post's clinical significance lies not in its content per se (a standard campaign clip) but in its **timing** (48 hours pre-Carroll trial), its **language** (eliminationist "obliterate"), its **placement** within a same-day enemy-identification content cluster, and its **stochastic amplification risk** given the subject's follower base. The paranoid "deep state" framing — here directed against real institutional actors — combined with eliminationist diction meets the threshold for flagging even absent original text from the subject. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Post published at 17:02 UTC = 1:02 PM EDT (Trump in New York/Florida area) — solidly within business hours - Post contains zero original text; it is a bare URL share with no added commentary - Scheduled/curated link distribution pattern consistent with Scavino-managed content calendar - Four other posts on the same day follow the same bare-URL or polished-statement pattern, suggesting a managed batch - No typos, no ALL CAPS emotional eruptions, no stream-of-consciousness signatures ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (E. Jean Carroll trial commencing April 25 (2 days away); Fox/Dominion settlement reinforcing narrative of institutional enemies) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 75% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - delusional projection (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positions self as sole protector between followers and an omnipresent enemy ('deep state') - Grandiose promise fulfillment framing ('promises to obliterate') creates anticipatory loyalty bond - Enemy identification activates in-group solidarity and out-group fear ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - 'Obliterate' is eliminationist language directed at a named enemy class ('deep state') - Target is diffuse but real — federal employees, law enforcement, judiciary, intelligence personnel — creating a wide stochastic terrorism aperture - Post is made 48 hours before E. Jean Carroll trial begins, suggesting retaliatory/preemptive framing - Part of a same-day content cluster also targeting educators (CRT), medical providers (trans healthcare), and border officials — consistent with broad enemy-identification pattern - Amplification by a prominent political figure of eliminationist rhetoric normalizes the framing for a large audience **Dehumanizing Language Present** **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump promises to obliterate the deep state in 2024 **MOSTLY TRUE** Trump has made repeated public statements about dismantling what he terms the 'deep state' as a core 2024 campaign pledge, including in speeches and interviews during this period. The word 'obliterate' appears to be the outlet's characterization of his language. Sources: Just The News video (linked); Trump campaign statements, April 2023 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - eliminationist_language (80%) - deep_state_conspiracy (75%) - campaign_content (70%) - aide_authored (85%) - preemptive_attack (65%) - warrior_archetype (70%) - stochastic_terrorism (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Trial Fortress: 22 Posts Build a Wall of Adulation 48 Hours Before Carroll Jury Selection** Trump spent a quiet Sunday flooding his feed with favorable media links — crowd reactions from a UFC event, supportive op-eds, flattering polls, and culture war content — all while conspicuously avoiding any mention of the E. Jean Carroll trial starting two days later. Most of the day's posts were bare URL shares likely queued by staff, creating a steady stream of self-congratulation and outgroup attacks. The calm broke late in the evening with a single blistering attack on Ron DeSantis, recasting his former ally as an ungrateful creation who owes everything to Trump. The overall mood was managed grandiosity with an undercurrent of legal anxiety visible only in what was left unsaid. Full digest for 2023-04-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, April 23). https://justthenews.com/videos/trump-promises-obli... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110249203115529419 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/videos/trump-promises-obliterate-dee..." Truth Social, 23 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110249203115529419. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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