# Post ts_110606192194095707

- Post ID: `ts_110606192194095707`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-25T18:09:15.694Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Using Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, we will deny entry of all Communists and Marxists into the United States!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:43), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Today, I'm announcing a new plan to protect the integrity of our immigration system. Federal law prohibits the entry of communists and totalitarians into the United States. But my question is, what do we do with the ones that are already here that grew up in it? I think we have to pass a new law for them. Introducing federal law in section 212f of the Immigration and Nationality Act, I will order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/606/192/165/695/868/original/0f08ebe19d758ff7.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 19,229
- Reposts: 5,421
- Replies: 948
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:01:02.252Z (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 campaign-mode policy announcement, almost certainly aide-authored, deploying the McCarthyist "Communist/Marxist" frame within a legal wrapper (Section 212(f) INA). The post's rhetorical sophistication lies in its simultaneous use of hyperbole and false precision: the unbounded category ("all Communists and Marxists") is paired with a real statutory citation, lending an impossible policy promise the appearance of both comprehensive reach and procedural legitimacy. The definitional problem is substantial — "Marxists" in 2023 political rhetoric maps onto a vast and indeterminate population, making enforcement a political rather than legal project. Splitting (American vs. Communist binary) and rationalization (legal citation as legitimacy) are the dominant defense mechanisms. The post is part of a coordinated same-day blitz covering immigration, Christian nationalism, and Biden corruption, suggesting orchestrated campaign communications rather than reactive expression. Danger is elevated structurally: normalizing ideological exclusion as legitimate governmental function, echoing historical authoritarian precedents of loyalty tests and ideological purity enforcement. No direct violence is incited; the risk is longitudinal normalization. Cognitive assessment of Trump's personal speech patterns is not possible from this aide-written sample, though a companion same-day authentic post contains a characteristic word-substitution error ("what" for "who") warranting continued longitudinal documentation.

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** UTC 18:09 on June 25, 2023. Trump's most probable location is Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida (EDT, UTC−4), placing the local posting time at **2:09 PM EDT** — squarely within business hours.

**Stylometric Assessment:** This post exhibits strong aide-written indicators: (1) legally precise statutory citation ("Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act") reflecting deliberate research rather than spontaneous recall; (2) polished, grammatically clean single-sentence construction with no characteristic Trump idiosyncrasies; (3) professional campaign-policy-announcement format; (4) accompanying produced video asset. Contrast sharply with the same-day authentic post — "Never forget our enemies **what** to stop me" — where the "what/who" word-substitution error is a textbook authentic-Trump marker. The post under analysis shows none of these features.

**Authorship Score: ~0.10** (High confidence: aide-authored, likely communications staff/Scavino)

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals, 2006)

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (High, ~0.75):** The declarative "we will deny" projects authority and dominance; assertiveness facet is the most salient.
- **Agreeableness (Low, ~0.20):** Adversarial ideological positioning; no acknowledgment of definitional complexity or competing values.
- **Conscientiousness (Moderate-High, ~0.65):** Statutory specificity and policy-promise format reflect deliberate strategic communication.
- **Neuroticism (Low, ~0.25):** Controlled, confident tone; no visible impulsivity, anxiety, or reactive quality.
- **Openness (Low, ~0.20):** Rigid binary categorization (American vs. Communist) with no ideological nuance.

**Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (E6), operationalized through the exercise of sovereign exclusion authority.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives overwhelmingly dominant:** Power (0.85) and autonomy — the post asserts unilateral executive capacity to define and police ideological belonging. Communion motives are near-absent (0.10).

**Schema activation:** The post reveals a threat-vigilance schema in which the political world is divided into loyal Americans and infiltrating ideological enemies. The government's legitimate function is categorical exclusion and enforcement, not integration or tolerance of difference.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The strong, legally empowered executive who wields existing statutory tools to protect America from internal/external ideological contamination — action-oriented, decisive, unilateral.
- **Contrasting other:** "Communists and Marxists" — a deliberately expansive, historically loaded category that, applied rhetorically in 2023, maps onto a broad swath of progressive and left-leaning political positions.
- **Identity claims:** Protector of American ideological purity; possessor of legitimate executive authority; the one willing to act where others won't.
- **Narrative sequence:** Implicit **redemption** — the current administration has allowed ideological contamination; Trump's return will restore proper order.
- **Contamination echo:** The broader same-day posting cluster ("Christians under siege," "Joe Biden is totally compromised") suggests an active contamination narrative: the good America is being destroyed, and only the protagonist can reverse it.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features (moderate, constrained by aide authorship):**
The "we will" framing distributes the persona into collective authority rather than centering individual grandiosity, suggesting editorial management. Nevertheless, the implicit claim — that Trump alone possesses the will to enact what others have refused — is consistent with the grandiose self-schema documented across the broader corpus.

**Antisocial features (moderate):**
The proposal to exclude "all Communists and Marxists" — an undefined ideological category — via executive action shows disregard for due process norms, definitional constraints, and constitutional limitations. No acknowledgment of the First Amendment implications or the impossibility of categorical ideological enforcement.

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## Psychological State and Triggers

**Trigger type:** Maintenance/supply-seeking. This post is part of a coordinated same-day campaign communications blitz (immigration, religious freedom, Biden corruption, border security) rather than a reactive post to a specific narcissistic injury. The Wagner Group rebellion and Hunter Biden plea deal were active that weekend; this post does not directly engage either event.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — the post projects executive competence, legal mastery, and resolve.

**Rage:** Absent. The post is controlled and declarative; no affective dysregulation is evident.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The statutory citation of 212(f) INA provides a veneer of procedural legitimacy to what is structurally an ideological purge proposal. Legal precision launders the policy's authoritarian character.
2. **Splitting (immature):** Communist/Marxist vs. American — a rigid binary with no acknowledgment of spectrum, gradation, or definitional complexity. The world is sorted into in-group (safe) and out-group (excludable).
3. **Projection (immature):** Labeling a politically convenient other as "Communists and Marxists" externalizes and displaces the subject's own demonstrated tendencies toward authoritarian control and ideological enforcement.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices employed:**
- **Appeal to legal authority:** Citing a specific, real statute (212(f) INA) produces an impression of legitimate proceduralism; voters unfamiliar with the law's scope accept the proposal as feasible and constrained.
- **Red-baiting / McCarthyist framing:** "Communists and Marxists" invokes Cold War threat archetypes. In 2023 political discourse, "Marxist" functions as a flexible pejorative applied to mainstream progressive positions, expanding the implied target population far beyond any coherent definition.
- **False dichotomy:** The implicit framing is America vs. Communism — no political spectrum, no constitutional constraint, no definitional ambiguity.
- **Hyperbole + false precision simultaneously:** "All Communists and Marxists" combines scope inflation (all) with statutory specificity (212(f)) — the combination creates the illusion of both comprehensive reach and legitimate constraint.

**Propaganda techniques:** Appeal to fear (ideological infiltration threat), false precision (legal citation for an undefined ideological category), ideological scapegoating.

**Dehumanizing language:** Technically absent — "Communists and Marxists" are ideological labels, not epithets like "vermin" or "animals." However, the categorical exclusion logic is structurally homologous with dehumanization frameworks: the target group is defined as categorically incompatible with national membership.

**Violent imagery:** Absent.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

The proposal to deploy executive authority to exclude a broadly and vaguely defined ideological out-group constitutes:
1. Targeting of a politically constructed category for governmental exclusion — the category "Communists and Marxists" in 2023 rhetoric encompasses mainstream progressive positions, meaning the effective target class is far larger than the historical definition.
2. Historical echo of ideological exclusion policies in authoritarian systems (loyalty oaths, ideological purity tests for civic membership).
3. Normalization of using government coercive apparatus against political opponents through the mechanism of definitional expansion.

No direct individual is targeted; no violence is incited. The danger is structural and longitudinal: normalization of ideological exclusion as a legitimate governmental function.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act exists and grants the president authority to restrict alien entry" | **True** | Section 212(f) of the INA is real law; it was used by Trump in his first term for travel bans and was upheld by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii (2018, 5-4). The statute grants broad presidential discretion to suspend entry of any class of aliens whose entry is deemed detrimental to U.S. interests. |
| "Section 212(f) can be used to deny entry of 'all Communists and Marxists'" | **Half True** | The INA does contain separate provisions specifically addressing Communist Party members (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(D)), and 212(f) provides additional presidential discretion. However, 'all Communists and Marxists' is an impossibly broad and undefined category: (1) 'Marxist' has no legal definition and in 2023 political rhetoric applies to a vast population; (2) categorical ideological enforcement would require surveillance infrastructure that doesn't exist; (3) application to lawful permanent residents raises serious due process concerns. The statutory hook is real; the policy as stated is not operationally feasible. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Cognitive Status Assessment

**Note:** This post is aide-authored; cognitive assessment of Trump's personal speech patterns cannot be drawn from this sample. The companion authentic post from the same day ("Never forget our enemies what to stop me") contains a word-substitution error ("what" for "who") that merits longitudinal documentation but is insufficient for definitive cognitive inference from a single data point.

**Baseline deviation for this post:** None (inapplicable — aide-authored).

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian Framework)

**Primary archetype: King/Tyrant** — the post embodies sovereign authority and the power to define who belongs. The "we will" construction invokes executive power to exclude the ideologically unworthy.

**Secondary archetype: Order Restorer** — the implied mythology is that Communist/Marxist infiltration has been permitted under the corrupted current order; proper ideological borders will be reinstated under Trump's return.

**Shadow projection:** "Communists and Marxists" as the contrasting other may function as shadow-carrier — the controlling, exclusionary, ideologically enforcing impulse is externalized onto a labeled enemy, allowing the same impulse to operate in the subject without self-recognition.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

- **Position:** Order Restorer — promising to re-establish proper ideological borders and enforce national ideological coherence.
- **Asymmetric application:** Protective order for "real Americans"; categorical exclusion for ideological others.
- **Grievance mapped:** Current administration permits ideological contamination; Trump will reverse this.
- **Hierarchy dynamics:** Elevates Trump as legitimate sovereign executive; diminishes the ideological out-group to the status of categorically excludable non-members.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 14:09 EDT (Mar-a-Lago local time) — business hours
- Legally precise statutory citation (Section 212(f) INA) reflecting deliberate research
- Polished, grammatically clean single-sentence construction
- Campaign policy announcement format
- Produced video attachment suggests coordinated media operation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Coordinated campaign communications blitz covering immigration, religious freedom, and anti-Biden messaging)

Sentiment: -0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' invites followers into the exclusionary project as co-participants
- Policy promise creates expectation of loyalty-confirming follow-through

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Proposal to exclude a broadly and vaguely defined ideological out-group via executive action — definitional expansion of 'Marxist' in current rhetoric could encompass mainstream progressive political positions
- Structural echo of historical ideological purity enforcement (loyalty oaths, McCarran-Walter Act exclusions, Soviet internal passport systems)
- Normalization of government coercive apparatus deployment against political opponents through categorical ideological labeling
- No individual targeted; no violence incited — danger is longitudinal normalization of exclusionary logic

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act exists and grants the president authority to restrict alien entry

**TRUE**

Section 212(f) of the INA is real law; it was used by Trump in his first term for travel bans and was upheld by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii (2018, 5-4). The statute grants broad presidential discretion to suspend entry of any class of aliens whose entry is deemed detrimental to U.S. interests.

Sources: 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f); Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667 (2018)

> Section 212(f) can be used to deny entry of 'all Communists and Marxists'

**HALF TRUE**

The INA does contain separate provisions specifically addressing Communist Party members (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(D)), and 212(f) provides additional presidential discretion. However, 'all Communists and Marxists' is an impossibly broad and undefined category: (1) 'Marxist' has no legal definition and in 2023 political rhetoric applies to a vast population; (2) categorical ideological enforcement would require surveillance infrastructure that doesn't exist; (3) application to lawful permanent residents raises serious due process concerns. The statutory hook is real; the policy as stated is not operationally feasible.

Sources: 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(D); 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f)

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- immigration-policy (90%)
- anti-communism (95%)
- McCarthyism (85%)
- campaign-promise (80%)
- executive-authority (80%)
- ideological-exclusion (90%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- false-precision (80%)
- cold-war-framing (85%)
- splitting-defense (70%)

## That day

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

**Post-Indictment Sunday: Morning Gratitude Ritual Yields to Afternoon Persecution-Policy Blitz from Faith & Freedom Clips**

A quiet Sunday morning of retweeting supporter praise gave way to an intense afternoon burst — eight posts in 22 minutes — built from clips of his Faith & Freedom Coalition speech the day before. The afternoon content mixed grievance about his federal indictment with promises of sweeping Day One policy action on immigration and ideological exclusion. Two posts carried real anger, both aimed at Biden, framing the independent prosecution as a personal political hit job. The day ended with a book bundle ad, the rage fully spent.

Full digest for 2023-06-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 25). Using Section 212(f) of the Immigration and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606192194095707
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Using Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality..." Truth Social, 25 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606192194095707. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Using Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality...," Truth Social, June 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110606192194095707.

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