# Post ts_110607822932680587

- Post ID: `ts_110607822932680587`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-26T01:03:58.789Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110607822932680587
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110607822932680587/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110607822932680587.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:47), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> Crooked Joe Biden, he's betrayed your state because he's allowing people to take away your jobs at a level that nobody's ever seen before. You'll see it over the next couple of years. Right now, you're not feeling it as much because of what we did, but you'll see it. For three years, Biden and his radical left allies have waged war on American auto workers like nobody has witnessed to this extent before in his ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars. And by the way, they have a place. Right now, they're selling at about 5%. They have a place. They want them to sell at 100%. But we don't have the goods to make them. You know who has the goods? China has the goods. China has the countries and controls the countries with what they need for the batteries. But you know, we have more than anybody else, including Saudi Arabia and Russia. We have liquid gold right under our face. Biden has doubled the cafe standards, costing automakers an estimated $200 billion, and that number's going up, and sending car prices skyrocketing and killing thousands and thousands of US auto jobs, in addition to which you can't produce because you can't get the chips and you can't have your supply chain as a disaster. The whole country is a mess. Biden is a catastrophe for Michigan, and his environmental extremism is heartless and disloyal and horrible for the American worker, and you're starting to see it. Driven by his ridiculous regulations, electric cars will kill more than half of US auto jobs and decimate the suppliers.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/607/822/877/317/673/original/4e13ae1f573855e0.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,714
- Reposts: 2,861
- Replies: 221
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:59:05.830Z (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 compressed campaign attack unit triggered by the Hunter Biden plea deal — perceived two-tiered justice activating comparative grievance while Trump faces simultaneous federal indictment. Text is linguistically authentic Trump ('CROOKED' label, ALL CAPS, direct 'YOU' address); the attached MP4 video and post-rally timing suggest campaign staff coordination. Post operates in grandiose narcissistic register: Trump as warrior/prophet naming Biden's betrayal on behalf of the people. Core defenses are projection (moral culpability attributed entirely to Biden while Trump's own legal exposure is structurally absent from the frame) and splitting (binary moral landscape; no qualification). The 'CROOKED' label functions as Pavlovian in-group branding; 'HAS BETRAYED YOU' collapses political disagreement into personal violation, elevating affect while avoiding any specific factual claim. Trailing ellipsis + video constitute an affect-then-evidence rhetorical architecture. Jungian reading: Warrior/Avenger archetype with Shadow projection — the 'betrayer' accusation most accurately describes characteristics disowned in the self. Danger level: none. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization. Post is consistent with established Trump baseline aggressive-grandiose campaign mode; no marked deviation warranting special clinical notation beyond the persistent projection dynamic documented across the corpus. Longitudinal significance: the transition of the 'CROOKED' brand from Clinton (2016) to Biden reflects adaptation of a proven cognitive-conditioning tool.

# Analysis: ts_110607822932680587 — "CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU…"
**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-06-25, ~9:03 PM EDT (Michigan) | **Age:** 77

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## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Mixed (slight lean toward staff-coordinated, Trump-text)** | *Confidence: Medium*

The text is linguistically authentic Trump — the ritualized 'CROOKED' label, ALL CAPS intensifier, and second-person direct address ('YOU') are all well-documented stylistic baseline markers. However, the attached MP4 (almost certainly a produced attack ad) indicates campaign infrastructure involvement. Posting occurred at approximately 9:03 PM EDT, shortly after Trump spoke at the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner — timing consistent with a campaign aide posting on Trump's behalf, likely with Trump's approval or direct dictation of the text string.

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## Contextual Trigger
The Hunter Biden plea deal (announced ~June 20, 2023) is the most proximate trigger. Republicans widely characterized the deal — two misdemeanor tax charges and pretrial diversion on a felony gun charge — as a two-tiered justice arrangement favorable to Biden's son. For Trump, who by this date was already under federal indictment for classified document handling (Jack Smith investigation ongoing), this created a powerful comparative grievance: rival's son escapes accountability while Trump faces criminal exposure. The post converts that perceived asymmetry into moral accusation — Biden 'betrayed' the people, implicitly contrasted with Trump's projected role as their defender.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Salience | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Extraversion** | High | Assertive, dominant tone; ALL CAPS amplification |
| **Agreeableness** | Very Low | Contempt-laden label; zero collaborative framing |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low | Impulsive brevity; no qualification or specificity |
| **Neuroticism** | Moderate-High | Angry hostility channeled into attack |
| **Openness** | Very Low | Rigid binary framing; no ambiguity tolerated |

The post is prototypically low-agreeableness/high-extraversion — the combination most associated with dominant, aggressive interpersonal orientation (Paulhus & Williams, 2002).

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant Motive: Power/Agency**
The post is not primarily seeking admiration (supply-seeking) but rather asserting dominance over Biden and positioning as protector of 'you.' The competitive agency motive — defining self through defeating a rival — is the primary engine here.

**Schemas Active:**
- *Self schema*: Righteous revealer of truth, champion of the betrayed
- *Other schema (Biden)*: Wholly corrupt betrayer ('CROOKED')
- *World schema*: Zero-sum moral landscape; if Biden wins, 'you' lose

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** Warrior/Prophet — the one who sees and names the betrayal that others miss or conceal.

**Narrative Sequence:** Contamination — implied past goodness/promise of America → corrupted by Biden's betrayal. The ellipsis points toward a narrative continuation (the video presumably supplies the evidence).

**Identity Claims:**
- Implicit: *I am the one who tells you the truth they're hiding*
- Implicit: *I fight for you while they betray you*

**Contrasting Other:** Joe Biden ('CROOKED JOE') — the designated villain whose corruption defines Trump's virtue by opposition.

**Redemption Potential:** The post leaves redemption implied but unstated — Trump as the coming corrective to Biden's betrayal.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)
- **Narcissistic features** (0.75/1.0): Grandiosity, entitlement to define who is corrupt, special knowledge claim
- **Antisocial features** (0.50/1.0): Disregard for specific factual accuracy; deceitful framing by omitting Trump's own legal context
- **Paranoid features** (0.35/1.0): Minimal in this post specifically; no persecution claim against Trump directly
- **Ego-syntonic sadism** (0.30/1.0): The 'CROOKED' label deployed with evident relish; humiliation is the rhetorical instrument

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger type:** Primarily *comparative injury* — Hunter Biden's favorable treatment activates envy and competitive grievance. Secondary *supply-seeking* — Michigan rally audience provides live admiration matrix; this post extends that energy to the digital audience.

**Narcissistic rage:** Absent as acute rage; present as cold, weaponized aggression. The post lacks the frantic, uncontrolled quality of acute narcissistic rage episodes (cf. some 2020/2021 posts post-election). This is controlled, strategic attack.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — expansive, dominant, self-cast as truth-teller.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Projection** (Immature): Trump is under active federal criminal investigation for document handling; the 'betrayal' narrative projects moral culpability entirely onto Biden
2. **Splitting** (Immature): Biden = wholly corrupt; Trump = wholly righteous — no nuance admitted
3. **Denial** (Pathological): Implicit erasure of Trump's own legal jeopardy from the moral accounting

### Cognitive Status
**Assessment: Insufficient data from this post alone.** The post contains only seven substantive words and a video. No language complexity can be meaningfully assessed. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasia, or tangentiality observable. The post is consistent with baseline Trump brevity-intensity pattern in short attack posts. *Longitudinal cognitive assessment requires longer speech samples; this post neither supports nor refutes any trajectory.*

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Core devices:**
- **Ritualized nickname** ('CROOKED'): Originally deployed against Clinton (2016), now retasked against Biden. Functions as Pavlovian branding that bypasses deliberative cognition; familiarity accelerates emotional response
- **Second-person direct address** ('YOU'): Collapses distance, creates parasocial intimacy; Biden's betrayal is personal to each individual reader
- **ALL CAPS intensification**: Standard Trump amplifier; signals emotional heat and demands attention
- **Trailing ellipsis + video**: Two-part rhetorical structure — text generates affect, video supplies 'proof'
- **Absolute moral framing** ('BETRAYED'): Elevates policy disagreement to personal violation; no hedging, no qualification

**Propaganda techniques:**
- Enemy personalization (systemic issues → single villainous actor)
- RAND Firehose consistency: 'CROOKED' label deployed repeatedly across posts, building cumulative conditioning
- Implied savior contrast (if Biden betrayed you, the rescuer is implied without being named)

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Minimal direct gaslighting in this specific post. The 'BETRAYED' claim is an interpretive frame, not a documented-event denial. No DARVO structure, no explicit denial of verifiable events. The implicit reality distortion is the omission of Trump's own simultaneous legal vulnerability, which constructs a false moral asymmetry.

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## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

**Epistemic closure indicators present:**
- The 'CROOKED' label is an in-group identity marker — accepting it signals tribal membership
- 'HAS BETRAYED YOU' demands the audience adopt Trump's interpretive frame as their own reality
- No evidence offered; assertion alone is expected to function as proof for the base

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)

**Primary archetype activated: Warrior/Avenger**
Trump positions as the warrior who names the enemy and fights on behalf of the betrayed people. Secondary: **Trickster** — the one who breaks the spell of official narrative ('they won't tell you this, but Biden has betrayed you').

**Shadow projection:** Biden receives Trump's own projected shadow — the 'betrayer' accusation most fits an actor who has asked supporters to accept legally dubious claims (election fraud, classified documents). The shadow element disowned in the self is projected onto the opponent.

**Mythological narrative invoked:** The betrayal myth — a trusted authority turns traitor. This is one of the most emotionally resonant narrative structures in human psychology (cf. Judas, Benedict Arnold), and its invocation here is deliberate and calibrated.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning:** Order Attacker / Order Restorer hybrid
- Trump attacks the Biden-led order as corrupt/illegitimate ('betrayed')
- Implies himself as the restorer of proper order for 'you' (the forgotten people)
- Asymmetric application: chaos is what Biden brought; Trump brings the proper order back

**Grievance mapping:** Hunter Biden plea deal as symbol of two-tiered justice — one system for the connected, another for 'you.' Intensity: high. Blame: personalized to Biden.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None** for this specific post

No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism markers, no violent imagery. This is standard campaign attack rhetoric operating within the norm for competitive American political discourse, albeit at the aggressive/contemptuous end of that range.

The accumulated rhetorical pattern across the corpus — consistent enemy-labeling, betrayal framing, zero-sum moral language — contributes longitudinally to political polarization and in-group/out-group radicalization, but no specific danger indicators are present in this post.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU" | **Unverifiable** | This is an evaluative political assertion, not a verifiable factual claim. The Hunter Biden plea deal (announced ~June 20, 2023) is the most likely referent — Republicans widely characterized the deal as two-tiered justice. Whether the plea deal constitutes 'betrayal' of the American people is a matter of political interpretation, not fact. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Summary

This post is a compressed campaign attack unit — seven words plus a video — triggered primarily by the Hunter Biden plea deal, which activated a comparative grievance: rival's family receiving perceived favorable legal treatment while Trump faces federal indictment. Psychologically, the post operates in Trump's grandiose register, deploying ritualized nickname branding ('CROOKED'), direct-address parasocial intimacy ('YOU'), and implicit savior contrast. Defense mechanisms include projection (moral corruption attributed to Biden while Trump's own legal exposure is erased from the frame) and splitting (binary moral landscape). Rhetorical structure is deliberate: the trailing ellipsis and attached video create an affect-then-evidence architecture. Authorship is mixed — text is linguistically authentic Trump, but the produced video attachment and post-rally timing suggest campaign staff coordination. No cognitive anomalies are assessable from this brevity. No danger indicators are present. The post is clinically consistent with Trump's established baseline aggressive-grandiose campaign mode; it does not represent a marked deviation requiring special clinical notation beyond documentation of the projection dynamic that is structurally consistent across the corpus.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- 'CROOKED' nickname and ALL CAPS are quintessential Trump linguistic signatures
- Trailing ellipsis creating emotional suspense is a recurring Trump stylistic tic
- Extreme brevity combined with video attachment suggests campaign staff coordination
- Posted at ~9:03 PM EDT in Michigan (after Oakland County Lincoln Day Dinner) — evening timing is ambiguous, consistent with both staff posting and Trump himself
- Video media attachment implies pre-produced campaign content requiring staff involvement

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Hunter Biden plea deal / campaign rally momentum in Michigan)

Sentiment: -0.82

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address ('YOU') collapses distance between speaker and follower
- Shared victimhood construction — 'he betrayed YOU, not just me'
- Nickname ritualization ('CROOKED') reinforces tribal in-group identity through shared enemy label

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an evaluative political assertion, not a verifiable factual claim. The Hunter Biden plea deal (announced ~June 20, 2023) is the most likely referent — Republicans widely characterized the deal as two-tiered justice. Whether the plea deal constitutes 'betrayal' of the American people is a matter of political interpretation, not fact.

Sources: Hunter Biden plea deal coverage, June 2023 (provided historian context)

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- attack_ad (90%)
- projection (85%)
- crooked_label (90%)
- hunter_biden (80%)
- grandiose_state (75%)
- warrior_archetype (80%)
- campaign_michigan (70%)
- parasocial_you (85%)
- splitting (80%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Adrenaline Fuels 23-Post Day of DeSantis Obsession, Biden Attacks, and Eliminationist Rhetoric**

Trump rode the high of a Michigan Republican dinner into a marathon evening posting session, cycling through crowd celebration, Biden attacks, and aggressive policy promises before landing on his real target: Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor dominated the day's emotional energy across at least four dedicated posts plus indirect references, with Trump oscillating between dismissing him as irrelevant and clearly seething over Fox News covering DeSantis instead of him. The most alarming moment came in a culture-war post labeling transgender identity as "insanity" and promising executive punishment of schools -- language that targets a vulnerable group through the lens of child protection. The day ended on a quieter, slightly defensive note as Jack Smith's classified documents probe surfaced briefly before being buried under one last loyalty-signaling share.

Full digest for 2023-06-26: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 26). CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU… [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110607822932680587
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU…" Truth Social, 26 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110607822932680587. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "CROOKED JOE BIDEN HAS BETRAYED YOU…," Truth Social, June 26, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110607822932680587.

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