# Post ts_110608062095171983 - Post ID: `ts_110608062095171983` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-26T02:04:48.118Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110608062095171983 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110608062095171983/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110608062095171983.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “President Trump recognized that the Obama Deal was terrible, paving the way for Irans nuclear weapons—and he ended it…and imposed maximum pressure sanctions on Iran, which kept them suppressed…since Biden has taken office, he has eased up on sanctions…it follows in a series of foreign policy disgraces by the Biden Administration…”—Colonel Richard Kemp ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I want to thank you, Colonel Kemp, what exactly is going on with Iran and why should America be concerned about it? Well, America should be deeply concerned and the whole world should be just as concerned because what is about to happen, I believe, and obviously we don't know yet when or precisely if, but what looks very likely is that President Biden is about to go into an even worse nuclear deal with Iran than President Obama struck with Iran, and that deal, as you alluded to, was very, very dangerous, essentially rubber-stamping Iran's ability to become a nuclear state. And now Biden is going even further than that. He's making the situation which was bad much, much worse, because under the Obama deal, for example, the Iranians were limited to significantly less than 5% enrichment of nuclear material. Now, since the Obama days, Iran has now enriched up to 60%, 60%, and that 60% is the bottom level that Biden's going to allow, so he's going to allow enrichment to 60%, which is a very short hop, a very, very short hop in terms of technical capability and time to get to the extent required for full weaponization. And what happened before, as I'm sure your viewers will recall, is that President Trump recognized that the Obama deal was terrible, was, you know, paving the way for Iran's nuclear weapons, and he ended it, and he ended it and imposed maximum pressure sanctions on Iran, which kept them suppressed, and it kept the enrichment levels down at 5% or below. Since President Biden has taken office, he's eased up on that right from the very beginning. He's eased up on sanctions. He's allowed illegal oil experts from Iran, contrary to US law, contrary to international law. He's allowed all that to go ahead, and he's allowed Iran to enrich from the level of 5%, which was a maximum under Trump, to 60% now. And now what he's saying is, effectively, you can do pretty much whatever you want. You can carry on building weapons. You can carry on with all other aspects of your nuclear program, including ballistic missiles program. You can effectively carry on with your terrorism around the region. You just can't enrich over 60%, and a reward for that, our reward for that is we're going to unfreeze $20 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets immediately with more to follow, probably hundreds of billions of dollars more to follow, and that's going to enable Iran to work even harder on their nuclear program. It's going to enable Iran to continue supplying vast stocks of drones and in future ballistic missiles to Russia to attack Ukraine, because Iran not only threatens the Middle East and the world with their nuclear program, they also are part and party to Russia's war on Ukraine, being the main weapons supplier to Russia. And all of these things effectively are going to be facilitated by President Biden's deal, which is effectively a capitulation to Iranian blackmail. It's surrendering to Iran. It follows in a series of foreign policy disgraces by the Biden administration, starting with the humiliation of the United States over the withdrawal from Afghanistan, continuing with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which I believe happened mainly because of America's weakness over Afghanistan, and even ceding the role of power broker in the Middle East to China. And this is President Biden's foreign policy record. He's now adding to it total capitulation by allowing this deal to go ahead. And the way I read this deal for sure is essentially the U.S., the U.S. administration has given up on trying to contain Iran's nuclear program. They're just accepting Iran will be a nuclear-armed state. And what this is all about is trying to apply pressure on Israel to prevent Israel from dealing with Iran's nuclear program. And that, I think, is the real purpose of this deal, to make it much more complicated for Israel to carry out a serious military strike against the Iranian nuclear program. You shouldn't forget that only Israel has taken an active role in interdicting Iran's nuclear program. And over recent years, Prime Minister Netanyahu, with his close advisor and now Minister Ron Derma, have outmaneuvered U.S. efforts to facilitate the Iranian nuclear deal. And by carrying out covert operations, cyber, sabotage, assassination operations, they've put back the Iranian nuclear program by a number of years. But the hope, I think, by the Biden administration is that those efforts will be curtailed and Israel will be forced to tow the line and allow Iran to become a nuclear-armed state. When we come back, Commander, I don't think Israel's going to sit for this. It's obviously going to make their situation much more complicated when you have a president who appeases the Iranians and sells out the Israelis. On a really two-track kind of diplomatic activity here, which is bending over backwards for the Iranians and trying to prevent the Israelis from defending themselves. And I want to know your opinion about that. I mean, really, is Israel going to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons to threat its population? I mean, they're very close to one another. They don't have an ocean between those two countries. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/608/061/781/348/449/original/ed3c2871802ffaa2.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,382 - Reposts: 3,370 - Replies: 314 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T05:47:11.747Z (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 routine campaign-era foreign policy credentialing post amplifying a Colonel Richard Kemp clip praising Trump's Iran sanctions policy. The core psychological mechanism is third-person self-aggrandizement via surrogate voice: Trump shares an external military authority praising "President Trump" in the third person, receiving narcissistic supply (retrospective policy vindication) while maintaining rhetorical distance from explicit self-praise. This pattern — systematic amplification of external validators — recurs across Trump's social media and represents an efficient supply-seeking strategy with built-in deniability. The splitting structure (Obama/Biden = catastrophically weak; Trump = uniquely effective) is consistent with immature defense organization. The post arrives on a day when the classified documents probe was generating active witness activity; the foreign policy credentialing functions simultaneously as preemptive counter-narrative. Timing (10 PM EDT, post-Michigan rally) is authentic. The key factual claim — that the JCPOA "paved the way" for Iranian nuclear weapons — inverts the deal's documented mechanism (which constrained enrichment), representing either sincere revisionism or deliberate reality distortion. No elevated danger indicators. Cognitive assessment is not possible from the quoted format. Clinically, the post illustrates Trump's grandiose (not vulnerable) state on this day, with zero rage expression and a confident vindication register consistent with a successful campaign rally day. # Post Analysis — ts_110608062095171983 | 2023-06-26 ## Context Posted at approximately **22:04 EDT** following Trump's Oakland County, Michigan campaign rally. The post is one of a multi-post cluster from the day; adjacent posts include rally thanks, campaign promises (CRT, Deep State, "47th President"), and a Trump Turnberry golf promotion. The Iran clip occupies the foreign policy credentialing slot in an otherwise domestic-focused campaign day. Background: the Jack Smith classified documents probe was actively generating witness testimony the same week. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.55 (leaning authentic with possible aide logistics support)** Timing strongly favors authentic Trump: 10 PM local time, post-rally, within his known late-evening posting window. However, the post contains zero original Trump prose — it is entirely a third-party quote paired with an MP4 attachment. The clip's sourcing, editing, and uploading may involve aide assistance, while the *decision* to share and the timing are consistent with Trump's own behavior. Stylometric analysis is effectively impossible when the entire visible content is attributed to another speaker. Treat as authentically initiated, possibly aide-facilitated in clip production. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Direction | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | High | Public performance, rally-day amplification | | **Agreeableness** | Low | Oppositional framing, zero acknowledgment of opposing view | | **Conscientiousness** | Low-moderate | Policy topic selected; no substantive engagement with complexity | | **Neuroticism** | Low (this post) | No rage, no emotional escalation — calm vindication mode | | **Openness** | Low | Rigid binary worldview; complex geopolitics reduced to moral fable | This post sits in Trump's **calm grandiose** register rather than his agitated/reactive mode. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power** The post is primarily about demonstrating superior foreign policy judgment. Trump is cast as the figure who *recognized* what others missed ("recognized that the Obama Deal was terrible") — epistemic superiority as power assertion. **Secondary motive: Achievement/Status** Retrospective credentialing: Trump's maximum pressure policy is presented as uniquely effective, seeking validation of past performance as current political capital. **Schema revealed:** - *Self*: Uniquely perceptive, strong, vindicated by military experts - *Obama/Biden*: Naive, weak, creating danger - *Audience*: Needs Trump's return to be safe --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Competent Steward — not actively fighting here, but having *already won* and now watching an incompetent successor undo his work. **Narrative sequence:** Classic **contamination arc embedded in the quote**: > Competence (Trump sanctions) → Betrayal/incompetence (Biden eases sanctions) → Ongoing harm (Iran emboldened) This serves Trump's broader meta-narrative: *America was great under Trump, is being ruined by Biden, and needs Trump to restore order.* **Identity claims:** - "I recognized the danger when others didn't" - "I took decisive action (ended the deal, imposed maximum pressure)" - "My policies worked (kept them suppressed)" **Contrasting other:** Obama (naïve architect), Biden (negligent inheritor) **Archetype activated:** The **Returning King** — not present as a warrior here but as the legitimate sovereign whose wise policies are being squandered by an unworthy usurper. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics This post is a **pure supply-seeking mechanism** — specifically, *retrospective supply*: validation of past decisions by an external authority figure. The psychological architecture is notable: - Trump amplifies someone praising "President Trump" in the third person - He receives the gratification of hearing himself called competent/decisive - The surrogate voice provides social cover ("I'm just sharing what others are saying") - This pattern recurs across Trump's social media — a systematic strategy for self-aggrandizement with deniability **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (not vulnerable/wounded — this is confidence-display, not grievance processing) **Trigger:** Mixed. Primary = supply-seeking (campaign credentialing). Secondary = preemptive defense — the classified documents probe creates pressure to assert foreign policy competence as countervailing narrative. **Rage:** Absent. This post is in Trump's *cool vindication* mode. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Splitting (immature):** The entire framing rests on binary valuation — no acknowledgment that the JCPOA imposed constraints, that maximum pressure had costs, or that Iran policy involves genuine tradeoffs 2. **Idealization (immature):** Maximum pressure era rendered as unambiguous success ("kept them suppressed") with no caveats 3. **Displacement (neurotic):** Attention redirected from active domestic legal exposure toward foreign policy domain where Trump can claim strength --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Obama Deal was terrible, paving the way for Iran's nuclear weapons" | **Mostly False** | The JCPOA (2015) imposed constraints on Iran's enrichment activities, limited centrifuge deployment, reduced enriched uranium stockpile by 98%, and required IAEA monitoring. The IAEA confirmed compliance through 2018. The framing that it 'paved the way' inverts the mechanism. | | "Trump ended the Obama Deal" | **True** | Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018. | | "Trump imposed maximum pressure sanctions on Iran" | **True** | The Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign reimposed and escalated sanctions on Iran following JCPOA withdrawal, targeting oil, banking, and shipping sectors. | | "Maximum pressure sanctions kept Iran suppressed" | **Half True** | Iran's economy was significantly damaged. However, Iran accelerated nuclear activities in response: by 2021 Iran was enriching uranium to 60% purity, exceeding JCPOA limits. 'Suppressed' overstates the nuclear containment effect. | | "Biden has eased up on sanctions" | **Half True** | Biden pursued JCPOA re-entry negotiations and did not escalate maximum pressure, but comprehensive sanctions relief was never granted as negotiations stalled. Characterization as simply 'easing up' is reductive. | Overall Veracity: 64% ## Rhetorical Techniques **Primary device: Appeal to military authority.** Colonel Richard Kemp (British Army veteran, commentator) provides external credentialing for a domestic political attack. Military rank functions as a credibility multiplier in the target audience. **Secondary devices:** - *Third-person heroic framing*: "President Trump recognized…" — self-praise insulated by attribution - *Contamination narrative compression*: A decade of complex geopolitics collapsed into a three-act moral fable - *Synecdoche*: Iran = shorthand for broader Biden foreign policy failure without enumeration - *Ellipsis as rhetorical rhythm*: "…and he ended it…and imposed maximum pressure…" — creates cadence of decisiveness **Propaganda techniques:** - Black-and-white historical revisionism - Surrogate authority laundering of political claims - Whataboutism (Biden foreign policy as deflection from domestic legal exposure) --- ## Cognitive Assessment **Limited signal.** As a third-party quote, the post provides no direct window into Trump's language production. The selection of this clip on this day is cognitively coherent — it fits campaign messaging and the post-rally sequence. No cognitive flags can be assessed from this format. **Baseline deviation: none.** --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **Minor.** The framing that the JCPOA "paved the way for Iran's nuclear weapons" is a documented reversal of the deal's actual mechanism (which constrained the program). This may reflect genuine belief or deliberate revisionism — the pattern of presenting this as settled, obvious fact ("recognized that the Obama Deal was terrible") forecloses epistemic engagement. **Epistemic closure:** Yes. The framing assumes audience acceptance of the premise without engaging the documented record. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This is standard foreign policy credentialing rhetoric. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Order restorer framing.** Trump is positioned as the figure who imposed order (sanctions = suppression of Iranian nuclear threat) against Biden who has introduced chaos (sanctions relief = emboldened Iran). This maps onto Trump's standard electoral narrative: his absence = disorder; his return = restoration. --- ## Summary *See summary field.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Local time approximately 22:04 EDT (UTC-4, Trump in Michigan post-rally) — late evening consistent with authentic posting window - Post is a media amplification clip (MP4 attached) — clip sourcing may involve aide logistics but sharing is consistent with Trump's own behavior - No original Trump prose; entirely a third-party quote — reduces stylometric signal - Post is one of a cluster of campaign-day posts; others in the cluster ('Thank you Michigan') show authentic markers - Absence of typos/ALL CAPS consistent with aide polish, though the content is purely quoted material leaving little room for stylistic signature ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (Ongoing classified documents probe; campaign credentialing need) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - idealization (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 40% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vicarious authority — military officer's credibility borrowed to validate political identity - Third-person self-reference through surrogate voice ('President Trump recognized…') - Retrospective omniscience framing ('recognized that the Obama Deal was terrible') ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - JCPOA framed as 'paving the way' for Iranian nuclear weapons — inverts the documented mechanism of the deal (which constrained enrichment) - Presented as obvious settled truth ('recognized that the Obama Deal was terrible') foreclosing epistemic engagement with documented record ## Fact Checks (5) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > The Obama Deal was terrible, paving the way for Iran's nuclear weapons **MOSTLY FALSE** The JCPOA (2015) imposed constraints on Iran's enrichment activities, limited centrifuge deployment, reduced enriched uranium stockpile by 98%, and required IAEA monitoring. The IAEA confirmed compliance through 2018. The framing that it 'paved the way' inverts the mechanism. Sources: IAEA Board of Governors reports 2015-2018; JCPOA text and annex documentation > Trump ended the Obama Deal **TRUE** Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018. Sources: White House statement May 8, 2018 > Trump imposed maximum pressure sanctions on Iran **TRUE** The Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign reimposed and escalated sanctions on Iran following JCPOA withdrawal, targeting oil, banking, and shipping sectors. Sources: U.S. Treasury OFAC designations 2018-2021 > Maximum pressure sanctions kept Iran suppressed **HALF TRUE** Iran's economy was significantly damaged. However, Iran accelerated nuclear activities in response: by 2021 Iran was enriching uranium to 60% purity, exceeding JCPOA limits. 'Suppressed' overstates the nuclear containment effect. Sources: IAEA reports 2019-2021 > Biden has eased up on sanctions **HALF TRUE** Biden pursued JCPOA re-entry negotiations and did not escalate maximum pressure, but comprehensive sanctions relief was never granted as negotiations stalled. Characterization as simply 'easing up' is reductive. Sources: State Department JCPOA negotiation records 2021-2023 Overall Veracity: 64% ## Tags - foreign-policy-credentialing (90%) - surrogate-validation (85%) - iran-nuclear (90%) - jcpoa-revisionism (80%) - campaign-messaging (85%) - narcissistic-supply-seeking (75%) - splitting (70%) - appeal-to-authority (80%) - whataboutism (60%) - grandiose-state (70%) ## 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). “President Trump recognized that the Obama Deal... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110608062095171983 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“President Trump recognized that the Obama Deal was..." 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