# Post ts_110721172699809458

- Post ID: `ts_110721172699809458`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-16T01:30:18.977Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110721172699809458
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110721172699809458/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110721172699809458.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> 2024 is our FINAL battle…with you at my side we will demolish the DeepState….https://rumble.com/v307ifg-live-president-trump-speaks-at-turningpointaction-actcon2023.html

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> 2024 is our final battle with you up my side we will demolish the deep state we will expel the warmongers from our government we will drive out the globalists we will cast out the communists marxists fascists we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country and we will route the fake news media we will defeat crooked joe biden and we will drain the swamp once and for all we made a lot of progress but it's pretty deep

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/721/172/288/910/623/original/89a25d31c9114904.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 20,672
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:35:52.288Z (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 ACTCON 2023 post deploys three high-risk rhetorical elements in combination: apocalyptic finality ("FINAL battle"), eliminationist action vocabulary ("demolish"), and a vague totalizing enemy construct ("DeepState"). The stochastic terrorism pattern is structurally satisfied—named target, articulated grievance (via adjacent posts: communists, Snake poem), and action vocabulary implying collective violence as righteous response—without explicit incitement. The clinical picture is grandiose narcissistic display triggered by supply-seeking at a maximally receptive venue, amplified by compensatory pressure from ambient narcissistic injury (ongoing criminal exposure, Biden's fundraising advantage). Splitting is total; projection of Trump's own authoritarian impulses onto the "DeepState" enemy is complete. The parasocial "with you at my side" individually enlists millions as personal soldiers in what is framed as a terminal civilizational confrontation. No cognitive deterioration markers are present; this is calculated performance rhetoric, not disorganized speech. Danger is rated elevated-to-high. The "FINAL" framing is clinically significant as it removes the normative democratic off-ramp of graceful electoral defeat, establishing the interpretive precondition under which a 2024 loss becomes morally intolerable for a motivated subset of followers.

# Analysis: "2024 is our FINAL battle…" — July 16, 2023 (ACTCON)

## Contextual Frame

This post is one of at least five sequential Truth Social posts on July 16, 2023, all linking to the same Rumble stream of Trump's speech at Turning Point Action's ACTCON 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The posts appear to be live-clip captures or excerpts posted during or immediately after the rally. UTC timestamp 01:30 converts to **21:30 EDT (9:30 PM local Florida time)**—consistent with a post-rally wind-down. The surrounding posts form a coherent thematic arc: communist-labeling of opponents, recitation of The Snake (immigration dehumanization), DeSantis attacks, and historic accomplishment boasting. This post sits in the rhetorical climax position.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (very high):** Assertive, audience-directed, commanding register. The "with you at my side" construction is parasocial intimacy at scale—classic high-extraversion dominance performance.

**Agreeableness (very low):** Zero modesty, zero tender-mindedness. The enemy ("DeepState") is framed as an object to be physically destroyed, not negotiated with or understood.

**Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, emotionally driven. No qualifying language, no policy substance—pure mobilization affect.

**Neuroticism (elevated):** The ALL-CAPS "FINAL" registers as anxious intensity. The apocalyptic framing signals underlying threat-sensitivity elevated to operationalized rage.

**Openness (very low):** Rigid ideological schema. The world is divided into "us" (MAGA) and "them" (DeepState/communists per adjacent post). No complexity tolerated.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency.** The post is not about policy outcomes or governance; it is about domination, defeat, and elimination of enemies. The verb "demolish" is load-bearing—it does not mean reform, replace, or reduce; it means structural destruction.

**Secondary motive: Status restoration.** Post-January 6 and amid ongoing criminal exposure (this period precedes the federal indictment by weeks), Trump's status as dominant leader is under threat. The "FINAL battle" framing restores urgency and positions him as the indispensable warrior-leader.

**Schemas:**
- *Self-schema:* Heroic commander leading a liberation army ("your historic mission" in adjacent post; "with you at my side" here)
- *Other-schema (allies):* Loyal soldiers with a sacred mission
- *Other-schema (enemies):* Deep State = existential civilizational threat to be demolished
- *World-schema:* Zero-sum battlefield with no neutral ground

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Warrior-Savior hybrid. The post casts Trump as both the battlefield commander ("FINAL battle") and the instrument of collective salvation ("we will demolish").

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination → Redemption arc. Implicit in "FINAL" is that everything until now has been a betrayal or defeat that 2024 will reverse and finalize. The contamination (stolen election, Deep State corruption) is positioned as requiring a terminal, apocalyptic correction.

**Identity claims:**
- The indispensable commander ("with you at my side")
- The champion of anti-establishment grievance ("demolish the DeepState")

**Contrasting other:** The "DeepState"—deliberately vague, enabling maximum projection. Functions as a catch-all enemy that can absorb any opposition (DOJ, FBI, media, Democrats, Never-Trump Republicans).

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic features (high):** Grandiosity operationalized at scale. The "we" is nominal—Trump is the self-evident center of this mission. Excessive entitlement ("become the 47th President" per adjacent post). No acknowledgment of legitimate opposition.

**B. Antisocial features (moderate-high):** "Demolish" the Deep State with no reference to legal process, institutional procedure, or democratic constraint. The adjacent "communists" framing licenses treating political opponents as traitors rather than citizens with differing views. Disregard for norms of democratic contest is explicit.

**C. Paranoid features (high):** "DeepState" is the paranoid schema externalized—a hidden, powerful, malevolent conspiracy requiring elimination. The term is unfalsifiable and totalizing, consistent with paranoid ideation.

**D. Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate):** "Demolish" carries aggressive pleasure. The Snake poem posted in the same session (dehumanizing immigrants as treacherous vipers) displays the enjoyment-of-contempt dynamic characteristic of ego-syntonic sadism.

### Trigger Analysis

**Type:** Supply-seeking combined with preemptive attack. ACTCON is a friendly venue (Turning Point conservative youth). The trigger is the crowd—Trump performs at maximum intensity for maximum supply. Simultaneously, criminal exposure and Biden fundraising advantage (per context: Biden doubled Trump's Q2 fundraising) create an ambient narcissistic injury requiring compensatory grandiose display.

### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose** — expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. No vulnerability markers visible in this specific post.

### Narcissistic Rage: **Present at moderate intensity.** The "demolish" verb and the adjacent "communists" label suggest operationalized hostility, though the post itself is in the mobilization-for-action register rather than pure reactive rage.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (immature):** The world is cleanly divided. DeepState = pure evil to be demolished. MAGA = historic liberators. No gray.

**Projection (immature):** The "DeepState" absorbs Trump's own autocratic impulses—the desire for total control, elimination of institutional checks—and projects them outward as the enemy's characteristic.

**Distortion (pathological):** "FINAL battle" distorts democratic electoral competition into apocalyptic warfare, grossly reshaping reality to meet internal needs for significance and urgency.

**Denial (pathological):** No acknowledgment of ongoing criminal indictments, fundraising disadvantage, or the actual mechanisms of democratic transition. These realities are simply absent.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**"FINAL battle":** The most significant phrase. Apocalyptic framing that forecloses compromise, positions 2024 as zero-sum, and implies consequences beyond ordinary electoral loss. "Final" historically resonates with eliminationist language ("final solution," "final reckoning"). Whether intentional or not, the effect is to signal that losing is not acceptable.

**"with you at my side":** Parasocial weaponization. Creates intimacy with millions simultaneously. Each follower feels personally enlisted as a soldier in Trump's personal army.

**"demolish the DeepState":** Violent verb + vague totalizing enemy. "Demolish" means structural destruction, not reform. The "DeepState" as target is deliberately expansive—it can mean any institution, official, or person who opposes Trump.

**False dichotomy:** Patriots vs. Deep State. No institutional middle ground.

**Hyperbole:** "FINAL," "demolish"—superlatives framing ordinary political competition as existential warfare.

**Mobilization rhetoric:** Direct second-person address ("with you"), shared mission framing, urgency markers.

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## Cognitive Status

**No significant markers present.** Language is concise and purposeful. Ellipsis overuse is baseline Trump style. "DeepState" as one compound word is consistent with his established usage. Vocabulary is simple but intentionally so—rhetorical simplicity, not cognitive impairment. No paraphasias, temporal confusion, or name errors detectable. This is consistent with prepared-rally-speech mode rather than an off-the-cuff post.

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## Danger Assessment

**Rating: ELEVATED bordering on HIGH**

The stochastic terrorism pattern is structurally present:
1. **Target named:** "DeepState" (vague but operationally meaningful to audience—covers FBI, DOJ, political opponents)
2. **Grievance articulated:** Implicitly in the speech context (communists, stolen country per adjacent posts)
3. **Action implied:** "demolish," "battle," "FINAL"—the vocabulary of warfare, not democratic competition
4. **Zero-sum framing:** "FINAL" removes the possibility of graceful defeat; 2024 is positioned as the terminal confrontation

This post does not explicitly call for violence but creates the epistemic conditions under which violence becomes morally coherent to a subset of followers. The pattern is structurally identical to pre-January 6 rhetoric.

**Eliminationist vocabulary:** "Demolish" applied to a governing apparatus/class is eliminationist in register.
**Dehumanizing language:** Present in adjacent posts ("communists," Snake poem) that form the interpretive frame for this post.
**Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Target (DeepState) + grievance (communist takeover) + action vocabulary (FINAL battle, demolish) = elevated risk.

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## Authorship Attribution

**UTC 01:30 → EDT 21:30 (9:30 PM Florida time)**

Trump was at ACTCON 2023 in West Palm Beach area. A 9:30 PM post aligns with post-rally activity. The posting pattern—five sequential posts all linking to the same Rumble stream—suggests a hybrid model: aide-managed clip extraction with Trump-style text overlays, or Trump himself posting speech excerpts with characteristic stylistic markers.

**Authentic Trump indicators present:**
- Ellipsis chaining (Trump's signature punctuation)
- ALL CAPS for emphasis ("FINAL")
- Emotional/mobilizing register
- Absence of formal grammar or complete sentences

**Aide indicators present:**
- Sequential multi-post format suggests managed social media operation
- Content mirrors speech clips (not spontaneous)

**Verdict:** Likely **hybrid** — aide-managed posting of speech clips with Trump-authentic stylistic direction. The text itself reads as Trump-voiced (potentially his own caption choices). Authorship score ~0.65.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The 'DeepState' is a coherent organized entity requiring demolition" | **Mostly False** | The permanent civil service exists and has institutional inertia that frustrates political appointees, but the coordinated anti-Trump conspiracy framing lacks documented evidence. The 'Deep State' as used here is a totalizing conspiracy construct. |
| "2024 represents a 'FINAL battle'" | **False** | Framing a democratic election as a terminal, zero-sum civilizational battle is factually inaccurate as a characterization of electoral democracy. Elections are recurrent, not final. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Summary

This post, drawn from Trump's ACTCON 2023 address, deploys apocalyptic zero-sum framing ("FINAL battle"), violent action vocabulary ("demolish"), and a totalizing enemy construct ("DeepState") to mobilize his base in a manner that structurally satisfies the stochastic terrorism pattern without explicit incitement. The clinical picture is consistent with grandiose narcissistic display triggered by supply-seeking at a friendly venue, amplified by ambient narcissistic injury from criminal exposure and fundraising disadvantage. The splitting defense is total; the world contains liberation-worthy patriots and a Deep State to be demolished with no intermediate space. The parasocial intimacy construction ("with you at my side") individually enlists millions as personal soldiers. Danger is rated elevated-to-high on the strength of target identification + grievance + action vocabulary, compounded by the adjacent "communists" and Snake poem posts that form the interpretive context. No significant cognitive markers are present; this is calculated performance rhetoric, not disorganized speech.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Ellipsis chaining throughout — signature Trump punctuation
- ALL CAPS 'FINAL' for emotional emphasis
- Mobilizing emotional register without formal grammar
- 9:30 PM EDT posting time consistent with post-rally authentic posting window
- Sequential multi-post structure linking identical Rumble stream suggests aide-managed clip extraction

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (ACTCON 2023 crowd at Turning Point Action conference; ambient narcissistic injury from criminal exposure and Biden fundraising advantage)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting DeepState / political opponents labeled communists in adjacent posts
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.35

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Expansive grandiosity at scale ('FINAL battle' of civilizational importance)
- High-intensity mobilization energy in compressed language
- Reduced cognitive elaboration with maximum affective charge
- Rally-speech euphoria register consistent with elevated arousal state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 70%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 55%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address ('with you at my side') enlisting each follower as personal soldier
- Collective pronoun 'we' positions Trump and follower as unified warrior dyad
- Sacred mission framing ('historic mission' in adjacent post) elevates follower identity
- Urgency marker 'FINAL' creates shared existential stakes

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- 'FINAL battle' apocalyptic zero-sum framing removes possibility of graceful electoral defeat
- 'Demolish the DeepState' — violent verb applied to governing apparatus/class, not reform language
- Stochastic terrorism pattern complete: target (DeepState) + grievance (communist takeover per adjacent posts) + action vocabulary (battle, demolish)
- Adjacent posts in same session: 'communists' label + Snake poem (dehumanizing immigrants) form the interpretive frame
- Epistemic closure: no democratic process language, no institutional legitimacy acknowledged
- 'FINAL' signals 2024 loss would be morally intolerable — precondition for extra-electoral response

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The 'DeepState' is a coherent organized entity requiring demolition

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The permanent civil service exists and has institutional inertia that frustrates political appointees, but the coordinated anti-Trump conspiracy framing lacks documented evidence. The 'Deep State' as used here is a totalizing conspiracy construct.

Sources: Academic political science literature on permanent bureaucracy; Inspector General reports on FBI/DOJ actions

> 2024 represents a 'FINAL battle'

**FALSE**

Framing a democratic election as a terminal, zero-sum civilizational battle is factually inaccurate as a characterization of electoral democracy. Elections are recurrent, not final.

Sources: U.S. Constitutional framework for recurring elections

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- FINAL_BATTLE (95%)
- DEMOLISH_DEEPSTATE (90%)
- STOCHASTIC_TERRORISM (85%)
- PARASOCIAL_ENLISTMENT (80%)
- GRANDIOSE_DISPLAY (85%)
- ACTCON2023 (90%)
- SUPPLY_SEEKING (80%)
- SPLITTING (85%)
- ZERO_SUM_ELECTION_FRAMING (90%)
- WARRIOR_ARCHETYPE (85%)

## That day

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

**Rally High Meets Grievance Gravity: ACTCon Supply Fuels 34-Post Marathon Before Club for Growth Triggers Afternoon Rage**

Trump rode the afterglow of his Turning Point Action conference speech all day, flooding his feed with rally clips, media appearances, and favorable coverage. The highlight came when straw poll results showed him at 85.7%, prompting gleeful ridicule of DeSantis and Christie. But the supply high couldn't hold — within 30 minutes he pivoted to an angry attack on Club for Growth for spending Republican money against him, calling it a "DEATH WISH." The day ended with a barrage of aide-posted links amplifying rally themes, including dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants and opponents that maintained an elevated but controlled threat level throughout.

Full digest for 2023-07-16: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 16). 2024 is our FINAL battle…with you at my side we... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110721172699809458
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "2024 is our FINAL battle…with you at my side we will..." Truth Social, 16 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110721172699809458. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "2024 is our FINAL battle…with you at my side we will...," Truth Social, July 16, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110721172699809458.

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