# Post ts_110942496148496627 - Post ID: `ts_110942496148496627` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-24T03:35:46.848Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110942496148496627 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110942496148496627/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110942496148496627.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “He (Crooked Joe Biden) can’t lift his feet out of the grass…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (7:59), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > You can't lift his feet out of the grass. You know, it's only two inches at the White House, right? That's not a lot. But you watch him and it looks like he's walking on toothpicks. And then you see him in the beach where he can't lift a chair. You know, those chairs are meant to be light, right? They're like two ounces. You lift them up. He can't lift the chair. He can't walk to the chair. And I don't know what they're doing with the beach. You know, this beach is seeming to play a big role, but they love pictures of him on the beach. I think it looks terrible on the beach. It looks terrible on the beach. Skinny legs? Well, he can't walk through the sand. You know, sand is not that easy to walk through. But when he walks through it, he can't walk through the sand. And there's somebody in there that thinks he looks fabulous at the beach. I think he looks horrible at the beach. Plus, the beach doesn't represent what the president's supposed to be doing. He's supposed to be working. He's supposed to be getting us out of that horrible, horrible war that we're very much involved in with Russia and Ukraine. You could do that. You could do that very easily. I believe you could do that very... I don't believe he could do it because he's just incompetent. But that's a war that should end immediately, not because of one side or the other, because hundreds of thousands of people are being killed. Can you imagine you're in an apartment house and rockets are going into that building and blowing it up and knocking it down? And who can... Why should anything, why should anybody, human beings, is a human, whether they're Russian or Ukrainian or whatever they are, it's got to be stopped. And it can't be stopped very easily. It would have never started. If I were president, it would have never started. So back to Biden, I'm interested. So you think he's failing, he obviously is failing. I think it's clear to everybody. But that would make Kamala Harris the candidate? Well, not really. I mean, I guess they'd have maybe a free-for-all. A lot of people say she has to remain for certain reasons the candidate, she has to. I don't think that's true, actually. I don't think that other people would stand for it. She has some bad moments. Her moments are almost as bad as his. I think his are worse, actually. Yeah. She seems pretty senile, too. She speaks in rhyme. It's weird, it's weird. But she has bad moments and-- In rhyme? Well, the way she talks, the bus will go here and then the bus will go there because that's what buses do. It's weird, the whole thing is weird. This is not a president of the United States future. And I think they probably have some kind of a primary and other people will get involved. I'm newsome, right? I mean, that's-- Could be, could be. I always got along well with him, believe it or not. But could be him, could be somebody else. He's got a big load on his shoulders because you look at California, what's happened. But I don't know if the American people really, the people that vote for him, I don't even know if they care. You look at so many of the things that are going on and people don't seem to be-- In the old days, if you had a bad record, it meant a lot. Today, if you have a bad record, it doesn't really mean anything. He looks good, he's a nice looking guy, speaks well. But Biden, every time you watch him talking, it's like he's walking on eggs. You're waiting for him to collapse. And he almost always does. And I got to know the leaders of all of the countries essentially, but the big ones. And the bigger, the tougher the leader. It's like, I guess maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. But I got to know President Xi of China and Putin and Kim Jong Un, North Korea, did a great job with North Korea, kept us out of a nuclear war. We would have 40,000 dead soldiers right now. They drop a nuke right on top of the military base. But we have 40,000 soldiers over there. And I did great, I got along with them great. That's a positive. You know, the President, he said nice things about Kim Jong Un. I also said horrible things at the beginning. Horrible enough that he wanted to talk. And we talked and we met in Singapore. We met actually twice. And we had unbelievable meetings. I know him very well. We were in great shape with him. - What do you think he and Xi and Putin think of Biden? - I think they can believe it. I think they probably say this is some kind of a system. You know, they had great respect for our country. They respected me. They had great respect for our country when I was there. Every one of them. If you go to North Korea, you take a look at what happened. You know, the Olympics was dead. South Korea spent billions on the Olympics. Nobody was gonna go. They didn't want to get blown up. They called me and they said, we are going to let the Olympics proceed. This is North Korea. I said, you should go into the Olympics. Put your athletes in. It wasn't like they were big on athletes because you know. - Famine. - But they went in and they actually participated. And within about two days, the entire thing was sold out. And if it wasn't me, that would have never happened. But I got along very well with him and that's a positive thing. He does have massive nuclear power, by the way. And if Hillary would have gotten in or if the Obama thought process continued, it would have been a nuclear war, absolutely with North Korea. He was expecting to go into a war and it would have been a nuclear war. - So do you think the rest of the world looks on at Biden and thinks someone else has got to be running the government? - Well, somebody else has to be. I don't think he's capable of doing anything. Look, when I debated him, I said, how come? And this was in front of, probably not a friend of yours, Chris Wallace. He was the moderator. - Not a friend. - I said, why is it? He wants to be Mike, but he doesn't have the talent. It's one of those- - It's a bitchy little man. - He wanted to be his father, but he didn't have the talent of his father, his greatest father. - A little fussy man. - His father interviewed me in 60 Minutes. It was actually a 10. Can you believe- - No, I totally- His father had talent, at least. - I may have been the only guy that he gave a good 60 Minutes, so he was rough. - Really? - His father was tough. He was great, though. He was great at what he did. But Chris Wallace was so upset. He was guarding this guy. Who wouldn't do a show, by the way? You know, he wouldn't do. I figured, I didn't mind Chris Wallace because he wouldn't do, Biden wouldn't do a show. And it was very obvious. You know, he kept asking him and asking him, but he wouldn't do the show. So I figured he's got to like me. But he came from a different planet. But remember when I asked the question, why is it that the mayor of Moscow's wife is allowed to give you three and a half million dollars? Don't forget, that was brought up now. It's brought up all the time. But that was brought up by me long before anyone ever heard of it. I said, the mayor of Moscow's wife giving you three and a half million dollars. What did you do to deserve three and a half million dollars? To Biden. And Chris Wallace said, this doesn't, this has nothing to do with the debate. I mean, he-- - He got in the way of the question. - No, well, it was crazy. And I said, well, wait a minute. He got three and a half million from the mayor of Moscow's wife. Now people forget that, but you go back and take a look, you will see. And Chris Wallace didn't want me to ask that question. I said, I think it's a very appropriate question. It turned out to be much more appropriate than people thought. - Amazing. So do you have a preference in, assuming you're the Republican nominee and all goes as you plan it to go, do you have a preference in who you run against? - In many ways I'd love to run against him because his record's so bad. You know, it's still horrible when you look at inflation and everything else, but others also have very bad records. I mean, California is a bad record. So, you know, should it be Gavin or should it be somebody else? When I look at San Francisco, what's happened to that incredible city? That was one of the greatest cities in the world just a short while ago. Now it's very sad when you look at it, Los Angeles. Every city, practically, all the Democrat-run cities, you know Republican-run cities are doing very nicely because they arrest people when you have crimes and they don't go after political candidates because they think it's good. You know, I mean, it's like been amazing. My poll numbers are the highest I've ever had. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/942/495/380/513/812/original/8ed8598a76062fe8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,467 - Reposts: 2,938 - Replies: 341 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:52:18.737Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the night of his historic Fulton County booking — the first presidential mugshot in U.S. history — Trump posts a late-night video of Biden struggling to walk across grass, tagged with a pejorative nickname and trailing ellipsis. The post is authentic (11:35 PM ET, unmistakable stylistic signature) and reveals the primary psychological mechanism of the day: displacement of narcissistic injury. Having been fingerprinted, photographed as a criminal defendant, and assigned an inmate number within hours, the subject redirects immediately and persistently outward — attacking Christie's debate performance, rebutting Pence, deploying "FRAUD SQUAD," and closing the night mocking Biden's gait. The cluster functions collectively as a defense against the vulnerability implicit in the day's events. This specific post is the mildest expression of that drive: low-heat, contemptuous, dehumanizing through ridicule rather than rage. Defense mechanisms operative are displacement, devaluation, and reaction formation — the latter constructing implied self-vigor through contrast with depicted rival frailty. No cognitive markers of concern. No danger indicators. Clinically, this represents grandiose narcissistic state maintenance under high-magnitude injury pressure — functioning defenses, high output, zero acknowledgment of legal reality. # Analysis: ts_110942496148496627 | 2023-08-24 | "He (Crooked Joe Biden) can't lift his feet out of the grass…" ## Authorship Attribution **UTC 03:35 → Eastern Daylight Time 23:35 (11:35 PM) on August 23, 2023.** Trump was in Atlanta, Georgia that day for his Fulton County surrender, returning to his residence thereafter. Late-night Eastern time. Authenticity confidence: **high**. Stylistic markers confirm: short, punchy, nickname deployment ("Crooked Joe Biden"), trailing ellipsis suggesting unfinished thought or implied conclusion, no event-announcement framing, zero polish. This is classic unmediated Trump — a late-night reactive post, not Scavino product. --- ## Contextual Frame The timing is critical: within hours of Trump's historic mugshot — the first ever taken of a former U.S. president — and his Fulton County booking as inmate P01135809. He had also just been subjected to an unprecedented $200,000 bond with explicit social media restrictions prohibiting threats against witnesses and co-defendants. The post arrives at the tail end of a day that began with genuine humiliation and ended with Trump already pivoting aggressively to counter-narrative. The attached MP4 (a video clip, content inferred from textual description: Biden appearing to have difficulty with a walking gait, unable to lift feet cleanly from grass) is the evidentiary core. The post functions as caption and commentary — inviting ridicule of Biden's physical mobility. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Agreeableness (very low):** Physical mockery of a 80-year-old political opponent. No modesty, no restraint. Interpersonal antagonism at baseline. - **Extraversion (high):** Public broadcast of a contemptuous observation; dominant, assertive register. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, incomplete sentence. No deliberation evident. - **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility (elevated):** The post is not neutral observation; the nickname "Crooked" signals the hostile framing. Hostility is diffuse and habitual here rather than acute spike. - **Openness (low):** Rigid us/them framing; zero complexity. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive dominant.** The post asserts status dominance by contrasting an implied virile, capable self against a physically diminished rival. It is not information-sharing — it is hierarchy positioning. **Schemas visible:** - *Self-schema:* Implicitly strong, capable, in command — defined by opposition to Biden's depicted frailty - *World-schema:* Zero-sum; one man's weakness validates another's fitness - *Other-schema:* Biden is physically ridiculous and unfit; audience is expected to agree reflexively --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Dominant warrior/alpha. The post casts Trump as the observer who can see what others cannot or will not say. He is the one who names Biden's weakness. **Contamination sequence (background):** The day's contamination arc — arrest, fingerprinting, mugshot — is being actively counteracted in real time through this post and the cluster preceding it. Each post that evening (debate commentary on Christie, Pence rebuttal, "FRAUD SQUAD," "Aida was a joke") follows the same pattern: redirect outward, assert dominance, refuse the victim frame. **Contrasting other:** Biden explicitly. The ellipsis implies an unspoken conclusion the audience should complete: "…[and I could.] / […so how can he lead the country?]" — the contrast is between Biden's depicted physical decline and an implied Trump vitality. **Identity claims:** Physical and cognitive vigor, by inversion. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Severe narcissistic injury — the mugshot, the cash bond, the social media restrictions imposed by a judge, the symbolism of inmate number assignment. This is one of the highest-magnitude single-day injuries in the public record for this subject. **Response pattern:** Near-instantaneous pivot to opponent derogation. This is textbook defensive grandiosity deployed to metabolize humiliation: if Biden is weak and ridiculous, then Trump's legal predicament shrinks in relative standing. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose, maintained by active effort. The vulnerability is present — the volume and scatter of the day's posts (multiple rapid-fire attacks on different targets: Christie, Pence, "Aida," fraud squad, now Biden) suggests a fragmented supply-seeking drive rather than calm dominance. **Rage:** Subclinical here — low heat, contemptuous rather than explosive. The ellipsis is dismissive, not furious. Proportionality: notably *under*-matched to the actual trigger severity, which paradoxically suggests the displacement is functioning (absorbing the injury). ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement (immature):** The primary mechanism. The humiliation of the booking is redirected outward — not onto the legal system (which carries risk), not onto witnesses (now legally constrained), but onto Biden's physical gait. Safe target, no legal exposure. 2. **Reaction formation (neurotic):** The assertion of Biden's physical weakness implicitly constructs Trump's own physical capability. The subject who was just fingerprinted and photographed as a criminal defendant presents himself as a vigorous contrast to a stumbling opponent. 3. **Devaluation (immature):** Biden reduced to a physical infirmity — stripped of political identity, cognitive standing, moral standing. Pure devaluation. 4. **Denial (pathological, contextual):** The broader day's post cluster, read together, enacts a refusal to acknowledge the gravity of the legal situation. No post on this day directly addresses the mugshot in terms of its meaning or implications — only attack, dismissal, counter-narrative. ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity by contrast, entitlement (mocking incumbent president), lack of empathy (deriding apparent disability) - **Antisocial features:** Contempt for social norms (mocking physical limitation); the bond conditions were imposed partly for norm violations — the pattern continues - **Paranoid features:** Not prominent in this specific post (more visible in Pence post on same day) - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild — the mockery has a pleasurable quality, a "look at this" performance of ridicule. The ellipsis invites the audience to laugh along. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Nickname deployment ("Crooked Joe Biden"):** Pejorative anchor, repeated across thousands of posts; functions as conditioned trigger for audience - **Physical mockery / ridicule:** Classic dominance display; signals the target is beneath serious engagement - **Implied audience completion (ellipsis):** "…" invites the reader to finish the thought — a parasocial technique that creates the illusion of shared private understanding - **Video evidence as rhetorical prop:** The attached video clip naturalizes the claim — "this is not my opinion, this is footage." Decontextualized video clips of Biden walking have been a recurring opposition research tool; framing the clip as evidence of unfitness is a standard propaganda deployment - **Dehumanization:** Mild but present — reducing Biden to a physical dysfunction rather than a political agent **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Not the primary mode of this post. The claim about Biden's gait is grounded in a real observable phenomenon (Biden has a documented shuffling gait, has stumbled publicly, is a topic of legitimate medical commentary) but is rhetorically amplified and stripped of context to imply cognitive unfitness beyond the visual evidence. This is exaggeration and selective framing rather than outright gaslighting. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **No markers of concern in this post.** The sentence is structurally intact (if incomplete by design), vocabulary is at baseline, the nickname is correctly deployed. The incompleteness is stylistic, not cognitive. **Baseline comparison:** Trump's characteristic sentence length and vocabulary in informal posts from 2015-2016 were similarly spare. No detected deviation from his established baseline in this post. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden can't lift his feet out of the grass" | **Half True** | Biden has a documented shuffling gait attributed to spinal stenosis (disclosed in December 2021 physician's letter) and has stumbled publicly on multiple occasions. The observable phenomenon is real. 'Can't' is rhetorically absolute and implies total incapacity rather than partial limitation. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** for this specific post. Physical mockery of a political rival, while ethically problematic and consistent with dehumanizing rhetoric trajectories, does not meet the threshold for stochastic terrorism markers or eliminationist language here. No target identification, no grievance articulation leading to implied action, no mobilization language. **Note:** The judge's bond conditions on this same day explicitly prohibited social media threats against witnesses and co-defendants. This post targets Biden, not a witness — it does not violate the order, but the subject's continued late-night posting pattern on a day when social media restrictions were imposed signals the behavioral drive is not easily constrained by legal intervention. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Trickster/Warrior hybrid.** The post disrupts the expected emotional register of the day (solemnity of arrest, gravity of charges) with contemptuous humor about the incumbent's mobility. It refuses the frame the legal system attempted to impose and reasserts the disruptive persona. The Trickster names what polite discourse avoids; the Warrior cannot be seen to be wounded. **Shadow projection:** The subject's own physical aging, legal vulnerability, and documented cognitive concerns (per his own critics) are projected outward onto Biden. What is disowned internally is located and attacked externally. --- ## Summary On the night of his historic Fulton County booking — the first presidential mugshot in U.S. history — Trump posts a late-night video of Biden struggling to walk across grass, tagged with his characteristic pejorative nickname and trailing ellipsis. The post is authentic (11:35 PM ET, unmistakable stylistic signature) and reveals the primary psychological mechanism of the day: displacement of narcissistic injury. Having been fingerprinted, photographed as a criminal defendant, and assigned an inmate number within hours, the subject redirects immediately and persistently outward — attacking Christie's debate performance, rebutting Pence, deploying "FRAUD SQUAD," and finally closing the night mocking Biden's physical gait. The cluster functions collectively as a defense against the vulnerability implicit in the day's events. This specific post is the mildest expression of that drive: low-heat, contemptuous, dehumanizing through ridicule rather than rage. Defense mechanisms operative are displacement, devaluation, and reaction formation — the latter constructing implied self-vigor through contrast with depicted rival frailty. No cognitive markers of concern. No danger indicators. Clinically, this is grandiose narcissistic state maintenance under high-magnitude injury pressure — functioning defenses, high output, zero acknowledgment of legal reality. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - Late-night posting (23:35 ET on day of Fulton County surrender) - Characteristic pejorative nickname deployment ('Crooked Joe Biden') - Incomplete sentence with trailing ellipsis — stream-of-consciousness quality - No event-announcement structure, no scheduling language - Reactive, unpolished, zero professional formatting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Fulton County booking, mugshot, $200K bond, and court-imposed social media restrictions — all on the same day) **Rage:** Intensity 25% targeting Joe Biden (displaced from legal system/prosecutors) - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.55 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Late-night posting on a day of extreme legal stress - High-volume rapid-fire post cluster across the evening (6+ posts) - Each post pivots rapidly to a new attack target - Absence of any affect consistent with gravity of day's legal events ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - devaluation (immature) - reaction formation (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 18% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Trailing ellipsis inviting audience to complete the implied conclusion - Shared contempt performance — 'we see this together' - Video clip as naturalized 'evidence' anchoring shared ridicule ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden can't lift his feet out of the grass **HALF TRUE** Biden has a documented shuffling gait attributed to spinal stenosis (disclosed in December 2021 physician's letter) and has stumbled publicly on multiple occasions. The observable phenomenon is real. 'Can't' is rhetorically absolute and implies total incapacity rather than partial limitation. Sources: Biden White House physician letter, December 2021; Multiple documented public stumbling incidents 2021-2023 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - displacement (90%) - grandiose_state (80%) - post-booking_reactivity (95%) - physical_mockery (85%) - devaluation (75%) - late_night_authentic (92%) - supply_seeking (60%) - injury_displacement_cascade (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Mugshot Day: 63 Posts, Zero Acknowledgment — Trump Converts Historic Humiliation Into Triumphalist Counter-Narrative** On the day he became the first former president to have a mugshot taken at Fulton County Jail, Trump flooded social media with over 60 posts — none acknowledging the historic booking itself. The evening before, he live-commented the GOP debate he skipped while boasting about his counter-programming Tucker Carlson interview approaching 100 million views. By afternoon, as the surrender approached, the tone sharpened with direct attacks on prosecutor Fani Willis and Atlanta's crime rate. The entire day was structured as a triumph narrative: arrest reframed as persecution, mugshot converted into merchandise, and over seven million dollars raised from the spectacle. Full digest for 2023-08-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 24). “He (Crooked Joe Biden) can’t lift his feet out... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110942496148496627 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“He (Crooked Joe Biden) can’t lift his feet out of the..." Truth Social, 24 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110942496148496627. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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