# Post ts_111048694365285835

- Post ID: `ts_111048694365285835`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-11T21:43:23.072Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> “Remember when they said that ISIS was an idea, they were the JV, even though they were beheading Americans and slaughtered thousands?…And then Trump came along and he beheads the beheaders. We have TRUMP and the MILITARY to thank for not having to think about ISIS anymore, which then allows us the freedom to think about jailing Trump and turning the military into an equity cult. Success brings the downfall of this Country, never forget that!” Greg Gutfeld, The Five

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:34:59.023Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted 43 minutes into the live broadcast of Fox News' *The Five* on September 11, 2023, this post exemplifies Trump's mature narcissistic supply strategy: using a trusted media surrogate (Gutfeld) to broadcast self-idealization while maintaining structural deniability. The ISIS content is precisely calibrated to the 9/11 anniversary, activating collective trauma to position Trump as decisive avenger where predecessors failed. The phrase "beheads the beheaders" is the post's most clinically significant element — violent dominance imagery that mirrors ISIS's own signature atrocity and inverts the victim/perpetrator dynamic to cast Trump as warrior-executioner. Amplified to millions of followers on this emotionally charged date, the archetype is available for contemporary application by followers primed within this framework. The post's closing movement — from warrior-savior to martyred victim ("jailing Trump") — reflects the characteristic grandiose-to-vulnerable narcissistic oscillation visible across the posting history. Gutfeld's "success brings the downfall" framing, selected and amplified by Trump, converts ongoing criminal accountability (Georgia arraignment, August 2023) into evidence of his greatness — a rationalization defense of considerable sophistication. Danger level is elevated not for direct incitement but for the violent executioner archetype being broadcast on maximum-salience date to a large audience primed by persecution framing.

## Psychological Analysis: ts_111048694365285835
**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** September 11, 2023 | **Age:** 77

### Overview
This post is verbatim amplification of Greg Gutfeld's commentary from Fox News' *The Five*, shared in near-real-time. *The Five* airs at 5:00 PM ET; posting at 5:43 PM ET (21:43 UTC) places this 43 minutes into the live broadcast — consistent with Trump watching and immediately sharing. He functions here not as author but as curator and amplifier, weaponizing a trusted media proxy to broadcast self-praise while maintaining structural deniability.

### Authorship Attribution
**Medium-high confidence for authentic Trump curation.** In September 2023, Trump was likely based in the New York/New Jersey metro area (post-arraignment period, pre-trial scheduling). The 5:43 PM ET posting time falls within early evening — not the classic late-night authentic window, but the near-real-time Fox broadcast correlation is a strong authenticity marker. The attribution format ("Greg Gutfeld, The Five") is characteristic of his well-documented media-amplification behavior throughout Truth Social usage. Aide-written posts are rarely raw quote amplifications of live television commentary.

### Psychological State and Triggers
**Primary dynamic: narcissistic supply acquisition via third-party proxy.** Rather than direct self-praise, Trump selects a media ally to articulate his greatness ("Trump came along and he beheads the beheaders"), then broadcasts the admiration. This is a structurally sophisticated narcissistic maneuver — the supply is maximally harvested while the self-aggrandizing act is displaced onto Gutfeld.

**Trigger identification is multi-layered:**
1. **Date resonance**: September 11 activates collective trauma memory around terrorism, enabling Trump to position himself as the decisive avenger of national humiliation. The ISIS content on this specific date is not coincidental.
2. **Legal context**: Trump's Georgia arraignment occurred in mid-August 2023. Gutfeld's closing line — "Success brings the downfall of this Country, never forget that!" — functions as a persecution framework that reframes Trump's legal jeopardy as punitive resentment of his achievements. This is the post's most psychologically revealing moment.
3. **Supply-seeking amid vulnerability**: The grandiose warrior-savior framing ("beheads the beheaders") compensates for the ongoing narcissistic injury of multiple criminal indictments.

### Violent Imagery: "Beheads the Beheaders"
This phrase warrants specific notation. The word choice deliberately mirrors ISIS's signature atrocity — the beheading of American journalists and aid workers — then inverts the victim/perpetrator dynamic to cast Trump as retributive executioner. This is **violent dominance imagery operating at the archetypal level**: Trump as warrior-king who answers barbarism with greater barbarism, framed as justice. Amplified to millions of followers on the emotionally charged 9/11 anniversary, this imagery is maximally loaded. While framed historically and retrospectively, the archetype of Trump-as-executioner is available for contemporaneous application by followers primed by this framing.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Displacement**: Aggression toward political enemies is routed through Gutfeld's voice, preserving deniability
2. **Idealization (self)**: "Beheads the beheaders" mythologizes Trump as warrior-king
3. **Rationalization**: "Success brings the downfall" converts criminal accountability into cosmic injustice against greatness
4. **Projection**: "Equity cult" attributes ideological corruption to opponents while positioning Trump's military record as pure and effective

### Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Warrior-Savior who achieved what predecessors could not
- **Contamination sequence**: ISIS destroyed → freedom gained → that freedom weaponized to persecute Trump and corrupt the military
- **Contrasting other**: Obama (JV/idea framing), Biden (equity cult beneficiary)
- **Identity claims**: The decisive historical actor; the one who made Americans safe from ISIS

### Archetypal Dynamics
Dominant archetypes: **Warrior → Savior → Victim** in rapid sequence within a single paragraph. Trump first appears as conquering warrior ("beheads the beheaders"), transitions to savior (the one who freed America to think about other things), then martyred victim ("jailing Trump"). This oscillation between grandiose triumph and persecution is structurally characteristic. The Warrior archetype is invoked on 9/11 — speaking directly to the nation's collective wound with precision.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Third-party validation**: Outsourcing self-praise to a trusted media surrogate
- **Historical revisionism**: ISIS territorial defeat (2019) presented as solely Trump's achievement, omitting the Obama-era campaign that created the strategic conditions
- **False dichotomy**: ISIS-defeating Trump vs. persecution-enabling, equity-obsessed Biden administration
- **Appeal to collective trauma**: 9/11 date amplifies terrorism content emotionally
- **Straw man**: "They said ISIS was an idea" conflates multiple statements into a single strawman position
- **Fear appeal**: "the downfall of this Country"
- **Violent imagery**: "beheads the beheaders" — visceral dominance display

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Obama called ISIS the 'JV team'" | **True** | Obama used this characterization in a January 2014 New Yorker interview, widely criticized as a strategic miscalculation as ISIS subsequently surged to control large swaths of Iraq and Syria. |
| "Biden/others called ISIS 'an idea'" | **Half True** | Biden and others have framed counterterrorism as requiring an ideological response; however, the specific rendering conflates multiple statements and contexts, presenting them as a unified dismissive position. |
| "Trump defeated ISIS / 'we don't have to think about ISIS anymore'" | **Mostly False** | Trump's administration oversaw the defeat of the ISIS territorial caliphate (March 2019) and the killing of al-Baghdadi (October 2019) - genuine achievements - but these continued operations begun under Obama, and ISIS remains an active organization conducting attacks globally. The claim of elimination is significantly overstated. |
| "Biden turned the military into an 'equity cult'" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion characterization of DEI initiatives in the military, not a factual claim subject to binary verification. |

Overall Veracity: 55%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- posted 43 minutes into live The Five broadcast at 5 PM ET suggesting real-time viewing
- attribution format 'Greg Gutfeld, The Five' matches Trump's well-documented TV-quote amplification behavior
- ISIS/military content aligns with Trump's core fixations and 9/11 date opportunism
- aide-written posts rarely consist of raw verbatim live TV quotes with ellipses preserved
- timing at 5:43 PM ET is early evening - not classic late-night authentic window but consistent with live TV watching

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (ongoing legal jeopardy from Georgia arraignment + 9/11 anniversary opportunity)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 62%
- Sadism: 52%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party validation by media surrogate
- collective trauma invocation on 9/11
- shared persecution narrative (success punished)
- warrior-savior identification with audience's protector needs

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'beheads the beheaders' violent dominance imagery amplified to millions on 9/11 anniversary
- warrior-executioner archetype established for Trump - available for contemporary projection by followers
- persecution framing of criminal accountability reinforces worldview where violence against 'persecutors' constitutes justice
- collective trauma activation on maximum-salience date primes audience for strong emotional response

### Gaslighting

- 'we don't have to think about ISIS anymore' - presents active terrorist organization as eliminated, distorting shared reality
- reframes criminal indictments as persecution of success rather than legal accountability - DARVO pattern
- selective attribution of ISIS defeat erases Obama-era military operations that created conditions for 2019 victory

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Obama called ISIS the 'JV team'

**TRUE**

Obama used this characterization in a January 2014 New Yorker interview, widely criticized as a strategic miscalculation as ISIS subsequently surged to control large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

Sources: established historical record

> Biden/others called ISIS 'an idea'

**HALF TRUE**

Biden and others have framed counterterrorism as requiring an ideological response; however, the specific rendering conflates multiple statements and contexts, presenting them as a unified dismissive position.

Sources: general knowledge

> Trump defeated ISIS / 'we don't have to think about ISIS anymore'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump's administration oversaw the defeat of the ISIS territorial caliphate (March 2019) and the killing of al-Baghdadi (October 2019) - genuine achievements - but these continued operations begun under Obama, and ISIS remains an active organization conducting attacks globally. The claim of elimination is significantly overstated.

Sources: established historical record

> Biden turned the military into an 'equity cult'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an opinion characterization of DEI initiatives in the military, not a factual claim subject to binary verification.

Overall Veracity: 55%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply-via-proxy (90%)
- violent-imagery (75%)
- 9/11-exploitation (80%)
- persecution-framing (80%)
- warrior-archetype (85%)
- contamination-narrative (75%)
- media-amplification (70%)
- legal-jeopardy-rationalization (80%)
- military-self-aggrandizement (70%)
- reality-distortion (60%)

## That day

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

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Legal Grievance Eclipses National Mourning in 18-Post Barrage**

Trump spent the 22nd anniversary of September 11 almost entirely consumed by his legal troubles and political attacks, offering only a single four-word memorial before pivoting to hours of grievance. A late-night burst of posts processing his Georgia indictment gave way to an aggressive afternoon session attacking Biden, Fox News, Republican rivals, and the justice system itself. The most alarming moment came when he framed immigration as an "invasion" destroying American cities, deploying dehumanizing language on the nation's most emotionally charged date. The day revealed how completely personal legal crisis had displaced any capacity for communal mourning or national reflection.

Full digest for 2023-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 11). “Remember when they said that ISIS was an idea,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111048694365285835
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Remember when they said that ISIS was an idea, they were..." Truth Social, 11 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111048694365285835. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Remember when they said that ISIS was an idea, they were...," Truth Social, September 11, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111048694365285835.

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