# Post ts_111052097496544387

- Post ID: `ts_111052097496544387`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-12T12:08:50.650Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> A BIG LIE! CROOKED JOE JUST SAID HE WAS IN NYC ON SEPTEMBER 12, ONE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. THIS WAS IMMEDIATELY PROVEN TO BE NOT SO - A TOTAL LIE (LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!). HE EVEN WENT INTO A BIG DEAL ABOUT THE HORRORS HE SAW WHILE THERE, HOW TRAGIC A SIGHT IT WAS. REMEMBER, HE WASN’T THERE!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:32:12.927Z (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 post attacks Biden's false claim of visiting Ground Zero on September 12, 2001 — a factually defensible predicate Trump expands into a sweeping character indictment via splitting ("LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!"). The post is likely authentic (ALL CAPS, reactive, parenthetical asides) despite 8 AM EDT timing. Psychologically, it represents grandiose-pole operation: triumphant contemptuous attack rather than wounded-victim mode. Clinically notable for projection — Trump's own documented false 9/11 proximity claims render him an objectively ironic truth-arbiter here, with zero self-referential awareness evident. Mild ego-syntonic sadism is visible in the rhetorical structure: Biden's false emotional testimony is elaborated before demolition to maximize humiliation. Within the day's context (five posts across multiple attack axes), this fits a RAND Firehose pattern driven by concurrent legal jeopardy (Georgia arraignment, NY civil fraud case). The "REMEMBER" command is a parasocial memory-anchoring technique recruiting followers as collective witnesses. Danger level: none. Epistemic closure is marked. No significant cognitive deviation from baseline. Most clinically significant feature is the projection dynamic — the post is a near-perfect mirror of Trump's own undisclosed false behavior, executed with total unconsciousness, consistent with the defensive impermeability characteristic of malignant narcissistic organization.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-12T12:08:50Z

## Contextual Frame

This post targets President Biden's false claim of having visited Ground Zero on September 12, 2001 — the day after the 9/11 attacks. The claim was fact-checked and found to be incorrect; Congressional records place Biden in Washington D.C. that day. Trump's post thus rests on a factually defensible predicate, though the psychological and rhetorical elaboration reveals characteristic dynamics independent of the underlying factual accuracy.

**Timing note:** Post published at 08:08 EDT in New York, where Trump was actively engaged in civil fraud proceedings. This is consistent with morning cable news consumption and reactive posting.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post activates the following Big Five facet profile:
- **Neuroticism (angry hostility): High (0.82)** — sustained caps, stacked exclamation points, rapid-fire declaratives all signal elevated angry arousal
- **Extraversion (assertiveness): High (0.85)** — dominant, commanding register; issues memory directives to followers ("REMEMBER")
- **Agreeableness (trust, modesty): Very Low (0.08)** — no charitable interpretation of opponent; zero epistemic humility; total contempt
- **Conscientiousness: Low (0.22)** — impulsive, stream-of-consciousness; no deliberation or structuring of argument
- **Openness (values rigidity): Very Low (0.15)** — black-and-white framing; no acknowledgment of complexity

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Status** — the post is an assertive dominance display. By catching Biden in a falsehood, Trump reasserts his self-constructed identity as the authentic truth-teller in contrast to the "Crooked" establishment figure.

**Agency motive activation:** This is a high-agency post. Trump positions himself as knowledgeable arbiter ("IMMEDIATELY PROVEN TO BE NOT SO"), controlling the information frame, and summoning collective memory ("REMEMBER, HE WASN'T THERE!").

**Communion motive: Absent.** There is no warmth, care, or belonging language. Pure attack-mode agency.

**Schema of self:** Righteous exposer of corruption. Special access to truth. The one who sees what others miss or hide.

**Schema of Biden:** Reflexive liar. Untrustworthy in all domains. Incompetent (consistent with same-day post about McDonalds management competence).

**Schema of world:** A corrupt system where bad actors routinely lie and go unchallenged except for Trump's intervention.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Truth-Warrior. Trump casts himself as the figure who calls out lies the mainstream won't challenge. This is a recurrent identity claim across multiple posts this day.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination → Exposure. A contaminating act (Biden's lie about 9/12) is exposed and neutralized by Trump. There is an implicit redemption beat: the truth has been restored, order has been established.

**Identity claims:** "I am the one who catches the liars. I see through them. I remember what really happened."

**Contrasting other:** "Crooked Joe Biden" — the liar, the incompetent, the corruption vector. Biden across all five posts this day functions as total negative foil.

**Mythological resonance:** The Warrior-Trickster archetype. Trump disrupts the accepted narrative (Biden's emotional 9/11 story) by exposing it as false. The Trickster speaks uncomfortable truths — here that mode is activated even when the underlying factual predicate is legitimate.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger assessment:** Supply-seeking co-present with preemptive attack. Biden's false claim provides an ideal opportunity — Trump can occupy the moral high ground, generate admiration, and damage an opponent simultaneously. The proportionality of the response (full-caps, "TOTAL LIE," sweeping generalization to "everything else he says") exceeds the trigger, suggesting underlying narcissistic fuel being harvested beyond the factual predicate.

**Narcissistic rage:** Present but moderate (0.65). This is not the dysregulated rage seen when Trump is the direct target of criticism (e.g., legal proceedings). This is more triumphant contemptuous rage — closer to ego-syntonic sadism — pleasure in catching and humiliating.

**Ego-syntonic sadism (mild):** The rhetorical finale "REMEMBER, HE WASN'T THERE!" functions as a cruelty punctuation mark. The elaboration that Biden "went into a big deal about the horrors he saw" before the reveal maximizes Biden's humiliation. This rhetorical structure (build up the opponent's claim, then demolish it) reflects practiced pleasure in the demolition.

**Projection (immature defense):** The most clinically significant dynamic. Trump's own documented false claim — made in September 2001 — that he could see the towers fall from Trump Tower and that his building "was the tallest in lower Manhattan" after the attacks is the direct mirror of what he attacks here. Trump positions himself as truth-arbiter over 9/11 proximity claims from an objectively compromised position, with zero self-awareness evident.

**Splitting (immature defense):** "LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!" is definitional splitting — reducing a political opponent to a purely malevolent, entirely untrustworthy object. No ambivalence, no complexity.

### Cognitive Status

No significant markers of deviation from established baseline:
- Vocabulary and syntax consistent with prior authentic Trump post patterns
- No word-finding difficulty or circumlocution evident
- The post is more focused than some — single target, coherent attack arc
- Perseveration on "LIE" theme (BIG LIE, TOTAL LIE, LIE) is consistent with baseline emphasis technique, not pathological perseveration

**Complexity score: 0.28** — low but consistent with authenticated Trump communication baseline. No deterioration signal in this post specifically.

### Authorship

Strongly authentic (0.82 confidence: medium due to morning timing). The ALL CAPS totality, parenthetical asides, imperative commands, emotional register, and fragmentary conclusion ("REMEMBER, HE WASN'T THERE!") are consistent with self-authored impulsive reactive posting. The 8 AM EDT timing, while not in the late-night authentic window, is consistent with morning cable news reaction.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post is structurally a **public humiliation ritual** disguised as truth-telling:

1. **Predicate establishment** (Biden made a false claim about 9/12/2001) — factually grounded
2. **Amplification** (it was a "BIG DEAL" story Biden told — he "went into the horrors he saw") — inflating what was punctured
3. **Demolition** ("IMMEDIATELY PROVEN TO BE NOT SO") — the takedown
4. **Generalization** ("LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!") — extending specific failure to total character condemnation
5. **Memory command** ("REMEMBER, HE WASN'T THERE!") — anchoring the humiliation in follower memory

Within the day's context (five posts total), this is one node in a RAND Firehose pattern: accumulated Biden attacks across multiple registers — legal competence, foreign policy judgment (Iran hostage deal), managerial competence (McDonalds analogy), economic performance ("better off 5 years ago"), and now moral integrity/honesty. The saturation strategy denies any single defense vector.

**Firehose model indicators:** Volume (5+ posts, single day), multiple attack axes, reality distortion (generalization of one false claim to "everything").

## Gaslighting Assessment

Mild gaslighting present via **selective outrage asymmetry**: Trump attacks Biden for a false 9/11 proximity claim while Trump's own documented false 9/11 proximity claims (Trump Tower visibility, tallest building claim, watching workers from his building) are structurally identical in type. The post positions Trump as the arbiter of authentic 9/11 witness testimony — an ironic role that requires followers to either be unaware of Trump's own record or to accept the asymmetric standard.

**DARVO element (partial):** No reversal of victim/offender here, but Deny and Attack are present.

## Epistemic Closure

**True.** "LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!" is definitional epistemic closure — no Biden statement can be evaluated on its merits; all are pre-categorized as false. This forecloses any follower evaluation of individual claims.

## Shared Psychosis Dynamics

The "REMEMBER" command is notable: it does not ask followers to learn new information — it recruits existing follower memory as a validation mechanism. The implication is that followers already know this and are being called to collective affirmation. This is an epistemic closure technique — truth is what the in-group remembers and affirms together.

## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning:** Order attacker (targeting corrupt/illegitimate perceived establishment) + Order restorer (promising to expose lies and restore authentic truth).

**Grievance articulation:** Biden as serial liar, incompetent steward, corrupt beneficiary of double standards. The 9/12 false story specifically targets emotional/moral credibility — Biden is not just wrong on policy but a fabricator of emotional experiences he did not have.

**Hierarchy dynamics:** Biden's symbolic authority (as president, as empathetic 9/11 mourner) is attacked and diminished. Trump's status as truth-arbiter is elevated.

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** Post contains no eliminationist language, dehumanization, or violent imagery. Target is Biden's credibility and honesty, not his person. No mobilization signals. This is a standard political attack on an opponent's truthfulness using a factually defensible (if rhetorically inflated) predicate.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden said he was in NYC on September 12, one day after 9/11" | **Mostly True** | Biden made this claim at a press conference in Hanoi around September 10, 2023, stating he visited Ground Zero the day after the attacks. |
| "This was immediately proven to be not so — a total lie" | **Mostly True** | Congressional records and contemporaneous accounts place Biden in Washington D.C. on September 12, 2001, confirming the claim was false. |
| "He went into a big deal about the horrors he saw while there" | **Half True** | Biden did describe the emotional impact of the site; 'big deal' overstates the extent of his description but is grounded in his having made emotional characterizations. |
| "Like everything else he says [it's a lie]" | **Mostly False** | Sweeping generalization. Biden has made documented false claims but characterizing all statements as lies is not empirically supportable. |

Overall Veracity: 58%

## Longitudinal Pattern Note

This post is the fifth in a single-day cascade of attacks. Across the day: legal defense (NY AG case), foreign policy attack (Iran deal), competence attack (McDonalds analogy), economic nostalgia appeal, and now character/honesty attack. The multiplicity of attack vectors in a single day is consistent with a period of elevated threat perception (Georgia arraignment, NY civil case) driving compensatory grandiose/aggressive posting. This pattern warrants longitudinal tracking as a potential stress indicator.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout — signature authentic Trump stylistic marker
- Parenthetical aside '(LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS!)' is characteristic stream-of-consciousness injection
- Emotional reactivity and exclamation stacking typical of self-authored posts
- 8:08 AM EDT (UTC-4, NY) — early morning, plausible for Trump consuming morning cable news and reacting in real time
- Fragmentary sentence structure ('REMEMBER, HE WASN'T THERE!') matches authentic impulsive posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Biden's false claim about visiting NYC on 9/12/2001)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Joe Biden
- Proportionality: 55%

Sentiment: -0.78

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers implied by uppercase declaratives — reader positioned as witness to a revelation
- REMEMBER command recruits follower memory as validation mechanism
- Righteous indignation performed for audience identification

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Selective outrage asymmetry: attacks Biden for false 9/11 proximity claim while Trump's own documented false 9/11 proximity claims are structurally identical
- Positions self as arbiter of authentic 9/11 witness testimony from an objectively compromised position
- 'REMEMBER' command recruits follower memory as collective validation rather than presenting evidence independently

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Biden said he was in NYC on September 12, one day after 9/11

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Biden made this claim at a press conference in Hanoi around September 10, 2023, stating he visited Ground Zero the day after the attacks.

Sources: Multiple contemporaneous fact-checkers including AP, PolitiFact

> This was immediately proven to be not so — a total lie

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Congressional records and contemporaneous accounts place Biden in Washington D.C. on September 12, 2001, confirming the claim was false.

Sources: Congressional records, contemporaneous fact-checks

> He went into a big deal about the horrors he saw while there

**HALF TRUE**

Biden did describe the emotional impact of the site; 'big deal' overstates the extent of his description but is grounded in his having made emotional characterizations.

Sources: Press conference transcript

> Like everything else he says [it's a lie]

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Sweeping generalization. Biden has made documented false claims but characterizing all statements as lies is not empirically supportable.

Sources: General knowledge

Overall Veracity: 58%

## Tags

- attack_biden (100%)
- 9/11_exploitation (80%)
- lie_accusation (90%)
- grandiose_mode (85%)
- projection (90%)
- splitting (85%)
- all_caps_authentic (80%)
- firehose_pattern (75%)
- epistemic_closure (85%)
- memory_command (70%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Legal Siege Drives Pre-Dawn Grievance Spiral as McCarthy Impeachment Delivers Evening Vindication**

Trump started the day with a burst of pre-dawn posting focused on defending himself against the looming New York civil fraud trial, arguing at length that banks were happy and no one was harmed. As the morning progressed, he pivoted to attacking Biden over the Iran hostage deal and a false 9/11 claim, with his sharpest language reserved for accusing Biden of receiving "kickbacks." The middle of the day was dominated by aide-posted link shares reinforcing legal persecution and polling strength narratives. The mood shifted noticeably toward triumphant grandiosity by evening, likely buoyed by Kevin McCarthy's announcement of a formal Biden impeachment inquiry, culminating in a three-word victory lap: "TRUMP WAS RIGHT."

Full digest for 2023-09-12: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 12). A BIG LIE! CROOKED JOE JUST SAID HE WAS IN NYC ON... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052097496544387
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "A BIG LIE! CROOKED JOE JUST SAID HE WAS IN NYC ON SEPTEMBER..." Truth Social, 12 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052097496544387. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "A BIG LIE! CROOKED JOE JUST SAID HE WAS IN NYC ON SEPTEMBER...," Truth Social, September 12, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111052097496544387.

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