# Post ts_111093650151783099

- Post ID: `ts_111093650151783099`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-19T20:16:13.848Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> …We have to expose the Democrats, like Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as being the true Radicals on the Abortion issue, in that they allow the killing of babies in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth. But it was OK to “rip the baby out of the womb” under Roe v. Wade, and destroy a living soul. Now, with Roe v. Wade no longer, the power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement, not the Radical Left Democrats who are so willing to destroy Life!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:35.251Z (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 strategically constructed post executes a frame-flip operation: repositioning Democrats as abortion extremists amid Trump's electoral liability following Dobbs. Likely authentic Trump content with aide formatting, given the business-hours timestamp but authentically Trumpian rhetorical architecture and mid-thread ellipsis structure. Psychologically, the post reflects a grandiose narcissistic state — the dealmaker identity is prominent in the closing power-claim — rather than the reactive-rage or vulnerable-persecuted states typical of injury-triggered posts. The key clinical features are splitting (righteous Pro-Life coalition vs. life-destroying Democrats) and pathological distortion: characterizing Democratic policy as endorsing post-birth killing and misrepresenting Roe v. Wade as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion are wholesale falsifications of documented reality. Violent visceral imagery ("rip the baby out of the womb") is the rhetorical core, deliberately targeting disgust-based cognitive processing to bypass factual evaluation. The epistemic closure mechanism is significant: accepting the post's premises requires rejecting verifiable public information about both Democratic policy and 50 years of constitutional law, functioning as an in-group loyalty test. Danger rated elevated — not for specific targeting, but because the "Democrats endorse infanticide" framing is historically associated with rhetoric that has preceded targeted violence in the anti-abortion movement context. No cognitive decline markers present; the post's strategic positional ambiguity (Trump omits his own policy position) reflects calculated restraint inconsistent with cognitive impairment.

# Psychological Analysis — Trump Truth Social Post, 2023-09-19

## Authorship Attribution

**Confidence: Medium | Score: 0.62 (lean authentic)**

The UTC timestamp of 20:16:13 converts to **4:16 PM EDT** (Trump was at or near Bedminster, NJ, consistent with the noted Meet the Press interview there). Business hours constitute the primary argument for aide involvement.

However, several authenticity signals resist that reading: the **leading ellipsis** ("…We have to expose") places this in a mid-thread conversational sequence — a structural habit of authentic Trump posting, not aide-written standalone statements. The pejorative brand "Crooked Joe Biden" is a registered Trumpian label applied reflexively. The rhetorical escalation ("5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth") mirrors rally-speech cadence. The closer invoking "power to negotiate" activates the dealmaker self-narrative Trump returns to habitually.

Most likely: **authentic Trump content, lightly formatted by aide**. The strategic positional ambiguity — Trump declines to specify what gestational limit he would support — suggests either editorial judgment imposed post-dictation, or calculated self-censorship, both of which would be unusual for pure unassisted Trump posting.

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## Situational Context

This post emerges in a period of significant electoral pressure. Post-Dobbs, Trump faces a structural paradox: he takes credit for appointing the justices who overturned Roe but is damaged in general-election polling by the unpopularity of abortion restrictions. The post is best understood as a **frame-flip operation**: attempt to assign the "extremist" label to Democrats before it consolidates on Republicans. The timing during Biden's UN General Assembly address may also be a relevance-maintenance move.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Extraversion (High, ~0.78):** Dominant, assertive, agenda-setting tone throughout
- **Agreeableness (Very Low, ~0.08):** Combative framing, ad hominem brand ("Crooked Joe Biden"), zero epistemic charity toward opponents
- **Conscientiousness (Moderate, ~0.42):** Strategic rhetorical architecture suggests deliberate construction; factual carefulness is absent
- **Neuroticism (Moderate-High, ~0.55):** Angry hostility facet is active, though this is more calculated than reactive
- **Openness (Low, ~0.15):** Values rigidity; abortion issue framed as binary moral absolute

**Dominant facet:** Assertiveness combined with Angry Hostility — consistent with Trump's established trait profile.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate (~0.85):** Power, control, and status are the operative goals. The closing claim — "the power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement" — positions Trump as holder and allocator of political power.

**Communion motives near-absent (~0.05):** No genuine appeal to shared care or relationship. "We" is a coalition-mobilization device, not an intimacy bid.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self:* Holder of power, strategic exposer of enemies' true nature, dealmaker whose leverage is institutional (Dobbs as his achievement)
- *Others (allies):* Pro-Life Movement as empowered coalition
- *Others (enemies):* Democrats as radical destroyers of Life — not merely policy opponents but morally culpable agents of killing
- *World:* Zero-sum power contest between Life and Death, with electoral arithmetic as the battlefield

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Strategic Exposer / Dealmaker / Order Restorer

**Narrative sequence: Redemption**
- *Contamination phase (past):* Roe v. Wade permitted the "ripping of babies from the womb," the destruction of living souls
- *Turning point:* Roe overturned (implicitly: through Trump's Supreme Court appointments)
- *Redemption phase (present):* Power now resides with the righteous; the frame can be reclaimed

**Identity claims:**
- Holder of political leverage conferred by Dobbs
- Exposer who will reveal Democrats' "true" extremism
- Champion positioned above the fray (notably does not claim a specific policy position)

**Contrasting other:** "Radical Left Democrats who are so willing to destroy Life" — function as the necessary shadow to Trump's implied light

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

| Component | Present | Intensity |
|---|---|---|
| Narcissistic features | Yes | 0.65 — grandiosity, entitlement (sole holder of negotiating power) |
| Antisocial features | Moderate | 0.45 — willingness to deploy demonstrably false claims as political weapons; no remorse marker |
| Paranoid features | Low-Moderate | 0.30 — "expose" framing implies hidden enemy conspiracy; Democrats' extremism must be unmasked |
| Ego-syntonic sadism | Low | 0.25 — humiliation of opponents is present but subordinated to strategic goal here |

### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose**

No vulnerability, no victimhood in this post. Trump is the empowered power-allocator. The post is expansive and dominant rather than wounded. This distinguishes it from his more injury-reactive posts.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (Immature):** "True Radicals" applied to Democrats deflects the identical charge consolidating around Republicans post-Dobbs. Trump attributes the extremism he is trying to escape to the opposing party.

2. **Splitting (Immature):** Absolute binary: Pro-Life Movement = righteous/powerful; Democrats = destroyers of Life. No continuum, no policy complexity acknowledged.

3. **Distortion (Pathological):** The characterization of mainstream Democratic abortion policy as endorsing post-birth killing constitutes a wholesale reshaping of documented reality, not selective emphasis.

4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Retroactively frames Roe v. Wade as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion, constructing a logical justification for Dobbs that misrepresents Roe's actual viability-based framework.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Devices employed:**
- **Violent visceral imagery:** "rip the baby out of the womb" — targets the disgust system to bypass factual evaluation
- **Rhetorical enumeration with climax:** "5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth" — deliberate accumulation building to the most extreme claim, maximizing emotional impact
- **Semantic pre-emption:** "true Radicals" — inoculates against identical labeling of Republicans
- **Ad hominem brand:** "Crooked Joe Biden" — delegitimizes before any policy engagement
- **Strategic position ambiguity:** Trump notably does not state what gestational limit he supports — a calculated omission preserving primary and general-election optionality
- **Closing power-claim parallelism:** "power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement, not the Radical Left Democrats" — triumphant framing, rally-closer energy

**Propaganda techniques:** False dichotomy (murder vs. life with no policy middle ground); appeal to visceral disgust; RAND Firehose distortion (volume of false/misleading claims normalizes the overall framing); epistemic closure (premises require rejecting documented public information to accept).

**Violent imagery:** Present and deliberate. "Rip the baby out of the womb" is not casual — it is the rhetorical core, designed to override analytical engagement.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Two significant reality distortions:

1. **"Allow the killing of babies...even after birth"** — No mainstream Democratic policy or politician endorses post-birth killing. The claim references distorted interpretations of "Born-Alive" comfort-care legislation debates. Presenting this as a documented Democratic position requires the audience to reject verifiable public information.

2. **Roe v. Wade permitted "ripping the baby out of the womb"** — Roe (1973) and Casey (1992) explicitly permitted states to regulate and ban abortion post-viability (~24 weeks) except for maternal health/life. The characterization of Roe as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion is a wholesale falsification of a 50-year constitutional framework.

These distortions function as **epistemic closure mechanisms** — accepting the post's premises requires the audience to have already rejected consensus-available information about Democratic policy and constitutional history, functioning as a group-membership loyalty test.

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## Cognitive Status

No markers of cognitive decline in this post. The enumeration is deliberate and structured (not perseverative). The narrative arc is coherent with a clear three-part redemption structure. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with Trump's established baseline. No word-finding difficulty, temporal confusion, paraphasia, or confabulation observed. The **strategic positional ambiguity** (omitting his own policy position) actually requires a level of calculated restraint inconsistent with cognitive decline.

*Baseline deviation: None.*

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## Danger Assessment: **Elevated**

No specific named targets, no explicit call to action — this does not meet the threshold for high or critical. However, the danger elevation is warranted on two grounds:

1. **Historical precedent:** The "Democrats endorse infanticide" framing has historically been associated with rhetoric preceding targeted violence in the anti-abortion movement. Normalizing this characterization of Democratic policy as literal murder creates an ambient threat environment for Democratic officials and abortion providers.

2. **Scale:** This framing, amplified to Trump's millions of followers, functions as a grievance-articulation that positions Democrats as agents of mass murder — a framing with documented history of motivating lone-actor violence in the abortion context.

The post does not constitute stochastic terrorism by the strictest definition (no specific target + grievance + implied action convergence), but sits at the upper range of elevated.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetypes activated:**
- **Warrior:** Combat stance throughout — "expose," "power," battle for Life against Death
- **Order Restorer:** Dobbs is framed as the restoration of proper order after the corruption of Roe; Trump is implicitly the agent of that restoration via his judicial appointments
- **Trickster (minor):** The frame-flip itself — using the "radical" label against those who deploy it — carries Trickster energy, disrupting expected narrative roles

**Shadow projection:** The "destroyers of Life" language projects onto Democrats the destructive energy that opponents attribute to Republican abortion restrictions. Classic Jungian shadow mechanism — what is disowned about the self is attributed to the contrasting other.

**Mythological narrative:** Redemption arc — corruption/pollution (Roe) → purification (Dobbs) → new power order. This is the foundational structure of political religious narrative.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Democrats allow the killing of babies in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth" | **False** | Late-term abortions (post-21 weeks) constitute approximately 1% of procedures and are predominantly sought in cases of severe fetal anomaly or serious maternal health risk. No mainstream Democratic official or party platform endorses post-birth killing. Born-Alive legislation debates involve comfort-care nuances that bear no resemblance to the characterization offered. |
| "It was OK to 'rip the baby out of the womb' under Roe v. Wade" | **Mostly False** | Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) explicitly permitted states to regulate and ban abortion after fetal viability (approximately 24 weeks), except where the mother's life or health was at risk. The characterization of Roe as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion misrepresents the constitutional framework that governed abortion for 50 years. |
| "The power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement" | **Unverifiable** | Political strategic assertion. Empirically contested: post-Dobbs referenda in Kansas (August 2022) and Ohio (November 2023), plus 2022 midterm results, suggested significant public opposition to abortion restrictions, complicating the claimed negotiating leverage. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 62%)

### Indicators

- Leading ellipsis suggests mid-thread continuation, an authentic Trump structural habit
- Pejorative brand 'Crooked Joe Biden' is registered Trumpian phrase applied reflexively
- Rhetorical enumeration with dramatic climax mirrors rally-speech cadence
- Dealmaker/power-holder closer consistent with his established narrative identity
- 4:16 PM EDT timestamp (business hours) argues against pure unassisted authorship

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Electoral liability from Dobbs backlash; need to reframe extremism narrative ahead of 2024 primary and general election)

Sentiment: -0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 25%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Coalition inclusion ('We have to expose') recruits audience as co-investigators and co-combatants
- Moral clarity framing simplifies complex policy into life/death binary for parasocial group identity
- Insider knowledge posture positions audience as recipients of suppressed truth about Democratic extremism

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Violent visceral imagery ('rip the baby out of the womb') applied to opponents' policy position creates ambient threat environment for Democratic officials and abortion providers
- Characterization of Democratic policy as literal murder — 'killing babies even after birth' — normalizes anti-abortion extremist framing with documented historical association with targeted violence
- No specific named target or explicit call to action keeps rating below high threshold, but rhetoric pattern is consistent with incendiary anti-abortion movement language that has preceded violence historically

### Gaslighting

- Characterizes Democratic abortion policy as endorsing post-birth killing — requires audience to reject verifiable public information to accept the claim
- Misrepresents Roe v. Wade's actual viability-based legal framework as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion throughout all nine months
- Epistemic closure mechanism: accepting the post's framing functions as an in-group loyalty test requiring rejection of consensus-available historical and policy information

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Democrats allow the killing of babies in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th months, and even after birth

**FALSE**

Late-term abortions (post-21 weeks) constitute approximately 1% of procedures and are predominantly sought in cases of severe fetal anomaly or serious maternal health risk. No mainstream Democratic official or party platform endorses post-birth killing. Born-Alive legislation debates involve comfort-care nuances that bear no resemblance to the characterization offered.

Sources: CDC Abortion Surveillance Data; Planned Parenthood v. Casey 505 U.S. 833 (1992)

> It was OK to 'rip the baby out of the womb' under Roe v. Wade

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) explicitly permitted states to regulate and ban abortion after fetal viability (approximately 24 weeks), except where the mother's life or health was at risk. The characterization of Roe as permitting unrestricted late-term abortion misrepresents the constitutional framework that governed abortion for 50 years.

Sources: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973); Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)

> The power to negotiate is with the Pro Life Movement

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Political strategic assertion. Empirically contested: post-Dobbs referenda in Kansas (August 2022) and Ohio (November 2023), plus 2022 midterm results, suggested significant public opposition to abortion restrictions, complicating the claimed negotiating leverage.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- abortion (100%)
- frame-flip (92%)
- violent-imagery (87%)
- splitting (85%)
- projection (82%)
- epistemic-closure (82%)
- grandiose-state (75%)
- dealmaker-narrative (72%)
- reality-distortion (80%)
- 2024-primary-positioning (77%)

## That day

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

**A Managed Communications Day Punctuated by Biden's UN Appearance and a Strategic Abortion Repositioning**

Trump spent most of the day in a stable, confident mode, with his team flooding Truth Social with over a dozen curated article links covering everything from border policy to golf. The main flare-up came when Biden took the stage at the UN General Assembly — Trump fired off two personal attacks calling the speech a "surrender" and falsely claiming nobody attended. The day's most significant move was a carefully constructed three-part thread on abortion, where Trump simultaneously used graphic anti-Democrat rhetoric and positioned himself as a pragmatic moderate with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Overall, a strategically managed day with more calculation than chaos.

Full digest for 2023-09-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 19). …We have to expose the Democrats, like Crooked... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093650151783099
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "…We have to expose the Democrats, like Crooked Joe Biden..." Truth Social, 19 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093650151783099. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "…We have to expose the Democrats, like Crooked Joe Biden...," Truth Social, September 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111093650151783099.

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