# Post ts_111110423156778194 - Post ID: `ts_111110423156778194` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-22T19:21:49.603Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111110423156778194 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111110423156778194/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111110423156778194.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Big announcement! Introducing BORDER911 — your source for LIVE coverage of our nation’s open borders. Tom Homan and a fantastic team are behind this. Let’s support their efforts and get real-time coverage like never before! Go to https://border911.com/. Join us in making it HUGE! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:32), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > ♪♪♪ Whether it's terrorism, whether it's those seeking to come to this country doing this harm, whether it's the narcotics that are killed over 100,000 Americans, especially fentanyl, whether it's about the sex trafficking of women and children, all of this stuff matters. All of this stuff is tied to the border, and it sounds cocky, but when it comes to border security. ♪♪♪ And let me explain to you why I'm sitting here so frustrated, because I'm the only one in this room that's wore a green uniform and banned that line. I'm the only one in this room that found dead aliens on a trail that were abandoned by smugglers that had just left them there because they weren't worth any money anymore. I'm the only one in this room that stood in back for tractor trailers drawn by 19 dead aliens, including a five-year-old boy that suffocated in death in his father's arms. I was there. People need to understand, the reason I'm so passionate about this, the reason I work so hard to this day, because it's not just about illegal immigration anymore. When you cause a crisis as big as we're dealing with right now, where you've got over 5.5 million illegal interests in this country, that has resulted, like I said, record number of Americans dying, record number of migrants are dying, record number of known suspected terrorists coming into the country, record number of women showing being sex trafficked. If people saw what I saw in my 35 years, they'd care too. One gram of this sweet and low could kill 500 people if it was fentanyl, so it doesn't take a lot to kill. And unfortunately, the Mexican cartels are working with the Chinese transnational criminals, bringing in mass amounts of fentanyl, making fake pills. The DEA administrator reported that there was enough fentanyl seized by the DEA alone to kill everyone in America. I called Lauren several times. She didn't answer. I left work. And when I pulled down in the parking lot, her car was there, and I thought, oh, thank goodness, she's here. So I pulled around, and whenever I pulled around, I looked over and I saw her slumped over to her car. Unfortunately, I was too late. They said with as much fentanyl as she had, that she probably died instantly. There are hundreds of thousands of Lawrence, kids that took one pill, recovering addicts. They're dying. I mean, they're not even having time to become addicted with what's on the streets now. Fentanyl is wiping out a complete generation, and I just don't understand it because every time you see more kids dying, you just think, why haven't -- why hasn't something they've done? People need to understand that fentanyl that's coming across the southwest border is making it into every town, city, and state of this nation. Think about that. The criminal cartels of Mexico have killed more Americans than any terrorist organization. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Bail out, bail out. The driver's got a green shirt. And they're on the east. The first stop this morning already has revealed how the alien smuggling organizations operate over 80 miles into the United States. But one thing I can tell you that these detectives know very well is that what gets by them impacts the rest of this country. 11 o'clock, the other guy should be in five to four to a mile ahead there. How many do you all have in custody and how many do you think you got outstanding roughly? Hey, Omar, I think we got seven, and we're looking for these five. And even this human trafficker couldn't bear what was happening to them. And that's why you talked to me. I want you to take a listen to this. What is happening, like, especially when we think of it like the trafficking of human beings, the narcotics, that most people just don't understand. So in the case of children, it really scares him to just see the reality that they can go through. And for him, it's pretty horrific to see how they are murdered in many cases. What is the downside on a secure border? What's the downside on less illegal immigration? What's the downside on less illegal drug flow? What's the downside on less women and children being sex trafficked? There's no downside. The secure border saves lives. This administration knows it. You're not going to solve it. I work for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. I respect every president I have ever worked for. Republican Democrat, I respect them all because they're the president of the United States. I want to thank Tom Homan for the great job he's done on the border. And frankly, with law enforcement, he's a cherished asset of our country. We really owe a lot. And I want to thank Tom, Tom Homan, special man. Thank you very much, Tom. No one did more to secure this country than Donald Trump. I'm a Trump guy. Not ashamed of it. Because I see what the man did. That's my hope. And I made the promise to President Trump, he comes back, I come back. Because it matters. What happens on the border matters to every American. We're going to win this battle. You've got my word. And you can take that to the bank. [MUSIC PLAYING] ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/110/422/791/129/621/original/8e02ba718b4e6d51.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 20,935 - Reposts: 9,104 - Replies: 1,188 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:42.783Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Aide-written promotional post (3:21 PM EDT, polished marketing register) launching BORDER911, a real-time border surveillance media project affiliated with former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan. Clinically minimal: mildly grandiose tone, contamination narrative presupposing degraded border order, and parasocial mobilization ('Join us'). Psychologically, it functions as maintenance-mode campaign infrastructure rather than a response to narcissistic injury. The analytically notable feature is structural — the 911 branding normalizes emergency-response framing around immigration events, which can prime audiences for vigilante-adjacent interpretations even without explicit calls to action. The 'open borders' characterization is a documented reality distortion: the US maintained extensive border enforcement infrastructure at this time. Danger rating is elevated on structural grounds (surveillance platform + emergency branding + known-figure endorsement) but the post itself contains no violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or direct target identification. Consistent with same-day Dubuque rally messaging and Trump's 2024 campaign focus on border security as signature issue. No clinically significant deviation from baseline warranting extended analysis. # Analysis: BORDER911 Promotional Post — September 22, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** UTC 19:21:49 converts to approximately **3:21 PM EDT** (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). Trump's documented location on this date includes Bedminster, NJ (Meet the Press interview) and a rally in Dubuque, Iowa — mid-afternoon falls squarely in business/campaign hours regardless of timezone. The post exhibits multiple aide-written markers: polished syntax with no typos, structured marketing copy ("your source for LIVE coverage"), a clean URL call-to-action, promotional scaffolding ("Introducing BORDER911"), and a coherent narrative arc from announcement to product to encouragement. The capitalized "LIVE" and "HUGE!" are likely deliberate Trumpian styling injected by staff (consistent with Scavino's known practice of mimicking Trump's voice) rather than evidence of direct authorship. The overall register is that of a product launch press release, not stream-of-consciousness posting. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers **Trigger type: Maintenance / campaign positioning** No narcissistic injury is evident. This is routine campaign infrastructure promotion. The post aligns directly with the documented Dubuque rally the same day, where Trump spoke primarily about border security — the content is part of an orchestrated campaign-day messaging package. It is not reactive. **Narcissistic state: Mildly grandiose** — the superlative framing ("real-time coverage like never before," "making it HUGE") is characteristic but subdued, consistent with a promotional rather than a personally-triggered post. **Rage: Absent.** The tone is promotional and upbeat, with no hostile targeting of specific individuals. --- ## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** - **Extraversion** (high): Enthusiastic, exclamation-heavy, mobilizing language ("Join us!"). - **Agreeableness** (low): The "open borders" framing positions the Biden administration as negligent/malicious without naming them, maintaining adversarial schema while keeping the post nominally positive. - **Conscientiousness** (moderate): Goal-directed, organized, specific call to action. - **Neuroticism** (low in this post): No dysregulation, anxiety, or hostility visible. - **Openness** (low): Rigid immigration schema; no acknowledgment of complexity. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - **Dominant motive: Power/agency** — promoting a surveillance infrastructure project extends Trump's ecosystem beyond Truth Social into a monitoring apparatus around a signature policy domain. - **Secondary motive: Communion** — "Join us," "Let's support" activates parasocial community identity, positioning followers as co-agents in a shared mission. - **Schema revealed**: World = under attack (open borders); In-group = patriots who see the truth; Trump = organizer of resistance infrastructure. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - **Protagonist role**: Organizer/champion — not the fighter in this instance, but the one marshaling forces and building institutions. - **Contamination framing**: The presupposition that borders are "open" implies a prior state of order that has been corrupted (by implication, by the Biden administration). - **Identity claim**: "I am the one who builds real accountability infrastructure." - **Contrasting other**: The Biden administration/Democrats are implied through "our nation's open borders" — made responsible without direct naming. - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination (America's borders have been opened/ruined) → hero response (BORDER911 created as counter-institution). --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Distortion (pathological level)**: The characterization of US borders as simply "open" collapses a complex enforcement landscape into a single false premise. This serves to make the problem appear absolute and the solution (the product being promoted) correspondingly necessary. - **Splitting (immature)**: Implicit binary — open/closed, us/them, real coverage/fake news. No middle ground acknowledged. - **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The surveillance/media project is framed as citizen empowerment and transparency ("real-time coverage"), rationalizing what is structurally a campaign propaganda outlet. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Techniques identified:** 1. **Hyperbole**: "real-time coverage like never before" — superlative without evidentiary basis. 2. **Appeal to authority**: Invoking Tom Homan (Trump's former Acting ICE Director and recognized border hardliner) lends institutional credibility. 3. **False framing / loaded language**: "open borders" is a politically loaded characterization presented as neutral description. 4. **Call to mobilization**: "Join us in making it HUGE!" — parasocial activation, converts passive followers into active propagators. 5. **Institutional legitimation**: Naming the site "BORDER911" invokes emergency-response connotations (911 = genuine crisis requiring immediate response), escalating the emotional stakes of border policy. 6. **Brandification**: "BORDER911" transforms a political grievance into a media product, creating ongoing engagement infrastructure. **Propaganda techniques:** Appeal to fear (implicit emergency framing), us-vs-them binary, creation of alternative information ecosystem (RAND Firehose model: volume and counter-narrative construction). **Dehumanizing language:** Absent in this post. Migrants are not mentioned directly, only the abstraction "open borders." **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Not present. No individual targets, no grievance-to-action pipeline activated. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **"Open borders"**: The US maintained substantial border enforcement infrastructure at this time. Customs and Border Protection employed approximately 60,000 personnel, physical barriers existed across significant stretches of the southern border, and the Biden administration had implemented multiple enforcement policies. Characterizing this as "open borders" is a significant distortion of documented reality — functioning as a political frame rather than a factual description. **Epistemic closure**: Moderate. The post does not explicitly attack competing narratives but establishes a counter-information ecosystem that presupposes its own framing as ground truth. --- ## Cognitive Status **Assessment: Not applicable (aide-written)** Given strong evidence of aide authorship, this post cannot be used to assess Trump's cognitive status. No meaningful baseline comparison is possible on this sample. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: King/Organizer** — in this post, Trump is not in warrior mode but in institution-builder mode, creating the apparatus of governance before returning to power. **Secondary archetype: Hero/Savior** — the implicit narrative positions BORDER911 as part of the rescue mission for a nation whose borders have been surrendered. **Shadow projection**: Disorder, neglect, and dereliction of duty are projected onto the Biden administration via the "open borders" frame. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Position: Order attacker + Order restorer** - Attacks the current order as illegitimate and negligent ("open borders"). - Promises restoration through counter-institutional infrastructure. - Asymmetric application: the chaos of "open borders" falls on ordinary Americans; the solution is offered by Trump's ecosystem. --- ## Danger Assessment **Rating: ELEVATED (not high)** The post itself contains no direct violent content. However, "BORDER911" as a branding concept has structural characteristics that warrant notation: - The 911 framing normalizes vigilante emergency response logic around border crossing events. - Tom Homan has made statements in other contexts encouraging aggressive civilian attention to border issues. - Creating a real-time surveillance media platform around immigration events can create targeting infrastructure for vigilante action, even if not explicitly intended. This is a contextual concern rather than a direct signal from this post's text. The post itself does not cross into stochastic terrorism territory. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Our nation's open borders" | **False** | At time of posting, US Customs and Border Protection employed approximately 60,000 personnel. Physical barriers existed across hundreds of miles of the southern border. The Biden administration had implemented multiple enforcement mechanisms including Title 42 (ended May 2023) and subsequent border security executive actions. While border crossings were at elevated levels in this period, characterizing enforcement infrastructure as 'open borders' does not reflect operational reality. | | "Tom Homan and a fantastic team are behind this" | **Mostly True** | Tom Homan served as Acting ICE Director under Trump (2017-2018) and has been a prominent border security advocate and commentator. His affiliation with border911.com is plausible and consistent with his documented public activities during this period, though the specific organizational structure cannot be verified without fetching the URL. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Summary This is a low-clinical-significance promotional post, almost certainly aide-written given its polished marketing register and 3:21 PM local posting time. It functions as campaign infrastructure — promoting a surveillance media project that extends Trump's political ecosystem into real-time border monitoring. The psychological content is thin: mildly grandiose framing ("HUGE!"), a contamination narrative (borders have been "opened" by the current administration), and a parasocial mobilization call ("Join us"). The most analytically notable feature is structural — the brandification of a political grievance into a media product named after emergency services, which normalizes crisis framing around immigration events. No rage, no narcissistic injury response, and no direct danger indicators are present. The "open borders" characterization represents measurable reality distortion deployed as political frame. Consistent with Trump's documented campaign-period messaging and the same-day Dubuque rally focused on border security. No marked deviation from baseline warranting extended clinical attention. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - 3:21 PM EDT posting time — business hours, not late night - Polished marketing copy with no typos or misspellings - Structured product-launch format: announcement → description → authority → CTA - Clean URL call-to-action - Coherent narrative arc inconsistent with stream-of-consciousness style ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign messaging cycle aligned with Dubuque rally) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Join us framing converting passive followers to active co-agents - Community identity activation around shared border crisis belief - BORDER911 branding creating ongoing engagement infrastructure ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - BORDER911 branding invokes emergency-response logic that can normalize vigilante framing around immigration events - Real-time surveillance media platform creates targeting infrastructure for border events - Tom Homan affiliation — public figure who has made statements encouraging aggressive civilian attention to border crossings - Escalating alternative information ecosystem around immigration consistent with pre-mobilization pattern ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Our nation's open borders **FALSE** At time of posting, US Customs and Border Protection employed approximately 60,000 personnel. Physical barriers existed across hundreds of miles of the southern border. The Biden administration had implemented multiple enforcement mechanisms including Title 42 (ended May 2023) and subsequent border security executive actions. While border crossings were at elevated levels in this period, characterizing enforcement infrastructure as 'open borders' does not reflect operational reality. Sources: CBP workforce statistics; Biden administration border policy record; DHS enforcement data 2023 > Tom Homan and a fantastic team are behind this **MOSTLY TRUE** Tom Homan served as Acting ICE Director under Trump (2017-2018) and has been a prominent border security advocate and commentator. His affiliation with border911.com is plausible and consistent with his documented public activities during this period, though the specific organizational structure cannot be verified without fetching the URL. Sources: Tom Homan public record; ICE Acting Director appointment documentation Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - immigration (95%) - campaign_infrastructure (85%) - aide_written (85%) - media_ecosystem (75%) - border_security (90%) - parasocial_mobilization (65%) - reality_distortion (60%) - Tom_Homan (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Routine Campaign Day Culminates in Death-Penalty Allusion Against Retiring General Milley** The day was dominated by routine campaign activity -- aide-posted links promoting favorable polls, proxy attacks on Ron DeSantis through Laura Loomer articles, and a plug for a new border surveillance website. A morning broadside against Mitch McConnell set a combative tone but stayed within typical bounds. The day's final post, however, was a sustained attack on retiring General Mark Milley that included an explicit reference to execution as punishment for treason -- the most dangerous content of the day by a wide margin. Full digest for 2023-09-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 22). Big announcement! Introducing BORDER911 — your... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111110423156778194 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Big announcement! Introducing BORDER911 — your source for..." Truth Social, 22 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111110423156778194. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Big announcement! 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