# Post ts_111195659708041295

- Post ID: `ts_111195659708041295`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-07T20:38:36.147Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111195659708041295
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111195659708041295/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111195659708041295.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> If you want a President who leaves 500 MILLION DOLLARS worth of wall materials rusting in the sand...while illegal aliens stampede into your communities…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:08), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> If you want a president who leaves $500 million worth of wall materials, think of this, rusting in the desert, rusting in the sand, while illegal aliens stampede into your communities walking over those panels, just walking right over them, and laying there rusting and rotting brand new beautiful stuff, then you should vote for Crooked Joe Biden. If, on the other hand, you want a president who will seal the border, and by the way let people come into our country, but they have to come in legally, is that okay? But we have to stop the invasion and reclaim our sovereignty on day one, and that's what we will do, because right now we don't even have a nation between our bad elections and our open borders. You need borders and you need elections, and then you start going from there. And we have horrible open borders. Who would even think, think of it, the people coming in, think of it. They're from prisons and jails, there is a slight difference. They're from mental institutions and insane asylums, there is a slight difference. You know insane asylums is like Silence of the Lamb stuff. That's serious stuff. That's Hannibal Lecter. How good an actor was he? How good an actor was he? Did he play a good role, right? But insane asylums, they're emptying them out, mental institutions, and then of course terrorists are coming in, and you know in 2019 there was a reporter sort of one of the fake news channels, but in this case I don't think it was fake. They said that for 2019 I think the year was, they had no, they caught no terrorists, there were no terrorists coming into our country, and last month as you know they reported the highest number of terrorists that they've ever reported coming into our country. We're going to be paying a price, we're going to have the largest deportation operation in history, but we're going to be paying, we're going to be paying a price.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/195/659/648/974/238/original/3908fd8cfc6e413b.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 26,146
- Reposts: 7,001
- Replies: 941
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.395Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T10:52:51.872Z (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 October 7, 2023 post is a campaign attack ad targeting Biden's border policy, deploying dehumanizing animal-coded language ('stampede') to characterize migrants and a nostalgia-contamination narrative arc to frame Trump as the capable steward whose work was sabotaged. The post's most clinically significant element is the dehumanization threshold crossed by 'stampede' — applying herd-animal behavior to human migrants meets an established criterion in escalatory eliminationist rhetoric, rated at danger level: elevated. Authorship attribution leans aide-assisted hybrid (3:38 PM CT timing, coordinated video asset, polished rhetorical-conditional ad structure) incorporating authentic Trump idiomatic voice (ALL CAPS, trailing ellipsis, kinetic verb choice). The $500M waste claim has partial factual basis — Biden did cancel wall contracts generating documented waste — but the specific figure appears inflated. No cognitive markers of concern; the sentence fragment is a deliberate rhetorical device, not a production failure. The post's simultaneous placement with a Hamas condemnation on the same day reveals the campaign apparatus operating on independent tracks — pre-scheduled immigration content running as a major geopolitical crisis broke. Psychological state is grandiose and competitive rather than injured; the concurrent NY fraud trial appears not to be directly driving this content.

## Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, October 7, 2023

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** UTC 20:38:36 converts to **3:38 PM CT** (Trump was in Waterloo, Iowa, per the same-day "Thank you—Waterloo, Iowa!" post). This falls squarely within business hours, a primary aide indicator.

**Aide-leaning signals:** Business-hours timestamp; attached .mp4 video (production-coordinated asset); the post functions as a crafted campaign attack ad rather than a reactive venting sequence; it is structurally an incomplete conditional ("If you want a President who...") — a polished rhetorical device used in ad copy.

**Authentic Trump signals:** ALL CAPS on "500 MILLION DOLLARS"; trailing ellipsis suggesting unfinished thought or dramatic pause; emotionally loaded verb ("stampede"); the fragment structure mirrors his rally speech style.

**Assessment:** This is most likely a hybrid — a campaign communications team assembled the video and composed the rhetorical scaffold, with Trump's voice/cadence baked in. The afternoon Iowa timing, coordinated video, and tidy conditional framing tilt toward aide involvement (score: 0.30).

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### Contextual Frame

October 7, 2023 is the day of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. The same-day post stream reveals Trump simultaneously: (1) issuing a formal Hamas condemnation, (2) celebrating Iowa poll numbers, (3) touting his Iowa campaign stop, and (4) releasing this immigration attack ad. The border post appears to be pre-scheduled/queued campaign content running on autopilot as a major geopolitical crisis broke. This juxtaposition is analytically significant — the Hamas response shows acute reactive capacity while this post shows the campaign machine operating independently of real-time events.

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### Level 1: Big Five Trait Signatures

- **Extraversion (high):** Dominant, assertive framing; theatrical incomplete sentence designed for maximum rhetorical impact.
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Dehumanizing verb choice ("stampede") applied to migrants; no compassion or complexity afforded to out-group. Zero modesty.
- **Conscientiousness (low-moderate):** The rhetorical fragment suggests impulse over deliberation; exaggerated figure (see Fact Checks) shows prioritization of emotional punch over accuracy.
- **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility (moderate-high):** The post is an anger-activation vehicle; designed to induce indignation in the base.
- **Openness (low):** Rigid categorical thinking; migrants as monolithic threat vector, zero ambiguity.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant Motive:** Power/agency — the post is structured to establish Trump as the competent alternative by contrasting with Biden's "failure." This is classic competitive dominance display.

**Schemas revealed:**
- Self-schema: The builder, the protector, the one who "created the STRONGEST BORDER in U.S. history" (per the same-day post).
- Other-schema (Biden): Incompetent, wasteful, negligent — leaving expensive materials to rust.
- Other-schema (migrants): Non-human herd ("stampede"), invaders, communal threat.
- World-schema: Zero-sum; a border either exists or communities are overrun.

**Goal:** Voter acquisition via fear activation + competence contrast.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** The Steward-Interrupted — Trump cast himself as the capable administrator whose work was sabotaged by a successor. The "rusting in the sand" image is almost elegiac: good work, wasted.

**Contamination Sequence:** (Good → Bad) Trump's wall = protection → Biden cancels it → materials rot → communities invaded. Classic contamination arc used to mobilize the base.

**Identity Claims (cross-referenced with same-day post):** "We created the STRONGEST BORDER in U.S. history" + the implicit claim here that he alone can restore it.

**Contrasting Other:** Biden as the negligent steward; migrants as the animal-coded threat.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism Assessment:**

- *Narcissistic Features:* Grandiosity visible across the day's post cluster (strongest border, legendary polls, savagery crushed). This individual post focuses more on adversarial framing than self-aggrandizement, but the same-day context reveals the grandiose backdrop. Moderate expression here.
- *Antisocial Features:* The dehumanizing framing of migrants ("stampede") reflects disregard for the welfare of the out-group in service of political messaging. Low-moderate.
- *Paranoid Features:* The post implies deliberate malevolent negligence by Biden — a paranoid read of policy disagreement as hostile sabotage.
- *Sadism:* Minimal in this specific post; the pleasure here is competitive (dominating Biden in the framing), not explicitly cruel.

**Narcissistic Trigger:** Supply-seeking + maintenance. This is campaign-mode content; the trigger is competitive positioning rather than a fresh narcissistic injury (though the simultaneous NY fraud trial context may be informing the need for dominant-competence messaging as a counterbalance).

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose — assertive, dominant framing; no vulnerability markers.

**Rage:** Absent as overt affect. The post transmits calculated indignation rather than raw rage. The rage is outsourced to the audience — the rhetorical device is designed to generate viewer anger rather than express personal fury.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature):** Attributing the chaotic/dangerous border not to policy disagreement but to Biden's deliberate negligence. The "rusting in the sand" image projects malicious wastefulness onto a policy decision to cancel contracts.

2. **Splitting (immature):** Binary framing — Trump's administration = strongest border / Biden's = open invasion. No complexity, gradient, or shared causality acknowledged.

3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The implied argument is: Biden made a bad decision, therefore migrants are criminally "stampeding" — a chain of reasoning that justifies both the policy claim and the dehumanizing language.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Conditional rhetorical trap:** "If you want a President who..." — forces the reader to either reject the premise or implicitly vote against Biden.
- **Hyperbole:** "500 MILLION DOLLARS" — ALL CAPS amplifies the figure beyond its factual anchor.
- **Dehumanizing language:** "stampede" — applies animal-herd behavior to human migrants, stripping individual agency and humanity. This is a documented escalatory pattern in eliminationist rhetoric.
- **Fear appeal + community threat:** "into your communities" — personalizes the threat to the reader's immediate environment.
- **Visual rhetoric:** The .mp4 attachment likely amplifies these themes with footage/graphics (content not viewable, but the pairing of video with incomplete-sentence hook is a standard campaign ad structure).
- **False dichotomy implied:** Vote for Biden's waste and invasion, or vote for Trump's competence and security. No third option exists in the rhetorical frame.
- **Nostalgia appeal:** The "rusting in the sand" image implicitly invokes lost strength that only one candidate can restore.

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Mild-moderate. The framing presents Biden's executive order halting wall construction (a transparent, documented policy decision made on Day 1) as negligent sabotage ("leaves...rusting"). This converts a policy disagreement into a narrative of personal failure/malice. The characterization of border crossings as a "stampede into your communities" distorts the nature of asylum-seeking and economic migration into a threat-invasion schema.

No overt DARVO in this post, but the broader trial context (same week, NY fraud) may be informing aggressive external-deflection dynamics in the day's posting cluster.

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### Epistemic Closure

Present. The post presents no counter-evidence, no complexity. Migrants are a homogeneous stampeding herd; Biden is a negligent saboteur; Trump is the only competent alternative. This is a closed epistemic loop reinforced by the video asset and campaign context.

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### Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated.**

The use of "stampede" to characterize human migration applies explicitly animal-coded language to a group, meeting a threshold criterion for dehumanizing rhetoric. While this specific post does not name targets, articulate specific grievances, or call for action (stochastic terrorism threshold not met), it contributes to the dehumanization gradient that precedes violence against migrant communities. The pattern is documented: repeated animal-coding of a population (stampede, vermin, infestation) correlates historically with elevated risk of community-level harassment and violence.

**No stochastic terrorism indicators** in this specific post.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "$500 million worth of wall materials are rusting in the sand" | **Half True** | Biden's January 20, 2021 executive order halted border wall construction, terminating active contracts. DHS Inspector General and GAO documented significant waste from cancelled contracts including idle machinery, unused physical materials, and contractor standby costs. Photos of unused materials at border sites were widely published. However, the $500M figure circulates primarily in conservative media and conflates broader contract termination costs with the value of physical materials specifically left unused. Most documented assessments of material waste specifically are lower than $500M; total contract cancellation costs (including standby pay, demobilization) were higher. The physical 'rusting in the sand' image has documentary support; the $500M figure appears inflated. |
| "Illegal aliens stampede into your communities" | **Mostly False** | Border encounters were elevated throughout 2023 per CBP data — a factual baseline exists. However, 'stampede into your communities' characterizes the phenomenon as an uncontrolled animal-like mass movement directly into residential communities. The overwhelming majority of border crossings involve formal CBP processing, asylum claims, and detention/processing procedures. The 'stampede' verb dehumanizes migrants and misrepresents the nature of border crossing as a direct community invasion rather than a complex migration and processing phenomenon. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- 3:38 PM CT — business hours timing
- Coordinated .mp4 video attachment suggests production team involvement
- Incomplete conditional sentence ('If you want a President who...') is a polished ad-copy rhetorical device
- Iowa campaign event context — comms team likely managing post queue
- ALL CAPS on '500 MILLION DOLLARS' and 'stampede' language reflect authentic Trump idiomatic voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Iowa campaign audience + competitive positioning against Biden)

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 15%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Community threat personalization ('your communities')
- Conditional rhetorical trap forcing reader to reject Biden
- Fear activation — migrant invasion framing
- Competence-contrast positioning (Trump as builder vs. Biden as saboteur)

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Stampede' applies animal-herd coding to human migrants — documented step in escalatory dehumanization gradient
- Community threat framing ('into your communities') personalizes the dehumanized out-group as a direct threat to the reader's immediate environment
- Pattern contribution: this post is one data point in a sustained dehumanization series; cumulative effect elevates ambient hostility toward migrant communities
- No stochastic terrorism indicators in this specific post (no named targets, no articulated call to action)

### Gaslighting

- Biden's transparent, publicly announced Day 1 executive order halting wall construction is reframed as secret negligence ('leaves...rusting in the sand') rather than a stated policy decision
- The characterization 'stampeding into your communities' rewrites the documented nature of border crossing (formal CBP processing) as chaotic animal invasion, attacking the audience's ability to perceive the phenomenon accurately

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> $500 million worth of wall materials are rusting in the sand

**HALF TRUE**

Biden's January 20, 2021 executive order halted border wall construction, terminating active contracts. DHS Inspector General and GAO documented significant waste from cancelled contracts including idle machinery, unused physical materials, and contractor standby costs. Photos of unused materials at border sites were widely published. However, the $500M figure circulates primarily in conservative media and conflates broader contract termination costs with the value of physical materials specifically left unused. Most documented assessments of material waste specifically are lower than $500M; total contract cancellation costs (including standby pay, demobilization) were higher. The physical 'rusting in the sand' image has documentary support; the $500M figure appears inflated.

Sources: DHS Inspector General reports on border wall contract terminations; GAO reports on terminated DHS contracts 2021; CBP contract termination documentation

> Illegal aliens stampede into your communities

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Border encounters were elevated throughout 2023 per CBP data — a factual baseline exists. However, 'stampede into your communities' characterizes the phenomenon as an uncontrolled animal-like mass movement directly into residential communities. The overwhelming majority of border crossings involve formal CBP processing, asylum claims, and detention/processing procedures. The 'stampede' verb dehumanizes migrants and misrepresents the nature of border crossing as a direct community invasion rather than a complex migration and processing phenomenon.

Sources: CBP Enforcement Statistics 2023; DHS border crossing data 2023

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- immigration (100%)
- dehumanization (85%)
- attack_ad (90%)
- biden_contrast (88%)
- contamination_narrative (75%)
- aide_hybrid (65%)
- border_wall (95%)
- fear_appeal (80%)
- grandiose_state (70%)

## That day

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

**October 7 Massacre Becomes Campaign Ammunition as Fraud Trial Rage Dominates**

Trump's day was defined by two colliding crises: his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York and the Hamas attack on Israel. He opened with late-night grievance posts about his legal troubles and a personal attack on a CNN anchor, then pivoted to the Hamas massacre — but framed it almost entirely as evidence of Biden's incompetence rather than as a humanitarian catastrophe. A midday burst of rage targeted the judge and attorney general in his fraud case, bookending a long stretch of aide-posted article links and a campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa. The mood swung between combative self-defense, crisis exploitation, and campaign cheerfulness, with no coherent thread tying the day together.

Full digest for 2023-10-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 7). If you want a President who leaves 500 MILLION... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111195659708041295
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If you want a President who leaves 500 MILLION DOLLARS..." Truth Social, 7 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111195659708041295. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "If you want a President who leaves 500 MILLION DOLLARS...," Truth Social, October 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111195659708041295.

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