# Post ts_111213497544907712 - Post ID: `ts_111213497544907712` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-11T00:15:00.017Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111213497544907712 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111213497544907712/analysis ## Post text > CROOKED JOE BIDEN! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I've been selling my soul, workin' all day, over time hours for bullsh*t pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home and drown my troubles away It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me, people like you, wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it is All it is, livin' in the new world With an old soul, these rich men know the rich men Lord knows it all, just wanna have total control Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do And they don't think you know, but I know that you do 'Cause your dollar ain't sh*t, and it's taxin' on him, 'cause the rich men know it ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/213/497/333/942/978/original/d63124292fbbd0c8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,654 - Reposts: 4,698 - Replies: 720 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.395Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-03T19:35:41.232Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post occurs on day 9 of Trump's active civil fraud trial, where Judge Engoron had already issued a liability finding for persistent financial fraud. The single-epithet post — "CROOKED JOE BIDEN!" — deploys projection at high intensity: the precise attribute ("crooked") currently being adjudicated against Trump in court is loudly attributed to his political rival. This is textbook projection and displacement, with hostile affect generated by the legal exposure redirected toward a socially sanctioned target. The psychological function is multi-layered: discharge of narcissistic rage, reconstruction of moral narrative (the opponent is the corrupt one), denial of the trial's implications, and routine base-activation. Authorship is highly likely authentic: all-caps formatting, extreme brevity, absence of sentence structure, and evening timing (8:15 PM EDT) are all consistent with Trump personally captioning an attack video rather than aide-written content. No danger indicators. Clinically significant primarily for the projection dynamic — the coincidence of "Crooked" attack and active fraud adjudication makes the defense mechanism unusually transparent in this instance. Video content was not reviewed and may carry the substantive communicative payload. ## Post Analysis: "CROOKED JOE BIDEN!" — 2023-10-11 ### Overview The textual component of this post is a three-word all-caps derogatory epithet with an exclamation mark. It contains no propositional content, no contextual argument, no verifiable claims. The communicative payload is carried entirely by the attached video (content unknown). The text functions as a political incantation — an activation signal for conditioned audience responses rather than a substantive communicative act. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Likely location:** Trump was attending his New York civil fraud trial through this period (trial began Oct 2, ongoing). On Oct 9 he attended the Wolfeboro, NH rally, then likely returned to the New York area or Mar-a-Lago. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) applies. **Local time:** 00:15 UTC = 20:15 EDT (8:15 PM) — evening hours, consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns. Not classic late-night posting but well within his personal range. **Stylometric indicators favoring authentic Trump:** All-caps throughout; single explosive epithet with no elaboration; no complete sentence structure; lack of any event framing or polished grammar; exclamation mark; zero-word-count economy typical of emotional discharge rather than strategic communication. This is consistent with Trump posting a campaign/attack video with a label caption. **Confidence:** High that this is authentic rather than aide-written. Aides tend to write complete sentences, event descriptions, or polished calls-to-action. This is raw tagging behavior. --- ### Psychological Analysis #### Trigger and Context The post occurs on day 9 of Trump's civil fraud trial in New York, during which Judge Engoron had already found Trump liable for persistent fraud in asset inflation. Trump had walked out of the trial on October 4. The trial represents an acute narcissistic injury: public exposure, legal accountability, loss of control over narrative, humiliation by a female AG (Letitia James, whose press statement — "the Donald Trump Show is over" — is precisely the kind of castrating remark that produces narcissistic rage). The attack on Biden thus functions as a **displacement maneuver**: hostile affect generated by the trauma of legal exposure is redirected toward a safer, socially acceptable target (the political opponent). The choice of "CROOKED" — Trump's most salient attack label for opponents — while actively being adjudicated as fraudulent is among the most textbook projection dynamics in his public record. #### Projection (Defense Mechanism — Pathological) Trump is the subject of a civil fraud judgment. He calls Biden "CROOKED." The precise word he applies to his opponent is the word legally and judicially attached to him in the current news cycle. This is not merely irony; it is projection operating as a defense mechanism at clinical intensity. By loudly attributing the trait to another, the internal association between self and the trait is defensively disrupted — "It is not I who am crooked; it is Biden." The fraud trial context makes this instance of projection unusually legible and unusually pronounced. #### Narcissistic Dynamics - **State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable oscillation. The all-caps aggressive label suggests grandiose pole (I am above him, I can define him), but the underlying driver is the wound of the trial. - **Narcissistic rage:** Present at moderate intensity. All-caps indicates emotional activation. The brevity and starkness suggest compressed, directed hostility rather than elaborate grievance — characteristic of rage in its controlled-discharge mode. - **Supply-seeking:** Secondary function. The post invites audience validation through a familiar ritual label that reliably produces social media engagement from the base. #### Narrative Identity Trump casts himself implicitly as the morally clean warrior against a corrupt opponent — the contrasting other is "Crooked Joe Biden." This positioning is especially psychologically urgent during a period when Trump's own moral legitimacy is under judicial assault. The narrative requires the opponent to be the corrupt one; the trial threatens to invert the narrative, making this post a corrective maneuver at the story level. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The three-word structure deploys several techniques simultaneously: 1. **Labeling/branding:** "Crooked" functions as a brand — it requires no elaboration because repetition has already conditioned the audience. Trump pioneered this technique in 2016. 2. **All-caps emphasis:** Signals urgency, emotion, and invites the reader to read in an emphatic internal voice — a paralinguistic tool in text form. 3. **Extreme compression:** Leaves no cognitive opening for counterargument. There is nothing to rebut. Pure stimulus-response communication. 4. **Video amplification:** The video carries the substantive attack; the text is the label that frames how the video is received. This is sophisticated media pairing regardless of the text's apparent simplicity. 5. **Repetition/persistence:** "Crooked Joe Biden" appears across hundreds of posts. Each iteration reinforces the association in the audience's memory without requiring new evidence. No violent imagery. No eliminationist language. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Cognitive Assessment **Note:** Three words in all-caps provide insufficient material for meaningful cognitive assessment. Sentence complexity, vocabulary, and logical coherence cannot be evaluated on this sample. No cognitive markers can be responsibly identified or excluded. Baseline comparison is not applicable here. --- ### Summary Post occurs during acute legal jeopardy (civil fraud trial day 9, prior liability finding). The single derogatory label "CROOKED JOE BIDEN!" directed at the rival while Trump is actively being adjudicated for fraud represents projection operating at high intensity — the defense mechanism most likely to be engaged when the subject's core identity as a "winner" and "clean" figure is externally threatened. The post's extreme compression is both stylistically authentic and psychologically functional: it discharges hostile affect, recasts the narrative (the opponent is the corrupt one), and activates base engagement — all in three words. No danger indicators present. Authorship is almost certainly authentic based on timing, style, and absence of aide-written markers. --- ### Limitations The attached video (mp4) was not retrieved. The video likely contains the substantive attack content; this analysis covers only the textual component. Full analysis would require video content review. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Implicit claim that Joe Biden is corrupt ('Crooked')" | **Unverifiable** | The label 'Crooked' is a political characterization, not a verifiable factual claim. No specific corrupt act is alleged in the post. The characterization cannot be rated true or false as stated; it is an opinion label used as political branding. Notably, the post is made while Trump himself is under active civil fraud adjudication, with Judge Engoron having already issued a liability finding for persistent fraud in asset valuation. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - All-caps throughout — authentic Trump marker - Single explosive epithet with no elaboration — characteristic of emotional discharge posting - No complete sentence structure - Evening post (8:15 PM EDT) — within Trump's personal posting range - Zero contextual framing — aide-written posts typically include event context or calls to action ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 82% - Agreeableness: 5% - Conscientiousness: 15% - Neuroticism: 80% - Openness: 18% Strongest facet: angry hostility (neuroticism facet) **Motives:** - Agency: 85% - Communion: 4% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** moral warrior / clean fighter against corrupt establishment - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Crooked Joe Biden **Identity Claims:** - I am the opposite of crooked - I define my opponents by their corruption - I am still dominant despite legal assault ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (NY civil fraud trial — ongoing public adjudication of Trump as fraudulent) **Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Joe Biden (displaced from actual source: Judge Engoron / NY AG Letitia James / fraud trial proceedings) - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.88 **Mildly Hypomanic** - All-caps emotional activation - Extreme brevity suggesting compressed, discharged energy rather than deliberate communication ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (pathological) - displacement (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Ritual label repetition activates conditioned audience response without new evidence requirement - All-caps creates urgency and emotional contagion - Video pairing provides substantive content while text primes interpretation frame ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-04-03._ > Implicit claim that Joe Biden is corrupt ('Crooked') **UNVERIFIABLE** The label 'Crooked' is a political characterization, not a verifiable factual claim. No specific corrupt act is alleged in the post. The characterization cannot be rated true or false as stated; it is an opinion label used as political branding. Notably, the post is made while Trump himself is under active civil fraud adjudication, with Judge Engoron having already issued a liability finding for persistent fraud in asset valuation. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - projection (95%) - fraud-trial-context (90%) - biden-attack (85%) - all-caps (80%) - displacement (80%) - narcissistic-injury-response (85%) - labeling-campaign (75%) - authentic-trump (82%) - video-content-unreviewed (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Rage Meets Tragedy Exploitation: Trump Weaponizes Hamas Attack While Projecting "Crooked" onto Biden** Trump spent the day primarily exploiting the Hamas attack on Israel for political advantage, repeatedly claiming Biden caused the war through the Iran deal — a claim that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The evening before featured his most heated post: a furious demand that Forbes magazine apologize, complete with personal attacks on the journalist and AG Letitia James, clearly fueled by the ongoing fraud trial. The overall mood was grandiose, with Trump casting himself as the only leader who could have prevented multiple global crises. The afternoon shifted to low-effort aide-curated content — mostly links to favorable articles — before an evening appearance at Club 47 in West Palm Beach. Full digest for 2023-10-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 11). CROOKED JOE BIDEN! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111213497544907712 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "CROOKED JOE BIDEN!" Truth Social, 11 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111213497544907712. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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