# Post ts_111217018390407903 - Post ID: `ts_111217018390407903` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-11T15:10:23.860Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111217018390407903 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111217018390407903/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111217018390407903.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Biden isn’t trying to Secure the Border, he’s just hoping to save himself from being Impeached! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:01), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -When I was president, we built 561 miles of border wall. And by the time I left, additional wall was going up at the rate of one mile every 24 hours. Joe Biden came in, and he stopped construction on day one. He left $500 million of steel beams, all brand-new, all just bought. He left it sitting and rusting in the sand. Other wall materials were rusting along with it. The desert floor never saw anything like it, and millions of illegal aliens stampeded right into your communities. They came right into our country, totally unchecked. Now the fake news is trying to give Crooked Joe credit for announcing they'll build just 20 miles of minimal wall as a substandard -- like you wouldn't believe. This is substandard wall that he wants to put up, but he really would like to have a lot more. But I guess he's afraid of his base. He's afraid to do it. Biden isn't trying to secure the border. He's just trying to save himself from getting impeached, and he's trying to save himself from being embarrassed, because what's happened to our country is a disgrace. He's doing nothing but adding a short detour to reroute the endless flow of illegal alien migrants. He's involving everybody in his act. We're talking about maybe 15 million people coming in on his watch. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They don't know where they come from. They're people from mental institutions. They're people from jails and prisons, and they're terrorists. Many, many terrorists are coming into our country. Under the Trump administration, we will seal the border, and we will stop this invasion on day one. If you want to come into our country, you can, but you have to come into our country legally. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/217/016/939/949/927/original/c0f70875b3054d14.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,326 - Reposts: 4,714 - Replies: 723 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.395Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T11:52:58.887Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Full Psychological Analysis ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** UTC 15:10:23 converts to 11:10 AM EDT. Trump was in New Hampshire on this date (Wolfeboro rally documented in events), firmly in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). Mid-morning business hours weakly suggests aide involvement. However, the selective capitalization ("Secure the Border," "Impeached"), punchy adversarial syntax, and lack of any formal/structured message framing are consistent with authentic Trump style. Aide-written content tends toward event announcements, schedule posts, or more polished multi-sentence constructions. This reads as direct, unmediated attack rhetoric. Confidence: medium-high for authentic authorship, possibly with light editorial review. --- ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (high-assertiveness facet):** The declarative, confident assertion of Biden's motives — stated as known fact rather than allegation — reflects high dominance and assertiveness. No hedging language. **Agreeableness (very low — antagonism facet):** Pure oppositional framing. No acknowledgment of complexity, no charitable interpretation of the opposing position. Classic low-agreeableness output. **Conscientiousness (low-deliberation facet):** The accusation is a simple causal attribution stated without evidence. Impulse-driven rhetorical attack. **Neuroticism (hostile-anger facet):** Moderate. The post lacks the ALL-CAPS intensity of the "CROOKED JOE BIDEN" post from earlier the same day, suggesting this is a lower-activation attack rather than a rage episode. **Openness (very low — values rigidity):** The binary framing (either securing the border OR political self-preservation) reflects closed, inflexible ideological categorization. --- ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Agency motives dominant:** The post positions Trump implicitly as the one who *would* secure the border (consistent with same-day RT claiming the Hamas attack "NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED" under his presidency). Power and control are the operative motives — the world is governed by strong leaders (Trump) vs. weak/corrupt ones (Biden). **Self-schema:** Competent, decisive protector. **Other-schema (Biden):** Cynically self-interested, incompetent, motivated purely by self-preservation. **World-schema:** Zero-sum political environment where policy is always reducible to personal interest. **Cynicism as an interpretive lens:** The automatic attribution of self-serving motives to opponents is a characteristic adaptation — a cognitive schema, not simply rhetoric. This schema is applied consistently across targets. --- ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Implicit warrior/truth-teller who sees through Biden's cynical maneuvering where others cannot. **Contamination sequence:** America had a secure border (under Trump) → Biden allowed it to collapse → now Biden won't fix it even to save himself politically. Decline narrative reinforcing loss-of-greatness theme. **Contrasting other:** Biden as weak, self-interested, incompetent — the anti-Trump. **Identity claim:** By implication, Trump is the border-securing president Biden is not. --- ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism Assessment:** - *Narcissistic features (moderate):* Implicit self-elevation through enemy devaluation; not strongly grandiose in this specific post but part of consistent pattern. - *Antisocial features (low-moderate):* Disregard for factual basis of the causal attribution; willingness to state speculation as fact. - *Paranoid features (mild-moderate):* Cynical interpretation of opponent's motives as purely self-interested; suspiciousness of stated policy goals. - *Sadism (low):* "Will Hurd" post from the same day shows more sadistic delight; this post is more utilitarian attack. **Narcissistic Dynamics:** *Trigger:* Compound. (1) The Israel-Hamas crisis provides an opportunity for Biden-blame that Trump is actively exploiting (same-day posts). (2) Trump's own NY civil fraud trial is ongoing this week — a context that likely amplifies projection dynamics. (3) House Republican impeachment inquiry against Biden (launched September 2023) provides topical hook. *State:* Mixed, with grandiose bias. The attack on Biden as cynically self-interested contains an implicit grandiose self-positioning. However, the urgency ("he's just hoping to save himself") carries mildly vulnerable undertones. **Defense Mechanisms:** 1. **Projection (immature, high confidence):** "Hoping to save himself from being Impeached" — the framing of political actions as driven by personal legal self-preservation is precisely the dynamic Trump himself is navigating in real time (civil fraud trial, criminal indictments). Trump attributes to Biden the very self-preservation anxiety he himself is experiencing. This is textbook Freudian projection: disowning an intolerable internal state by locating it in the opponent. 2. **Rationalization (neurotic, moderate confidence):** Policy (border security) is reduced to pure political theater — a rationalization that converts complex governance reality into simple cynical calculus, making the attack feel "logical." 3. **Splitting (immature, mild):** Biden is entirely cynical and self-interested; Trump entirely principled and security-focused. No middle ground acknowledged. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Techniques identified:** - *Attribution of motive:* Presenting speculation about internal state as established fact - *False dichotomy:* Either genuinely securing the border OR protecting oneself from impeachment — presented as mutually exclusive - *Whataboutism (latent):* Implicitly redirects attention from Trump's legal proceedings to Biden's political situation - *Selective capitalization:* "Secure the Border," "Impeached" — Trump signature emphasis that functions as oral performance direction - *Short declarative structure:* Punchy, meme-friendly format optimized for social media virality **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The post presents a speculative attribution of motive as objective fact. This is a low-grade reality distortion — not gaslighting in the clinical sense (no denial of documented events, no DARVO), but a rhetorical move that collapses the distinction between assertion and evidence. Followers receive it as an established truth. --- ### Cognitive Status Post is brief (22 words). Syntactically simple, one compound sentence. No language production anomalies identifiable. Vocabulary is at baseline or slightly below. Insufficient data for meaningful cognitive assessment from this post alone. No flags. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization rhetoric, no target identification with implied action. Standard adversarial political framing. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden isn't trying to Secure the Border" | **Unverifiable** | This is a characterization of internal motivation presented as fact. Biden's DHS took various enforcement actions (Title 42 enforcement, deportations) while border crossings remained high. Whether 'trying' depends on contested metrics and definitions. | | "Biden is hoping to save himself from being Impeached" | **Unverifiable** | Speculative attribution of motive. House impeachment inquiry against Biden was launched September 12, 2023 by Speaker McCarthy, making the political context real — but the causal claim that this drives border policy decisions is unprovable speculation stated as fact. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Selective capitalization of 'Secure the Border' and 'Impeached' — consistent Trump stylistic signature - Punchy, unhedged adversarial syntax without formal structure - No event-announcement or schedule framing typical of aide posts - Mid-morning timing (11:10 AM EDT) slightly favors aide involvement but is not definitive - Accusatory attribution of motive is characteristic Trump rhetorical move ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Biden/Democrats) Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positions audience as recipients of insider truth about Biden's real motives - Implicit solidarity: 'we' see through the deception even if media doesn't ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Biden isn't trying to Secure the Border **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a characterization of internal motivation presented as fact. Biden's DHS took various enforcement actions (Title 42 enforcement, deportations) while border crossings remained high. Whether 'trying' depends on contested metrics and definitions. Sources: General knowledge — no search required > Biden is hoping to save himself from being Impeached **UNVERIFIABLE** Speculative attribution of motive. House impeachment inquiry against Biden was launched September 12, 2023 by Speaker McCarthy, making the political context real — but the causal claim that this drives border policy decisions is unprovable speculation stated as fact. Sources: General knowledge — House impeachment inquiry timeline Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - border (85%) - Biden-attack (90%) - impeachment (65%) - projection (80%) - motive-attribution (85%) - false-dichotomy (70%) - splitting (55%) ## 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). Biden isn’t trying to Secure the Border, he’s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111217018390407903 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Biden isn’t trying to Secure the Border, he’s just hoping..." Truth Social, 11 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111217018390407903. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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