# Post ts_111225446760245864 - Post ID: `ts_111225446760245864` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-13T02:53:50.493Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225446760245864 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225446760245864/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111225446760245864.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:34), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > 2016 everything red is ISIS when I took it over was a mess now on the bottom that's the exact same there is no red. In fact there's actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight so that's ISIS red right there and the bottom one is how it is today this just came out 20 minutes ago so this is ISIS on election day my election day and this is ISIS now ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/225/446/677/050/382/original/89af2c16f0c86b99.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,655 - Reposts: 4,135 - Replies: 545 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:06:12.837Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A 14-word post at 10:53 PM Eastern — squarely in Trump's authentic late-night window — exemplifying narcissistic crisis harvesting: within six days of the October 7 Hamas massacre (~1,200 dead), Trump converts collective trauma into personal self-promotion. The self-referential ALL CAPS third person, colloquial grandiosity ("did his thing"), and triple exclamation marks are all high-confidence authentic markers. The before/after structure is deceptively simple propaganda: it implies causality through juxtaposition without assertion, conflating ISIS (a defeated territorial caliphate) with Hamas (a distinct Palestinian nationalist organization) to construct a false equivalence in which Biden's weakness caused the massacre. Zero empathic acknowledgment of victims appears — consistent with the entitlement and empathy-deficit features of the narcissistic profile. Clinically notable is the rapid oscillation from the previous day's vulnerable-narcissistic register (defensive Deutsche Bank enumeration, persecution by "Racist NY AG") to this grandiose-pole post within 24 hours. This grandiose/vulnerable oscillation under concurrent stressors (fraud trial + geopolitical crisis) is a documented pattern warranting longitudinal tracking. Danger level is elevated: while no explicit violence is invoked, assigning implicit blame for an active massacre to a political opponent — at a moment of acute collective fear — functions as a radicalizing frame for an already primed audience. ## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-10-13 ### Authorship Attribution **High confidence: Authentic Trump.** UTC 02:53:50 converts to **10:53 PM Eastern** — Trump was in New York for the ongoing civil fraud trial (testimony from accountant Donald Bender was occurring around October 13). This places the post squarely in Trump's characteristic late-night posting window. Stylometric markers all point to unmediated authorship: - Self-referential third-person capitalization ("TRUMP") — a defining tic - Colloquial idiom ("did his thing") — informal, unpolished, stream-of-consciousness - Three consecutive exclamation points — signature punctuation excess - Absence of polish, event-announcement structure, or complete sentences No aide would draft "did his thing" as a descriptor for counterterrorism operations. --- ### Contextual Frame The post arrives six days after the October 7 Hamas attack — the deadliest single-day killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Israel had already formally declared war. Trump had just held a rally in New Hampshire blaming Biden and falsely claiming $6 billion to Iran funded the attack. The civil fraud trial was simultaneously in progress. The post must be read against this backdrop: Trump is converting collective trauma into personal brand currency. --- ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (very high):** Assertive, self-amplifying, dominant tone; third-person grandiosity - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero communal response to an ongoing massacre; purely competitive framing - **Conscientiousness (very low):** Impulsive, unelaborated, no deliberation visible - **Neuroticism (moderate-high):** Emotional reactivity to external events, rapid posting - **Openness (very low):** Maximally simple schema; world reduced to before/after binary Dominant facet: **Assertiveness** (extraversion) fused with **angry hostility** (neuroticism) expressed as triumphalism. --- ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Agency motives** overwhelm the post entirely. There is no communion content — no acknowledgment of victims, no expression of solidarity with Israel, no empathy. The Hamas massacre is instrumentalized as a comparison vehicle. **Power schema:** World events are legible only as commentary on Trump's personal efficacy. ISIS = Trump's trophy; Hamas attack = Biden's failure. The self is the explanatory variable for global geopolitics. **Supply trigger:** The October 7 attack functions as a narcissistic supply opportunity. Crisis creates comparison; comparison enables grandiosity; grandiosity generates validation. The mechanism is reflexive and rapid — post arrives within days of the attack. --- ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Warrior-King who vanquished evil; competent sovereign whose departure caused chaos - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — the good era (Trump defeated ISIS) has been contaminated by Biden's incompetence (Hamas resurges, allies suffer) - **Identity claims:** "I am the one who defeated terrorism; the current suffering is attributable to my absence" - **Contrasting other:** Biden (implied), current administration — cast as the cause of present disorder - **Archetypal resonance:** The **Absent King** whose return would restore order. The "before/after" structure mythologizes the Trump era as a golden age interrupted by a pretender. This is structurally identical to the *Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus* (the once and future king) archetype — potent collective psychology, especially in a moment of acute fear. --- ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism Assessment **A. Narcissistic features (salient):** - Grandiosity: Claiming personal credit for geopolitical outcomes at civilizational scale - Fantasy of unlimited power: Implication that a single leader can eliminate global terrorism - Entitlement: The post assumes the massacre is *about* Trump's legacy rather than about ~1,200 dead people - Lack of empathy: Zero acknowledgment of victims in a post explicitly invoked by their deaths **B. Antisocial features (moderate):** - Contempt for the epistemic rights of the audience — presenting a complex geopolitical situation as a simple personal achievement **C. Paranoid features (low, in this post):** Not foregrounded here; grandiose pole dominant **D. Ego-syntonic sadism (present, subtle):** The post implicitly relishes Biden's political suffering via the Hamas crisis; using others' deaths for competitive advantage carries a sadistic undercurrent #### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose** The post is not wounded or victimized (contrast with the previous day's post about Deutsche Bank, which contained more vulnerable-narcissistic features — persecution by "Racist NY AG," defensive enumeration of loan payment details). Here, Trump pivots to the grandiose pole, exploiting the Hamas crisis as a stage for dominance display. #### Defense Mechanisms: 1. **Distortion (pathological):** Reshaping a complex geopolitical catastrophe into personal brand validation 2. **Splitting (immature):** World divided into Trump-era order (ISIS destroyed) and Biden-era chaos (terrorism returns) — no nuance, no continuity 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The "before/after" framing provides quasi-logical structure for what is an emotionally-driven self-promotion exercise 4. **Grandiosity as defense:** The post is a preemptive counter-attack against narratives of Trump's irrelevance during an active crisis --- ### Cognitive Status Markers The post is too brief for reliable cognitive assessment. At 14 words (plus punctuation), it cannot yield data on syntactic complexity, coherence, or word-finding. What is observable: - Phrase "did his thing" is colloquial but intentional — consistent with Trump's use of folksy idiom as a rhetorical device - No word-finding failures, paraphasias, or tangentiality detectable - **Complexity score:** Very low, but brevity-by-design rather than capacity limitation **Baseline comparison note:** Trump's historical communication style has always featured extreme simplification. This post is consistent with his established low-complexity register. No deviation flagged. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Techniques employed:** 1. **Before/After framing:** The oldest propaganda structure — implies causality through juxtaposition without stating it. The video attachment carries the rhetorical payload while Trump's text remains technically deniable 2. **Superlative self-reference:** "TRUMP did his thing" implies singular, decisive, near-mythological efficacy 3. **False equivalence (implicit):** ISIS and Hamas are conflated — different organizations, different ideologies (global jihadism vs. Palestinian nationalist Islamism), different theaters. The "before/after" invites the audience to read Hamas's attack as an ISIS-equivalent outcome, which is analytically incoherent 4. **Implied counterfactual:** "This wouldn't have happened under me" — unfalsifiable and therefore unanswerable 5. **Crisis harvesting:** Converting active grief into political capital; maximally cynical rhetorical move --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Not primary in this post. The distortion is grandiose rather than gaslighting. Trump does not deny a documented event or invert victim/offender relationships here — he simply claims implausible credit. Mild reality distortion via the ISIS-Hamas conflation schema. --- ### Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED** While the post contains no explicit violent rhetoric or eliminationist language, it operates as a **radicalizing narrative frame** in the context of an active war: 1. The post implicitly assigns blame for the Hamas massacre to Biden — in an emotionally charged moment, this framing can function as an accelerant to political radicalization 2. It normalizes treating geopolitical atrocities as political ammunition, modeling this behavior for an audience 3. The before/after structure, if the video is sufficiently graphic, may constitute exposure to atrocity imagery in a political framing context Does not rise to **high** or **critical** danger level absent explicit targeting or mobilization language. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "TRUMP defeated ISIS (implied by 'before and after TRUMP did his thing')" | **Half True** | The ISIS territorial caliphate was declared defeated March 2019 under Trump, with al-Baghdadi killed October 2019. However: (1) campaign was initiated under Obama; (2) ISIS continues as a dispersed global network; (3) Hamas and ISIS are organizationally and ideologically distinct — conflating them to imply Biden enabled the October 7 attack is a category error. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - Late-night Eastern time (10:53 PM ET) consistent with authentic Trump posting window - Self-referential third-person ALL CAPS ('TRUMP') — defining stylistic tic - Colloquial idiomatic phrase ('did his thing') — no aide would draft this - Three consecutive exclamation points — signature punctuation pattern - Absence of polish, grammar correction, or event-announcement structure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Hamas October 7 attack — creates comparison opportunity against Biden) Sentiment: +0.38 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Triple exclamation points - Self-congratulatory triumphalism in context of active crisis - Rapid posting reflex following geopolitical event - Grandiose effortlessness framing ('did his thing') - Brevity and impulsivity consistent with elevated state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 12% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Nostalgic appeal — audience invited to emotionally return to Trump era - Shared grievance activation — converting audience fear about Hamas into political identification - Competence signaling — 'I fixed this before, I can fix it again' - Before/after enrollment — audience becomes participant in Trump's self-narrative ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Assigns implicit blame for October 7 massacre (~1,200 dead) to Biden — radicalizing narrative in context of acute collective grief - False equivalence ISIS/Hamas may orient audience hostility toward Biden as enabling terrorism - Crisis harvesting normalizes treating geopolitical atrocities as political ammunition - Before/after framing in context of active war may function as emotional accelerant to domestic political radicalization - Video attachment may contain graphic combat/atrocity imagery framed politically ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > TRUMP defeated ISIS (implied by 'before and after TRUMP did his thing') **HALF TRUE** The ISIS territorial caliphate was declared defeated March 2019 under Trump, with al-Baghdadi killed October 2019. However: (1) campaign was initiated under Obama; (2) ISIS continues as a dispersed global network; (3) Hamas and ISIS are organizationally and ideologically distinct — conflating them to imply Biden enabled the October 7 attack is a category error. Sources: U.S. Department of Defense reports on ISIS defeat 2019; General knowledge of anti-ISIS coalition history 2014-2019 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - grandiose-narcissism (90%) - crisis-exploitation (88%) - before-after-propaganda (85%) - absent-king-archetype (82%) - isis-defeat-claim (80%) - hamas-isis-conflation (78%) - supply-seeking (85%) - late-night-authentic (92%) - empathy-absent (87%) - narcissistic-oscillation (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Six Days After October 7, Trump Converts a Massacre Into a Campaign Ad** Trump spent the day obsessively channeling the October 7 Hamas attack into self-promotion and Biden-blaming, never once acknowledging the victims by name or expressing genuine grief. The morning brought an all-caps rant linking the massacre to the 2020 "stolen" election, and the evening ended with a rapid-fire burst that included his most dangerous claim of the day: that the same people who attacked Israel are now crossing the U.S. southern border. Throughout, the ongoing New York civil fraud trial lurked in the background, surfacing in attacks on Forbes magazine and a persecution-narrative outburst about "witch hunts." Sleep appeared limited to roughly four and a half hours, and the volume and intensity of posts stayed elevated all day. Full digest for 2023-10-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 13). ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225446760245864 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!" Truth Social, 13 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225446760245864. 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