# Post ts_111225707972690490

- Post ID: `ts_111225707972690490`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-13T04:00:16.281Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225707972690490
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225707972690490/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111225707972690490.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> There can be no coexistence with this violence. There can be no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it. Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith. Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:17), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> "There can be no coexistence with this violence. There can be no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it. Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith. Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death. If we do not act against this organized terror, then we know what will happen and what will be the end result. Terrorism's devastation of life will continue to spread, peaceful societies will become engulfed by violence, and the futures of many generations will be sadly squandered. If we do not stand in uniform condemnation of this killing, then not only will we be judged by our people, not only will we be judged by history, but we will be judged by God."

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/225/707/909/585/804/original/8376b0df9ea2c588.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:04:24.396Z (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 13, 2023 post is scripted video content responding to the October 7 Hamas attack, almost certainly aide-written, with midnight EDT timing reflecting a planned media cycle drop. Its polished anaphora, grammatical precision, and absence of self-referential boasting contrast sharply with the adjacent authentic Trump post ("ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!"), which provides the ego-assertion this scripted statement deliberately omits. The two posts function as a paired unit: statesmanlike legitimacy plus grandiose self-credit. The post's rhetorical structure employs classical speechwriting techniques — anaphoric negation series, religious universalism, and binary dehumanization ("they worship death") — to foreclose any nuanced response to terrorism while positioning Trump implicitly as defender of the faithful. The eliminationist "no coexistence" framing and death-worship dehumanization constitute elevated danger indicators not because they target named individuals, but because they normalize absolutist rhetorical architecture transferable to broader categories. Trump's civil fraud trial was simultaneously generating multiple gag order violations during this week; the displacement from personal legal jeopardy to righteous foreign-policy register represents a characteristic psychodynamic pattern. Cognitive assessment is impossible from scripted content.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — October 13, 2023 (04:00 UTC)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-written / scripted video content (high confidence)**

Trump was in New York for his ongoing civil fraud trial during this period. UTC 04:00 converts to approximately midnight EDT (12:00 AM October 13) in New York. While late-night timing is consistent with authentic Trump, the linguistic signature strongly contradicts that interpretation:

- **Anaphoric structure** ("There can be no coexistence... no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it") is rhetorically deliberate and polished — characteristic of speechwriting, not stream-of-consciousness posting
- **Zero typos**, complete sentences, no ALL CAPS emotional bursts, no self-referential boasting
- **Video attachment** indicates prepared, produced content — not reactive late-night thumb-typing
- **Grammatical precision** and measured register contrast sharply with the adjacent authentic post: "ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!" — which shows characteristic capitalization, exclamation marks, and ego-centric framing

The most plausible interpretation: this post is the text caption accompanying a scripted video statement, likely produced by communications staff and posted at a scheduled time. The midnight timestamp may reflect a planned publication window (timed for maximum media cycle pickup) rather than spontaneous posting. Authorship score weighted toward aide/Scavino end.

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## Contextual Frame

This post appears six days after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, during which approximately 1,200 people were killed. Trump was simultaneously holding rallies blaming Biden for the attack and facing a civil fraud trial in Manhattan. The post represents his formal, on-camera response to the atrocity — distinct from his political rally messaging. The attached MP4 likely contains video of Trump delivering this scripted statement.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post, being aide-written, is an unreliable carrier of Trump's dispositional traits. What can be inferred: the *content Trump approved* reflects low agreeableness (absolutist framing, no nuance), low openness (binary moral universe), and suppressed neuroticism (rage is present but disciplined by the scripted format). The absence of characteristic high-extraversion markers (superlatives, self-promotion) is itself diagnostic of non-authentic authorship.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The post does not feature Trump's dominant agency motives (power, status) overtly, but the approved framing reveals his schema: the world is divided into pure/impure, faithful/death-worshipping, us/them. This is consistent with his characteristic worldview but expressed through staff-mediated language.

**Political goal evident:** positioning as strong on terrorism, implicitly contrasting with Biden's "weakness." This connects to the New Hampshire rally narrative (the attack "would never have happened" under Trump). The video statement serves as premium campaign content.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

This post is atypically sparse in narrative identity markers — no "I," no protagonist role claimed explicitly. However, the adjacent post ("ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!") reveals the intended narrative frame: *Trump as the effective defeater of terrorism, Biden as the enabler.* The two posts function as a paired rhetorical unit.

The implicit narrative: **Warrior-Savior archetype** — the one who defeated ISIS and will restore order against chaos. The video statement provides the statesmanlike register; the adjacent authentic post provides the explicit ego-assertion.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Primary device — Anaphora:** "There can be no coexistence... no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it." This is a classical rhetorical intensification technique, building to eliminate any imaginable moderate position. The effect is to foreclose diplomatic or contextual thinking entirely.

**False Dichotomy / Splitting:** "Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death." This is maximally reductive binary framing. While rhetorically effective, it performs psychological splitting — the target is stripped of humanity and assigned an alien, death-oriented essence. This is a classic dehumanization technique: the enemy is not merely wrong or violent, they belong to a categorically different ontological order.

**Eliminationist framing:** "There can be no coexistence with this violence." The word "coexistence" is load-bearing. It does not merely say the violence must stop — it says shared existence is impossible. This absolutist framing has structural kinship with eliminationist rhetoric, even if directed at "terrorists" rather than an ethnic group. The rhetorical architecture does not distinguish carefully between the violence and its perpetrators.

**Appeal to religious universalism:** "It should be an insult to every person of faith." This is a well-crafted rhetorical move — it frames opposition to terrorism as the common ground of all believers, positioning Trump (by association) as defender of faith broadly construed, not merely Christian or Jewish constituencies.

**Propaganda technique — false universalism:** The claim that all people of faith should be united in this reaction papers over significant theological and political complexity in the Muslim world's reception of Hamas, implicitly treating any Muslim silence or nuance as complicity.

**Violent imagery:** "Worship death" is vivid eliminationist imagery — it dehumanizes the target and assigns to them a quasi-demonic essence.

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## Psychological Analysis

**Trigger:** External event (Hamas October 7 attack) — this is *maintenance/positioning* rather than narcissistic injury. The post is not reactive to personal criticism; it is a prepared political statement exploiting a crisis event.

**Narcissistic dynamics:** Muted in this specific post (aide-written). The grandiosity is displaced onto the adjacent authentic post ("ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!"). The video statement provides legitimacy; the authentic post provides supply.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- **Splitting** (immature): The "God vs. death" binary is textbook splitting — no gradations, no complexity, pure moral polarity.
- **Displacement** (neurotic): Aggression toward terrorists displaces from the more personally proximate stressors (civil fraud trial ongoing during this same week; multiple gag order violations). The righteous foreign-policy register contrasts with the legal jeopardy of the trial context.

**Narcissistic rage:** Absent as a primary driver in this scripted post. The controlled register suppresses it.

**Narcissistic state:** Indeterminate from this post alone; grandiose positioning is implied but expressed through staff voice. The adjacent authentic post is unmistakably grandiose ("TRUMP did his thing!!!").

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## Cognitive Status

This post is unsuitable for cognitive assessment due to aide-written authorship. No cognitive markers can be attributed to Trump from scripted content. Baseline comparison is inapplicable here. The syntactic and lexical complexity is elevated above Trump's typical authentic register, confirming non-authentic authorship rather than indicating cognitive enhancement.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

The "no coexistence" formulation is eliminationist in structure. While directed explicitly at "terrorists" (a legally/morally legitimate target), the absolutist framing:
1. Forecloses all diplomatic or contextual response options
2. Creates rhetorical infrastructure easily applied to broader categories of people
3. Combined with the "worship death" dehumanization, positions the enemy as categorically beyond negotiation or coexistence

This does not rise to "high" because the targeting is diffuse ("terrorists," not named individuals or ethnic groups) and the content is relatively conventional post-atrocity rhetoric. However, in conjunction with Trump's history of applying such frameworks more broadly (immigrants as "vermin," etc.), the rhetoric contributes to a normalizing of eliminationist framing.

**Stochastic terrorism:** Not clearly present in this post. No specific targets named, no explicit call to action. The dehumanization ("worship death") is concerning as a contributing factor to a broader rhetorical ecology, but this post alone does not cross the threshold.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God" | **Unverifiable** | Whether God-invocation by terrorists is always 'false' is a theological assertion, not an empirical claim. It functions as rhetorical framing. |
| "Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death" | **Mostly False** | As a factual claim this is inaccurate: jihadist and other religiously-motivated terrorist organizations have sincere (if extreme and distorted) theological frameworks centered on God. The claim is polemical rhetoric and dehumanization, not accurate characterization of terrorist psychology or theology. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Summary

This October 13, 2023 post is best understood as produced, scripted video content responding to the October 7 Hamas attack, almost certainly aide-written (Scavino or communications staff), with midnight EDT timing reflecting a planned media cycle drop rather than authentic late-night posting. The text accompanying a video statement, it displays rhetorical sophistication — anaphora, false dichotomy, religious universalism — inconsistent with Trump's authentic posting voice, which appears in the adjacent post ("ISIS, before and after TRUMP did his thing!!!") in characteristic unpolished form. The two posts function as a paired unit: the scripted statement provides statesmanlike legitimacy; the authentic post provides the ego-assertion and implicit claim of superior competence over Biden. The post's eliminationist framing ("no coexistence") and dehumanization ("worship death") represent conventional post-atrocity rhetoric elevated to danger-elevated status by their absolutist architecture, which forecloses complexity and contributes to a rhetorical ecosystem in which such framings migrate to broader targets. No cognitive assessment is possible from scripted content.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Polished anaphoric rhetorical structure inconsistent with authentic Trump posting style
- Zero typos or grammatical errors
- No ALL CAPS emotional outbursts or exclamation marks
- No self-referential boasting or ego-assertion
- Video attachment indicates produced, prepared content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Hamas October 7 attack on Israel)

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 72%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Religious universalism appeal ('every person of faith')
- Moral clarity positioning — speaker implicitly aligned with God-worshippers against death-worshippers
- Collective identity framing: 'we' (believers) vs 'them' (death-worshippers)

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'There can be no coexistence with this violence' — eliminationist framing that forecloses coexistence as a category
- 'Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death' — dehumanization, assigning death-cult essence to enemy
- Absolutist negation series eliminates any moderate rhetorical position
- Rhetorical infrastructure easily migrated to broader target categories given Trump's documented history of expansive 'enemy' definitions

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Whether God-invocation by terrorists is always 'false' is a theological assertion, not an empirical claim. It functions as rhetorical framing.

> Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death

**MOSTLY FALSE**

As a factual claim this is inaccurate: jihadist and other religiously-motivated terrorist organizations have sincere (if extreme and distorted) theological frameworks centered on God. The claim is polemical rhetoric and dehumanization, not accurate characterization of terrorist psychology or theology.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- aide-written (90%)
- Hamas-response (95%)
- eliminationist-framing (75%)
- dehumanization (80%)
- scripted-video (90%)
- religious-universalism (70%)
- splitting (75%)
- displacement (65%)
- Israel-Hamas-war (95%)
- campaign-positioning (80%)

## 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). There can be no coexistence with this violence.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225707972690490
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "There can be no coexistence with this violence. There can..." Truth Social, 13 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225707972690490. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "There can be no coexistence with this violence. There can...," Truth Social, October 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111225707972690490.

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