# Post ts_111229407808807526 - Post ID: `ts_111229407808807526` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-13T19:41:11.305Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111229407808807526 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111229407808807526/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111229407808807526.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Many are using an example of “just the way ISIS was defeated in Iraq and Syria, HAMAS will likewise be defeated.” Please remember that it was the Trump Administration that defeated ISIS, and quickly, after years of futile attempts by previous administrations! Someday we will be given proper credit for all of the many successes we had. In the meantime, we will do it again in 2024! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ## Engagement - Likes: 19,056 - Reposts: 5,126 - Replies: 865 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:10:51.290Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Six days after the October 7 Hamas massacre, this post declines to substantively engage with the crisis and instead uses the ISIS-Hamas analytical comparison circulating in public discourse as a vehicle for credit-claiming. The subject quotes the ISIS precedent approvingly, then immediately asserts exclusive ownership of that precedent's positive valence. The construction 'after years of futile attempts by previous administrations' is a documented historical distortion — the Obama coalition had retaken approximately 50% of ISIS territory before Trump's inauguration. The 'someday we will be given proper credit' formulation encodes chronic wounded entitlement, a persistent feature of the subject's psychological profile: the conviction that deserved historical recognition is being systematically withheld. The post exemplifies narcissistic instrumentalization of tragedy — a major world event is processed not empathically but as a comparative credential opportunity. Concurrent context (civil fraud trial in active testimony on October 13) likely intensifies the supply-seeking behavior. Authorship attribution is mixed: business-hours timing and clean grammar suggest aide involvement, but the specific grievance themes are authentically Trump. Rhetorical danger level is none; this post contains no eliminationist language or target identification. Clinical significance is moderate — the pattern is consistent with baseline but the brazenness of pivoting from mass-casualty attack to personal achievement claims within six days is documentably notable. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-10-13T19:41:11Z ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** The civil fraud trial testimony on October 13 places Trump in **New York** (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). Post timestamp converts to **3:41 PM EDT** — solidly within business hours (9am–6pm). Grammar is reasonably correct, sentences are complete, and there are no typos. These are Scavino-adjacent indicators. However, the content bears unmistakable authentic-Trump fingerprints: the wounded "someday we will be given proper credit" grievance, the pivot from geopolitical crisis to personal achievement, the closing MAGA slogan in ALL CAPS, and the characteristic "we/us" self-referential claim structure. Most likely assessment: **aide-assisted or aide-drafted from Trump's verbal dictation**, with high fidelity to his voice and thematic preoccupations. Confidence: medium. --- ## Contextual Trigger The post lands six days after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel — the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust — and five days after Israel formally declared war. The Israeli-Hamas conflict had become the dominant global news story, with widespread commentary invoking the ISIS precedent as a template for how Hamas might be "defeated." Trump explicitly quotes this framing ("just the way ISIS was defeated") and immediately hijacks it to claim retrospective credit. Concurrent stressor: the Trump civil fraud trial in New York was entering active testimony (October 13 testimony revealed the "presidential premium" markup scheme). The subject is simultaneously facing a serious legal threat while a major world crisis absorbs media attention. This post functions partly as **attention recapture** — redirecting discourse back to a favorable narrative during a period of legal exposure. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Big Five Trait Signatures - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, self-promoting, dominant tone. No self-doubt signaled. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Dismissive of predecessor administrations ("years of futile attempts"), zero acknowledgment of coalition partners, Iraqi forces, or Obama-era gains. Zero empathy for the victims of the October 7 attack — the crisis is immediately instrumentalized for self-promotion. - **Conscientiousness (mixed):** Achievement-striving is prominent, but in service of self-image rather than actual task orientation. - **Neuroticism (elevated):** "Someday we will be given proper credit" encodes wounded entitlement — a chronic grievance about under-recognition that surfaces repeatedly across his corpus. - **Openness (low):** Rigid identity claim ("it was the Trump Administration that defeated ISIS") with no nuance, acknowledgment of complexity, or curiosity. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Status.** The entire post is organized around a single goal: establishing dominance in historical memory. The Hamas crisis is not processed as a human tragedy but as a **comparative credential** — evidence of his superior competence relative to Biden, Obama, and all who came before. **Schema (self):** Uniquely competent, history-making, under-credited. The world owes recognition it refuses to give. **Schema (others):** Predecessors are "futile"; successors are incompetent stewards of his legacy; the public is a validation resource not yet fully unlocked. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The triumphant warrior-executive who accomplished the impossible, contrasted against the failure of all prior leaders. - **Contamination sequence:** His great achievement (ISIS defeat) was followed not by appropriate recognition but by erasure and ingratitude. The victory was contaminated by historical injustice. - **Redemption arc:** "We will do it again in 2024" — the contamination sequence converts into a forward-looking rescue narrative. He is returning to restore proper order. - **Identity claims:** *We defeated ISIS quickly* (competence). *Previous administrations failed* (contrast). *We will do it again* (destiny). - **Contrasting other:** "Previous administrations" — specifically unnamed but clearly indexed to Obama (and implicitly Biden), cast as feckless and ineffectual. --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable oscillation. The grandiose surface ("we defeated ISIS, and quickly") is undercut by the vulnerable undertow ("someday we will be given proper credit") — a construction that reveals underlying insecurity about his place in history. This co-occurrence of grandiosity and wounded entitlement is a classic malignant narcissism marker. **Trigger type:** Primarily **supply-seeking** with a secondary **narcissistic injury** component. The injury is chronic: the perception that his accomplishments are systematically minimized. The Hamas crisis provides a supply opportunity — an external event that, when framed correctly, returns him to center stage as the relevant authority. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent in acute form. The tone is grievance-laden but controlled — more chronic resentment than hot rage. Intensity: low-moderate. Target: unnamed predecessors and the media/historical establishment that withholds credit. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (pathological):** The ISIS campaign is reframed as uniquely his achievement after universal prior failure. This grossly reshapes a complex multinational military effort into a solo triumph. 2. **Splitting (immature):** Clean binary — his administration succeeded where all others failed. No acknowledgment of Obama coalition's 2014–2016 progress, Iraqi security forces, Kurdish fighters (YPG/SDF), or the 60+ nation coalition. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The pivot from Hamas crisis to ISIS credit-claiming is presented as a logical contribution to the public discourse ("Many are using an example of...") rather than naked opportunism. ### Malignant Narcissism Subscores - **Narcissistic features:** High — grandiosity, entitlement, exploitative use of tragedy for self-promotion - **Antisocial features:** Mild — willingness to distort reality for self-gain - **Paranoid features:** Low-moderate — the "proper credit" framing implies a conspiratorial withholding - **Sadism:** Absent in this post --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Techniques employed:** 1. **False premise setup:** Opens by quoting a comparison others are making ("just the way ISIS was defeated"), then hijacks the premise to redirect credit. 2. **Whataboutism/pivot:** Uses the Hamas crisis not to address it substantively but as a launching pad for historical self-promotion. 3. **Historical revisionism:** "Years of futile attempts by previous administrations" erases substantial Obama-era anti-ISIS progress (Mosul offensive began October 2016 under Obama planning). 4. **Possessive grammar:** "the Trump Administration" — the institutional apparatus of the U.S. government is personalized as his property. 5. **Martyrdom framing:** "Someday we will be given proper credit" — positions himself as an unrecognized historical hero. 6. **Superlatives:** "quickly," "many successes," "all of the many" — characteristic hyperbolic inflation. 7. **Rallying close:** MAGA slogan converts personal grievance into collective mobilization. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** None. --- ## Cognitive Status Language production is coherent. Logical flow is intact — the post makes a sequential argument (others cite ISIS analogy → I deserve credit → predecessors failed → we will return). Vocabulary is within typical Trump baseline. Sentence structure is simple but not fragmented. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion evident. **No deviation from cognitive baseline.** Complexity score reflects consistent lower-register vocabulary and syntactic simplicity that has been Trump's documented baseline since at least the early 2010s. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **"After years of futile attempts by previous administrations"** — the Obama administration launched the anti-ISIS coalition in September 2014, achieved significant territorial rollbacks, and initiated the Mosul campaign in October 2016. Characterizing this as "futile" is a documented historical distortion, not a contested interpretation. The framing demands the audience reject publicly available evidence in favor of a self-serving narrative. This meets the definition of **epistemic manipulation** — asserting a false historical record with confidence designed to override audience skepticism. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This post contains no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no target identification, no violent imagery. It is opportunistic credit-claiming, not incitement. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "It was the Trump Administration that defeated ISIS" | **Half True** | Trump administration presided over territorial collapse of ISIS caliphate (Raqqa October 2017, Baghouz February 2019). However, Obama administration launched anti-ISIS coalition September 2014, conducted thousands of airstrikes, and initiated Mosul campaign October 2016. By inauguration, ISIS had lost ~50% of territorial peak. | | "After years of futile attempts by previous administrations" | **Mostly False** | The Obama administration retook Tikrit (March 2015), Ramadi (December 2015), Fallujah (June 2016), initiated Mosul campaign (October 2016), and significantly degraded ISIS territorial control. Characterizing this as 'futile' contradicts documented military progress. The Bush administration's destabilization of Iraq is a legitimate critique but not what is being claimed here. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis **Archetypes active:** Hero/Savior (returning to fix what's broken) and King-in-Exile (proper authority temporarily displaced but historically vindicated). The "Someday we will be given proper credit" construction invokes the **unrecognized king** — legitimate authority whose greatness is suppressed by a hostile court. **Order-chaos positioning:** Order-restorer. The post frames the current Hamas crisis as symptomatic of a disordered world created by Biden's incompetence, and positions Trump's 2024 return as the restoration of proper order. The implicit argument: *this wouldn't be happening if the rightful leader were still in power.* **Grievance intensity:** Moderate. Chronic rather than acute. The underlying wound is historical erasure — a grievance that surfaces consistently across his corpus whenever geopolitical events allow a credential comparison. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Post time is 3:41 PM EDT (business hours) suggesting aide involvement - Correct grammar and spelling, complete sentences - No typos or misspellings - Content themes (credit-claiming, grievance, MAGA closer) are authentically Trump - Wounded 'someday we will be given proper credit' phrasing is characteristic Trump voice ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Public commentators invoking ISIS-Hamas analogy without crediting Trump; concurrent civil fraud trial eroding public narrative control) Sentiment: +0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective 'we' framing creates shared identity with audience - MAGA slogan converts personal grievance into collective mobilization - Martyrdom narrative ('someday we will be given proper credit') positions audience as witnesses to injustice ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Asserts false historical record ('futile attempts') with confidence designed to override audience's access to contrary evidence - Demands audience accept Trump-exclusive credit narrative for a documented multinational military campaign - Rapid revisionism of recent geopolitical commentary to extract personal benefit ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > It was the Trump Administration that defeated ISIS **HALF TRUE** Trump administration presided over territorial collapse of ISIS caliphate (Raqqa October 2017, Baghouz February 2019). However, Obama administration launched anti-ISIS coalition September 2014, conducted thousands of airstrikes, and initiated Mosul campaign October 2016. By inauguration, ISIS had lost ~50% of territorial peak. Sources: Obama anti-ISIS coalition launched September 2014; Battle of Mosul initiated October 2016 under Obama administration; Raqqa fell October 2017 under Trump; Battle of Baghouz concluded February 2019 under Trump > After years of futile attempts by previous administrations **MOSTLY FALSE** The Obama administration retook Tikrit (March 2015), Ramadi (December 2015), Fallujah (June 2016), initiated Mosul campaign (October 2016), and significantly degraded ISIS territorial control. Characterizing this as 'futile' contradicts documented military progress. The Bush administration's destabilization of Iraq is a legitimate critique but not what is being claimed here. Sources: Tikrit retaken March 2015 under Obama coalition; Ramadi retaken December 2015; Fallujah retaken June 2016; Mosul offensive initiated October 2016 Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - credit-claiming (90%) - wounded-entitlement (80%) - crisis-instrumentalization (85%) - historical-revisionism (90%) - supply-seeking (80%) - ISIS-legacy (70%) - Hamas-Israel-war (75%) - civil-fraud-trial (50%) - MAGA-mobilization (60%) ## 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). Many are using an example of “just the way ISIS... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111229407808807526 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Many are using an example of “just the way ISIS was..." Truth Social, 13 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111229407808807526. 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