# Post ts_111230220707998254

- Post ID: `ts_111230220707998254`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-13T23:07:55.153Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111230220707998254/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111230220707998254.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:05), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA through our totally open southern border at record numbers. These are the same people, many of them, that did a number in Israel. A sneak attack. Same people we have pouring into our country by the thousands. Are they planning to attack within our country? Crooked Joe Biden and his boss Barack Hussein Obama did this to us. We cannot let this happen. They may be planning something very, very bad. Don't forget, I'm not making this as a prediction, but there's a phrase out there. Trump was right about everything. We have to be very careful. I don't want to be right about this. But people are pouring in from the Middle East, into our country. Largely males, strong young males. What's going on over here? Are we going to be raided like Israel was raided?

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/230/220/141/017/408/original/85294f65ce61a517.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,578
- Reposts: 4,839
- Replies: 704
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:14:24.317Z (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 post deploys the October 7 Hamas attack as a rhetorical weapon by falsely equating Palestinian militants with migrants at the U.S. southern border — "the same people that raided Israel." The central operation is a false equivalence presenting a factually fabricated claim as grammatical presupposition, harvesting fresh terror-grief from the Israeli massacre and redirecting it toward immigration politics. Dehumanizing flood language ("pouring into"), contamination narrative ("once beautiful USA"), and ALL CAPS intensifiers complete a rhetorical package designed to activate threat-response rather than deliberative judgment. Stochastic terrorism indicators are present: target identification (migrants at the border), association with mass violence (Hamas/October 7), dehumanization, and implied existential threat — without explicit incitement, preserving deniability. Defense mechanisms include splitting (two unrelated populations collapsed into one threat), projection (terrorist intent attributed to civilian migrants), and distortion (calling an actively-enforced border "TOTALLY OPEN"). The factual core claim is demonstrably false; the record-numbers claim is substantively accurate. Authorship is predominantly authentic Trump voice (ALL CAPS, trailing ellipsis, nostalgic register, idiosyncratic word choice) with probable staff assistance on video attachment. Concurrent same-day posting cluster shows grandiose-to-victimized narcissistic oscillation under compressive legal stress (civil fraud trial) and political opportunity exploitation. Danger level: high, primarily for migrants and individuals perceived as Middle Eastern within the U.S. The post provides a rhetorical license — "these are Hamas" — exploitable by radicalized actors as self-defense justification.

## Comprehensive Analysis: Truth Social Post — October 13, 2023, 23:07:55 UTC

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### Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** UTC 23:07:55 converts to 19:07:55 EDT (Trump was in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, for a campaign rally on this date). 7:07 PM local time falls in a transitional zone — not late-night authentic Trump territory, but within plausible personal posting hours during a high-activity day. The presence of an attached MP4 video is a significant modifier; video assets are typically produced and attached by staff (Dan Scavino or campaign digital team), suggesting hybrid authorship: Trump likely authored or dictated the text while staff handled media integration.

**Stylistic markers favoring authenticity:** ALL CAPS ("TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER"), sentential capitalization of "Record Numbers," the trailing ellipsis (stream-of-consciousness suspension), "once beautiful USA" (nostalgic/lament register), and the compressed, emotionally loaded construction are all consistent with authentic Trump voice. The phrase "raided Israel" as a descriptor for the October 7 attacks is slightly unusual and idiosyncratic — staff-written copy would more likely use "attacked."

**Assessment:** Predominantly authentic text, aide-assisted media attachment. Confidence: medium-high.

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### Psychological State and Triggers

**Primary trigger:** The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel — a high-salience global crisis occurring six days prior — is being instrumentalized as a political weapon and narcissistic supply vector simultaneously. Trump's same-day post "I KEPT ISRAEL SAFE" establishes the frame: the crisis is an argument for his indispensability. This post extends that operation into immigration politics.

**Secondary trigger:** Ongoing civil fraud trial in New York (Trump Organization, presided by Judge Engoron) concurrent with this posting day. The broader posting pattern on October 13 shows a subject under compressive legal and political stress, producing high-volume, emotionally escalated content (Witch Hunt post, "NOT WITH DONALD J. TRUMP!", "WOW—AGAIN!", "I KEPT ISRAEL SAFE!").

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The post positions Trump as the lone clear-seeing authority who perceives the true danger others miss. This is the "prophet-in-the-wilderness" grandiose configuration, not the wounded/victimized state visible in the concurrent witch hunt post. The oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic states within the same day's posting cluster is notable.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (immature):** Binary construction — "the same people" performs the cognitive operation of collapsing two entirely different populations (Palestinian militants and Central/South American migrants) into a single undifferentiated threat mass. This is textbook splitting: the world divided into threatening others and imperiled in-group.

**Projection (immature):** The violence of the Hamas attack is projected forward onto migrants at the southern border, attributing terrorist intent and capacity to a civilian population with no documented nexus to Hamas.

**Distortion (pathological):** The core rhetorical claim constitutes a gross distortion of reality — equating geographically, ethnically, ideologically, and operationally unrelated groups via the word "same." This is not an exaggeration or selective emphasis; it is a categorical fabrication requiring reality to be substantially restructured.

**Denial (pathological):** "TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER" — denies the existence of active enforcement infrastructure, thousands of border agents, detention facilities, and the physical border itself.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

**False equivalence (central operation):** "The same people that raided Israel" performs the post's critical rhetorical work. It smuggles a factually false empirical claim inside a grammatical presupposition. The reader is not invited to evaluate whether these are the same people; the grammar presents it as established premise.

**Fear appeal + recency effect:** The emotional charge of the October 7 attack — still raw after six days — is harvested and redirected. The audience's terror and grief about Israel are consciously transferred to the border via the "same people" bridge.

**Invasion/flood metaphor ("pouring into"):** Dehumanizing language; migrants are rendered as liquid, undifferentiated mass, without individual agency or identity. This is consistent with eliminationist rhetoric's standard dehumanization phase.

**Contamination narrative ("once beautiful USA"):** Invokes a prelapsarian America — pure, ordered, "beautiful" — now being despoiled by invasive outsiders. This is a structurally contamination-sequence narrative: good state → corruption → implied need for restoration (which only Trump can deliver).

**Superlative/intensifier stacking:** "TOTALLY OPEN," "Record Numbers" — hyperbolic framing that forecloses proportionate assessment.

**Implied action without explicit incitement:** The rhetorical logic of "these are the same people who just killed 1,200 Israelis and are now inside your country" implies a conclusion without stating it, maintaining plausible deniability while activating the audience's threat-response system.

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### Danger Assessment

This post presents stochastic terrorism indicators at an elevated-to-high level:

1. **Target identification:** Migrants crossing the southern border are explicitly linked to Hamas terrorists.
2. **Grievance articulation:** The October 7 massacre — mass slaughter, hostage-taking, sexual violence — is invoked as the behavior template attributed to the target group.
3. **Dehumanization:** "Pouring into" strips individual identity; the flood metaphor enables violence by removing the perception of victims as persons.
4. **Implied threat to American safety:** The post does not advocate violence; it constructs a scenario in which violence against the identified group could be rationalized as self-defense.

The specific danger is to: (a) migrants at or near the border, (b) persons perceived as Middle Eastern or Muslim within the U.S., and (c) broader anti-immigrant vigilante activation. The post provides a rhetorical license — "these are Hamas" — that could be cited to justify violence by a radicalized individual.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA" | **False** | Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist militant organization operating from Gaza with specific organizational, ideological, and operational characteristics. Migrants apprehended at the U.S. southern border in 2023 were overwhelmingly nationals of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti. No credible intelligence reporting documents Hamas operational presence in U.S.-bound migration flows. The claim fabricates a categorical equivalence between two entirely unrelated populations. |
| "TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER" | **False** | The U.S.-Mexico border has approximately 19,000 Border Patrol agents, physical barriers across hundreds of miles, detention infrastructure, biometric screening, and active interdiction operations. CBP recorded record encounters in FY2023 (~2.5M) — indicating high traffic but also high enforcement contact. 'Totally open' denies extensive enforcement infrastructure. |
| "at Record Numbers" | **Mostly True** | CBP FY2023 data confirms record-level encounters (~2.5M annual total). The claim accurately reflects official statistics, though it conflates total encounters (including deportations, returns, and Title 42 expulsions) with successful illegal crossings — a distinction the post does not make. |

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS usage ('TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER')
- Trailing ellipsis suggesting incomplete/stream-of-consciousness thought
- Capitalization of 'Record Numbers' — non-standard emphasis pattern consistent with Trump
- 'once beautiful USA' — nostalgic lament register characteristic of Trump
- Idiosyncratic verb choice: 'raided' for Hamas attack rather than standard 'attacked'

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Hamas attack on Israel / concurrent civil fraud trial)

Sentiment: -0.88

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Five-plus posts on October 13 showing rapid topic cycling across distinct emotional registers (victimhood, pride, alarm, rally content)
- High emotional intensity sustained across extended posting day
- Internally coherent individual posts but thematically disconnected across cluster
- ALL CAPS deployment in multiple posts suggesting heightened arousal state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 61%
- Paranoid: 58%
- Sadism: 31%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared threat framing ('our once beautiful USA' — inclusive possessive activates in-group identity)
- Authority positioning — speaking as the one who sees the true danger
- Fear activation using emotionally fresh trauma (October 7, six days prior)
- Implied contrast with self as former protector ('I KEPT ISRAEL SAFE' same day)

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Explicit target identification: migrants at the southern border associated with Hamas terrorism
- Mass-casualty event (October 7, ~1,200 killed) invoked as behavioral template attributed to target group
- Dehumanizing flood metaphor ('pouring into') removes individual personhood from target population
- Implied existential threat construction without explicit incitement — stochastic terrorism pattern
- Rhetorical license provided: 'these are Hamas' could be cited by radicalized actors to justify violence as self-defense
- Broad target population: could activate violence against migrants, persons perceived as Middle Eastern/Muslim, border communities

### Gaslighting

- 'TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER' — denies objective reality of extensive enforcement infrastructure, requiring audience to reject documented federal operations as false
- Presuppositional framing of 'the same people' — attacks audience's ability to independently assess the equivalence by embedding it as premise rather than claim

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA

**FALSE**

Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist militant organization operating from Gaza with specific organizational, ideological, and operational characteristics. Migrants apprehended at the U.S. southern border in 2023 were overwhelmingly nationals of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti. No credible intelligence reporting documents Hamas operational presence in U.S.-bound migration flows. The claim fabricates a categorical equivalence between two entirely unrelated populations.

Sources: CBP FY2023 encounter data by nationality; Hamas organizational profile (Council on Foreign Relations); DHS/FBI threat assessments on border crossing populations

> TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER

**FALSE**

The U.S.-Mexico border has approximately 19,000 Border Patrol agents, physical barriers across hundreds of miles, detention infrastructure, biometric screening, and active interdiction operations. CBP recorded record encounters in FY2023 (~2.5M) — indicating high traffic but also high enforcement contact. 'Totally open' denies extensive enforcement infrastructure.

Sources: CBP FY2023 statistics; DHS budget/personnel data; Congressional Research Service border security reports

> at Record Numbers

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CBP FY2023 data confirms record-level encounters (~2.5M annual total). The claim accurately reflects official statistics, though it conflates total encounters (including deportations, returns, and Title 42 expulsions) with successful illegal crossings — a distinction the post does not make.

Sources: CBP FY2023 Southwest Land Border Encounters data

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Tags

- stochastic-terrorism (88%)
- false-equivalence (95%)
- dehumanization (82%)
- immigration (90%)
- israel-hamas (85%)
- contamination-narrative (78%)
- splitting (85%)
- reality-distortion (80%)
- grandiose-narcissism (75%)
- hypomanic-cluster (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). The same people that raided Israel are pouring... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111230220707998254
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our..." Truth Social, 13 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111230220707998254. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our...," Truth Social, October 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111230220707998254.

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