# Post ts_111244906174355068 - Post ID: `ts_111244906174355068` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-16T13:22:37.602Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111244906174355068 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111244906174355068/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111244906174355068.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/111244545120290538“I think it’s the most offensive thing possibly he’s (Crooked Joe Biden) ever said in office, and that is a long, long list…” ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111244545120290538 (2023-10-16T11:50:48.345Z (UTC)) > Maria Bartiromo and Liz Peek were AMAZING THIS MORNING talking about how pathetic Biden is as a President, and how good a job MAGA Republicans have done. Will post! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:05), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Meanwhile President Biden yesterday on 60 Minutes actually blamed MAGA Republicans and chaos in Congress for the rise in global threats. Yes, watch this. Does the dysfunction that we've seen in Congress increase the danger in the world? Yes. Look, this is not your father's Republican party. 30% of us made up of these MAGA Republicans who are maybe democracy is something they don't look at the same way you and I look at democracy. Liz, this is actually pretty outrageous this morning. So no, President Biden is not talking about his climate change agenda, which shut down oil production, putting national security at risk in America, sending oil prices spiking. He's not talking about the reckless spending of the Democrats, which sent inflation to 40 year highs. He's not even talking about his ineptitude on the world stage with a wide open southern border where terrorists are flowing in and that reckless and botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which sent our adversaries on the rise. And he's not even talking about his appeasement of killers, including Iran for the last two years and China, which is sending surveillance vehicles into our country. No, no, no. He's talking about MAGA Republicans for the chaos that we're seeing. I think it's the most offensive thing possibly he's ever said in office. And that is a long, long list. Look, since the day he took office, every single thing he's done has been to overturn what Trump's policies were. And every single time it has backfired, Maria, whether it's at the border or in our relations with China or relations with Russia, you name it, this is a weak president. The world sees it. If we are talking about a bumbling, stuttering, incapable man of 80 years old trying to lead this country, imagine what the thugs that run all those evil countries look at. I mean, they see a guy who cannot defend America, is not defending America. And now he's blaming his political opponents for all the things that he has done wrong. Energy is just the tip of the iceberg, but it is a really big tip of the iceberg because in suppressing American production, which should be three to four million barrels a day higher than it is right now, he has emboldened and enriched Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and other countries. Everything he has done is wrong. It is it's inconceivable that he is blaming MAGA Republicans for the turmoil we see basically stemming from his misguided policies. It sure is. And does he think we don't know? Does he think we're not aware of 13 servicemen, people losing their lives because of his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which triggered our adversaries? Does he think we don't know about how he has been appeasing China all of these years and triggering them to do whatever they wanted to America police stations in New York? For God's sakes. Does he think we don't know that inflation was at a 40 year high? He actually has the nerve, Joe, to say he wants to run for reelection. Despite all of this and several worlds of crises of his administration. Watch this. Watch this. Even these two wars and the dysfunction in Congress, are you sure that you want to run again? Yes, because I'm sure. Look, when I ran, I said the world's an inflection point. The world's changing, but we have an opportunity to make it. So imagine if we were able to succeed in getting the Middle East put in place where we have normalization of relations. I think we can do that. We had normalization. We had peace in the Middle East because of the Abraham Accords under the Trump administration. He also said that the US does not need to send troops to Israel and the administration will provide everything that they need, Liz. What are they providing? Yeah, good question, because not that long ago, he told the world rather inartfully that we were out of munitions because of our involvement with Ukraine, Maria. So I'm not sure what we have left in the armaments department to send to Israel. But look, I mean, again, everything he has done pretty much since he took office has been wrong. And mainly because it is guided by nothing other than hatred of Donald Trump, including this interview last night. I mean, honestly, at some point, he's going to realize it's not just 30 percent of Republicans who consider him wrong footed on almost every policy. It's the majority of Americans. I don't know if he's looked at the polls lately. He has the worst polling of any president in our generation. That is actually quite an accomplishment. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/244/905/858/916/065/original/ebe6780ec1106029.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,960 - Reposts: 3,717 - Replies: 864 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T13:12:45.485Z (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 self-retruth amplifying a clip of Trump characterizing an unspecified Biden statement as "the most offensive thing possibly he's ever said in office." Likely aide-executed during a busy Iowa rally day, though the quoted content is authentically Trump's spoken voice. Psychologically, the post reflects the grandiose pole of the oscillating narcissistic pattern visible throughout this day's posting cluster — Trump as moral arbiter of presidential conduct — contrasting with the acute victim/persecution state expressed in same-day posts about the gag order. Defense mechanisms include displacement (redirecting from Trump's own simultaneous legal exposure) and projection (deploying 'offensive' and 'long list' framing that mirrors what opponents apply to Trump). Rhetorically, the post's strategic vagueness — never specifying what Biden said — functions as an invitation for audience projection, maximizing resonance. No danger indicators, gaslighting, or cognitive deviation from baseline. Clinical significance is low; this represents routine maintenance-mode rhetoric deployed during a period of acute legal stress rather than a marked departure from established patterns. # Analysis: Truth Social Retruth — October 16, 2023 ## Post Overview This is a self-retruth (RT of his own earlier post, `111244545120290538`) with an attached MP4 video and a single quoted line: *"I think it's the most offensive thing possibly he's (Crooked Joe Biden) ever said in office, and that is a long, long list…"* The parenthetical insertion of "(Crooked Joe Biden)" after the pronoun "he's" is a transcript convention, strongly suggesting this is a clip of Trump speaking at an event — consistent with the Iowa campaign stop in Adel/Clive that day — being retroactively amplified on his feed. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Agreeableness (Low):** The pejorative label "Crooked Joe Biden" and the sweeping indictment implied by "long, long list" reflect consistent low-agreeableness expression — combative, oppositional, and devaluing of the target. No modesty or trust cues present. **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility facet):** The superlative framing ("most offensive thing *possibly* he's ever said") activates hostility, though the intensity is moderate given the post's brevity. The hedged superlative ("possibly") is atypically self-qualifying for Trump — more consistent with spoken speech than composed writing. **Extraversion:** Assertive, broadcast-oriented self-amplification through the self-retruth mechanism. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate:** Trump positions himself as moral arbiter — the one qualified to judge what is and is not "offensive" — asserting status superiority over the sitting president. This is a power-assertion move under conditions of considerable external threat (gag order hearing same day, ongoing civil fraud trial). **Schema — Self as Wronged Evaluator:** Trump casts himself as the legitimate observer of Biden's failures, deflecting attention from his own legal exposure to Biden's alleged misconduct. The vagueness of what Biden said is structurally useful: it allows the audience to fill in the blank with their own grievances. **Communion motives absent:** No appeals to shared affinity or warmth; purely competitive and adversarial framing. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role — Warrior/Moral Judge:** In this micro-narrative, Trump occupies the role of the clear-eyed prosecutor of Biden's wrongdoing, contrasting with the more legally embattled victim role he performed in the gag-order post from the same day. **Contamination sequence (implied):** Biden has degraded the presidency ("long, long list" of offenses), echoing the broader Trump narrative that national decline began with Biden's tenure. **Contrasting other:** Crooked Joe Biden — the corrupt, incompetent, offensive incumbent against whom Trump's own conduct is implicitly measured favorably. **Identity claim:** *I am the one who recognizes and names corruption.* The act of calling something "the most offensive" is itself a claim to moral clarity and authority. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Components **A. Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity is expressed obliquely — by positioning himself as the supreme evaluator of Biden's conduct, Trump implicitly elevates his own standing. Entitlement to define what is "offensive" without specifying the content reflects assumption of unchallenged moral authority. **Moderate expression.** **B. Antisocial features:** Minimal in this specific post; no overt deception or rule-breaking rhetoric. The label "Crooked" carries persistent deceptive implication but is baseline for Trump. **Low expression.** **C. Paranoid features:** Absent in this specific post, though the surrounding same-day posts (gag order, Iran, weaponized DOJ) heavily express paranoid ideation. **Absent here.** **D. Ego-syntonic sadism:** The phrase "long, long list" carries a subtle relishing quality — savoring the accumulation of Biden's supposed failures. **Mild expression.** ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Unclear — the specific Biden statement referenced is not identified in the post or available context. However, given the Israel-Hamas escalation (Week 3), Biden was making numerous statements about Gaza/Israel during this period. Whatever the trigger, it functioned as a comparative injury: Biden saying something that Trump could frame as worse than anything Trump himself has done. **Narcissistic state:** **Grandiose** — the post projects authority and superiority rather than victimhood (contrasting sharply with the same-day gag order post, which was primarily vulnerable/persecuted). **Rage:** **Absent or minimal.** The tone is contemptuous rather than rageful — a cooler devaluation, possibly because the quote came from a public event rather than a reactive late-night posting session. ### Defense Mechanisms **Displacement (Neurotic):** Attention is redirected from Trump's own acute legal exposure (gag order hearing same day, civil fraud trial) toward Biden's alleged offensiveness. Classic deflection mechanism — keep the audience focused on the opponent's failures. **Projection (Immature):** Trump, who faces credible accusations of repeated offensive conduct across multiple legal and public domains, deploys the label "offensive" against Biden. The projection of "long, long list" is particularly notable: the accumulation narrative Trump applies to Biden mirrors what his opponents apply to him. **Devaluation (Immature):** The "Crooked" label is a persistent devaluation schema — reducing Biden to a single pejorative identity. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 13:22:37 → **Local (Central Daylight Time, Iowa):** 08:22 AM CDT Trump held campaign events in Adel and Clive, Iowa on October 16 — a full rally day. Morning business hours (8:22 AM) combined with the self-retruth format (amplifying a clip from what appears to be a prior speech or media appearance) strongly suggest **aide-assisted posting**, likely Scavino or equivalent. The mechanics of clipping a video, matching it to a prior Truth Social post, and retruthing it at 8 AM on a rally day are consistent with communications staff workflow. However, the **quoted language itself** ("the most offensive thing possibly he's ever said") bears authentic Trump speech markers: hedged superlative, spoken rhythm, parenthetical clarification of pronoun ("he's (Crooked Joe Biden)"). The phrasing reads as a rally or interview transcript excerpt — Trump's voice, amplified by staff. **Assessment:** Aide-executed retruth of authentic Trump spoken content. **Confidence: medium-high.** --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Hyperbole/Superlative:** "most offensive thing possibly he's ever said in office" — maximalist framing without specification. - **Ad hominem/label:** "Crooked Joe Biden" — persistent dehumanizing nickname replacing the subject's actual name. - **Vagueness as device:** By not stating what Biden said, Trump invites the audience to project their own grievances, maximizing resonance across diverse subgroups. - **Accumulation rhetoric:** "long, long list" — implies Biden's offenses are uncountable, reinforcing the contamination narrative. - **Self-amplification:** Retruthing own content to increase algorithmic reach and signal — a maintenance/supply-seeking behavior. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **Absent** in this specific post. The claim ("most offensive") is presented as subjective opinion rather than factual assertion, insulating it from direct contradiction. No denial of documented events or DARVO pattern. --- ## Cognitive Status **Language:** The quoted speech shows slightly awkward but functional syntax: "the most offensive thing *possibly* he's ever said" — the hedged superlative and spoken rhythm are consistent with Trump's established oral baseline. No word-finding failures, paraphasia, or incoherence detected. **Complexity:** Low-moderate. The sentence is simple in structure, consistent with Trump's established oral communication style. No deviation from baseline warranting clinical notation. **Baseline deviation:** None. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This post contains derogatory political rhetoric but no eliminationist language, dehumanization beyond the standard nickname, mobilization calls, or stochastic terrorism indicators. Standard opposition-attack content. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden said something that is 'the most offensive thing possibly he's ever said in office'" | **Unverifiable** | The specific Biden statement is not identified in the post. During this period Biden was making numerous statements about the Israel-Hamas conflict (Week 3, Oct 16), but the referenced statement cannot be identified or evaluated without more specificity. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Longitudinal Context Viewed against the same-day posting cluster, this retruth occupies a **grandiose pole** in an oscillating pattern. The gag order post from the same day expressed vulnerable/persecuted narcissism (silencing, weaponization against me). This post expresses grandiose narcissism (I am the moral judge of Biden's offenses). The oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states within a single day is consistent with the established Trump psychological baseline during periods of acute legal stress. The boxing non-sequitur in the same-day cluster also warrants note — tangential topic injection consistent with baseline but signaling a mind processing high-anxiety content through deflection. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Morning business hours (8:22 AM local, Iowa CDT) - Self-retruth format consistent with staff amplification workflow - Video clip attached suggesting editing/production staff involvement - However, quoted language has authentic Trump oral speech markers - Hedged superlative ('possibly') consistent with spoken rather than composed Trump ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Joe Biden (unspecified statement)) Sentiment: -0.52 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vague grievance framing allowing audience to project own Biden-related resentments - Self-amplification via retruth signaling importance of the content - Appeal to accumulated wrongdoing narrative ('long, long list') ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Biden said something that is 'the most offensive thing possibly he's ever said in office' **UNVERIFIABLE** The specific Biden statement is not identified in the post. During this period Biden was making numerous statements about the Israel-Hamas conflict (Week 3, Oct 16), but the referenced statement cannot be identified or evaluated without more specificity. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - self-retruth (90%) - grandiose-narcissism (65%) - displacement (70%) - biden-attack (85%) - accumulation-rhetoric (60%) - aide-executed (60%) - strategic-vagueness (75%) - iowa-rally-day (50%) - gag-order-day (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Gag Order Consumes 37-Post Day as Iowa Rally Serves as Emotional Escape Valve** A federal judge imposed a gag order in Trump's DC election case, and it consumed his entire day. The morning opened with attacks on a 60 Minutes Biden interview and escalated into repeated denunciations of the gag order as unconstitutional and anti-democratic, interspersed with swipes at DeSantis and Iran fearmongering aimed at Biden. Between legal grievance posts, Trump flew to Iowa for campaign rallies in Adel and Clive, where crowd energy briefly lifted the mood before the persecution narrative reasserted itself. The high-volume day mixed authentic rage with a flood of aide-managed article shares, painting a portrait of someone under genuine legal siege using the campaign trail as emotional refuge. Full digest for 2023-10-16: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-16/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 16). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111244906174355068 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 16 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111244906174355068. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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