# Post ts_111289950571943235

- Post ID: `ts_111289950571943235`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-10-24T12:18:00.559Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> With the millions of people that Crooked Joe Biden has allowed into the United States through his ridiculous Open Borders Policy, mostly young men, and large numbers of TERRORISTS, the U.S. is more vulnerable from inside terror attacks than at any time in its history, BY FAR! MAGA

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T13:56:36.535Z (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 is a tightly constructed fear-amplification unit exhibiting grandiose narcissistic operation, opportunistic affect hijacking, and a structurally complete stochastic terrorism pattern. Posted at 8:18 AM ET the morning after his Derry, NH rally, Trump colonizes the saturated Israel-Hamas terrorism media environment to reactivate his immigration-threat frame. Multiple simultaneous legal pressures — dual gag order fines, Chesebro and Powell guilty pleas — operate as background narcissistic injuries that are fully displaced: no legal content appears; Biden becomes the sole threat agent. Defense mechanisms are layered: displacement (legal to immigration), splitting (Biden/terrorists vs. MAGA/safety), projection, and pathological distortion. Rhetorically, the post deploys hyperbole, dehumanization by demographic association, a false historical-peak claim, and the "open borders" reality distortion. Key fact claims range from misleading to false: watchlist data does not support "large numbers of TERRORISTS"; the historical-peak vulnerability claim ignores 9/11 as the obvious counterexample. Stochastic terrorism criteria are met: target class identified, grievance articulated, existential threat framed. Danger is elevated. Authorship is highly likely authentic. No cognitive deviation from Trump's documented baseline is observed.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-10-24T12:18Z

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at 12:18 UTC, converting to Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4, October pre-DST-end): **8:18 AM ET**. Trump had held a rally in Derry, NH the evening before (Oct 23) and was likely still in the Northeast corridor. Early morning is a plausible authentic posting window. The stylometric fingerprint is strongly authentic: "Crooked Joe Biden" (signature attack nickname), stream-of-consciousness comma-separated clause insertion ("mostly young men, and large numbers of TERRORISTS"), aggressive ALL CAPS emphasis ("TERRORISTS," "BY FAR!"), and the terminal "MAGA" sign-off. No polished syntax, no event announcement structure. **High confidence: authentic Trump.**

## Situational Context and Trigger

The post arrives within the hyperactivated media environment of week three of the Israel-Hamas war — saturated with terrorism imagery and heightened national security rhetoric. Trump had just concluded a Derry, NH rally, suggesting supply-seeking/audience-maintenance mode immediately post-rally. Simultaneously, multiple legal pressures (two gag order fines in the NY fraud trial, Chesebro and Powell guilty pleas) constitute ongoing narcissistic injury. The post redirects attention from personal legal vulnerability toward a macro-national threat narrative — a classic displacement maneuver. The Israel-Hamas war functions here as an opportunistic scaffold: terrorism is globally salient and easily attached to the pre-existing immigration grievance frame.

## Psychological State and Dynamics

**Narcissistic State: Grandiose.** The post positions the author as the uniquely clear-eyed diagnostician of a civilizational threat others cannot see ("BY FAR!"). The MAGA closing functions as the implied corrective: *I see this, I alone can fix it.*

**Trigger Type: Mixed** — supply-seeking (post-rally momentum), preemptive attack (exploiting terrorism salience before political rivals can own the narrative), and displacement from legal narcissistic injury (Chesebro/Powell cooperation, gag order fines).

**Narcissistic Rage:** Present at low-to-moderate intensity. Directed outward toward Biden and a diffuse immigrant/terrorist class. Triumphalist and accusatory rather than wounded — consistent with grandiose-mode operation.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** Highly elevated Neuroticism (angry hostility); very low Agreeableness (hostility, reversed trust toward out-groups); low Conscientiousness (impulsive, undeliberated); high Extraversion (assertive/dominance); very low Openness (rigid binary framing).

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** Dominant motive is power/agency. The schema: world is dangerous, populated by enemies (terrorists, Biden), only strength (MAGA) provides safety. This activates a deeply entrenched threat-vigilance schema.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist:** The Seer/Warrior — perceives threats others miss, implicitly promises remedy
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — America was safe; Biden ruined it; danger is now at historic peak
- **Contrasting other:** "Crooked Joe Biden" as incompetent/malevolent foil
- **Identity claims:** "I warned you; MAGA = safety"
- **Archetypal resonance:** Warrior + Order Restorer against Biden as chaos agent

## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (neurotic):** Legal vulnerabilities → redirected onto Biden/immigration
2. **Projection (immature):** Chaos attributed entirely to Biden with no self-referential awareness
3. **Splitting (immature):** Clean binary — Biden/terrorists vs. MAGA/safety
4. **Distortion (pathological):** "Large numbers of TERRORISTS" grossly reshapes empirical border reality

## Rhetorical and Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole/superlative:** "more vulnerable from inside terror attacks than at any time in its history, BY FAR!"
- **Ad hominem:** "Crooked Joe Biden"
- **Fear appeal:** Terrorist infiltration, inside attacks, civilizational vulnerability
- **False dichotomy:** Open Borders (Biden/danger) vs. MAGA (closed/safe)
- **Dehumanization by association:** Immigrants characterized as "mostly young men" (threat-signaling) and "large numbers of TERRORISTS"
- **RAND Firehose:** "Open borders" reality distortion presented as settled fact
- **Urgency escalation:** "AT ANY TIME IN ITS HISTORY, BY FAR!" forecloses comparative reasoning

## Stochastic Terrorism Assessment

The post meets multiple criteria: **target identified** (immigrants/terrorists "allowed in"), **grievance articulated** (open borders policy), **threat framed as existential and immediate**, **tribal corrective implied** (MAGA). Paints a broad class of people within the country as a standing terrorist threat. This can activate reader-level threat responses toward immigrant communities. **Stochastic terrorism: present.**

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Millions of people allowed into the United States through Biden's Open Borders Policy" | **Mostly False** | CBP recorded over 2M encounters in FY2023, but 'allowed in' conflates encounters, detentions, deportations, and legal admissions. Large-scale enforcement actions occurred. 'Open borders' is a contested political characterization, not a policy designation. |
| "Mostly young men" | **Half True** | Border crossers historically skew male (~60-70%) and younger than the general population. Directionally accurate as a demographic description but deployed to imply threat in a misleading framing. |
| "Large numbers of TERRORISTS" | **Mostly False** | CBP apprehensions of individuals on terrorist watchlists at the southern border number in the hundreds annually — a small fraction of millions of encounters. 'Large numbers' is not supported by available watchlist data. |
| "The U.S. is more vulnerable from inside terror attacks than at any time in its history, BY FAR" | **False** | This claim ignores the period immediately following 9/11 (the deadliest domestic terrorism event in US history), the Cold War-era domestic sabotage threat, and the peak of domestic extremist violence. No credible intelligence assessment designates this a historical peak. |

Overall Veracity: 22%

## Cognitive Status

Language production consistent with Trump's documented baseline: comma-splice structure, parenthetical insertion, ALL CAPS emotional marking, simple vocabulary. No word-finding difficulties or tangentiality. No cognitive deviation warranted.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** Not operationally inciting specific violence, but the convergence of dehumanization, crisis-peak framing, and stochastic terrorism pattern warrants monitoring. In the context of Israel-Hamas war media saturation, this post channels available terrorism affect onto a domestic immigrant target class.

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## Summary

This post is a tightly constructed fear-amplification unit exhibiting grandiose narcissistic operation, opportunistic affect hijacking, and a structurally complete stochastic terrorism pattern. Posted at 8:18 AM ET the morning after his Derry, NH rally, Trump colonizes the saturated Israel-Hamas terrorism media environment to reactivate his immigration-threat frame. Multiple simultaneous legal pressures — dual gag order fines, Chesebro and Powell guilty pleas — operate as background narcissistic injuries that are fully displaced: no legal content appears; Biden becomes the sole threat agent. Defense mechanisms are layered: displacement, splitting, projection, and pathological distortion. Rhetorically, the post deploys hyperbole, dehumanization by demographic association, a false historical-peak claim, and the "open borders" reality distortion. Key fact claims range from misleading to false. Stochastic terrorism criteria are met: target class identified, grievance articulated, existential threat framed. Danger is elevated. Authorship is highly likely authentic. No cognitive deviation from Trump's documented baseline is observed.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- 'Crooked Joe Biden' signature attack nickname
- Terminal 'MAGA' sign-off — habitual closing marker
- Stream-of-consciousness comma-inserted parenthetical ('mostly young men, and large numbers of TERRORISTS')
- ALL CAPS emotional emphasis ('TERRORISTS', 'BY FAR!')
- 8:18 AM ET — early morning authentic window, post-rally day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Post-rally momentum maintenance combined with displacement from legal narcissistic injuries (gag order fines, Chesebro/Powell guilty pleas) and exploitation of Israel-Hamas terrorism salience)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Biden administration and diffuse immigrant/terrorist class
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.82

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 52%
- Paranoid: 68%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared threat framing ('we are vulnerable') creates in-group solidarity
- MAGA closing as tribal identity marker and implied corrective
- Positioning as uniquely clear-sighted diagnostician of civilizational threat

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Dehumanization by demographic association: immigrant population collapsed into terrorist class
- Stochastic terrorism pattern: target class identified, grievance articulated, existential threat framed
- Crisis-peak language ('more vulnerable than at any time in history, BY FAR') activates maximum emotional arousal
- Post appears during Israel-Hamas war media saturation — leverages available terrorism affect and redirects toward domestic immigrant communities
- No explicit violence call, but pattern of target plus grievance plus implied threat is structurally complete

### Gaslighting

- 'Open Borders Policy' — contested enforcement posture characterized as deliberate open-door policy, presented as settled fact
- 'Large numbers of TERRORISTS' — empirically unsupported claim delivered as established reality
- Historical-peak vulnerability claim requires audience to accept a distorted historical frame that denies 9/11 as the obvious comparative baseline

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Millions of people allowed into the United States through Biden's Open Borders Policy

**MOSTLY FALSE**

CBP recorded over 2M encounters in FY2023, but 'allowed in' conflates encounters, detentions, deportations, and legal admissions. Large-scale enforcement actions occurred. 'Open borders' is a contested political characterization, not a policy designation.

Sources: CBP FY2023 encounter statistics; DHS immigration enforcement data

> Mostly young men

**HALF TRUE**

Border crossers historically skew male (~60-70%) and younger than the general population. Directionally accurate as a demographic description but deployed to imply threat in a misleading framing.

Sources: CBP demographic encounter data

> Large numbers of TERRORISTS

**MOSTLY FALSE**

CBP apprehensions of individuals on terrorist watchlists at the southern border number in the hundreds annually — a small fraction of millions of encounters. 'Large numbers' is not supported by available watchlist data.

Sources: CBP Terrorist Screening Dataset encounter data; DHS annual threat assessments

> The U.S. is more vulnerable from inside terror attacks than at any time in its history, BY FAR

**FALSE**

This claim ignores the period immediately following 9/11 (the deadliest domestic terrorism event in US history), the Cold War-era domestic sabotage threat, and the peak of domestic extremist violence. No credible intelligence assessment designates this a historical peak.

Sources: DHS Homeland Threat Assessments; FBI terrorism statistics

Overall Veracity: 22%

## Tags

- immigration (90%)
- terrorism (85%)
- stochastic_terrorism (80%)
- dehumanization (75%)
- fear_appeal (85%)
- displacement (80%)
- splitting (75%)
- grandiose_mode (80%)
- legal_pressure_displacement (70%)
- israel_hamas_opportunism (65%)
- authentic_authorship (87%)
- reality_distortion (80%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Besieged in Court, Trump Splits the Day Between Legal Defense and a Political Kill Shot**

Trump spent the day managing two fronts: his New York civil fraud trial, where he raged against the judge and prosecutors from the courtroom itself, and the House Speaker race, where he publicly torpedoed Tom Emmer's candidacy within hours of his nomination. The mood oscillated between controlled grandiosity — reposting old Michael Cohen quotes praising his wealth and sharing golf awards — and raw fury when confronting the trial directly. The Emmer takedown was the day's sharpest moment: an attack post in the afternoon, followed by an evening victory lap sharing a Politico headline quoting him saying "I killed him." The day ended with a combative recap of Cohen's testimony, insisting his assets are worth more than stated despite the fraud ruling.

Full digest for 2023-10-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 24). With the millions of people that Crooked Joe... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111289950571943235
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "With the millions of people that Crooked Joe Biden has..." Truth Social, 24 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111289950571943235. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "With the millions of people that Crooked Joe Biden has...," Truth Social, October 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111289950571943235.

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