# Post ts_111471978272872812 - Post ID: `ts_111471978272872812` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-25T15:50:02.842Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471978272872812 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471978272872812/analysis ## Post text > https://loomered.com/2023/11/20/biden-has-only-pardoned-turkeys-and-terrorists-in-2023/ ## Engagement - Likes: 9,173 - Reposts: 2,615 - Replies: 285 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:03:24.897Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_111471978272872812 — 2023-11-25 ### Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to an article from loomered.com (Laura Loomer's far-right outlet) with the headline: *"Biden Has Only Pardoned Turkeys and Terrorists in 2023."* No personal commentary is added. The post functions as a signal boost for partisan attack content timed to Thanksgiving weekend, exploiting the annual presidential turkey pardon tradition as a rhetorical bridge. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-written (medium confidence)** Posted at 10:50 AM EST on Thanksgiving weekend, comfortably within daytime business hours. Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago for the holiday. The absence of any personal text, capitalization flourishes, or emotional annotation is inconsistent with authentic Trump posting, which characteristically adds commentary, invective, or at minimum an exclamatory suffix. A zero-text link drop during morning hours is a Scavino-pattern post. Complicating factor: Trump has a documented pattern of sharing Loomer's content personally, suggesting affinity. The chaotic informality of a bare URL could reflect hasty personal posting. However, balance of indicators favors aide authorship. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The article title is a tight rhetorical package built on: - **Wordplay / false dichotomy**: The Thanksgiving turkey pardon tradition is weaponized to introduce a parallel accusation. "Turkeys and terrorists" is alliterative, meme-ready, and designed for frictionless transmission. - **Implicit whataboutism**: Deployed against the backdrop of Trump's active civil fraud trial and gag order proceedings — a redirect from subject's own legal exposure to opponent's alleged moral equivalence. - **Source amplification via fringe outlet**: Loomer is a banned-from-major-platforms conspiracy figure. Sharing her content serves as a loyalty/epistemic signal to a specific audience while maintaining deniability ("just sharing an article"). No dehumanizing language or eliminationist rhetoric is present in the shared text. The attack is framed as political mockery, not incitement. --- ### Psychological Analysis **Trigger:** Maintenance/displacement. With the civil fraud trial underway and gag order proceedings fresh, this post participates in the established pattern of redirecting audience attention toward Biden. The Thanksgiving context provides a pretext for the turkey pun, lowering the apparent hostility of what is functionally an opposition attack. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Displacement**: Hostility generated by legal pressure is redirected toward the political opponent via third-party content, maintaining surface-level plausible distance. - **Projection**: The criminal/legal framing ("terrorists") is applied to the opponent while subject himself faces multiple criminal indictments and an active civil fraud judgment. **Narcissistic state:** Difficult to assess from a zero-text link share. Consistent with low-cost maintenance posting rather than an activated grandiose or vulnerable episode. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity The post contributes to the sustained contamination narrative: Biden's presidency represents a degradation of moral/legal order. The "terrorists" label attempts to invert the moral hierarchy — casting Biden as soft on criminals while Trump faces what his narrative frames as prosecutorial weaponization. The Thanksgiving turkey hook provides culturally resonant framing that does not require the audience to engage with factual substance. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden has only pardoned turkeys and terrorists in 2023" | **Mostly False** | Presidential turkey pardon is confirmed ceremonial tradition performed by Biden in 2023. However, 'terrorists' is a partisan characterization of Biden's clemency actions — no 2023 clemency grants were issued to individuals formally designated as terrorists under U.S. law. The claim also implies Biden's clemency record consists of only these two categories, which is factually inaccurate. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 25%) ### Indicators - Posted 10:50 AM EST — business hours at Mar-a-Lago - Zero personal text, no characteristic capitalization or commentary - No emotional annotation (no exclamation points, no ALL CAPS) - Bare URL drop is a Scavino-pattern post - However: Trump has documented history of personally sharing Loomer content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Biden opposition / Thanksgiving news cycle) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party content amplification to maintain deniability - Meme-ready alliterative framing ('turkeys and terrorists') for audience transmission ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Biden has only pardoned turkeys and terrorists in 2023 **MOSTLY FALSE** Presidential turkey pardon is confirmed ceremonial tradition performed by Biden in 2023. However, 'terrorists' is a partisan characterization of Biden's clemency actions — no 2023 clemency grants were issued to individuals formally designated as terrorists under U.S. law. The claim also implies Biden's clemency record consists of only these two categories, which is factually inaccurate. Sources: General knowledge of U.S. presidential clemency records; Known Thanksgiving turkey pardon tradition Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - link-share (100%) - Biden-attack (90%) - Thanksgiving-framing (80%) - whataboutism (80%) - fringe-source-amplification (70%) - aide-authored (60%) - displacement (70%) - clemency-attack (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Thanksgiving Weekend Grievance Cascade: Legal Anxiety Fuels Scattershot Attacks from Mar-a-Lago** Trump spent the Saturday after Thanksgiving on a sustained posting session from Mar-a-Lago, firing off 17 posts across about four and a half hours in the late morning and afternoon. The day opened with sharp attacks on the New York civil fraud trial and false claims of election cheating in Wisconsin, then broadened into a wide-ranging grievance tour hitting Forbes, The Atlantic, an Iowa evangelical leader, and the Biden administration's hostage negotiations. Notably, he falsely claimed Hamas had not returned any American hostages, when two had been released weeks earlier. The mood was predominantly combative but controlled — more of a holiday content dump than a meltdown — and wound down with poll-boosting links and plans to attend a college football game in South Carolina. Full digest for 2023-11-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 25). https://loomered.com/2023/11/20/biden-has-only-par... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111471978272872812 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://loomered.com/2023/11/20/biden-has-only-pardoned-turk..." 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