# Post ts_111570706379132954

- Post ID: `ts_111570706379132954`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-13T02:17:54.188Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111570706379132954
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111570706379132954/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/crowd-roars-after-president-trump-reads-snake-during/

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,028
- Reposts: 1,617
- Replies: 101
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.388Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T15:11:48.370Z (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 URL share amplifying Gateway Pundit coverage of Trump reading "The Snake" at a rally — a ritual performance he has deployed since 2016 in which Al Wilson's 1968 song is repurposed as an anti-immigration allegory. The poem renders immigrants as a venomous snake that fatally bites the compassionate woman who shelters it, concluding: "you knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in." Posted at ~9:17 PM EST amid a convergent legal siege (Jack Smith's Supreme Court immunity petition, NY fraud trial, and Judge Chutkan's same-day pause of the election interference case), the post functions as compensatory narcissistic supply harvesting — circulating documentation of crowd adulation when institutional reality is threatening. Psychologically: grandiose state, supply-seeking trigger, projection and splitting as dominant defenses. The zoomorphic dehumanization of immigrants constitutes the post's primary clinical and danger-relevant feature: immigrants rendered as subhuman predators for whom lethal outcomes are their essential nature. This allegory has structural stochastic terrorism elements (target identification, grievance articulation, implied elimination logic) without explicit incitement. Authorship is moderately authentic (9:17 PM local time, favored outlet) though URL-only format limits confidence. The post is behaviorally consistent with established baseline — no cognitive deviation detectable — but represents continued normalization of eliminationist immigration framing within an eight-year cumulative rhetorical pattern.

# Analysis: ts_111570706379132954 — "The Snake" Rally Post (2023-12-13)

## Overview

A URL-only share to Gateway Pundit coverage of Trump reading "The Snake" at a campaign rally. The post contains zero original text, limiting direct linguistic analysis, but the referent content — Al Wilson's 1968 poem as adapted and ritually performed by Trump since 2016 — is extensively documented and analytically rich.

**Local Time:** ~9:17 PM EST, December 12, 2023 (Mar-a-Lago or post-travel; NY fraud trial defense phase concluded ~Dec 11). Falls within authentic late-evening posting window.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Low Agreeableness** (dominant): Dehumanizing outgroup rhetoric is the post's entire communicative content
- **High Extraversion**: Rally performance and crowd dominance dynamics are the explicit subject
- **Low Openness**: The poem is an eight-year-old ritual — ideological rigidity, not exploration
- **Moderate Neuroticism**: Latent anxiety management via compensatory grandiosity is structurally present given simultaneous legal pressures

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Motives)

**Agency motives dominate:** The post documents crowd domination — thousands roaring in unified response to Trump's performance. This is power motive satisfaction at scale. The sharing of this coverage, rather than other rally moments, specifically selects for evidence of the crowd's submission to Trump's emotional direction.

**Supply-seeking trigger:** Amid a convergent legal siege — Jack Smith's Supreme Court petition (Dec 11), the NY fraud trial's conclusion of testimony (Dec 11), and critically, Judge Chutkan's formal pause of the election interference case (Dec 13, the same day) — Trump amplifies crowd-adulation coverage as compensatory narcissistic supply. Courts threaten; the crowd validates.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Warrior-Prophet. Trump is the only one willing to say what America refuses to hear ("you knew damn well it was a snake"). The poem positions him as the lone voice articulating fatal truths about immigration.

**Contrasting other:** "The snake" — immigrants rendered as irredeemably predatory, decoded by the in-group as a specific outgroup (immigrants, refugees, undocumented persons).

**Narrative sequence — Contamination:** America (the woman) was good and wholesome → she made the fatal error of compassion → she was punished for it. This is a purity-contamination myth with eliminationist implications.

**Identity claim:** Trump-as-Cassandra: the one who warned, who was ignored, who will be vindicated by the harm that compassion brings.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Profile
- **Narcissistic features (0.62):** Crowd-roar documentation as supply; grandiose warrior-prophet narrative
- **Antisocial features (0.71):** Systematic dehumanization of a real population group; disregard for harm of zoomorphic framing on real-world treatment of immigrants
- **Paranoid features (0.55):** The snake allegory encodes a paranoid world-view — dangerous Others disguise themselves as pitiable victims to infiltrate and destroy
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (0.48):** The crowd's climactic roar at "you knew damn well I was a snake" encodes shared pleasure at the immigrant's self-condemnation; Trump's evident enjoyment in performing the poem (documented across hundreds of rally recordings) is not incidental

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Projection (immature):** Aggression, deception, and destructiveness — projected wholesale onto immigrants via the snake archetype
2. **Splitting (immature):** The poem's binary is total: naive/innocent America vs. predatory/irredeemable immigrant. No complexity survives the allegory

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)

**Primary archetype: Trickster-Warrior hybrid.** The Snake poem's appeal is transgressive — Trump says what polite society forbids, violating the norms of compassionate immigration discourse. This is Trickster energy: the forbidden truth that establishment order suppresses. Simultaneously, the Warrior archetype is present in the crowd-defense framing: Trump stands between America and the snake.

**Shadow projection:** Deception, exploitation, and dangerous unpredictability — qualities well-documented in Trump's own conduct — are projected wholesale onto the immigrant-as-snake. The Shadow is fully externalized.

**Mythological resonance:** The poem invokes Eden (the serpent in the garden) and American frontier mythology (the land as innocent/female, the threat as foreign/predatory). These archetypal registers explain the poem's extraordinary crowd resonance despite — or because of — its simplicity.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning:** Order restorer (promising to exclude the snake-invaders who corrupt American order) + Order attacker (the current order/Biden/Democrats are the naive woman who let the snake in).

**Asymmetric application:** Order and safety are promised to "real Americans"; chaos and violence are attributed to immigrants and the policymakers who admit them.

**Grievance intensity:** High. The poem's narrative stakes are existential — death, betrayal, destruction of the host nation.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

"The Snake" constitutes documented dehumanizing rhetoric with stochastic terrorism structural elements:
- **Target identification:** Immigrants/refugees as a class
- **Grievance articulation:** They will inevitably harm America; compassion is fatal naivety
- **Implied action:** The logical conclusion of "you knew damn well it was a snake" is that admitting such individuals is unacceptable — and those who do admit them are complicit in the resulting harm

The poem does not call for violence explicitly. It does frame an entire population as predatory non-humans for whom lethal outcome (the snake bites the woman) is their essential nature. Research on pre-violence rhetoric (Gregory Stanton's genocide stages, Kathleen Blee's work on eliminationist language) identifies zoomorphic dehumanization as a consistent precursor to collective violence against outgroups.

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## Epistemic Closure

The post participates in the closed epistemic loop: Gateway Pundit (source) → rally crowd (validation) → Truth Social share (amplification to followers who already accept the frame). No corrective information enters the system.

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## Cognitive Status

No original linguistic content available for analysis. URL-only format precludes assessment of vocabulary, syntax, or coherence. Baseline deviation: none observable. The selection of this specific piece of coverage is consistent with longstanding behavioral patterns.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Crowd roared after Trump read The Snake at the rally" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with all documented performances of The Snake across hundreds of Trump rallies since 2016; specific event unverifiable without footage but historically reliable as descriptor |
| "Implied via poem: immigrants are inherently predatory and will harm America" | **Mostly False** | Peer-reviewed criminology literature consistently finds immigrants (including undocumented) commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens; the poem's deterministic framing (snake cannot change its nature) has no empirical criminological basis |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Note

"The Snake" has been a consistent rally element since 2016. Its reappearance in late 2023 — amid peak legal pressure and active primary campaigning — is behavioral baseline, not escalation. However, the cumulative effect of seven-plus years of zoomorphic immigrant dehumanization in Trump's rhetoric represents a documented normalization trajectory that researchers have flagged as clinically and socially significant across the period.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 71%)

### Indicators

- 9:17 PM EST timing (UTC 02:17) falls within authentic late-evening posting window
- Gateway Pundit is a consistently favored outlet Trump shares personally
- URL-only format without added commentary is mildly aide-consistent but Trump routinely dumps bare URLs during evening browsing sessions
- Cluster of URL-share posts throughout the day suggests media-monitoring pattern typical of both Trump and Scavino
- No typos or original text to assess stylistically

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Rally crowd validation and favorable media coverage)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 62%
- Antisocial: 71%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 48%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Ritual performance (crowd participation in poem recitation creates shared tribal identity)
- Amplification loop: sharing coverage of crowd enthusiasm invites followers to vicariously participate in the collective validation
- In-group signaling via Gateway Pundit — source choice communicates tribal identity

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Zoomorphic dehumanization of immigrants as venomous snakes — consistent with pre-violence dehumanization typology (Stanton)
- Eliminationist logic embedded in allegory: if immigrants are snakes, exclusion/removal is self-defense not cruelty
- Stochastic terrorism structural elements: target class (immigrants) + grievance (fatal betrayal of American compassion) + implied action (exclusion justified by snake's essential nature)
- Crowd's roar at violent climax signals successful transmission of hostile affect toward outgroup
- Eight-year normalization trajectory of this specific dehumanizing frame

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Crowd roared after Trump read The Snake at the rally

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Consistent with all documented performances of The Snake across hundreds of Trump rallies since 2016; specific event unverifiable without footage but historically reliable as descriptor

Sources: Washington Post rally coverage archives; C-SPAN rally recordings 2016-2023

> Implied via poem: immigrants are inherently predatory and will harm America

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Peer-reviewed criminology literature consistently finds immigrants (including undocumented) commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens; the poem's deterministic framing (snake cannot change its nature) has no empirical criminological basis

Sources: National Academies of Sciences 2015 report on immigration; Cato Institute immigration crime research; Journal of Criminology meta-analyses

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- The Snake poem (95%)
- immigrant dehumanization (90%)
- narcissistic supply seeking (82%)
- rally amplification (75%)
- Gateway Pundit (60%)
- legal pressure compensation (72%)
- zoomorphic dehumanization (88%)
- eliminationist framing (78%)
- contamination narrative (80%)
- warrior-prophet archetype (70%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Day: Fraud Trial Rage and Jack Smith Fury Bracket an Iowa Rally Pivot**

Trump spent a legally intense day oscillating between courthouse fury and campaign trail bravado. The morning opened with an explosive reaction to his New York civil fraud trial, claiming his expert witness demolished the prosecution, before pivoting to all-caps boasts about dominating every poll. The afternoon brought a recycled 2020 election fraud narrative, a gleeful "WHERE'S HUNTER?" taunt timed to Hunter Biden's subpoena defiance, and a combative defense against a Politico report on North Korea. The day closed with a sharp attack on Jack Smith's push to fast-track presidential immunity to the Supreme Court, posted shortly after landing in Iowa for an evening rally. Throughout it all, aides padded the feed with dozens of supportive article links and endorsement announcements.

Full digest for 2023-12-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 13). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/crowd-roa... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111570706379132954
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/crowd-roars-after-p..." Truth Social, 13 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111570706379132954. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/crowd-roars-after-p...," Truth Social, December 13, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111570706379132954.

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