# Post ts_111671861340309979

- Post ID: `ts_111671861340309979`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-30T23:02:56.482Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Garrett Ventry: “Unlike Joe Biden, under President Trump our adversaries feared and respected us. He destroyed ISIS and kept America and our allies safe.”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:53), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The paymaster and the strategist for all of this area. What do you think Trump would do? Take a gather. - Yeah, absolutely. I don't think they'd be doing it in the first place if he was there. We saw this all-- - They'd be scared to death. - Correct, they wouldn't-- - 'Cause they know he would take out, he took out Soleimani. - Correct. - He'd take them out. He has them all as cell phone numbers. - Right, right. - That's what he would say. - Exactly. - Go and get them all-- - Why do you send me a picture of your house? - Yeah, yes, he would, yes. He'd do a Google map, figure out where they live, and then tell them where they live. Yeah, he said, "Sir, why'd you send a picture of us?" I said, "You're gonna have to figure that one out, right? "It's this famous line, very funny, Larry, as you know." But, no, you're right. I mean, I think preemptively they wouldn't even do it. A lot of these other countries didn't wanna test them 'cause they knew that he was a strong president. The world was more safe. Our allies were more safe too under President Trump. No new wars were started. He eviscerated ISIS off the face of the planet in just a few months in his presidency. China with the tariffs, those type of things, he was standing up to them as well. And so again, I don't think this would even be happening under President Trump.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/671/861/193/126/586/original/ab9b96da23241f84.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.380Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T15:06:42.677Z (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 represents calibrated compensatory supply-seeking against a backdrop of acute narcissistic injury. Within 48 hours of Maine's Secretary of State removing Trump from the primary ballot — the second state to do so, following Colorado — Trump's December 30 feed oscillates between raw anger (Gateway Pundit amplification of Jack Smith allegations, 'MAINE UNDERCUTS DEMOCRACY') and curated self-glorification. This Garrett Ventry quote exemplifies the latter: rather than direct self-aggrandizement, a third-party voice is deployed to assert that adversaries "feared and respected" Trump while Biden implies present-tense weakness. The proxy validation mechanism is psychologically efficient — praise is received without the social cost of overt self-promotion, and the Biden contrast restores relative status diminished by ballot exclusions and prosecutions. The post is almost certainly aide-attributed: 18:02 EST timing, clean formatting, structured media package, and absence of Trump's stylistic fingerprints (ALL CAPS, ellipses, phonemic imprecision) all point to communications staff curating a favorable narrative. The ISIS destruction claim — the rhetorical anchor — is mostly true as a territorial matter but overstated as a final achievement. Danger level is nil. No cognitive markers are assessable from Trump's own language production, as the post consists entirely of a third-party quote. The grandiose narcissistic state visible here contrasts with the paranoid-vulnerable state in surrounding posts, reflecting characteristic oscillation under sustained legal siege.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2023-12-30T23:02:56Z

## Post Summary
A repost of Garrett Ventry's statement: *"Unlike Joe Biden, under President Trump our adversaries feared and respected us. He destroyed ISIS and kept America and our allies safe."* Accompanied by a video clip. No original Trump text.

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## 1. Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Likely aide-written (Dan Scavino / comms staff). Confidence: Medium.**

- **Local time at Mar-a-Lago (EST, UTC-5): 18:02** — early evening, squarely within aide operational hours.
- Post format is a cleanly attributed third-party quote paired with a curated video clip — a signature aide-assembled media package.
- Zero of Trump's stylistic fingerprints: no ALL CAPS bursts, no ellipses, no phonemic errors, no incomplete thoughts, no emotional interjections.
- The surrounding December 30 posts show a mixed session — raw Gateway Pundit link amplification and the emotionally reactive "MAINE UNDERCUTS DEMOCRACY" post suggest authentic Trump activity earlier in the day, with this polished Ventry clip appearing to be staff-inserted.

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## 2. Situational Context

The December 28–30 window is a period of compounding narcissistic injury:
- **Maine Secretary of State** removed Trump from the primary ballot on December 28 — the second state after Colorado to do so under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause.
- **Jack Smith's federal prosecution** was active.
- **NY civil fraud trial** was ongoing.
- Trump's December 25 posts had included references to adversaries rotting in hell.

This post appears as a **compensatory maneuver** within this siege context — pivoting from wounded-reactive to grandiose-archival.

---

## 3. Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
The post, though aide-mediated, reflects and reinforces Trump's dispositional signature:
- **Low Agreeableness** dominant: the Biden contrast is structurally oppositional; no common ground admitted.
- **High Extraversion** (assertiveness, dominance-seeking): the "feared and respected" frame is an assertive status claim.
- **Low Openness**: binary worldview — strength vs. weakness, safety vs. danger. No complexity.
- **Moderate-High Neuroticism** (contextual): not expressed in this post's text, but the surrounding cluster reveals the anxiety driving compensation.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives overwhelmingly dominant.** The post is fundamentally about status, power, and being perceived as the strongest actor in the geopolitical arena. Communion motives are vestigially present only in "kept our allies safe" — a protective framing that still centers Trump as the powerful protector rather than an equal partner.

**Schema evidence:**
- Self-schema: supreme competence, fear-inducing strength
- Other-schema (Biden): inadequate, weak, dangerous by contrast
- World-schema: dangerous place requiring a strong man to keep adversaries in check

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: The absent leader — the strong man whose departure has left the world less safe; the restoration figure whose return is implicitly necessary.
- **Narrative sequence**: **Contamination** — Trump era = good (feared, safe) → Biden era = implied contamination (loss of respect, danger).
- **Identity claims**: Destroyer of ISIS; Commander who made adversaries fear America; Protector of allies.
- **Contrasting other**: Joe Biden (named) as the structuring foil.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger**: Narcissistic injury (ballot removals, prosecutions) → **Supply-seeking via proxy validation**.

The proxy validation mechanism is psychologically efficient: Ventry's voice delivers the praise, so Trump receives the supply without incurring the social cost of overt self-promotion. The third-party frame also lends the claims an aura of external confirmation — "even a commentator says this was true."

**Narcissistic state**: Grandiose. The vulnerable/persecuted pole visible in the Maine ballot posts is temporarily suppressed in favor of the archival greatness assertion.

**Rage**: Absent in this specific post. The rage visible elsewhere in the day's feed is replaced here by curated self-glorification — a different regulatory strategy.

#### Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting** (immature): Trump era = safe/respected; Biden era = weak/dangerous. Binary, no nuance admitted.
- **Idealization** (immature): The Trump presidency is retrospectively mythologized — "feared and respected," "destroyed ISIS," "kept everyone safe" — with no acknowledgment of failures, complications, or the prior campaign's role in ISIS degradation.
- **Projection** (immature): The vulnerability Trump experiences (legal assault, ballot exclusion) is projected outward as Biden's America being weak and unrespected.

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## 4. Rhetorical Analysis

**Primary technique**: Nostalgic contrast — Trump-era America as lost golden age implicitly calling for restoration.

**Secondary technique**: Proxy validation / third-party authority. Ventry functions as a credentialing intermediary, making the self-aggrandizement structurally distinct from direct boasting while achieving identical psychological effect.

**Device inventory:**
- False dichotomy (Trump strength vs. Biden weakness — no spectrum)
- Appeal to nostalgia (golden age framing)
- Hyperbole ("destroyed ISIS" — elides the multinational, multi-year campaign)
- Collective pronoun co-ownership ("our adversaries," "our allies") — audience emotionally invested in Trump-era achievement
- Glittering generalities ("feared and respected," "kept America safe")
- Selective historical framing (omits Obama-era ISIS campaign origins)

**Propaganda techniques:**
- Favorable media amplification as organic validation
- Plain folks/strong leader contrast
- Glittering generalities without specifics

No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. Danger level: **none**.

---

## 5. Fact Assessment

| Claim | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "Adversaries feared and respected us" under Trump | **Half True** | ISIS caliphate fell; North Korea halted tests temporarily. But Russia continued hybrid warfare, China accelerated South China Sea militarization, Iran shot down a US drone. Mixed record. |
| "He destroyed ISIS" | **Mostly True** | Territorial caliphate largely dismantled by 2019 (Baghouz, Baghdadi death). But ISIS as an insurgent network remained active; campaign began under Obama. "Destroyed" overstates. |
| "Kept America and our allies safe" | **Half True** | No major foreign terror attack on US soil. But NATO allies expressed concern about Trump's reliability; Iran tensions escalated to near-conflict (Soleimani). Selectively framed. |

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## 6. Cognitive Status
Post consists entirely of a third-party quote; Trump's own language production is not assessable. No cognitive markers attributable to subject directly.

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## 7. Danger Assessment
**Danger level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators, no mobilization calls. Routine political contrast framing.

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## 8. Archetypal / Order-Chaos Dynamics
The post invokes the **absent King** archetype — the rightful ruler whose departure has left disorder. Ventry's framing constructs Trump as the order-bringer (adversaries controlled, allies protected) whose absence has yielded chaos. This resonates with the restoration mythology central to the 2024 campaign: the king must return to restore proper hierarchy.

The Biden contrast assigns chaos to the present order — implicitly, the *current* establishment is the source of disorder, positioning Trump as the challenger to illegitimate order from below while simultaneously representing the *restoration* of proper hierarchical order from above.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Under President Trump, adversaries feared and respected us" | **Half True** | Mixed empirical record. ISIS was territorially defeated, North Korea halted nuclear tests temporarily, but Russia continued hybrid operations (election interference, Salisbury poisoning), China accelerated South China Sea militarization, and Iran shot down a US drone. 'Feared' is not uniformly supported across adversaries. |
| "He destroyed ISIS" | **Mostly True** | The ISIS territorial caliphate was largely dismantled by late 2019 under Trump's watch, culminating in the Baghouz battle and Baghdadi's death in October 2019. However, the anti-ISIS campaign was a continuation and escalation of Obama-era operations (Operation Inherent Resolve began 2014). ISIS as an insurgent network was not destroyed — it remained active and lethal. 'Destroyed' is an overstatement of a significant but incomplete degradation. |
| "Kept America and our allies safe" | **Half True** | No major foreign terrorist attack on US soil during Trump's term. However, allies' assessments varied sharply: NATO allies expressed concern about Trump's reliability, some felt threatened by tariff actions, and the Abraham Accords improved some regional relationships while Iran tensions escalated to near-conflict levels (Soleimani strike, January 2020). 'Allies safe' is selectively framed. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- 18:02 EST local time — early evening, within business hours, aide-consistent window
- Clean formatting with no typos or misspellings
- Post is a structured third-party quote repost rather than stream-of-consciousness expression
- No ALL CAPS, no ellipses, no emotional interjections characteristic of authentic Trump
- Accompanied by a video clip — aide-curated media package pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Maine and Colorado ballot removals, ongoing federal prosecutions, civil fraud trial)

Sentiment: +0.52

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Proxy validation — third-party voice articulates praise Trump cannot self-administer without appearing crass
- In-group identity reinforcement — 'our adversaries,' 'our allies' invokes collective ownership of Trump-era achievements
- Nostalgia activation — implicit contrast between past safety and present danger primes audience emotional response

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Under President Trump, adversaries feared and respected us

**HALF TRUE**

Mixed empirical record. ISIS was territorially defeated, North Korea halted nuclear tests temporarily, but Russia continued hybrid operations (election interference, Salisbury poisoning), China accelerated South China Sea militarization, and Iran shot down a US drone. 'Feared' is not uniformly supported across adversaries.

Sources: General training knowledge — geopolitical record 2017-2021

> He destroyed ISIS

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The ISIS territorial caliphate was largely dismantled by late 2019 under Trump's watch, culminating in the Baghouz battle and Baghdadi's death in October 2019. However, the anti-ISIS campaign was a continuation and escalation of Obama-era operations (Operation Inherent Resolve began 2014). ISIS as an insurgent network was not destroyed — it remained active and lethal. 'Destroyed' is an overstatement of a significant but incomplete degradation.

Sources: General training knowledge — ISIS caliphate defeat 2017-2019

> Kept America and our allies safe

**HALF TRUE**

No major foreign terrorist attack on US soil during Trump's term. However, allies' assessments varied sharply: NATO allies expressed concern about Trump's reliability, some felt threatened by tariff actions, and the Abraham Accords improved some regional relationships while Iran tensions escalated to near-conflict levels (Soleimani strike, January 2020). 'Allies safe' is selectively framed.

Sources: General training knowledge

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- proxy-validation (75%)
- compensatory-grandiosity (70%)
- aide-attributed (70%)
- nostalgic-contrast (80%)
- ISIS-claim (60%)
- ballot-removal-context (85%)
- biden-devaluation (70%)
- foreign-policy-narrative (65%)
- third-party-quote (75%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Turns a Holiday Into a War Room: 37 Posts From Mar-a-Lago Under Compound Threat**

Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago responding to a pile-up of legal threats — ballot removals in Maine and Colorado, the ongoing New York fraud trial, and federal prosecution. The mood swung between genuine anger in his own posts and a firehose of flattering links shared by aides. His most notable post turned a New Year's greeting into a lengthy attack on Biden, Democrats, and immigrants, weaving election conspiracy theories into holiday well-wishes. The day's volume was high — 37 posts — but the bulk was staff-curated link dumps rather than personal output. A recurring theme throughout: every institution holding him accountable was reframed as an enemy of democracy.

Full digest for 2023-12-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 30). Garrett Ventry: “Unlike Joe Biden, under... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111671861340309979
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Garrett Ventry: “Unlike Joe Biden, under President Trump..." Truth Social, 30 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111671861340309979. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Garrett Ventry: “Unlike Joe Biden, under President Trump...," Truth Social, December 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111671861340309979.

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