# Post ts_111727655608419130

- Post ID: `ts_111727655608419130`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-09T19:32:09.371Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727655608419130
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727655608419130/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111727655608419130.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> This USA is in serious trouble. Under Crooked Joe Biden, our borders are GONE. Inflation is crushing our Middle Class. Violent criminals are running wild. Law enforcement is weaponized against conservatives and Christians. Our military has gone woke, the world is on fire, and we are stumbling toward World War III…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:21), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The USA is in serious trouble. Under Crooked Joe Biden, our borders are gone. Inflation is crushing our middle class like never before. They've never had a problem like this before. Violent criminals are running wild. Law enforcement is weaponized against conservatives and Christians, against any politician that differs with the radical left. Our military has gone woke. The world is on fire. And we're stumbling toward World War III. We are closer to World War III than we've ever been before. Our country is dying. And there's only one candidate in this race who is up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster starting on day one. And you've heard me say it before, and I'll say it again. If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country, and you've added them all up, add them all up, all 10 of them, they will not have done the damage to our country that Crooked Joe Biden has done. He's the worst president in the history of the United States of America. Since 2016, you and I have been taking on the entire corrupt system in Washington like no one ever has done before. Virtually every American was better off under the Trump administration. Our country was richer, stronger, safer, and more respected when you had me in the Oval Office sitting behind the Resolute Desk -- that beautiful, beautiful Resolute Desk. We were a secure country. We were a confident country. We were a safe country. Now it's time to finish the job that we started once and for all. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to secure our border. It's a vote to stop the invasion. It's a vote to rescue our economy, become energy independent like we were just three years ago. We were soon going to be energy dominant. And it's a vote to reclaim our democracy from Crooked Joe Biden and the entire criminal class in our nation's capital, which, by the way, is not looking too good right now. It's graffiti-filled. It's trash-filled. And people are being shot every single day. We're going to clean that up. We're going to take care of it. This is no time for on-the-job training, and it's no time to waste your vote on another establishment career politician that hasn't done a good job. The 2024 election is our last chance to save our country, and unlike every other candidate in this race, with me, you know in your heart that I will always put America first, and with God's help, I will get the job done. It will get done like nobody else can do it. We did it before. We had the greatest economy in history. We had the safest nation. We had a nation that was respected all over the world. Russia invading Ukraine would have never happened. The attack on Israel would have never happened. We had no inflation. It was caused by a very bad energy problem that Biden created. So don't stay home. If you want to save America, if you want to make America great again, go cast your vote for President Donald J. Trump. And together, we will make America better than ever before. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/727/654/467/551/007/original/dcfe08ce43bbc375.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 7,319
- Reposts: 2,365
- Replies: 315
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.378Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T17:47:15.629Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_111727655608419130

### Overview
A polished campaign-style post cataloguing perceived national failures under Biden. The post follows a standard "nation in decline" template with a video attachment, consistent with prepared campaign messaging rather than spontaneous expression.

### Authorship
Posted at 2:32 PM ET (Trump likely in Iowa for caucus campaigning). Business-hours timing, polished parallel structure, no typos, ellipsis as dramatic punctuation, and attached campaign video all point strongly to aide/campaign staff authorship. The rhetorical structure is too orderly for Trump's characteristic stream-of-consciousness style.

### Psychological Framework
The post is a textbook grievance catalogue organized around contamination sequences—everything good has been ruined. Each clause follows the pattern: [domain] + [catastrophic framing]. This is maintenance-mode supply-seeking during the Iowa caucus push, not reactive rage.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post employs classic propaganda techniques: catastrophizing ("World War III"), appeal to fear, false totality ("borders are GONE"), and identity-group signaling ("conservatives and Christians"). The "woke military" and "weaponized law enforcement" claims function as grievance consolidation—unifying disparate constituencies under shared victimhood.

### Danger Assessment
The "weaponized against conservatives and Christians" framing positions law enforcement as an enemy of specific identity groups, which is a stochastic terrorism precursor pattern, though here it's deployed at routine campaign intensity rather than acute escalation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Borders are GONE" | **Mostly False** | Border enforcement continued under Biden; illegal crossings increased significantly but borders were not eliminated. CBP maintained operations throughout. |
| "Inflation is crushing our Middle Class" | **Half True** | Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022 but had fallen to ~3.4% by December 2023. Cumulative price increases did strain household budgets, but 'crushing' overstates conditions at time of posting. |
| "Law enforcement is weaponized against conservatives and Christians" | **Mostly False** | Trump faced multiple indictments based on specific alleged criminal conduct, not political identity. No systematic evidence of targeting based on religious or political affiliation. |
| "Military has gone woke" | **Mostly False** | Military implemented some DEI initiatives but core mission and readiness remained primary focus. Characterization as 'gone woke' is political framing. |

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (2:32 PM ET)
- Perfect grammar and punctuation
- Parallel rhetorical structure
- Campaign video attachment
- Polished ellipsis ending

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Iowa caucus campaign period)

Sentiment: -0.85

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared victimhood
- grievance consolidation
- catastrophic urgency

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Framing law enforcement as weaponized against identity groups
- Catastrophic national decline narrative implying urgent action needed

### Gaslighting

- 'borders are GONE' - borders exist and are operational despite increased crossings
- 'weaponized against conservatives and Christians' - reframes legitimate legal proceedings as persecution

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Borders are GONE

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Border enforcement continued under Biden; illegal crossings increased significantly but borders were not eliminated. CBP maintained operations throughout.

Sources: CBP enforcement statistics

> Inflation is crushing our Middle Class

**HALF TRUE**

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022 but had fallen to ~3.4% by December 2023. Cumulative price increases did strain household budgets, but 'crushing' overstates conditions at time of posting.

Sources: BLS CPI data

> Law enforcement is weaponized against conservatives and Christians

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump faced multiple indictments based on specific alleged criminal conduct, not political identity. No systematic evidence of targeting based on religious or political affiliation.

Sources: DOJ case filings

> Military has gone woke

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Military implemented some DEI initiatives but core mission and readiness remained primary focus. Characterization as 'gone woke' is political framing.

Sources: DoD policy documents

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Tags

- campaign_rhetoric (90%)
- decline_narrative (90%)
- grievance_consolidation (80%)
- aide_authored (80%)
- border_security (70%)
- anti_biden (80%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege on All Fronts: 48 Posts Across Immunity Hearing, Willis Scandal, and Engoron Rage Spiral**

Trump spent the day under extraordinary legal pressure, fighting on every front simultaneously. The evening before kicked off with a gleeful five-part series exploiting the Fani Willis romance scandal, spinning a co-defendant's allegations into proof of a coordinated Biden conspiracy. After attending his federal immunity hearing in Washington, he returned to posting with a punishing afternoon barrage -- attacking Judge Engoron five times in nine minutes, reframing January 6 as patriotic duty, warning of border invasion, and demanding total presidential immunity. The sheer volume of 48 posts and the scattershot targeting of judges, prosecutors, rivals, Fox News, and Biden suggest a man processing unprecedented legal jeopardy through relentless counterattack.

Full digest for 2024-01-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 9). This USA is in serious trouble. Under Crooked Joe... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727655608419130
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This USA is in serious trouble. Under Crooked Joe Biden,..." Truth Social, 9 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727655608419130. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "This USA is in serious trouble. Under Crooked Joe Biden,...," Truth Social, January 9, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727655608419130.

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