# Post ts_111727684468610708

- Post ID: `ts_111727684468610708`
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- Posted: 2024-01-09T19:39:29.743Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> According to reports, Crooked Joe Biden and the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists running his administration want to make this election about which candidate is QUOTE most “extreme.” If so, that’s a debate I am thrilled to have—because Crooked Joe Biden has run the most radical, far-left, extremist administration in all of American history…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (7:18), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> According to reports, Crooked Joe Biden and the communists, Marxists, and fascists running his administration want to make this election about which candidate is "the most extreme." If so, that's a debate I'm thrilled to have because Crooked Joe Biden has run the worst and most radical campaign anyone's ever seen, and he is actually a radical person. Take a look at what he's doing with Catholic churches. Take a look at what he's doing to people of religion. It's a disgrace. Now, if it's him, which I think it is, it's terrible. But it doesn't matter because he's surrounded by people that don't like a lot of the people that happen to live very happily in our country. I want to secure borders. Biden wants no borders. And he wants millions and millions of illegal aliens pouring into our communities, people that come from prisons, people that come from, many of them. They come from -- the prisons are being emptied out all over the world. So many of them come from prisons. They come from mental institutions and insane asylums. They're being emptied out all over the world. And they're terrorists. And we're going to have the largest deportation movement in history. We have no choice. He's giving them free welfare. Think of this. They come into our country illegally, and he gives free welfare and work permits at your expense. Takes away your jobs. I want American energy dominance. Joe Biden wants American energy surrender. He has surrendered energy. We were dominant. We were doing things with energy that nobody has ever seen. We were getting proportionally the lowest prices our country has ever paid. We had gasoline down to $1.87 and even much lower than that during certain times. His insane green new scam is driving energy prices right through the roof. And as soon as the election ends, just like last time, he went into the strategic reserves to try and keep gasoline down a little bit. And that worked for a short period of time and then went up to $5, $6, $7, $8 a gallon. And that's what happened. But now they're trying to artificially bring it down a little bit before the election. It's not going to work. People are not going to buy it because then he's going to take away your energy anyway and force you to buy all electric cars, which don't go far and are very expensive. And by the way, where your jobs all come out of China. So for the United Auto Workers and all of the other people that make cars, you better vote for Trump because if you don't, you're not going to be making cars for very long. I can tell you that. I want low taxes, low regulation, fair trade, and no inflation. That's what we had for four years. That's what we had. All of those things. Biden wants the largest tax hike in American history. He wants to quadruple your taxes, trillions of dollars in job killing regulations he's going to add, which is going to seriously hurt your job market. And he's already caused the most crippling inflation in a half a century, but it's probably ever. I want to let you buy any car you want. Meanwhile, Crooked Joe wants to mandate all electric cars. I mean, you can only buy an electric car, which don't go far, which are all going to be made in China. I hope you're listening to this. All of the automakers and all of the people that work for the automakers who are selling them out of their jobs because that's what's going to happen. Your cars are all going to be made under Biden in China and your family won't be able to afford an all electric car. They don't go far. They're not affordable. It's a disaster for our country. You're going to be able to buy all forms, including electric. But if you want gasoline powered, if you want hybrid, you're going to be able to buy it. The same thing with your stoves. They want to take away your stoves. If they're gas fired, they want you to go all electric. But people that are great chefs and great cooks, they don't want all electric. They want gas. People that cook for their family want gas. It's better for cooking. You're going to be able to have gas stoves again. Right now, they want to take that privilege away from you. I will sign that on day one. I'll sign the all electric car nonsense, ending it on day one. It will all be done on day one. I want a strong military. Joe Biden wants a woke military and a weak America because that's what's going to have. Remember, I took out ISIS with a powerful military, with great generals, not the ones you see on television or the people that go away for five days and nobody even knows what's going on. The Secretary of Defense, he disappeared. Nobody knew where he was for five days. He was in the hospital. Didn't tell anybody. I want to restore the rule of law and defend the Constitution. Joe Biden, on the other hand, is weaponizing the FBI and the DOJ, Department of Injustice, I call it, against his political opponent, me, trying to put me in jail for doing nothing but complain about crooked elections. We want to -- if you mention that the election is rigged or crooked, they want to put you in jail because it is rigged and crooked. We have all the facts if somebody wants to look at them and everybody knows it. And he's also trying to get anyone who challenges him kicked off the ballot. He's done that with already three or four candidates. Joe Biden is an extremist. He truly is an extremist. He's not a very smart one, but he's an extremist. And the people who work for him are tyrants and thugs and Marxists, and they're freaks in a certain way. His radicalism has given us a nation in serious decline. We are a nation in decline like probably never before. And all I want to do is very simple. Make America great again. That's why we will win in a landslide this November. We're going to win bigger than ever before. We're going to swamp them. We're going to take our country back. We're going to be America first. We're going to make America great again. And we are then going to work on keeping America great because we will get it turned around fast. We will close the borders. We will have energy, all that you've ever had, just like we had. We became the number one energy producer in the world. And then Joe Biden got involved and everything came to a halt, except for a thing called inflation, where we set records on inflation, like inflation, like we've never seen before, where your food prices went up four times, where your energy prices tripled. Everything went bad. He hasn't done one thing well for our country, whether it's Afghanistan and that horrible surrender that he made in Afghanistan, leaving dead soldiers, Americans behind, hundreds, maybe thousands of Americans behind, and $85 billion worth of brand new military equipment behind in the hands of the Taliban, who then became one of the largest sellers of military weapons anywhere in the world. They were selling the weapons we left behind. We can't have these fools running our country anymore. We want to do something very simple. It's called Make America Great Again. Vote for me. I did it once. We'll do it a second time. And it'll actually, despite the destruction that they've caused, it'll actually be easier. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/727/682/438/254/473/original/7d10bffaca893b7c.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:02:49.724Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted six days before the Iowa caucuses and days after Biden's Valley Forge address framing Trump as an existential threat to democracy, this post constitutes a textbook narcissistic injury response to public derogation. The trigger is explicit: Biden's "extremism" characterization, which struck at Trump's core self-narrative as national savior. Rather than defending against the label, Trump deploys projection as the primary defense — immediately redirecting "extremist" onto Biden, eliminating the threat by reversing its vector. The performed enthusiasm ("a debate I am thrilled to have") is consistent with reaction formation: genuine narcissistic wound converted into expressed eagerness for confrontation.

The epithet cluster "Communists, Marxists, and Fascists" represents semantic saturation — ideologically incompatible labels (Marxism and fascism are opposing systems) fused into a single emotional tag, functioning as thought-terminating clichés. This is consistent with primitive splitting: all-bad devaluation of the opponent without analytical differentiation. The superlative "most radical...in all of American history" is unfalsifiable and functions to preclude comparative analysis.

No cognitive disruption markers are present; the post maintains coherent adversarial logic consistent with baseline. Authorship is likely hybrid/aide-facilitated given mid-afternoon timing and accompanying video attachment. The broader same-day posting cluster — border invasion rhetoric, Ashli Babbitt lawsuit amplification, civilizational doom framing — reveals coordinated pre-caucus messaging with cumulative delegitimization function, elevating the collective danger assessment above what any single post warrants.

## Authorship Attribution

**Timestamp Analysis:** 19:39 UTC on January 9, 2024 converts to approximately **14:39 EST / 13:39 CST**. Trump was actively campaigning in Iowa ahead of the January 15 caucuses (Fox News hosted the DeSantis town hall this same evening; Trump was in the Iowa campaign circuit). Mid-afternoon in his local timezone (Central) falls squarely in business hours.

**Stylometric Assessment:** The post includes an MP4 video attachment, which typically indicates aide-facilitated posting (rally clip or campaign video). However, several authentic Trump markers are present: the ALL-CAPS "QUOTE" (a distinctive spoken-to-written pattern unique to Trump's vernacular), the nickname "Crooked Joe Biden," the tripling of contradictory epithets ("Communists, Marxists, and Fascists"), and the trailing ellipsis suggesting unfinished thought. This is best characterized as **hybrid** — likely aide-transcribed or aide-polished from Trump's own rally remarks or dictation, then posted with the video. Confidence: **medium**.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

**Trigger identification:** The post is a direct counter-response to Biden's Valley Forge speech (January 5-6), which explicitly characterized Trump as an extremist threat to democracy on the third anniversary of January 6. This constitutes a **narcissistic injury via public derogation and unfavorable comparison** — Biden framed Trump as an existential danger, a label that strikes at Trump's core self-narrative as the nation's savior/winner.

**Narcissistic response pattern — Judo Framing:** Rather than defending against the "extreme" label, Trump attempts to absorb and redirect it. The phrase "that's a debate I am thrilled to have" is a grandiose acceptance gesture — performing eagerness for confrontation in place of acknowledging the wound. This is consistent with Kohut's description of narcissistic rage sublimated into competitive dominance assertion when direct rage would expose vulnerability.

**Narcissistic state:** Primarily **grandiose** — expansive, combative, self-positioning as dominant challenger. The paranoid undertones emerge in the enemy-enumeration pattern ("Communists, Marxists, and Fascists"), signaling the persecutory schema operating beneath performed confidence.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature):** The "extremist" label applied to Trump by Biden is immediately redirected wholesale onto Biden and his administration, converting incoming threat into counterattack. This is the post's primary defensive operation.

2. **Reaction Formation (neurotic):** A genuine threat to self-image ("you are the dangerous extremist") is transformed into expressed enthusiasm ("I am *thrilled* to have this debate"). The affect is inverted.

3. **Splitting (immature):** The Biden administration is rendered as a monolithic all-bad coalition — "Communists, Marxists, and Fascists" are ideologically irreconcilable systems (Marxism and fascism represent opposite poles of political theory), yet they are fused into a single epithet cluster. This reveals primitive black-and-white categorization rather than analytical description.

4. **Denial (pathological level):** The post implicitly denies that Trump's own record (January 6, classified documents, civil fraud judgment, election interference) could constitute any form of extremism — not by engaging those claims but by erasing them via counter-accusation.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Semantic saturation:** The stacking of "Communists, Marxists, and Fascists" deploys what propaganda scholars call *ideological smearing* — the goal is emotional tagging (fear, contempt, othering) rather than accurate categorization. The internal contradiction (communist vs. fascist) is a feature, not a bug: it overwhelms analytical processing and deposits only emotional residue.

**Superlative hyperbole:** "Most radical, far-left, extremist administration in all of American history" is an unfalsifiable maximum-intensity claim. Superlatives function rhetorically as conversation-enders — they preclude comparative analysis.

**Judo framing:** Converting the opponent's attack vector into an opportunity is a sophisticated rhetorical counterpunch. It reframes the narrative from "Trump is extreme" to "Biden is the real extremist," stealing the opponent's frame.

**Thought-terminating clichés:** "Crooked Joe Biden" operates as a pre-cognitive trigger — it bypasses evaluation and deposits an emotional verdict.

**False equivalence scaffolding:** The post implicitly argues that any "extremism" label is reversible — as if Trump's record and Biden's record are symmetrically disputable, not qualitatively different.

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## Cognitive Status

No significant cognitive disruption markers in this post. The argument follows a simple oppositional logic (A says B about me → I say B about A, but worse). Vocabulary is unsophisticated but functional. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or temporal confusion evident. The ellipsis ending is stylistic, not confused. **Complexity is below average** (simple adversarial framing, short compound sentences) but consistent with Trump's campaign-mode rhetorical baseline. No deviation from baseline warranting clinical notation.

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## Multi-Level Personality Framework

**Level 1 (Traits):** High extraversion (assertiveness, competitive energy), very low agreeableness (antagonism, zero trust/modesty), moderate conscientiousness in a strategic sense (message discipline for Iowa), high neuroticism (angry hostility below surface), low openness (rigid categorical thinking, values inflexibility).

**Level 2 (Motives):** Dominant **agency motives** (power, control, status, dominance). Communion motives are entirely absent. Schema: self as supreme competitor who cannot be defeated; world as zero-sum arena; Biden/Democrats as evil coalition to be destroyed.

**Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** Protagonist role is **warrior-champion who welcomes combat**. Narrative sequence is **contamination** — Biden has corrupted and degraded America's governance into something historically unprecedented. Contrasting other is "Crooked Joe Biden and the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists." Identity claims: "I will defend seniors"; "I welcome the extremism debate"; "I am the true moderate by comparison."

**Archetypal Layer:** Post combines the **Warrior** (battle posture, enemy-naming) and **Order Restorer** (implicit promise that Trump will end the contamination). The Shadow is projected entirely onto Biden — all chaos, radicalism, and extremism disowned and attributed to the opponent.

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## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** The characterization of a sitting administration as run by "Communists, Marxists, and Fascists" contributes to the delegitimization-dehumanization continuum. While this post alone contains no direct target identification or call to action, it participates in a rhetoric ecosystem that — across the same-day posting cluster — includes: Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit amplification (keeping January 6 grievance alive), "INVASION" border framing, and civilizational doom framing. No stochastic terrorism trigger in this specific post; the danger is cumulative/atmospheric rather than acute.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Communists, Marxists, and Fascists running his [Biden's] administration" | **False** | No credible evidence that Biden administration officials hold communist, Marxist, or fascist ideologies. These labels are applied as political epithets without factual basis. The simultaneous application of Marxist and fascist labels is internally contradictory. |
| "Biden and his administration want to make this election about which candidate is most 'extreme'" | **Mostly True** | Biden's Valley Forge speech on January 5-6 explicitly framed the 2024 election as a choice between democracy and what he characterized as Trump's extremism. The 'extreme' framing was a deliberate campaign strategy. Trump's paraphrase is broadly accurate as to intent, though he distorts Biden's specific meaning. |
| "Crooked Joe Biden has run the most radical, far-left, extremist administration in all of American history" | **False** | This superlative opinion claim is unsupported by mainstream political science or historical analysis. Biden governed largely within centrist Democratic norms on most major policy axes. Historians generally identify more ideologically radical administrations in American history on both ends of the spectrum. |

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Contextual Note

This post is one of approximately five posts on January 9, 2024 — a coordinated messaging burst driven by Iowa caucus proximity (6 days out) and the immediate need to counter Biden's Valley Forge address. The psychological state across the same-day cluster is **energized-aggressive grandiosity**, not wounded vulnerability — Trump is in mobilization mode, not defensive collapse. The Valley Forge speech clearly landed as an injury requiring immediate rhetorical neutralization.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Mid-afternoon posting (13:39 CST) falls in business hours, suggesting aide involvement
- Accompanies MP4 video attachment — typically aide-facilitated posting of rally content
- ALL-CAPS 'QUOTE' replicates Trump's spoken-to-written verbal pattern — authentic marker
- Nickname 'Crooked Joe Biden' is Trump-authentic
- Trailing ellipsis and tripled contradictory epithets are Trump stylistic signatures

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Biden's Valley Forge speech framing Trump as existential extremist threat on January 6 anniversary)

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Biden administration
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.45

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- High-volume posting day (5+ posts) suggesting elevated energy state
- Grandiose confidence in welcoming and relishing confrontation
- Expansive framing (civilizational stakes, historical superlatives) consistent with elevated mood

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 62%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- reaction formation (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Enemy identification ('Communists, Marxists, Fascists') creates shared in-group adversary
- Framing self as champion who welcomes the fight on behalf of audience
- Superlative framing invites audience to feel vindicated in their grievances

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Ideological smearing of administration as 'Communists, Marxists, and Fascists' contributes to delegitimization continuum
- Part of same-day cluster including 'INVASION' border framing and Ashli Babbitt grievance amplification — cumulative danger exceeds individual post
- Superlative framing ('most radical...in all of American history') elevates perceived stakes to civilizational level, which can lower inhibitions toward extreme responses

### Gaslighting

- Reversal of Biden's documented extremism framing without engaging the specific evidence Biden cited (January 6, anti-democratic conduct)
- Implicit denial that Trump's own conduct could constitute extremism — the accusation is erased by counter-accusation rather than rebutted
- DARVO pattern: Biden's factual critique (threat to democracy) is denied, attacked, and reversed to position Biden as the true threat

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Communists, Marxists, and Fascists running his [Biden's] administration

**FALSE**

No credible evidence that Biden administration officials hold communist, Marxist, or fascist ideologies. These labels are applied as political epithets without factual basis. The simultaneous application of Marxist and fascist labels is internally contradictory.

> Biden and his administration want to make this election about which candidate is most 'extreme'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Biden's Valley Forge speech on January 5-6 explicitly framed the 2024 election as a choice between democracy and what he characterized as Trump's extremism. The 'extreme' framing was a deliberate campaign strategy. Trump's paraphrase is broadly accurate as to intent, though he distorts Biden's specific meaning.

> Crooked Joe Biden has run the most radical, far-left, extremist administration in all of American history

**FALSE**

This superlative opinion claim is unsupported by mainstream political science or historical analysis. Biden governed largely within centrist Democratic norms on most major policy axes. Historians generally identify more ideologically radical administrations in American history on both ends of the spectrum.

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Tags

- counter_messaging (92%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (80%)
- projection (85%)
- semantic_saturation (82%)
- election_framing (88%)
- Biden_attack (90%)
- Iowa_caucus_mobilization (75%)
- DARVO (78%)
- ideological_smearing (85%)
- judo_framing (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). According to reports, Crooked Joe Biden and the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727684468610708
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "According to reports, Crooked Joe Biden and the Communists,..." Truth Social, 9 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111727684468610708. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
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