# Post ts_111741071481483259

- Post ID: `ts_111741071481483259`
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- Posted: 2024-01-12T04:23:59.351Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> “WHERE IS BIDEN AS THE U.S. CONDUCTS MILITARY STRIKES IN THE MIDDLE EAST”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (9:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> And, again, we have a secretary of defense who's on bedrest who was missing or not in touch or nobody was looking for him for days. So how does the administration at this point still keep the American public in the dark with the president, you know, calling a lid tonight? This seems like I can't imagine this having happened in the Trump administration. Well, it wouldn't have for several reasons. Either President Trump would be under wing or in the press briefing room or calling reporters into the Oval Office. If it were later into the night, maybe he'd be firing off a couple of tweets that we were told were so chaotic and so crisis-laden. But at least then you would know what the commander in chief was thinking. You would also have spokespeople from the Department of Defense. Look, I think that the secretary of defense being absent all those days should concern everyone because they basically proved he's not a vital part of the conversation here or the coordination. Laura, this is exactly why who's commander in chief is important. And when you stop designating terrorists as terrorists, you're asking them, you're inviting them to be terrorists again, and you're inviting them to threaten America, her interests, her people and her values, her freedom. I think what the gentlemen were just saying is incredibly important because when people look at this, they say this is not some distant fight that's not ours. People are so concerned now that what's happening there is affecting us here. And this is why President Trump long ago pivoted to a general election strategy against Biden. He wants you to think about their two presidencies, their two administrations, sure, economy, energy, border. But this particularly, as he said last night in Fox News' town hall, first president in 72 years did not start a new war. We called terrorists terrorists. We brought hostages home. If you look at Iran, who funds so much of what we're talking about in this world, it's so scary. When you look at Iran, they were starving to make deals by the time we left our administration. Now they basically impose 3 million barrels a day. They stockpile over 80 billion. You know where it's going. You see on the screen where it's going. But Laura and Molly, I think this is why even in the personal attribute questions, Trump is beating Biden, who has a plan, who cares about the middle class, who has the energy and ability, who has the vision and experience, but also on all the major issues, security and affordability. People are very concerned and they are against Biden. I think they're height-inviting. Do you know, last point, we've heard more about and from Hunter Biden than Joe Biden the last few days. We've seen more of Hunter than Joe Biden. Molly. Disgrace. Well, it was interesting last night. One of the questions that was asked at the town hall was about some concern that people might have that chaos would return if Trump were elected. And Trump's answer was pointing out some of the chaos that we're seeing in the country right now, not just domestically, but internationally. And this is a really serious situation. I mean, it's a serious situation that the Houthis have been bombing shipping routes and that that affects so many things. Something needs to be done about this. But we've also been in conflict, either in a proxy way or otherwise, with these people for quite some time now. This is the third administration. And you want to have good communication with the American people. You also want to do things in a constitutional manner. And again, Biden is not the first president to violate what the Constitution says about how Congress should be involved when launching airstrikes. But this is a good example of why Congress should be involved because we do need to think about to the point that. What's next? Yeah. Well, and also how we're going to deal with this being involved in a global conflict in multiple parts. When we're broke. Yes. And but but it matters to people and how we do it matters. And it doesn't seem like a lot of our defense industry or that our defense leadership have been thinking about how to effectively win wars. They're very good about entering into it. Well, we haven't won a war since World War II. Right. They're very good about having them go for a long time. Seventy eight years. Yeah. But we need to know more about what their strategy is before we let them do yet another one. I think Billy Joel saying it's a matter of trust. You know, who's trusting what's happening here? And that's why you really do have to have someone in place. You can say, OK, even if we disagree with this action, they're laying it out for us. Peace through strength. That's what President Trump talked about last night. And when you have a weak economy, when you're self loathing and talk about this one a little bit, you're teaching people to hate your country. You're supporting the pro-Hamas protesters on college campuses. Maybe they're going to be supporting the Hutis tomorrow. I think this is why Trump right now is he really is re realigning what's the traditional Democratic coalition of voters. I mean, he's really burrowing into Hispanics and African-Americans, independents, first time voters who are young or maybe not young. Maybe they're just first time voters, Laura. But the other the other thing here is that we made it the party of the worker. We made it that it was administration that was there for the worker. When you look at when you even talk to Iowa's caucus goers, they're mentioning things like this. They're not just talking about inflation. They're not just talking about the cost of gas and groceries and the border crisis. They're talking about what's going on all around the world, the hot spots. And we were told crisis in a tweet, chaos and palace intrigue. There's crisis and chaos everywhere we look. Everywhere you look at them once again. I remember the the adults will now be in charge and see what's going on there. But you know, we do have a real different vision here of foreign policy. And I think we were robbed of that in the 2020 election to have an actual debate about whose foreign policy was better. It was kind of asserted by corporate media that Biden had a better foreign policy. And we now have this unique situation where we can just compare compare the four years under the Trump administration with the four years under Biden and see who had the just objectively speaking a far better record. Does that not speak to the fact that the US media has so fallen down on its job to first vet Joe Biden in 2020? He was not up to the job. Everybody knew it and they hit it for him. He was a hologram candidate and he's a hologram president who calls the lid on a night like tonight. This is a failure across the board of the elites, the establishment and the corporate media. Molly, you hit this every day. They have a lot to be accountable here tonight. Yeah, and they're very much responsible for getting us into this situation by failing to vet. And it's why it's so important that people are able to have a good evaluation of what they're getting into. There's one reason and the name is Trump. Everything flows from Trump. If you challenge anyone to answer a question about Joe Biden as our commander in chief for our foreign policy or this secretary of defense being missing and you asked him to answer the question, Laura Molly, they can't go 10 words or 10 seconds without saying Trump five times. They're so obsessed with him and so the Trump deranged incision was real. There's no vaccine, no therapeutic for it. And it's so real that it was okay not to vet him. It's okay to lie. It's okay to pretend that what you see, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, not up to the task while we are at war in so many places, including at our southern border. That's okay because the alternative is Trump. It's outrageous. I actually think that's part of the reason why they have such hatred toward Trump. You remember in 2016, they said, if you were elected, we would have nuclear conflict. We would have conflict all over the world. He wouldn't be up to handling the task of all these global issues and play. And then when he not only won, which surprised so many people, but then did such an effective job and you see even again with the town hall last night where he had pretty effective responses to these questions that were being asked. I actually think that's part of the reason why people hate him so much is that they resent that he has command and control and is funny and is engaging with people. This was all over the internet 12 hours ago, that this was going to take place. President Trump was dining with President Xi of China at Mar-a-Lago and I was between the main course and dessert, you know, we unleashed a missile attack against one of our adversaries. Nobody knew about it. Syria. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, remember it very well. He said they didn't have a 12 hour notice that this was going to happen. He said that crazy person gassed kids and here's my response. And well, but isn't that funny too? We were told we were the leakers. Nobody even knew things like that were happening as they were happening. And what does President Trump even said it last night in the Fox News Town Hall? He said, they broadcast everything or he said in an interview recently, they broadcast everything. You don't tell your enemies what you're going to do before you do it. They're enemies for a reason. They don't, we don't have this kind of discipline, we don't have this kind of coordination and collaboration right now because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as a number one and number two in our nation's government make otherwise smart people say really stupid things all the time. We have a cabinet of firsts and then we have Tony Blinken, who started his tenure as secretary of state, essentially getting lectured by China over that meeting in Alaska. And now headline of the New York Times, Blinken talks a grand vision for Mideast peace, but hits a wall in Israel, strikes expand battleground for the West, for the war in the Middle East. I mean, it's not surprising. There's been a very muddled vision there. There've been mixed messages about what our role is with Israel and

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/741/071/054/577/921/original/de8207f00d105097.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:07:50.000Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

At 10:23 PM CT on January 12, 2024, three days before the Iowa caucuses, Trump posted a twelve-word ALL CAPS rhetorical question attacking Biden's visibility during US/UK strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen — strikes Biden authorized and oversaw. The post exemplifies a recurring pattern: narcissistic supply-seeking triggered by the incumbent's high-profile exercise of presidential authority Trump cannot access. The rhetorical question format constructs the accusation (Biden is absent) while maintaining plausible deniability. Biden's presence and authorization of the strikes makes the framing misleading by implication. Late-night timing, full capitalization, and unmediated emotional reactivity strongly indicate authentic authorship. Dominant dynamics are grandiose narcissistic state, agency motive activation, and projection of absence onto the opponent. Danger is elevated (undermining Commander-in-Chief confidence during active operations) but not kinetic. Cognitively unremarkable at this post length. Clinically consistent with baseline patterns; no marked deviation.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, January 12, 2024

## Overview

Twelve words, fully capitalized, timed at 10:23 PM Central in Iowa three days before the Iowa caucuses. The post is formally a question but functions as an accusation: that Biden is AWOL during a moment of military action. Context identifies this as the US/UK strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen (January 11–12, 2024), executed in response to Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial shipping. Biden authorized and oversaw these strikes from the White House, making the "where is he" frame misleading by implication without constituting a verifiable falsehood.

## Authorship Attribution

**High confidence: authentic Trump.** Late-night timing (22:23 CT), full capitalization, zero editorial polish, and reactive opportunism triggered by a breaking military event all converge on authentic authorship. No aide-written post would deploy this rhetorical register or this timestamp.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post activates **low agreeableness** (hostile, competitive), **high extraversion** (assertive, commanding register), and **elevated neuroticism** (angry hostility, impulsive reactivity). Conscientiousness is negligible — the post is unreflective and impulsive. No openness markers.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motive dominates absolutely.** The post is about power visibility: who holds it, who is seen exercising it, who appears absent from it. Trump's agency motive is triggered here not by a direct attack on him but by Biden *being seen* exercising presidential authority — a supply deprivation event. Trump responds by attempting to *negate* Biden's visibility rather than assert his own.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The Vigilant Watchman / Concerned Citizen — surveilling the incumbent for dereliction
- **Contrasting other:** Biden — characterized as absent, passive, possibly hidden
- **Identity claim:** Implicit: "I would be visible, engaged, decisive"
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — America is in military action while its leader is unaccounted for
- **Archetypal frame:** Warrior + Shadow. Trump inhabits the Warrior archetype (constant alert, enemy everywhere, adversarial framing) while projecting his own historical absences and failures onto Biden as Shadow content.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic dynamic:** Classic supply-seeking in the context of unfavorable comparison. Biden's military action visibility triggers competitive distress. The response is not policy engagement but image competition — 'where is Biden' functions as 'look at me noticing his absence.'

**Malignant narcissism composite:** Narcissistic features are prominent (entitlement to public attention, implicit grandiosity). Antisocial features are mild-to-moderate — undermining public confidence in the Commander-in-Chief during active military operations carries meaningful civic cost regardless of intent. Paranoid features are present but muted in this post. Sadism is latent — the pleasure here appears to be in the competitive diminishment rather than in cruelty per se.

**Defense mechanisms:** Projection (attributing absence/weakness to Biden), acting out (direct discharge of competitive aggression without delay), and a veneer of rationalization (framed as civic concern).

## Cognitive Status

The post is too brief (12 words) for robust cognitive assessment. Syntactic structure is intact. No word-finding errors, perseveration, or semantic paraphasia detectable. Consistent with baseline Trump post brevity in the attack-question format. **Baseline deviation: none.**

## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

**Mild gaslighting present.** Biden did not disappear — he authorized the strikes and was executing presidential duties. The post constructs a false image of absence during a moment of presidential action. This is not outright denial of a documented event but reality distortion through strategic framing.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** While there is no dehumanizing language, no explicit incitement, and no stochastic terrorism pattern, the post deliberately undermines public confidence in the Commander-in-Chief during active military operations. This has potential downstream effects on civilian trust in military command authority at a moment of operational sensitivity. The danger is institutional rather than kinetic.

## Epistemic Closure

**Present.** The post does not acknowledge that Biden authorized the strikes. It forecloses the possibility that the President is engaged and visible, demanding followers accept the implied absence as factual. This functions as a shared reality test.

## Order / Chaos Dynamics

- **Position:** Order attacker + chaos introducer
- **Who gets chaos:** The Biden administration's projected competence
- **Grievance:** Illegitimacy of incumbent leadership during national security moment
- **Hierarchy:** Post attempts to lower Biden's status during a moment designed to elevate it

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## Summary

At 10:23 PM CT on January 12, 2024, three days before the Iowa caucuses, Trump posted a twelve-word ALL CAPS rhetorical question attacking Biden's visibility during US/UK strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen — strikes Biden authorized and oversaw. The post exemplifies a recurring pattern: narcissistic supply-seeking triggered by the incumbent's high-profile exercise of presidential authority Trump cannot access. The rhetorical question format constructs the accusation (Biden is absent) while maintaining plausible deniability. Biden's presence and authorization of the strikes makes the framing misleading by implication. Late-night timing, full capitalization, and unmediated emotional reactivity strongly indicate authentic authorship. Dominant dynamics are grandiose narcissistic state, agency motive activation, and projection of absence onto the opponent. Danger is elevated (undermining CIC confidence during active operations) but not kinetic. Cognitively unremarkable at this post length. Clinically consistent with baseline patterns; no marked deviation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The U.S. conducted military strikes in the Middle East" | **True** | On January 11–12, 2024, the United States and United Kingdom conducted coordinated airstrikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. This is documented and factual. |
| "Implied: Biden was absent/unaccountable during the strikes" | **Mostly False** | Biden authorized the strikes and was engaged in his presidential duties. The National Security team briefed him; he did not make a public statement immediately but was not 'absent' from the decision-making. The framing implies dereliction that is not supported by available evidence. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout — signature authentic Trump formatting
- Late-night post: UTC 04:23 converts to approximately 10:23 PM Central Time in Iowa (where Trump was campaigning days before the January 15 caucuses)
- Single blunt rhetorical question — no polished framing, no event announcement structure
- Emotional reactivity triggered by real-time military news event
- No punctuation beyond the implied question, no grammatical hedging

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Biden administration conducting high-profile military action, receiving Commander-in-Chief visibility Trump cannot access as a private citizen and criminal defendant)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Joe Biden
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.65

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Late-night posting (22:23 local time)
- ALL CAPS register throughout
- Five posts in a single day suggesting elevated output
- Impulsive reactive quality to breaking military event

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 38%
- Sadism: 35%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- acting out (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question invites followers to co-investigate, simulating shared vigilance
- ALL CAPS performative alarm creates urgency and emotional contagion
- Implicit positioning as the watchful, present leader vs. the absent incumbent

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Deliberate undermining of Commander-in-Chief authority during active US military operations
- Misleading framing (Biden absent) that could degrade public confidence in military command at moment of operational sensitivity
- Contributes to epistemically closed information environment where followers may disbelieve official reporting on presidential engagement

### Gaslighting

- Biden authorized the Houthi strikes and was engaged as president — the 'where is he' framing constructs an absence that did not exist
- Rhetorical question format forces followers to supply the accusation themselves, bypassing critical evaluation
- Absence of any acknowledgment that the strikes occurred under Biden's command constitutes reality distortion by omission

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The U.S. conducted military strikes in the Middle East

**TRUE**

On January 11–12, 2024, the United States and United Kingdom conducted coordinated airstrikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. This is documented and factual.

Sources: General knowledge — confirmed from training data; not in provided event list but verifiable

> Implied: Biden was absent/unaccountable during the strikes

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Biden authorized the strikes and was engaged in his presidential duties. The National Security team briefed him; he did not make a public statement immediately but was not 'absent' from the decision-making. The framing implies dereliction that is not supported by available evidence.

Sources: Contextual inference from known presidential authorization protocols

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- ALL_CAPS (100%)
- rhetorical_question (90%)
- crisis_parasitism (85%)
- supply_seeking (80%)
- grandiose_state (75%)
- reality_distortion_by_omission (70%)
- authentic_trump (90%)
- late_night_post (85%)
- pre_iowa_caucus (70%)
- military_opportunism (80%)
- CIC_delegitimization (65%)

## That day

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

**Trial Day Fury: Closing Arguments Trigger Full-Spectrum Grievance Cascade Three Days Before Iowa**

Trump spent the day consumed by his New York civil fraud trial, where closing arguments were heard. The morning brought his most emotionally intense posts -- raging against Judge Engoron, demanding AG Letitia James face criminal prosecution, and declaring the process a "witch hunt" with "no rights." In the afternoon, his team flooded the feed with over a dozen rapid-fire links pushing election fraud narratives, prosecutor attacks, and endorsement announcements, burying the legal drama under a wall of counter-programming. Threaded throughout was pre-Iowa caucus positioning, including dismissive nicknames for all three Republican rivals and a pointed attack on Nikki Haley's electability. The late-night hours featured a jab at Biden over Yemen strikes, framing the Commander-in-Chief as absent during military operations he had personally authorized.

Full digest for 2024-01-12: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 12). “WHERE IS BIDEN AS THE U.S. CONDUCTS MILITARY... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741071481483259
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“WHERE IS BIDEN AS THE U.S. CONDUCTS MILITARY STRIKES IN..." Truth Social, 12 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741071481483259. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“WHERE IS BIDEN AS THE U.S. CONDUCTS MILITARY STRIKES IN...," Truth Social, January 12, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111741071481483259.

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