# Post ts_111851237768882428

- Post ID: `ts_111851237768882428`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-31T15:20:43.487Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> “WE ARE SEEING UTTER WEAKNESS FROM BIDEN”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> here with reaction hoover institution senior fellow victor davis handson former governor of arkansas mike huckabee governor huckabee start with you uh... when you look at the situation well first of all why didn't he respond to the nearly two hundred previous attacks how could you not respond at all and not have what happened over the weekend of become inevitable utter weakness that's what we've seen everything that colonel north just said i would just want to say amen to it what else can be said that was exactly what we need to be doing i hear some people saying we need to go bomb iran actually what we need to do is what donald trump is doing bankrupting iran that was effective it was working and it was a far better approach maybe we do need to bomb their refineries but we don't need to just go after and start another war we need to do what donald trump was already doing and it was effectively working i don't know why we don't do it i'm so tired of hearing democrats say boy in a great the biden team is here we got the adults back in the room no what we got was senior adults in the room they don't know what day it is for god's sake we've got to have some people who are looking at the situation with the danger is what colonel north said is exactly the prescription maybe trump gets elected and names him secretary of defense you know what uh... donald trump also took out solomani victor davis hansen uh... i don't want america in a long protracted war however we do have new military sophisticated military technology where we can push a button here in the united states and with pinpoint accuracy hidden any any darn target we want inside of iran can we you know we can that's why around around knows that generally uh... in history if you are perceived that you'll do anything for peace you're going to guarantee a war it's predictable that our responses scripted we hope we say three things first we say it we're going to uh... respond to the time and place of our choosing bay that's they're tired of that second we say while iran has supplied these surrogates we don't have any direct evidence that it's iran and thirty one avoid a wider war that's all nice things but the message that they take from that is that there's a magic number that we haven't reached yet they think is it fifty is it a hundred will try a hundred and fifty let's try two hundred attacks is that six dead americans eight dead fifty wounded and they keep upping it to find out where they have to pull back for a while the problem is that deterrence has shown it's really hard to achieve and it's very easy to throw away and when they came in don trump killed solomani took the terrorist uh... the Houthis he put the sanctions on them he cut off a mosque didn't want to get in the iran deal he rejected it he put in the sanctions on the oil he had the abrams accord he had no daylight between us in israel and when then when he got rid of so many he didn't have to bomb iran because they understood that they were very and very put deep peril but when you lose deterrence then finally we're going to get to the point where the only option is a war and we don't want that ironically and paradoxically that's exactly where biden is leading us to a theater wide war the more that he says he wants to prevent it and the more he appeases these people that think they're going to have a magic number until they're going to keep going until with that they're forced to stop and we don't want a war but i don't know if he doesn't really enter the trump put a protocols in the sanctions and all of the terrorist listing we're going to have a war and that's unfortunate but that's what it's unfortunate down to if biden keeps it up he's got to be i think you'd agree and both of you agree and i'll ask you an exit question has got to be a proportional response here and to me i think we're all kind of on the same page i don't know the maybe the right way to go about it but we've got to cut off their financing here because the money is financing the proxy wars and the terror attacks all over the globe uh... to do that to me the surest way to do it would be to take out their refineries i also think that would be proportional mike huckabee what do you say i agree that you can take specific targets you don't have civilian uh... casualties you also go after these proxies and hit 'em hard hit 'em real hard but ultimately it's bankrupting uh... but let them know that if that doesn't work the bombing will start but let's pray to god that victor davis hansen is right the last thing we need or want is an all-out war i think we can avoid it trump prove that i hope we continue that strategy would it be wise to take out their fineries victor davis hansen if we get to that war and i have to but i think it's much better to be quiet and carry a club and loud with the twig and the more louder we are the more predictable we are the closer we're going to get to war if you just keep it quiet and i think you should be disproportionate disproportionate and then that will stop it but uh... he's too loud and he's too weak and he's too predictable and that's dangerous the problem of deterrence and nobody respects them and china's going to keep buying Iranian oil anyway but i appreciate you both thank you uh... when we come back possible terrorists are crossing the southern border of our country biden says there's nothing more that he could do to stop them that is a lie will explain we'll check in with jim jordan ken pax and they're up next and will Alejandro Mayorkas will he be impeached straight ahead

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/851/237/526/633/601/original/db36b0d81d02187b.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.374Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:19:59.114Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: "WE ARE SEEING UTTER WEAKNESS FROM BIDEN" — 2024-01-31

### Context & Framing

This six-word post, delivered entirely in capitals with an attached video, arrives against a dense backdrop: the Tower 22 drone strike (January 28) killing three US soldiers is the most salient referent — Biden's measured response had drawn criticism from hawks on both sides of the aisle, and "weakness" as a frame maps directly onto that event. Secondary referents include the broader Middle East escalation and the border bill debate. Notably, the Carroll defamation verdict ($3.3M) landed days prior, providing a personal narcissistic injury that may be amplifying the combative tone across the entire day's posting cluster.

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** Trump's location around January 31 is consistent with Washington DC or New York corridor activity (Teamsters meeting at union HQ in Washington, Carroll trial aftermath). UTC 15:20 converts to approximately **10:20 AM EST** — squarely within business hours. Combined with the attached video (indicating pre-produced campaign content and coordinated message packaging), this pattern leans **aide-assisted or Scavino-orchestrated**. The extreme brevity and all-caps styling are authentic Trump markers, but the video attachment and mid-morning timing tip the balance toward a coordinated release. Most likely scenario: authentic Trump phrase, Scavino-scheduled with media asset attached.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits

- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, dominant, declarative framing. No hedging.
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Pure attack rhetoric, no acknowledgment of opposing perspective.
- **Neuroticism — angry hostility (moderate-high):** All-caps signals elevated arousal, though the brevity is controlled.
- **Openness (very low):** Rigid binary framing; no complexity tolerated.
- **Conscientiousness:** Negligible elaboration — either disciplined message discipline (aide) or impulsive brevity (authentic).

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

Dominant motive is **power/agency** — the post is a dominance display rather than a substantive policy critique. The six-word construction functions as a status assertion: I see weakness; I am implicitly its opposite. There is no communion motive present. The schema at work is a zero-sum hierarchy: strength vs. weakness, winner vs. loser, Trump vs. Biden.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The silent, implied strong man. Trump does not name himself; the contrast is structural — "we are seeing" positions him as clear-eyed truth-teller while Biden embodies failure.
- **Contrasting other:** Biden as the weak, impotent incumbent. This is a contamination sequence applied to the nation: America was strong (under Trump), now degraded (under Biden).
- **Identity claims:** Strength, clarity of perception ("we are seeing"), authority to render judgment.
- **Redemption narrative:** Implicit — the weakness visible now will be corrected by return to power.

### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

**Malignant narcissism assessment:**
- *Narcissistic features:* Grandiosity expressed through implicit contrast; devaluation of Biden is clean and total ("utter"). Sense of superiority is structural to the post.
- *Antisocial features:* Minimal in this specific post.
- *Paranoid features:* Absent here, though present in adjacent posts ("illegal aliens... attacking police").
- *Ego-syntonic sadism:* Mild — the pleasure in labeling Biden "utterly" weak suggests some relish, but not extreme.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The subject is expansive, dominant, attacking from above. No vulnerability markers present in this post (contrast with the East Palestine post where victimhood/validation-seeking is more prominent).

**Trigger:** Composite — Tower 22 attack provides geopolitical material; Carroll verdict (days prior) may be generating compensatory aggression requiring an outlet; border bill provides domestic policy fodder. This post functions as **supply-seeking** (positioning as strong/wise) combined with **preemptive attack** (defining Biden before Biden's East Palestine visit could generate positive coverage).

**Defense mechanisms:**
1. **Projection (immature):** "Weakness" as attributed to Biden may reflect displaced anxiety about Trump's own legal/electoral vulnerabilities (Carroll verdict, mounting legal exposure).
2. **Splitting (immature):** Binary strong/weak framing with zero nuance — classic splitting in its purest form.
3. **Devaluation (immature):** "Utter" intensifies the devaluation to near-total.

### Cognitive Status

Post is too brief (six words) for meaningful language production analysis. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality observable. Complexity score is near-floor by construction — this cannot be distinguished from stylistic minimalism vs. cognitive limitation. **Baseline deviation: none assessable.**

### Rhetorical Analysis

- **All-caps emphasis:** High-arousal signaling; bypasses deliberation and triggers emotional response.
- **Superlative intensifier:** "Utter" is an absolute — forecloses qualification.
- **Declarative assertion:** Framed as observation ("we are seeing"), not opinion — epistemic claim to objective truth.
- **False dichotomy:** Implied strong (Trump era) vs. weak (Biden era).
- **Appeal to collective grievance:** "We are seeing" — inclusive framing enrolls audience as co-witnesses, not recipients of opinion.
- **Video asset:** Likely amplifies the claim with curated footage; functions as rhetorical evidence.
- No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No eliminationist rhetoric.

### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Minimal in isolation. The "weakness" claim is a politically contestable opinion rather than a documented reality denial. The broader posting cluster (Middle East "FIRE," "peace under Trump") contains more aggressive reality-reshaping, but this post is relatively clean as attack rhetoric goes.

### Danger Assessment

**None.** Standard political attack on an opponent. No target identification of private individuals, no grievance-to-action escalation, no violent imagery.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden is showing utter weakness" | **Unverifiable** | Evaluative political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. The Tower 22 response and broader foreign policy were contested; 'utter weakness' is a characterization, not a documentable fact. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- 10:20 AM EST — business hours, aide-scheduled window
- Attached video asset suggests pre-produced, coordinated campaign content
- All-caps styling and extreme brevity are authentic Trump markers
- Six-word construction may be authentic Trump phrase packaged by Scavino for release
- Grammatically clean — no typos or stream-of-consciousness fragmentation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Biden/Tower 22 attack narrative opportunity + compensatory response to Carroll verdict)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' enrollment — positions audience as co-witnesses to self-evident truth
- Implicit contrast positioning Trump as strong without naming him
- Video asset as rhetorical 'evidence' validating the assertion

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Biden is showing utter weakness

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Evaluative political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. The Tower 22 response and broader foreign policy were contested; 'utter weakness' is a characterization, not a documentable fact.

Sources: Tower 22 drone attack context (provided events); Biden East Palestine visit (provided events)

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- attack_politics (90%)
- grandiose_narcissism (70%)
- splitting (80%)
- aide_assisted (60%)
- devaluation (75%)
- supply_seeking (65%)
- tower_22_context (70%)
- compensatory_aggression (60%)

## That day

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

**Carroll Verdict Triggers Zone-Flooding Defense: 52 Posts Deploy Endorsement Blitz, Late-Night Rage, and Proxy Violence Warning**

Trump flooded his feed with 18 batch congressional endorsements while processing the aftermath of the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict. A late-night burst of raw anger -- accusing the judge of rigging the trial and calling followers to "SAVE JUSTICE IN AMERICA" -- gave way to a controlled morning of attacks on Biden and the bipartisan border bill. The most alarming moment came in the afternoon, when an aide-posted Tucker Carlson clip warned "you're going to get violence" over Trump's legal cases, shared to millions on a day when Trump had already named the presiding judge as a personal enemy. The rest of the day was filled with link-dumps reinforcing a persecution narrative, election fraud articles, and attacks on Nikki Haley -- a textbook case of redirecting pain outward across every available target.

Full digest for 2024-01-31: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 31). “WE ARE SEEING UTTER WEAKNESS FROM BIDEN” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111851237768882428
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“WE ARE SEEING UTTER WEAKNESS FROM BIDEN”" Truth Social, 31 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111851237768882428. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“WE ARE SEEING UTTER WEAKNESS FROM BIDEN”," Truth Social, January 31, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111851237768882428.

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