# Post ts_111922505744893576

- Post ID: `ts_111922505744893576`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-02-13T05:25:06.506Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> The perverts at the Failed Lincoln Project, who I was told were left leaning RINOS that had lost their way and almost all of their financial support, just did an ad showing a grassy, calm, and peaceful Southern Border, not an Illegal Migrant in sight, explaining what a great job Crooked Joe Biden did in dealing with what has become just one of many Biden inspired, Country threatening, problems facing the United States today. They didn’t happen to mention anything about the 18,000,000 Illegal Aliens that will have invaded our Country, many from prisons and mental institutions, by the end of the failed Biden Administration. Nor did they talk about the drugs pouring into the USA in amounts so large that no one, just three years ago, would have thought it possible. Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T03:55:13.239Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Authentic Trump post (12:25 AM EST, high confidence) triggered by a Lincoln Project ad depicting a calm southern border — a compound narcissistic injury attacking his central 2024 campaign narrative from inside the conservative tent. The response pattern is characteristic: rapid source-poisoning via "perverts" (invoking the Weaver scandal before engaging content), statistical maximalism deploying an 18M figure that inflates credible estimates by ~60%, dehumanizing immigration framing ("invaded," "prisons and mental institutions"), and a closing implied threat ("Watch what happens"). Defense mechanisms include pathological distortion of immigration statistics, splitting, and preemptive devaluation. The closing line constitutes the three-element stochastic terrorism pattern — named target, articulated grievance, implied consequence — elevating the danger assessment to elevated. The deployment of "perverts" marks Lincoln Project members as sexually deviant, a historically volatile label in Trump's most activated follower segments. Archetypal analysis reveals simultaneous Warrior (combat against enemies) and Trickster (deliberate norm-violation as power signal) operating in a single short text. Cognitive markers show no deviation from established baseline. Post is clinically significant for its danger indicators and the intensity of the narcissistic rage response to a relatively routine political ad.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-02-13T05:25:06Z

### Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (High Confidence)**

UTC 05:25 converts to **12:25 AM EST** (Trump was almost certainly in Florida or New York in mid-February 2024, both EST). This is solidly in the 10 PM–6 AM late-night authorship window associated with unfiltered, emotionally reactive posting. The stylistic markers confirm authenticity: escalating capitalization for rhetorical emphasis ("Illegal Aliens," "Illegal Migrants," "The TRUMP Brand" in prior posts), run-on sentence construction with embedded parenthetical clauses, the trademark pejorative branding ("Failed Lincoln Project," "Crooked Joe Biden," "perverts," "screwballs"), and the stream-of-consciousness pivot from ad critique to statistical claim to implied threat. No aide would approve "perverts" and "screwballs" in a single post, nor would they deploy the closing veiled threat.

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### Trigger Analysis

The Lincoln Project released an ad depicting a peaceful, calm southern border to credit Biden's immigration policy. This constitutes a **compound narcissistic injury**: (1) it directly attacks Trump's most potent 2024 campaign narrative (border crisis as Biden's defining failure), and (2) it originates from within the conservative tent, making it more threatening than liberal criticism. Former allies turned critics represent a particularly acute wound in malignant narcissistic psychology — they carry insider credibility. The response is disproportionate in both language ("perverts") and implied consequence ("Watch what happens"), consistent with Kohut's narcissistic rage triggered by unexpected threat to a core self-narrative.

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### Psychological State: Vulnerable-to-Grandiose Oscillation

The post opens in a momentarily **vulnerable** register — acknowledging the Lincoln Project ad has enough persuasive force to merit rebuttal — then rapidly transitions to **grandiose** via statistical maximalism (18,000,000) and the closing dominance display ("Watch what happens"). This oscillation within a single short text is diagnostically consistent with the labile narcissistic self-structure described in Kernberg's malignant narcissism model: the grandiose defense mobilizes quickly to paper over the exposed vulnerable state.

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### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features:** Prominent. Grandiosity in framing himself as uniquely truth-telling against a corrupt media/political apparatus. Entitlement to define who is "real" Republican vs. RINO. Complete absence of acknowledgment that the Lincoln Project ad might reflect any legitimate data.

**B. Antisocial Features:** Present. The closing line "Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!" signals contempt for norms around threatening critics. The deployment of "perverts" — invoking the John Weaver scandal to tar the entire organization via guilt by association — shows willingness to use sexual scandal instrumentally as a weapon.

**C. Paranoid Features:** Moderate. The claim that Lincoln Project is "left leaning" frames them as covert ideological enemies posing as conservatives, consistent with the persecutory schema that opposition is always secret, coordinated, and conspiratorial.

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Mild-to-moderate. The phrase "perverts" is deployed with evident relish, and "Watch what happens" contains a pleasurable anticipatory quality — the enjoyment of implied power over the target.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting (Immature):** The Lincoln Project is rendered entirely evil ("perverts," "screwballs," "Failed"), with no acknowledgment of complexity. Biden's record is framed as entirely disastrous with zero concessions.

2. **Devaluation (Immature):** Systematic destruction of the source before engaging its argument. By labeling them "perverts" first (invoking the Weaver scandal, unrelated to the ad content), the substantive ad critique is rendered unnecessary.

3. **Distortion (Pathological):** The 18,000,000 figure grossly inflates the undocumented population (estimated ~11M by DHS/academic consensus). It conflates cumulative border encounter tallies with resident population — a deliberate reshaping of reality to serve the emotional need for crisis-level framing.

4. **Denial (Pathological):** The Lincoln Project ad's actual content — which may reflect legitimate data about specific border sectors — is dismissed without engagement as inherently fraudulent ("not an Illegal Migrant in sight").

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### Rhetorical Techniques

**Ad Hominem / Source Poisoning:** "Perverts" precedes any engagement with the ad's content — classic poisoning of the well.

**Statistical Maximalism / Hyperbole:** 18,000,000 — likely to be the largest possible interpretation of cumulative data rather than resident population. Functions emotionally rather than analytically.

**Dehumanizing Language:** "Illegal Aliens," "invaded," "from prisons and mental institutions" — a rhetorical triad that constructs immigrants as simultaneously criminal, insane, and militarily threatening. The invasion metaphor removes the human frame.

**Implied Threat / Intimidation:** "Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!" — syntactically deniable (could mean electoral consequences, legal action, public ridicule), but the menacing quality is deliberate. The vagueness is not accidental; it allows maximum interpretive latitude for the most motivated followers.

**Whataboutism:** The drugs passage pivots from the Lincoln Project ad to a separate grievance, expanding the attack surface beyond the immediate trigger.

**Appeal to Fear:** Prisons, mental institutions, drugs "in amounts so large that no one... would have thought possible" — escalating fear register intended to make any contrary data seem like gaslighting.

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### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist Role:** The lone truth-teller exposing coordinated establishment deception
- **Contrasting Other:** Lincoln Project (deceivers posing as conservatives), Biden (failure), Democrats (corrupt)
- **Narrative Sequence:** Contamination — America was strong → Biden's weakness enabled invasion → Lincoln Project is covering it up
- **Identity Claims:** "I see what others won't say," "I know the real numbers," "I will make them pay"

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### Archetypal Dynamics

The post embodies the **Warrior** archetype in full combat mode (enemies everywhere, permanent threat), with a **Shadow** projection visible in the "perverts" attack — the sexual scandal of the Weaver case is weaponized, with the disowned element (scandal, impropriety) projected outward. The **Trickster** element appears in the winking quality of "Watch what happens" — a threat delivered as if it isn't one, breaking the normal rules of civil political discourse while maintaining deniability.

The "perverts/screwballs" language also enacts dominance through deliberate register violation — a calculated display that he operates outside normal political speech constraints, which functions as a power signal to his base: *he alone says what others are afraid to say.*

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### Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

The phrase "Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!" is the primary concern. It identifies a named target, articulates a specific grievance (their ad), and implies negative consequences — the three-element pattern associated with **stochastic terrorism** (target identification + grievance articulation + implied action). The phrase is structured for deniability but its menacing intent is apparent. The Lincoln Project and its principals have previously received threats following Trump's attacks. The deployment of "perverts" as a label for the organization's members carries additional risk by marking them as sexually deviant — a category historically associated with vigilante moral outrage.

The dehumanization level in the immigration framing ("invaded," "prisons and mental institutions") is elevated but consistent with prior baseline rhetoric on this topic.

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### Cognitive Status

No significant deviation from baseline. The run-on structure, parenthetical embedding, and escalating capitalization are all consistent with Trump's established writing patterns. Temporal continuity and logical sequencing are intact. No word-finding anomalies, paraphasias, or confabulatory content detected. Complexity score is typical for his authentic posts.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "18,000,000 Illegal Aliens will have invaded our Country by end of Biden Administration" | **Mostly False** | DHS and academic estimates of the undocumented resident population in the US were approximately 10.5-11.5 million during this period. The 18M figure likely conflates cumulative border encounter tallies (which double-count repeat crossers) with actual resident population. The figure exceeds all credible estimates by approximately 55-70%. |
| "Many migrants are from prisons and mental institutions" | **False** | This claim originates from Trump's 2015 campaign launch announcement and has been repeated without systematic evidential support. No credible study has documented that a meaningful proportion of border crossers were released from foreign prisons or psychiatric facilities at the direction of foreign governments. |
| "Lincoln Project has lost almost all of their financial support" | **Half True** | The Lincoln Project experienced significant fundraising decline and reputational damage following the 2021 John Weaver sexual harassment scandal, which led to his resignation and organizational restructuring. However, the organization continued to fundraise and operate, releasing ads through at least the 2024 election cycle. |
| "Lincoln Project is left-leaning" | **Mostly False** | The Lincoln Project was founded by Republican political strategists including Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, and others with decades of Republican campaign experience. Their opposition is specifically to Trump rather than to conservatism. Characterizing them as 'left-leaning' misrepresents their ideological positioning; 'Never-Trump conservative' is the accurate description. |
| "Drugs pouring into the USA in amounts so large no one three years ago would have thought possible" | **Half True** | Fentanyl seizures at the US border reached record levels during the Biden administration, and drug overdose deaths exceeded 100,000 annually for the first time. However, the fentanyl crisis trajectory began before Biden's term, and the framing that attributes the drug crisis entirely to border/immigration policy oversimplifies a complex supply chain issue where most fentanyl enters through ports of entry in vehicles. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- 12:25 AM EST posting time — deep within authentic late-night window
- Pejorative epithets ('perverts', 'screwballs') inconsistent with aide authorship
- Stream-of-consciousness digression from LP critique to immigration statistics to implied threat
- Escalating capitalization pattern ('Illegal Aliens', 'Failed', 'Country') matching established Trump style
- Closing implied threat would not survive aide review

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Lincoln Project ad depicting calm southern border, directly threatening Trump's core 2024 campaign narrative)

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Lincoln Project
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.78

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 12:25 AM posting time — consistent with reduced sleep need pattern
- Escalating emotional intensity across a single short text
- Impulsive closing threat inappropriate for calculated political messaging
- Grandiose certainty ('Watch what happens') without strategic basis

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 65%
- Paranoid: 61%
- Sadism: 48%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared outrage framing (we all know they're liars)
- In-group/out-group boundary enforcement ('real' conservatives vs RINOS)
- Anticipatory excitement ('Watch what happens') inviting followers into implied retribution narrative

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- 'Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!' — identifies named target, articulates grievance, implies negative consequence; three-element stochastic terrorism pattern
- Deployment of 'perverts' label for LP members marks them as sexually deviant — historically a category associated with vigilante moral outrage among Trump's most activated followers
- Dehumanizing immigration framing ('invaded', 'prisons and mental institutions') at scale elevates threat perception and can motivate retributive action against perceived enablers
- Prior history: Lincoln Project principals have received threats following Trump attacks on them

### Gaslighting

- Frames Lincoln Project ad (which may reflect actual sector-level data) as inherently deceptive without engaging its content — attacking others' perception of reality
- DARVO structure: LP attacked for 'deception' while post itself deploys a 60%-inflated figure
- Positions himself as correcting a false reality being imposed on the public, inverting the actual epistemics of the exchange

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> 18,000,000 Illegal Aliens will have invaded our Country by end of Biden Administration

**MOSTLY FALSE**

DHS and academic estimates of the undocumented resident population in the US were approximately 10.5-11.5 million during this period. The 18M figure likely conflates cumulative border encounter tallies (which double-count repeat crossers) with actual resident population. The figure exceeds all credible estimates by approximately 55-70%.

Sources: DHS Office of Immigration Statistics; Center for Immigration Studies; Pew Research Center immigration estimates

> Many migrants are from prisons and mental institutions

**FALSE**

This claim originates from Trump's 2015 campaign launch announcement and has been repeated without systematic evidential support. No credible study has documented that a meaningful proportion of border crossers were released from foreign prisons or psychiatric facilities at the direction of foreign governments.

Sources: PolitiFact historical fact-checks; FactCheck.org; AP fact-check archives

> Lincoln Project has lost almost all of their financial support

**HALF TRUE**

The Lincoln Project experienced significant fundraising decline and reputational damage following the 2021 John Weaver sexual harassment scandal, which led to his resignation and organizational restructuring. However, the organization continued to fundraise and operate, releasing ads through at least the 2024 election cycle.

Sources: FEC filings; OpenSecrets.org

> Lincoln Project is left-leaning

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Lincoln Project was founded by Republican political strategists including Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, and others with decades of Republican campaign experience. Their opposition is specifically to Trump rather than to conservatism. Characterizing them as 'left-leaning' misrepresents their ideological positioning; 'Never-Trump conservative' is the accurate description.

Sources: Lincoln Project founding documents; Founders' public records

> Drugs pouring into the USA in amounts so large no one three years ago would have thought possible

**HALF TRUE**

Fentanyl seizures at the US border reached record levels during the Biden administration, and drug overdose deaths exceeded 100,000 annually for the first time. However, the fentanyl crisis trajectory began before Biden's term, and the framing that attributes the drug crisis entirely to border/immigration policy oversimplifies a complex supply chain issue where most fentanyl enters through ports of entry in vehicles.

Sources: CDC WONDER overdose data; CBP seizure statistics; DEA fentanyl reports

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- narcissistic-rage (82%)
- stochastic-terrorism (71%)
- dehumanization (78%)
- statistical-distortion (85%)
- implied-threat (74%)
- source-poisoning (80%)
- authentic-authorship (92%)
- late-night-post (95%)
- border-narrative (90%)
- lincoln-project-attack (95%)
- invasion-metaphor (80%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Haley Obsession Reveals Disproportionate Threat Response as Primary Rival Refuses to Exit**

Trump's day split into two distinct halves: a late-night rage session targeting Nikki Haley and the Lincoln Project, followed by an afternoon of routine campaign maintenance and link-sharing. The most striking feature was the intensity directed at Haley -- including a cruel taunt about her husband's military deployment overseas -- despite her distant second-place standing in the primary. One post about the Lincoln Project closed with an implied threat, and a false claim that Haley trails Biden by 15 points inverted the actual polling data. The afternoon was calm and largely aide-produced, suggesting the overnight fury had burned itself out.

Full digest for 2024-02-13: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 13). The perverts at the Failed Lincoln Project, who I... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111922505744893576
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The perverts at the Failed Lincoln Project, who I was told..." Truth Social, 13 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111922505744893576. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The perverts at the Failed Lincoln Project, who I was told...," Truth Social, February 13, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111922505744893576.

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