# Post ts_111965843748480070 - Post ID: `ts_111965843748480070` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-02-20T21:06:31.957Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111965843748480070 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111965843748480070/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111965843748480070.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “TYRANTS IN TRAINING” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (8:59), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Tyrants in training. That's the focus of tonight's angle. Is Donald Trump at risk of being America's first real political prisoner? I thought a lot about this over the weekend. Now, with the unconscionable financial judgment in that New York civil fraud case, the Fawny Willis debacle in Georgia, the efforts to knock Trump off state ballots, and of course, let's not forget Jack Smith's January 6th criminal prosecution, what else are Trump supporters supposed to think? Now, there are various ways that despots cling to power. Political opposition is eliminated through censorship of opposing views, intimidation of free thinkers through harassment, and also show trials, of course, and imprisonment of the opposition. That's all part of it. And then there's always the threats to family members and financial ruin. Well, Donald Trump is facing all of that. Now, how do we know this is all political? Well, aside from New York's totally novel application of fraud statutes or Fulton County's spurious claims that Trump is running some kind of RICO enterprise, there's this obvious point. Had Trump just quietly retired from politics, none of us would have heard about Letitia or Fanny or Jack. Russia and its Biden-era ally China well, they're pros, aren't they, at destroying dissent before it gets too powerful. They're brutally vicious and efficient. China subjugates and tortures Uyghur Muslims. Russia crushes the pro-freedom protesters, imprisons Navalny, then announces a sudden death. Now, anyone who challenges the ruling authority now knows the same fate can happen to them. Now, by the same token, loyalists who prove themselves to be real followers of the movement, well, they get special privileges and accolades. And that's exactly what the leaders of the Get Trump crew are hoping. Watching this, you could see Fanny Willis was, if standing on business, was a witness. They also saw today, frankly, was a clinic in black womanhood. He's a fraudulent businessman, and eventually those House of Cards fall down. But Tish James was really smart. There were many winners today when the Court of Appeals opinion was issued. Special prosecutor Jack Smith and his brilliant legal team. With communist dictators now, we know what we're getting, right? We're getting tyranny. Dissent is not tolerated, period. Of course, all supposedly to protect the tranquility and security of the motherland, bull. In North Korea, Russia, China, the rule of law is perverted and it's weaponized against inconvenient forces. Everyone knows the game. Security forces, government lawyers, judges, they're not independent. They're all political hatchet men for the communist party. And since 2015, when Trump announced his run for the presidency, official forces in Washington have been unleashed on him, from the deep state to the Russia hoax to the lowlife DA in Manhattan. They call him pro Putin as they scramble to put him in jail, bankrupt him, and even come after his family. And by the way, they brag about it. And Friday, she bragged about getting her political scalp, claiming it was going to help the little guy. Today, the Court once again ruled in our favor and in favor of every hardworking American who plays by the rules. Donald Trump and the other defendants were ordered to pay $463.9 million. This is not what America is supposed to be. This is Soviet-style political persecution. Trump's original appeal came from his message that the American system, run by and for the globalists, had become rigged against our middle class. That's why he got so much publicity. That's why people flocked to him in 2015 and 2016. He focused on our trade policies, sending millions of jobs overseas. We engaged in too many endless, pointless, costly wars. We had an out of control, unaccountable, permanent bureaucracy. And of course, millions of illegals were crossing the border. And America hating radicals were taken over the schools. Of course, on all of that, he was right. But in their quest to not merely drive him from politics, but to destroy him personally, they've damaged every institution that used to have prestige and respect. Now, New York had the crown as the financial capital of the world, but today, what entrepreneur would take the risk in New York now? You get sideways with Latisha or someone like her, and you could lose everything. For no wrongdoing, by the way. Jonathan Turley put it well, saying the impact on New York business is likely to be dire. New York is already viewed as a hostile business environment, with the top end of its tax base literally heading south as taxes and crime rises. This draconian award is only going to deepen concerns over the arbitrary application of the law. Now, Governor Hochul, she knows this is going to backfire. But of course, that's a price she's willing to pay. Her political machine has told her to destroy Trump, and she's going along with the plan. I think that this is really an extraordinarily unusual circumstance that the law abiding and rule following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they're very different than Donald Trump and his behavior. Week, week, week, week. Trump literally defrauded no one. And look, since COVID, many wealthy New Yorkers, they've left, right? Left New York, taking their business with them. This is just another reason for all of them to bolt, and they will. Now, Governor Hochul has proven that if you offend the wrong people, they will try to ruin you. It's not just the corruption and the court system. It's the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the SEC, the FCC, the corporate press, even the military. All these institutions are supposed to exist for all of our benefits, regardless of politics. Politics should never come into play. But about half of the voting public now believes that those institutions, for the most part, are just tools of the DNC. You don't play ball, or you're a disruptor, think Elon Musk or Trump, and they will eventually make you pay big time. Now, let's be clear. Trump got 74 million votes in the last election, and those people contribute trillions every year to our GDP. So are they all Russian sympathizers? Are they all potential insurrectionists? A mega-maga monster class? Of course not. These are decent patriots who simply want the government to work for the American people. They're none so blind than those who refuse to see. And in their rabid zeal to stop Trump, the establishment has not only sacrificed their reputations, but the credibility of key American institutions. At this point, every country in the world understands that the FBI and the CIA are nothing more than branches of Biden's reelection campaign. That's a terrible message to send to the world. By laying waste to their own institutions, the establishment's setting itself up for a major loss. Even if they finish off Trump legally, politically, financially, they're going to be shocked to discover that for many, many years to come, their position will be significantly weaker because so many voters and so many leaders in other foreign countries will know beyond any doubt that US institutions have been weaponized for short-term political gain. So people like Biden, Lincoln, they can huff and puff about Putin all they want, but to the rest of the world, they're going to just look like hypocrites who will do whatever it takes to destroy their own political opponents. Look, if they had their way, Trump would rot in jail for the rest of his life. We all know that. So when Biden talks about democracy or freedom or following the Constitution, that is just empty rhetoric, no more meaningful than the phrases we hear from dictators all over the world. We can only hope that the voters correct this situation and give us a government that truly respects the will of the people. Otherwise, this notion that America stands for freedom and liberty will become harder and harder to take seriously. And that's the angle. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/965/843/352/208/569/original/a1619e2bd9a865d9.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,421 - Reposts: 3,281 - Replies: 380 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.369Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T04:18:45.069Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Three words, maximum danger-to-word ratio. "TYRANTS IN TRAINING" is compressed eliminationist rhetoric deployed at a moment of acute legal stress—the $364M civil fraud judgment by Judge Engoron. The label reframes independent legal proceedings as coordinated tyranny, executes DARVO at scale, and dehumanizes judges and prosecutors by reducing them to a threatening category. Most alarming is the same-day cluster: paired with "Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge," this post completes a stochastic terrorism circuit—named targets (New York judge, by extension all Trump-case legal actors), articulated grievances (they are tyrants persecuting Trump), and implied endorsement of extra-legal action (truckers already responding). The framing is rendered unusually transparent by the Navalny context: Trump that same week refused to label Putin a tyrant after Navalny's death in an Arctic penal colony, reserving "tyrant" exclusively for American judges conducting fraud proceedings. This illustrates projection with clinical clarity. Authorship is likely collaborative—aide-produced video with authentically Trumpian ALL CAPS caption. The alliterative three-word construction is signature Trump: punchy, sticky, emotionally loaded, requiring no factual support. Danger level is assessed HIGH in cluster context due to dehumanization of identified legal targets in a period of documented threat escalation against those same figures. # "TYRANTS IN TRAINING" — Analysis (2024-02-20, Truth Social) ## Overview Three words in ALL CAPS with an attached video. This post is deceptively simple; its psychological and rhetorical weight derives almost entirely from context. It appears within a same-day cluster of posts bearing direct relevance to Trump's legal jeopardy—most significantly, the $364M civil fraud judgment handed down by Judge Engoron, the Fani Willis disqualification hearing, and Jack Smith's Supreme Court brief. The label "TYRANTS IN TRAINING" appears designed to reframe the entire ensemble of legal adversaries under a single eliminationist category. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timing:** Post was published at 21:06 UTC. Trump held a Get Out the Vote rally in Waterford Township, Michigan on this date (CST = UTC−6), placing local time at approximately **3:06 PM CST**—solidly within business hours. If he had returned to Mar-a-Lago (EST = UTC−5), that's **4:06 PM EST**—still business hours. Neither scenario supports the late-night/early-morning authentic posting window. **Style signals:** The ALL CAPS formatting and alliterative economy of the phrase ("TYRANTS IN TRAINING") are stylistically consistent with Trump's authentic voice—punchy, accusatory, slogan-ready. These three words read as a headline he would write. However, the attached video implies production team involvement; the caption may be Trump's authentic overlay on an aide-produced video package. **Assessment:** Likely **collaborative**—aide-produced video, with Trump-authored caption. Medium confidence. The impulsive brevity and emotional charge of the label suggest Trump originated the phrase, while the structured video suggests infrastructure assistance. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is too brief for rich trait inference, but in context: - **Agreeableness (very low, ~0.1):** No trust, no empathy, pure antagonism. Adversaries are not individuals with legitimate roles—they are a category of tyrant. - **Neuroticism (high, ~0.8):** The extreme emotional register (ALL CAPS, dehumanizing label) reflects reactive hostile affect, consistent with acute stress from the $364M judgment. - **Conscientiousness (low, ~0.2):** No deliberation, no nuance—impulse expression, not considered communication. - **Extraversion (moderately high, ~0.65):** Assertive, dominant, public performance. - **Openness (very low, ~0.15):** Rigid, binary categorization. No accommodation of complexity. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate absolutely.** The post asserts narrative control over a legal situation that has materially constrained Trump's power (the NY fraud judgment banned him from NY business directorships; the financial penalty is enormous). Recasting judges and prosecutors as "tyrants in training" reclaims a dominant position in the discourse—he becomes the diagnostician of tyranny rather than the defendant. **Schemas visible:** - Self-schema: Persecuted freedom fighter, uniquely capable of recognizing emergent tyranny. - Other-schema (outgroup): Legal actors are not legitimate; they are aspiring authoritarians using law as a weapon. - World-schema: America is in acute danger of slipping into communist/tyrannical governance (consistent with his Navalny statement the same week: "we are turning into a communist country"). --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Resistance fighter against creeping authoritarianism. He alone can identify the tyrants while they are still "in training"—implying both prescience and urgency. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination. The arc is: America was great → dark forces have seized institutions → these forces must be named and opposed. The label "in training" adds temporal dread—they haven't fully consolidated power *yet*, implying now is the moment to act. **Identity claims:** - "I am the one who sees what others cannot" - "I am the real target of tyranny, not its agent" **Contrasting other:** The judiciary, prosecutors, and administrative state—cast not as officials performing legitimate functions but as apprentice autocrats. **Irony/projection note:** The use of "tyrants in training" is notable given the Navalny context. Navalny had just died in Russian imprisonment—the paradigmatic case of actual state tyranny against an opposition figure—and Trump had conspicuously refused to condemn Putin. The deployment of "tyrant" language against American judges, while declining to use it against Putin, constitutes a stark inversion. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism **A. Narcissistic features (high, ~0.82):** Grandiosity in positioning self as identifier of emergent tyranny; entitlement to be beyond legal constraint; complete absence of self-reflective capacity regarding the fraud judgment. **B. Antisocial features (moderate, ~0.45):** Contempt for legitimate legal processes; implicit validation of extra-legal responses (see stochastic terrorism assessment below). **C. Paranoid features (high, ~0.72):** The framing that multiple independent legal proceedings (NY civil fraud, Georgia RICO, federal Jan. 6, federal classified documents) are coordinated acts of tyrannical training is a paranoid interpretive lens applied to distinguish legal reality. **D. Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate, ~0.35):** The label is humiliating in intent—reducing serious legal officials to "trainees" in tyranny. The delight is in the diminishment. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury—specifically the Engoron $364M judgment, the most financially consequential legal ruling to date. Multiple simultaneous legal fronts compound the injury. **State:** Mixed—grandiose posture (I see what others cannot) masking a vulnerable interior (I am being destroyed by the system). **Rage:** Present, intensity ~0.72. Disproportionate to any legitimate grievance (proportionality ~0.15). Target: judiciary and prosecutors as a class. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** Trump attributing tyrannical motives to legal accountability actors while himself facing findings of deliberate fraud and being compared by observers to authoritarian models. He disowns the authoritarian label by assigning it to adversaries. 2. **Splitting (immature):** All-bad categorization. Judges, prosecutors, and DAs are not complex figures—they are a unified enemy class ("tyrants in training"). 3. **Distortion (pathological):** Reshaping legal accountability (court findings of fraud with documentary evidence) into its opposite—the proceedings themselves become the crime. 4. **DARVO (cross-cutting):** Deny (no fraud), Attack (they are tyrants), Reverse Victim and Offender (I am the persecuted one). --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis The phrase achieves maximum rhetorical compression: - **Alliteration:** "Tyrants in Training" — the T-T rhythm is sticky, memorable, slogan-ready. - **Labeling/name-calling:** Replaces individual identities with a dehumanizing category. - **Temporal framing ("in training"):** Adds urgency and a call to preemptive action—stop them before they fully consolidate. - **False framing / reality inversion:** Legal officials conducting legitimate proceedings become the antidemocratic actors. - **ALL CAPS as emotional amplifier:** Signals emergency, urgency, and authentic emotional state. - **Video as authority signal:** Whatever the video's content, its presence implies curated evidence for the claim, lending the label apparent substantiation. **Dehumanizing language:** Yes. "Tyrants" denies the legitimacy and individual humanity of named legal actors. **Violent imagery:** Indirect. No explicit violent language, but "tyrant" is historically a term that has functioned as a justification for violence against its target. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion **DARVO is the organizing logic.** The $364M judgment followed years of documented financial statement manipulation; Judge Engoron's ruling was detailed and evidence-based. Framing this process as "tyranny in training" is a deliberate inversion of documented reality. This is not confused cognition—it is strategic reality reframing designed to recruit followers into rejecting the legitimacy of legal accountability. **Epistemic closure:** The label demands followers accept that American judges are aspirant tyrants. This functions as a group-membership test: those who accept this framing become insulated from countervailing legal and factual information. --- ## Cognitive Status Assessment With only three words, cognitive assessment is largely impossible. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or confabulation can be assessed. The phrase is syntactically complete and semantically coherent. **Complexity score:** ~0.05 (floor)—but this is a deliberate rhetorical choice, not a cognitive symptom. Punchy slogans are baseline-consistent with Trump's communication style across decades. **Baseline deviation:** None detectable from this post alone. --- ## Danger Assessment **This post must be evaluated in cluster context.** The same day includes: 1. **"Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge"** — explicitly names a target (New York judge), identifies an aggrieved group (truckers), and frames targeting behavior as understandable/newsworthy. 2. **"TYRANTS IN TRAINING"** — dehumanizes legal actors as a class with a label that historically precedes or justifies violent action. Together these constitute a **stochastic terrorism pattern**: - **Target identification:** New York judge, by implication all Trump-case legal actors - **Grievance articulation:** They are tyrants, they are persecuting Trump, truckers are already responding - **Implied legitimacy of action:** Framing them as tyrants removes the moral constraint against targeting them The word "tyrant" carries specific historical resonance as a legitimizing frame for political violence. In the context of January 6 and ongoing threats against judges and prosecutors (Judge Engoron had received death threats), this language elevates risk. **Danger level: HIGH** --- ## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure The claim that American legal proceedings constitute "tyranny training" requires followers to reject the factual record of Trump's fraud (documented by court, not assertion) and substitute a persecution narrative. This is a reality distortion demand with group-membership implications. Those who accept this framing are epistemically closed to legal evidence—a pattern consistent with the broader MAGA reality distortion field that enabled January 6. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics Trump positions here as **order restorer** against a **corrupt illegitimate order**. The legal system, which normally represents order, is reframed as the chaos/tyranny agent. He, the disrupted defendant, becomes the defender of true order against institutional capture. This is the Trickster-Warrior archetype fusion: the one who disrupts illegitimate authority to restore authentic order. **Jungian archetypal reading:** Warrior (enemies everywhere, constant combat) fused with Hero/Savior (I alone identify and resist the tyrants). Shadow elements projected onto adversaries: the authoritarian capacity Trump is frequently accused of embodying is projected wholesale onto judges conducting rule-of-law proceedings. --- ## Summary Three words, maximum danger-to-word-ratio. "TYRANTS IN TRAINING" is compressed eliminationist rhetoric deployed at a moment of acute legal stress—the $364M civil fraud judgment. The label reframes independent legal proceedings as coordinated tyranny, executes DARVO at scale, and dehumanizes judges and prosecutors by reducing them to a threatening category. Most alarming is the same-day cluster: paired with "Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge," this post completes a stochastic terrorism circuit—named targets, articulated grievances, and implied endorsement of extra-legal action. The framing is especially striking given Trump's contemporaneous refusal to label Putin a tyrant following Navalny's death in an Arctic penal colony, illustrating the projection mechanism with rare clarity: the word "tyrant" is reserved not for documented authoritarians who kill opponents, but for American legal officials conducting fraud proceedings. Authorship is likely collaborative—aide-produced video with authentically Trumpian caption. Danger level is assessed as HIGH in cluster context. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Implicit claim that legal proceedings against Trump constitute tyranny or tyrannical training" | **False** | The $364M civil fraud judgment followed years of documented financial statement manipulation; Judge Engoron's ruling was detailed and evidence-based. Multiple independent legal proceedings across different jurisdictions arose from distinct alleged conduct. Characterizing rule-of-law accountability as 'tyranny' inverts the documented factual record. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS formatting consistent with authentic Trump voice - Alliterative three-word slogan matches Trump's rhetorical signature - Business hours posting time (3:06 PM CST / 4:06 PM EST) favors aide involvement - Attached video implies production team participation - Brevity and emotional charge suggest Trump originated the caption over an aide-produced video ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Judge Engoron $364M civil fraud judgment; simultaneous Fani Willis, Jack Smith legal pressures) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting judiciary and prosecutors as a class - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.87 **Mildly Hypomanic** - High-volume posting day (5+ posts) - Escalatory rhetoric under legal pressure - ALL CAPS emotional amplification - Rapid cycling between legal grievance resharing and aggressive labeling ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - shared enemy construction (we vs. the tyrants) - urgency framing via 'in training' (act now before consolidation) - identity validation (followers as resistance fighters alongside Trump) - epistemic closure demand (accept tyranny framing as group membership test) ## Danger Assessment **HIGH** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - Dehumanizing label ('tyrants') applied to identified legal actors facing documented death threats - Same-day cluster with 'Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge' completes stochastic terrorism circuit - Historical resonance of 'tyrant' as legitimizing frame for political violence - 'In training' temporal framing creates urgency and implied window for preemptive action - Epistemic closure demand normalizes rejection of legal accountability — removes moral constraint on followers ### Gaslighting - DARVO: evidence-based fraud proceedings recast as persecution/tyranny - Reality inversion: legal accountability actors portrayed as the antidemocratic agents - Epistemic closure demand: followers asked to accept tyranny framing as truth, insulating from factual legal record - Conspicuous contrast with Navalny response: 'tyrant' withheld from Putin, applied to American judges — selective deployment reveals strategic rather than descriptive function **Dehumanizing Language Present** ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Implicit claim that legal proceedings against Trump constitute tyranny or tyrannical training **FALSE** The $364M civil fraud judgment followed years of documented financial statement manipulation; Judge Engoron's ruling was detailed and evidence-based. Multiple independent legal proceedings across different jurisdictions arose from distinct alleged conduct. Characterizing rule-of-law accountability as 'tyranny' inverts the documented factual record. Sources: Judge Engoron civil fraud ruling (Feb 2024); Multiple independent indictments across federal and state jurisdictions Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - eliminationist_rhetoric (82%) - stochastic_terrorism (75%) - dehumanization (78%) - projection (85%) - DARVO (80%) - narcissistic_injury_response (88%) - epistemic_closure (72%) - anti_judiciary (90%) - legal_persecution_narrative (85%) - warrior_archetype (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: Engoron Fraud Ruling Triggers 31-Post Defensive Blitz Peaking at "TYRANTS IN TRAINING"** Trump spent the entire day in damage-control mode after being hit with a massive civil fraud judgment in New York. The morning featured a parade of legal commentators and Fox News analysts all arguing the ruling was unjust, while midday brought a batch of political endorsements serving as a show of continued kingmaker power. The tone sharpened by late afternoon, with posts branding judges and prosecutors as "tyrants in training" and framing all legal proceedings as political persecution. A wounded but strategically disciplined day built around one central message: the legal system is rigged against him. Full digest for 2024-02-20: https://trump.fm/date/2024-02-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, February 20). “TYRANTS IN TRAINING” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111965843748480070 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“TYRANTS IN TRAINING”" Truth Social, 20 Feb. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111965843748480070. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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