# Post ts_112119642800432585 - Post ID: `ts_112119642800432585` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-19T00:59:39.253Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112119642800432585 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112119642800432585/analysis ## Post text > “THE BLOODBATH HOAX” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (10:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > A young scrappy, soon-to-be newspaper editor once asked Thomas Jefferson, "How do you run a newspaper?" Jefferson's response, "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." Translation, "You're better informed by not knowing the news, unless you watch Fox." This was personal for Jefferson, who was relentlessly victimized by a wickedly partisan press, who labeled him a French traitor, an evil atheist, whose Louisiana Purchase was unethically corrupt. Yes, Jefferson was scandalized for doubling the size and power of the U.S. And some things never change. Washington politicians are well-practiced in the art of yellow journalism. Nancy Pelosi once explained one dirty trick, the wrap-up smear. It's a diversionary tactic called the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it. And then you write it, and they'll say, "See, it's reported in the press that this, this, this, and this." So they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it's called the wrap-up smear. Politicians, as Nancy admits, use wrap-up smears to divert attention from what they don't want you to see. And what Democrats don't want you to see is Joe Biden. Sources say Biden's growing angry and anxious over his reelection, cursing out staff who tell Georgia and Arizona are out of reach, worried about his poll numbers in Michigan, and seething that he isn't getting credit for his accomplishments. Behind the scenes, Biden's second-guessing his whole campaign staff. It's gotten so bad that the Clintons are telling Biden, "Time to go nuclear." I would attack right now. I'd spend that money. I would jump all over him because my feeling is when your opponent is drowning, the first thing you do is throw him or her an anvil. And that's what he needs right now. He's drowning. Give him an anvil. Attack, sir. Attack. Attack. Stop bragging and start bashing. Sources say Biden's frustrated because he feels like he's being kept in a cocoon and wants his staff to let him off the leash. Does this look like a man ready for action? He's lost on a wet porch and needs special shoes. Many observers couldn't help but notice his footwear. Are those sneakers? Yep. They're so-called lifestyle sneakers made by Hoka, designed for maximum comfort and support while walking or hiking. And here they are, the Joe Biden sneaker. They're made by Hoka. These are called the Hoka Transport. And as you can see, they look quite comfortable. They have a wide sole, no doubt great for stability. And the president does have a history of stumbling. When Inside Edition is talking about the president's special shoes saying he needs support so he doesn't stumble, this is a campaign that desperately needs a distraction. And this weekend we got one. We have a new hoax, ladies and gentlemen. The dictator on day one now has company. Trump says country faces bloodbath if Biden wins in November. That was the headline everywhere. I looked at the news Sunday. I'm thinking Trump said, what? So I do my own research. And this is what he actually said. Let me tell you something to China. If you're listening, President Xi and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now. And you think you're going to get that. You're going to not hire Americans and you're going to sell the cars to us. Now, we're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line. And you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars. Now, Trump's not threatening bloody violence if he loses the Biden. He's saying the American auto industry will face a bloodbath from cheap Chinese cars manufactured in Mexico and then dumped here. That's the dictionary definition of bloodbath, a major economic disaster. But the media clipped the speech like this. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. This is disinformation by the Democrat media industrial complex who disguise the truth and lied to you to smear Trump as a danger to democracy. We just have to win this election because he's even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He's going to exact a bloodbath. The former president, who's already incited violence among his followers, says that there's going to be a bloodbath. What, after the election, if he does not win, he is telling us what he is going to do. A major party candidate is saying, you elect me, there's going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies. That equals what we saw in Italy and Germany and other places. The desperate Biden campaign, tired of being yelled at by Biden for losing every swing state, jumped on TV trying to redeem themselves and then married the bloodbath hoax to the fine people hoax. What I heard was a continuation of the same rhetoric, the same endorsement of political violence that we've seen from Donald Trump for years, as you pointed out. It goes even farther back, right? This is the same guy who, after Nazis marched on Charlottesville and killed a woman, said there were very fine people on both sides. Hoaxes in lawsuits is all they have. That's how you know Biden's losing. And since when does the left care about blood baths? There's a bloodbath in Chicago every weekend. The George Floyd riots were a bloodbath. They loved them. No one falls for these hoaxes anymore. Even the Jesse Smollett hoax lasted longer than the bloodbath hoax. The country's puncturing hoax is in record time when it used to take months or even years to get to the bottom of Russia collusion, the laptop, the lab leak. Americans are exposing hoaxes on day one and we're enjoying it. We get a kick out of figuring out Democrats magic tricks. After I steal Jesse Junior's nose for the fifth time, got your nose, he's on to it. The fact that they're back at it so blatantly dishonest shows you what they think about you. Ignorant gullible rubes who will just glance at a headline and keep scrolling, waiting in line to buy potato chips, complaining about shrinkflation. Democrats are banking on American ignorance. Do you want to vote for someone who thinks you're dumb or for someone who knows you can handle the truth? Because this is how dumb they think you are. Even after the hoax was exposed and the full context came out, they're sticking with it. These idiots on Twitter, these idiots on on on on cable news, these idiots on Sunday shows, president, you know, he was talking only about the auto industry and this is one more. It's just bull. Let me say that at 615 a.m. It's just bull. He knew what he was doing. We're not stupid. Americans aren't stupid. He was talking about a bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't. Why wasn't morning Joe riled up when Biden threatened Bernie with a bloodbath? It's just the last primary. The media loves a good bloodbath. If Trump gets the nomination, the Republican Party will be destroyed. It's going to be a bloodbath. Joe Biden was just talking the other day about his concerns about a negative blood bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath in November. It would be a bloodbath off. Your elections are often a bloodbath was predicted to be a bloodbath, bloodbath at the ballot box. Now, what you're watching is the Democrats Death Star exploding. The Democrat media industrial complex is malfunctioning like an electric car in January. Weapons they've used for years are suddenly freezing up and backfiring. The Biden campaign is facing a landslide loss. They're getting tongue lashings from their special shoe wearing boss and their once well oiled hoaxes don't even last a day. So they've thrown all the hoaxes into one big pot. What is highly likely going into the 2024 election is that a small subset of Trump's very well armed and extremist base will try to kill people. He will imprison. He will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison, execute. He will make himself into the furor and he will make everybody raise their hand and salute him. He wants to throw everyone into Gitmo. No, just you. Now they're stirring it around like gumbo and saying if you don't swallow these lies, everyone dies. However this election turns out, it will be Americans were given the voluntary choice to become pawns in a dictatorship under a presidency of unimaginable brutality and violence and all sorts of things that are as un-American as anything that we can imagine or whether they voted against that. The Nazis and Hitler came to power under a legal system. One reason that happened was that people didn't realize that if you're voting for Hitler, this could end in the Holocaust and a defeat in World War Two. The Democrat media industrial complex is preying on you. They don't want you to read. They don't want you to be curious. They want you stupid, scared and oblivious. Easy marks for psyops. They don't have any faith in the people they have a social contract with. Social contracts fraudulent if they don't want you to read the fine print. They're trying to make us look like that is not the context of the entire clip. So I'm happy that we're potentially entering a time where we are going to try to gather context around things. That's good for society. Thomas Jefferson famously said, quote, nothing can now be believed, which is seen in the newspaper. So when you read the news, assume it's not true until you watch Jesse Waters primetime. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/119/642/629/330/472/original/142b9aec8dceffae.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,133 - Reposts: 4,579 - Replies: 1,032 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.364Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T05:46:14.414Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This two-word post — "THE BLOODBATH HOAX" — deploys Trump's signature delegitimization formula in response to a narcissistic injury: the three-day media controversy following his March 16 "bloodbath" rally remark. The word "HOAX" functions as a pre-loaded rhetorical weapon, activating prior audience-conditioned dismissal heuristics (Russian Hoax, Witch Hunt) without requiring argumentation. This achieves maximum delegitimization at minimum cognitive cost. The post exemplifies a clear DARVO structure (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): the documented controversy is denied as fabricated; the media/Biden campaign is implicitly attacked; Trump is recast as victim of manufactured persecution. A companion post ("BIDEN'S BORDER BLOODBATH") completes the two-stage response — denial followed by whataboutist redirection. The primary clinical observation is not the post's content but its meta-function: each deployment of the "HOAX" label against accountability controversies further degrades the corrective feedback mechanism that might otherwise discourage ambiguous violent rhetoric. By training the in-group audience to reject such controversies as fabrications, the post performs epistemic closure work with systemic implications beyond this individual news cycle. Authorship is assessed as likely authentic Trump wording (signature style, ALL CAPS, "HOAX" lexeme) with possible aide coordination for the video package. Timing (7:59 PM EST) is outside the classic late-night authentic window but not disqualifying. # Analysis: "THE BLOODBATH HOAX" — ts_112119642800432585 ## Authorship & Timing UTC 00:59:39 on 2024-03-19 converts to approximately **7:59 PM EST** (Eastern Standard Time, Trump's most probable timezone — he was likely at Mar-a-Lago or New York during this legally intensive period). This falls outside the classic late-night authentic-Trump window (10 PM–6 AM local). However, the stylistic fingerprint is unmistakably Trump: single punchy phrase, aggressive ALL CAPS, deployment of the signature lexeme **"HOAX"** — previously used in "Russian Hoax," "Witch Hunt," "No Collusion." The video attachment suggests some degree of staff coordination for packaging, but the caption itself is credibly authentic composition. **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump wording, possible aide coordination for the media package. Confidence: medium.** --- ## Context Three days prior (March 16, Vandalia, Ohio), Trump made the "bloodbath" remark ostensibly about the auto industry. Critics, including the Biden campaign, framed it as a threat of political violence. Trump's camp insisted it was an economic policy statement. This post is the first-person defensive response to that controversy — arriving on March 19, during a period also marked by the NY civil fraud bond crisis. The companion post from the same date, **"BIDEN'S BORDER BLOODBATH,"** reveals the paired rhetorical strategy: first, deny the original framing ("HOAX"); then execute a whataboutist counter-offensive (redirecting "bloodbath" onto Biden's border policies). --- ## Psychological State & Trigger **Trigger type: Narcissistic injury.** The controversy constituted a direct reputational challenge, amplified by simultaneous legal/financial pressure (the $54M bond crisis). The reaction exhibits the compressed latency and ALL CAPS intensity characteristic of injured narcissistic response — the need to rapidly neutralize the threat by delegitimizing it. **Narcissistic state: Mixed (grandiose/vulnerable oscillation).** The brevity and punching-downward energy ("HOAX") reflects the grandiose pole — contemptuous dismissal rather than engagement. But the reactive speed and need to label the controversy betrays underlying vulnerability. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Denial (pathological level):** The documented rally audio/video record is real; the controversy was genuine. Labeling it a "HOAX" constitutes denial of documented external reality rather than contest of interpretation. **2. Distortion (pathological level):** Reshaping a disputed but real controversy into a fabricated persecution narrative. The ambiguity in his original statement (auto industry vs. political violence) is collapsed into "hoax," erasing the legitimate interpretive question. **3. Projection (via companion post):** The "bloodbath" accusation is deflected and redirected onto Biden's border policies — attributing the "bloodbath" framing to the opponent rather than engaging with the original criticism. --- ## Gaslighting & DARVO Classic **DARVO** pattern: - **Deny:** "THE BLOODBATH HOAX" — the controversy did not legitimately arise - **Attack:** (via companion post and video) — media and Biden campaign are the aggressors - **Reverse Victim and Offender:** Trump is cast as victim of a manufactured controversy, Biden camp as perpetrator of the "hoax" This requires followers to reject the documented audio record as the basis for the controversy, constituting a group-level epistemic test: accepting "hoax" is an in-group membership signal. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Loaded lexeme ("HOAX"):** A pre-loaded term with prior associations (Mueller investigation, impeachment) that triggers dismissal heuristics in the target audience without requiring argumentation - **Hyperbolic labeling:** Converts a genuine controversy into a fabricated conspiracy in a single word - **ALL CAPS intensity:** Signals urgency, conviction, and emotional force — mimics rallying cry cadence - **Paired whataboutism (companion post):** Structural redirection — "if you want a bloodbath, look over there" - **Epistemic closure manufacturing:** By providing the label "HOAX," Trump pre-programs how his audience should categorize the controversy, foreclosing independent evaluation --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The controversy over Trump's 'bloodbath' comments was a hoax (i.e., fabricated or wholly bad-faith misrepresentation)" | **Mostly False** | Trump made the 'bloodbath' comment on documented audio at the March 16 Vandalia, Ohio rally. The remark appeared in a passage also including statements about elections ceasing to exist if he loses. The auto-industry interpretation is plausible but not exclusive — the broader passage introduced genuine ambiguity. The controversy was not manufactured; the interpretive dispute was real. Labeling it a 'hoax' misrepresents a genuine ambiguity as a fabricated attack. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Cognitive Status The post is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or temporal confusion observable. Complexity score is low by design — this is a punchy rhetorical grenade, not an extended text. No deviation from baseline detectable in this token sample. --- ## Danger Assessment The post itself does not introduce new threatening language. Its danger lies in the **meta-pattern**: systematically labeling violent-rhetoric controversies as "hoaxes" degrades accountability mechanisms and potentially licenses continued use of ambiguous violent imagery without cost. By training the audience to dismiss such controversies as fabricated, Trump removes a corrective feedback loop that might otherwise inhibit future escalation. **Danger level: elevated (systemic, not acute).** --- ## Archetypal Reading **Trickster + Warrior:** The "HOAX" frame is Trickster mode — disrupting the media narrative, flipping the accusation, breaking the frame that critics established. The ALL CAPS energy is Warrior register. The underlying mythological structure: heroic truth-teller surrounded by lying enemies who manufacture controversies to silence him. **Shadow projection:** The accusation of fabrication ("hoax") may carry projected awareness of his own frequent fabrications — attributing the manufacturing of unreality to the opponents doing the accusing. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS single-phrase construction consistent with authentic Trump style - Deployment of signature lexeme 'HOAX' (Russian Hoax, Witch Hunt precedents) - Post-controversy reactive timing consistent with injured narcissistic response - Evening EST timing (7:59 PM) outside classic late-night authentic window — mild aide indicator - Video attachment suggests staff coordination for media package, but caption credibly authentic ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Media/Biden campaign framing of 'bloodbath' rally comments as threatening political violence) **Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Media and Biden campaign for 'bloodbath' controversy framing - Proportionality: 40% Sentiment: -0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Epistemic closure signal — 'HOAX' instructs followers how to categorize the controversy as in-group members - Victimhood solidarity — positions Trump and audience as joint targets of the manufactured controversy - Contemptuous dismissal as dominance display — brevity signals the accusation is beneath serious response ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Systemic accountability degradation: Labeling violent-rhetoric controversies as 'hoaxes' removes corrective feedback mechanisms that might otherwise discourage future use of ambiguous violent imagery - Epistemic closure reinforcement: Training audience to dismiss such controversies as fabricated removes the possibility of in-group self-correction if rhetoric escalates - Pattern note: This is the Nth deployment of the 'HOAX' delegitimization strategy against accountability attempts — the pattern itself, not this individual post, is the elevated danger signal ### Gaslighting - Denial of legitimacy of documented controversy — documented audio/video of the 'bloodbath' remark is real; labeling the entire reaction a 'hoax' denies this reality - DARVO structure — Trump positioned as victim of fabrication rather than source of ambiguous statement - Epistemic test for followers — accepting 'HOAX' requires rejecting documented record as basis for concern - Rapid revisionism — original statement was made 3 days prior; 'HOAX' label seeks to pre-emptively close interpretive question ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > The controversy over Trump's 'bloodbath' comments was a hoax (i.e., fabricated or wholly bad-faith misrepresentation) **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump made the 'bloodbath' comment on documented audio at the March 16 Vandalia, Ohio rally. The remark appeared in a passage also including statements about elections ceasing to exist if he loses. The auto-industry interpretation is plausible but not exclusive — the broader passage introduced genuine ambiguity. The controversy was not manufactured; the interpretive dispute was real. Labeling it a 'hoax' misrepresents a genuine ambiguity as a fabricated attack. Sources: Known Events: Trump 'bloodbath' comments at Ohio rally, March 16, 2024 Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - bloodbath-controversy (100%) - hoax-lexeme (95%) - narcissistic-injury-response (90%) - DARVO (90%) - epistemic-closure (85%) - ALL-CAPS (80%) - whataboutism (75%) - legal-pressure-context (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Bond Crisis Triggers Day-Long Narcissistic Flooding as Trump Faces Financial Existential Threat** Trump spent most of the day consumed by the New York civil fraud bond crisis, firing off a barrage of posts attacking Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James after failing to secure a $454 million appeal bond from roughly 30 surety companies. The morning featured a sustained burst of grievance posts that swung between defiance and victimhood, bookended by a late-night counter-attack on the "bloodbath" media controversy. His staff filled the afternoon with a coordinated wave of sympathetic media links from outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News. He briefly surfaced for campaign business — a primary-day voter appeal and an Ohio victory lap — but the bond crisis dominated the day's emotional landscape. Full digest for 2024-03-19: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 19). “THE BLOODBATH HOAX” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112119642800432585 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“THE BLOODBATH HOAX”" Truth Social, 19 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112119642800432585. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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