# Post ts_112128671793105408 - Post ID: `ts_112128671793105408` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-20T15:15:50.742Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112128671793105408 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112128671793105408/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112128671793105408.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “BIDEN’S FAILURES ABROAD ON FULL DISPLAY DURING HEARING ON BOTCHED AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:35), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > So far, in just over three years as president, Biden has already presided over a record-breaking 11 partial and full embassy evacuations. And earlier today, his failure and weakness on the world stage, they're on full display during the House hearing on his botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Take a look at some of these highlights or for Joe, low lights. On 11 April 2021, I received orders from President Biden through the secretary of defense to execute a full military withdrawal by 11 September 2021, a date which was subsequently modified to the end of August. This decision did not include the withdrawal of our embassy, our citizens, and at-risk Afghans. It's important to understand that we had a complete plan to execute that task as well, but we're not ordered to do so. The president's decision was to maintain an embassy, to not require our citizens to leave, and of course, to not expedite the extraction of at-risk Afghans. This was not a military decision. As you are aware, the decision to begin a NEO rests with the Department of State, not the Department of Defense. Despite this, we had begun positioning forces in the region as early as 9 July, but we could do nothing, nothing to commence the operation, the evacuation, until a NEO was declared. I think some were killed. Afghans, I don't know about the Americans, I don't think the Americans were, but I think some of the Afghans were tracked down, that worked with us, and I think some of them were killed, and I'm pretty certain some of them in pretty brutal ways. And still, Americans sadly trapped behind enemy lines, billions of dollars of our military equipment left in the hands of the Taliban. Anyway, here with reaction, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Victor Davis Hanson, and House Armed Services Committee member, Florida Congressman Michael Waltz. Congressman, start with you. You know, the idea that the Taliban, they were allowed to march all the way straight to Karzai International Airport. They knew it was happening. The Biden administration knew it. They did nothing to stop their march. And then this, this, this, hey, I don't think you could have had a worse withdrawal than what happened here, leaving, abandoning Americans behind enemy lines, abandoning our allies. We promised we wouldn't do that. They were abandoned behind enemy lines, and the billions of military equipment just left in the hands of the Taliban. I don't think you can screw anything up worse than that. Yeah, Sean, the generals today weren't pulling their punches when it came to the State Department, led by Blinken, or the lack of leadership in this White House. And as a result, you had three things. You had number one, you had three four-star generals ignored by President Biden, who did not do as President Trump did, which was leave the base and leave some special operators to keep a lid on terrorism. Biden ignored that, yanked everybody out, except for the fact that they didn't have a plan to pull our embassy to get American citizens, nor did they have, did he give the order to rescue our allies. The military was very clear, as you heard. They had a plan to do it. Biden and the State Department were living in this fantasy land that you had the good terrorists, the Taliban, that they could work with. And as a result, that incompetence, that lack of planning, that lack of leadership, you've got 13 Americans dead. The Gold Star families were there today. You've got our allies on the, I mean, our enemies on the march all over the world because our allies were abandoned and the entire world got the message that America was incompetent and in decline. And we will live with that for the rest of my lifetime and just in this last couple of years, you've now got our 11th embassy. Haiti is going to be next, unfortunately, that has been drastically downgraded or completely withdrawn. And Victor Davis Hanson, I read in the last week and a half that Al Qaeda training camps are back up and running in Afghanistan. Oh, that can't be good for the world. That can't be good for the free world. And you look at Joe Biden, we'd have a new axis of evil, evil, China, Russia, Iran. Iran is allowed to get rich because Joe Biden turns a blind eye to the sanctions they should be enforcing. Then they're even allowing Venezuela to get rich again after they allowed the most in Iran to get rich again. And I'm looking at the world situation. I don't think anybody really cares what Joe Biden thinks or does because they don't have any respect for him. Your take. Yeah, I agree on Afghanistan. Remember, he arbitrarily picked a date and that was supposed to be an iconic celebration of September 11th, the 20th anniversary. He said we would be out. And so he made that date fit the circumstances rather than the circumstances fit the date. I was empathetic to the generals today, Sean, but I wish one of them had resigned when this decision making was going taking place. If just one of them had said, this is strategically impossible. I cannot follow this order. I do not want to attack the commander in chief, but I resigned. I will not be a part of this. It might have been prevented. But now we get the truth, not only after the fact, but after the generals are retired in private life, I think they could have done something better for the country if they'd resigned when this was going on. We've lost deterrence, Sean. It's whether you've defined it as the telling the Ukrainians we'd help them if it was a depending on it was a major or minor offensive, the Chinese balloon, you name it, we've lost deterrence. What we're seeing is the global counterpart of defunding the police in our cities. When we defunded the police, people came out of the woodwork to take advantage of that. And that's what's happening now globally as we withdraw from the world stage. It's a more dangerous world. We definitely need the reemergence of America as the world leader of the free world to counter this. And Sean, thank you. Big difference between responsibility and accountability. People are taking responsibility, still zero accountability, zero, none. It's unacceptable. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/128/671/466/920/102/original/eca338f518abf9cb.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,167 - Reposts: 3,949 - Replies: 640 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.364Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T05:48:44.801Z (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 aide-generated post functions as displacement defense during acute narcissistic injury: Trump's publicly reported failure to secure a $54M civil fraud appeal bond — approaching 30 surety companies without success — represented simultaneous financial exposure and institutional humiliation. The same-day posting cluster reveals a compensatory supply-management strategy: primary victory posts (Kansas, Arizona) provide grandiose supply, while the Afghanistan attack cluster (Milley 'loser' post, this post, 'NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE' post) redirects the accountability frame toward Biden. The headline-as-propaganda format, business hours timing, and accompanying mp4 all indicate Scavino/aide authorship, confirming the communications operation was in active damage-control mode. The Afghanistan theme is a durable attack asset that also carries implicit self-comparison value: Trump initiated the Doha withdrawal framework, allowing him to claim the execution failure belongs entirely to Biden. No danger indicators, dehumanizing language, or cognitive concerns are present. Clinical significance is contextual rather than intrinsic — the post's meaning lies in its function within a defensive posting cluster during a period of acute legal and financial stress. ## Trump Truth Social Post — March 20, 2024 | `ts_112128671793105408` --- ### Timing & Authorship **UTC:** 15:15:50 | **Local (EDT, Mar-a-Lago):** ~11:15 AM EDT — firmly within business hours. Trump in March 2024 was primarily Mar-a-Lago based during non-court days; the Florida primary had passed and the general campaign was consolidating. This is mid-morning on a Wednesday. **Assessment:** High confidence aide-written (Scavino attribution likely). Indicators: (1) business hours posting; (2) polished headline syntax with zero typos; (3) accompanying mp4 attachment suggests coordinated media push; (4) part of a same-day cluster of at least five posts showing rollout discipline (victory lap posts → attack sequence); (5) tone is editorial/broadcast, not stream-of-consciousness. This reads as curated opposition-research amplification, not impulsive Trump voice. --- ### Psychological Context & Trigger The post occurs against acute legal pressure: Trump had publicly failed to secure a $54M appeal bond after approaching 30 surety companies — a significant narcissistic injury combining financial exposure, public humiliation, and institutional impotence. The same-day post cluster follows a recognizable compensatory pattern: 1. **Victory lap:** "THANK YOU, KANSAS—MAGA!" / "THANK YOU, ARIZONA—MAGA!" (supply replenishment) 2. **Attack sequence:** Milley ("loser"), Biden/Afghanistan (this post), "NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE" This rhythm — quick dopamine spike from primary wins, then pivot to enemy debasement — is consistent with narcissistic supply management under stress. The Afghanistan theme is a reliable attack vector Trump returns to repeatedly; it also carries the personal resonance that Trump initiated the Doha withdrawal framework, making Biden's execution failure a domain where Trump can claim comparative advantage. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Primary — Displacement:** Redirects audience attention from Trump's own acute legal/financial vulnerability (bond failure, civil fraud judgment) to Biden's 2021 operational failure. The grievance is real but the timing is functionally motivated. **Secondary — Rationalization:** The Congressional hearing provides institutional cover — framing partisan attack content as civic accountability. **Tertiary — Projection:** By positioning Biden as the figure who escapes accountability ("NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE"), Trump implicitly pre-empts the accountability frame being applied to himself in the civil fraud case. --- ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury (financial exposure + institutional humiliation via bond failure). **Narcissistic state:** Oscillating — grandiose facade maintained via victory lap posts, but the attack cluster reveals underlying vulnerability state. **Supply mechanism:** Opponent debasement as relative self-enhancement; in grandiose narcissistic dynamics, attacking rival competence functions as implicit self-elevation without requiring direct self-praise. **Rage:** Absent in this specific post. The Milley post ("loser who shamed us") shows more direct rage; this post is more coldly instrumental — media amplification of an institutional attack rather than emotional expression. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Headline-as-propaganda:** The all-caps format mimics a broadcast chyron or news headline, lending institutional framing to what is partisan opposition research. This leverages the congressional hearing as a credibility laundry — the attack appears to originate from government oversight rather than the campaign. **Loaded language:** "BOTCHED" (implies incompetence), "FAILURES ABROAD" (plural, generalizing a single withdrawal event into a systemic pattern), "ON FULL DISPLAY" (theatrical language implying irrefutable exposure). Each word choice maximizes negative valence. **Amplification technique:** The mp4 attachment is central — this is media clip weaponization, a standard digital communications tactic where hearing footage is clipped to highlight the most damaging exchange, then broadcast through the candidate's own channel. **False accountability framing:** Pairing with "NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE" creates a resonance loop — both posts hit the same emotional register of injustice/impunity, reinforcing a grievance narrative about the Biden administration. --- ### Longitudinal Pattern The Afghanistan theme recurs persistently across Trump's posting history, functioning as a durable attack asset. The coordination of three Afghanistan-themed posts in a single day (Milley attack, this post, accountability post) alongside two primary victory posts suggests a deliberate communications operation, not organic reactive posting. This discipline is characteristic of aide-driven content rather than authentic Trump behavior. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden's Afghan withdrawal was botched" | **Mostly True** | The August 2021 withdrawal was widely characterized as chaotic across partisan lines: 13 US service members killed at Kabul airport, mass civilian panic, rapid Taliban takeover, significant equipment left behind. Bipartisan criticism documented. 'Botched' is opinion but grounded in documented failures. | | "A hearing on the Afghan withdrawal was occurring around this date" | **Unverifiable** | Post references a hearing but no specific committee or date is named. The House Foreign Affairs Committee held multiple Afghan withdrawal hearings in 2023-2024. The specific hearing referenced cannot be verified without the video content. | | "Biden's 'failures abroad' are 'on full display'" | **Mostly False** | Framing a congressional hearing as revealing failures is editorial opinion, not factual claim. The characterization of 'failures abroad' as plural and systemic goes beyond the specific Afghanistan withdrawal. Rating reflects the rhetorical overreach from specific event to general pattern. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (11:15 AM EDT) - Polished headline syntax with zero typos - Accompanied by mp4 media attachment indicating coordinated push - Part of structured same-day posting sequence (victory laps → attack cluster) - Editorial/broadcast tone rather than stream-of-consciousness ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Public failure to secure $54M civil fraud appeal bond — financial and institutional humiliation) Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared grievance cultivation (accountability frustration) - Us-vs-them institutional framing - Implied competence contrast via opponent debasement ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Biden's Afghan withdrawal was botched **MOSTLY TRUE** The August 2021 withdrawal was widely characterized as chaotic across partisan lines: 13 US service members killed at Kabul airport, mass civilian panic, rapid Taliban takeover, significant equipment left behind. Bipartisan criticism documented. 'Botched' is opinion but grounded in documented failures. Sources: Congressional record; DoD inspector general reports; Bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee report > A hearing on the Afghan withdrawal was occurring around this date **UNVERIFIABLE** Post references a hearing but no specific committee or date is named. The House Foreign Affairs Committee held multiple Afghan withdrawal hearings in 2023-2024. The specific hearing referenced cannot be verified without the video content. > Biden's 'failures abroad' are 'on full display' **MOSTLY FALSE** Framing a congressional hearing as revealing failures is editorial opinion, not factual claim. The characterization of 'failures abroad' as plural and systemic goes beyond the specific Afghanistan withdrawal. Rating reflects the rhetorical overreach from specific event to general pattern. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - Afghanistan withdrawal (90%) - Biden debasement (85%) - aide-written (92%) - displacement defense (78%) - media amplification (80%) - coordinated messaging cluster (75%) - legal crisis context (70%) - accountability inversion (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Primary Victories Paper Over a Bond Crisis: Grandiosity as Legal Damage Control** Trump rode a wave of primary victories across five states, spending much of the day celebrating wins and sharing favorable media coverage. The mood darkened in the late morning with a sharp attack on General Mark Milley and grievance posts about accountability, before a dense afternoon burst revealed the day's real stress point: the civil fraud judgment and his inability to secure an appeal bond. A flash of high-intensity anger over the court ruling was quickly buried under legal arguments and a celebratory post about a Supreme Court immigration ruling. By evening, the tone had settled back into routine campaign messaging. Full digest for 2024-03-20: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 20). “BIDEN’S FAILURES ABROAD ON FULL DISPLAY DURING... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112128671793105408 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“BIDEN’S FAILURES ABROAD ON FULL DISPLAY DURING HEARING ON..." Truth Social, 20 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112128671793105408. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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