# Post ts_112412436050133264

- Post ID: `ts_112412436050133264`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-05-09T18:00:49.755Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112412436050133264.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville. Well, if that’s the case, he’s done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a “peanut” compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our Country…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:26), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Crooked Joe Biden would say constantly that he ran because of Charlottesville. We know that's not true. And in any case, he's done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a peanut compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our country. Right now, it's a disaster. There's never been a time like it in the United States of America. And it's Crooked's fault because he sends the wrong message every single time. And that includes what happened with Russia and Ukraine. That includes October 7. And that certainly includes a bad message on inflation where he has launched inflation at levels never seen before. The fact is that Crooked Joe hates Israel and he hates the Jewish people. There's no question about that. And if Jewish people are going to vote for Joe Biden, they have to have their head examined. He's a disaster for Israel. The problem is that he hates the Palestinians also and even more so. And he just doesn't know what to do. He's a confused man. He can't put two sentences together. He doesn't have a clue. He doesn't know where he is. He doesn't know he's alive. And he's our president. We have to end it. November 5, we're going to end it. Thank you very much. God be with you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/412/435/374/419/300/original/99694ab23d496dd7.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.357Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T08:00:19.107Z (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 post deploys a classic whataboutism structure: Biden's stated motivation for running (opposing Charlottesville-style extremism) is weaponized as a self-indicting standard of failure, with campus pro-Palestinian protests serving as the alleged refutation. The rhetorical core contains a significant category error — Charlottesville involved domestic white nationalist terrorism and a civilian homicide; May 2024 campus demonstrations were legally distinct phenomena — which the post erases through the "peanut" diminutization and "riots" mislabeling. Timing context is significant: the post appears during Trump's hush money trial week, with particularly damaging Stormy Daniels and Hope Hicks testimony in the days prior, strongly suggesting displacement as the primary defense mechanism — redirecting audience attention to Biden's civic failures while personally costly proceedings continue. Notably, affective intensity is below Trump's baseline, indicating strategic rather than reactive posting. The linguistic fingerprint (eccentric metaphor, trailing ellipsis, conditional opener) authenticates likely Trump authorship despite business-hours timing. The consistent labeling of protests as "riots" and the "anti-Israel" framing contribute to a law-and-order threat environment without rising to eliminationist language. Danger level is elevated, not critical. No cognitive deviation from established baseline is detected.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_112412436050133264 (2024-05-09)

## Authorship Attribution
**Score: 0.72 (likely authentic Trump) | Confidence: Medium**

Post timestamp converts to approximately 2:00 PM EST — business hours, nominally in aide territory. However, Trump was in New York attending the hush money trial during this period and plausibly posting during a court recess. The linguistic fingerprint strongly favors authenticity: the eccentric "peanut" diminutization in scare quotes, the trailing ellipsis, the ironic conditional opener ("Well, if that's the case..."), and the "Crooked Joe Biden" brand label all match Trump's authentic rhetorical idiolect. No professional communications aide would generate the "peanut" metaphor. The attached video may indicate aide coordination on amplification strategy, moderating confidence slightly.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
- **Low Agreeableness**: Attacking, dismissive, no acknowledgment of complexity
- **High Extraversion** (assertiveness facet): Confident posture of superior observation
- **Low Conscientiousness** (deliberation facet): Logically flawed argument presented without qualification
- **Low Neuroticism** in this post: Controlled, not reactive — notably below baseline affective heat given the context of the Stormy Daniels/Hope Hicks testimony week

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Motive structure:** Dominant power/status motive expressed through diminutization of opponent. The post constructs Trump as the superior evaluator of Biden's performance — a status-claiming move accomplished without explicit self-reference.

**Agency schema:** Biden is framed as a self-indicting hypocrite; Trump is the external auditor holding him accountable. This schema is consistent across hundreds of documented posts.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: The clear-eyed truth-teller who sees what others won't
- **Contrasting other**: "Crooked Joe Biden" — branded, diminished, exposed
- **Contamination sequence**: Biden's noble stated motivation (opposing Charlottesville extremism) is contaminated by his alleged failure on civil unrest — a narrative that serves to undermine Biden's moral authority
- **Identity claim**: Implicit — Trump as the competent alternative who would restore order

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## Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**State**: Grandiose (controlled)
**Trigger**: Maintenance — habitual Biden attack, opportunistically timed to campus protest news cycle. The hush money trial testimony (Stormy Daniels, Hope Hicks) provides strong motivation for displacement: redirecting attention to Biden's failures while personally damaging proceedings unfold.

**Narcissistic rage**: Absent in this post. Unusually tempered by Trump standards — suggests this is strategic rather than reactive.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Displacement** (Immature): Attention redirected from Trump's own legal exposure toward Biden's civic failures
2. **Rationalization** (Neurotic): Constructs a surface-logical argument to justify the attack
3. **Splitting** (Immature): Protests are unambiguously "riots"; Biden is categorically a failure

### Cognitive Status
- Complexity: Consistent with Trump baseline — simple syntax, single-clause logic, informal register
- No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or semantic errors detected
- **Baseline deviation**: None. This post is cognitively typical.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

### Core Move: Whataboutism as Falsification
The rhetorical construction is sophisticated in its simplicity: Biden's stated motivation for running is weaponized as his own standard of failure. Campus pro-Palestinian protests are framed as "riots" and equated with Charlottesville — a category error that exploits audience indifference to the factual distinction:

- **Charlottesville (2017)**: White nationalist rally; vehicular homicide killing counter-protester Heather Heyer; "very fine people on both sides" controversy
- **Campus protests (May 2024)**: Student demonstrations over Gaza war; 3,100+ arrests, primarily trespassing; no reported homicides

The post erases this distinction entirely. The "peanut" metaphor performs double duty: it minimizes Charlottesville (implicitly deflecting Trump's own controversial response to it) while amplifying the scale of campus unrest.

**Loaded language inventory:**
- "riots" (not "protests") — presupposes violence and illegality
- "anti-Israel" (not "pro-Palestinian" or "anti-war") — frames demonstrators as opponents of a US ally
- "all over our Country" — scale amplification, existential threat framing

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville" | **True** | Biden explicitly and repeatedly cited the August 2017 Charlottesville 'very fine people' incident as his primary motivation for entering the 2020 presidential race, including in his campaign launch video and numerous speeches. |
| "Riots and anti-Israel protests are happening all over our Country" | **Half True** | Campus protests were documented on 60+ campuses with 3,100+ arrests nationwide in early May 2024. 'Riots' mischaracterizes primarily nonviolent demonstrations; 'anti-Israel' is a loaded reframing of what protesters characterized as pro-Palestinian/anti-war demonstrations. |
| "Charlottesville is like a 'peanut' compared to the riots" | **Mostly False** | Charlottesville involved premeditated vehicular homicide killing one person and injuring dozens. Campus protests in May 2024, while widespread, resulted in no comparable fatalities and were characterized by law enforcement primarily as trespassing/unlawful assembly incidents. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: Elevated**

The consistent use of "riots" for "protests" contributes to a rhetorical environment that frames nonviolent political dissent as disorder requiring suppression. This is not eliminationist language, but the framing pattern — large-scale civil disorder, a failed president, an implicit strong-man alternative — is consistent with the broader law-and-order threat construction Trump has deployed preceding calls for force. The specific targeting of "anti-Israel protests" also introduces a charged religious/ethnic valence that could amplify hostility toward protest participants. No stochastic terrorism indicators present in isolation.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
**Present: Yes (mild-moderate)**
- "Riots": Systematic mislabeling of documented peaceful protests as riots
- False equivalence with Charlottesville constitutes reality distortion — presenting categorically dissimilar events as comparable or contrasting

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## Archetypal Analysis
**Primary archetype**: Trickster/Warrior hybrid
- Trickster move: Uses Biden's own stated motivation against him — a judo-style rhetorical reversal that delights in the irony
- Warrior framing: "happening all over our Country" invokes siege imagery, enemies at the gates

**Shadow projection**: Trump's own documented record on Charlottesville (the "very fine people" statement) is the shadow element being displaced onto Biden's "failure." By positioning Biden as soft on disorder, Trump preemptively occupies the law-and-order position without addressing his own Charlottesville legacy.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Idiosyncratic 'peanut' metaphor with scare quotes — hallmark Trump colloquialism
- Trailing ellipsis suggesting trailing-off, unfinished thought pattern
- 'Crooked Joe Biden' brand-label usage
- Stream-of-consciousness construction: 'Well, if that's the case...'
- Post is 2:00 PM EST (UTC-4, Trump in New York for hush money trial) — business hours slightly favor aide involvement, but style strongly authenticates Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Biden/campus protest news cycle)

Sentiment: -0.58

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 62%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 18%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 31%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Positions self as clear-eyed observer speaking truth the audience already suspects
- Uses 'our Country' to create inclusive in-group solidarity

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic mislabeling of protests as 'riots' normalizes violence framing and delegitimizes peaceful political dissent
- 'Anti-Israel' characterization introduces charged ethnic/religious valence that could amplify hostility toward protest participants
- Law-and-order threat construction (widespread disorder + failed president) creates implicit strong-man framing
- Minimization of Charlottesville white nationalist violence via 'peanut' comparison may signal normalization of political violence

### Gaslighting

- Consistent use of 'riots' for documented protests — systematic mislabeling constitutes deliberate reality distortion
- False equivalence between Charlottesville domestic terrorist attack and campus demonstrations erases documented factual distinctions
- 'Anti-Israel' framing imposes loaded interpretation on protest motivations protesters themselves contested

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville

**TRUE**

Biden explicitly and repeatedly cited the August 2017 Charlottesville 'very fine people' incident as his primary motivation for entering the 2020 presidential race, including in his campaign launch video and numerous speeches.

Sources: Biden 2020 campaign launch video (April 2019); Multiple Biden stump speeches 2019-2020

> Riots and anti-Israel protests are happening all over our Country

**HALF TRUE**

Campus protests were documented on 60+ campuses with 3,100+ arrests nationwide in early May 2024. 'Riots' mischaracterizes primarily nonviolent demonstrations; 'anti-Israel' is a loaded reframing of what protesters characterized as pro-Palestinian/anti-war demonstrations.

Sources: Known Events: Nationwide campus protests escalate over Gaza war, May 2024

> Charlottesville is like a 'peanut' compared to the riots

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Charlottesville involved premeditated vehicular homicide killing one person and injuring dozens. Campus protests in May 2024, while widespread, resulted in no comparable fatalities and were characterized by law enforcement primarily as trespassing/unlawful assembly incidents.

Sources: DOJ records on Charlottesville attack (2017); Known Events: Nationwide campus protests escalate over Gaza war

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- whataboutism (90%)
- displacement (85%)
- false_equivalence (88%)
- trial_deflection (80%)
- campus_protests_gaza (90%)
- charlottesville (85%)
- biden_attack (92%)
- loaded_language (80%)
- maintenance_posting (75%)
- grandiose_state (65%)

## That day

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

**Midnight Supply Raids and Afternoon Rage Spirals: A Defendant's Day of Displacement**

Trump spent the day broadcasting from the shadow of his hush money trial, where Stormy Daniels had just delivered hours of graphic testimony and Hope Hicks had broken down on the stand. A late-night browsing session produced a burst of flattering article shares and Biden attacks after midnight, followed by a combative 2 AM broadside against Paul Ryan. The afternoon brought a rapid-fire barrage of trial grievances, all-caps outbursts, and a debate challenge to Biden, with the mood shifting from defiant bravado to visible strain by evening as surrogates were called in to do the talking. The day's 27 posts never once mentioned Stormy Daniels or the trial testimony by name -- the silence was louder than the shouting.

Full digest for 2024-05-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-05-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, May 9). Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412436050133264
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran..." Truth Social, 9 May. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412436050133264. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran...," Truth Social, May 9, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112412436050133264.

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