# Post ts_112566172142175654 - Post ID: `ts_112566172142175654` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-06-05T21:37:56.290Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112566172142175654 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112566172142175654/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112566172142175654.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTION YEAR PLOY.” THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:29), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > - I'm here today to do what the Republican Congress refused to do. Take the necessary steps to secure our border. - In no way should it be described as shutting down the border. - There are a number of exemptions for this. - This is not going to stop or slow the up to 1,500 migrants per day who are being released into the country by showing up at a CBP port of entry with an appointment on a cell phone app called CBP One. - I am quite skeptical that this is going to have any kind of immediate, widespread, dramatic impact on the border, on the number of migrants who are crossing the border and on the number of migrants who managed to stay in the United States. - It also exempts the controversial program where up to 30,000 migrants per month are flying directly into the United States from foreign countries via a mass parole program the Biden administration has put in place. - Essentially we're back to doing something that looks like an election year point. - Unaccompanied children and minors are not touched by this executive order, so that's going to raise concerns about possible child trafficking. - We encourage these drug cartels to take advantage of those kids, does it not, sir? - This was actually green lighting and say, oh, we can use these kids as pawns to get what we want. - So we are talking thousands of people coming into the country every single day that is left completely alone. - This entire issue was started by this administration. Day one that this administration took office is when we saw the numbers. - How is that not a come on in sign? [MUSIC PLAYING] ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/566/172/098/650/819/original/042a5d3f9f84434b.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,485 - Reposts: 4,147 - Replies: 996 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.349Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T09:09:51.878Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 5, 2024 (21:37 UTC) ### Context This post arrives **six days after Trump's historic felony conviction** on all 34 counts (May 30, 2024). Trump held a 35-minute press conference at Trump Tower denouncing the verdict. The post sits within a dense cluster of June 5 posts covering endorsements, legal grievances, and media amplification. The attached MP4 and campaign URL (`DonaldJTrump.com`) mark this as coordinated campaign content. The quoted phrase — "SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTION YEAR PLOY" — almost certainly references Biden's June 4, 2024 executive action tightening border enforcement, which critics (particularly Republicans) immediately characterized as a transparently political maneuver ahead of the election. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Trait expression is compressed in this brief post, but discernible: - **Low Agreeableness**: Combative framing ("Biden Border Crisis"), zero acknowledgment of any complexity - **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation)**: No nuance; sweeping causal claim that a geopolitical issue "WILL END" on a specific date - **High Extraversion (assertiveness)**: Bold declaration with exclamation point, commanding register - **Neuroticism absent here**: Unlike the civil fraud post from the same day, there is no personal grievance or wounded tone; this is offense-mode --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive dominant**: This is a power claim — "I will fix it; Biden broke it." The promise of "January 20, 2025" (inauguration day) is an assertion of future control over a complex systemic issue. **Schema at work**: World = broken by the Other; Self = the only corrective agent. This binary schema is consistent across hundreds of prior posts and represents a stable cognitive template. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Order Restorer — the return of the sovereign who will end the chaos unleashed in his absence - **Contamination sequence**: (implicitly) "Things were controlled under me → Biden broke them → I return to fix them." This is the foundational meta-narrative of the entire 2024 campaign - **Contrasting other**: Biden as incompetent/corrupt agent; the border as his personal failure ("Biden Border Crisis") - **Identity claim**: "I am the solution with a specific date certain" - **No redemption arc here** — this is forward-projection, not backward-looking vindication --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** The sweeping certainty ("WILL END") is textbook grandiose cognition — an extremely complex, multi-decade immigration enforcement problem solved by one man's return to power. No hedging, no acknowledgment of systemic complexity. **Trigger type**: Primarily *maintenance/supply-seeking* with a secondary *preemptive attack* function. With the conviction looming in public discourse, this post performs a rapid context-switch: don't look at my legal exposure, look at Biden's governance failures. This is strategic displacement at the narrative level. **Rage**: Absent in this post. This is cooler, more instrumental than the same-day civil fraud post ("Crooked Joe Biden... wrongfully and illegally take away from me"). The emotional register here is confident contempt rather than wounded fury. **Malignant narcissism components:** - Narcissistic features: moderate-high (grandiosity, certainty of special corrective ability) - Antisocial features: low (no explicit rule-breaking or contempt signals) - Paranoid features: low-moderate (implicit in "election year ploy" framing — Biden acting manipulatively) - Sadism: absent --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement (neurotic)**: Focus redirected from Trump's own legal jeopardy (conviction 6 days prior) to Biden's governance. The implicit message: "Why are you looking at me? Look at *this*." 2. **Projection (immature)**: Labeling Biden's border action as an "election year ploy" while this post itself is textbook election-year campaign messaging with a campaign URL and video attachment. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The framing of a contested policy debate as an obvious truth ("SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTION YEAR PLOY") — presented as if a quote from objective authority, not a partisan characterization. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time**: 21:37 UTC = **5:37 PM EDT** (Trump was in New York — Trump Tower press conference just days prior). This is late afternoon/business hours. **Aide indicators present:** - Business-hours timing (5:37 PM local) - Campaign website URL embedded — promotional logistics suggest coordination - Attached MP4 video — requires production/scheduling infrastructure - Clean structure: [quote attacking Biden] + [Trump's counter-promise] + [campaign URL] - No typos, no stream-of-consciousness **Authentic Trump indicators:** - ALL CAPS passages - Punchy, declarative register - The specific phrasing "Biden Border Crisis" and "WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025!" has Trump's cadence **Assessment**: Likely **aide-drafted or aide-polished** with Trump's conceptual fingerprint. The attached video and campaign URL are organizational signals. Trump contributed the framing and approved the message; execution was staff-managed. Confidence: **medium-high**. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques 1. **False certainty / false promise**: "WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025!" — presents a complex enforcement and policy challenge as immediately solvable by executive will 2. **Labeling**: "Biden Border Crisis" — possessive attribution assigns sole causation/ownership to the opponent 3. **Borrowed authority**: The opening quote functions as *appeal to unnamed authority* — someone credible apparently agrees it's a ploy 4. **Whataboutism**: This entire post is a deflection mechanism from Trump's news cycle (conviction, Hunter Biden trial revealing contrast) toward Biden's policy record 5. **Nostalgia/return narrative**: January 20 date signals not just a date but a mythological restoration 6. **Firehose effect**: This is one of 5+ posts on June 5 — volume itself is a rhetorical strategy to overwhelm and reset the news frame No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Cognitive Status Post is too brief for meaningful cognitive assessment. Vocabulary is simple, syntax uncomplicated. This is consistent with the overall post-conviction posting pattern — short, punchy, campaign-formatted. **No deviation from baseline** detectable. The ALL CAPS deployment is purposive, not erratic. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden's border action is 'an election year ploy'" | **Unverifiable** | Biden's June 4, 2024 executive border action arrived 5 months before the election; timing is consistent with the characterization, but intent attribution is not falsifiable. Multiple analysts across the spectrum noted the political timing. | | "THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS" | **Half True** | Border crossings under Biden reached documented historic highs (2.5M+ in FY2023). 'Crisis' framing is politically contested but underlying stress indicators are verifiable. Framing assigns sole causation to Biden, ignoring structural/historical factors. | | "The border crisis 'WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025'" | **Mostly False** | A predictive claim with no evidentiary basis. Complex immigration enforcement patterns do not reset on an administrative timeline. Historical comparison: Trump's first term did not 'end' border crossings, which fluctuated with external factors. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (5:37 PM EDT) - Campaign URL embedded suggesting coordinated promotional logistics - Attached MP4 video requiring production infrastructure - Clean two-part structure: [opponent quote] + [Trump promise] + [campaign link] - No typos or stream-of-consciousness elements ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Biden June 4 executive border action) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Future promise directed at supporters ('WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025!') - Shared enemy framing consolidating in-group identity against Biden ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Biden's border action is 'an election year ploy' **UNVERIFIABLE** Biden's June 4, 2024 executive border action arrived 5 months before the election; timing is consistent with the characterization, but intent attribution is not falsifiable. Multiple analysts across the spectrum noted the political timing. Sources: Known events: Biden border executive action June 2024 > THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS **HALF TRUE** Border crossings under Biden reached documented historic highs (2.5M+ in FY2023). 'Crisis' framing is politically contested but underlying stress indicators are verifiable. Framing assigns sole causation to Biden, ignoring structural/historical factors. Sources: DHS/CBP public records > The border crisis 'WILL END ON JANUARY 20, 2025' **MOSTLY FALSE** A predictive claim with no evidentiary basis. Complex immigration enforcement patterns do not reset on an administrative timeline. Historical comparison: Trump's first term did not 'end' border crossings, which fluctuated with external factors. Sources: Historical border crossing data 2017-2021 Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - immigration (90%) - election-year-messaging (85%) - displacement (80%) - whataboutism (75%) - grandiose-promise (70%) - aide-written (65%) - post-conviction-period (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Six Days Post-Conviction: The Loudest Silence in American Politics** Six days after his historic 34-count felony conviction, Trump spent the day flooding his feed with campaign content, favorable polls, and attacks on Biden while studiously avoiding any direct mention of the Manhattan verdict. The most revealing moment was sharing an article comparing his legal situation to the destruction of Gaza -- a striking escalation in victimhood framing. One burst of genuine anger broke through in the afternoon when he addressed the separate civil fraud case, calling American courts comparable to Communist China and the Soviet Union. The rest of the day was a carefully managed performance of normalcy: endorsements, healthcare policy attacks, and a Hannity interview promo. Full digest for 2024-06-05: https://trump.fm/date/2024-06-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, June 5). “SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTION YEAR... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112566172142175654 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTION YEAR PLOY.” THE..." Truth Social, 5 Jun. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112566172142175654. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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