# Post ts_112770583264156962 - Post ID: `ts_112770583264156962` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-07-12T00:02:22.483Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112770583264156962 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112770583264156962/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112770583264156962.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Crooked Joe: "I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief…my…my…my…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > -I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief, my chief of staff of the military, as well as the Secretary of Defense and our intelligence people. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/770/583/202/459/708/original/fd32b79c3cf1c9b2.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 25,066 - Reposts: 7,134 - Replies: 2,490 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.344Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T10:21:44.624Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 8:02 PM ET on July 11, 2024—the closing day of the NATO summit where Biden was defending his fitness to lead—this brief post achieves its political purpose with unusual economy: a verbatim transcription of Biden's verbal stumble, amplified by ellipsis notation that mimics the stutter in text form, plus an attached video clip functioning as documentary evidence. No editorial commentary is added; the quote is permitted to indict itself. The post's primary clinical significance is structural rather than surface-level: Trump is mocking Biden's word-finding difficulty and self-referential confusion at a moment when longitudinal analysis of Trump's own speech record documents parallel patterns—increasing perseveration, tangentiality, and verbal disorganization. This constitutes projection in the psychoanalytic sense: the intolerable trait (cognitive decline) is located exclusively in the rival, permitting the self to remain exempt from scrutiny. The splitting is total: Biden is the failing one; Trump, by contrast, is implied to be the sharp alternative. The irony of the framing is profound in context. Biden stumbled while explicitly defending his cognitive fitness to a global audience. Trump exploits this at peak political valence—amid Democratic calls for Biden to step down, post-Clooney op-ed, post-Jeffries private urging. The timing is opportunistic rather than reactive, suggesting media monitoring and political calculation rather than narcissistic injury response. Narcissistic state is grandiose/predatory rather than vulnerable. Danger indicators: none. Projection flag: active. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 11, 2024 (8:02 PM ET) ## Situational Context This post lands on the final day of the NATO 75th Anniversary Summit in Washington—the precise occasion at which President Biden delivered a high-stakes press conference explicitly designed to demonstrate his cognitive fitness and command of detail. Biden was under maximum Democratic pressure to withdraw (Clooney op-ed, Pelosi's hedged non-endorsement, Jeffries' private urging), and the press conference was his attempt at a public rebuttal. Trump posts within hours of its conclusion. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely authentic (72% confidence)** UTC 00:02:22 on July 12 = **8:02 PM EDT, July 11**. Trump was almost certainly in the Eastern timezone during this period. While 8 PM falls slightly outside his highest-probability authentic posting window (post-10 PM), it is well within the plausible envelope for evening media-monitoring activity. The text format—a raw quoted fragment with dramatizing ellipsis, no polished transitions, no attribution tag—reads as authentic Trump voice. The attached video clip likely required staff coordination to source and attach, slightly reducing the raw-authenticity score, but the text framing is his own rhetorical fingerprint. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is too brief for deep trait inference but reveals clearly elevated **antagonism** (low agreeableness)—the post exists solely to devalue a rival—alongside high **extraversion** (assertiveness, dominance-seeking) and low **openness** (rigid binary framing: Biden is failing, implicit alternative is not). Neuroticism is subdued relative to baseline; this reads as predatory confidence, not defensive anxiety. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas **Agency motive** dominates (0.82): the post seeks to establish status superiority through rival destruction. **Communion motive** is near-absent. The schema operating here is competitive: the world is a zero-sum status hierarchy, and Biden's public failure is Trump's elevation. **Trigger classification: Supply-seeking / opportunistic exploitation.** This is not a response to narcissistic injury. No attack on Trump is present. Instead, Biden has handed Trump high-value content and Trump deploys it efficiently. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity Trump casts himself as the **sharp-eyed witness** who observes and exposes what a compliant press would prefer to minimize. The protagonist role here is observer rather than fighter—a posture of confident surveillance rather than defensive rage. Biden serves as the **contrasting other**: the cognitively deteriorating pretender whose public decline validates Trump's identity claim as the competent alternative. The narrative sequence is **contamination**: Biden's America is a story of decline, incompetence, and failing leadership—the summit that was supposed to demonstrate fitness instead revealed its absence. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Projection (Primary Clinical Finding) The post's central clinical significance is structural: Trump mocks Biden's verbal disorganization—word-finding difficulty, possible self-referential confusion about the office of commander-in-chief—at a moment when longitudinal analysis of Trump's own speech patterns documents increasing tangentiality, perseveration, and verbal fluency changes from his own pre-2016 baseline. This is projection in the technical psychoanalytic sense (Vaillant Level 2, immature defense): the intolerable trait is expelled from self-representation and located exclusively in the rival. The defense is self-sealing: by mocking Biden's stumble, Trump simultaneously denies any analogous process in himself and performs the contrast for his audience. **This projection pattern warrants active longitudinal flagging.** ### Splitting The implicit binary is total: Biden = failing, Trump = (by contrast) sharp, competent, fit. No spectrum, no gradation. This is characteristic object-relations splitting that reinforces the grandiose self-state. ### Ego-Syntonic Sadism (Mild) The schadenfreude is undisguised. There is no performative concern for Biden's wellbeing, no "sad" framing, no pivot to policy. The humiliation is the content. This pleasure-in-rival's-suffering falls within the ego-syntonic sadism dimension of Kernberg's malignant narcissism construct, though at a relatively mild intensity for this subject. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Evidence by presentation** is the dominant technique: Trump presents the video clip as self-indicting documentary evidence, maintaining plausible neutrality ("I'm just showing you what he said") while the selection, framing, and ellipsis notation do the rhetorical work. The ellipsis ("my…my…my…") is textual mimicry—it transcribes the stutter into text form, forcing readers to perform the stumble in their own inner voice as they read. **"Crooked Joe"** functions as pre-attitudinal priming: the nickname activates pre-established negative associations before the quote is processed, shaping its interpretation. **Maximum irony exploitation**: Biden stumbled while defending his fitness, at a high-visibility multilateral summit, on live global television. The political timing is near-optimal. The restraint of the text (no ALL CAPS, no superlatives, no self-aggrandizement) reflects confidence that the clip performs the work. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden said 'I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief' (implying self-referential confusion, as Biden is the commander-in-chief)" | **Mostly True** | Biden did make notable verbal errors at the July 11 NATO summit press conference, including the widely documented slip of calling Zelensky 'President Putin' (self-corrected). The 'commander-in-chief' quote presented here—where Biden appears to reference the office he himself holds as if it belongs to someone else—is consistent with the documented pattern of that press conference. The clip attached to the post is the primary evidence; the quote transcription appears accurate based on available reporting of the event. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **None.** No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no target-grievance-action structure. This is political mockery within documented norms for adversarial campaigning. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post is notably restrained relative to Trump's baseline during high-affect periods. The absence of ALL CAPS, superlatives, and self-referential boasting suggests a grandiose rather than vulnerable narcissistic state—confident predation rather than defensive rage. The projection dynamic, however, is longitudinally consistent with Trump's established pattern of directing at Biden the cognitive-fitness concerns that external observers have directed at Trump. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Evening posting time (8:02 PM ET) within plausible authentic window - Use of established 'Crooked Joe' nickname - Brevity consistent with authentic Trump mockery style - Ellipsis dramaturgy ('my…my…my…') mirrors his verbal mimicry pattern at rallies - No polished transitional language; raw quote-and-implicit-laugh format ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Biden's verbal stumble at NATO summit press conference defending cognitive fitness) Sentiment: -0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 55% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers to laugh alongside at shared enemy's humiliation - Positions audience as knowing insiders who 'see' what mainstream media minimizes - Shared contempt as bonding mechanism ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Biden said 'I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief' (implying self-referential confusion, as Biden is the commander-in-chief) **MOSTLY TRUE** Biden did make notable verbal errors at the July 11 NATO summit press conference, including the widely documented slip of calling Zelensky 'President Putin' (self-corrected). The 'commander-in-chief' quote presented here—where Biden appears to reference the office he himself holds as if it belongs to someone else—is consistent with the documented pattern of that press conference. The clip attached to the post is the primary evidence; the quote transcription appears accurate based on available reporting of the event. Sources: Biden NATO Summit Press Conference, July 11, 2024 (per known events); Widely reported press conference coverage Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - Biden devaluation (95%) - cognitive mockery (90%) - projection (85%) - NATO summit (70%) - supply-seeking (75%) - video evidence deployment (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump Savors Biden's NATO Meltdown From Bedminster, Weaving Mockery Into Geopolitical Counter-Programming** Trump spent the day in sustained victory-lap mode, gleefully cataloging Biden's verbal stumbles at the NATO summit press conference and speculating about Democratic infighting. The mood was overwhelmingly triumphant -- more predatory glee than genuine anger, with only one brief flash of defensiveness when media blamed him for Biden's debate performance. Between the Biden mockery, he praised Hungary's Orbán, pushed election-integrity legislation with "Stop the Steal" framing, and shared a cluster of Wall Street Journal articles building the case that his own legal troubles are political persecution. A quiet, strategically productive day with no major eruptions. Full digest for 2024-07-12: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 12). Crooked Joe: "I'm following the advice of my... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112770583264156962 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Joe: "I'm following the advice of my..." Truth Social, 12 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112770583264156962. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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