# Post ts_113028989446509708 - Post ID: `ts_113028989446509708` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-26T15:18:27.912Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113028989446509708 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113028989446509708/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113028989446509708.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Three years ago, Kamala's and Biden's incompetence left 13 dead warriors, hundreds of civilians killed and grievously wounded, and $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment on the planet abandoned to the Taliban…. ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:31), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > This month marks the three-year anniversary of the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. Kamala and Crookijo's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan has just been horrible for all of us. Three years ago, Kamala and Biden's incompetence left 13 dead warriors, hundreds of civilians killed and grievously wounded, and $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment on the planet abandoned to the Taliban right into the hands of the Taliban. It also left 45 incredible soldiers so badly wounded, the legs, the arms, the face, obliteration. As vice president, Kamala bragged that she was the last person in the room. She was the tough one. She was the last person in the room during that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan decision. She repeatedly praised the decisions, and she said it led to a catastrophe, but it was worth it. The incompetence and weakness on display from the Biden-Harris administration was an insult to every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine who ever served in our U.S. military. As we mark this horrible occasion, we mourn with the families of the great American heroes who lost their lives three years ago, and we vow to never forget the supreme sacrifice they made for our country. America cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris in the White House. She is a disaster. She's a radical Marxist. She destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed the state of California, everything in her way she destroyed. She ran against Crooked Joe Biden, and she lost. She was the first one out of 22 people. She was the first one to quit. She never even in the primary made it to Iowa. And this is not a person that should be running right now. She didn't get one vote. I'm not a fan of Biden at all. I thought he was the worst president in history. I think she's the worst vice president in history, but she got no votes. He got 14 million votes. They staged a coup, and something like that's not supposed to happen in our country. Under my leadership, our nation will be strong and respected like never before, and I will keep America safe. I will keep it safer than ever before, and if I'm not elected, I truly believe you're going to end up in World War III, and you're going to end up in a depression the likes of 1929. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/028/989/061/505/505/original/9f339436bc329c52.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 12,874 - Reposts: 4,600 - Replies: 984 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.338Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:19:41.887Z (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 on the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing, this staff-produced video caption efficiently weaponizes genuine military grief against Kamala Harris. The post's primary psychological function is grief exploitation — using authentic collective trauma (13 dead service members) as political ammunition against an electoral opponent. Core defense mechanisms include projection (attributing full causal responsibility to successors while suppressing Trump's own Doha Agreement, which set withdrawal terms) and splitting (fallen 'warriors' vs. 'incompetent' Biden/Harris, with no policy complexity acknowledged). The $85 billion figure is a persistent distorted anchor — representing the 20-year cumulative investment in Afghan forces, not abandoned materiel (~$7B) — deployed with sufficient repetition that it likely functions as genuine belief rather than conscious deception. The post is almost certainly aide-produced (clean grammar, video attachment, business-hours posting) incorporating Trump's established talking points. Most significant contextually: this post accompanied the Arlington National Cemetery altercation the same day, in which campaign staff physically removed a federal official during a wreath-laying — suggesting a coordinated political operation using the anniversary as both media hook and campaign event. Danger level is elevated: the fallen-soldier framing activates deep military-community grief and assigns blame to named targets, meeting the low threshold for stochastic terrorism pattern recognition without crossing into explicit incitement. No cognitive markers of clinical significance are detectable in this post, though aide authorship limits inferential value. # Psychological Analysis: ts_113028989446509708 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2024-08-26 | **Local Time:** ~11:18 AM Eastern --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-structured (score: 0.35/1.0) | Confidence: Medium** This post reads as a produced media caption rather than spontaneous Trump output. The 11:18 AM Eastern posting time falls squarely in business hours; the grammar is clean; and critically, the post accompanies a video — a format requiring staff coordination. Contrast with the same-day authentic posts containing "Slopadopolus," "Carl's(K?)," "Liddle'," and a trailing "Wil..." mid-thought truncation. The content and $85B talking point are authentically Trump's, but the packaging is staff-mediated. Most probable: Scavino team produced the video asset; Trump contributed or approved the talking points; staff wrote the clean caption. --- ## Situational Context This post lands on the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing (August 26, 2021, Kabul) — a date with genuine news gravity — four days after Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the DNC. The convergence creates an optimal political attack opportunity: an authentic grievance (fallen soldiers) fused with a fresh electoral target (Harris). The known Arlington Cemetery incident on this same day — in which Trump campaign staff physically removed a cemetery official during wreath-laying — contextualizes this post as part of a coordinated Afghanistan anniversary media operation. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post reflects low agreeableness (confrontational blame attribution), high assertiveness (declarative, unqualified causal claims), and moderate neuroticism in the angry-hostility facet. The deliberate, restrained tone — relative to same-day posts — suggests a performed conscientiousness (solemnity as political affect) rather than genuine dispositional deliberation. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power.** The post asserts authoritative causal judgment ("incompetence left...") positioning the subject as the competent arbiter of military affairs. The implicit contrast is with Trump's own record — specifically the Doha Agreement — which is conspicuously absent from the narrative. This omission is not accidental; it is structurally necessary to maintain the contrast between "their failure" and implied alternative competence. **Schema:** World is a zero-sum competition where weakness (the other side) creates disaster and strength (the self) would have prevented it. Military loss becomes proof of the opponent's fundamental unworthiness. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Warrior-champion of the fallen; vigilant critic who remembers what others wish forgotten - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — "Three years ago" marks the moment the good (presumably, Trump's order) was contaminated by the successor's incompetence - **Identity claim:** The implicit claim is "I would not have done this" — competence by contrast, without requiring affirmative substantiation - **Contrasting other:** Biden and Harris as joint symbols of catastrophic executive failure ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Defense mechanisms:** 1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The post performs mourning while functioning as a political attack. The anniversary framing provides moral cover for what is structurally an ad hominem. 2. **Projection (immature):** Trump's own Doha Agreement (February 29, 2020) negotiated the withdrawal terms, set the May 2021 deadline, and released 5,000 Taliban prisoners. Attributing the withdrawal's execution failures exclusively to successors while suppressing one's own causal role constitutes projection of authorship. 3. **Splitting (immature):** "Warriors" (idealized, heroic) vs. "incompetence" (wholly devalued) — no middle ground, no policy complexity, no acknowledgment that the withdrawal itself had bipartisan support. --- ## Cognitive Status **Complexity score: 0.52 (below baseline)** | **Baseline deviation: slight** The post is grammatically intact but structurally simple. Given its aide-written probable authorship, this tells us little about cognitive status directly. The $85B figure is a persistent, oft-repeated talking point — consistent with schema-driven confabulation (repeating a distorted figure because it *feels* true and has been self-reinforced through repetition, not necessarily because of deliberate deception at point of utterance). --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "13 dead warriors (service members killed)" | **True** | 13 U.S. service members were killed in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing on August 26, 2021 — a verified historical fact. | | "Hundreds of civilians killed and grievously wounded" | **Mostly True** | Approximately 170 Afghan civilians were killed and 150+ wounded at Abbey Gate. 'Hundreds' is defensible for combined killed-and-wounded count. | | "$85 billion worth of military equipment abandoned to the Taliban" | **Mostly False** | The $85B figure represents the total 20-year U.S. investment in training and equipping Afghan security forces, not the value of equipment physically left behind. The Pentagon Inspector General estimated abandoned materiel at approximately $7.12 billion. | | "Kamala Harris and Biden's incompetence caused the outcome" | **Half True** | Biden administration made consequential decisions in the final withdrawal execution. However, the withdrawal framework, timeline (May 2021 deadline later moved to August), and Taliban release of 5,000 prisoners were conditions established by Trump's Doha Agreement (Feb 29, 2020), materially constraining successor options. | Overall Veracity: 63% ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present: Yes (moderate)** The post's most significant distortion is structural omission: Trump signed the Doha Agreement in February 2020, negotiating directly with the Taliban, setting withdrawal terms and releasing 5,000 prisoners. This agreement constrained Biden's options significantly. Blaming Biden/Harris for "incompetence" in executing a withdrawal under conditions Trump created is a form of DARVO — Deny (own role), Attack (successors), Reverse Victim and Offender (fallen soldiers become evidence of Biden's guilt rather than consequence of a jointly-authored policy). This is deliberate historical revisionism, not cognitive confabulation. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Warrior-Champion / Avenger of the Dead** The post invokes the archetype of the warrior who honors fallen comrades by demanding accountability. This resonates powerfully with military families and veterans. The secondary archetype is the **Shadow** projection onto Biden/Harris — all weakness, incompetence, and failure are displaced onto them, while the subject implicitly embodies strength and competence. The "finest military equipment on the planet" language serves to amplify the sacrilege: not just loss, but the desecration of American excellence. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Positioning: Order Restorer (nostalgic)** The post invokes a prior order (Trump era = military strength, respect) contaminated by successor incompetence. The implicit promise is restoration. The chaos is located squarely in the Biden-Harris administration; the subject is cast as the potential restorer of proper martial order. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** No direct violent imagery or eliminationist language. However, the post is part of a coordinated anniversary operation that included the Arlington Cemetery altercation (campaign staff physically removing a federal official). The framing of Harris and Biden as responsible for dead soldiers activates deep military-community grief and anger — a form of stochastic terrorism at low intensity: identifying targets (Harris, Biden), articulating a specific, emotionally loaded grievance (13 dead warriors), without explicit call to action. The video attachment amplifies emotional impact beyond text. Flagged elevated, not high, due to absence of explicit incitement language. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post is consistent with a pattern across the day's posts: sustained, multi-vector attack on Harris from multiple angles (border, Afghanistan, Marxist framing, debate concerns). The Afghanistan post is the most emotionally calibrated — deliberately restrained to match the solemnity of a memorial context while maximizing political utility. No deviation from baseline psychological patterns is observed. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Posted at 11:18 AM Eastern (business hours, UTC-4) - Accompanied by produced video attachment — hallmark of staff-coordinated media - Grammatically clean relative to same-day authentic posts (no misspellings, no mid-word ellipses, no parenthetical asides) - Short, punchy caption format consistent with social media team packaging of video content - Contrasts sharply with clearly-authentic same-day posts containing 'Slopadopolus,' 'Carl's(K?),' 'Liddle',' and trailing 'Wil...' truncation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Kamala Harris DNC nomination + Afghanistan anniversary convergence) Sentiment: -0.68 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 52% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invokes fallen soldiers to create shared grief and outrage identity - Video format deepens emotional immersion beyond text alone - Trailing ellipsis creates narrative suspense, pulling audience into further content ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Exploitation of fallen soldiers' deaths to assign personal blame to named electoral opponent - Part of coordinated operation that included physical altercation at Arlington National Cemetery (same day) - Stochastic terrorism pattern at low intensity: named targets + emotionally-loaded military grievance + video amplification - Sustained multi-post attack cadence across the day suggests coordinated incitement rather than spontaneous expression ### Gaslighting - Omits Trump-negotiated Doha Agreement (Feb 2020) that established withdrawal terms and released 5,000 Taliban prisoners — DARVO pattern - $85 billion figure conflates 20-year cumulative investment with abandoned materiel, inflating loss by ~10x - Frames Biden/Harris as sole authors of a policy framework co-authored by Trump administration - Anniversary framing presents selective historical memory as definitive causal account ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > 13 dead warriors (service members killed) **TRUE** 13 U.S. service members were killed in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing on August 26, 2021 — a verified historical fact. Sources: DOD casualty records; Congressional record > Hundreds of civilians killed and grievously wounded **MOSTLY TRUE** Approximately 170 Afghan civilians were killed and 150+ wounded at Abbey Gate. 'Hundreds' is defensible for combined killed-and-wounded count. Sources: UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan reports; Pentagon after-action reporting > $85 billion worth of military equipment abandoned to the Taliban **MOSTLY FALSE** The $85B figure represents the total 20-year U.S. investment in training and equipping Afghan security forces, not the value of equipment physically left behind. The Pentagon Inspector General estimated abandoned materiel at approximately $7.12 billion. Sources: SIGAR reports; Pentagon Inspector General; Congressional Budget Office > Kamala Harris and Biden's incompetence caused the outcome **HALF TRUE** Biden administration made consequential decisions in the final withdrawal execution. However, the withdrawal framework, timeline (May 2021 deadline later moved to August), and Taliban release of 5,000 prisoners were conditions established by Trump's Doha Agreement (Feb 29, 2020), materially constraining successor options. Sources: Doha Agreement text (Feb 2020); State Dept documentation Overall Veracity: 63% ## Tags - Afghanistan withdrawal (95%) - grief exploitation (88%) - anti-Harris (90%) - historical revisionism (85%) - aide-written (72%) - military_symbolism (80%) - anniversary_peg (78%) - inflated_statistics (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-DNC Injury Processing: Harris Obsession Meets Afghanistan Anniversary Weaponization** Trump spent the day recovering from the high of Harris's DNC acceptance speech, attacking her from every angle -- her record, her intelligence, her refusal to do interviews -- while simultaneously exploiting the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal as a political weapon. The morning brought a high-intensity post about the Abbey Gate bombing, timed to coincide with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery that would later become its own controversy when campaign staff clashed with a federal official. The evening before had included a notable rant about ABC News and the upcoming debate, complete with a mid-sentence stumble over a journalist's last name. Overall, a day of moderate volume and controlled aggression, clearly down from the 50-post meltdown during Harris's speech days earlier. Full digest for 2024-08-26: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 26). Three years ago, Kamala's and Biden's... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113028989446509708 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Three years ago, Kamala's and Biden's incompetence left 13..." Truth Social, 26 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113028989446509708. 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