# Post ts_113080956598652294 - Post ID: `ts_113080956598652294` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-04T19:34:23.724Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113080956598652294 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113080956598652294/analysis ## Post text > SO TERRIBLE! ## 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: > The Biden-Harris administration is gaslighting you, the American people, when it comes to the security of our southern border, and the amount of illegal aliens entering the United States. They're mass importing as many aliens as possible, but they're illegally using methods to prevent the American people from knowing just how many aliens are actually entering the country. President Biden borders our Vice President Harris and Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas have used a phone app called CBP-1 to help illegal aliens get fast pass entry into the United States. Long-standing federal law requires aliens to have a visa before traveling to the United States. They have to take a number of steps before they can come, including filling out a detailed application, completing an interview with a consular officer, getting a medical exam, proving they can support themselves, and other critical vetting steps. But the CBP-1 app gets rid of all of that. No visa, no problem. Instead, illegal aliens from across the globe are encouraged to download an app and head near a port of entry, schedule an appointment, and then go to the port of entry even though they don't have visas, and the law forbids their entry into the United States. No visa, no problem. The aliens don't even have to try to cross the border illegally. The Biden-Harris administration lets them in the front door. Essentially, the Biden-Harris administration created its own immigration system, a fast pass for illegals, on a phone app. Even though there is no law that permits it, the CBP-1 app lets aliens enter basic information about themselves and submit a picture. It's like a dating app for immigration, except DHS almost always swipes right. DHS consistently approves over 95% of applicants through the CBP-1 app each month. Since January 2023, 680,500 aliens have been processed through the app. 31,800 aliens were processed in June 2024 alone, and those who enter using the CBP-1 app are not counted in the U.S. Border Patrol encounter statistics. For the Biden-Harris administration, no visa, no problem. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/080/956/392/615/199/original/85f788a11e8c5d01.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,856 - Reposts: 5,797 - Replies: 1,058 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-03T07:13:09.281Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "SO TERRIBLE!" — September 4, 2024 ## Methodological Note The post consists of two words ("SO TERRIBLE!") plus an attached video file. The video URL (mp4) cannot be meaningfully analyzed as text content, and fetching a binary video file provides no interpretable linguistic or visual data in this context. **The entire affective and semantic load of this post is displaced onto the video.** All conclusions below are necessarily limited by this constraint; the post is essentially context-free without media access. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Highly likely authentic Trump (confidence: high)** Several strong indicators converge: - **ALL CAPS emotional exclamation**: "SO TERRIBLE!" is among the most characteristic Trump linguistic fingerprints — a simple superlative intensifier with exclamation mark, no elaboration - **Radical brevity with emotional saturation**: Trump characteristically uses single-line outrage posts as punctuation between longer content. This fits his known rhythm - **Temporal context**: 19:34 UTC = approximately 3:34 PM Eastern. Trump was reportedly in Harrisburg, PA for a Fox News town hall taping on this date. Mid-afternoon EST is within his active posting window. Not late-night, but Trump posts throughout the day during campaign periods - **Stylistic consistency with surrounding posts**: The same-day posts ("TRUMP CASH vs. KAMALA CRASH!", "Crazy Kamala wants to DEFUND THE POLICE") share the same capitalization-and-exclamation signature. This is a sustained Trump posting session, not an isolated aide-produced message **Aide-written indicators are absent**: no complete grammatical sentence, no schedule/event announcement, no polished framing. --- ## Psychological State and Triggers **Trigger type: Likely narcissistic injury or supply-seeking via shared outrage (confidence: medium)** Without knowing the video content, the trigger cannot be precisely identified. Given the same-day context — Harris-Biden joint Pittsburgh rally, FBI announcement about Iranian hackers targeting campaigns, and Trump's own Fox News town hall in Harrisburg — the most probable hypotheses are: 1. **Harris-Biden Pittsburgh rally footage** (Labor Day, strong union optics, Biden endorsing Harris — a political threat to Trump's Pennsylvania narrative) 2. **Media coverage of Iranian hacking story** (which could be framed as sympathetic to Trump, yet spun against him, or vice versa) 3. **Economic or immigration news clip** (consistent with the surrounding campaign-messaging posts on inflation, borders, Social Security) **Narcissistic state: Grandiose** — the post positions Trump as moral arbiter pronouncing judgment without justification, an authority whose reaction alone is sufficient to frame the content as condemnable. **Rage assessment**: Minimal linguistic rage present. "SO TERRIBLE!" is indignation/disgust rather than hot rage. Intensity is controlled — two words, not a paragraph-length attack. This is performative revulsion rather than Kohutian narcissistic rage. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Neuroticism / angry hostility**: Mildly elevated — affective exclamation, but not sustained - **Agreeableness (low)**: Devaluation mode — whatever is in the video is morally condemned with no nuance - **Conscientiousness (low)**: No elaboration, no information provided to followers — impulsive share --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive**: Dominant — by pronouncing judgment, Trump exercises epistemic authority over followers. He frames their perception before they view the content - **Schema: world as threatening/terrible**: The post contributes to a cumulative ambient-dread environment — "everything [they] do is terrible" — consistent with the surrounding posts painting a picture of national decline --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Witness/moral authority — he sees, he judges, he announces - **Contrasting other**: Undefined without video content, but structurally "them" (the terrible people/event) - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination implied — something that was or should be good is corrupted/terrible - **Identity claims**: Implicit — "I am the one who recognizes and names what is terrible when others don't" --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting (immature)**: The binary of "SO TERRIBLE!" — whatever it is has no redeeming qualities. Classic Kleinian all-bad categorization - **Projection possible** (confidence: low without video): If the video shows political opponents, the labeling of their actions as "terrible" may project Trump's own conduct onto targets — but this is speculative --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Appeal to emotion**: Pure affective priming; followers receive an emotional frame before watching - **Parasocial technique — shared outrage**: By posting a reaction without explanation, Trump invites followers to co-experience indignation, strengthening in-group emotional bonds - **Vagueness as amplifier**: "SO TERRIBLE!" is maximally flexible — each viewer projects their own worst fears onto the video, making the reaction more powerful than any specific claim - **Epistemic authority**: The reaction is unchallengeable because it asserts no falsifiable claim --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **Complexity score: Not assessable** — two words are insufficient for meaningful cognitive analysis. The brevity is stylistically consistent with Trump's known posting patterns rather than indicative of cognitive limitation. No word-finding errors, paraphasia, or temporal confusion detectable. **Baseline deviation: None** — ultra-brief capitalized outburst is a stable Trump posting pattern across the full timeline of his social media use. --- ## Archetypal Analysis - **Primary archetype: Witness/Prophet** — "I see the terrible thing and name it" - **Secondary: Warrior** — the surrounding posts are battle-frame (TRUMP CASH vs. KAMALA CRASH, preventing WW3, fighting inflation). This post fits as a combat moment: identifying the enemy's action as condemnable - **Shadow projection**: The "terrible" entity is the shadow — everything wrong projected outward --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics - **Order restorer**: The post positions Trump's perspective as corrective clarity against a chaotic/terrible status quo - **Grievance mapping**: Grievance implied but unspecified — the video presumably shows something the audience will recognize as objectionable - **Intensity**: Low to moderate — this is ambient-grievance maintenance, not an acute escalation --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** — no target identified, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no call to action. The post is affectively charged but structurally inert from a violence-incitement perspective. --- ## Summary Not generated (post lacks clinically significant or markedly deviant patterns sufficient to warrant summary; content is too minimal for substantive clinical inference). ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS exclamatory style is characteristic Trump fingerprint - Radical brevity with emotional saturation matches known posting rhythm - No complete grammatical sentence — contra aide pattern - Consistent capitalization-and-exclamation signature with same-day authentic posts - Mid-afternoon ET timing during active campaign posting session ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 82% - Agreeableness: 12% - Conscientiousness: 20% - Neuroticism: 65% - Openness: 20% Strongest facet: Assertiveness / angry hostility **Motives:** - Agency: 88% - Communion: 8% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Witness and moral authority — sees the terrible thing and names it - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** Unidentified actors in video — structurally 'them' (the terrible) **Identity Claims:** - I am the one who recognizes and condemns what others may not see ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Unknown — video content not accessible) Sentiment: -0.85 **Mildly Hypomanic** - ALL CAPS usage - Exclamation mark - Part of sustained high-volume posting session (5+ posts same day) - Emotional reactivity without elaboration ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Affective priming before video viewing - Shared outrage invitation — co-experiencing indignation strengthens in-group bonds - Vagueness as amplifier — followers project personal fears onto undefined 'terrible' content - Epistemic authority assertion requiring no falsifiable claim ## Tags - affective-priming (90%) - all-caps (85%) - video-post (95%) - minimal-verbal-content (95%) - shared-outrage (80%) - campaign-content-blitz (70%) - splitting (60%) - grandiose-state (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign-Mode Grandiosity Peaks as "Comrade Kamala" Branding Debuts Across 36-Post Blitz** Trump spent a busy campaign day in Pennsylvania, promoting a Hannity town hall and attending the Moms for Liberty Summit while firing off a sustained barrage of attacks against Kamala Harris. The central theme was branding Harris as "Comrade Kamala" -- a Communist label deployed across multiple rapid-fire posts, marking a clear rhetorical escalation in how he frames his opponent. He mixed in nostalgic economic claims about his presidency, a condolence for the Apalachee High School shooting, and a string of fear-focused immigration posts including one about migrants and a school bus that stood out for its intensity. The mood was overwhelmingly grandiose and combative, with only a brief flash of genuine anger over his gag order in the New York case. Full digest for 2024-09-04: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-04/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 4). SO TERRIBLE! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113080956598652294 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "SO TERRIBLE!" Truth Social, 4 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113080956598652294. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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