# Post ts_113216338670236126

- Post ID: `ts_113216338670236126`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-28T17:23:50.202Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Can you imagine that Kamala got up yesterday and tried to pretend she did a good job at the BORDER, when she never even went there, and made it impossible for the great men and women of Border Patrol to properly do their jobs. She let in 14,000 STONE COLD “KILLERS.” I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-27T23:56:48.745Z (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 represents a textbook narcissistic injury response to a genuine political threat: Harris's belated border visit on September 27 moved directly onto Trump's strongest campaign terrain, triggering a cluster of same-day attacks. The psychological structure follows a predictable arc — delegitimize (deny she visited), catastrophize (14,000 roaming murderers), resolve with omnipotent pledge. Clinically notable is the pathological denial of a documented event ("she never even went there"), which functions simultaneously as gaslighting and as an epistemic loyalty test requiring followers to accept a demonstrably false claim. The dehumanization of migrants as an undifferentiated mass of "STONE COLD KILLERS" is complete and functionally eliminationist — stripping individual legal status, humanity, and due process considerations from an entire population. The companion posts from the same day intensify this with horror-register elaboration ("kill again, over and over"). Authorship is assessed as predominantly authentic Trump (0.78) based on strong linguistic fingerprinting, despite midday timing. The grandiose narcissistic state dominates; defenses are primarily pathological (denial, distortion) and immature (splitting, projection). No cognitive deviation from baseline. Danger level is elevated: target identification combined with threat amplification and implied unilateral action creates a stochastic terrorism-adjacent rhetorical structure, particularly as part of a sustained multi-month campaign pattern.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2024-09-28

## Situational Context

Trump posted this from a day that included travel to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the Alabama-Georgia SEC football game (evening) and a Wisconsin rally. The post is timestamped 12:23 PM EDT — midday — and appears as one of several rapid-fire posts attacking Harris following her September 27 border visit. The cluster pattern (NY Post link share → elaborated attack post → this compressed attack post) suggests a coordinated messaging sequence, though the linguistic fingerprint of the text is authentically Trumpian.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post displays the characteristic Big Five profile: **very low agreeableness** (contempt, zero charitable interpretation of Harris), **high extraversion** (assertive, dominating, performative), **low conscientiousness** (impulsive, fact-indifferent), and **high neuroticism via angry hostility** (the rage is barely regulated into the declarative format). Openness is constrained by rigid ideological framing — immigration is a zero-sum moral catastrophe authored by the opponent.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate entirely.** The closing pledge — "I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!" — is a pure power-and-control assertion. Communion motives surface only instrumentally: "the great men and women of Border Patrol" are invoked not for relational warmth but as a rhetorical cudgel against Harris ("made it impossible for them to do their jobs").

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self*: Decisive, competent, the sole actor capable of resolving national crisis
- *Harris*: Fraudulent, negligent, a FOOL who enabled mass murder through incompetence
- *Migrants (specifically)*: Undifferentiated mass of killers, not human individuals with legal status

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The returning warrior-savior. The first-person declaration is future-oriented and omnipotent — "I WILL GET THEM OUT" — casting Trump as the one whose return restores order.

**Redemption sequence:** Current contamination (Harris's border catastrophe, 14,000 killers roaming free) → Trump's return → swift resolution. This is a compressed redemption arc that positions his electoral victory as the only available resolution to existential threat.

**Contrasting other:** Kamala Harris, constructed as simultaneously deceptive ("tried to pretend") and catastrophically incompetent.

**Identity claims:** Protector of American safety; champion of Border Patrol; truth-teller against Harris's performance.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

The **trigger** is unmistakable: Harris's border visit on September 27 directly threatened Trump's exclusive narrative ownership of immigration — his strongest campaign issue. When an opponent moves onto your core terrain, it constitutes a narcissistic injury via unfavorable comparison. The response follows the injury-to-rage-to-grandiose-resolution arc: delegitimize her claim ("pretend," "never even went there"), escalate the threat to horror-film proportions, resolve with omnipotent first-person pledge.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The closing declaration is expansive, dominant, totally confident. No vulnerability or persecution framing in this post (contrast with the ABC News/lawsuit denial post from the same day, which is more wounded in register).

**Rage intensity:** Moderate-high (0.78). The rage is channeled and directed rather than purely chaotic — it is weaponized rather than dysregulated, which is clinically consistent with ego-syntonic expression.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (pathological):** "She never even went there." Harris visited the border on September 27, 2024 — a widely reported event. This is not a rhetorical distortion; it is a factual denial of a documented reality.

**Splitting (immature):** The post operates entirely in black-and-white. There is no gradient between Harris's complete failure and Trump's complete competence. Border Patrol agents are "great men and women" frustrated by Harris — no complexity.

**Distortion (pathological):** The "14,000 STONE COLD KILLERS" framing collapses a dataset about individuals *accused* of murder (not convicted, not confirmed, not uniformly dangerous) into a homogeneous mass of roaming serial killers. This is reality reshaped to maximize threat.

**Projection (immature):** Trump accuses Harris of "pretending" — performative dishonesty — while himself asserting a demonstrably false claim (she never visited) and distorting immigration statistics.

### Malignant Narcissism Components

- **Narcissistic features** (0.85): Grandiosity, entitlement, exploitativeness, lack of empathy for migrants as individuals
- **Antisocial features** (0.60): Deceitfulness (false "never went there" claim), disregard for legal precision in characterizing migrants
- **Paranoid features** (0.45): Implicit — the threat narrative positions the country as under active invasion
- **Ego-syntonic sadism** (0.55): Most visible in companion post ("kill again, over and over, and wreak havoc like never seen before") — there is relish in the elaboration of horror

## Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a compressed version of what might be called the **threat-incompetence-savior** tripartite structure:

1. **Incompetence frame:** Harris "tried to pretend," "never even went there," "made it impossible"
2. **Threat amplification:** "14,000 STONE COLD 'KILLERS'" freely roaming
3. **Savior pledge:** "I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!"

**Dehumanization is functionally complete.** The migrant population is not described as individuals with alleged criminal records — they are collapsed entirely into a monolithic category of killers. This eliminates cognitive space for legal nuance, individual assessment, or due process considerations. The rhetorical effect is to make mass removal feel not only justified but morally urgent.

**Stochastic terrorism indicators are present:**
- Target population identified: "14,000 STONE COLD KILLERS" (nominally in ICE custody or deportation pipeline, but the framing implies broader population)
- Grievance articulated: they are murderers who will "kill again"
- Action implied: "I WILL GET THEM OUT" — but the companion post's elaboration creates a vigilante permission structure

## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

- **"She never even went there"** — demonstrably false. Harris visited the border September 27, 2024. This is not spin; it is direct denial of documented fact.
- The claim functions as a **loyalty test**: to agree with Trump requires accepting a claim contradicted by news footage and reporting. This is epistemic closure in practice.

## Cognitive Status

No significant deviation from Trump's established baseline. The sentence structure, the conversational opener ("Can you imagine"), the ALL CAPS escalation, and the declarative close are all consistent with his documented communication style across the 2024 campaign period. No word-finding anomalies, perseveration beyond his established thematic repetition, or temporal confusion are evident.

## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Warrior + Order Restorer.** Trump positions himself as the one who will re-impose order on a chaos authored by incompetent/malevolent leadership. The football game attendance the same day (crowd chanting "USA") reinforces the archetypal warrior-king dynamic — physically present in the territory, receiving acclaim.

**Shadow projection:** The cruelty and deception Trump attributes to Harris ("tried to pretend," "FOOL") and to migrants ("killers") functions as shadow projection — traits disowned in the self are located entirely in the Other.

**Trickster element:** "Can you imagine" — the conspiratorial wink, the shared outrage at what official channels won't say plainly.

## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated.**

The post dehumanizes a population ("STONE COLD KILLERS"), articulates an existential threat (they will "kill again, over and over"), and promises unilateral, rapid-action removal ("I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!"). While not explicitly calling for civilian action, the rhetorical frame creates a permission structure in which violence against the designated target group could be experienced by followers as morally pre-authorized. The companion post's elaboration ("wreak havoc like never seen before") intensifies this dynamic. Individually this is elevated; as a sustained campaign pattern across months of similar rhetoric, the cumulative effect warrants higher concern.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "She never even went there [the border]" | **False** | Kamala Harris visited the El Paso, Texas border on September 27, 2024 — the day before this post. The visit was widely reported across all major news outlets and documented with on-site footage. |
| "14,000 STONE COLD 'KILLERS' let in" | **Mostly False** | The NY Post article Trump shared the same day cited approximately 15,000 individuals *accused* of murder-related charges — not convicted killers. Trump's formulation strips legal distinction between accusation and conviction, inflates certainty, and uses theatrical language ('STONE COLD') that transforms a contested dataset into a horror-genre claim. The companion post further distorts this to '14,000 CONVICTED thugs... who have committed MURDER.' |
| "She made it impossible for Border Patrol to properly do their jobs" | **Unverifiable** | This is a contested political opinion claim, not a falsifiable factual assertion. Border Patrol union leadership has been critical of Biden-Harris administration policies, but the claim as stated is not empirically assessable. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- 'Can you imagine' is a signature Trump conversational opener
- ALL CAPS on 'STONE COLD', 'KILLERS', and 'I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!'
- Triple exclamation points consistent with authentic Trump cadence
- Stream-of-consciousness sentence structure with embedded subordinate clauses
- Quotation marks around 'KILLERS' — a stylistic tick Trump uses for theatrical emphasis

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Kamala Harris's border visit on Sept 27 directly challenged Trump's ownership of the immigration issue — his strongest campaign narrative)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting Kamala Harris and by extension migrant population labeled as 'killers'
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.82

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid cluster posting on same theme across same day
- Escalating intensity across sequential posts on same subject
- Grandiose self-referential pledge with triple exclamation marks
- High-energy engagement with multiple simultaneous events (football game attendance, Wisconsin rally, multiple Truth Social posts)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 55%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to audience ('Can you imagine') creates conspiratorial intimacy
- Shared indignation ('our beautiful USA') binds audience to Trump's emotional state
- Omnipotent promise ('I WILL GET THEM OUT') positions Trump as sole savior

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Complete dehumanization of migrant population as 'STONE COLD KILLERS' — no individual identity, legal status, or due process acknowledged
- Threat amplification: 'will kill again, over and over, and wreak havoc like never seen before' (companion post) creates moral urgency that can pre-authorize civilian action
- Target population implicitly identified as present and dangerous within U.S. territory
- Omnipotent removal pledge ('I WILL GET THEM OUT, AND FAST!!!') without procedural specificity — signals extralegal action as acceptable
- Pattern of sustained eliminationist immigration rhetoric across months of campaign messaging compounds individual post risk

### Gaslighting

- Direct denial of documented event: 'she never even went there' — Harris's Sept 27 border visit is a matter of public record with news footage
- False claim asserted with total confidence, forcing followers to choose between documented reality and Trump's assertion — classic loyalty-test structure
- Characterization of Harris's border visit as entirely fabricated performance ('tried to pretend she did a good job') reframes real event as non-event

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-27._

> She never even went there [the border]

**FALSE**

Kamala Harris visited the El Paso, Texas border on September 27, 2024 — the day before this post. The visit was widely reported across all major news outlets and documented with on-site footage.

Sources: Contemporary news reporting, September 27-28 2024

> 14,000 STONE COLD 'KILLERS' let in

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The NY Post article Trump shared the same day cited approximately 15,000 individuals *accused* of murder-related charges — not convicted killers. Trump's formulation strips legal distinction between accusation and conviction, inflates certainty, and uses theatrical language ('STONE COLD') that transforms a contested dataset into a horror-genre claim. The companion post further distorts this to '14,000 CONVICTED thugs... who have committed MURDER.'

Sources: NY Post, September 27 2024 (shared by Trump in preceding post)

> She made it impossible for Border Patrol to properly do their jobs

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a contested political opinion claim, not a falsifiable factual assertion. Border Patrol union leadership has been critical of Biden-Harris administration policies, but the claim as stated is not empirically assessable.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- immigration (95%)
- dehumanization (88%)
- harris-attack (92%)
- fear-appeal (87%)
- eliminationist-rhetoric (75%)
- gaslighting (82%)
- grandiose-state (85%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (88%)
- false-factual-claim (90%)
- campaign-2024 (80%)

## That day

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

**Harris Border Visit Triggers 27-Post Dehumanization Campaign Escalating From Late-Night Grievance to Rally-Stage Eliminationism**

Trump spent nearly the entire day attacking Kamala Harris over her border visit to Douglas, Arizona, recycling a shifting "murderers" statistic across more than a dozen posts and ratcheting up the language with each iteration. The morning started with late-night reactive posts denying a lawsuit story while simultaneously attacking the debate moderator, then pivoted to a relentless immigration fear campaign that peaked at an afternoon rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he promised to "LIBERATE" the state from a migrant "invasion" of "murderers, rapists, hoodlums, drug dealers, thugs, and vicious gang members." Along the way, the number of alleged immigrant murderers drifted from 14,000 to 15,000 to 13,099, and "accused" quietly became "CONVICTED" without correction. It was one of the most single-minded and rhetorically extreme days of the campaign, with over half the posts containing rage and fifteen rated at elevated danger or higher.

Full digest for 2024-09-28: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 28). Can you imagine that Kamala got up yesterday and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113216338670236126
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Can you imagine that Kamala got up yesterday and tried to..." Truth Social, 28 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113216338670236126. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Can you imagine that Kamala got up yesterday and tried to...," Truth Social, September 28, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113216338670236126.

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