# Post ts_113363874230101273

- Post ID: `ts_113363874230101273`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-10-24T18:44:04.184Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada’s Borders. We are the only “stupid ones” that allow people, including hundreds of thousands of criminals, to freely come into the United States through our ridiculous “Open Borders” Policy. The damage has already been done, but it must be corrected IMMEDIATELY!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/363/874/143/118/332/original/4928ffaf28407547.jpg

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T01:55:42.336Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Thirteen days before the 2024 election, this post deploys Trump's most reliable activation theme — immigration — with characteristic rhetorical efficiency. The Trudeau gambit is the structural centerpiece: by invoking a liberal foreign leader as unwitting validation, Trump converts a partisan claim into apparent cross-ideological consensus, foreclosing counterargument. The scare-quote device ("stupid ones," "Open Borders") performs knowing contempt rather than genuine self-deprecation, inverting the label onto the opposing administration. Psychologically, the post reflects a grandiose narcissistic state — the clear-eyed truth-teller exposing what others deny — with prominent splitting (open/closed binary), significant distortion (the mass criminalization of an entire migrant population, the fabricated "Open Borders Policy" label), and mild projection. No narcissistic rage episode is present; the emotional register is urgent-contemptuous, calibrated for base mobilization rather than reactive venting. Cognitive markers are absent; the post is coherent and consistent with his established baseline. The principal clinical concern is the dehumanizing aggregate criminalization ("hundreds of thousands of criminals"), which strips individuation from a targeted population and constructs a collective threat requiring forcible emergency correction. This pattern — mass threat label + urgency imperative — constitutes elevated danger rhetoric toward the named population even absent explicit calls to action. Authorship is likely authentic or lightly aide-polished, consistent with campaign maintenance posting.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — October 24, 2024

## Authorship Attribution

**Converted timestamp:** 18:44 UTC → **14:44 EDT** (Eastern Daylight Time; daylight saving still in effect October 24). Trump was in active swing-state barnstorming — Greenville NC rally and Michigan roundtable both documented in this window — placing him in the Eastern time zone.

**Assessment:** The 2:44 PM local time falls squarely within business hours, the primary Scavino/aide attribution window. However, the post contains several authentically Trumpian stylistic fingerprints: the ironic scare-quote device applied to self ("stupid ones"), the rhetorical delegitimizing quotes ("Open Borders"), the ALL CAPS urgency closer (IMMEDIATELY!), and the characteristically paratactic run-on sentence that accelerates emotionally toward closure. The voice is consistent with authenticated Trump posts across the 2016–2024 corpus. **Most probable scenario:** authentic Trump composition or at most lightly aide-polished campaign talking point drafted in real time from a news alert or briefing about Trudeau's border measures. **Confidence: medium.** Authenticity score: 0.62.

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## Trigger and Psychological State

This is a **maintenance/supply-seeking post** with campaign mobilization overlay — not a reactive post to a direct personal attack. Immigration is Trump's single most reliable base activation topic, deployed here in the final 13-day sprint. The Trudeau reference functions as the structural engine: using a recognizably liberal foreign leader as an unwitting validator converts a partisan position into apparent cross-ideological consensus. The logic: *if even Trudeau agrees, the administration's denial is inexplicable stupidity.*

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. Trump positions himself as the uniquely rational truth-teller amid mass denial. The self-application of "stupid ones" in quotes is a distancing rhetorical inversion — wearing the insult ironically to redirect it at the opposing administration. This is controlled, strategic grandiosity rather than reactive wounded grandiosity.

**Rage:** Absent as a primary affect. The emotional register is **urgent-contemptuous** — a cooler, more calculated emotional temperature than the raw narcissistic rage visible in posts responding to direct personal attacks (e.g., indictment posts). The IMMEDIATELY! caps conveys manufactured urgency more than anger.

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## Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Splitting | Immature | Strict binary: borders-closed (smart) vs. borders-open (stupid). No intermediate policy space acknowledged. |
| Distortion | Pathological | "Hundreds of thousands of criminals" grossly overstates verifiable figures; "Open Borders Policy" fabricates a formal policy label that does not exist in U.S. law or regulation. |
| Projection | Immature | Chaos and lawlessness attributed to the migrant population while Trump himself is the primary introducer of institutional disruption in the system. |

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The rhetorical architecture is efficient and multi-layered:

1. **Liberal foil construction** ("Even Justin Trudeau") — peer-validates the premise by invoking an opponent-adjacent authority
2. **Ironic self-labeling** ("stupid ones" in quotes) — performs national humiliation while deflecting it onto the administration
3. **Mass criminalization** ("hundreds of thousands of criminals") — applies a collective criminal designation to an undifferentiated population, removing individuation
4. **False policy label** ("Open Borders Policy") — fabricates an official designation requiring audience to accept a false premise as given
5. **Contamination framing** ("The damage has already been done") — forecloses optimism, creates urgency
6. **Urgency imperative** ("must be corrected IMMEDIATELY!") — emergency register legitimizing forceful response

**Dehumanization assessment:** Moderate. The aggregate criminalization of the immigrant population ("hundreds of thousands of criminals") is the key dehumanizing element — it constructs an undifferentiated mass threat rather than addressing specific criminal actors. This is the rhetorical precursor pattern associated with escalated hostility toward the named population.

**Stochastic terrorism:** Below threshold. No specific individual or sub-group is targeted, no explicit grievance-to-action chain is articulated. However, the population-level criminalization framing maintains an ambient elevated danger signal.

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## Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The rational witness — the candidate who alone names what others deny or enable
- **Contrasting other:** Biden-Harris administration as "the stupid ones"; Trudeau deployed ironically as liberal foil who concedes the protagonist's point
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — America's borders have been ruined; the damage is definitively done
- **Implicit redemption arc:** Only immediate corrective action (Trump's election) can arrest and reverse the contamination
- **Identity claims:** "We" (Trump supporters/real Americans) are not the stupid ones; stupidity is located in those running current policy

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## Cognitive Status

No clinically notable deviations from established baseline. The post is characteristically paratactic and simple in syntax. The quotation-mark device is a consistent deliberate stylistic pattern across the entire Trump corpus, not a cognitive artifact. No word-finding gaps, perseveration, paraphasic errors, temporal confusion, or confabulation are detected. Vocabulary sophistication and logical coherence are consistent with his 2016–2024 campaign speech and social media baseline. Complexity score: 0.28 (within expected range for this speaker and context).

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada's Borders" | **Half True** | Canada's government had announced tightened border security measures and changes to asylum processing in 2024, including amendments to the Safe Third Country Agreement. However, characterizing this as Trudeau 'wanting to close Canada's borders' significantly overstates the scope and intent of these measures, which were targeted regulatory adjustments, not border closure. |
| "Hundreds of thousands of criminals freely come into the United States" | **Mostly False** | While some individuals with criminal records have entered the U.S. irregularly, the characterization of 'hundreds of thousands of criminals' freely entering is a gross exaggeration unsupported by CBP or DOJ data. The vast majority of irregular border crossers have no criminal record. The term 'criminals' is also applied post-hoc since unauthorized entry is a civil violation, not a criminal offense for first-time crossers. |
| "The U.S. has an 'Open Borders' Policy" | **False** | The United States has no official 'open borders' policy. During the Biden administration the U.S. maintained active border enforcement, CBP operations, Title 42 expulsions (until 2023), and processed millions of removal orders. While critics argued enforcement was inadequate, 'Open Borders Policy' is a rhetorical characterization with no basis in statute, regulation, or official policy designation. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Danger Assessment: **Elevated**

The mass criminalization framing ("hundreds of thousands of criminals") applied to an entire population of migrants, combined with the urgency imperative ("must be corrected IMMEDIATELY"), constitutes elevated danger rhetoric toward the named population. The pattern — collective criminal threat label + emergency correction mandate — is documented in literature on pre-violence political rhetoric. No specific target is named, and the stochastic terrorism threshold is not met, but the ambient danger to the referenced population is meaningfully elevated above neutral campaign messaging.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 62%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS urgency closer (IMMEDIATELY!) — a consistent authentic Trump marker
- Rhetorical quotation marks around 'stupid ones' and 'Open Borders' — Trump's characteristic scare-quote device
- Self-deprecating ironic framing ('We are the only stupid ones') — authentic Trump rhetorical inversion
- Post time 14:44 EDT (business hours) suggests possible aide involvement or light aide polish
- Run-on sentence structure with emotional acceleration is consistent with authentic voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Biden-Harris immigration policy / final 13-day campaign push)

Sentiment: -0.68

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Urgency escalation (IMMEDIATELY!) within otherwise controlled post
- Campaign barnstorming period — 13 days pre-election consistent with elevated baseline activation
- Multiple posts same day spanning gratitude, voter mobilization, immigration attack — high output rate

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 68%
- Antisocial: 42%
- Paranoid: 48%
- Sadism: 18%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'We' construction inviting audience into shared victimhood ('We are the only stupid ones')
- Urgency framing (IMMEDIATELY!) simulating direct command to followers
- Ironic self-deprecation as group solidarity marker — 'stupid ones' said with knowing contempt

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Mass criminalization of immigrant population ('hundreds of thousands of criminals') removes individual dignity and constructs collective threat — a rhetorical pattern associated with elevated hate crime risk against named population
- Urgency imperative ('must be corrected IMMEDIATELY') frames situation as emergency requiring forcible response, legitimizing aggressive policy and potentially vigilante action
- No specific individual targeted; stochastic terrorism threshold not met, but population-level dehumanization elevates ambient danger

### Gaslighting

- 'Open Borders Policy' — fabricates a formal policy label that does not exist, requiring audience to accept a false premise as given
- 'The damage has already been done' — asserts catastrophic definitive harm as established fact without evidentiary basis
- Implicit DARVO structure: administration attacked for a policy characterization the administration does not recognize or use

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._

> Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada's Borders

**HALF TRUE**

Canada's government had announced tightened border security measures and changes to asylum processing in 2024, including amendments to the Safe Third Country Agreement. However, characterizing this as Trudeau 'wanting to close Canada's borders' significantly overstates the scope and intent of these measures, which were targeted regulatory adjustments, not border closure.

Sources: General knowledge of Canadian immigration policy 2024

> Hundreds of thousands of criminals freely come into the United States

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While some individuals with criminal records have entered the U.S. irregularly, the characterization of 'hundreds of thousands of criminals' freely entering is a gross exaggeration unsupported by CBP or DOJ data. The vast majority of irregular border crossers have no criminal record. The term 'criminals' is also applied post-hoc since unauthorized entry is a civil violation, not a criminal offense for first-time crossers.

Sources: General knowledge of U.S. border enforcement data and immigration law

> The U.S. has an 'Open Borders' Policy

**FALSE**

The United States has no official 'open borders' policy. During the Biden administration the U.S. maintained active border enforcement, CBP operations, Title 42 expulsions (until 2023), and processed millions of removal orders. While critics argued enforcement was inadequate, 'Open Borders Policy' is a rhetorical characterization with no basis in statute, regulation, or official policy designation.

Sources: General knowledge of U.S. immigration enforcement 2021–2024

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- immigration (95%)
- border_security (90%)
- mass_criminalization (85%)
- campaign_2024 (80%)
- fear_appeal (80%)
- splitting (75%)
- distortion (75%)
- grandiose_state (70%)
- dehumanizing_language (70%)
- false_policy_label (65%)
- liberal_foil_construction (65%)
- urgency_manufacturing (60%)
- trudeau_reference (55%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Trail Blitz: Georgia-to-Vegas Barnstorming Fueled by Grandiose Immigration Rhetoric and Harris Devaluation**

Trump spent the day barnstorming from Georgia to Arizona to Las Vegas, posting heavily in a late-night burst after his Georgia rally and then again through the afternoon. The mood was overwhelmingly self-assured and attack-oriented, with immigration dominating as the day's central weapon -- towns "invaded and conquered," immigrants branded as "bloodthirsty criminals," and Harris framed as their enabler. A brief flash of anger surfaced in response to Hitler comparisons from John Kelly and Harris, but it was quickly absorbed back into the campaign's relentless forward momentum. The day's most striking feature was the sheer volume and mechanical efficiency of the operation: 30 posts mixing high-octane rally energy with aide-curated link drops, all calibrated for the final 13-day sprint.

Full digest for 2024-10-24: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 24). Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada’s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113363874230101273
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada’s Borders. We are..." Truth Social, 24 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113363874230101273. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada’s Borders. We are...," Truth Social, October 24, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113363874230101273.

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