# Post ts_113364894856903240

- Post ID: `ts_113364894856903240`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-10-24T23:03:37.712Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113364894856903240
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113364894856903240/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/24/mel-gibson-kamala-harris-low-iq-fence-post/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,304
- Reposts: 4,223
- Replies: 1,244
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.329Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T01:56:14.420Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A structurally minimal post — a bare URL to a TMZ clip of Mel Gibson calling Kamala Harris a person with "the IQ of a fence post" — that achieves significant psychological work through curation rather than composition. The mechanism is borrowed contempt: routing a dehumanizing insult through an admired male celebrity (Gibson) accomplishes Harris-devaluation while preserving the subject's deniability. The "fence post" formulation is a notably more vivid objectification than the subject's own repeated "low IQ" attacks on Harris, keeping the meme semantically fresh. The absence of any original text — highly atypical of authentic Trump posts — combined with 16:03 PDT timing (three hours before the Las Vegas UNLV rally) strongly suggests aide (Scavino) curation. The post cannot contribute to cognitive longitudinal tracking due to zero original language production. Clinically, this illustrates supply acquisition through celebrity proxy, the grandiose devaluation axis, and the systematic dehumanization pattern that structures the subject's public characterization of Harris throughout the 2024 cycle. Danger assessment: none. The dehumanizing language ("fence post") warrants tagging but does not approach eliminationist or stochastic terrorism threshold.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-10-24T23:03:37Z

## Overview

This post consists entirely of a bare URL linking to a TMZ article reporting that actor Mel Gibson, while speaking to photographers at LAX, called Kamala Harris a person with "the IQ of a fence post" and claimed she had "no policies to speak of" on border issues. There is no original text, caption, or reaction tag.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Likely aide-authored (Scavino). Confidence: Medium.**

The UTC timestamp of 23:03 converts to **16:03 PDT** in Las Vegas, Nevada — where Trump was scheduled for a 19:00 PDT rally at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Arena. This places the post squarely within business/aide operational hours.

More diagnostically: Trump characteristically cannot restrain himself from appending at minimum "SO TRUE!" or "GREAT!" to a share he finds gratifying. A bare URL with zero original commentary is strongly inconsistent with authentic Trump posting behavior. The content — a celebrity attack-by-proxy on Harris — is entirely campaign-consistent, suggesting staff-curated pre-rally queue management rather than a spontaneous Trump scroll through TMZ.

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## Content Summary (from fetch)

Gibson's remarks at LAX on October 24, 2024:
- Harris has "the IQ of a fence post"
- She has a "miserable track record"
- "No policies to speak of" on border issues
- Gibson expressed support for Trump

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## Psychological Analysis

### Mechanism: Borrowed Contempt

The post exemplifies a recurring narcissistic strategy: routing devaluation of a rival through a third-party vehicle. This achieves multiple goals simultaneously:

1. **Attack amplification** — "fence post" is a more vivid dehumanization than the subject's own "low IQ" formulation, keeping the attack semantically fresh
2. **Narcissistic supply** — celebrity validation of the subject's own contempt for Harris
3. **Plausible deniability** — "I didn't say it; Gibson did"
4. **Cultural signaling** — Gibson carries outsider-rebel masculine cultural coding that aligns with the subject's base

This pattern — sharing others' attacks rather than originating them when the target is a specific ongoing devaluation target — appears in the longitudinal record as a complement to direct attacks. The subject has called Harris "low IQ" directly and repeatedly throughout 2024; Gibson's "fence post" variant is curated as a more colorful echo.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose (supply-seeking, contemptuous rather than wounded)

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking and campaign maintenance. No evidence of narcissistic injury in this post — it is offensive rather than defensive posture.

**Rage:** Absent. This is cool, calculated contempt — the sharing of satisfying content rather than reactive hostility.

### Defense Mechanisms

- **Devaluation (immature):** The "fence post" comparison reduces Harris to an inert, witless object — a notably thorough dehumanization that exceeds mere intellectual criticism.
- **Projection (immature):** The subject's own well-documented speech pattern deviations make the "low IQ" attack an especially consistent projection target throughout 2024.
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** Celebrity vehicle provides logical cover — "I'm just sharing news."

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## Multi-Level Personality Framework

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The devaluation pattern and agency-dominance motive structure are consistent with extremely low agreeableness (antagonism facet), high extraversion (assertiveness, engagement), and low openness (rigid, formulaic attack repetition). The "low IQ" attack on Harris has been deployed with high perseveration across dozens of posts — a trait-consistent pattern.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The post reveals a **status motive** operating through devaluation: Harris's perceived status must be actively suppressed. The choice of Gibson — a figure with his own history of public controversy who nonetheless retained cultural capital — may reflect some identification (outsider who "survived" public attacks).

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

The subject casts himself implicitly as a **truth curator**: the one who surfaces what sensible people (celebrities, common Americans) already know. The narrative logic is: "Even Mel Gibson can see it." The contrasting other — Harris as cognitively vacant object — anchors the superiority claim without requiring original authorship.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Ad hominem by proxy:** The attack is on Harris's person and intelligence, routed through Gibson
- **Celebrity social proof:** Gibson's fame functions as an authority signal
- **Dehumanizing simile:** "Fence post" — an inert object — reduces Harris from person to thing
- **Strategic silence:** No text forces the reader to complete the interpretive loop (approval is implied by the share itself), creating low-effort participatory engagement
- **Meme freshness through variation:** "Fence post" refreshes the "low IQ" attack without repetition

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Mel Gibson called Kamala Harris a person with 'the IQ of a fence post'" | **True** | TMZ article confirms Gibson made this statement to photographers at LAX on October 24, 2024 |
| "Harris has 'no policies to speak of' on border issues (Gibson's characterization, implicitly endorsed by share)" | **Mostly False** | Harris had articulated immigration enforcement positions and a root-causes framework for Central American migration during her tenure. 'No policies' is an overstatement used for rhetorical effect. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Cognitive Markers

**Unassessable.** Zero original language production prevents any lexical, syntactic, or coherence analysis. This post contributes nothing to longitudinal cognitive tracking.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** "Fence post" is dehumanizing but not eliminationist. No targets, grievances, or implied action chains consistent with stochastic terrorism framework.

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## Longitudinal Context

The "low IQ" attack on Harris is a high-perseveration element throughout the 2024 cycle — appearing in direct posts as well as these proxy-amplification shares. The pattern of using celebrity voices to deliver attacks the subject also makes directly is consistent across multiple targets historically. This post is unremarkable within the established pattern; its primary research value is as a data point in the dehumanization frequency analysis for the Harris target.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 16:03 PDT (Las Vegas, Trump en route to/preparing for 19:00 PDT UNLV rally) — business hours, low authenticity window
- Post consists solely of a bare URL with zero original text, no caption, no reaction tag — atypical of Trump who habitually appends 'SO TRUE!', 'GREAT!', or commentary
- Polished social media curation pattern (link share only) matches Scavino operation style
- Content (Mel Gibson celebrity quote amplification) is campaign-adjacent supply delivery — consistent with staff-managed queue

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Mel Gibson / celebrity validation ecosystem)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 35%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Celebrity endorsement as social proof signal to followers
- Borrowed contempt — using admired third party as attack vehicle
- Link-as-commentary — the act of sharing IS the statement, maintaining plausible deniability

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Mel Gibson called Kamala Harris a person with 'the IQ of a fence post'

**TRUE**

TMZ article confirms Gibson made this statement to photographers at LAX on October 24, 2024

Sources: https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/24/mel-gibson-kamala-harris-low-iq-fence-post/

> Harris has 'no policies to speak of' on border issues (Gibson's characterization, implicitly endorsed by share)

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Harris had articulated immigration enforcement positions and a root-causes framework for Central American migration during her tenure. 'No policies' is an overstatement used for rhetorical effect.

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- proxy_attack (90%)
- celebrity_endorsement (80%)
- harris_devaluation (85%)
- low_iq_attack_pattern (75%)
- aide_authored (70%)
- dehumanizing_language (65%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- pre_rally_content (50%)

## 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). https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/24/mel-gibson-kamala-h... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113364894856903240
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/24/mel-gibson-kamala-harris-low-..." Truth Social, 24 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113364894856903240. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/24/mel-gibson-kamala-harris-low-...," Truth Social, October 24, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113364894856903240.

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