# Post ts_113753883210775585

- Post ID: `ts_113753883210775585`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-01-01T15:48:28.954Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113753883210775585/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113753883210775585.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!

## Engagement

- Likes: 54,718
- Reposts: 13,646
- Replies: 5,410
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:40:25.745Z (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 New Year's Day post exhibits a clinically notable pattern: a mass casualty event is processed primarily as personal vindication. Structural sequencing — self-vindication before victim sympathy — reveals characteristic motivational priorities, with supply-seeking as the dominant trigger. The post's central rhetorical and factual problem is material misattribution: attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar (U.S.-born Army veteran) is implicitly categorized as evidence for "criminals coming in," directly inverting the perpetrator's demographic reality. The accompanying crime-rate claim ("level nobody has ever seen before") is falsified by FBI data. These distortions direct audience anger toward immigrants for an attack perpetrated by a citizen at peak emotional arousal — warranting elevated danger assessment. Defense mechanisms include rationalization (domestic attack deployed to validate immigration claims) and pathological distortion (perpetrator identity reshaped to fit narrative). Authorship is likely collaborative — mid-morning EST timing and polished grammar suggest aide involvement, but I-told-you-so structure and "Fake News Media" lexicon are authentically Trumpian. The post enacts a Vindicated Prophet archetype while asserting proto-presidential authority 20 days before inauguration. No cognitive anomalies detected. Clinically, this post is most significant for demonstrating how narcissistic supply-seeking operates through genuine tragedy, and for the measurable reality distortion in perpetrator identification that functions as gaslighting at scale.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — January 1, 2025 (New Orleans Attack Response)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Probable collaborative authorship (aide-drafted / subject-approved) — Confidence: Medium**

- **Timing:** 15:48 UTC = **10:48 AM EST** (Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL for New Year's). This falls squarely within business hours — aide-consistent.
- **Polish indicators:** No typos, no ALL CAPS outbursts, complete and logically structured sentences — all point toward aide drafting or editing.
- **Authentic indicators:** "Fake News Media" label is highly characteristic authentic lexicon. The I-told-you-so structure, self-vindication before victim sympathy, and exploitation of a tragedy for personal credibility are deeply consistent with documented Trump rhetorical patterns.
- **Most probable interpretation:** Aide-drafted or aide-polished with subject's direct thematic input or approval. The subject's known instinct to use high-valence events for self-vindication is present, even if the execution is smoother than raw authentic posts.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (high, ~0.78):** Assertive, audience-directed, performative presidential authority.
- **Agreeableness (very low, ~0.18):** Combative framing against Democrats/media; sympathy is bracketed and secondary to personal claims.
- **Conscientiousness (low, ~0.30):** Exploiting a mass-casualty event for political ammunition rather than maintaining focus on victims; unconcerned with factual accuracy.
- **Neuroticism (moderate, ~0.48):** Mild hostile affect toward media/Democrats; significantly calmer than injury-triggered posts.
- **Openness (low, ~0.22):** Rigid categorical framing; no acknowledgment of complexity in the perpetrator's profile.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Validation (agency > communion)**

The post's structural logic prioritizes self-vindication. The agency motive — specifically the need to establish that one's prior perceptions were correct against institutional resistance — is primary. Communion is performative and structural: sympathy for victims serves as rhetorically necessary closure but is not motivationally leading.

**Schema activation:**
- *Self-schema:* "I see reality clearly; others deny it and are proven wrong."
- *Other-schema (enemy):* Democrats and media as deliberate reality suppressors.
- *World-schema:* Dangerous, invaded, crime-ridden — catastrophist framing.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The Vindicated Prophet — warned, dismissed, ultimately proven correct by events.
- **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc — prior statement attacked (contamination) → events validate truth (redemption).
- **Identity claims:** "I identified the threat accurately when others denied it"; "I will exercise presidential authority in response" (asserted 20 days before inauguration).
- **Contrasting other:** Democrats and Fake News Media — the epistemic villains who suppressed accurate information.

**Archetypal register:** This post enacts the *Prophet/Cassandra* archetype embedded within the *Warrior* frame. The prophet was ignored; now vindication arrives through tragedy. There is also a *King* assertion in the closing — "The Trump Administration will fully support..." — projecting executive authority before it is legally held.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger type: Supply-seeking (opportunistic)**
- No narcissistic injury is present. The New Orleans attack is processed not as threat but as opportunity: a high-emotion public event that retroactively validates prior contested claims.
- This is a documented pattern: external tragedies assimilated into the self-narrative as personal vindication evidence.

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose**
- Expansive, self-aggrandizing, dominant positioning. No vulnerability markers.

**Narcissistic features present:**
- Grandiosity: "I was right, they were wrong" before condolences.
- Entitlement: Preemptive presidential authority claim.
- Lack of empathy as primary motivator: Structural sequencing prioritizes self-validation over victim acknowledgment.
- Envy-reversal: Those who "refuted" him are cast as now exposed as wrong.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The attack by a U.S.-born Army veteran is used to validate claims about immigrant criminality. A logical veneer ("it turned out to be true") covers a material factual non-sequitur.

2. **Distortion (pathological):** The factual profile of Shamsud-Din Jabbar — U.S. citizen, Army veteran, born Beaumont, TX — is reshaped to fit the "criminals coming in" categorical frame. This is either deliberate manipulation or motivated misperception; either interpretation is clinically significant.

3. **Projection (immature):** Democrats and media are cast as the reality-distorters ("constantly refuted") while the subject performs the role of suppressed truth-teller.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Primary technique: False conflation / categorical misattribution**
The post's central rhetorical move exploits the fact that most readers will not immediately know Jabbar's biographical profile. By deploying "criminals coming in" immediately before addressing the attack, the post invites readers to connect these categories. This is structurally dishonest.

**Secondary techniques:**
- **Hyperbole:** "crime rate at a level nobody has ever seen before" — measurably false, functions to amplify ambient fear.
- **Enemy framing:** "Democrats and the Fake News Media" as a unified epistemic-suppression apparatus.
- **Performative authority:** "The Trump Administration will fully support..." — pre-inaugural executive identity claim that signals continuity with presidential register.
- **Emotional sequencing:** Moves from grievance (self-vindication) → fear amplification (crime rate) → sympathy → authority assertion. Each step primes the next.

**Propaganda model:** Partial Firehose application — a false factual claim (crime at historic high) delivered with confident assertion velocity.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present: Yes**
- "Constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media" positions the subject as a suppressed truth-teller and the institutions as deliberate distorters — inverting the factual record on this specific attack.
- The crime-rate claim is presented as "turned out to be true" when it is empirically false.
- Epistemic closure mechanism: Followers who accept this framing are positioned to distrust any correction as further evidence of media suppression.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "This attack validates 'criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country'" | **False** | The New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran born in Beaumont, Texas — not an immigrant. Using this attack as evidence for claims about immigrant criminality is a material factual misrepresentation. |
| "The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before" | **False** | FBI UCR and BJS data consistently show U.S. violent crime rates are substantially lower than early-1990s peaks, when homicide rates were roughly double recent levels. The claim inverts available trend data. |
| "Jabbar's attack was an act of allegiance to ISIS" | **Mostly True** | Jabbar posted videos pledging allegiance to ISIS before the attack per known events. 'Pure evil' is characterization, not fact claim. |

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Danger Assessment: **Elevated**

**Rationale:**
1. **Misattribution at peak emotional arousal:** Directing audience anger toward "criminals coming in" for an attack perpetrated by a U.S.-born citizen occurs at the moment of maximum public fear and grief — a dangerous combination.
2. **Stochastic terrorism structural elements:** The post identifies a threat category (immigrant criminals), articulates a grievance (truth was suppressed), and implicitly validates prior fears about this group — at high national attention.
3. **Fear amplification:** The false crime-rate claim ("nobody has ever seen before") sustains a state of ambient threat perception that exceeds evidential support.
4. **No dehumanizing language or explicit incitement** prevents escalation to "high" or "critical."

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## Cognitive Status

No anomalies. Language complexity, syntactic coherence, and logical flow are consistent with baseline Trump/aide-hybrid posts. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or temporal confusion. Stable relative to prior context posts.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 58%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 10:48 AM EST (business hours) — aide-consistent timing
- No typos or spelling errors — polished prose throughout
- Three-part logical argument structure unusual for unedited authentic Trump
- 'Fake News Media' label is highly authentic Trump lexicon
- I-told-you-so framing is characteristic Trump self-vindication pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (New Orleans Bourbon Street attack)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 52%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared vindication framing ('we were right')
- Collective victimhood ('constantly refuted')
- Patriotic identification ('brave officers')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Misattribution of U.S.-born citizen's terrorist act to immigrant criminality category directs audience anger at misidentified target group at moment of heightened emotional arousal
- Stochastic terrorism structural elements present: threat category identified (immigrant criminals), grievance articulated (truth was suppressed), implicit validation of prior fears activated during national tragedy
- High-emotion event exploited to amplify fear-based immigration narrative
- False crime-rate claim ('nobody has ever seen before') sustains ambient threat perception beyond evidential support

### Gaslighting

- 'Constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media' positions subject as suppressed truth-teller and institutions as deliberate distorters
- Domestic terrorist's profile silently reshaped within hours of attack to fit immigrant-criminality narrative
- Crime-rate falsity presented as vindicated truth ('turned out to be true')
- Epistemic closure mechanism: followers primed to interpret any factual correction as further media suppression

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> This attack validates 'criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country'

**FALSE**

The New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran born in Beaumont, Texas — not an immigrant. Using this attack as evidence for claims about immigrant criminality is a material factual misrepresentation.

Sources: Known Events: New Orleans Bourbon Street Terror Attack — Jabbar identified as Army veteran

> The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before

**FALSE**

FBI UCR and BJS data consistently show U.S. violent crime rates are substantially lower than early-1990s peaks, when homicide rates were roughly double recent levels. The claim inverts available trend data.

Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reports historical series; Bureau of Justice Statistics NCVS

> Jabbar's attack was an act of allegiance to ISIS

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Jabbar posted videos pledging allegiance to ISIS before the attack per known events. 'Pure evil' is characterization, not fact claim.

Sources: Known Events: New Orleans Bourbon Street Terror Attack

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Tags

- tragedy-exploitation (90%)
- factual-misattribution (95%)
- self-vindication (88%)
- immigration-framing (85%)
- pre-inauguration-authority-claim (70%)
- crime-rate-hyperbole (80%)
- supply-seeking (82%)
- epistemic-closure (75%)

## That day

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

**New Year's Day: Tragedy Reprocessed as Vindication, Policy Agenda Quietly Seeded**

Trump had a quiet New Year's Day with just five posts, all from mid-morning to late afternoon at Mar-a-Lago. The day opened with a response to the deadly New Orleans Bourbon Street attack that focused more on proving himself right about immigration than on the victims — notably, the attacker was a U.S.-born citizen, not an immigrant. After a brief holiday greeting, the afternoon shifted to economic agenda-setting with link shares and a revisionist pitch for tariffs. No anger, no spiraling — just a low-key day built on self-congratulation and policy positioning.

Full digest for 2025-01-01: https://trump.fm/date/2025-01-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, January 1). When I said that the criminals coming in are far... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113753883210775585
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than..." Truth Social, 1 Jan. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113753883210775585. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than...," Truth Social, January 1, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113753883210775585.

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