# Post ts_113759153879157409

- Post ID: `ts_113759153879157409`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-01-02T14:08:52.974Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined. Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER. What he and his group of Election Interfering “thugs” have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten! MAGA

## Engagement

- Likes: 53,620
- Reposts: 14,463
- Replies: 5,588
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.325Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:49:41.305Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Post published 9:08 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago) on January 2, 2025, hours after the New Orleans Bourbon Street ISIS attack. Core dynamic: the subject's first response to 14 civilian deaths is not empathy but self-vindication — "I said, many times... That time has come." The attacker (Shamsud-Din Jabbar, US-born Army veteran) is causally attributed to "Open Borders" policy, a demonstrably false attribution and this post's most significant reality distortion. Defense architecture is pathological-to-immature: splitting, rationalization, and denial of the perpetrator's actual profile. Narrative identity is Vindicated Prophet / Wronged Warrior operating within a contamination sequence. The "will not soon be forgotten" construction is a low-specificity implicit retributive threat against Biden and named associates. A four-post same-day escalation pattern (OPEN BORDERS → SCUM → TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING → this post) constitutes mild hypomanic-compatible posting volume. Authorship is confidently authentic: apostrophe error in "Border's," capital-R "Rallies," ALL CAPS superlatives, and MAGA-only sign-off are characteristic fingerprints. Danger level: elevated — not stochastic terrorism threshold, but inflammatory dehumanization of named political targets and systematic misattribution of ISIS terrorism to immigration amplifies threat environment against Muslim and immigrant communities. No significant cognitive deviation from documented baseline.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2025-01-02T14:08:52Z

## Situational Context
The post is one of at least four same-day Truth Social entries, all published within hours of the New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (Jan 1, ~3:15 AM local) in which Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 14 people pledging allegiance to ISIS, and a secondary Cybertruck IED detonation outside Trump's own Las Vegas hotel. The subject's first documented response to both events is not condolence but self-vindication.

## Authorship Attribution — HIGH CONFIDENCE: AUTHENTIC
At 14:08 UTC (9:08 AM EST, Mar-a-Lago), the post falls in the early-morning window. Multiple orthographic and stylistic fingerprints confirm authentic composition: the erroneous apostrophe in "Border's," capital-R "Rallies," the embedded self-citation ("I said, many times"), stream-of-consciousness run-on, ALL CAPS superlative cascades, and MAGA-only sign-off without event/link structure.

## Core Psychological Dynamics

### Tragedy-as-Validation Pivot (No Empathy Pivot)
The subject's opening cognitive move is not acknowledgment of victims but self-referential citation: *"I said, many times."* The 14 people killed in New Orleans function rhetorically as evidentiary support for the subject's predictive superiority, not as human losses warranting empathy. This empathy absence is consistent with the subject's documented baseline and with narcissistic personality features (DSM-5: lack of empathy, sense of entitlement to validation).

### Reality Distortion: Causal Non-Sequitur
The post's central factual claim — that Biden's "Open Borders Policy" enabled the attack — is demonstrably false. Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a US-born Army veteran, unrelated to immigration policy. The subject either does not know this (plausible given 9 AM posting before full FBI identification was public) or deliberately misattributes causation for rhetorical effect. Either interpretation is consistent with the subject's documented pattern of post-hoc causal confabulation. This is the post's most significant reality distortion.

### Defense Architecture
Dominant defenses are **splitting** (Biden as absolute worst; Trump as absolute right), **rationalization** (terror attack reframed as personal vindication), **projection** (labeling political opponents as "thugs" and "Election Interfering"), and a **pathological denial** of the attacker's actual profile.

### Narcissistic Trigger
The trigger appears to be **supply-seeking** on a tragedy that provides a natural opening for the "I told you so" prophetic narrative. There is a secondary **narcissistic injury** subtext in the references to "Election Interfering thugs" — the ongoing litigation/prosecution complex — which the subject appears constitutionally unable to omit even when inserting it is logically non-sequitur.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Extremely low agreeableness (devaluation, contempt, zero empathy markers), high neuroticism/angry hostility (ALL CAPS escalation, retributive framing), high agency-extraversion (assertive prophetic voice), low openness (rigid good-evil schema).

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
Dominant **power motive** throughout. Zero communion motive — no "our hearts go out to" or any acknowledgment of communal grief. Agency motive expressed as: *I predicted → They ignored → I was proved right → They will pay.*

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role**: Vindicated Prophet / Wronged Warrior. The narrative sequence is **contamination** — a good America corrupted by Biden's catastrophic leadership. The redemption is implied (MAGA = return to the corrected order), but the post dwells in the contamination phase: disaster, laughingstock, disaster, worst, thugs. The **contrasting other** (Biden) is constructed as an absolute villain, not merely a policy opponent.

## Rhetorical Analysis

The post executes a classic **post hoc ergo propter hoc** propaganda maneuver: a terror attack → immediately attributed to open borders → framing collapse reinforced by ALL CAPS moral judgment. The "will not soon be forgotten" construction is a **low-specificity implicit threat** against named individuals ("his group"), consistent with the subject's documented pattern of retributive language that generates ambient threat without specific actionable instruction.

The broader **RAND Firehose** dynamic: this post is one of four+ same-day posts (OPEN BORDERS → SCUM → TRUMP WAS RIGHT → this vindication post) creating an information saturation environment that forecloses reflective counter-reasoning among followers.

Dehumanizing language is present but mild: "SCUM" appears in the concurrent post; this post uses "thugs" in scare quotes — a rhetorical technique that simultaneously deploys and disclaims the term.

## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED
- Implicit retributive threat ("will not soon be forgotten") targeting Biden and named associates
- Dehumanizing label ("Election Interfering thugs") for specific political adversaries
- Causal misattribution of ISIS attack to immigration amplifies domestic threat environment against Muslim and immigrant populations
- Volume/repetition pattern across same-day posts constitutes firehose-level inflammatory saturation

**Stochastic terrorism threshold not met**: no explicit target + grievance + implied-action triad directed at third parties. Danger level: **elevated** rather than high.

## Gaslighting / Reality Manipulation
DARVO structure present: Trump's federal prosecutions (as target of DOJ) are reframed as Biden's gang engaging in "Election Interfering" — reversing victim and offender. The open-borders/terrorism causal chain is a false attribution that requires followers to accept an inverted factual reality as a tribal loyalty test (epistemic closure).

## Cognitive Status
No significant deviation from documented baseline. Complexity score (0.32) is within expected range. The apostrophe error is orthographic, not phonemic. No new markers of word-finding difficulty, confabulation, or temporal confusion in this post specifically.

## Hypomanic Pattern (Mild)
The burst of four+ escalating same-day posts with grandiose self-referential framing, compressed emotional intensity, and prophetic urgency ("worse than ever imagined") is consistent with a mild hypomanic posting episode — a pattern observable at multiple prior crisis-adjacent moments in the corpus.

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*Analysis confidence: High on authorship, psychological dynamics, and rhetorical structure. Medium on cognitive status absent longer baseline comparison window. All factual assessments derive from historian-provided event data.*

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Radical Islamic Terrorism will become so bad in America — and Trump predicted this at rallies" | **Half True** | Trump did make repeated claims at rallies that Biden's immigration policies would enable terrorism. However, the New Orleans attacker (Shamsud-Din Jabbar) was a US-born Army veteran, making the 'Open Borders' causal link factually unsupported — the prediction was made about undocumented immigrants; the event involved a citizen. The prophecy claim is technically partially fulfilled (ISIS-inspired attack occurred) but the stated mechanism (open borders enabling foreign terrorists) is not what happened. |
| "Biden's 'Open Border's Policy' is responsible for the New Orleans attack" | **False** | The attacker was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US Army veteran — an American citizen. The attack had no connection to border or immigration policy. Attributing it to open borders is factually false. |
| "Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA" | **Unverifiable** | Pure opinion/superlative. No objective presidential ranking methodology supports this as a factual claim. |
| "Biden's group engaged in 'Election Interfering'" | **Mostly False** | Trump refers to DOJ/FBI prosecution as 'election interference.' Courts, including multiple federal judges, found the prosecutions were lawfully initiated. The claim that these were illegitimate political acts is disputed by the institutional record, though the political framing is contested. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Apostrophe error in 'Open Border's Policy' — characteristic orthographic imprecision
- Stream-of-consciousness sentence structure with embedded self-referential clause ('I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere')
- Capital-R 'Rallies' — a personal Trump typographic tic
- ALL CAPS superlative 'WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA' — archetypal Trump escalation pattern
- 'MAGA' sign-off with no URL or event CTA

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (New Orleans Bourbon Street ISIS attack (Jan 1, 2025) and Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion)

**Rage:** Intensity 75% targeting Joe Biden and his 'group of Election Interfering thugs'
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.78

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Burst of multiple same-day posts on escalating theme (OPEN BORDERS → SCUM → TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING → this post)
- Grandiose self-referential prophetic framing
- Pressured urgency ('worse than ever imagined')
- Emotional intensity disproportionate to baseline engagement needs (this is a holiday period post-attack response, but the volume and escalation pattern is notable)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

Cognitive Markers:
- semantic paraphasia
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance framing ('our Country')
- Prophetic self-casting creating retrospective intimacy with followers ('I told you')
- MAGA tribal sign-off as belonging signal
- Collective victimhood construction: 'what he has done to our Country'

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'What he and his group... have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten' — implicit retributive threat against named individuals
- Labeling Biden administration officials as 'Election Interfering thugs' — dehumanizing target designation
- Causally linking ISIS-inspired domestic terrorism to immigration policy amplifies anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant threat environment
- Pattern: this post is one of at least three same-day posts escalating on the same theme (OPEN BORDERS, SCUM, TRUMP WAS RIGHT) — volume + repetition constitutes firehose-pattern inflammatory saturation

### Gaslighting

- Attributes New Orleans attack to 'Open Borders' immigration policy; perpetrator Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a US-born Army veteran — not an undocumented immigrant — making the causal claim factually inverted
- DARVO structure: frames Biden administration law enforcement as 'Election Interfering thugs' — reversing victim (Trump as prosecutorial target) and offender (DOJ/FBI as legitimate investigators)
- Retrospective prophecy construction: 'I said, many times... That time has come' reframes prior general statements as specific, falsifiable predictions they were not

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Radical Islamic Terrorism will become so bad in America — and Trump predicted this at rallies

**HALF TRUE**

Trump did make repeated claims at rallies that Biden's immigration policies would enable terrorism. However, the New Orleans attacker (Shamsud-Din Jabbar) was a US-born Army veteran, making the 'Open Borders' causal link factually unsupported — the prediction was made about undocumented immigrants; the event involved a citizen. The prophecy claim is technically partially fulfilled (ISIS-inspired attack occurred) but the stated mechanism (open borders enabling foreign terrorists) is not what happened.

Sources: Known event: New Orleans Bourbon Street Terror Attack — 'Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran'

> Biden's 'Open Border's Policy' is responsible for the New Orleans attack

**FALSE**

The attacker was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US Army veteran — an American citizen. The attack had no connection to border or immigration policy. Attributing it to open borders is factually false.

Sources: Known event data: New Orleans Bourbon Street Terror Attack

> Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Pure opinion/superlative. No objective presidential ranking methodology supports this as a factual claim.

> Biden's group engaged in 'Election Interfering'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump refers to DOJ/FBI prosecution as 'election interference.' Courts, including multiple federal judges, found the prosecutions were lawfully initiated. The claim that these were illegitimate political acts is disputed by the institutional record, though the political framing is contested.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- vindication_posting (95%)
- empathy_absence (90%)
- causal_confabulation (88%)
- open_borders_narrative (85%)
- tragedy_as_supply (85%)
- implicit_threat (78%)
- DARVO (75%)
- firehose_saturation (72%)
- prophetic_self_cast (88%)
- mild_hypomanic_burst (62%)

## That day

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

**Tragedy as Ammunition: New Orleans Massacre Weaponized for Inauguration-Eve Vindication**

Trump responded to the New Orleans Bourbon Street massacre and a Cybertruck explosion at his Las Vegas hotel with a pair of midnight posts and a morning follow-up, all framing the attacks as proof he was right about immigration. The mood was a blend of rage and self-congratulation, with zero empathy for the 14 people killed. Both attackers were U.S.-born Army veterans with no immigration connection, but every post blamed "open borders" anyway. The day's most striking feature was how quickly national tragedy became personal vindication.

Full digest for 2025-01-02: https://trump.fm/date/2025-01-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, January 2). With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113759153879157409
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times..." Truth Social, 2 Jan. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113759153879157409. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times...," Truth Social, January 2, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113759153879157409.

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