# Post ts_114003564859420753

- Post ID: `ts_114003564859420753`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-02-14T18:05:48.562Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114003564859420753
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114003564859420753/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/border-crossings-drop-90-percent-under-trump-policies/

## Engagement

- Likes: 23,990
- Reposts: 5,413
- Replies: 1,320
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.321Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T02:31:49.631Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: ts_114003564859420753 — URL Share, RSBNetwork Border Article

### Overview

This post consists entirely of a hyperlink to a Right Side Broadcasting Network article headlined "Border Crossings Drop 90 Percent Under Trump Policies." There is zero original text, commentary, or emotional content from the poster. As a psychological artifact, this post is nearly content-free; it functions purely as a third-party validation amplifier.

### Authorship Attribution

**Strong aide-written indicators.** Post timestamp is 18:05 UTC on February 14, 2025. Trump was almost certainly in Washington, D.C. (meetings with Modi occurred February 13; the Hamas hostage ultimatum deadline was February 15, requiring White House management). EST (UTC-5) converts this to **1:05 PM local time** — solidly mid-business-hours. The format — a bare URL with no accompanying text, no ALL CAPS, no emotional ejaculation, no typos — is characteristic of Dan Scavino or a comms aide pushing favorable media coverage. Authentic Trump posts at this hour are rare and typically include at least a brief evaluative statement ("GREAT!", "FAKE NEWS", etc.).

Confidence: **high**.

### Psychological State and Dynamics

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / grandiosity maintenance. The post follows directly after a quote post (Tom Homan: "border numbers are down over 90%") and mirrors its content via external sourcing. This is a two-step pattern: assert the claim via a surrogate, then corroborate it with a media citation. The goal is to saturate the information environment with a single favorable data point — a RAND Firehose–adjacent tactic applied at the micro level.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The content amplifies a narrative of exceptional, historic success ("90%"). No vulnerability indicators.

**Defense mechanisms:** Minimal original content means minimal defense structure to analyze. The act of outsourcing validation to a third party (RSBNetwork) functions as **rationalization** — wrapping a self-serving claim in the appearance of journalistic sourcing.

### Cognitive Status

Post provides no evaluable language production. Complexity score is effectively 0/undefined due to absence of original text. No longitudinal comparison is possible from this sample alone.

### Rhetorical Analysis

- **Third-party authority appeal:** Using media coverage as a legitimating device for an administration-generated statistic.
- **Quantitative precision as persuasion:** The "90%" figure confers a false sense of scientific exactness to what may be a compressed or cherry-picked measurement window (three weeks post-inauguration).
- **Repetition / firehose pattern:** The same 90% claim has now appeared in at least two consecutive posts (Homan quote + this URL). Repetition is a core propaganda technique regardless of claim accuracy.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Border crossings drop 90 percent under Trump policies" | **Mostly True** | CBP encounter data from late January and early February 2025 did show roughly 70-90% drops in illegal crossings relative to late-2024 Biden-era peaks. The figure is directionally accurate but reflects a compressed three-week measurement window against historically elevated baseline numbers, and attributes all change to policy without accounting for seasonal variation or enforcement announcement effects. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- 18:05 UTC = 1:05 PM EST — mid-business-hours posting
- Bare URL with zero original text or commentary
- No typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional language
- Structured as a media amplification push, consistent with Scavino pattern
- Mirrors immediately preceding Homan quote post — coordinated comms rollout

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (RSBNetwork article on border statistics)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party authority validation
- Quantitative precision as credibility signal
- Repetition of 90% claim across multiple posts to normalize the figure

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Border crossings drop 90 percent under Trump policies

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CBP encounter data from late January and early February 2025 did show roughly 70-90% drops in illegal crossings relative to late-2024 Biden-era peaks. The figure is directionally accurate but reflects a compressed three-week measurement window against historically elevated baseline numbers, and attributes all change to policy without accounting for seasonal variation or enforcement announcement effects.

Sources: CBP encounter data (public); Tom Homan quote in preceding Truth Social post corroborating same statistic

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- immigration (90%)
- aide_authored (90%)
- supply_seeking (60%)
- coordinated_messaging (75%)
- border_statistics (80%)
- rsb_network (50%)
- grandiose_state (40%)

## That day

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

**Valentine's Day Victory Lap: A Rage-Free Day of Tariff Promotion and Self-Congratulation**

Trump spent Valentine's Day in full promotional mode, flooding his feed with favorable media coverage of his new reciprocal tariff plan signed the day before. The afternoon saw a rapid burst of four tariff headlines from major outlets in under five minutes. A midday quote from border czar Tom Homan calling him "the greatest president of my lifetime" was the emotional high point of an otherwise low-key, staff-driven day. Notably absent was any reaction to multiple federal judges blocking his birthright citizenship order or the Pope's hospitalization.

Full digest for 2025-02-14: https://trump.fm/date/2025-02-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, February 14). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/border-crossings-d... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114003564859420753
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/border-crossings-drop-90-per..." Truth Social, 14 Feb. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114003564859420753. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/border-crossings-drop-90-per...," Truth Social, February 14, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114003564859420753.

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