# Post ts_114450740029144099

- Post ID: `ts_114450740029144099`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-05-04T17:28:20.152Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114450740029144099
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114450740029144099/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114450740029144099.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded…”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:39), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> >> Let's talk about the border. >> Okay. >> Let's talk about deportations. Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded. Is the border- >> Is that good? >> Is the border now secure? >> Yeah, it's really secure. >> It's absolutely secure. >> When you say that, doesn't that just sound good? After being abused for years by an incompetent president that allowed people to pour through an open border, criminals from all over the world, murderers and insane people from mental institutions. And insane asylum, isn't it? Isn't it a beautiful thing when you say it's the most secure it's ever been in the history of our country? Isn't that a nice statement?

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/450/739/658/178/946/original/d4b6f763104145e6.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,780
- Reposts: 2,098
- Replies: 784
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.311Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T01:18:58.104Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded…"

### Overview
A brief quote-style post highlighting a border crossing statistic, accompanied by a video. This is a standard supply-seeking post amplifying favorable coverage of immigration enforcement — a core narcissistic supply theme. The post follows another border-related post from the same day ("Border crossings have PLUNGED under Trump…"), indicating perseverative focus on this topic as a validation source.

### Authorship
Posted at 1:28 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or similar Florida location). Business-hours timing, polished formatting with quotation marks suggesting a clip from media coverage, and attached video all point toward aide-assisted posting. The content is a curated media quote rather than spontaneous commentary.

### Psychological State
The clustering of border-related posts on the same day reflects a maintenance/supply-seeking mode. Immigration enforcement is a reliable narcissistic supply well — concrete metrics that support the grandiose self-narrative of competence and dominance. No rage or injury is evident; the tone is self-congratulatory through borrowed authority (quoting others validating him).

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Superlative framing**: "lowest level ever recorded" — absolute claims brooking no comparison
- **Appeal to authority**: Quoting an external source rather than making the claim directly lends legitimacy
- **Repetition/saturation**: Second border post in sequence, reinforcing the message through volume

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded" | **Mostly False** | While border encounters dropped significantly from 2024 peaks due to enforcement actions, 'lowest ever recorded' overstates the case — encounters were lower in many pre-2020 periods and earlier decades. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (1:28 PM ET)
- Clean quotation formatting
- Video attachment suggesting curated media clip
- No typos or emotional outbursts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- sharing victories with audience
- borrowed authority from unnamed source

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While border encounters dropped significantly from 2024 peaks due to enforcement actions, 'lowest ever recorded' overstates the case — encounters were lower in many pre-2020 periods and earlier decades.

Sources: CBP historical encounter data

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- immigration (100%)
- supply_seeking (80%)
- self-congratulation (70%)

## That day

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

**100-Day Victory Lap Darkens Into Authoritarian Theater by Nightfall**

Trump spent Sunday coasting on his 100-day milestone, sharing official White House recaps and favorable border stats through the early afternoon. The mood shifted in the evening when he lashed out at Fox News host Howie Kurtz for defending him too weakly, then escalated into a dramatic call to reopen Alcatraz as a prison and slapped 100% tariffs on foreign-made films. The day was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory, but the late posts carried a harder edge — dehumanizing language about criminals and immigrants, attacks on judicial independence, and sweeping unilateral policy decrees that felt more like dominance displays than governance.

Full digest for 2025-05-04: https://trump.fm/date/2025-05-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, May 4). “Border crossings are at their lowest level... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114450740029144099
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Border crossings are at their lowest level ever..." Truth Social, 4 May. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114450740029144099. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Border crossings are at their lowest level ever...," Truth Social, May 4, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114450740029144099.

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