# Post ts_114659061147166064

- Post ID: `ts_114659061147166064`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-06-10T12:27:08.148Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114659061147166064/analysis
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## Post text

> If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. do to an incompetent Governor and Mayor - Incidentally, the much more difficult, time consuming, and stringent FEDERAL PERMITTING PROCESS  is virtually complete on these houses, while the easy and simple City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE! They are a total mess, and will be for a long time. People want to rebuild their houses. Call your incompetent Governor and Mayor, the Federal permitting is DONE!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,115
- Reposts: 2,687
- Replies: 1,146
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.308Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:01:01.683Z (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 post reveals a grandiose narcissistic response to the narcissistic injury of Newsom's lawsuit challenging the legality of Trump's military deployment in LA. Rather than addressing the legal challenge, Trump employs splitting (federal = competent, state = incompetent) and distortion (LA "would be burning to the ground") to reframe the contested deployment as heroic necessity. The rhetorical pivot from military action to wildfire permitting is strategically sophisticated—linking two unrelated LA crises to construct a unified narrative of Democratic failure. The "25,000 houses" claim significantly inflates actual wildfire damage figures, consistent with characteristic reality distortion in service of narrative. The normalization of military deployment against domestic protesters, framed as preventing city destruction, represents an elevated danger indicator—it establishes rhetorical precedent for military force as routine domestic governance tool. The three-fold repetition of "incompetent" and the closing call-to-action ("Call your incompetent Governor and Mayor") reveal both the intensity of devaluation and the parasocial mobilization technique of directing follower aggression toward named targets. Cognitively, the "do to" typo is minor; sentence complexity remains intact.

## Psychological Analysis: "Send in the Troops" Post (2025-06-10)

### Context
This post follows Trump's federalization of California National Guard troops in response to LA immigration protests, with California Governor Newsom filing suit the previous day challenging the legality of the deployment. The post pivots from military deployment to attack state/local permitting for LA wildfire rebuilding.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:27 UTC = 8:27 AM EDT. Trump was traveling to/at Fort Bragg on June 10. The timing is borderline—early morning but not deep night. However, the typo "do to" (for "due to"), stream-of-consciousness structure, ALL CAPS emphasis, and emotional reactivity strongly indicate authentic Trump authorship.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post is triggered by Newsom's lawsuit (narcissistic injury via legal challenge to authority). Trump responds by reframing the deployment as heroic ("would be burning to the ground") and pivoting to attack state/local competence on wildfire permitting—a classic displacement maneuver redirecting from the legal challenge to favorable terrain.

The grandiose framing—"If I didn't SEND IN THE TROOPS"—positions Trump as sole savior preventing catastrophe. The pivot to permitting comparisons (federal = done, state = "total mess") serves splitting: federal/Trump = competent, state/local Democrats = incompetent.

### Rhetorical Structure
The post employs a sophisticated rhetorical pivot: military action → wildfire rebuilding → permitting comparison. This links two unrelated LA issues to construct a unified narrative of Democratic incompetence vs. Trump efficacy. The closing call-to-action ("Call your incompetent Governor and Mayor") mobilizes audience grievance.

### Cognitive Markers
"do to" for "due to" is a phonemic/orthographic error consistent with rapid typing rather than cognitive decline. Sentence structure remains complex with embedded clauses. The logical flow, while aggressive, maintains coherence across topics.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "25,000 houses burned to the ground in LA" | **Mostly False** | The January 2025 LA wildfires destroyed approximately 12,000-16,000 structures (not all houses), well short of 25,000 |
| "Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses" | **Unverifiable** | Specific federal permitting status for wildfire rebuilding is difficult to independently verify at this date |
| "City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE" | **Half True** | LA permitting for wildfire rebuilding faced well-documented delays, though characterization as 'disastrous' is editorial |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Receipts (1)

### moderate — federal-permitting-is-complete (2 days earlier)

> "Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses"

**vs.**

> "Federal permitting is complete"

The source (June 8) states federal permitting is 'complete' — a definitive, finished status. Two days later (June 10), the same speaker walks this back to 'virtually complete,' which explicitly means not fully done. On the same specific topic (federal permitting for LA fire rebuild), 'complete' vs. 'virtually complete' is a meaningful factual contradiction: one claims the process is finished, the other concedes it is not. The softening language suggests the June 8 claim was an overstatement.

[View contradicting post →](/post/ts_114646378582957392)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Typo 'do to' for 'due to'
- ALL CAPS emphasis on multiple phrases
- Stream-of-consciousness pivoting between topics
- Emotional reactivity and combative tone
- 8:27 AM local time—early but plausible for authentic posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Newsom lawsuit challenging troop deployment legality)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Governor Newsom and LA Mayor
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.55

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured, multi-topic post covering military deployment, wildfires, and permitting in single stream
- Grandiose self-assessment of indispensability

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 60%

Cognitive Markers:
- phonemic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct call to action mobilizing followers against named officials
- Positioning self as sole protector

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Normalizing military deployment against civilian protests
- Framing domestic protest as requiring military intervention to prevent city destruction

### Gaslighting

- Reframing federalized troop deployment (legally challenged) as unambiguously heroic
- Implying LA would have been destroyed without military intervention—no evidence supports this extreme claim

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> 25,000 houses burned to the ground in LA

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The January 2025 LA wildfires destroyed approximately 12,000-16,000 structures (not all houses), well short of 25,000

Sources: CalFire damage assessments; news reports from January 2025

> Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific federal permitting status for wildfire rebuilding is difficult to independently verify at this date

> City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE

**HALF TRUE**

LA permitting for wildfire rebuilding faced well-documented delays, though characterization as 'disastrous' is editorial

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Receipts (1)

### moderate — federal-permitting-is-complete (2 days earlier)

> Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses

_Jun 10, 2025_

vs.

> Federal permitting is complete

_Jun 8, 2025_

The source (June 8) states federal permitting is 'complete' — a definitive, finished status. Two days later (June 10), the same speaker walks this back to 'virtually complete,' which explicitly means not fully done. On the same specific topic (federal permitting for LA fire rebuild), 'complete' vs. 'virtually complete' is a meaningful factual contradiction: one claims the process is finished, the other concedes it is not. The softening language suggests the June 8 claim was an overstatement.

[View contradicting post](/post/ts_114646378582957392)

## Tags

- military_deployment (80%)
- scapegoating (70%)
- grandiosity (80%)
- wildfire_rebuilding (60%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (70%)

## That day

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

**Military Savior on Tour: Trump Wraps Domestic Troop Deployment in Fort Bragg Pageantry**

Trump spent the day defending his decision to deploy military forces against Los Angeles protesters, repeating the same claim multiple times that the city "would be burning" without his intervention. The previous evening featured a rapid-fire dump of fifteen favorable media links celebrating his presidency. He traveled to Fort Bragg for the Army's 250th anniversary, where his speech reportedly labeled protesters "animals" and a "foreign enemy" -- rhetoric he then amplified with a series of ceremonial posts laced with eliminationist imagery. The day's mood was uniformly self-congratulatory and militaristic, with a notable undercurrent of authoritarian framing that blurred the line between foreign adversaries and domestic dissenters.

Full digest for 2025-06-10: https://trump.fm/date/2025-06-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, June 10). If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114659061147166064
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los Angeles the..." Truth Social, 10 Jun. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114659061147166064. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los Angeles the...," Truth Social, June 10, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114659061147166064.

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