# Post ts_114659367372751138

- Post ID: `ts_114659367372751138`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-06-10T13:45:00.779Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114659367372751138/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. due 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: 17,128
- Reposts: 4,617
- Replies: 2,741
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.308Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:00:56.805Z (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 legal challenge posed by Newsom's lawsuit over federalized National Guard troops. Trump employs counterfactual catastrophizing — claiming LA "would be burning to the ground" without his military intervention — to justify a deployment facing constitutional scrutiny. The rhetorical pivot from military action to federal permitting speed serves to reframe the narrative from constitutional overreach to a competence competition Trump claims to win. Defense mechanisms include splitting (federal=good, state=bad), projection (labeling others incompetent while facing legal challenge), and reality distortion (inflating wildfire damage to 25,000 houses from ~12,000-16,000 structures). The closing directive mobilizing citizens to "call your incompetent Governor and Mayor" channels audience frustration toward named political targets. Danger level is elevated due to normalization of military deployment against civilian protests and inflammatory framing of civil unrest as existential urban destruction. The post is consistent with baseline Trump communication patterns — no cognitive deviation noted — but the militaristic framing of domestic protest response warrants longitudinal tracking.

## Psychological Analysis: "SEND IN THE TROOPS" / Federal Permitting Post

### Context
Posted June 10, 2025 at 13:45 UTC. Trump heading to Fort Bragg that day. LA protests over ICE raids prompted military deployment; California sued. This post is a corrected repost of an earlier version (which had "do to" instead of "due to" and was truncated), suggesting staff involvement in cleanup.

### Authorship
The post at 9:45 AM ET during a travel day to Fort Bragg, combined with the fact that an earlier version contained "do to" (authentic Trump misspelling) and was truncated, suggests the original was Trump-authored and this is a staff-corrected repost. The rhetorical style — stream-of-consciousness pivots, ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional escalation — is unmistakably Trump's voice even if cleaned up.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post is triggered by Newsom's lawsuit (narcissistic injury via legal challenge to authority). Trump's response combines grandiose self-crediting ("City would be burning to the ground" without him) with aggressive devaluation of state/local officials ("incompetent Governor and Mayor"). The pivot from military deployment to permitting speed is characteristic tangentiality but serves a unified narcissistic function: demonstrating federal (i.e., his) superiority over state/local governance.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Grandiosity as defense**: Frames himself as sole protector of LA
- **Splitting**: Federal = competent/good vs. State/City = incompetent/bad
- **Projection**: Accuses others of incompetence while his deployment faces legal challenge

### Rhetorical Techniques
The counterfactual catastrophizing ("would be burning to the ground") is unfalsifiable by design. The permitting comparison serves as a concrete "proof" of federal superiority, redirecting from the constitutional questions raised by Newsom's lawsuit. The closing directive ("Call your incompetent Governor and Mayor") mobilizes audience against his political opponents.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A." | **Mostly False** | The January 2025 LA wildfires destroyed approximately 12,000-16,000 structures total (not all houses). 25,000 is a significant exaggeration. |
| "Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses" | **Unverifiable** | Federal permitting for wildfire rebuilds is not widely reported in detail. The claim of near-completion by June 2025 for thousands of homes is difficult to verify. |
| "City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE" | **Half True** | LA permitting for wildfire rebuilds has faced legitimate delays and bureaucratic challenges, though 'disastrously' is subjective characterization. |

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"

Effectively a duplicate of Candidate 1 (same date, near-identical wording, only 'do to' corrected to 'due to'). The same contradiction applies: the source on June 8 declares federal permitting 'complete' (done), while this June 10 post characterizes it as only 'virtually complete' (almost but not fully done) — a direct factual retreat on the status of the same permitting process.

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

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Earlier version had 'do to' misspelling typical of Trump
- Earlier version was truncated (character limit issue)
- This version corrects spelling — suggests staff repost
- ALL CAPS patterns, stream-of-consciousness pivots are Trump's voice
- 9:45 AM ET on travel day — borderline timing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

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

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

Sentiment: -0.50

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose self-attribution of saving entire city
- Rapid topic pivoting
- High energy directive tone

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 20%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- direct address to audience as co-agents ('Call your incompetent Governor')
- shared grievance framing
- positioning audience as victims of state incompetence

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Framing civil protests as requiring military intervention
- Catastrophizing language normalizing military deployment against civilians
- Directing public anger at named political opponents

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The January 2025 LA wildfires destroyed approximately 12,000-16,000 structures total (not all houses). 25,000 is a significant exaggeration.

Sources: CalFire reports on Palisades and Eaton fires

> Federal permitting process is virtually complete on these houses

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Federal permitting for wildfire rebuilds is not widely reported in detail. The claim of near-completion by June 2025 for thousands of homes is difficult to verify.

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

**HALF TRUE**

LA permitting for wildfire rebuilds has faced legitimate delays and bureaucratic challenges, though 'disastrously' is subjective characterization.

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_

Effectively a duplicate of Candidate 1 (same date, near-identical wording, only 'do to' corrected to 'due to'). The same contradiction applies: the source on June 8 declares federal permitting 'complete' (done), while this June 10 post characterizes it as only 'virtually complete' (almost but not fully done) — a direct factual retreat on the status of the same permitting process.

[View contradicting post](/post/ts_114646378582957392)

## Tags

- military-deployment (80%)
- federal-vs-state (90%)
- LA-wildfires (60%)
- grandiose-self-attribution (85%)
- opponent-devaluation (80%)

## 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_114659367372751138
- 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_114659367372751138. 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_114659367372751138.

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