# Post ts_115047544829124027 - Post ID: `ts_115047544829124027` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-08-18T03:03:38.784Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115047544829124027 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115047544829124027/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_115047544829124027.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > "DEEP STATE RECKONING" ## What the media says **Video transcript** (6:29), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > So let's talk about this annex, which is really just more documentation in this case. Does Congress need to do this, or can the FBI do it themselves? Yeah, look, Cash Patel has called upon Congress to release them, but there's nothing that precludes the Department of Justice now that the documents have been declassified, and I'm sure there's some redactions in there that the Department of Justice can release this tomorrow if they really wanted to. I think it's a courtesy, though, to a Chairman Grassley, Chairman Jordan, those types of people who are trying to put together a bigger, broader case. But yeah, they should release those documents. There should be a hearing where you bring these people in and they can make the case and force these people to answer questions under oath. And as it relates to Adam Schiff, I tell you, it's the first time I felt like he really is in trouble, not only on the mortgage front, but when you have a staffer, a Democratic staffer, allegedly, the story is that he has told investigators that he was directed to release classified information. You got to prosecute somebody like that. As a member of Congress, you have a very high security clearance, but you still sign a document. You still sign an extra document. I think they should pull that out, put that out there for the American people. Every member of Congress signs it, says you won't release that information. And if he did, and he did it purposefully, and he was using federal employees to do so, you got to prosecute the guy. Yeah, because it comes down to a double standard, Kevin. 100%. There have been members of the military who mistakenly share closet information, not deliberately, who have served prison time for doing that. And yet, there's people like Adam Schiff who tend to get away with it. But the thing that jumps out at me is, Schiff was allegedly leaking classified information, but the information that was classified was really just classified to cover up what the Clinton campaign was doing with the Intelligence Committee. So it shouldn't have been classified in the first place. It's like when they redact things about furniture, because they don't want to be embarrassed. I mean, they're much worse than that. But this information should have been classified in the first place, it seems. And this is the real issue that happens a lot in Washington. Jason, you can speak to this sometimes in an overabundance of caution. You can have basically black sharpie all throughout a document. The truth is, some of this, and I dare argue, a lot of this need not be redacted. And let's be honest about what we've seen here. We've seen congressional lawmakers possibly involved in a grand conspiracy to utilize material that they knew to be false or misleading to undermine a sitting president of the United States of America to circumvent the will of the American people. This is not a small matter. And I think, whether it's Adam Schiff, whether it's James Comey and others, Clapper, we can run down the list. I think justice must be served to prevent this from ever happening again. Anita, I think there's a lot of Americans watching and saying, OK, there is new information here, but why is Congress looking at this? What are the next steps here for what the American people can expect for information from their lawmakers? Yeah. Well, we talked about this last night. You know, it's so interesting that after eight years, the story is finally moving forward. Finally. Finally. Documents are coming to light. Investigations will soon be underway about how this whole Russian collusion narrative came to light and how it did truly undermine the presidency of Donald Trump. And it really and we talked about this last night, how it affected his relationship with Putin and other world leaders. It also brought down the careers of people like Michael Flynn and others. And now the big question will be, you know, will there be consequences for the people that you mentioned that are possibly involved here, including Hillary Clinton? Yeah. And Jason, we have elections every four years. So the big overriding thing here is, is this problem solved? Is the deep state still going to work with Democratic operatives to essentially try and rig an election with this false narrative in an official intelligence document that was then used to, you know, to torpedo the first four years of the Trump administration, which led to impeachments and special counsels and all of that. I mean, there are big questions about whether this ideology has been rooted out of these places. No, if you think the deep state is done trying to go after Donald Trump or Republicans and conservatives. I know this thing coming. The reality is the allegation is that the Clinton campaign set aside 10 million dollars. They gave it. They put it over. They created this fake dossier, which was the precursor that led to all these articles in the newspaper. But more importantly, and this one still just sticks under my craw, is this idea that they use this as the predicate to do what they shouldn't have done, which is spy on the on the Trump campaign and others related to him to go to the court, testify in writing that you have verified information that you could go after these people because you have seen these documents. And I'm talking about James Comey and others. And you go to the court and get the court to allow you to spy on somebody doesn't get any worse than that. Don't tell me that all that happened a long time ago and all that's already been exposed. You got to prosecute people who do those types of things that court. And where's the court? Yeah, where is the court? You lie to the court in another setting. Do you think they would ever ever called you in contempt? Where is where is the Supreme Court? Yes. And we don't ever see that the FISA court and we have to reform the FISA court. This is something that can never happen again. I'm so glad you pointed that out. A lot of people are. Oh, it's in the past. Like you said, oh, that's eight years ago. But the truth is, let justice be served one way or the other, though the heavens fall. We've got to get to the bottom of this and people have to pay. I got to add a little bit of color this I was on the House Judiciary Committee. I'm not an attorney and I know that sounds like I'm bragging, but I said to my chairman, I want to go to the FISA court because I want to see it. And then they admitted it's not really a court. What they do is they take this document, they give it to a federal judge who sits in a skiff by himself and there's nobody else there. And they just read these documents. So if you're not 100 percent certain on those documents, guess what? You have lied to the court. You have deceived the American people, you have undermined justice, and that's why you have to be held accountable. You can't just get away with it and say, well, you know, I based it on intelligence. I mean, it's just gibberish. You either lied or you didn't lie. And I'm sorry, but it looks like they lie. Yes, it does. To your point. Real quick, if these things bear out, right? If these things come to light and they bear out, this makes Watergate look like small potatoes. Absolutely. It really does. They ruin people's lives, as you mentioned. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/047/543/312/843/663/original/8de61d9fd47500eb.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,695 - Reposts: 4,848 - Replies: 1,201 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.299Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T03:39:23.767Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "DEEP STATE RECKONING" (2025-08-18) ## Overview A two-word ALL CAPS post with attached video, functioning as a slogan-style declaration. Posted at approximately 11:03 PM ET, during a high-volume posting day ahead of a major White House summit with European leaders and Zelenskyy. ## Authorship Late evening timing and characteristic ALL CAPS provocative style lean toward authentic Trump, though video posts are sometimes staff-queued. Medium confidence. ## Psychological State The post operates in **grandiose narcissistic mode**, casting Trump as the righteous judge who will deliver a "reckoning" against the conspiratorial "Deep State." This is a **maintenance post** — no specific trigger is evident; rather, it reinforces the ongoing paranoid narrative framework central to Trump's political identity. ## Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting**: Clean binary between the righteous self and corrupt Deep State - **Projection**: Institutional actors are imbued with coordinated malign intent ## Rhetorical Function Maximally compressed propaganda. Two words encode an entire worldview: (1) a hidden enemy exists, (2) punishment is coming. The video likely elaborates. This follows the firehose model — high-volume output maintaining narrative saturation. ## Danger Assessment **Elevated.** "Reckoning" implies punitive institutional action against vaguely defined enemies. While not directly inciting violence, the framing of government workers as conspiratorial actors needing punishment contributes to a threat environment. The vagueness of "Deep State" allows broad target attribution. ## Personality Levels - **Traits**: High assertiveness, low agreeableness, low openness - **Motives**: Power and dominance overwhelmingly dominant - **Narrative**: Avenger/judge protagonist delivering justice against shadowy forces ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - Late night posting (~11pm ET) - ALL CAPS style - Short provocative phrase - No grammar to evaluate - Video attachment suggests possible scheduled content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: -0.40 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Grandiose positioning as agent of reckoning - Part of high-volume posting day ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 60% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 50% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - shared enemy construction - implied insider knowledge - promise of vindication ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Reckoning' implies punitive action against institutional enemies - Deep State framing dehumanizes government workers as conspiratorial agents ## Tags - deep_state (100%) - retribution (80%) - propaganda_video (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Day of Diplomatic Theater and Democratic Erosion: Summit Defense Gives Way to Constitutional Overreach** Trump spent the day toggling between defending his recent Alaska summit with Putin and hosting a major White House meeting with Zelenskyy and eight European leaders. The morning brought a jarring escalation when he announced plans to eliminate mail-in voting and voting machines, claiming states must obey presidential orders on elections. He repeatedly insisted he'd "settled 6 wars in 6 months" while simultaneously admitting the Russia-Ukraine situation remains unresolved. The afternoon calmed considerably as the European leaders summit took over, producing formal, likely staff-written diplomatic posts. The sharpest flash of the day was directed at media critics and election infrastructure — not foreign adversaries. Full digest for 2025-08-18: https://trump.fm/date/2025-08-18/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, August 18). "DEEP STATE RECKONING" [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115047544829124027 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""DEEP STATE RECKONING"" Truth Social, 18 Aug. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115047544829124027. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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