# Post ts_115169686997623003

- Post ID: `ts_115169686997623003`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-09-08T16:46:00.287Z (UTC)
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- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_115169686997623003.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> "U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON CARTEL ON CARTEL CRUISES"

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> The president annihilated a cocaine speedboat operated by the cartel last night. They never saw it coming. America's been getting poisoned by drugs and gangs for decades. The old way of doing business didn't work, so Trump flipped the script. The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drugboats. We did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know, 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. America never really fought the war on drugs until now. Now, I'm not predicting victory. America loves to get high. But if they're going to kill our people with narcotics, we're going to kill their people with missiles. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented. You're not going to allow this kind of activity. You're poisoning our people. We've got incredible assets, and they are gathering in the region. And so you want to try to traffic drugs? It's a new day. It's a different day. Under Biden, the cartels earned, turned into a Fortune 500 company. Trump's already caused them a billion in losses when he shut the border down and killed their smuggling profits. And now he's attacking their product, manpower, and transportation. These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents who, on the side, deal a few drugs. These are organized, corporate-structured organizations who specialize in the trafficking of deadly drugs into the United States of America. We're not going to sit back anymore and watch these people sail up and down the Caribbean like a cruise ship. The cartel cruise line was headed toward our shore with a cargo of death. Trump had no choice but to take him out. These aren't your grandmother's drug dealers. These cartels are now in possession not just of landmines and grenades. We're now seeing the deployment of drone technology by narco-terrorist groups. Now the cartel snuff films spreading across the world. Every bad hombre in Latin America is on notice. And they know we can hit them whenever and wherever. What was found in that boat, and why were the men killed instead of taking it? On the boat, you had massive amounts of drugs. We have tapes of them speaking. It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people. They were hit, obviously. They won't be doing it again. And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they watch that tape. But Democrats aren't happy. They're calling Trump a murderous bully and a war criminal for taking out terrorists. Obama drones an American citizen. No comment. Biden wiped out seven innocent kids in Afghanistan. Crickets. But Trump sinks a boat full of narcos with enough fentanyl to kill a small city. And they want to bring him to the Hague. Whatever happened to no new wars doesn't seem like we're not getting into no new wars. No new wars with stuff like that. I wouldn't even be surprised if the people that he unalived on that boat were just a bunch of fishermen. They shot the vessel right out of the water. Oh, so powerful. It was a speedboat. That speedboat was full of killers heading to our coast. That's an enemy attack. Trump neutralized it. Are Democrats going to be pro cartel now because Trump's killing them? The icebreakers are still going loco in Portland. They erected a guillotine outside an ice building. Trentifa wants off with ice's heads. And no one in the media cares. When the liberals resist, Trump doesn't slow down. He steps on the gas. Ice busted a drug warehouse in Texas where illegals were found hiding in the ceilings. The Coast Guard just pulled off its biggest Boston history. 75,000 pounds of coke and in Texas, Judge Pirra, she just intercepted over 1,000 barrels of Chinese meth. These 1,300 barrels were shipped from Shanghai, China to Mexico. We intercepted these precursors on the high seas and now the Sinaloa cartel will not be able to use them to make methamphetamines. That's what we're doing in D.C., but we're doing it in Houston today and you never know where we're going to be tomorrow. This is what America voted for. Anyone with their eye on 28, take note. Copy Trump, not Gav, who thinks ice is going to steal the election. You think ice is not going to show up around voting and polling booths to chill participation? You know that. The National Guard. You know that. Everybody knows what's at stake.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/169/684/161/292/147/original/26c02079012eb40c.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T04:02:28.944Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON CARTEL ON CARTEL CRUISES"

### Overview
A brief all-caps post sharing a video about U.S. action against cartel operations, likely related to the Monroe Doctrine/Western Hemisphere military focus referenced in an adjacent post. The notable feature is the stuttered repetition "CARTEL ON CARTEL" — likely a typo (intended "CARTEL CRUISES") though it could be read as "cartel-on-cartel" violence. The all-caps formatting and video share suggest amplification of administration messaging.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:46 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or DC area). Business hours, brief caption on a produced video — consistent with aide-assisted content sharing, though the typo/repetition introduces ambiguity. Aides typically catch such errors; the mistake leans slightly toward personal posting or hasty aide work.

### Psychological State
Routine maintenance/supply-seeking post. The content reinforces the strongman/protector narrative — the U.S. cracking down on cartels positions Trump as the tough-on-crime leader. Minimal emotional valence beyond assertive dominance display.

### Cognitive Note
"CARTEL ON CARTEL" repetition is a minor production error. In isolation, this is trivial — simple duplication errors are common in hasty typing. Worth noting for longitudinal tracking but not clinically significant alone.

### Rhetorical Function
Serves as propaganda amplification — sharing produced video content that reinforces border security/law enforcement narrative. The all-caps headline style mimics news chyrons for urgency.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (12:46 PM ET)
- Video share of produced content suggests aide curation
- But typo/word repetition suggests less editorial polish
- ALL CAPS consistent with both Trump and aide headline style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- sharing dramatic enforcement video to build strongman image

## Tags

- border_security (80%)
- enforcement_action (70%)
- video_share (50%)

## That day

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

**Crime Crusader: A Coordinated Day of Safety Theater, Victim Exploitation, and Hemispheric Military Bravado**

Trump devoted most of the day to a coordinated crime-and-safety messaging blitz, toggling between claiming credit for making New York and Washington safer while spotlighting horrific violence in Chicago and Charlotte to blame Democratic officials. A rapid-fire burst of posts in the early afternoon amplified military operations, cartel crackdowns, and an article endorsing aggressive hemispheric military posture — including a bounty on Venezuela's president. The day's most striking moment was his lengthy exploitation of a violent attack on a Ukrainian refugee, converting real suffering into a campaign endorsement. Notably absent: any mention of the appeals court upholding the E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict against him.

Full digest for 2025-09-08: https://trump.fm/date/2025-09-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, September 8). "U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON CARTEL ON CARTEL CRUISES" [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115169686997623003
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON CARTEL ON CARTEL CRUISES"" Truth Social, 8 Sep. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115169686997623003. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON CARTEL ON CARTEL CRUISES"," Truth Social, September 8, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115169686997623003.

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