# Post ts_115888070937502023

- Post ID: `ts_115888070937502023`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-13T13:40:29.331Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden's HORRIBLE Open Border's Policy. Every place we go, crime comes down. In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent Governor and Mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made. Thousands of Criminals were removed! Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets the spotlight off of the 19 Billion Dollars that was stolen by really bad and deranged people. FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.285Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T06:54:04.335Z (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 represents a significant danger escalation in response to the ICE shooting of American citizen Renée Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis. Rather than acknowledging the incident, Trump deploys pathological denial and reality distortion, reframing Minnesota as besieged by foreign criminals and ICE as heroic protectors. The complete inversion of the actual triggering event — ICE killing a citizen — into a narrative where ICE protects citizens from foreign threats demonstrates extreme reality distortion serving narcissistic defense. The closing "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!" directed at a state experiencing active protests over a government killing constitutes threatening eliminationist rhetoric. Combined with dehumanization of immigrants, labeling protesters as "anarchists and professional agitators," and framing elected officials as obstructors, the post follows stochastic terrorism patterns: identified targets + articulated grievances + implied violent action. The injection of an unrelated "$19 Billion stolen" claim exemplifies firehose-of-falsehood technique. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological (denial, distortion) supplemented by immature defenses (projection, splitting, displacement). The narcissistic injury — his enforcement operation killed an American, generating national outrage — produces disproportionate rage channeled into punitive authoritarian threat-making against an entire state's population.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post ts_115888070937502023 (2026-01-13)

### Context
This post responds to the aftermath of ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shooting American citizen Renée Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis on January 7, which sparked widespread protests. Trump reframes the narrative entirely around immigration enforcement, never acknowledging the shooting.

### Authorship
Posted at 8:40 AM ET (Trump likely at White House). The post shows mixed signals: it has a polished rhetorical structure (aide-like) but escalates into ALL CAPS threat language and contains grammatical errors ("Border's Policy" — possessive error, "though" for "through"). The emotional arc — calm framing → escalation → ALL CAPS threat — is characteristic of authentic Trump posts that may have been started by an aide and finished/modified by Trump himself. The closing line is unmistakably Trumpian.

### Psychological State
This is a textbook narcissistic injury response. An ICE agent killed an American woman during a Trump-ordered operation, generating massive negative coverage. Rather than acknowledging the incident, Trump deploys **total reality distortion**: the entire post constructs an alternate reality where Minnesota is overrun by foreign criminals and ICE is heroically protecting citizens — the exact inverse of what precipitated the protests (ICE killing a citizen).

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Denial** (pathological): Complete non-acknowledgment of the ICE shooting that triggered protests
2. **Distortion** (pathological): Reframing protesters as "anarchists and professional agitators" paid by unnamed forces; reframing ICE operations as unambiguously protective
3. **Projection**: Accusing Democrats of "loving unrest" while his own policies generated the unrest
4. **Displacement**: Redirecting attention to "19 Billion Dollars that was stolen" — an unrelated grievance
5. **Splitting**: Pure good (ICE "patriots") vs. pure evil (criminals, Democrats, anarchists)

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post follows a classic authoritarian persuasion structure:
1. **Fear induction**: Lurid catalog of threats ("murderers, drug dealers, rapists, violent released prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions")
2. **False premise question**: "Do the people of Minnesota really want..." (loaded question fallacy)
3. **Savior framing**: ICE as "patriots" who simply want to "remove them from your neighborhood"
4. **Success claim**: "In Chicago... big improvement... Thousands of Criminals were removed!"
5. **Enemy identification**: Democrats, governor, mayor, anarchists, agitators
6. **Conspiracy injection**: "19 Billion Dollars that was stolen by really bad and deranged people"
7. **Apocalyptic promise**: "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!"

The phrase "other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention" is a particularly notable rhetorical device — it conjures maximally threatening phantoms while providing zero specificity, making the claim unfalsifiable.

### Danger Assessment
The closing line — "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!" — constitutes **eliminationist rhetoric** directed at a specific geographic population experiencing civil unrest. Combined with:
- Dehumanization of immigrants ("from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums")
- Labeling protesters as "anarchists and professional agitators"
- Framing elected officials as obstructors
- The stochastic terrorism pattern: identified target (Minnesota Democrats, protesters) + grievance (obstruction, stolen money) + implied action ("retribution is coming")

This is particularly dangerous given that ICE already killed a citizen in this jurisdiction and protests are ongoing.

### Cognitive Markers
- "though" for "through" (possible phonemic error or typo)
- "Border's Policy" (incorrect possessive)
- "from where they came" (awkward but grammatical)
- Sentence complexity is adequate; the run-on opening sentence spanning multiple clauses is baseline Trump
- The "$19 Billion" claim appears tangential — injected without connection to the immigration topic, suggesting possible tangentiality or deliberate narrative flooding

### Personality Analysis
The post is saturated with **agency motives** (power, control, dominance). The protagonist role is **warrior-savior**: fighting against obstruction to rescue ordinary people. The contamination sequence is clear: Minnesota was good → Democrats allowed criminals in → Trump will restore order. The contrasting other is multi-layered: foreign criminals, Democratic officials, anarchists, and unnamed thieves of $19 billion.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Thousands of already convicted murderers from foreign mental institutions living in Minnesota communities" | **Mostly False** | No evidence supports thousands of foreign mental institution patients residing in Minnesota. This conflates multiple immigration fear narratives without factual basis. |
| "19 Billion Dollars stolen in Minnesota" | **Mostly False** | Likely references Feeding Our Future COVID fraud scandal. Federal charges involved ~$250M. Even broad estimates of total COVID fraud nationwide don't support $19B attributed to Minnesota specifically. |
| "In Chicago, thousands of criminals were removed and big improvement was made" | **Mostly False** | This claim contains two components, both of which are misleading when examined against the evidence.

Part 1 — 'Thousands of criminals were removed': Operation Midway Blitz, launched September 8, 2025, resulted in between 1,500 and 4,500 total ICE arrests in the Chicago area (numbers vary by reporting period and source). However, the overwhelming majority of those arrested were not criminals. Department of Justice records filed in federal court show that of 614 people arrested, only 16 (2.6%) had criminal histories constituting a 'high public safety risk.' A broader CBS News analysis of ICE data found only 15% had any prior criminal conviction, only 3% had convictions for violent crimes in Chicago, and 67% had only civil immigration violations. A retired Homeland Security agent told CBS this 'runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated... where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst.' While thousands of people were arrested, characterizing them as 'thousands of criminals' is demonstrably inaccurate — the vast majority had no criminal record.

Part 2 — 'Big improvement was made': Chicago did experience significant crime improvement in 2025 — recording the fewest homicides since 1965, with a 29% decrease in homicides, 35% drop in shootings, 35% decline in robberies, and 50% reduction in carjackings. However, the strong implication that ICE operations caused this improvement is contradicted by the timeline. From January 1 through September 7, 2025 — before Operation Midway Blitz began — violent crime had already declined 21.2% year-over-year. The rate of decline after the operation began (28.5%) was only modestly higher and consistent with the pre-existing downward trend. The City of Chicago officially stated that the crime reduction resulted from Chicago Police Department efforts and community violence intervention programs, and that a leaked DHS email revealed a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to claim credit for reductions that predated the operation. The University of Chicago Crime Lab's end-of-year analysis does not attribute the decline to ICE operations. Multiple independent fact-checkers including FactCheck.org found Trump's Chicago crime credit claims misleading.

In summary: thousands of people were arrested, but the vast majority were not criminals. Crime did improve significantly, but the improvement predated ICE operations and cannot credibly be attributed to them. The claim as framed — that ICE removed 'thousands of criminals' and thereby produced a 'big improvement' — misrepresents both the nature of those arrested and the cause of the crime decline. |
| "Every place we go, crime comes down" | **Mostly False** | Blanket claim without specificity. Crime trends are multifactorial and no evidence supports universal crime reduction following ICE operations. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS closing threat
- grammatical errors (Border's Policy, though/through)
- emotional escalation arc
- 8:40 AM ET posting time suggests morning composition
- stream-of-consciousness run-on opening sentence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (ICE agent killing American woman in Minneapolis; subsequent protests challenging Trump's immigration enforcement legitimacy)

**Rage:** Intensity 80% targeting Minnesota Democrats, protesters, sanctuary policies
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.70

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose threat-making
- Rapid topic shifting (immigration → Chicago → $19B → retribution)
- Elevated intensity and ALL CAPS

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 70%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 60%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality
- phonemic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- direct address to 'people of Minnesota'
- positioning as personal protector
- FEAR NOT framing casting self as reassuring authority figure
- creating in-group belonging through shared threat narrative

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- 'THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING' — direct threat against state experiencing protests
- Dehumanization of immigrants as mentally ill and criminally dangerous
- Labeling protesters as 'anarchists and professional agitators' — delegitimizing dissent
- Stochastic terrorism pattern: target (Minnesota Democrats/protesters) + grievance (obstruction, stolen money) + implied action (retribution)
- Context: ICE already killed an American citizen in this jurisdiction, escalating rhetoric risks further violence
- Framing elected officials as obstructors of law enforcement — potential justification for federal override of local governance

### Gaslighting

- Complete erasure of ICE shooting that precipitated protests
- Reframing protests against government killing as pro-criminal anarchism
- Constructing alternate reality where ICE operations are purely protective
- Implying Minnesotans should welcome enforcement that killed a fellow citizen
- DARVO pattern: government agency that killed citizen reframed as victim of obstruction

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-29._

> Thousands of already convicted murderers from foreign mental institutions living in Minnesota communities

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No evidence supports thousands of foreign mental institution patients residing in Minnesota. This conflates multiple immigration fear narratives without factual basis.

> 19 Billion Dollars stolen in Minnesota

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Likely references Feeding Our Future COVID fraud scandal. Federal charges involved ~$250M. Even broad estimates of total COVID fraud nationwide don't support $19B attributed to Minnesota specifically.

> In Chicago, thousands of criminals were removed and big improvement was made

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This claim contains two components, both of which are misleading when examined against the evidence.

Part 1 — 'Thousands of criminals were removed': Operation Midway Blitz, launched September 8, 2025, resulted in between 1,500 and 4,500 total ICE arrests in the Chicago area (numbers vary by reporting period and source). However, the overwhelming majority of those arrested were not criminals. Department of Justice records filed in federal court show that of 614 people arrested, only 16 (2.6%) had criminal histories constituting a 'high public safety risk.' A broader CBS News analysis of ICE data found only 15% had any prior criminal conviction, only 3% had convictions for violent crimes in Chicago, and 67% had only civil immigration violations. A retired Homeland Security agent told CBS this 'runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated... where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst.' While thousands of people were arrested, characterizing them as 'thousands of criminals' is demonstrably inaccurate — the vast majority had no criminal record.

Part 2 — 'Big improvement was made': Chicago did experience significant crime improvement in 2025 — recording the fewest homicides since 1965, with a 29% decrease in homicides, 35% drop in shootings, 35% decline in robberies, and 50% reduction in carjackings. However, the strong implication that ICE operations caused this improvement is contradicted by the timeline. From January 1 through September 7, 2025 — before Operation Midway Blitz began — violent crime had already declined 21.2% year-over-year. The rate of decline after the operation began (28.5%) was only modestly higher and consistent with the pre-existing downward trend. The City of Chicago officially stated that the crime reduction resulted from Chicago Police Department efforts and community violence intervention programs, and that a leaked DHS email revealed a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to claim credit for reductions that predated the operation. The University of Chicago Crime Lab's end-of-year analysis does not attribute the decline to ICE operations. Multiple independent fact-checkers including FactCheck.org found Trump's Chicago crime credit claims misleading.

In summary: thousands of people were arrested, but the vast majority were not criminals. Crime did improve significantly, but the improvement predated ICE operations and cannot credibly be attributed to them. The claim as framed — that ICE removed 'thousands of criminals' and thereby produced a 'big improvement' — misrepresents both the nature of those arrested and the cause of the crime decline.

Sources: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/ice-chicago-immigration-blitz-data; https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-ice-arrests-600-criminal-histories-high-public-safety-risk/; https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/immigration-arrests-operation-midway-blitz-few-criminal-records/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midway_Blitz; https://crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/2025-end-of-year-analysis-chicago-crime-trends/; https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2025/november/chicago-leads-violent-crime-reduction.html; https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/adding-context-to-trumps-misleading-claims-about-crime-in-chicago/; https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/11/14/chicago-crime-trump-operation-midway-blitz-dhs-murder-immigration; https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/12/operation-midway-blitz-brings-historic-drop-crime-jb-pritzker-and-brandon-johnsons; https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/01/dhs-arrests-more-800-illegal-aliens-including-worst-worst-criminals-operation; https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/02/chicago-recorded-fewest-murders-in-60-years-in-2025-bucking-trumps-murder-capital-insult/; https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-violent-crime-at-decade-low-as-arrest-rates-rise/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/30/chicago-dhs-immigration-midway-blitz/; https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/ices-illinois-arrests-during-trumps-crackdown-were-among-nations-highest/; https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/feb/24/live-fact-check-state-union-trump-address/; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/more-than-400-arrests-made-so-far-in-chicago-area-enforcement-operation-top-ice-official-says

> Every place we go, crime comes down

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Blanket claim without specificity. Crime trends are multifactorial and no evidence supports universal crime reduction following ICE operations.

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- immigration_enforcement (90%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (85%)
- eliminationist_rhetoric (80%)
- reality_distortion (80%)
- DARVO (75%)
- stochastic_terrorism (75%)
- dehumanization (70%)

## That day

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

**A midnight-to-dusk day of steady triumphalism, ruptured for one hour by Minneapolis — and closed by a grievance and a victory lap posted in the same minute.**

Trump posted ten times on January 13, starting just after midnight and finishing unusually early in the afternoon. Most of the day was routine self-promotion — praising a senator, sharing an FBI story, amplifying TV clips crediting him with pushing interest rates down, and taking a victory lap on new inflation and growth numbers. The exception was Minneapolis: after a week of fallout from a federal immigration operation there, he twice turned on the city with harsh attacks on its Somali community and on Rep. Ilhan Omar, warning of a coming "day of reckoning" without ever mentioning the incident that prompted the anger. He also told Iranian protesters to take over their institutions and to write down the names of regime officials, promising they would pay. The mood never broke down — it stayed confident throughout — but it swung sharply between grievance and triumph, ending with an attack post and a boast about the economy published in the same minute.

Full digest for 2026-01-13: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 13). Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115888070937502023
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a..." Truth Social, 13 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115888070937502023. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a...," Truth Social, January 13, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115888070937502023.

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