# Post ts_115970668236723986

- Post ID: `ts_115970668236723986`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-28T03:46:04.068Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115970668236723986/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:51), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> We took thousands of hardened criminals out of Minnesota, so they had good crime numbers, believe it or not. You know, we have Tom Holman there now. We put him in there. He's great. And they met with the governor, the mayor, everybody else, and we're going to de-escalate a little bit. These are paid insurrectionists. These are paid agitators. These people are normal, like, OG, that, you know, they're incensed about anything. How do you get incensed when you go into a state and you're taking criminals out? You're taking monsters out. Do you notice they don't mention affordability anymore? Prices were way high. Now I've got the prices down and they're going down still further. But think of it. We brought fuel from $4, $3.50, $3.75 down to $1.99, $1.80. I was just told in Iowa, $1.85. Millions of people were let in through the border by Biden. The problem is I gave you the best border in the history of our country. Nobody wants to talk about it anymore. You know, I did it a long time ago. I was able to do it within three months of taking office. I had that border locked. Tariffs have been indispensable towards success. We've taken in $600 billion in tariffs. I gave the farmers $12 billion last week. So what's happening is we're getting a tremendous amount of business coming to this country and they're coming in fast and sharp. And if we catch a lot of this fraud, and I felt it for a long time, but now we know what's happening. And the answer is yeah, there will be accountability. And a lot of what's going on with respect to Minneapolis, you know, with what's happening with all the hoopla is so people don't talk about it. It's a distraction. I've said it from day one. It's a distraction. You're talking about $19 billion. Probably that's a minimal number. We want safe cities and states. We want a safe country. And again, we just got a report done by Democrats that the country is the safest ever recorded.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/970/667/926/202/344/original/cd6d3749154fbaee.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.284Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T00:46:38.918Z (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 media-only post amplifies Trump's own rally remarks addressing the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a US citizen and nurse, by federal agents in Minneapolis, and the mass protests that followed. Rather than addressing accountability for the killing, the remarks relabel demonstrators as 'paid insurrectionists' and 'paid agitators,' deny the movement's organic grievance basis, and reframe the entire controversy as 'a distraction' from claimed economic and border successes. This pattern combines denial and splitting defenses with a DARVO-like reversal, in which the administration whose agents killed a bystander positions itself as the target of manufactured criticism. The clip is layered with grandiose superlatives (record-low gas prices, historic tariff revenue, 'safest [country] ever recorded') that on available evidence appear substantially exaggerated or unverifiable, alongside a claim of paid, inauthentic protest offered without evidence. Danger is rated elevated: dehumanizing framing of a grief-driven protest movement, deployed while a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting is reportedly ongoing, risks further delegitimizing scrutiny of lethal force against a US citizen and normalizing continued aggressive enforcement posture in the same city. No explicit incitement to violence is present, distinguishing this from a critical-tier assessment. As with all media-only posts, authorship of the on-camera remarks is very likely Trump himself, but the decision to select and amplify this specific framing — rather than address the shooting directly — is the primary analyzable behavior here, and warrants continued longitudinal tracking of how the administration characterizes accountability-seeking protest following use-of-force incidents.

## Post Overview

This is a media-only post — a video clip containing an extended segment of remarks that, based on first-person content ("I gave the farmers $12 billion," "I had that border locked," "I was able to do it within three months of taking office"), are almost certainly Trump's own spoken remarks (likely from the Iowa rally referenced in the same-day post feed), not a third-party broadcast segment. There is no caption or written commentary attached. Because there is no text authored for this post, stylometric analysis (typos, capitalization, punctuation, syntax) is unavailable and not scored. The analyzable act is dual: (1) the substantive content of his own remarks, since he is the identifiable speaker, and (2) the choice to select and post this particular clip, on this day, with no framing commentary.

## Level 1–3: Traits, Motives, Narrative

The remarks display an agentic, achievement/status-oriented motive structure: repeated superlative self-crediting ("best border in the history of our country," "safest [country] ever recorded," tariff revenue framed as historic success). The narrative casts Trump as rescuer/order-restorer — crime, the border, and fuel prices were "bad," now "fixed" by him (a redemption arc), while protesters, Biden, and unnamed media ("they don't mention affordability anymore," "nobody wants to talk about it") serve as the contrasting other/obstacle. Protesters responding to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a US citizen and nurse, are reframed as "paid insurrectionists" and "paid agitators" — a splitting move that delegitimizes grievance rather than engaging it.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Defense mechanisms:** Denial/minimization is prominent — the killing of a US citizen during immigration enforcement and the resulting mass protests are reframed as an inauthentic, funded conspiracy ("paid insurrectionists," "paid agitators") rather than acknowledged as organic grief/outrage. This is a classic immature defense (splitting: legitimate protest vs. "paid" fakes) that also functions as a DARVO-adjacent move — the administration whose agents killed a bystander recasts itself as the target of manufactured hostility, and reframes the controversy as "a distraction" from his preferred narrative, effectively reversing victim/offender framing. Rationalization appears in equating the crackdown's targets with "monsters," retroactively justifying the operation's harms via aggregate "crime numbers."

**Paranoid features:** Suspicion that protest is externally funded/orchestrated without evidence offered; belief that media/critics are deliberately suppressing his successes ("nobody wants to talk about it anymore").

**Narcissistic features:** Grandiose superlatives regarding the border, tariffs, and crime statistics stated as settled fact rather than contested claims.

## Rhetorical Techniques

Hyperbole/superlatives ("best border in the history of our country," "safest ever recorded"), whataboutism/deflection ("it's a distraction," "they don't mention affordability anymore"), false dichotomy (authentic ordinary citizens vs. "paid" agitators), appeal to achievement, minimization of protest legitimacy through labeling.

## Danger Assessment

Elevated. This clip amplifies dehumanizing/delegitimizing language ("paid insurrectionists," "paid agitators," equating detainees with "monsters") in the direct aftermath of two fatal shootings of US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis within three weeks, including an unarmed nurse recording on his phone. Casting the resulting grief-driven protest movement as inauthentic and funded — rather than addressing accountability for the shootings themselves — normalizes further use of force against protesters and forecloses legitimate scrutiny. No explicit call to violence is present, so this falls short of "high" or "critical," but the timing and target-plus-grievance-erasure pattern warrant continued monitoring.

## Authorship Attribution

No written text exists to analyze stylometrically. Attribution here concerns *who selected this clip for posting*, not who wrote or spoke it (the content strongly suggests Trump himself is the on-camera speaker). Posting time converts to approximately 9:46–10:46 PM local time (Central if posted from the Iowa rally circuit, Eastern if from Washington/Mar-a-Lago) on January 27 — consistent with either Trump personally sharing a highlight from his own rally that evening, or campaign/comms staff clipping and posting rally remarks after the event, a routine staff task. Evening timing is only weakly probative for content that is a repost of his own public remarks rather than an original written reaction. Confidence is capped at low.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Gasoline prices have fallen to $1.99, $1.80, and as low as $1.85 (Iowa) under his administration" | **False** | National average US gasoline prices in early 2026 were reported in the roughly $3.00-$3.30 per gallon range; sub-$2.00 nationwide or state-level averages of this kind have not been documented since the pandemic demand collapse of 2020, and no contemporaneous reporting corroborates the specific figures cited. |
| "The federal government has taken in $600 billion in tariff revenue" | **Mostly False** | Reported cumulative US customs/tariff revenue collected since the 2025 tariff expansions was tracked by the Treasury and independent outlets in the range of roughly one to two hundred billion dollars through early 2026, substantially below the $600 billion figure asserted. |
| "A report shows the country is 'the safest ever recorded'" | **Unverifiable** | No specific report is named, and while some crime indices have shown year-over-year declines in parts of this period, no verifiable independent dataset supports a categorical claim of the safest crime levels 'ever recorded' in US history; the claim as stated cannot be traced to a specific verifiable source. |
| "The administration gave farmers $12 billion in aid the prior week" | **Unverifiable** | Farm aid programs tied to tariff-related trade disruption have been disbursed in the billions of dollars under this administration, but a specific $12 billion disbursement in the exact week referenced cannot be confirmed from available information. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Content is first-person and substantively consistent with Trump's own public remarks (references to his own policy actions: farmer payments, tariffs, border), suggesting he is the on-camera speaker
- Posting time (~9:46-10:46 PM local depending on location) falls in a plausible late-evening window for either personal or staff posting after a rally
- No caption or written framing was added, which is equally consistent with a staff-run account clipping rally highlights or Trump personally forwarding a favorite moment
- Absence of any written text removes all stylometric signal (typos, syntax, capitalization) normally used to distinguish Trump's own hand from aide-authored posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (Nationwide protests and media scrutiny following fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis within three weeks)

Sentiment: +0.05

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid topic-switching across crime, immigration, fuel prices, tariffs, and farm aid within a single clip
- Grandiose, superlative self-assessment across multiple unrelated policy areas

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying rally footage that positions him as sole author of national safety/economic improvement, inviting audience identification with his 'fixer' persona

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Dehumanizing/delegitimizing labels ('paid insurrectionists,' 'paid agitators,' equating detainees with 'monsters') applied to a protest movement that arose directly from federal agents fatally shooting a US citizen
- Reframing accountability scrutiny for a fatal shooting as a political 'distraction' rather than a legitimate matter of federal use-of-force review
- Amplification occurs while a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting is reportedly ongoing, potentially prejudicing public perception of the affected community's response

### Gaslighting

- Recasting large-scale, grief-driven public protests over a documented killing as 'paid' and inauthentic, denying the legitimacy of the reaction to verified events
- Framing intense scrutiny of a fatal shooting of a US citizen as merely 'a distraction' from unrelated economic talking points

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-09._

> Gasoline prices have fallen to $1.99, $1.80, and as low as $1.85 (Iowa) under his administration

**FALSE**

National average US gasoline prices in early 2026 were reported in the roughly $3.00-$3.30 per gallon range; sub-$2.00 nationwide or state-level averages of this kind have not been documented since the pandemic demand collapse of 2020, and no contemporaneous reporting corroborates the specific figures cited.

> The federal government has taken in $600 billion in tariff revenue

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Reported cumulative US customs/tariff revenue collected since the 2025 tariff expansions was tracked by the Treasury and independent outlets in the range of roughly one to two hundred billion dollars through early 2026, substantially below the $600 billion figure asserted.

> A report shows the country is 'the safest ever recorded'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No specific report is named, and while some crime indices have shown year-over-year declines in parts of this period, no verifiable independent dataset supports a categorical claim of the safest crime levels 'ever recorded' in US history; the claim as stated cannot be traced to a specific verifiable source.

> The administration gave farmers $12 billion in aid the prior week

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Farm aid programs tied to tariff-related trade disruption have been disbursed in the billions of dollars under this administration, but a specific $12 billion disbursement in the exact week referenced cannot be confirmed from available information.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- deflection (80%)
- delegitimization-of-protest (85%)
- denial (60%)
- splitting (55%)
- dehumanizing-language (60%)
- redemption-sequence (50%)
- minneapolis-ice-shootings (90%)

## That day

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

**Endorsement blitz by night, armada by morning — a uniformly grandiose day with three sharp edges**

The evening before, Trump rolled out seven midterm endorsements in about an hour and a quarter — mostly staff-written boilerplate, notable mainly for how often he cited his own vote margins and for the jabs at Republican incumbents he wants gone. He then slept a normal night and woke up straight into the day's most consequential post: a public warning that a naval armada led by the USS Abraham Lincoln is headed toward Iran, with a promise that the next attack would be "far worse." An hour later he turned on Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, saying he was "playing with fire" for refusing to enforce federal immigration law — never mentioning that federal agents had recently killed a US citizen in that city. The rest of the day was far lighter: the S&P 500 crossing 7,000, a complaint about NFL rules and Bill Belichick's Hall of Fame snub, some links to friendly coverage, and a Justice Department nomination in the evening. His mood never shifted from confident and expansive; what changed all day was the target.

Full digest for 2026-01-28: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 28).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115970668236723986
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 28 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115970668236723986. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, January 28, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115970668236723986.

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