# Post ts_116025915764338474

- Post ID: `ts_116025915764338474`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-06T21:56:14.434Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116025915764338474
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116025915764338474/analysis
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## Post text

> White House says murder rate plummeted to lowest level since 1900 under Trump administration: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-murder-rate-plummeted-lowest-level-since-1900-under-trump-administration/

## Engagement

- Likes: 20,942
- Reposts: 4,752
- Replies: 1,043
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-08T23:30:42.174Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:29:49.747Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Murder Rate Claim Post (2026-02-06)

A routine link-sharing post amplifying a Fox News article about White House claims regarding murder rate declines. The post is a straightforward repost of favorable coverage with no personal commentary beyond the headline.

### Authorship
Posted at 4:56 PM ET (Trump likely at White House or Mar-a-Lago). Business hours, clean formatting, no editorializing, no caps emphasis, no personal voice — classic aide/Scavino post. Simply sharing a headline with a link.

### Psychological Context
This post appears amid a heavy day of narrative management — disaster relief announcements, healthcare wins (TrumpRx, Ozempic), immigration enforcement stats, and now crime statistics. The volume and variety suggest a coordinated communications strategy, likely responding to negative coverage of the racist Obama video posted earlier that week. The murder rate claim serves as supply-seeking through institutional validation.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post lets the Fox News headline do the rhetorical work. "Plummeted to lowest level since 1900" is extreme hyperbole embedded in the source material. The framing attributes the claim to "White House says" — notable circularity: Trump's White House makes a claim, Fox reports it, Trump shares the report as external validation.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Murder rate plummeted to lowest level since 1900 under Trump administration" | **Half True** | Murder rates did decline significantly in 2023-2025, continuing trends that began during the Biden administration. Attributing the full decline to Trump's second term is misleading. The 'since 1900' framing is difficult to verify given inconsistent pre-FBI-era data collection. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (4:56 PM ET)
- Clean formatting with no typos
- No personal commentary or editorializing
- Simple headline + link format
- Part of coordinated daily messaging burst

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fox News coverage validating administration claims)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Murder rate plummeted to lowest level since 1900 under Trump administration

**HALF TRUE**

Murder rates did decline significantly in 2023-2025, continuing trends that began during the Biden administration. Attributing the full decline to Trump's second term is misleading. The 'since 1900' framing is difficult to verify given inconsistent pre-FBI-era data collection.

Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Report data; Bureau of Justice Statistics

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- crime_statistics (70%)
- self_promotion (40%)
- zone_flooding (60%)

## That day

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

**A midnight avalanche of grievance video, a record Dow by afternoon, and January 6th as a nightcap**

Trump made 78 posts on February 6th, but almost three-quarters of them landed in a single burst between late Thursday night and just after midnight — dozens of clips on election fraud, immigration, and the Republican Party's civil-rights history, fired off roughly one a minute, with no words of his own attached. He was up again before six in the morning, giving him about five hours of sleep. The daytime was split: a warm note about a White House preservation meeting, a sudden and vicious attack on two former aides who had criticized him on television, then a victory lap over the Dow crossing 50,000 for the first time and two winter-storm disaster approvals. He closed the day, hours after the market celebration, by returning to the January 6th committee and calling its members guilty of crimes against humanity. Notably absent: any mention of the Winter Olympics opening in Milan, the India trade deal, or the Iran nuclear talks his own envoys were conducting.

Full digest for 2026-02-06: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 6). White House says murder rate plummeted to lowest... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116025915764338474
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "White House says murder rate plummeted to lowest level..." Truth Social, 6 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116025915764338474. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "White House says murder rate plummeted to lowest level...," Truth Social, February 6, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116025915764338474.

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