# Post ts_116120307771986643

- Post ID: `ts_116120307771986643`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-23T14:01:22.233Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:33), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> here with us now is Paul Perez from the National Border Patrol Council. Great to have you here, Paul. That judge saying that the state's arguments about being punished by federal government's operation Metro surge. Well, they just don't hold. What was your take away from this? Well, I mean, for one great to see that there's no judicial activism. But again, it allows us to go in and surge as we need to. But like President Trump said, we may do a drawdown, you know, depending on what Tom Holman says. But it gives us the opportunity to make sure that our agents and officers are protected while they're fulfilling the mission of removing those people from the United States. Yeah, absolutely. Paul, this comes after the borders are Tom Holman. He went in there to Minnesota and he tried to calm the tensions here. Holman had this message for people opposing ice. And he said this. Watch the hostile rhetoric and dangerous threats and hate must stop. And we all agreed to that. All everybody meant here today. We got to stop the rhetoric, the hateful rhetoric that has caused an increase in assaults. I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March if the rhetoric didn't stop, there's gonna be bloodshed and there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I want to ask you how he handled that situation. You've got tensions on both sides. Holman goes in and he wants to calm those tensions. How do you think that those elected leaders in that state are now going to approach this situation? Look, he's absolutely right. They have to tone it down. You know, President Trump does not want anybody to get hurt, whether it's the protesters, whether it's the law enforcement officers and they've got to do a reset. The rhetoric is dangerous. It has cost people their lives. It's gotten people to be arrested. It's gotten people hurt. And most of all, it's gotten our agents hurt. Not only that, you've got the agents that want to go into the jails that would make it a lot more safe. But now these agitators, they are agitators. There are some protesters, but a lot of them are agitators and they're getting in the face of ice agents. We've seen that. Sadly, with Paredi, he went and he did it multiple times. It cost him his life. But I want to get this thought here from President Trump. He was asked about this and whether or not if this continues, if they continue to get spit in their face, they get pushed these ice agents. Well, now President Trump says this is how they can respond. Watch. I said you're allowed. If somebody does that, you could do something back. You're not going to stand there and take it. If somebody spits in your face and that will not be a pleasant thing for the person that's missing, we're not letting people spit in our soul in his face as they stand in attention. And they're not allowed to do anything. We saw this play out now. Lay, we've seen this happen in Minnesota. How is this going to change the rhetoric here? President Trump wants his agents to be protected. But is this going to cause more chaos? Well, look, it just shows that President Trump has the back of law enforcement and you know, we know he's got our back. So we're going to be able to protect ourselves, protect our fellow agents. That's essentially what it comes to. Nobody should be impeding, interfering, but most importantly, assaulting a law enforcement officer. There will be consequences and we support his efforts to make sure that he puts it out there so that they know it's coming. Paul, I want to get your thoughts on this because Governor Tim Walz says that, well, he wants safety in this community as well. He met with border czar Tom Holman and they agreed that they had a productive conversation. Then he goes on NPR and but he'd already made this comment about Gestapo watch Donald Trump's modern day. Gestapo. Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans wearing masks being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. That was his comment. Then he was pressed again on NPR where they wanted him to double down or potentially walk back that statement. Here's what he had to say. Watch I've never said anything other than to be peacefully protesting and I'll stand by my words. I have to use the English language to describe what I'm seeing. So he did not walk back that Gestapo comment. What do you think he's gonna do with this? Is he is he gonna bend the knee to the Trump administration or is he gonna continue to make claims like this? I think he's too ignorant to do so. It's that exact dangerous rhetoric that has caused our agents and officers to see an increase in violent assaults. You know, when you compare an agency like ours, where the majority of our agents are Hispanic, calling us Gestapo, comparing us to Nazis, that's ignorant, that's stupid. But more importantly, it's dangerous. Yeah, absolutely. Paul, I gotta leave it there. Thank you so much for coming on. Paul Perez. Appreciate you as always.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/120/305/922/416/782/original/be6f10b405bc85f3.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T10:17:17.665Z (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 a law-enforcement-sympathetic broadcast segment on ICE operations, replaying Trump's own on-camera authorization for agents to physically retaliate against civilians who spit on them ("you could do something back... not a pleasant thing for the person"), alongside footage of border czar Tom Holman urging de-escalation after an agent's death and Gov. Walz's "Gestapo/torture dungeons" remark. The selection reveals a schema of agents-as-victims versus protesters-as-"agitators," with power/control as the dominant motive and a defender-of-law-enforcement narrative role. The clip contains an unresolved contradiction: a call for rhetorical calm juxtaposed with an endorsement of physical reprisal, functioning as a discrediting device against political opponents while normalizing extrajudicial retaliation by state actors. Given recent real-world violence (an agent's death, escalation in Minnesota), amplifying this framing without a clarifying or restraining message is flagged as an elevated danger indicator, though it stops short of eliminationist or target-specific incitement. No stylometric authorship evidence exists since there is no original text; timing alone (daytime UTC) provides only low-confidence signal on who selected this clip for posting.

## Post Analysis: ts_116120307771986643 (2026-02-23)

**No original text.** This post consists solely of an amplified broadcast segment on ICE/Border Patrol "Operation Metro Surge," featuring National Border Patrol Council representative Paul Perez, footage of border czar Tom Holman appealing for de-escalation after an agent's death, Gov. Tim Walz's "Gestapo... torture dungeons" remark, and a clip of Trump himself stating agents are "allowed" to physically retaliate if spat on ("you could do something back... that will not be a pleasant thing for the person"). The analyzable behavior is *selection and amplification*: Trump chose to circulate a segment that (a) valorizes ICE/Border Patrol as under siege, (b) casts protesters as "agitators," (c) surfaces Walz's inflammatory quote as evidence of opposition extremism, and (d) replays his own retaliation-endorsing remarks approvingly, juxtaposed against a plea for rhetorical de-escalation.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits
No stylometric evidence available (no original text). Low agreeableness is inferable from the adversarial framing choice (protesters as "agitators"); assertiveness/dominance orientation is inferable from selecting content that showcases his own authorization of physical retaliation.

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Dominant motive: power/control — reinforcing the authority and loyalty of federal law enforcement, positioning himself (per the guest, "he's got our back") as protector-in-chief of agents. Schema: world as hostile; agents figured as righteous victims; political opposition figured as reckless instigators of the violence besetting agents.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Protagonist role: defender/backer of law enforcement against a hostile political environment. Contrasting other: "agitators," Gov. Walz, purveyors of "hateful rhetoric." The segment contains an unresolved internal tension amounting to a mini contamination sequence — Holman's on-camera plea that "hostile rhetoric... must stop" is immediately followed by amplification of Trump's own retaliation-endorsing quote, undercutting the de-escalation message within the same artifact Trump chose to post.

### Level 4 — Clinical/Behavioral Indicators
- **Defense mechanisms:** Splitting (agents cast as good/victimized; protesters cast as bad/"agitators"); externalization of blame for violence onto opposition rhetoric, while the amplified Trump quote itself models the retaliatory aggression being condemned — a subtle DARVO-adjacent structure (rhetoric "causes" violence, but only the opposition's rhetoric counts).
- **Paranoid/antisocial-adjacent features:** Preoccupation with agents as targets of attack; explicit endorsement (in the amplified quote) of extrajudicial physical retaliation against civilians ("you could do something back... not a pleasant thing for the person") rather than reliance on formal legal process — a notable, if second-hand-amplified, disregard for due-process norms constraining law enforcement conduct.
- **Narcissistic state:** Not strongly implicated here since the post is largely about institutional actors rather than Trump's personal grievances, though the choice to replay his own quote suggests satisfaction in being seen as the source of agents' protection/impunity.

### Rhetorical Techniques
Us-vs-them framing (agents/administration vs. "agitators"/Walz); appeal to law-and-order values; selective quotation that pairs a call for calm (Holman) with a threat of retaliation (Trump), producing rhetorical inconsistency consistent with a "firehose" pattern (volume and inconsistency over coherence). Walz's "Gestapo"/"torture dungeons" language is amplified likely to portray the opposition as extreme and delegitimize criticism of ICE tactics — a discrediting-by-contrast technique.

### Danger Assessment
Elevated. The amplified Trump quote functions as a public authorization for federal agents to physically retaliate against civilians ("you could do something back... that will not be a pleasant thing for the person") in a context where an agent has already been killed and assaults are rising on both sides. This is not eliminationist or targeted-violence language against a defined class, but it is a sitting president's on-record endorsement of extrajudicial physical reprisal by armed federal officers, posted for approving amplification rather than clarification or restraint. Rated "elevated" rather than "high/critical" because the retaliation is framed as reactive/defensive rather than initiating, and no specific individual or mobilization is named.

### Authorship Attribution
No written text exists in this post, so there is no stylometric evidence (typos, syntax, capitalization) to assess. The only available signal is timing/posting pattern: 2026-02-23T14:01 UTC converts to approximately 9:01am ET, consistent with either Mar-a-Lago or a Washington/New Jersey base — a daytime hour more typical of aide-scheduled content than late-night impulsive posting. However, video reposts of favorable news coverage are routinely selected and queued by Trump himself at any hour, and this signal is weak on its own. The relevant authorship question here is not "who wrote this" (no text exists) but "who selected this clip for amplification" — that decision cannot be confidently attributed between Trump and staff from timing alone.

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## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Daytime posting hour (~9am ET) is more typical of aide-scheduled content, though weak on its own
- No written text exists, so no stylometric evidence (typos, syntax, punctuation) is available
- Video reposts of favorable coverage are routinely selected by Trump himself at any hour

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 35%

Strongest facet: assertiveness/low tender-mindedness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** defender/protector of law enforcement
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** protesters/'agitators' and Gov. Walz

**Identity Claims:**
- Positioned as guarantor of agents' safety and impunity

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing ICE/Border Patrol enforcement controversy and Minnesota protest tensions)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Positioning Trump as personal guarantor of agents' safety and impunity ('he's got our back')
- Using a sympathetic broadcast interview format to build in-group solidarity with law enforcement audience

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplification of Trump's own on-camera authorization for federal agents to physically retaliate against civilians who spit on them
- Posted in the context of an agent's recent death and rising mutual assaults during ICE operations in Minnesota
- Framing of protesters broadly as 'agitators' rather than distinguishing lawful protest from violent conduct

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Tags

- ICE/Border Patrol (90%)
- retaliation-endorsement (70%)
- us-vs-them framing (70%)
- media-only post (100%)
- law-and-order narrative (60%)

## That day

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

**He demoted the "supreme court" to lowercase, then threatened higher tariffs than the ones it had just struck down**

Trump spent the day still chewing on the Supreme Court ruling that struck down his tariffs three days earlier, and by early morning he was announcing he would write "supreme court" in lowercase until further notice. He insisted the loss had actually handed him more power, then threatened any country that tries to "play games" with the decision with even steeper tariffs — while his administration quietly signed a proclamation routing around the ruling under a different law. The middle of the day was a burst of borrowed praise: Border Patrol union endorsements, Fox segments, a Florida campaign announcement. He resurfaced after a six-hour afternoon silence to publicly correct reports that his top general opposes war with Iran, then closed on a friendly note about saving Utah's Great Salt Lake. A poll putting his approval at a record low, a blizzard shutting down New York, and a canal-ports win in Panama all went unmentioned.

Full digest for 2026-02-23: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 23).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116120307771986643
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 23 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116120307771986643. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, February 23, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116120307771986643.

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