# Post ts_116290799193660420

- Post ID: `ts_116290799193660420`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-25T16:39:34.807Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116290799193660420
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116290799193660420/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116290799193660420.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I am so proud of our ICE Patriots! They were unfairly maligned by the Lunatic Democrats for years, and now, at the Airports, in addition to what they are supposed to be doing, they are helping people with bags, even picking up and cleaning areas. They are so proud to be there! The fact is, they shouldn't have to do this, but they are rehabbing a fake image given to them by Radical Left Democrat politicians. The Public is loving ICE, so the Democrats, unwittingly, did us a favor — They are Great American Patriots, they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they're supposed to have. Thank you to ICE for the GREAT job you are doing. America very much appreciates it! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T04:51:23.478Z (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 responds to public criticism of the ICE airport deployment with a tripartite psychological move: denial that ICE's image problems have any legitimate basis ("fake image"), attribution of all criticism to political enemies ("Radical Left Democrat politicians"), and triumphalist reframing (critics "unwittingly did us a favor"). The narcissistic state is firmly grandiose — pure vindication, no vulnerability.

The most clinically notable element is the muscle passage ("they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most"), which deploys characteristic Trump two-channel communication: surface celebration of ICE helpfulness with a simultaneous subtext of physical state power display. This embeds an implicit intimidation signal within a gratitude frame — the most helpful people are also the most physically capable of force.

Defense mechanisms are prominent throughout: reaction formation (dangerous agents → helpful bag-carriers), splitting (Great Patriots vs. Lunatic Democrats), projection (documented conduct issues attributed entirely to political fabrication), and rationalization (unusual deployment reframed as noble image rehabilitation). The characterization of all ICE criticism as politically manufactured constitutes DARVO gaslighting, requiring followers to deny documented agency conduct as a group membership condition.

Danger level is elevated but not high: no named targets, no explicit incitement, but normalization of armed federal agents in civilian spaces combined with same-day "Country Hating Democrats" framing contributes to cumulative federal force normalization rhetoric. Cognitive status: within established baseline.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis: ICE Airport Deployment Post

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** 12:39 PM EDT (UTC-4; Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or Washington DC during active Iran military operations). This falls firmly in business hours, consistent with aide involvement. However, multiple authentic Trump markers are present: the idiosyncratic muscle observation ("they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most"), characteristic enemy labeling ("Lunatic Democrats," "Radical Left Democrat politicians"), mid-post triumphalist pivots, emotional enthusiasm via exclamation points and ALL CAPS "GREAT," and the full-name signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

The muscle passage is too specific and grammatically idiosyncratic to plausibly originate from an aide — it serves Trump's characteristic physical dominance signaling while being structurally awkward. Most parsimonious interpretation: **Trump-authored during daytime working hours, possibly with light stylistic cleanup.** Confidence: medium.

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### Psychological Context and Trigger

The March 23 ICE airport deployment — responding to TSA staffing collapse reaching 55% callout rates — generated significant public criticism about safety risks and mission creep for untrained immigration enforcement agents in civilian aviation roles. This post is a direct PR response to that criticism: a **narcissistic injury by proxy**. Trump has strongly identified ICE as "his" institution and accomplishment, making criticism of ICE functionally equivalent to criticism of Trump himself.

The post operates simultaneously as:
1. **Supply-seeking** — seeking validation for the deployment decision
2. **Narcissistic injury repair** — inverting criticism into triumph
3. **Maintenance** — routine base engagement and identity reinforcement

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### Narcissistic State: Grandiose

This post is firmly in the grandiose register — expansive, triumphalist, no vulnerability present. Key indicators:
- "The Public is loving ICE" — unsubstantiated consensus claim presented as established fact
- "Democrats, unwittingly, did us a favor" — enemies' attacks backfire, confirming the leader's genius
- "Great American Patriots" — elevating objects of approval to heroic status, reflecting glory back onto the approver

No wounded or vulnerable quality is detectable. Trump is in the "winning" frame throughout.

---

### The Muscle Passage: Primary Clinical Observation

> *"they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they're supposed to have"*

This passage warrants specific attention. It operates on multiple simultaneous channels:

- **Physical dominance signaling**: Casting ICE agents as physically superior beings who exist outside the normal human distribution
- **Implicit threat within celebration**: The most "helpful" people are simultaneously the most capable of violence — a two-channel communication where surface benevolence and subtext intimidation coexist
- **Masculinity performance**: Consistent with Trump's longstanding valorization of size and physical strength as proxies for legitimacy
- **Othering by physical type**: Implicitly distinguishes ICE from ordinary (softer, smaller) people in a way that positions them as a specialized force

The parenthetical qualifier ("which is what they're supposed to have") functions as a reassurance token for critics while preserving the intimidation signal — characteristic Trump double-channel rhetoric. This is not cognitively confused speech; it is rhetorically functional.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Reaction formation** (primary, neurotic level): Critics argue ICE is dangerous in civilian settings → Trump inverts this entirely to ICE as voluntary bag-carriers and area cleaners. The threatening quality is fully transformed into service. The inversion is so complete it constitutes a mirror image of the criticism.

**Rationalization** (neurotic): "They shouldn't have to do this, but they are rehabbing a fake image" — explicitly acknowledges the deployment's unusual nature while reframing it as noble sacrifice and image work. The implicit logic: *they are so virtuous they're willing to humble themselves to correct others' misperceptions.*

**Splitting** (immature): Perfect binary — ICE (Great Patriots, physically superior, beloved by public) vs. Democrats (Lunatic, Radical Left, unwitting, country-hating). No gradations, no nuance, no acknowledged complexity.

**Projection** (immature): ICE's documented conduct problems — family separations, deaths in detention, documented abuses — are attributed entirely to Democratic political fabrication rather than acknowledged as having any basis in agency behavior.

---

### Gaslighting Analysis

The characterization of ICE's image problem as entirely "a fake image given to them by Radical Left Democrat politicians" constitutes DARVO in concentrated form:
- **Deny**: The image problem is manufactured, not earned
- **Attack**: Those raising it are "Lunatic" and "Radical Left"
- **Reverse**: ICE is the real victim of unjust political persecution

This erases documented incidents that generated the criticism and requires followers to accept their denial as a condition of group membership — a shared psychosis transmission dynamic. The post does not acknowledge any legitimate basis for criticism; 100% of the negative perception is attributed to political malice. This is not a defensible epistemic position; it is a loyalty test.

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### Rhetorical Architecture

- **Patriot framing**: "ICE Patriots," "Great American Patriots" — converts a law enforcement bureaucracy into a nationalist identity group, making criticism of ICE equivalent to criticism of America itself
- **Enemy labeling**: "Lunatic Democrats," "Radical Left Democrat politicians" — dehumanization via psychiatric and extremism labels
- **False consensus**: "The Public is loving ICE" — reverse-engineers a popular mandate from an unverified claim
- **Triumphalism**: "Democrats, unwittingly, did us a favor" — the enemies' attacks have strengthened our position; this confirms the leader cannot be defeated even by opposition
- **Physical dominance embedding**: Muscle passage serves as implicit state power display within a gratitude frame
- **Mission reframing**: ICE deployment at airports recast as voluntary image rehabilitation, not crisis management response to TSA collapse

---

### Danger Assessment: Elevated

No direct incitement present; stochastic terrorism threshold not met (no named individuals, no specific grievance-plus-implied-action structure). However, danger is elevated for structural reasons:

1. **Mission creep normalization**: Framing ICE's presence at airports as praiseworthy rather than problematic normalizes the expansion of immigration enforcement into non-traditional civilian spaces
2. **Physical force valorization in civilian context**: Celebrating the superior physical capabilities of armed federal agents in airports — implicitly: *these helpful people could also hurt you* — is a subtle power display that conditions acceptance of escalating federal presence
3. **Accountability erosion**: The framing that all ICE criticism is politically fabricated eliminates the conceptual space for legitimate accountability of federal force
4. **Cumulative pattern**: Combined with same-day posts calling Democrats "Country Hating" enemies who "want our Country to fail," this contributes to a sustained rhetorical environment in which federal force against political opponents is gradually normalized

---

### Cognitive Status

No significant deviation from Trump's established baseline. The post shows characteristic patterns: below-formal-register vocabulary, simple-to-moderate syntactic complexity, emotional punctuation enthusiasm, minor tangentiality (muscle pivot), and consistent enemy labeling. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or temporal confusion detected. The muscle observation is idiosyncratic but coherent and purposeful. Complexity score is consistent with Trump's social media baseline, not his earlier (1980s-90s) speech patterns, which showed higher syntactic complexity.

---

### Longitudinal Note

This post is consistent with Trump's longstanding ICE-as-identity pattern, which intensified markedly after 2016. The "Patriots" framing, physical strength valorization, and triumphalist-against-critics structure are well-established baseline features. No escalation detected relative to recent baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Public is loving ICE" | **Mostly False** | Polling on ICE has historically shown mixed to negative public sentiment; multiple polls since 2018 have shown plurality opposition. No evidence of a sudden shift to widespread approval coinciding with the airport deployment. |
| "ICE was unfairly maligned by Democrats for years" | **Half True** | ICE has faced documented criticism based on agency conduct including family separation policy, deaths in immigration detention, and enforcement incidents. Characterizing all such criticism as 'unfair maligning' ignores the documented record. However, some political criticism was rhetorically excessive. |
| "ICE agents are helping people with bags and cleaning areas at airports" | **Mostly False** | ICE agents were indeed deployed to 14 major U.S. airports starting March 24, 2026, during a DHS partial shutdown that left TSA workers unpaid. Acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to Congress that ICE officers were officially assisting with 'queue management,' exit lane staffing, and giving passengers instructions on loading bins. However, Trump's specific claims about agents 'helping people with bags' and 'picking up and cleaning areas' are not corroborated by independent on-the-ground reporting, which consistently depicts a very different picture:

1. At Atlanta's airport, a CNN producer observed ICE agents 'apparently spend several hours mainly talking among themselves, wandering the floor and getting something to eat' with no visible involvement in helping check-ins or directing crowds.
2. At Houston's George Bush Intercontinental, CNN's Ed Lavandera reported agents were 'standing around the edges, clearly not involved in helping process the thousands of passengers.'
3. The Daily Beast documented agents 'spotted loitering across the 14 airports,' 'leaning up against walls and over railings, grabbing Starbucks, chatting in groups.'
4. A traveler named Donna Troupe told reporters: 'When I've seen them, they've just been standing around talking.'
5. When reporters asked ICE agents what they were doing, responses were vague; one stated their mission was to 'support TSA officers' but offered no specifics.
6. Salon reported ICE officers were 'harassing and manhandling people suspected of being immigrants' rather than assisting TSA operations.
7. A former ICE official noted 'federal immigration agents were not trained to handle the technical tasks involved in airport security.'
8. Security wait times remained up to 6 hours even with ICE present, suggesting minimal operational impact.

While ICE was officially tasked with support roles, the specific activities Trump describes — carrying bags for travelers and cleaning areas — were not observed by any independent reporter or traveler in the available reporting. The deployment appears to have been largely performative or immigration-enforcement focused rather than service-oriented as Trump described. |
| "Democrats broke an already-signed bill (referenced in related posts)" | **Mostly False** | Trump posted on Truth Social: 'They broke the already signed Bill because they want to take care of Criminals who enter our Country illegally, rather than American citizens.' This claim is misleading on multiple levels:

**What actually happened — the legislative timeline:**
1. In January 2026, a bipartisan DHS funding agreement was being negotiated as part of the broader FY2026 appropriations process.
2. On January 24, after Customs and Border Protection agents fatally shot U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats withdrew support for the DHS funding portion.
3. On January 30, the Senate passed a revised package (71-29) containing five appropriations bills plus a *two-week* continuing resolution for DHS — not permanent funding.
4. On February 3, the House passed this bill (217-214) and Trump signed it. The bill provided full-year funding for all agencies *except* DHS, which received only temporary funding through approximately February 14.
5. The DHS temporary funding expired as designed on February 14. Democrats blocked subsequent continuing resolutions, demanding ICE reforms (judicial warrants for home entries, banning agents from wearing masks).
6. The DHS-only partial shutdown has been ongoing since February 14, reaching approximately 40 days by late March 2026.

**Why 'broke an already-signed bill' is misleading:**
- No signed bill was 'broken.' The temporary DHS CR expired on its built-in expiration date. That's how the legislation was designed.
- The full-year funding bill that Trump signed deliberately *excluded* DHS from permanent funding, giving only a two-week bridge.
- Democrats didn't 'break' anything — they exercised their legislative prerogative to demand reforms after federal agents killed U.S. citizens.
- Critically, Trump *himself* rejected at least one bipartisan proposal to end the shutdown. According to the Daily Beast and multiple outlets, Senate Majority Leader John Thune presented Trump with a deal to fund all of DHS except ICE enforcement operations, but Trump rejected it because it didn't include the unrelated SAVE America Act (voter ID legislation). Trump posted: 'I don't think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass The SAVE america act.'
- Republican Senator John Kennedy's comments about Trump thwarting the deal were fact-checked by Snopes.

The impasse was caused by multiple parties: Democrats demanding ICE reforms after the Minneapolis killings, and Trump himself blocking proposed solutions by attaching unrelated legislative demands. |

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Muscle passage too idiosyncratic and grammatically awkward for aide authorship
- Characteristic 'Lunatic Democrats' and 'Radical Left Democrat politicians' labeling
- Full-name signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' consistent with authentic posts
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from ICE praise to triumphalism to physical description
- ALL CAPS 'GREAT' and multiple exclamation marks consistent with authentic Trump register

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Public and media criticism of ICE deployment at airports amid TSA staffing crisis)

Sentiment: +0.32

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple exclamation marks throughout (8 in one post)
- Elevated, enthusiastic tone ('I am so proud!')
- Triumphalist reframing of apparent crisis as advantage
- Rapid positive spin on what is operationally a crisis deployment
- Expansive grandiosity ('The Public is loving ICE', 'Great American Patriots')

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 68%
- Antisocial: 24%
- Paranoid: 52%
- Sadism: 22%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- reaction formation (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to ICE as 'our ICE Patriots' — collective ownership framing creating in-group bond
- Public gratitude performance ('Thank you to ICE') functioning as approval distribution to followers
- Shared enemy identification ('Lunatic Democrats') as in-group cohesion mechanism
- Authoritative confirmation ('The Public is loving ICE') positioning Trump as arbiter of public sentiment

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Valorization of physically superior armed federal agents in civilian airport spaces — celebrates force capacity within a service frame
- Normalization of ICE mission expansion beyond statutory immigration enforcement role
- Framing all criticism of federal enforcement as enemy political fabrication eliminates conceptual space for accountability
- Cumulative same-day pattern: this post combined with 'Country Hating Democrats want our Country to fail' framing constructs Democrats as domestic enemies of armed patriot forces

### Gaslighting

- 'Fake image given to them by Radical Left Democrat politicians' — characterizes documented conduct-based criticism as entirely politically manufactured
- No acknowledgment of any legitimate basis for ICE criticism; 100% of negative perception attributed to malice
- DARVO structure: Deny (image is fake), Attack (critics are Lunatics/Radical Left), Reverse (ICE is the real victim)
- Requires followers to deny documented reality (family separations, detention deaths) as group membership condition

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-26._

> The Public is loving ICE

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Polling on ICE has historically shown mixed to negative public sentiment; multiple polls since 2018 have shown plurality opposition. No evidence of a sudden shift to widespread approval coinciding with the airport deployment.

Sources: General polling knowledge — no specific search conducted

> ICE was unfairly maligned by Democrats for years

**HALF TRUE**

ICE has faced documented criticism based on agency conduct including family separation policy, deaths in immigration detention, and enforcement incidents. Characterizing all such criticism as 'unfair maligning' ignores the documented record. However, some political criticism was rhetorically excessive.

Sources: General knowledge — no specific search conducted

> ICE agents are helping people with bags and cleaning areas at airports

**MOSTLY FALSE**

ICE agents were indeed deployed to 14 major U.S. airports starting March 24, 2026, during a DHS partial shutdown that left TSA workers unpaid. Acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to Congress that ICE officers were officially assisting with 'queue management,' exit lane staffing, and giving passengers instructions on loading bins. However, Trump's specific claims about agents 'helping people with bags' and 'picking up and cleaning areas' are not corroborated by independent on-the-ground reporting, which consistently depicts a very different picture:

1. At Atlanta's airport, a CNN producer observed ICE agents 'apparently spend several hours mainly talking among themselves, wandering the floor and getting something to eat' with no visible involvement in helping check-ins or directing crowds.
2. At Houston's George Bush Intercontinental, CNN's Ed Lavandera reported agents were 'standing around the edges, clearly not involved in helping process the thousands of passengers.'
3. The Daily Beast documented agents 'spotted loitering across the 14 airports,' 'leaning up against walls and over railings, grabbing Starbucks, chatting in groups.'
4. A traveler named Donna Troupe told reporters: 'When I've seen them, they've just been standing around talking.'
5. When reporters asked ICE agents what they were doing, responses were vague; one stated their mission was to 'support TSA officers' but offered no specifics.
6. Salon reported ICE officers were 'harassing and manhandling people suspected of being immigrants' rather than assisting TSA operations.
7. A former ICE official noted 'federal immigration agents were not trained to handle the technical tasks involved in airport security.'
8. Security wait times remained up to 6 hours even with ICE present, suggesting minimal operational impact.

While ICE was officially tasked with support roles, the specific activities Trump describes — carrying bags for travelers and cleaning areas — were not observed by any independent reporter or traveler in the available reporting. The deployment appears to have been largely performative or immigration-enforcement focused rather than service-oriented as Trump described.

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/us/ice-agents-airport-deployment-what-we-know; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5800399-trump-ice-airports-dhs/; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thirsts-over-idle-muscle-bound-ice-goons-at-airports/; https://www.salon.com/2026/03/25/ice-at-airports-trumps-troll-move-backfires/; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-wait-times-6-hours-ice-homeland-security-agents-airports/; https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agents-tsa-airports-dhs-shutdown-security-delays-wait-times-rcna264740; https://newrepublic.com/post/208144/trump-ice-agents-popular-larger-harder-muscles-truth-social; https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-airports/

> Democrats broke an already-signed bill (referenced in related posts)

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump posted on Truth Social: 'They broke the already signed Bill because they want to take care of Criminals who enter our Country illegally, rather than American citizens.' This claim is misleading on multiple levels:

**What actually happened — the legislative timeline:**
1. In January 2026, a bipartisan DHS funding agreement was being negotiated as part of the broader FY2026 appropriations process.
2. On January 24, after Customs and Border Protection agents fatally shot U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats withdrew support for the DHS funding portion.
3. On January 30, the Senate passed a revised package (71-29) containing five appropriations bills plus a *two-week* continuing resolution for DHS — not permanent funding.
4. On February 3, the House passed this bill (217-214) and Trump signed it. The bill provided full-year funding for all agencies *except* DHS, which received only temporary funding through approximately February 14.
5. The DHS temporary funding expired as designed on February 14. Democrats blocked subsequent continuing resolutions, demanding ICE reforms (judicial warrants for home entries, banning agents from wearing masks).
6. The DHS-only partial shutdown has been ongoing since February 14, reaching approximately 40 days by late March 2026.

**Why 'broke an already-signed bill' is misleading:**
- No signed bill was 'broken.' The temporary DHS CR expired on its built-in expiration date. That's how the legislation was designed.
- The full-year funding bill that Trump signed deliberately *excluded* DHS from permanent funding, giving only a two-week bridge.
- Democrats didn't 'break' anything — they exercised their legislative prerogative to demand reforms after federal agents killed U.S. citizens.
- Critically, Trump *himself* rejected at least one bipartisan proposal to end the shutdown. According to the Daily Beast and multiple outlets, Senate Majority Leader John Thune presented Trump with a deal to fund all of DHS except ICE enforcement operations, but Trump rejected it because it didn't include the unrelated SAVE America Act (voter ID legislation). Trump posted: 'I don't think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass The SAVE america act.'
- Republican Senator John Kennedy's comments about Trump thwarting the deal were fact-checked by Snopes.

The impasse was caused by multiple parties: Democrats demanding ICE reforms after the Minneapolis killings, and Trump himself blocking proposed solutions by attaching unrelated legislative demands.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_federal_government_shutdowns; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-path-end-government-shutdown-tuesday-dhs-trump-rcna257138; https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/politics/government-funding-bill-house-trump-dhs; https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/g-s1-115106/dhs-funding-tsa-congress-stalled; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/funding-deal-begins-to-unravel-as-senate-democrats-vow-to-oppose-dhs-bill-over-alex-pretti-shooting-in-minnesota; https://www.thedailybeast.com/insiders-reveal-trump-secretly-torpedoed-deal-to-end-dhs-shutdown-chaos/; https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/politics/trump-dhs-shutdown-save-america-act; https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5799214-dhs-funding-deal-senate-trump-schumer/; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gop-senator-trump-dhs-shutdown/; https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/dhs-shutdown-2026-senate-funding-deal/

Overall Veracity: 27%

## Tags

- ICE-deployment (92%)
- law-enforcement-identity (85%)
- patriot-framing (88%)
- narcissistic-injury-by-proxy (75%)
- immigration-enforcement (80%)
- enemy-labeling (82%)
- TSA-crisis-response (72%)
- reaction-formation (70%)
- physical-dominance-signaling (68%)
- DARVO (75%)

## That day

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

**Stuck in the DHS shutdown, he blames Democrats for the airport lines and praises the ICE agents sent in for their "much larger, and harder, muscles"**

Late at night he shared a quick run of flattering photos and friendly headlines, including one saying Iran's missiles proved him right and one calling FBI surveillance of his allies a "fishing expedition." He then went quiet until mid-morning. From late morning into early afternoon he posted in anger about the airport mess caused by the Homeland Security shutdown. He blamed Democrats and said they "want our Country to fail," called the war with Iran a total win on the same day Iran turned down the US peace plan, and ended the stretch attacking the courts as "Corrupt and OUT OF CONTROL." The day closed on a calm, formal announcement of his trip to Beijing to meet China's President Xi. One odd note: he backed renewing a surveillance law hours after sharing a story calling FBI surveillance possibly illegal.

Full digest for 2026-03-25: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 25). I am so proud of our ICE Patriots! They were... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116290799193660420
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I am so proud of our ICE Patriots! They were unfairly..." Truth Social, 25 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116290799193660420. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I am so proud of our ICE Patriots! They were unfairly...," Truth Social, March 25, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116290799193660420.

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