# Post ts_116374792489555954

- Post ID: `ts_116374792489555954`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-04-09T12:40:10.826Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-04-09T14:39:40.182Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: NATO Contempt Post (April 9, 2026)

### Post Content
> "None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!"

### Contextual Framing
This brief post arrives at a high-tension moment: Trump has spent the previous four days issuing profanity-laced ultimatums to Iran, setting and extending military deadlines, positioning military assets, and attacking media outlets reporting on the negotiations. It is the second NATO-critical post in 24 hours, following the April 8 all-caps declaration that "NATO WASN'T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM."

### Authorship Attribution (Confidence: Medium — Score: 0.70)
The post was published at 12:40 UTC (8:40 AM ET), placing it in a borderline window — early morning for Trump but not the classic late-night pattern. Several structural features favor authentic authorship: the parenthetical "very disappointing" interrupts the sentence mid-flow in a way that mirrors Trump's speech-to-text dictation style; the appositional "NATO" is dropped in as an afterthought rather than integrated grammatically; the vague referents ("these people," "our own") are characteristic of Trump's tendency toward ambiguity; and the absence of the formal sign-off seen in two April 8 posts ("President DJT," "President DONALD J. TRUMP") suggests this was not staff-polished.

### Personality Trait Analysis (McAdams Level 1)
The dominant trait expression is **low agreeableness** — specifically the antagonism and contempt facets. The post dismisses entire categories of people (NATO, unnamed insiders) as having "understood nothing." **Neuroticism** (angry hostility facet) is moderate — there is frustration but not the explosive rage seen in the Easter Sunday post. **Openness to experience** is notably low: the post encodes a rigid, closed worldview in which coercion is the sole effective mechanism of international relations.

### Motivational Analysis (McAdams Level 2)
The post is driven overwhelmingly by **power and dominance motives**. The schema it reveals is zero-sum: others comply through pressure or they remain ignorant. Communion motives are virtually absent — NATO allies are not partners but subordinates who must be forced into compliance. The inclusion of "our own" is psychologically significant: it extends the devaluation inside the in-group perimeter, consistent with the April 8 attack on Marjorie Taylor Greene ("Traitor Brown") and suggesting a stress-driven contraction of the trust circle.

### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)
The post casts Trump as **the sole competent authority** surrounded by disappointing incompetents. This is a contamination sequence at the alliance level: NATO was supposed to be an asset but has proven useless. The vindication narrative is implicit but central — his coercive approach (threats, military posturing, profane ultimatums) is the only thing that produces results, thereby retroactively justifying the Easter Sunday outburst and the Iran deadline escalation.

### Defense Mechanisms
Three immature defenses are operative:
1. **Splitting**: The world divides cleanly into those who submit to pressure and those who "understood nothing" — no middle ground exists.
2. **Devaluation**: NATO and "our own" people are dismissed wholesale as disappointing failures.
3. **Projection**: The rigidity of Trump's own approach (only pressure works) is externalized as others' failure to understand.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
The **narcissistic state is grandiose** — the implicit claim is singular comprehension of geopolitical reality. The **trigger** appears to be a narcissistic injury: allies are not adequately mirroring his self-image as masterful negotiator-coercer during the Iran crisis, which registers as disappointing rather than enraging. Rage is present but moderate (0.5/1.0) and diffuse rather than directed at a named individual, suggesting simmering frustration rather than acute crisis.

### Epistemic Closure
The post exhibits epistemic closure: the proposition that pressure is the only effective mechanism admits no counterexamples, no nuance, and no alternative frameworks. This is consistent with the broader pattern across recent posts of dismissing all external information sources (media reports are "HOAX," allies are useless, even insiders are disappointing).

### Rhetorical Technique
The post achieves rhetorical efficiency through: (1) absolutist quantifiers ("None," "anything") that eliminate nuance; (2) the patronizing parenthetical "very disappointing," which positions the speaker as disappointed authority rather than aggrieved equal; and (3) strategic vagueness that allows "these people" and "our own" to absorb audience projections. The word "pressure" naturalizes coercion as pragmatic common sense.

### Cognitive Assessment
The sentence is syntactically fractured but coherent in intent. The fragmentation (parenthetical asides, appositional insertions) is consistent with Trump's long-established dictation style and does not represent deviation from baseline. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion is evident.

### Danger Assessment: None
This post contains no dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators. It is contemptuous but not eliminationist. However, as part of the broader 48-hour escalation pattern around Iran and NATO, it contributes to a rhetorical environment in which coercion is normalized and alliance cooperation is devalued.

### Longitudinal Note
The expanding contempt perimeter — now including "our own" alongside NATO — is worth tracking. When stress-driven devaluation moves inward from foreign adversaries → allies → domestic opponents → members of one's own team, it can signal increasing isolation and paranoid dynamics. The April 8 Greene attack and this post's inclusion of insiders suggest movement along this trajectory.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "NATO members only respond to pressure (implicit: his pressure specifically produced NATO compliance on defense spending or Iran-related cooperation)" | **Half True** | NATO members did increase defense spending after Trump's first-term pressure campaign, with the share meeting the 2% GDP target rising from 3 of 30 members in 2014 to roughly two-thirds by 2024. However, the spending trend began after the 2014 Wales Summit (pre-Trump), accelerated after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and reflects multiple causal factors beyond Trump's personal pressure. The claim that pressure is the sole mechanism of allied compliance oversimplifies alliance dynamics. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Mid-sentence parenthetical aside ('very disappointing') inserted as emotional editorializing — characteristic Trump drift
- Comma-heavy, syntactically fractured sentence with 'NATO' dropped in as an afterthought/interjection
- Triple exclamation marks — a persistent Trump signature
- No aide sign-off ('President DJT' or 'President DONALD J. TRUMP') unlike two of the April 8 posts
- Vague referents ('these people,' 'our own') — Trump tends toward ambiguity where aides would specify

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 15%

Strongest facet: Agreeableness (inverse): antagonism, contempt for allies, patronizing dismissal

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** The sole competent authority surrounded by disappointing incompetents
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** NATO, unnamed U.S. insiders ('our own')

**Identity Claims:**
- I am the only one who understands how the world works
- Strength and pressure are the only language that matters
- Even my own people fail to grasp what I know instinctively

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (NATO allies and 'our own' people failing to support or appreciate his coercive approach to the Iran crisis)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting NATO, unnamed U.S. officials or allies ('our own')
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive contempt ('our own') invites followers to share his disappointment with establishment figures
- Vague enemy reference allows audience to project their own frustrations onto 'these people'
- Vindication frame: audience members who support aggressive tactics feel validated

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-04-09._

> NATO members only respond to pressure (implicit: his pressure specifically produced NATO compliance on defense spending or Iran-related cooperation)

**HALF TRUE**

NATO members did increase defense spending after Trump's first-term pressure campaign, with the share meeting the 2% GDP target rising from 3 of 30 members in 2014 to roughly two-thirds by 2024. However, the spending trend began after the 2014 Wales Summit (pre-Trump), accelerated after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and reflects multiple causal factors beyond Trump's personal pressure. The claim that pressure is the sole mechanism of allied compliance oversimplifies alliance dynamics.

Sources: NATO annual defense expenditure reports; Wales Summit Declaration 2014

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- NATO (90%)
- coercion-as-diplomacy (85%)
- Iran-crisis (70%)
- ally-devaluation (80%)
- vindication-narrative (75%)
- in-group-contempt (65%)

## That day

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

**Trump turns on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, calling them "Low IQ" people who want Iran to have the bomb**

Trump posted about the shaky Iran ceasefire throughout the day, veering between declaring total victory and complaining that Iran wasn't holding up its end of the deal on shipping. His angriest post went after four right-wing media figures who oppose the war. He insulted their intelligence, looks and careers and wrote them out of the MAGA movement, apparently seizing on Tucker Carlson's public apology for having backed him. A run of polished, staff-sounding posts in the evening endorsed a judge, a book and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Then the day ended on its most alarming note: he shared a graphic video of a woman's killing, blamed on a Haitian immigrant, and called immigrants "Criminals, Lunatics, and the Mentally Insane."

Full digest for 2026-04-09: https://trump.fm/date/2026-04-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, April 9). None of these people, including our own, very... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116374792489555954
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "None of these people, including our own, very..." Truth Social, 9 Apr. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116374792489555954. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "None of these people, including our own, very...," Truth Social, April 9, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116374792489555954.

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