# Post ts_116813173401388945

- Post ID: `ts_116813173401388945`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-06-25T22:46:12.653Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist — All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-06-26T20:01:05.174Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-06-25T23:22:17.409Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Likely authentic Trump (0.85) — grandiose self-referential aside, taunting close, idiosyncratic capitalization, and full signature block over the polished aide register. The post exhibits a grandiose narcissistic state with prominent paranoid coloring: a hidden enemy 'finally making their move' against which the self has secretly 'been waiting and preparing' — persecutory grandiosity at moderate intensity, with cold anticipatory triumph rather than rage. Best read as preemptive/maintenance framing following a week of adverse polling (one-third economic approval, 63% blaming him for gas prices), converting domestic opposition into an existential 'Communist' threat — a supply-restoring, mobilizing reframe. Defenses: splitting (earners vs. takers), projection (acquisitiveness attributed to the out-group), devaluation, and rationalization. Archetypally a warrior/savior order-restorer defending a merit hierarchy, with the projected 'taker' functioning as the disowned Shadow of his own zero-sum worldview. Rhetoric relies on false dichotomy, strawman oversimplification, fear appeal, loaded labeling, and a chronologically false historical claim (communism is ~170 years old, not 'thousands of years'). Danger is elevated at the low end: an identified enemy class and grievance with combat framing ('The game is on') but no named target, dehumanization, or explicit call to action — short of the full stochastic-terrorism pattern. Consistent with baseline grandiose-paranoid framing; the anticipatory-sentinel motif and elastic 'Communist' labeling warrant longitudinal tracking against polling-stress periods.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Likely authentic Trump (score 0.85, medium-high confidence).**

Timing: The UTC stamp (22:46) converts to ~6:46 PM ET. Trump was in the Washington, D.C. area this week (headlining the Great American State Fair kickoff on the National Mall, with a follow-up speech planned July 4th). Early evening is borderline business/personal hours, so timing alone is non-diagnostic. However, the structural and stylistic markers point to authentic authorship: the grandiose self-referential aside inserted mid-thought ("I've been waiting and preparing for this for a long time"), the conversational taunt ("The game is on. Enjoy watching!"), idiosyncratic mid-sentence capitalization of "Communist," "Communists," and "Ideology," the em-dash–driven stream-of-consciousness rhythm, and the full signature block "President DONALD J. TRUMP" — his preferred self-aggrandizing sign-off. This is not the polished, third-person, statistic-laden register of a staffer. The combative-but-personal grievance framing and the apocalyptic "they are finally making their move" reads as first-person voice.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits
- **High Extraversion** (assertiveness, dominance): declarative, audience-directed ("Enjoy watching!").
- **Low Agreeableness**: antagonistic, contemptuous framing of an out-group; zero modesty.
- **Elevated Neuroticism (angry hostility facet)**: persecutory vigilance ("waiting and preparing").
- **Low Openness (values rigidity)**: absolutist historical claim ("not worked once" over "thousands of years"), closed ideological schema.

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Dominant **agency motive: power/control** with a strong **status-defense** component. The schema of self is the prepared, vigilant defender who anticipated the enemy's move; the schema of others is bifurcated into "earned it" producers versus parasitic takers; the world is a zero-sum battlefield where gain is always extraction from the deserving.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Protagonist cast as the **prescient warrior-sentinel** ("I've been waiting and preparing"). This is the opening of a **redemption/heroic combat sequence**: the long-anticipated threat materializes and the hero is ready. The **contrasting other** is "the Communists," a maximally elastic out-group. Identity claim: I saw this coming; I am the bulwark.

### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators
**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose, with strong **paranoid coloring** (Kernberg paranoid-feature register). The framing — a hidden enemy "finally making their move," against which the self has secretly prepared — exhibits the persecutory grandiosity characteristic of malignant narcissism, though here at moderate, not florid, intensity. No narcissistic rage; affect is more cold, anticipatory triumph than wounded fury.

**Trigger:** Best read as **maintenance / preemptive framing** rather than acute injury. Contextually, this follows a week of adverse polling (one-third approval on the economy, 63% blaming him for gas prices) and legislative friction. The "Communist" frame functions to externalize and re-narrate domestic opposition as an existential ideological enemy — a supply-restoring, mobilizing reframe that converts a defensive political position into a heroic offensive one.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- **Splitting** (immature): the world cleaves into earners versus takers, patriots versus Communists — no middle.
- **Projection** (immature): attributing acquisitiveness ("taking it away from others") to the out-group while the in-group is purely deserving.
- **Devaluation** (immature): wholesale dismissal of an ideology as never having "worked once."
- **Rationalization** (neurotic): the tidy syllogism ("All you have to do is say...") that simplifies political disagreement into a moral fable.

### Archetypal & Order/Chaos Analysis
Primary archetype: **Warrior** shading into **Hero/Savior** ("preparing for this"). Secondary: the **Shadow** — the projected acquisitive "taker" is the disowned mirror of the speaker's own transactional, zero-sum worldview. Order/chaos positioning: **order-restorer** defending a hierarchy of merit ("those that have earned it") against a chaos-bringing redistributive enemy. Grievance is articulated abstractly (the Communist menace) rather than against a named individual.

### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques
- **False dichotomy / us-vs-them**: earners vs. Communists.
- **Strawman / oversimplification**: reducing an ideology to "I'll give you everything."
- **Fear appeal**: an enemy "making their move."
- **Glittering generality / loaded label**: "Communists" as an undefined catch-all for opposition.
- **Appeal to history (false)**: sweeping "thousands of years... not worked once."
- **Reality distortion (mild RAND-firehose register)**: confident, unfalsifiable framing.

### Danger Assessment
**Elevated (low end).** The post contains no eliminationist or dehumanizing language, no named target, and no explicit call to action. However, "The Communists are finally making their move... The game is on" frames domestic political opponents as an existential enemy engaged in coordinated assault — a structural component of mobilization rhetoric. There is grievance and an identified enemy class but no articulated action, so it falls short of the full stochastic-terrorism pattern. Monitor as part of an escalating series; in isolation it is rhetorical combat, not incitement.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Over thousands of years, that [Communist] Ideology has not worked once." | **Mostly False** | Communism as a defined political-economic ideology originates with mid-19th-century Marxist thought (~170 years ago), not 'thousands of years,' so the temporal premise is chronologically false. The efficacy assertion is an opinion-laden rhetorical generalization rather than a precise empirical claim. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Receipts (1)

### moderate — democrats (1 day later)

> "Domestic political opponents (implicitly Democrats or the left) are Communists or are enacting Communist ideology"

**vs.**

> "Democrats are afraid to fight communists because they fear losing elections and conflict."

The source claim says Democrats are afraid to fight communists — implicitly treating Democrats and communists as separate entities, with Democrats being the cowardly bystanders. Candidate 10 says Democrats (domestic political opponents) ARE communists or enact communist ideology. These two positions about the same entity (Democrats) are logically incompatible on the same core question: are Democrats the communists, or are they the people too afraid to fight the communists? You cannot coherently be both simultaneously.

[View contradicting post →](/post/ts_116817526085394987)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Grandiose self-referential aside inserted mid-thought ('I've been waiting and preparing for this for a long time')
- Conversational taunt closing ('The game is on. Enjoy watching!')
- Idiosyncratic mid-sentence capitalization (Communist, Communists, Ideology)
- Full self-aggrandizing signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Em-dash-driven stream-of-consciousness rhythm

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 80%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 60%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: low agreeableness (antagonism/contempt) with high extraversion (dominance)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** prescient warrior-sentinel / heroic defender who anticipated the enemy
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** 'The Communists' — an elastic out-group standing in for redistributive politics and domestic opposition

**Identity Claims:**
- I saw this coming and prepared for it
- I am the bulwark against the Communist threat
- I defend those who have earned it

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (Adverse approval polling on economy/Iran and domestic political opposition reframed as ideological enemy)

Sentiment: -0.50

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose anticipatory certainty ('I've been waiting and preparing')
- Expansive sweeping historical claim
- Heightened combative confidence ('The game is on. Enjoy watching!')

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct audience address ('Enjoy watching!')
- Positioning self as prescient sentinel anticipating the enemy
- Invitation to spectate a coming battle as shared in-group experience

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Frames domestic political opponents as an existential enemy 'finally making their move'
- Anticipatory-mobilization language ('I've been waiting and preparing for this')
- Combat framing ('The game is on')
- Identified enemy class plus articulated grievance (mobilization structure), though no named target or explicit action

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-06-25._

> Over thousands of years, that [Communist] Ideology has not worked once.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Communism as a defined political-economic ideology originates with mid-19th-century Marxist thought (~170 years ago), not 'thousands of years,' so the temporal premise is chronologically false. The efficacy assertion is an opinion-laden rhetorical generalization rather than a precise empirical claim.

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Receipts (1)

### moderate — democrats (1 day later)

> Domestic political opponents (implicitly Democrats or the left) are Communists or are enacting Communist ideology

_Jun 25, 2026_

vs.

> Democrats are afraid to fight communists because they fear losing elections and conflict.

_Jun 26, 2026_

The source claim says Democrats are afraid to fight communists — implicitly treating Democrats and communists as separate entities, with Democrats being the cowardly bystanders. Candidate 10 says Democrats (domestic political opponents) ARE communists or enact communist ideology. These two positions about the same entity (Democrats) are logically incompatible on the same core question: are Democrats the communists, or are they the people too afraid to fight the communists? You cannot coherently be both simultaneously.

[View contradicting post](/post/ts_116817526085394987)

## Tags

- authentic_trump (85%)
- grandiose_narcissism (70%)
- paranoid_features (60%)
- splitting (75%)
- projection (60%)
- false_dichotomy (80%)
- fear_appeal (60%)
- warrior_savior (65%)
- anti_communism (90%)
- mobilization_framing (40%)

## That day

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

**Fifteen posts, zero rage: a night spent squeezing his own Senate, a day spent inflating a crowd that walked out, and one last-hour turn to "the Communists are finally making their move."**

Trump posted fifteen times, almost all of it packed into two bursts — a long late-night run pushing the Senate to cancel its two-week recess and pass his voter-ID bill, and a short evening run after a day of public events in Washington. The mood was upbeat and self-congratulatory nearly the whole time: he took a victory lap on a Senate vote that killed an effort to limit his war powers on Iran, offered American help after earthquakes in Venezuela, announced a health department nominee, and twice claimed 45,000 people packed his State Fair speech — an event where, by outside accounts, a fifth of states skipped, performers pulled out, and the crowd drained away mid-speech. There was no anger anywhere in the day, which is unusual for this feed. The one sharp turn came in the final hour, when he went from praising how great the country is to warning that the Communists were finally making their move and that he had been preparing for it a long time. He also left himself barely six hours between his last post of the night and his first of the morning.

Full digest for 2026-06-25: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, June 25). The Communists are finally making their move.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116813173401388945
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been..." Truth Social, 25 Jun. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116813173401388945. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been...," Truth Social, June 25, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116813173401388945.

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