# Post ts_116816990404292958

- Post ID: `ts_116816990404292958`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-06-26T14:56:55.530Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> For all of those who like to say that Barack Hussein Obama, and his Vice President, Sleepy Joe Biden, did as many Criminal ICE removals as President Trump, the figures are just in. Number One, they included hundreds of thousands of people that never came close to getting into our Country, a difference of perhaps 50% in the numbers. We don’t include such categories but, even if we did, ICE and CBP removed many more Illegal Aliens under President Trump than under Obama — It’s not even close! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-06-26T15:13:39.097Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Authentic Trump post (high confidence) defending his deportation record against the comparison that Obama and Biden conducted equal ICE removals. The trigger is a narcissistic injury of the comparison subtype — a threat to a #1 status claim — eliciting a grandiose, competitively triumphal response ('It's not even close!') rather than victimhood. Primary defenses are devaluation of predecessors (dismissive nicknames, delegitimizing their figures) and rationalization (a constructed methodological argument), with mild reality distortion via unsourced, false-precision statistics ('the figures are just in,' 'perhaps 50%'). Narcissistic features dominate; antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic elements are minimal. No danger indicators and no cognitive pathology; the loose, self-interrupting syntax is consistent with his baseline dictation style. The factual boast rests on a genuine but selectively framed statistical dispute — Obama's administration recorded record removal totals, and the interior-vs-border counting methodology cuts both ways; the specific 2026 figures are unverifiable from available context. Consistent with baseline grandiose status-maintenance, reinforced by same-day approval-rating boasting.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Authentic Trump (high confidence).** Despite the timestamp falling within business hours, multiple stylistic fingerprints point to first-person authorship. On 2026-06-26 Trump was almost certainly in the Washington, DC area (the Great American State Fair launched on the National Mall June 24), placing the 14:56 UTC post at ~10:56 AM ET — late morning. Timing is therefore neutral, but content is diagnostic: the closing signature phrase "Thank you for your attention to this matter" is a well-documented Trump verbal tic, the full-caps "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off is his personal flourish, and the pejorative epithets ("Barack Hussein Obama," "Sleepy Joe Biden") are signature. Most tellingly, the statistical argument is structurally muddled — "a difference of perhaps 50% in the numbers. We don't include such categories but, even if we did" — exhibiting the vague quantification ("perhaps 50%"), round-number gesturing, and mid-thought self-correction characteristic of Trump dictation rather than polished aide drafting.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits
- **Extraversion (high):** assertive, dominant declaration ("It's not even close!").
- **Agreeableness (very low):** contemptuous nicknames, zero-sum framing.
- **Conscientiousness (mixed):** achievement-striving present, but precision low (hand-wavy statistics).
- **Neuroticism (moderate):** defensive reactivity to comparison; angry-hostility facet active.
- **Openness (low):** rigid us-vs-them schema.

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Dominant **agency motive: status/achievement competition.** The post is organized entirely around a comparative ranking ("Number One," "many more... than Obama"). Communion is absent. Schema: self as supreme performer, predecessors as fraudulent inflators of credit.

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Protagonist cast as the **winner/record-setter** correcting the historical record against detractors ("all of those who like to say..."). Contrasting others: Obama and Biden, devalued as inferior competitors whose numbers are illegitimate. A **status-restoration** arc.

### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators
**Narcissistic dynamics:** Trigger is an **unfavorable comparison** (narcissistic injury subtype). Response is grandiose rather than vulnerable — expansive self-aggrandizement ("It's not even close!"). **State: grandiose.** Rage is mild; affect is competitive triumphalism, not fury.

**Defense mechanisms:** Primarily **devaluation** (delegitimizing rivals' achievements) and **rationalization** (constructing a methodological argument to justify a preferred conclusion). Mild **distortion** in the selective, unsourced statistical framing.

**Malignant narcissism:** Narcissistic features prominent; antisocial features low; paranoid features mild ("all of those who like to say"); sadism minimal.

**Cognitive markers:** No frank cognitive pathology. Syntactic looseness is consistent with baseline dictation style. No paraphasia, neologism, or temporal/name confusion.

### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques
- Hyperbole/superlative: "It's not even close!"
- Ad hominem via nicknames: "Sleepy Joe," middle-name emphasis "Hussein."
- Statistical hand-waving with false precision ("perhaps 50%").
- Implied out-group framing ("all of those who like to say").
- Appeal to authority of unspecified data ("the figures are just in").

### Danger Assessment
**None.** No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization cues.

### Reality Distortion / Fact Verification
The core boast is a contested statistical claim. Historically the Obama administration recorded record-high removal totals, and the metric Trump references — counting border returns vs. interior removals — is a genuine definitional dispute that cuts both ways. The specific 2026 comparative figures cannot be independently verified from available context.

### Longitudinal Note
Consistent with baseline grandiose-competitive posture; pairs with same-day approval-rating boast (claimed 65%), reinforcing an active status-maintenance cluster across the day's posts.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "ICE and CBP removed many more illegal aliens under President Trump than under Obama — 'It's not even close'" | **Mostly False** | Deep research contradicts this boast on every standard, verifiable metric, while leaving a small kernel of legitimacy that keeps it from being outright false.

Formal removals (the standard 'deportation' metric): TRAC/Syracuse data show the Obama administration logged more than 3.1 million ICE removals over eight years, with an annual peak of roughly 407,000–409,849 in FY2012 — the highest of any modern president. Multiple sources (El Paso Matters/Gigafact fact-check, Migration Policy Institute) confirm Obama removed more noncitizens (~3 million formal removals) than any president in U.S. history. By contrast, Trump's second-term removals through late 2025 were far smaller: TRAC counted 234,211 removals from late January through September 20, 2025, and 290,603 total through November 15, 2025 — only about 7 percent above Biden's FY2024 figure of 271,484. UCLA's Deportation Data Project put year-one removals near 350,000 and Brookings near 310,000. All of these trail Obama's annual peak and are dwarfed by his cumulative total.

The only way to make 'many more … not even close' true is to use the Trump administration's own disputed figures — DHS/White House claims of 605,000+ deportations plus ~1.9 million 'self-deportations' for a 2.5 million total. But these are rejected by independent researchers: the Center for Migration Studies called the self-deportation claim 'a self-serving fantasy,' and PolitiFact noted 'the lack of public data makes it impossible to know what that figure includes.' Crucially, those inflated totals depend on counting quick border returns and voluntary self-departures — the exact 'categories' Trump's post claims to exclude ('We don't include such categories').

The decisive irony: Trump's own administration adopted Obama's combined ICE-plus-CBP counting method. Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner, 'We're trying to do the same thing we did during the Obama administration … pull the numbers together,' citing 'over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol too.' Republicans had accused Obama of 'cooking the books' for precisely this practice (Axios, May 2026). So the post's premise — that Obama padded his numbers with border cases while Trump uses a cleaner count that still wins — is contradicted by Homan's stated methodology.

Context that cuts against the claim further: border crossings plummeted to record lows under Trump 2.0, meaning there are far fewer CBP border removals/returns to add — structurally lowering the combined ICE+CBP total relative to Obama's high-traffic years.

What is genuinely true (the kernel): interior enforcement intensified sharply — ICE arrests roughly doubled, detention hit record highs (~66,000), and interior removals are on track to exceed Obama's late-term interior lows (~65,000 in FY2016) and approach his interior peak (~224,000 in FY2011). On interior removals alone the comparison is competitive. But that is the opposite of 'not even close,' and the post's claim is explicitly about total 'ICE and CBP' removals, where Obama leads. Overall, the verifiable data show Obama removed as many or more than Trump on annual peak, cumulative total, and even under the same combined methodology — making the 'many more … not even close' boast mostly false. |
| "Obama/Biden removal numbers included hundreds of thousands of people who 'never came close to getting into our Country,' inflating totals by perhaps 50%" | **Half True** | This references a real definitional dispute over whether border 'returns'/turnbacks are counted alongside interior 'removals.' The methodology genuinely differs across administrations and can shift totals substantially, but the specific 'perhaps 50%' figure is an unsourced estimate and the framing selectively favors the author's conclusion. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Signature phrase 'Thank you for your attention to this matter'
- Full-caps personal sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Signature pejorative epithets ('Barack Hussein Obama', 'Sleepy Joe Biden')
- Vague quantification and self-correcting syntax ('a difference of perhaps 50%... We don't include such categories but, even if we did')
- Round-number / hand-wavy statistics rather than aide precision

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 80%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: assertiveness / angry-hostility (low agreeableness)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** winner / record-setter correcting the historical record
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Barack Obama and Joe Biden, framed as inferior competitors with illegitimately inflated numbers

**Identity Claims:**
- The most effective on immigration enforcement
- Holder of an unmatched removal record ('Number One')

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Critics/commentators claiming Obama and Biden conducted as many ICE removals as Trump)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to an in-group of supporters who must accept the corrected 'record'
- Shared signature sign-off creating familiarity

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-06-26; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-06-26._

> ICE and CBP removed many more illegal aliens under President Trump than under Obama — 'It's not even close'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Deep research contradicts this boast on every standard, verifiable metric, while leaving a small kernel of legitimacy that keeps it from being outright false.

Formal removals (the standard 'deportation' metric): TRAC/Syracuse data show the Obama administration logged more than 3.1 million ICE removals over eight years, with an annual peak of roughly 407,000–409,849 in FY2012 — the highest of any modern president. Multiple sources (El Paso Matters/Gigafact fact-check, Migration Policy Institute) confirm Obama removed more noncitizens (~3 million formal removals) than any president in U.S. history. By contrast, Trump's second-term removals through late 2025 were far smaller: TRAC counted 234,211 removals from late January through September 20, 2025, and 290,603 total through November 15, 2025 — only about 7 percent above Biden's FY2024 figure of 271,484. UCLA's Deportation Data Project put year-one removals near 350,000 and Brookings near 310,000. All of these trail Obama's annual peak and are dwarfed by his cumulative total.

The only way to make 'many more … not even close' true is to use the Trump administration's own disputed figures — DHS/White House claims of 605,000+ deportations plus ~1.9 million 'self-deportations' for a 2.5 million total. But these are rejected by independent researchers: the Center for Migration Studies called the self-deportation claim 'a self-serving fantasy,' and PolitiFact noted 'the lack of public data makes it impossible to know what that figure includes.' Crucially, those inflated totals depend on counting quick border returns and voluntary self-departures — the exact 'categories' Trump's post claims to exclude ('We don't include such categories').

The decisive irony: Trump's own administration adopted Obama's combined ICE-plus-CBP counting method. Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner, 'We're trying to do the same thing we did during the Obama administration … pull the numbers together,' citing 'over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol too.' Republicans had accused Obama of 'cooking the books' for precisely this practice (Axios, May 2026). So the post's premise — that Obama padded his numbers with border cases while Trump uses a cleaner count that still wins — is contradicted by Homan's stated methodology.

Context that cuts against the claim further: border crossings plummeted to record lows under Trump 2.0, meaning there are far fewer CBP border removals/returns to add — structurally lowering the combined ICE+CBP total relative to Obama's high-traffic years.

What is genuinely true (the kernel): interior enforcement intensified sharply — ICE arrests roughly doubled, detention hit record highs (~66,000), and interior removals are on track to exceed Obama's late-term interior lows (~65,000 in FY2016) and approach his interior peak (~224,000 in FY2011). On interior removals alone the comparison is competitive. But that is the opposite of 'not even close,' and the post's claim is explicitly about total 'ICE and CBP' removals, where Obama leads. Overall, the verifiable data show Obama removed as many or more than Trump on annual peak, cumulative total, and even under the same combined methodology — making the 'many more … not even close' boast mostly false.

Sources: https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/jan/20/Trump-mass-deportations-1-year-immigration-ICE/; https://tracreports.org/tracatwork/detail/A6019.html; https://tracreports.org/reports/767/; https://elpasomatters.org/2025/02/13/gigafact-fact-brief-most-deportations-obama-trump-removals/; https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-obama-deportations-statistics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_in_the_second_Trump_administration; https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-arrest-statistics-americans-noncriminals/; https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-deportations-removals-trump-biden-obama-compared-chart-2026835; https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/interior-enforcement-under-the-trump-administration-by-numbers-part-one-removals/; https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year; https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/ice-deportations-immigrants-trump

> Obama/Biden removal numbers included hundreds of thousands of people who 'never came close to getting into our Country,' inflating totals by perhaps 50%

**HALF TRUE**

This references a real definitional dispute over whether border 'returns'/turnbacks are counted alongside interior 'removals.' The methodology genuinely differs across administrations and can shift totals substantially, but the specific 'perhaps 50%' figure is an unsourced estimate and the framing selectively favors the author's conclusion.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- authentic_trump (90%)
- grandiose_state (80%)
- unfavorable_comparison (75%)
- devaluation (70%)
- rationalization (60%)
- superlative_hyperbole (70%)
- ad_hominem_nicknames (65%)
- status_competition (85%)
- immigration_enforcement (80%)
- unsourced_statistics (60%)

## That day

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

**Grievance by proxy at night, glory by daylight — and one ninety-minute window where the mask of the showman slipped into "plague" and "animals."**

Trump posted 23 times, and the day split cleanly in two. It opened with a late-evening run of wordless videos — other people's voices making his arguments about a stolen 2020 election, Democrats who "are going to cheat," and hidden communists at home — then he slept a full nine hours and woke up in an entirely different mood. Most of the daylight hours went to self-celebration: a friendly poll putting his approval at 65 percent, a boast that his deportation numbers crush Obama's, a street named after him in India, a passport with his face on it, and a Fourth of July airshow he promised would be the biggest in American history. He also threatened a 100 percent tariff on any country taxing American tech, and reported Iranian drones hitting a cargo ship with striking calm on a day U.S. jets struck ten Iranian targets. The one sharp break came right before a speech to a religious conservative group, where he called newly elected progressives "godless Communists," a "plague," and "animals" — and he never said a word about Tucker Carlson, who had just told him to shut up.

Full digest for 2026-06-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, June 26). For all of those who like to say that Barack... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116816990404292958
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