# Post ts_117079592745773692

- Post ID: `ts_117079592745773692`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-08-12T00:00:09.232Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> What is our Tom Homan joins me now Tom thanks for being with us here today talk to me about this visa crackdown is this a start are there many more of I believe something like 3.6 million visa holders who are now eligible to have their visa revoked yeah we're doing a complete review this is just the beginning and you know president Trump as you said takes you know visa is a great greatest privilege there's kind of one of the greatest privileges this country gives I mean it's a privilege to come to the greatest nation on earth and all we ask is a couple of things number one be truthful about who you are and why you're coming here and number two obey the laws and why you're here so you know this is an ongoing process you know not only that we're reviewing refugee refugee applications that need to be reviewed that were just you know you know pro the unlawful prose of by administration all this needs review let's remember not only didn't make its account come across border legally released United States we had a half an over half a million people from Haiti Nicaragua Venezuela come to American Airports 30,000 a month so now we're reviewing all of this and cleaning the system up and get rid of those there's number one shit beer number two that our national security threat or a public safety threat they need to go home what was it like before you began this process before you started looking into all of these visa holders what was it like to enter the United States with amenities issues in their background or at least happening while they're here in the United States it makes it seem like you know it was pretty wide open anybody could come in and do whatever they want and continue to stay here in America you know well I work for Fox News I met you up the studio minutes I worked for you for a few years and for four years the by administration I was frustrated every day because you got secretary Marcus was was staying in front of Congress under oath and in numerous media events saying everybody we let in is properly vetted which was a stone-cold lie when they say vetted they may run them against NC I see our criminal database they didn't have access to most countries criminal databases and when it comes from people from you know Russia and China and in Turkey and Syria do you think those countries are going to share any national security information on these people you're talking tens of thousands of Chinese nationals released in the United States do we honestly think China would share with us any national security information on the people of course not so President Trump not only give us the most secure border in history nation not only we are wrestling deporting our record number of illegal aliens from this country promises made promises kept what we're looking at the ones that Biden brought in either lawfully or illegally through parole and we got it we got a clean house and President Trump serious about it and we're all over it's a state department Department of Homeland Security are working very closely together along with the Department of Justice all right I know as you mentioned promises made promises kept it's the number one issue probably I would think it's number one issue if you interviewed Trump voters that they that earned their vote for President Trump a promise to control immigration and something that was completely out of control as is by the way or as was Washington DC we're up on one year Tom since President Trump Trump's law and order implementation in Washington DC 16,000 arrests since its launch so what what point do you feel like does the administration feel like Tom that you've done your job in DC how long do you stay when is it mission accomplished so we got no timeline right now we got to wait and see are the local in-state authorities want to step up and do the job we're working closely with them when is the handoff you can't say that yet but look DC is when the you know safest cities in the country now I mean we're the most amazing country on earth the strongest nation on earth you would think our capital will be a symbol for the entire world a beacon and it wasn't before President Trump you know I've lived here about 15 years I never walked the streets of Washington DC without a sidearm but now I walk around the streets is safe President Trump and another another promise made promise kept DC is much safer now Memphis much safer all the cities where President Trump has deployed the federal agents the National Guard to help local authorities it's all good my wish is places like Chicago reach out and so yes we'll take you up in your offer rather than being a shooting a gallery every weekend let us come up learn help you it should be a nonpartisan issue to make our saves our city safer for our tax-breaking citizens all right Tom home and it's always good to say you think thanks for spending time with us here today thanks for having me well

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/079/551/055/693/584/original/f832308d0434eee7.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T04:29:35.628Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A wordless amplification of a Fox News segment in which border czar Tom Homan describes a review of roughly 3.6 million visas, plus refugee and parole cases, and defends the year-old federal deployment in Washington, DC. With no text attached, the analyzable behavior is selection alone; no stylometric or cognitive assessment is possible. Psychologically the post sits on the grandiose pole in a maintenance rather than injury-driven state. Its distinctive feature is delegation: a surrogate delivers both the praise ("promises made, promises kept," "most secure border in history") and the aggression (a predecessor Cabinet secretary accused of lying under oath), letting the subject bank validation and discharge hostility without authoring a sentence. Splitting organizes the selected material — entrants are truthful and law-abiding or they "need to go home" — alongside devaluation of the prior administration and rationalization of mass status revocation as administrative hygiene. Paranoid content appears in structurally unfalsifiable form: the unavailability of records on adversary-state nationals is treated as itself evidence of danger. Danger is rated elevated on structure rather than tone. A large, precisely enumerated population is paired with a grievance and with state action already underway ("this is just the beginning"), and national origin is used as a dangerousness proxy. There is no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, and no call to followers; the implied action is governmental. Authorship confidence is low by design.

## Post Overview

A wordless media-only post: a Fox News interview segment in which border czar Tom Homan is questioned about (a) a mass review/revocation of visas, reportedly touching ~3.6 million holders, and (b) the approaching one-year mark of the federalized law-enforcement/National Guard deployment in Washington, DC. The subject attached no caption, no framing, no reaction — the entire communicative act is selection and amplification.

Because there is no written text, **no stylometric analysis is possible**. Typography, syntax, spelling, capitalization and punctuation are all unavailable, and the interview's language belongs to Homan and the anchor, not to the subject. Nothing in the transcript can be scored as his speech production, so cognitive-status assessment for this post is effectively null.

## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (inferred, low confidence)

Trait inference from a silent repost is necessarily weak. What is observable is a **selection preference**, and the preference is consistent with the long-run baseline:

- **Agreeableness (low, Modesty facet):** the chosen clip contains sustained third-party praise — "President Trump not only give us the most secure border in history," "promises made promises kept" (twice), "President Trump serious about it." Selecting a segment whose rhetorical center is one's own vindication is a modesty-facet indicator even when one says nothing.
- **Extraversion (assertiveness):** the content is dominance- and enforcement-themed rather than affiliative.
- **Openness (low / values rigidity):** the clip forecloses ambiguity — entrants are either truthful and law-abiding or they "need to go home." No middle category is entertained.
- **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** present but *delegated*. The hostility is Homan's ("a stone-cold lie"), not the subject's. This delegation is itself the notable feature.

## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate almost completely.** The clip is about control (of borders, of who may remain in the country, of a capital city's streets), about status confirmation (record deportations, "most secure border in history"), and about achievement accounting (16,000 arrests, half a million parolees under review). Communion motives are essentially absent; there is no appeal to belonging, care, or shared national fellowship except in the exclusionary sense — the "greatest nation on earth" whose privileges are being withdrawn.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self:* the restorer of a functioning system; keeper of a contract with voters.
- *Others:* bifurcated into vetted/loyal insiders and an undifferentiated mass of unvetted arrivals whose criminality is presumed to be unknowable rather than absent ("do you think those countries are going to share any national security information...? Of course not"). This is an epistemic construction in which the *absence* of derogatory information is itself treated as derogatory — a structurally unfalsifiable suspicion.
- *World:* a system deliberately sabotaged by the predecessor and now under repair.

## Level 3 — Narrative Identity

A clean **redemption sequence**, and one he did not have to author himself — he simply had to choose a clip in which someone else narrates it. Contamination (a border "completely out of control," a capital that "was" out of control, an administration lying under oath) resolves into restoration ("cleaning the system up," "we got to clean house," "DC is one of the safest cities in the country now").

- **Protagonist role:** order restorer / promise-keeper. Notably *not* victim — this post sits on the grandiose rather than vulnerable pole.
- **Contrasting other:** the Biden administration and Secretary Mayorkas specifically, cast as knowing liars rather than as merely mistaken.
- **Identity claim (asserted by proxy):** "promises made, promises kept." The phrase is repeated by both speakers, and its repetition is likely a substantial part of why the segment was selected.

The use of a surrogate to voice the encomium is worth flagging as a stable adaptation: praise carries more evidentiary weight when it appears to come from outside the self, and a silent repost lets the subject bank the validation while retaining deniability about having sought it.

## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

Present but **moderate for this subject's baseline**, and largely inherited from the clip rather than expressed directly.

- **Narcissistic features (~0.5):** admiration-seeking via amplified third-party praise; superlative self-description accepted without qualification ("most secure border in history"). No grandiosity in his own voice.
- **Paranoid features (~0.45):** the clip's core argument is unfalsifiable suspicion of a class — foreign nationals from adversary states are dangerous *because* their records cannot be checked. This generalizes threat from individuals to national origin categories.
- **Antisocial features (~0.3):** primarily the accusation that a Senate-confirmed predecessor lied under oath, offered without adjudication; and the untroubled framing of mass status revocation.
- **Sadism (~0.15):** low. The register is bureaucratic-triumphal rather than gloating; there is no relish in individual suffering.

**Narcissistic state: grandiose.** **Trigger: maintenance / supply-seeking** — no identifiable injury precedes this. It is routine audience feeding on the administration's strongest-polling issue, timed to a one-year anniversary of the DC deployment.

## Defense Mechanisms

- **Splitting (immature):** the world of the clip contains only properly vetted people and threats; only lawful order and prior chaos. No intermediate cases.
- **Devaluation (immature):** the predecessor administration is not merely wrong but dishonest — "a stone-cold lie."
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** mass revocation is reframed as neutral administrative hygiene ("a complete review," "cleaning the system up"), which converts a coercive act into housekeeping.
- **Displacement (neurotic, structural):** by posting without comment, affect is discharged through a surrogate. The subject gets the aggression without owning the sentence.

Confidence: medium for splitting and devaluation (textually evident in what he chose); low-to-medium for displacement (an inference about the act of silent selection).

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

Present in the amplified material rather than in his own words:

- **Superlatives:** "greatest nation on earth," "most secure border in history," "record number."
- **Slogan repetition:** "promises made, promises kept," stated twice by two speakers.
- **False dichotomy:** truthful law-abiders vs. those who "need to go home."
- **Appeal to fear:** "tens of thousands of Chinese nationals released in the United States"; adversary-state nationals invoked as an unverifiable security unknown.
- **Ad hominem:** Mayorkas accused of perjury-adjacent lying.
- **Authority laundering:** an enforcement official, interviewed by a friendly outlet, delivers claims the subject then circulates without attaching his name to them.

**Dehumanizing language: not present.** The transcript's harshest categorical phrasings ("get rid of," "clean house," "they need to go home") are eliminationist in *administrative* register — removal from the country, not from existence — and are directed at legal statuses rather than at persons described as vermin, animals, or infestation. **Violent imagery: absent.**

Note on transcript quality: the automatic transcript is badly degraded in places ("there's number one shit beer," "with amenities issues," "unlawful prose of by administration"). No interpretive weight is placed on any garbled run.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The clip contains contestable factual assertions — that Biden-era parolees were categorically unvetted, that DC is now "one of the safest cities in the country," that the border is the "most secure in history." These are **amplified, not asserted by the subject**, and per protocol are discussed here rather than entered as his claims. The behavior worth recording is the pattern: contested characterizations are increasingly introduced into his feed through surrogates, which insulates the claims from direct attribution while preserving their circulation.

## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

Not for violent rhetoric — there is none — but for the structure of the target set. The segment identifies a very large, precisely enumerated population (~3.6 million visa holders, plus refugee applicants and roughly half a million parolees from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela), attaches a grievance (they were never legitimately vetted), and announces state action already underway ("this is just the beginning"). National-origin categories — Russia, China, Turkey, Syria — are used as proxies for unverifiable dangerousness. The stochastic-terrorism pattern is only partially instantiated: target and grievance are present, but the implied action is *governmental*, not a call to followers. There is no mobilization request.

The DC segment adds a second element: an armed federal deployment in a domestic city with an explicitly open end state — "we got no timeline," "you can't say that yet" on handoff. Indefinite domestic military-adjacent presence, endorsed without comment, is a normalization signal worth tracking longitudinally rather than a violence indicator.

## Authorship Attribution

Timestamp 2026-08-12T00:00:09Z converts to **8:00 PM Eastern on August 11** — mid-evening prime-time in the timezone he was almost certainly in (the preceding day's posts concern NYC tax policy, a Russian prisoner release landing at Andrews, and a CMS announcement, all consistent with Washington or the New York/New Jersey orbit). The clip is a Fox News segment, and the post lands in the window when such segments air or immediately recirculate.

**No stylometric evidence exists.** There is no text to score for typos, drift, capitalization, homophone errors, or third-person framing — the standard discriminators are all unavailable. The attribution therefore rests entirely on timing and posting-pattern base rates: a real-time evening broadcast reaction with no caption fits his documented personal habit of clipping and reposting television he is watching, while aides more typically attach framing text. That said, staff also post uncaptioned friendly-media clips, and this segment features an administration official on message — an entirely plausible communications-shop share.

Score of 0.6 leans slightly toward personal selection. Confidence is **low** and capped there by protocol. The score concerns **who selected and pushed the clip, not who wrote anything** — nothing was written.

## Baseline Comparison

Consistent with baseline; no deviation. The four preceding posts (NYC tax, hostage return, book promotion, Medicaid directive) are all first-person and text-heavy. This one substitutes a surrogate's voice entirely, which is a *format* shift rather than a psychological one — the underlying structure (predecessor blamed, restoration claimed, promise-keeping asserted) is identical. Longitudinal value here is in the aggregate: tracking the ratio of self-authored assertion to silent surrogate amplification over time would be a more informative measure than any single instance.

## Confidence Summary

- Selection-based motive inference: **medium**
- Trait inference: **low** (no self-produced language)
- Defense mechanisms: **low-to-medium**
- Cognitive status: **not assessable**
- Authorship: **low** (timing evidence only, by design)

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Timestamp converts to ~8:00 PM Eastern, prime-time broadcast window rather than business hours
- Uncaptioned real-time cable-news clip, consistent with documented personal habit of reposting television he is watching
- No accompanying framing text, which aides more typically supply
- Countervailing: the segment features an on-message administration official, a plausible communications-shop share
- No stylometric evidence available — post contains zero written text

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: Low Agreeableness — Modesty (amplification of sustained third-party praise)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Order restorer and promise-keeper — the one who repairs a deliberately sabotaged system
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** The Biden administration — specifically Secretary Mayorkas, cast as having lied under oath — and the unvetted populations it is said to have admitted

**Identity Claims:**
- Promises made, promises kept
- Delivered the most secure border in the nation's history
- Serious about enforcement and personally directing it
- Made Washington, DC one of the safest cities in the country

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (One-year mark of the DC federal law-enforcement deployment and an ongoing mass visa-review rollout; routine amplification of favorable coverage on the administration's strongest-polling issue)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Surrogate-delivered praise, which reads as external validation rather than self-assertion
- Slogan repetition ('promises made, promises kept') as a loyalty-affirming refrain
- Achievement accounting with concrete-sounding figures (16,000 arrests, 3.6 million visas) to convey momentum
- Silent amplification, inviting the audience to supply the caption themselves

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplified clip identifies a large, precisely enumerated target population (~3.6 million visa holders, plus refugee applicants and ~500,000 parolees from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela)
- Grievance attached to that population: framed as never legitimately vetted and admitted through deception
- Announced continuing state action: 'this is just the beginning,' 'we got to clean house,' 'they need to go home'
- National origin used as a proxy for unverifiable dangerousness (Russia, China, Turkey, Syria; 'tens of thousands of Chinese nationals')
- Unfalsifiable threat logic: absence of derogatory records treated as evidence of risk
- Indefinite domestic armed deployment normalized — 'we got no timeline,' handoff date declined
- Mitigating: implied action is governmental rather than a call to followers; no mobilization request, no dehumanizing epithets, no violent imagery

## Tags

- media-only post (100%)
- surrogate amplification (95%)
- immigration enforcement (90%)
- visa revocation (85%)
- DC deployment (60%)
- promises made promises kept (80%)
- redemption sequence (75%)
- splitting (70%)
- devaluation of predecessor (70%)
- rationalization (60%)
- grandiose state (60%)
- unfalsifiable threat framing (70%)
- authority laundering (65%)
- no stylometric evidence (100%)
- cognitive status not assessable (100%)

## That day

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

**He declared a "WALL OF STEEL" across Hormuz while transits there hit a weekly low**

Most of what went out under his name today he didn't write. Two big batches — pre-made congratulation graphics for primary winners late the night before, then a wall of nearly identical Florida endorsements fired off at about one every twenty seconds around dinnertime — accounted for thirty-eight of the day's forty-nine posts. The exception came mid-morning, when he declared the U.S. had total control of the Strait of Hormuz and said the naval blockade was being called a wall of steel by everyone, at a moment when shipping through the strait had fallen to its lowest in a week and Iran was publicly saying it could just outlast him. An evening endorsement in Oklahoma curdled into an attack on the state's attorney general, whose offense was having said he had no opinion about the impeachment. He slept a normal night, and said nothing about the judge who cleared more Epstein files for release or about the lawsuit over selling advance access to these very posts.

Full digest for 2026-08-12: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-12/analysis

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