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A third pass at the same "AI Hoax" line in one day

This is the shortest of three posts on 14 September calling fears about artificial intelligence a hoax. It keeps the frame from the earlier two, swaps in a sharper comparison, and ends on a slogan in place of an argument. The likely trigger is the story from the day before: Obama had privately urged Hakeem Jeffries to make an "AI control bill" the top priority if Democrats win the House, and conservative media picked it up. None of the three posts names Obama. Instead the concern gets pinned on the whole party: "perpetrated by the Radical Left Dumocrats."

The three posts shift in stages. The first set up the persona ("I am the Hoax Buster") and made the fear sound absurd ("Robots will be marching into our Cities"). The second listed old grievances ("RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE... Impeachment Hoax #1, or Impeachment Hoax #2"). This one drops the list and keeps one comparison, the "Global Warming Scam." Each version is shorter and relies more on the old frame than the one before. That suggests a message being fine-tuned for repetition. Repeating a campaign theme like this is his usual pattern, and nothing in the wording points to abnormal perseveration.

How the post argues

The whole argument is a comparison followed by a question: fear of AI is like fear of global warming, which is said to have been disproven, so this fear is false too. The support is a distorted version of the climate prediction, "where everyone was going to die from extreme heat." Then comes "What happened?", which treats the failure of that invented prediction as settled. It isn't. Mainstream climate science never predicted mass death by a set date, and recent years have been the hottest on record. The question leaves readers to supply the answer, which pulls them into agreeing without anything being argued. The post then jumps straight to "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!", swapping reasoning for an identity signal. The disagreement becomes a question of which side you're on.

Other devices:

• Name-calling: "Dumocrats" turns a party into a joke about intelligence.
• Guilt by association: calling it "Global Warming Scam of not so long ago" treats one past issue he calls fraudulent as proof about an unrelated one.
• Recycled labels: "Hoax" and "Scam," both long-standing words of his for dismissing consensus views.

The psychology

On the surface the state is grandiose and dismissive, with no sign of personal injury. Unlike the Karl Rove post the same day, this one has no "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and no complaint about how he's treated. The main defenses are splitting, where a concern shared across politics becomes a left-wing fraud ("Radical Left Dumocrats"), and distortion, where the other side's position is rewritten into an extreme version that's easy to knock down ("everyone was going to die"). Calling the concern a "Hoax being perpetrated" also suggests projection: people raising a policy question are cast as deliberately tricking the public.

The post also acts as a loyalty test in a mild way. Agreeing that AI risk is a "Hoax" means joining a list of beliefs that mark someone as a supporter. Outside expertise gets waved off with a question instead of an answer. That's a small example of a closed information loop, where anything from outside the group doesn't count. It isn't gaslighting about a documented event. It misstates what his opponents believe.

In trait terms, the post shows low agreeableness (contempt, "Dumocrats") and rigid values (no concession that AI or climate carry any real risk). The motive is agency: winning the midterm argument ahead of "November 3rd," which the Dallas convention post the same day mentions. He casts himself as the one who exposes frauds, and his opponents as a party of repeat fearmongers who "never give up, but seldom win."

Who wrote it, and when

Before 14 September, Trump had been in Ireland. The same-day posts about the White House heliport and the Dallas convention suggest he was back in the United States, most likely Washington. 23:55 UTC is 7:55 p.m. Eastern: evening, outside business hours, but not late night.

Several signs point to Trump himself:

• "Dumocrats," his own nickname
• the "President DJT" sign-off
• the unexplained "What happened?"
• three exclamation marks after the slogan
• the jump from claim to slogan with nothing connecting them

Staff do use his catchphrases, and none of this is proof. Still, the cluster of same-theme posts in one evening looks like repeated personal posting, not a scheduled staff post.

Violence risk and memory

The opponents are mocked, not dehumanized. The post calls for no action, and nothing here encourages harm to anyone. The claim about climate predictions misstates the historical record, but it's a line he has used for years. That makes it a talking point, not a memory lapse. Nothing is confused about names, dates, or events.

Fact Verification

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