# Post ts_117309814170246776

- Post ID: `ts_117309814170246776`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-21T15:48:29.384Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,” a name since “reborn” to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead, are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are going to attack us, and everything is a DISASTER. This is more of a Hoax than even that of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, and Climate Change! Whoever wins AI, WINS! We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I’m going to keep it that way! I’m not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself. We will be careful, and that’s why we have the Department of Justice, and other Law Enforcement bodies, that will rein things in if we have to, but I will only encourage AI or, SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-21T16:08:59.192Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

He makes AI-safety concern look silly by tying it to climate warnings. The people raising it are "the same people" who said "We'll all be dead in twelve years," and the concern itself is "more of a Hoax" than Russia, Ukraine and Climate Change. That puts a scientific consensus and his impeachment grievances in one bin for anything that constrains him, a form of epistemic closure. The climate passage turns the record upside down ("the Planet was cooling, not warming"). Then the post turns grandiose: "Whoever wins AI, WINS!", "I'm going to keep it that way!", and he names "SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)" after polling followers on the name earlier the same day. A nod to oversight through "the Department of Justice" gets dropped a clause later with "I will only encourage AI." The targets are a vague class, not named people, and there is no call to act. The tone is mocking, not wounded. "Reborn" in place of "rebranded" and the uneven RUSSIA/UKRAINE chant fit his usual loose style and don't show a clear departure from it. First-person ownership and the hoax-list tangent point to his own composition despite the late-morning posting time.

## Folding AI-risk warnings into the hoax catalogue

The post argues by association. Whoever warns about AI is cast as "the same people that said, 'We'll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,'" so that AI-safety concern inherits a claim he treats as already discredited. It never engages what AI critics actually argue. It collapses them into a prior out-group and then ranks the concern on his personal hoax scale: "This is more of a Hoax than even that of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, and Climate Change!" That line lists his own impeachment and investigation grievances next to a scientific consensus, all as one category. Anything that constrains or accuses him goes into the same bin. This is splitting at the level of epistemics: truth belongs to the in-group, and every warning from outside it is fabrication, which sets epistemic closure.

The second half turns from grievance to agency. "Whoever wins AI, WINS!" frames technology as a zero-sum contest with China, and "I'm going to keep it that way!" puts him personally in charge of the lead. Grandiosity runs through the scale claims ("bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself") and through his move to name the category: "SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)!" follows an earlier post the same day asking followers to choose between "SUPER INTELLIGENCE VS. SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE." Naming a phenomenon is a way of owning it. The protagonist here is the builder-winner defending growth against doomsayers, a redemption frame in which he holds off a false catastrophe.

There is one gesture toward caution, "We will be careful, and that's why we have the Department of Justice, and other Law Enforcement bodies, that will rein things in if we have to", and it gives oversight to enforcement agencies under his command rather than to regulation. Then the closing clause drops it: "but I will only encourage AI." That reads as rationalization. The caveat exists so the deregulatory position can be held while he says he is being careful.

## Distortion and defenses

The climate passage reshapes the record in a few moves. It says the term was "reborn" to Climate Change "because the Planet was cooling, not warming," and treats "nobody was dead" as a refutation of a prediction nobody made in those words. The first claim reverses the measured temperature trend. The second knocks down a paraphrase he built himself. This is distortion aimed at a fixed belief that is part of his identity, and it is not new: the climate-hoax framing goes back to his 2012 tweets. The DARVO shape is mild. The warners become the deceivers, and he stands as the one who sees clearly. The affect is contempt and mockery more than wounded rage. The trigger looks like ongoing public debate over AI risk, and it does not read as a specific personal injury.

## Language and authorship

The syntax is his run-on, clause-stacking kind: one long first sentence of about 70 words carries a nested aside, a false causal claim and the pivot to AI. "A name since 'reborn' to Climate Change" is a slightly off word choice. "Rebranded" or "renamed" is the obvious target, so this reads as a mild semantic slip or loose phrasing. The count shifts between "RUSSIA" three times and "UKRAINE" four, which fits his habit of chanting repetition more than pathological perseveration, and he used the same form in his first term. "AI or, SI" has a misplaced comma. None of this departs clearly from his known baseline, which has long been loose, repetitive and associative.

The post went up at about 11:48 a.m. Eastern on a Monday, probably from Washington. That hour leans toward staff. The text leans the other way: first-person ownership ("I'm going to keep it that way," "I will only encourage"), the hoax-litany tangent, the caps chanting, the mis-chosen word, the stray comma, and the tie to his own naming poll earlier the same day. Those features point to his own composition, possibly dictated. There is no policy precision, bill number or statistic.

## Rhetorical devices and risk

The devices are guilt by association, straw man (the "dead in twelve years" paraphrase), hyperbole, a false dichotomy between growth and stifling, the zero-sum nationalism of "Whoever wins AI, WINS!", and repetition as incantation. The targets are an abstract class ("the same people") rather than named individuals, and the post contains no call to action or dehumanizing language. It does not articulate a target for followers to act against. What it does is delegitimize a category of expert warning, which is an epistemic effect, not a mobilizing one.

Within the same day's run, this post sits between an attack on "FAKE NEWS" as a "Cancer" and a sober-toned post on Russian refinery losses. The hoax litany's use of "UKRAINE" alongside a same-day post treating the Ukraine war as a real catastrophe shows the word working as a grievance token (the 2019 impeachment) instead of a reference to events.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Climate advocates said 'We'll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming'" | **Mostly False** | The line distorts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 2019 remark that 'the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change', which drew loosely on the 2018 IPCC report's window for cutting emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C. The IPCC made no forecast of mass death by a deadline. |
| "'Global Warming' was renamed 'Climate Change' because the planet was cooling, not warming" | **False** | Global mean surface temperature has risen about 1.2°C since pre-industrial times, and recent years are the warmest on record. Both terms have been used in science for decades (the IPCC was founded in 1988). The 2002 Luntz memo advised Republicans to prefer 'climate change' as less alarming. |
| "The Russia matter was a hoax" | **Mostly False** | The Mueller report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy with the campaign. Interference is documented, so calling it a hoax is inaccurate, although the collusion allegations were not proven. |
| "The US is leading China and everyone else in AI" | **Mostly True** | The US leads in frontier model development, private AI investment and advanced compute, according to the Stanford AI Index. China has narrowed the gap on model performance and leads in open-weight releases and publication volume. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- First-person ownership: 'I'm going to keep it that way', 'I will only encourage AI'
- Chanting repetition with uneven counts: RUSSIA x3, UKRAINE x4
- Off word choice: 'a name since "reborn" to Climate Change'
- Stray comma in 'AI or, SI'
- Tangent into his personal hoax list mid-argument

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 85%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 45%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 90%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** builder-winner holding off false doomsayers
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** 'the same people' who pushed climate alarm and the Russia 'Hoax'; China as rival

**Identity Claims:**
- Guardian of America's AI lead
- Pro-growth, won't 'stifle Growth'
- The one who names the new phenomenon (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing public debate over AI risk and regulation)

Sentiment: +0.05

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Expansive scale claims: 'bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself'
- Caps-heavy exclamatory run: 'WINS!', 'SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)!'

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- semantic paraphasia
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Personal guardianship of a national lead: 'I'm going to keep it that way!'
- In-group shorthand hoax litany his followers recognize
- Naming the phenomenon after polling followers the same day

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claims the planet was cooling, reversing the instrumental record
- Labels documented Russian interference findings and a scientific consensus as 'Hoax'
- Invents a quotation ('We'll all be dead in twelve years') and then refutes it

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-21._

> Climate advocates said 'We'll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The line distorts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 2019 remark that 'the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change', which drew loosely on the 2018 IPCC report's window for cutting emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C. The IPCC made no forecast of mass death by a deadline.

Sources: IPCC SR1.5 (2018); Ocasio-Cortez remarks, January 2019

> 'Global Warming' was renamed 'Climate Change' because the planet was cooling, not warming

**FALSE**

Global mean surface temperature has risen about 1.2°C since pre-industrial times, and recent years are the warmest on record. Both terms have been used in science for decades (the IPCC was founded in 1988). The 2002 Luntz memo advised Republicans to prefer 'climate change' as less alarming.

Sources: NASA GISS; NOAA; WMO State of the Global Climate; Luntz memo (2002)

> The Russia matter was a hoax

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Mueller report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy with the campaign. Interference is documented, so calling it a hoax is inaccurate, although the collusion allegations were not proven.

Sources: Mueller Report (2019); Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Vol. 5 (2020)

> The US is leading China and everyone else in AI

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The US leads in frontier model development, private AI investment and advanced compute, according to the Stanford AI Index. China has narrowed the gap on model performance and leads in open-weight releases and publication volume.

Sources: Stanford HAI AI Index Report

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- artificial intelligence (90%)
- climate change (60%)
- Russia hoax (40%)
- China competition (50%)
- guilt by association (60%)

## That day

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

**Trump calls his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW 'an assault on the FAKE NEWS,' then goes after the judge hearing their suit**

Trump's posts ran from Sunday night into Monday afternoon, when he left Washington for New York, and the thread through them was his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House. Overnight he shared a friendly article about the ban; by morning he was insisting he was going after "fake news," not the free press, and likening the media to cancer; by afternoon, with the outlets suing, he was attacking the judge on the case by name before any ruling. In between he pressed Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster, warning he'd otherwise be "the last Republican President" and hinting that Republican election losses would be illegitimate. The anger stayed inside the press fight. The rest of the day was golf, a pitch for artificial intelligence that waved off fears about it as a hoax, endorsements, a first ride from a new White House heliport he thanked Lockheed Martin's chief for, and a friendly note about visiting Gracie Mansion at Mayor Mamdani's invitation.

Full digest for 2026-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 21). The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117309814170246776
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in twelve..." Truth Social, 21 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117309814170246776. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in twelve...," Truth Social, September 21, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117309814170246776.

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