# Post ts_117334585893103406

- Post ID: `ts_117334585893103406`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-26T00:48:15.879Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> This is where we send our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs. It’s why Murder, and other Crimes in America, is at Record Lows! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

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## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/334/585/172/741/664/original/a0090eb86e2c6be7.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,340
- Reposts: 2,477
- Replies: 359
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-03T00:01:28.892Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-26T01:19:36.872Z (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 33-word post attached to an unnamed video, signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP," asserting that a detention destination shown in the clip is where "our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs" go and that this explains record-low American crime.

Two mechanisms are visible in a very small text. The first is categorical dehumanization by noun: detainees appear only as three crime-class labels, the last of them ("Thugs") an epithet rather than an offense, with the possessive "our" framing them as disposable property of the polity. Nothing in the phrasing separates an allegation from a conviction. The second is rationalization: "It's why Murder, and other Crimes in America, is at Record Lows!" attaches a national aggregate to a removal program as sole cause, retrofitting a consequence onto a policy whose appeal the post is actually demonstrating in the video.

The affective signature is triumphal rather than aggrieved — an exclamation point and a credit claim, with nothing in the post that anyone has done to him. That missing injury rules out rage discharge as the driver and leaves a display being curated and signed. Kernberg's ego-syntonic sadism describes this better than rage does: subjugation presented, untroubled, as an accomplishment with a byline.

Authorship is unambiguous. "Where **we** send" colliding with a third-person signature, a compound subject taking a singular verb, and emphasis-capitalized common nouns are dictation artifacts an aide writing in-voice does not generate.

The sentence structure makes the attached footage carry the entire claim, which is how the text avoids ever describing what it is endorsing.

## Friday evening, 8:48 PM Eastern

The UTC stamp converts to 20:48 on September 25 in Trump's local zone — he had spent the week in New York for the UN General Assembly and in Washington for the Xi state visit, both Eastern. This is prime-time television hour, not the 2 AM window, but the composition carries the markers that matter more than the clock.

Three of them. Mid-sentence capitalization of common nouns — "our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs," "Murder, and other Crimes," "Record Lows" — which functions as vocal emphasis transcribed rather than as any orthographic convention. A number agreement failure: "Murder, and other Crimes in America, **is** at Record Lows," where the compound subject takes a singular verb because the sentence was composed by ear, the parenthetical commas around "and other Crimes in America" letting "Murder" stay singular in the speaker's head. And the third-person sign-off, "President DONALD J. TRUMP," appended to a first-person-plural sentence ("where **we** send"). An aide writing in the President's voice does not produce a person-agreement collision inside 33 words; a man dictating and then stamping his own title on it does.

## The video is doing the argument

"This is where" is a pointing word. The claim's entire referent sits in an attached mp4 whose contents are not in this record, which means the sentence is built to be unreadable without the image — a deictic structure that offloads the assertion onto footage the text never has to characterize or defend. Whatever the clip shows, the syntax tells you what it is *for*: the word "This" does the work that a description of a facility, a legal authority, or a detainee population would otherwise have to do.

What the text does supply is the population, and it supplies it as three category nouns with a possessive: "our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs." Nothing in the phrasing separates an allegation from a conviction — the categories arrive already sentenced, which is precisely what lets the destination go unjustified. "Thugs" carries a racial register that the other two do not, and its placement at the end of an escalating-then-vaguening list ("Killers" is a legal category, "Drug Dealers" is a legal category, "Thugs" is an epithet) is where the sentence stops describing a class of offenders and starts describing a class of people. The possessive "our" completes it: they belong to the speaker's polity in the way property does, which is what makes sending them somewhere a thing one can simply do.

## The causal sentence

"It's why Murder, and other Crimes in America, is at Record Lows!" — a single-cause explanation for a national aggregate, asserted with an exclamation point and no mechanism. The homicide decline is real and steep; it began in 2022, before any of the removal programs this post is celebrating, and the population plausibly affected by third-country transfers is orders of magnitude too small to move a national rate. "It's why" is rationalization in the strict sense: a policy chosen and defended for other reasons is retrofitted with a consequence that makes it look like arithmetic.

The rhetorical payoff is the pairing. Sentence one shows the punishment; sentence two converts the punishment into a public good. That is the structure of an argument for cruelty rather than an argument from evidence, and it is delivered in the posture of someone reporting a result.

## What is being enjoyed

The tonal register is triumphal, not enraged — exclamation point, "Record Lows," a signature. What the post lacks is any injury behind it: nothing has been done to him that this answers. That absence rules out rage discharge as the driver and leaves a display being curated, with the speaker's byline on it. The pleasure is in the showing. Kernberg's ego-syntonic sadism is not the presence of rage; it is the untroubled presentation of others' subjugation as an accomplishment one signs. "This is where we send our..." is a host's sentence.

The self-schema underneath is the sovereign who disposes: one who decides where people go, and whose deciding produces order for everyone else. The order is asymmetric on its face — "America" receives the Record Lows, the categories receive the destination — and the post is precise about which side of that line the audience stands on.

## Cognitive baseline

Nothing here departs from his written baseline. Sentence length, subordination depth, and the capitalization habit match Truth Social output across years; the subject-verb slip is a dictation artifact of a kind present in his posts since 2012, not a word-finding failure. The third-person sign-off is a longstanding stylistic tic rather than a person-reference error. No markers worth recording.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Murder and other crimes in America are at record lows." | **Half True** | The homicide decline since 2022 is real and unusually steep, with 2025 estimates placing the national murder rate near or at the lowest level in the modern recording era. The broader claim about 'other Crimes' overstates the picture: property crime and some violent categories have moved unevenly, and national figures for 2026 are incomplete. The crime-level half is defensible; the sweeping scope is not. |
| "Sending killers, drug dealers, and thugs to this destination is why American crime is at record lows." | **Mostly False** | The decline began in 2022, predating the removal and third-country detention programs this post celebrates, and the number of people affected by such transfers is far too small relative to the US population to move a national rate. Criminologists attribute the post-2020 drop to a combination of pandemic-era normalization, policing and community-violence-intervention investment, and demographic factors. A single-cause attribution is not supported. |
| "The people sent to this facility are killers, drug dealers, and thugs." | **Mostly False** | In the best-documented instance of US third-country removal to a foreign mega-prison, reporting found that a majority of those transferred had no US criminal convictions, with several identified on the basis of tattoos or alleged gang association rather than adjudicated offenses. The video's specific destination is not identified in the post text, so the referent here is inferred; the categorical claim about the transferred population is contradicted by the documented cases. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Person-agreement collision: first-person plural 'where we send' followed by third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Subject-verb disagreement in a compound subject: 'Murder, and other Crimes in America, is at Record Lows'
- Emphasis capitalization of common nouns mid-sentence: 'Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs', 'Murder', 'Crimes', 'Record Lows'
- Signature sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP', a longstanding personal habit on Truth Social
- Local time 20:48 Eastern (Friday evening), consistent with a real-time reaction to televised or forwarded footage

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 68%
- Agreeableness: 8%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness — tough-mindedness and absence of tender-mindedness toward the described population

**Motives:**
- Agency: 88%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Sovereign disposer — the one who decides where persons are sent and who is thereby credited with public safety
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** 'our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs' — an undifferentiated criminal class defined entirely by offense labels

**Identity Claims:**
- The one who removes dangerous people from America
- The cause of record-low crime
- 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' — the office itself as personal identity

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Attached video of a detention destination; likely forwarded or televised footage)

Sentiment: -0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 62%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 68%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'we' and 'our' enlisting the reader as co-author of the removal
- Attached footage as shared spectacle, positioning the audience as viewers of a punishment carried out on their behalf
- Signature sign-off converting a policy claim into a personal guarantee

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Categorical dehumanization: persons replaced entirely by offense labels plus the epithet 'Thugs', with no adjudication implied
- Possessive framing ('our Killers') rendering a human population as disposable state property
- Approving spectacle of confinement, with attached footage doing the persuasive work the text avoids
- Punishment presented as demonstrably producing public benefit, which lowers the perceived cost of extending it
- Norm-setting for extrajudicial disposition: 'This is where we send' states a practice rather than a legal process

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-26._

> Murder and other crimes in America are at record lows.

**HALF TRUE**

The homicide decline since 2022 is real and unusually steep, with 2025 estimates placing the national murder rate near or at the lowest level in the modern recording era. The broader claim about 'other Crimes' overstates the picture: property crime and some violent categories have moved unevenly, and national figures for 2026 are incomplete. The crime-level half is defensible; the sweeping scope is not.

Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting / Quarterly Crime Reports; Real-Time Crime Index (AH Datalytics); Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey

> Sending killers, drug dealers, and thugs to this destination is why American crime is at record lows.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The decline began in 2022, predating the removal and third-country detention programs this post celebrates, and the number of people affected by such transfers is far too small relative to the US population to move a national rate. Criminologists attribute the post-2020 drop to a combination of pandemic-era normalization, policing and community-violence-intervention investment, and demographic factors. A single-cause attribution is not supported.

Sources: Council on Criminal Justice crime trend reports; Brennan Center for Justice crime analyses; Real-Time Crime Index (AH Datalytics)

> The people sent to this facility are killers, drug dealers, and thugs.

**MOSTLY FALSE**

In the best-documented instance of US third-country removal to a foreign mega-prison, reporting found that a majority of those transferred had no US criminal convictions, with several identified on the basis of tattoos or alleged gang association rather than adjudicated offenses. The video's specific destination is not identified in the post text, so the referent here is inferred; the categorical claim about the transferred population is contradicted by the documented cases.

Sources: CBS News 60 Minutes analysis of CECOT transfer records; Associated Press reporting on Venezuelan removals; Court filings in Alien Enemies Act litigation

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- dehumanization (85%)
- sadism (68%)
- immigration-enforcement (90%)
- crime-statistics (70%)
- false-cause (75%)
- grandiose (60%)
- rationalization (65%)
- splitting (60%)
- authentic-authorship (92%)
- tyrant-archetype (70%)
- order-restorer (75%)
- video-attachment (50%)

## That day

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

**He answered a Republican congresswoman's criticism without writing a word, republishing strangers' attacks from accounts with as few as seven views.**

He posted 82 times, and most of it was not his own writing: wordless video reels of other people praising him, pasted links from a single friendly news site, and screenshots of strangers. The morning ran on one grievance, that his coverage is almost entirely negative despite his election win, and it hardened over five hours from an argument into a flat demand that the offending outlets be barred from the White House. At midday he denied a report that a Florida candidate he had endorsed was dropping him from campaign materials, named nine news organizations as "sick people," and said something had to be done about it. The afternoon was ordinary by his standards: the Tennessee-Texas game, a rollback of fuel economy rules, a promise of $5,000 to every adult if Republicans win. Then he spent the last half hour republishing anonymous attacks on a Republican congresswoman who had criticized him, several from accounts almost nobody reads, without adding a word of his own.

Full digest for 2026-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 26). This is where we send our Killers, Drug Dealers,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117334585893103406
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This is where we send our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs...." Truth Social, 26 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117334585893103406. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "This is where we send our Killers, Drug Dealers, and Thugs....," Truth Social, September 26, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117334585893103406.

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