# Post ts_117445309638266855

- Post ID: `ts_117445309638266855`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-15T14:06:46.150Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor, is a very bad and evil man, who killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, who died, along with her unborn son, and injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people. Barack Hussein Obama’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and the radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. When reviewed by his FBI terrorism task force, investigators concluded that Hasan's emails were not a threat. This assessment of the Obama Administration’s actions was later considered to be a key intelligence failure. With all of that being said, I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose. They deserve to witness JUSTICE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-15T14:23:22.608Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

The post cancels the Pentagon's announced livestream of Nidal Hasan's December 3 firing-squad execution. It reads as Trump's own ruling, with no mention of the week-long reversal behind it: the Defense Department's 'will be live streamed,' his own earlier 'absolutely,' Vance's public doubt, and polling showing even 64% of Republicans opposed. His preference survives in the conditional ('might have been a strong deterrent'), and the retreat is credited to 'many very good and well meaning people.' That rationalization lets him concede without conceding he was wrong. Half the post goes first to 'Barack Hussein Obama's Federal Bureau of Investigation' and the 2009 intelligence failure, shifting blame onto the predecessor, with the middle name placed beside 'radical Yemeni-American cleric.' The facts about the attack and the FBI review are accurate. The slant comes from how they are ordered and labeled. Moral splitting ('very bad and evil man' and 'SCUM' against 'very good and well meaning people') and a retributive close ('They deserve to witness JUSTICE!') cast him as the sovereign who decides the form a punishment takes. Stylistically the post looks like his dictation wrapped around aide-supplied background, joined at a visible seam in 'his FBI terrorism task force.'

## A climbdown presented as a ruling

On October 5 the Army announced that Trump had approved Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad, set for December 3 at Fort Hood. Three days later the Defense Department said the execution would be livestreamed, and Hegseth defended the plan. Since then Vance has said publicly that he doubts it will happen, Trump has gone from "absolutely" to "I'll make a decision," and an ABC/Post/Ipsos poll found majorities of every partisan group opposed, 64% of Republicans among them. This post cancels the stream. It mentions neither the Pentagon's announcement nor his own earlier endorsement. The outcome reads as his own weighing of two goods: "I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent... but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die."

The conditional "might have been" keeps his original preference on the record as the correct one. The reversal is credited to the sensibilities of decent people, with nothing said about the poll or the open split between his Vice President and his Defense Secretary. That is rationalization: a retreat under pressure gets a principled reason, and the retreat costs him no ground on the merits. It is also a small rewrite of recent history. A week of public back-and-forth comes out as a single, settled decision ("He will die, as scheduled... but this event will not be streamed"). Nothing in the text rises to denial, so I've logged it as revisionism and not gaslighting.

## Obama gets the first paragraph

Before the post reaches the decision, half its length goes to 2009. "Barack Hussein Obama's Federal Bureau of Investigation" makes the bureau the personal property of the previous president. The middle name appears in a story about a jihadist shooter and sits a few words from "the radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki," so placement does associative work that no explicit claim has to carry. The factual core holds up: a Joint Terrorism Task Force reviewed Hasan's messages to al-Awlaki and judged them no threat, and later reviews called that a failure. The framing is displacement, though. A post about whether this administration will broadcast a killing opens by assigning blame for the killings to its predecessor. "This assessment of the Obama Administration's actions" turns a finding about an FBI field review into a verdict on an administration.

## Good people, evil man, a scene for the families

The moral sorting is total. On one side are "a very bad and evil man," "traitor," "Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan." On the other are "many very good and well meaning people" and the families who "deserve to witness JUSTICE!" This is splitting in its ordinary political form, applied to a target whose crimes are not in dispute. The emotional peak comes at the end, in capitals ("SCUM," "JUSTICE!"), after an even, reportorial middle. The register is retributive. Viewing the death is framed as something owed to victims, and the abandoned stream as a lesson "for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists."

The archetype is the King deciding the form of a sovereign punishment. Whether the world watches is his call, and he makes it in the first person ("I think," "He will die"). The softening comes as a grant of mercy to the squeamish, which lets him concede while still occupying the role of decider. Communion appears only in narrow form, as solicitude for the victims' families. That solicitude is real in the text, and it is also the vehicle for the concession.

## A dictated frame around a reference paragraph

The post went out at 14:06 UTC, which is 10:06 a.m. Eastern. He was presumably back in Washington after the Wasilla rally on the night of October 13, Alaska time, so this was business hours. The middle section reads like encyclopedia copy: "intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and the radical Yemeni-American cleric," "investigators concluded that Hasan's emails were not a threat," "was later considered to be a key intelligence failure." It uses full proper names, passive constructions and the hedged "was later considered" of reference prose. The seam shows in "When reviewed by his FBI terrorism task force," where "his" has no clear antecedent (Obama's? Hasan's?), the kind of slip that comes from splicing borrowed text into a new sentence.

The frame around it carries his voice. There is "a very bad and evil man," the interrupted "injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people," and a comma pile in "would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device." Add "With all of that being said," a "but," followed by a stray comma, the capitalized "World," "Terrorists," "SCUM" and "JUSTICE," and his standard sign-off. The likeliest process is Trump dictating or heavily editing around background an aide supplied. The antecedent slip is an editing artifact, not a production error. The argument runs in order (background, preference, decision, concession to families) with no lost thread, and nothing marks a departure from his usual dictated-post register.

## Where the facts end and the editorial begins

Every checkable claim about the 2009 attack and the FBI review is accurate or close to it. The small stretches are "very seriously" applied to all 32 wounded, and pinning intercepts that began in December 2008, under an FBI director appointed by Bush, on "Obama's" FBI. The execution date and method match the Army's October 5 announcement. The slant sits in arrangement and labeling, not in invented facts.

The language toward Hasan is dehumanizing ("SCUM"), and "Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan" stretches the contempt past one man to a category. But the target is a man convicted and lawfully sentenced, and the post removes a public spectacle; it adds none. Nothing in it calls on anyone outside the state to act.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Hasan killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier who died along with her unborn child" | **True** | Thirteen people were killed at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. Among them was Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, who was pregnant; her unborn child died with her. |
| "Hasan injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people" | **Mostly True** | Thirty-two people were wounded, about 30 of them by gunfire. The count is right; 'very seriously' overstates for the group as a whole, since injuries ranged widely in severity. |
| "Obama's FBI intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki" | **Mostly True** | The FBI intercepted Hasan's messages to al-Awlaki from December 2008 into mid-2009. Most fell after Obama's January 2009 inauguration, but the first came under Bush, and the bureau was led throughout by Robert Mueller, a Bush appointee. Calling it 'Obama's' FBI is partisan shorthand. |
| "The FBI terrorism task force reviewing the emails concluded they were not a threat, later considered a key intelligence failure" | **True** | A Joint Terrorism Task Force assessed the messages as consistent with Hasan's research and not a threat. The 2011 Senate Homeland Security Committee report 'A Ticking Time Bomb' and the 2012 Webster Commission review both identified this as a significant failure. |
| "Hasan will die as scheduled by firing squad" | **True** | On October 5, 2026 the Army announced that Trump had approved execution by firing squad, set by the acting Army Secretary for December 3, 2026 at Fort Hood. |
| "Many people would rather not watch the execution streamed" | **True** | An ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found wide majorities opposed to livestreaming, including 91% of Democrats, 83% of independents and 64% of Republicans. |

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- 10:06 a.m. ET posting time, inside business hours
- Middle section in reference-text register: 'radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki', 'was later considered to be a key intelligence failure'
- Splice artifact: 'his FBI terrorism task force' with no clear antecedent
- Trump-voice frame: 'a very bad and evil man', 'injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people'
- Comma pile-up: 'would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device'

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 35%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (retributive contempt), tempered by a reluctant concession to public sentiment

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Sovereign arbiter of punishment who chooses restraint
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Nidal Hasan as 'evil' traitor; the Obama administration as the authors of the intelligence failure

**Identity Claims:**
- The one who decides how America deals with terrorists
- Responsive to 'very good and well meaning people'
- Guardian of victims' families' right to justice

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Week-long public dispute over the Pentagon's livestream plan, including broad poll opposition and Vance's public doubt)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 25%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Positions the audience among the 'very good and well meaning people' whose feelings he says he honored
- Offers victims' families a personal entitlement: 'They deserve to witness JUSTICE!'

## Fact Checks (6)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-15._

> Hasan killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier who died along with her unborn child

**TRUE**

Thirteen people were killed at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. Among them was Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, who was pregnant; her unborn child died with her.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

> Hasan injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Thirty-two people were wounded, about 30 of them by gunfire. The count is right; 'very seriously' overstates for the group as a whole, since injuries ranged widely in severity.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

> Obama's FBI intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The FBI intercepted Hasan's messages to al-Awlaki from December 2008 into mid-2009. Most fell after Obama's January 2009 inauguration, but the first came under Bush, and the bureau was led throughout by Robert Mueller, a Bush appointee. Calling it 'Obama's' FBI is partisan shorthand.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

> The FBI terrorism task force reviewing the emails concluded they were not a threat, later considered a key intelligence failure

**TRUE**

A Joint Terrorism Task Force assessed the messages as consistent with Hasan's research and not a threat. The 2011 Senate Homeland Security Committee report 'A Ticking Time Bomb' and the 2012 Webster Commission review both identified this as a significant failure.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

> Hasan will die as scheduled by firing squad

**TRUE**

On October 5, 2026 the Army announced that Trump had approved execution by firing squad, set by the acting Army Secretary for December 3, 2026 at Fort Hood.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/08/hegseth-wants-fort-hood-shooters-execution-by-firing-squad-be-public/

> Many people would rather not watch the execution streamed

**TRUE**

An ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found wide majorities opposed to livestreaming, including 91% of Democrats, 83% of independents and 64% of Republicans.

Sources: https://abcnews.com/Politics/wide-majority-americans-oppose-livestreaming-nidal-hasans-execution/story?id=137263671

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Tags

- Nidal Hasan execution (100%)
- livestream reversal (90%)
- Obama blame (70%)
- rationalization (70%)
- splitting (50%)
- dehumanizing label (40%)
- King archetype (50%)

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 15). Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117445309638266855
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor,..." Truth Social, 15 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117445309638266855. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor,...," Truth Social, October 15, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117445309638266855.

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