# Post x_1011228265003077632

- Post ID: `x_1011228265003077632`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-06-25T12:43:00.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1011228265003077632
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1011228265003077632/analysis
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## Post text

> Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go - will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country......

## Engagement

- Likes: 90,886
- Reposts: 21,557
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.401Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T04:37:12.095Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This high-confidence authentic Trump post, composed at 8:43 AM EDT during the height of the 2018 family separation crisis, advocates extrajudicial summary exclusion of asylum seekers including children by characterizing the legal adjudication process as permanently dysfunctional. Three orthographic markers confirm authentic authorship. The dominant clinical signals are antisocial features (explicit disregard for legal rights of vulnerable persons), splitting (legal process = irredeemably bad; simple exclusion = obviously good), and denial (erasing the legally protected category of asylum-seeker). The most clinically significant element is the deliberately incomplete terminal clause about children — which implies deportation as the resolution while the trailing ellipsis maintains deniability. This post was composed days after Trump signed an EO ostensibly ending family separation, creating an internal policy contradiction neither acknowledged nor resolved. No cognitive deviation from baseline detected. Danger rated elevated for systematic normalization of extrajudicial exclusion and the implicit policy claim about children, not for direct incitement.

## Psychological Analysis: June 25, 2018 — Border/Immigration Post

### Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: High-confidence authentic Trump**

Post timestamp is 12:43 UTC = **8:43 AM EDT** (Washington, D.C.). Three orthographic markers make aide authorship implausible: (1) **"manythousands"** — compound with missing word boundary; (2) **"disfunctional"** — misspelling of "dysfunctional"; (3) **"......"** — six-dot trailing ellipsis, a Trump signature. Aides would not introduce misspellings or word-space errors.

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### Situational Context
The post arrives at peak intensity of the family separation crisis. Trump had just signed an EO ostensibly ending family separation — yet this post advocates summary exclusion incompatible with domestic and international asylum law. The trailing "Children brought back to their country......" appears to endorse deportation as the resolution while the ellipsis maintains deniability.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Agreeableness extremely low (dismissal of legal rights); Openness very low (rejection of institutional complexity); Conscientiousness low (typos, incomplete sentence); Neuroticism moderate (controlled assertiveness, not acute rage); Extraversion moderate-high (confident declarative proclamation).

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Agency/Power.** Legal process framed as institutional rival to executive authority. Solution ("simply be stopped") concentrates power in the executive. Communion motives entirely absent.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist:** Efficient executive stymied by bureaucratic dysfunction
- **Contrasting other:** The legal/judicial process as rival institutional authority
- **Contamination sequence:** Orderly border *was* achievable; legal process *corrupted* that possibility
- **Identity claims:** "I see the obvious solution others complicate"; "I act where institutions fail"

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### Clinical Indicators

**Splitting (immature defense):** Legal process = all-bad ("long and complicated," "will always be disfunctional"); simple exclusion = all-good. No middle ground admitted.

**Rationalization (neurotic defense):** Bypassing legal due process reframed as pragmatic efficiency.

**Denial (pathological defense):** The legal distinction between illegal entry and asylum-seeking is erased. The framing "cannot come into the U.S. illegally" treats all border-crossers as illegal entrants, denying the existence of protected asylum rights.

**Antisocial features:** Explicit advocacy for bypassing domestic and international legal protections for vulnerable populations including children. Disregard for legal rights of others is the dominant clinical signal.

**Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity-in-problem-solving; belief the correct answer is obvious and institutions are simply obstructing it.

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### Danger Assessment
**Elevated.** Not direct incitement, but systematic normalization of extrajudicial exclusion for a vulnerable population at an acute humanitarian moment. The trailing clause about children is the most charged element.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally" | **Mostly False** | Under the Refugee Act of 1980 (8 U.S.C. 1158), any alien present in the U.S. or at a port of entry may apply for asylum regardless of manner of entry. Non-refoulement obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention prohibit summary return to persecution. The claim treats all border-crossers as illegal entrants, erasing the legally cognizable category of asylum-seekers. |
| "Legal process will always be dysfunctional" | **Unverifiable** | Immigration court backlogs were real (EOIR had approximately 700,000 pending cases by 2018). However the permanence claim 'will always be' is a predictive ideological assertion not an empirical fact. |
| "Children brought back to their country as implied resolution" | **Unverifiable** | Claim is technically incomplete due to trailing ellipsis. As policy implication, deporting children who are asylum-seeking minors faces legal obstacles under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (2008) and asylum law. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Compound 'manythousands' with missing word boundary
- 'disfunctional' misspelling (standard: dysfunctional)
- Six-dot trailing ellipsis '......' is Trump signature marker
- Incomplete terminal sentence suggests unpolished authentic composition
- 8:43 AM EDT is early morning, consistent with Trump Twitter habits

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Criticism (immigration crisis legal and judicial process)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Framing legal complexity as dysfunction builds follower distrust of institutions
- Declarative certainty signals speaker has obvious answer others miss
- Deliberate trailing ellipsis invites follower imagination to complete the thought

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Advocates summary exclusion of asylum seekers without legal adjudication, normalizing bypass of legal protections for vulnerable population
- Trailing clause about children appears to endorse deportation at peak of family separation crisis while maintaining deniability through ellipsis
- Systematic institutional delegitimization conditions audience to reject legal framework as basis for policy evaluation

### Gaslighting

- Frames all border-crossers as illegal entrants, denying that asylum seekers possess legally protected rights
- Treats legal complexity as inherent dysfunction rather than necessary rights-protection mechanism
- Post comes days after signing EO ostensibly ending family separation while simultaneously advocating incompatible policy of summary exclusion

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-15._

> People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Under the Refugee Act of 1980 (8 U.S.C. 1158), any alien present in the U.S. or at a port of entry may apply for asylum regardless of manner of entry. Non-refoulement obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention prohibit summary return to persecution. The claim treats all border-crossers as illegal entrants, erasing the legally cognizable category of asylum-seekers.

Sources: 8 U.S.C. 1158; 1951 UN Refugee Convention; 1967 Protocol

> Legal process will always be dysfunctional

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Immigration court backlogs were real (EOIR had approximately 700,000 pending cases by 2018). However the permanence claim 'will always be' is a predictive ideological assertion not an empirical fact.

Sources: EOIR FY2018 statistics

> Children brought back to their country as implied resolution

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Claim is technically incomplete due to trailing ellipsis. As policy implication, deporting children who are asylum-seeking minors faces legal obstacles under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (2008) and asylum law.

Sources: TVPRA 2008

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- immigration (95%)
- border-enforcement (90%)
- family-separation-crisis (88%)
- authorship-authentic (88%)
- splitting (82%)
- institutional-delegitimization (80%)
- antisocial-features (72%)
- due-process-dismissal (85%)
- gaslighting (70%)
- grandiose-state (65%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Siege Day: From Midnight Celebrity Attacks to Named-Target Threats Against a Congresswoman**

Trump spent the day in a combative, scattered mood, launching attacks on over half a dozen named targets — from a late-night comedian to a small-town restaurant to a sitting congresswoman. The most alarming moment came in the early afternoon when he publicly attacked Rep. Maxine Waters by name, calling her "extraordinarily low IQ" and closing with a veiled threat, following a week of peak tension over his family separation policy. In between the attacks, he recycled endorsements, promoted a rally in South Carolina, and sought validation through cherry-picked quotes. The overall picture was one of agitation across many fronts with no coherent thread — immigration, trade, the Russia investigation, and personal grudges all jumbled together in a high-volume posting day.

Full digest for 2018-06-25: https://trump.fm/date/2018-06-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, June 25). Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1011228265003077632
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long..." X (Twitter), 25 Jun. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1011228265003077632. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long...," X (Twitter), June 25, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1011228265003077632.

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