# Post x_1026584029318078500

- Post ID: `x_1026584029318078500`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-08-06T13:41:20.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: yes, 2026-02-01T01:33:25.038Z (UTC)
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1026584029318078500
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1026584029318078500/analysis
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## Post text

> Democrats want Open Borders and they want to abolish ICE, the brave men and women that our protecting our Country from some of the most vicious and dangerous people on earth! Sorry, we can’t let that happen!Also, change the rules in the Senate and approve STRONG Border Security!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.038Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T18:22:09.990Z (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 August 2018 post exemplifies Trump's core immigration rhetoric architecture: Democrats cast as criminal-invasion enablers, ICE as heroic defenders, and immigrants categorized as "the most vicious and dangerous people on earth." The dehumanization is sweeping and unconditional — applied to an entire demographic rather than a criminal subset. Authentic authorship is confirmed by a homophonic typo ("our protecting") and a missing space before "Also," consistent with unreviewed stream-of-consciousness composition at 9:41 AM Bedminster time.

The post functions as political mobilization ahead of 2018 midterms rather than a response to specific narcissistic injury. The grandiose narcissistic state is stable; dominant defenses are splitting (immigrants/Democrats as purely evil, ICE as purely heroic) and distortion (mainstream Democratic positions reshaped into "open borders"). Possible ambient displacement of Manafort trial legal anxiety onto safer ideological terrain is worth longitudinal tracking.

Fact-checking reveals the "open borders" characterization is false as applied to the Democratic Party; the ICE abolition attribution is half-true (a visible progressive minority, not the mainstream). Research on immigrant crime rates directly contradicts the implied premise underlying ICE's described mission.

Danger assessment is elevated: the structural combination of categorical dehumanization, domestic enemy scapegoating, and urgency framing ("we can't let that happen") meets the functional criteria for stochastic terrorism architecture even absent explicit violence incitement. Normalizing the characterization of an entire immigrant population as the world's most dangerous humans creates permissive conditions for violence by autonomous actors.

## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Authentic Trump (medium-high confidence)**

Local time derivation: Trump typically resides at Bedminster, NJ in August (his summer retreat). EDT = UTC−4. Post timestamp 13:41 UTC → **9:41 AM EDT** — within his documented early-morning Fox & Friends/Twitter window, though technically business hours.

Authentic markers override timing concern: (1) grammatical error *"the brave men and women that **our** protecting"* — homophonic substitution of "our" for "are," consistent with fast, unreviewed keystroke production; (2) missing space before "Also" (*"happen!Also"*) — a typographical tell of unedited, stream-of-consciousness composition; (3) ALL CAPS "STRONG" — characteristic Trump emphasis; (4) the colloquial *"Sorry, we can't let that happen!"* — a stylistic signature absent from aide-drafted content.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Dominant facets:**
- **Low Agreeableness** (0.10): Categorical antagonism toward Democrats; zero empathic acknowledgment of immigrants as persons; dehumanizing characterization
- **High Extraversion/Assertiveness** (0.75): Commanding, declarative, rallying tone
- **Low Openness** (0.15): Rigidly binary framing; no ideological nuance tolerated
- **Moderate Neuroticism — Angry Hostility** (0.55): Urgent, alarmed register; emotional exclamation pattern
- **Low Conscientiousness** (0.35): Impulsive construction, absent deliberation

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives** dominate overwhelmingly: power over borders, structural control (Senate rule change), dominance over political opposition. **Communion motives are absent.**

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self*: Heroic guardian; the sole barrier between safety and catastrophe
- *Democrats*: Treasonous collaborators with criminal invasion
- *Immigrants* (the targeted group): Categorically "the most vicious and dangerous people on earth" — comprehensive dehumanization, no sub-categorization
- *World*: Under active, existential threat requiring strong authoritarian response

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Warrior/Defender — explicitly framing national existence as combat
- **Contrasting other**: Democrats as open-borders enablers of criminal humanity
- **Narrative sequence**: **Contamination** — a proper order (strong borders) being actively destroyed by Democratic treachery; Trump as the force of restoration
- **Identity claims**: "we can't let that happen" — collective identity fused to Trump's individual will; subject positions himself as the nation's immune system

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## Psychological Analysis

**Trigger**: Supply-seeking + political maintenance. No specific narcissistic injury apparent; this is pre-midterm mobilization rhetoric. The Manafort trial context (legal pressure on Trump orbit) may generate ambient anxiety redirected into offensive political framing — a displacement dynamic worth noting longitudinally.

**Narcissistic state**: **Grandiose** — expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. No vulnerable register present.

**Defense mechanisms identified:**

1. **Splitting** (immature): Democrats are purely malevolent; ICE agents are purely heroic; immigrants are purely monstrous. Binary topology, zero gradation.
2. **Projection** (immature): The will toward disorder/danger attributed entirely to Democrats ("want Open Borders") while subject presents as order-restorer.
3. **Distortion** (pathological): "Democrats want Open Borders" — grossly reshaping the actual Democratic policy spectrum (opposition to family separation, ICE abolition advocacy limited to a progressive minority) into a unitary existential position.
4. **Displacement** (neurotic): Possible redirect of Manafort trial legal anxiety onto immigration as safer ideological terrain.

**Narcissistic rage**: Absent. Tone is assertive/commanding rather than wounded or retaliatory.

**Malignant narcissism component assessment:**
- *Narcissistic features*: 0.65 — grandiosity, entitlement to Senate compliance, instrumentalization of ICE agents as props
- *Antisocial features*: 0.30 — institutional rule contempt (change the Senate), disregard for migrants' welfare
- *Paranoid features*: 0.45 — enemy-framing of opposition, threat amplification
- *Ego-syntonic sadism*: 0.20 — not strongly present in this post

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Propaganda techniques:**
- **Dehumanization**: "most vicious and dangerous people on earth" — applied categorically to an entire demographic, not to a criminal subset. This is the definitional core of dehumanizing rhetoric.
- **False dichotomy**: Strong borders vs. open borders — erases the actual policy continuum
- **Strawman**: "Democrats want Open Borders" misrepresents even the ICE abolition wing of the party, let alone its mainstream
- **Appeal to fear**: Existential threat framing ("protecting our Country")
- **Hyperbole/superlative**: "most vicious and dangerous people on earth" — escalates to maximum rhetorical register
- **Collective mobilization**: "we can't let that happen!" — fuses audience identity to subject's will
- **Institutional delegitimization**: Senate rule change framed as obvious emergency necessity, implying current structure is obstructionist enemy

**Violent imagery**: Present (implied through "vicious and dangerous" framing of immigrant population)
**Dehumanizing language**: Yes — categorical, sweeping, applied to an entire group
**Stochastic terrorism indicators**: The structural triad is present — *target group identified* (immigrants entering at border), *threat amplification* (categorically most dangerous humans on earth), *urgency imperative* ("we can't let that happen") — which creates ambient pressure for individual actors without explicit incitement.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **False attribution at scale**: Characterizing the Democratic Party as uniformly seeking "open borders" — a term no major Democratic official used to describe their own position
- **Overgeneralization as reality claim**: The ICE abolition movement (a genuine 2018 progressive phenomenon, AOC-era) is presented as the entire party's platform
- **Epistemic closure mechanism**: Accepting "Democrats = open borders" becomes a loyalty marker for in-group; rejection of the claim marks one as naive or complicit

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## Cognitive Status Markers

- **"that our protecting"**: Homophonic substitution (our/are) — a common fast-typing production error, not indicative of semantic paraphasia or word-finding difficulty
- **Syntax**: Simple, declarative, consistent with established baseline
- **Complexity**: Low (estimated 6th–8th grade Flesch-Kincaid equivalent) — consistent with documented Trump baseline, no deviation
- **Baseline deviation**: None
- **Confabulation/temporal confusion**: Absent

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Democrats want Open Borders" | **False** | No major Democratic Party official or platform document in 2018 explicitly advocated 'open borders.' The term was used by critics, not self-applied by Democrats. Mainstream Democratic positions centered on comprehensive immigration reform, DACA protection, and opposition to family separation — not elimination of borders. |
| "Democrats want to abolish ICE" | **Half True** | A visible progressive cohort — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (nominated June 2018), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (briefly), and activist organizations — did call for abolishing ICE following the family separation crisis. However, this was explicitly not the position of House/Senate Democratic leadership (Pelosi, Schumer), making the attribution to 'Democrats' as a whole a significant overgeneralization. |
| "Immigrants entering through the border are 'some of the most vicious and dangerous people on earth'" | **Mostly False** | Multiple studies (Cato Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Texas DPS data analysis) consistently find that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — are incarcerated at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The characterization of the immigrant population as categorically among the most dangerous humans globally is not supported by crime data. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED**

The combination of categorical dehumanization of a non-citizen population, scapegoating of Democratic opposition as their enablers, and urgent action-imperative framing ("we can't let that happen") constitutes a structurally stochastic terrorism pattern. While no specific individual is named and no explicit violence is called for, the rhetorical architecture — identify a threatening sub-human group, name their political protectors, declare emergency — is well-documented as precursor rhetoric that can motivate violence by autonomous actors who internalize the framing as permission. The all-encompassing "most vicious and dangerous people on earth" characterization leaves no ideological space for the humanity of the targeted group.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Homophonic typo: 'that our protecting' (our/are substitution)
- Missing space before 'Also' ('happen!Also') — unedited keystroke artifact
- ALL CAPS 'STRONG' — characteristic Trump emphasis pattern
- Colloquial dismissal 'Sorry, we can't let that happen!' — stylistic signature
- 9:41 AM EDT (business hours reduces confidence slightly)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Pre-midterm political mobilization; possible ambient anxiety displacement from Manafort trial proceedings)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

Cognitive Markers:
- phonemic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective identity fusion ('we can't let that happen')
- Audience as heroic in-group defending nation from existential threat
- Enemy scapegoating to generate shared threat response

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Categorical dehumanization: immigrants described as 'some of the most vicious and dangerous people on earth' — no sub-categorization, applied to entire demographic
- Structural stochastic terrorism triad: target group identified (immigrants) + threat maximally amplified + action urgency imperative ('we can't let that happen')
- Democratic opposition cast as active enablers of existential criminal threat — creates domestic enemy framing that can motivate hostility toward political opponents
- Language removes ideological space for immigrant humanity, normalizing eliminationist sentiment toward a population group

### Gaslighting

- 'Democrats want Open Borders' — attributes to the entire Democratic Party a position explicitly rejected by its mainstream leadership
- ICE abolition (minority progressive position) presented as uniform Democratic party platform — collapses the actual spectrum of Democratic views
- Framing acceptance of 'open borders = Democrats' characterization as obvious truth functions as epistemic loyalty test for in-group

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Democrats want Open Borders

**FALSE**

No major Democratic Party official or platform document in 2018 explicitly advocated 'open borders.' The term was used by critics, not self-applied by Democrats. Mainstream Democratic positions centered on comprehensive immigration reform, DACA protection, and opposition to family separation — not elimination of borders.

Sources: 2018 Democratic Party platform positions; Congressional Democratic leadership statements on immigration

> Democrats want to abolish ICE

**HALF TRUE**

A visible progressive cohort — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (nominated June 2018), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (briefly), and activist organizations — did call for abolishing ICE following the family separation crisis. However, this was explicitly not the position of House/Senate Democratic leadership (Pelosi, Schumer), making the attribution to 'Democrats' as a whole a significant overgeneralization.

Sources: AOC campaign statements, June 2018; Sen. Gillibrand retraction of ICE abolition position; Pelosi and Schumer statements opposing ICE abolition

> Immigrants entering through the border are 'some of the most vicious and dangerous people on earth'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Multiple studies (Cato Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Texas DPS data analysis) consistently find that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — are incarcerated at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The characterization of the immigrant population as categorically among the most dangerous humans globally is not supported by crime data.

Sources: Cato Institute immigration crime studies; National Academy of Sciences 2015 report on immigration and crime

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- immigration (100%)
- ICE (90%)
- dehumanization (95%)
- splitting (85%)
- Democrats_as_enemy (90%)
- false_dichotomy (80%)
- appeal_to_fear (85%)
- midterm_mobilization (75%)
- stochastic_terrorism_structure (80%)
- grandiose_narcissism (70%)
- authentic_authorship (78%)
- border_security (85%)

## That day

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

**Manafort Trial Deflection Day: Projection, Repetition, and Dehumanization on Loop**

Trump spent the day deflecting from damaging Manafort trial testimony by recycling his strongest political talking points — immigration fearmongering, economic boasting, and a full projection of the Russia collusion narrative onto Clinton and Democrats. The mood was predominantly grandiose, with a brief flash of defensive anger when directly addressing the Russia investigation. He posted the same immigration attack — complete with the same grammatical error — twice in one day, eight hours apart, and also duplicated a Kansas endorsement. The most concerning pattern was the repeated dehumanization of immigrants as "the most vicious and dangerous people on earth," language that appeared across four posts throughout the day.

Full digest for 2018-08-06: https://trump.fm/date/2018-08-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, August 6). Democrats want Open Borders and they want to... [Deleted social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1026584029318078500
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Democrats want Open Borders and they want to abolish ICE,..." X (Twitter), 6 Aug. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1026584029318078500. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Democrats want Open Borders and they want to abolish ICE,...," X (Twitter), August 6, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1026584029318078500.

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