# Post x_1065743662464802817 - Post ID: `x_1065743662464802817` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2018-11-22T23:07:44.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1065743662464802817 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1065743662464802817/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1065743662464802817.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Our highly trained security professionals are not allowed to do their job on the Border because of the Judicial Activism and Interference by the 9th Circuit. Nevertheless, they are working hard to make America a safer place, though hard to do when anybody filing a lawsuit wins! ## Engagement - Likes: 116,801 - Reposts: 28,093 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.394Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T04:00:54.782Z (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 Thanksgiving post is the second in a rapid-fire series attacking the 9th Circuit, reflecting a perseverative narcissistic injury response to an asylum-policy injunction. Trump was confirmed at Mar-a-Lago, where he also inserted judicial grievances into his Thanksgiving troop teleconference — indicating this theme dominated his psychological space throughout the holiday, displacing normative social scripts. The post exhibits a characteristic mixed narcissistic state: grandiosity (elite, highly trained security forces) coexists with victimhood (those forces "not allowed to do their job"). Defense mechanisms include rationalization ("Judicial Activism"), immature splitting (virtuous professionals vs. all-bad courts), projection of political motivation onto the judiciary, and pathological distortion ("anybody filing a lawsuit wins"). The analytically significant feature is not the emotional content but the constitutional inversion: framing judicial review as "Interference" constructs a schema in which court orders are not legitimate legal process but hostile obstruction of national security. Sustained over time, this schema can prime followers — including law enforcement — to view non-compliance with court orders as patriotic. Danger assessment is **elevated** on that basis, not from any specific mobilization language. Authorship is likely authentic (medium confidence) based on capitalization patterns, characteristic exaggeration, perseverative structure, and holiday context reducing staff mediation. Cognitive status shows no deviation from Trump's established Twitter-era baseline. ## Analysis: Trump Tweet — November 22, 2018 (Thanksgiving Day, Mar-a-Lago) ### Authorship Attribution Posted at **6:07 PM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (UTC−5; Trump was confirmed there for Thanksgiving, per the known events re: troop teleconference). This is early evening on a holiday — neither a strong "late-night authentic" nor a "business-hours aide" signal. However, several stylometric markers favor authentic composition: characteristic capitalization of abstract nouns ("Border," "Judicial Activism," "Interference"), the idiosyncratic exaggeration "anybody filing a lawsuit wins," and the perseverative return to the 9th Circuit just minutes after the preceding tweet naming Justice Roberts. Holiday circumstances (less staff mediation) and the emotional urgency of the series reinforce authentic attribution. **Confidence: medium.** --- ### Contextual Framing This is the second of two rapid-succession Thanksgiving tweets targeting the 9th Circuit. The preceding tweet invoked Justice Roberts by name and cited a (misleading) 79% overturn statistic. Together they form a perseverative assault on judicial legitimacy — analytically significant not merely as rhetoric but as a sustained psychological preoccupation displacing the holiday's social scripts. The known event confirms Trump inserted political grievances about judges into his Thanksgiving call with troops, indicating this theme dominated his psychological space throughout the day. --- ### Psychological State & Triggers **Primary trigger:** Narcissistic injury via institutional defeat. The 9th Circuit had just enjoined Trump's asylum restriction policy. Rather than processing this as normal constitutional process, Trump frames the court as an *active attacker* against his agents — "not allowed to do their job" recasts judicial review as hostile obstruction. This is textbook paranoid misreading: the court is restraining *policy*, not preventing *people* from working. The "Nevertheless, they are working hard" pivot is psychologically revealing. It preserves the heroic narrative of his security personnel (maintaining grandiose supply) while displacing blame entirely onto external saboteurs (maintaining victimhood). This oscillation between grandiose self-presentation ("highly trained security professionals") and persecuted vulnerability ("not allowed to do their job") represents the mixed narcissistic state characteristic of post-defeat processing. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Judicial Activism and Interference" provides a pseudo-intellectual framework that delegitimizes adverse rulings while sounding principled rather than reactive. **Projection (immature):** Trump attributes political motivation ("activism") to the judiciary — the court is doing what he is actually doing: weaponizing institutional power for partisan ends. **Splitting (immature):** The post constructs a stark binary — security professionals (all-good, highly trained, working hard) versus the 9th Circuit (all-bad, activist, interfering). No complexity is permitted. **Distortion (pathological):** "Anybody filing a lawsuit wins" grossly reshapes litigation reality to match inner grievance. This is not mere hyperbole but a functional reshaping of how courts operate. --- ### Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Commander of virtuous, competent forces besieged by corrupt institutional actors. - **Contamination sequence:** Capable security apparatus → corrupted/neutralized by activist judiciary. - **Identity claims:** He is the defender of security and competence against those who weaponize process. - **Contrasting other:** "Judicial Activism" — the courts become the shadow, embodying the political manipulation he is accused of. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Loaded language:** "Judicial Activism and Interference" — emotionally primes readers to see courts as political enemies. - **False dichotomy:** American safety versus activist courts; no middle ground of legitimate legal process is acknowledged. - **Appeal to fear:** "hard to do [make America safer]" — the courts are making Americans less safe. - **Victimhood construction:** Elite security professionals helpless before litigation — inverts the actual power dynamics. - **Hyperbole as reality distortion:** "anybody filing a lawsuit wins" functions not merely as exaggeration but as a truth-claim about systemic bias. --- ### Institutional Delegitimization: Analytical Note The framing "not allowed to do their job" is clinically and politically significant beyond ordinary venting. Over a sustained period, this rhetoric constructs a schema in which court orders = political attacks on national security. This schema, transmitted to followers including law enforcement personnel, can prime non-compliance with court orders as *patriotic resistance* rather than contempt. The danger is not this tweet in isolation but its role in a long-running legitimacy-destruction campaign targeting the judiciary. --- ### Cognitive Status No notable deviations from established baseline. Language production is intact, emotionally driven but syntactically coherent. The perseveration on the 9th Circuit across multiple tweets is more consistent with obsessive grievance processing than with any language-production disorder. Complexity is below Trump's 1980s–90s baseline (shorter constructions, simpler vocabulary) but consistent with his established Twitter-era register. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Security professionals are not allowed to do their job on the Border because of the 9th Circuit" | **Mostly False** | Courts issued targeted injunctions against specific asylum restriction policies, not blanket operational prohibitions on border enforcement personnel. CBP and Border Patrol continued normal enforcement operations. | | "Anybody filing a lawsuit wins" | **False** | Courts regularly rule against plaintiffs including those challenging executive border policies. Multiple challenges to Trump immigration policies were dismissed or ruled in the administration's favor. | | "The 9th Circuit is overturned more than any other Circuit (implicitly invoked via same-day preceding tweet)" | **Mostly False** | The 79% figure refers to SCOTUS reversal rate for 9th Circuit cases the Court chose to hear — a highly selected sample. SCOTUS takes cases specifically to correct lower courts, creating severe selection bias. The figure does not reflect overall 9th Circuit accuracy across all cases decided. | Overall Veracity: 13% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Characteristic capitalization of abstract nouns: 'Border,' 'Judicial Activism,' 'Interference' - Authentic Trumpian exaggeration: 'anybody filing a lawsuit wins' - Post is second in a rapid perseverative series on same grievance topic - Holiday timing reduces staff mediation - Emotional urgency and personal investment consistent with authentic composition ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (9th Circuit injunction against asylum restriction policy) **Rage:** Intensity 58% targeting 9th Circuit / federal judiciary - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Multiple rapid-fire tweets on same topic across single holiday morning - Political grievance processing displacing holiday social scripts entirely - Heightened urgency and affect inconsistent with Thanksgiving occasion - Troop Thanksgiving call was used to vent political grievances about courts — inability to modulate context ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 38% - Paranoid: 68% - Sadism: 12% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers into shared victimhood: 'we' are being stopped from protecting 'you' - Positions audience as beneficiaries of security professionals being obstructed on their behalf - Creates in-group of those who understand the 'rigged' legal system ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Sustained delegitimization of judicial authority by framing court orders as obstruction of security mission - 'Not allowed to do their job' constructs schema in which non-compliance with court orders could be framed as patriotic duty - Second in a series of same-day attacks on judicial legitimacy — pattern amplifies delegitimization effect - Frames courts as threat to national safety, inverting constitutional roles ### Gaslighting - 'Not allowed to do their job' denies the constitutional legitimacy of judicial review, reframing court orders as political sabotage - Frames adverse legal rulings as 'Interference' — implies courts are acting outside their proper role when they are performing their core constitutional function - DARVO pattern: courts protecting individual rights are repositioned as attackers against national security ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Security professionals are not allowed to do their job on the Border because of the 9th Circuit **MOSTLY FALSE** Courts issued targeted injunctions against specific asylum restriction policies, not blanket operational prohibitions on border enforcement personnel. CBP and Border Patrol continued normal enforcement operations. Sources: General knowledge: scope of 9th Circuit asylum injunctions, Nov 2018 > Anybody filing a lawsuit wins **FALSE** Courts regularly rule against plaintiffs including those challenging executive border policies. Multiple challenges to Trump immigration policies were dismissed or ruled in the administration's favor. Sources: General knowledge: federal litigation statistics and outcomes > The 9th Circuit is overturned more than any other Circuit (implicitly invoked via same-day preceding tweet) **MOSTLY FALSE** The 79% figure refers to SCOTUS reversal rate for 9th Circuit cases the Court chose to hear — a highly selected sample. SCOTUS takes cases specifically to correct lower courts, creating severe selection bias. The figure does not reflect overall 9th Circuit accuracy across all cases decided. Sources: General knowledge: SCOTUS certiorari selection process and circuit reversal statistics Overall Veracity: 13% ## Tags - judicial-delegitimization (92%) - 9th-circuit (88%) - narcissistic-injury (80%) - border-security (75%) - perseveration (70%) - splitting (72%) - rule-of-law-erosion (68%) - thanksgiving-2018 (50%) - mixed-narcissistic-state (65%) - institutional-attack (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Thanksgiving Hijacked: Holiday Pleasantries Drowned by Judicial Rage and Saudi Apologia** Trump spent Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago in a restless, combative mood that repeatedly overrode the holiday spirit. Chief Justice Roberts' rebuke over Trump's dismissal of judicial independence clearly stung — he returned to it three separate times across the day, at one point warning of "bedlam, chaos, injury and death" if courts kept blocking his border agenda. He also defended the Saudi relationship in purely transactional terms without once mentioning Khashoggi, and bookended the day with climate-science mockery tied to cold weather. The overall picture was a holiday hijacked by grievance, with ceremonial duties serving as brief intermissions between rounds of institutional attack. Full digest for 2018-11-22: https://trump.fm/date/2018-11-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, November 22). Our highly trained security professionals are not... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1065743662464802817 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Our highly trained security professionals are not allowed..." X (Twitter), 22 Nov. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1065743662464802817. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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