# Post x_1315618688612159500

- Post ID: `x_1315618688612159500`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-10-12T15:41:53.000Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS. Get them FBI, and get them now! https://t.co/RI9fH6sC1g

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T15:44:34.957Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On October 12, 2020 — the same day as his first post-COVID campaign rally — Trump posted a cluster of escalating Portland-focused tweets culminating in this explicit command to federal law enforcement: "Get them FBI, and get them now!" The post exhibits a complete stochastic terrorism structure: target identification (individuals in linked video), dehumanizing labeling ("Biden fools," "ANTIFA RADICALS"), and explicit call to action directed at a federal agency. The false attribution "Biden fools" performs ideological branding — constructing a fictitious organizational link between Biden and protesters that followers are required to accept. Critically, the post was published on the same day the FBI announced the arrests of 13 right-wing militia members for plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer. Trump's simultaneous silence on right-wing domestic terrorism and aggression toward left-wing protesters reveals paranoid-narcissistic threat filtering: allied violence is invisible, ideological enemy movement is existential. Defense mechanisms include splitting, projection, distortion, and acting out. Authorship is authentically Trump despite business-hour timing — style, register, and impulsive command structure are inconsistent with aide-drafted content. Post-COVID grandiosity (mild hypomanic indicators) is present. Cognitive markers are within baseline. Danger level is rated HIGH: a sitting president directing federal law enforcement against specific named targets via social media, using dehumanizing language, in a sustained escalating pattern across multiple posts.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Tweet — October 12, 2020

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 15:41 = 11:41 AM Eastern. Trump was in Sanford, FL for his first post-COVID rally that day. Whether in Florida (11:41 AM ET) or the NY/DC orbit, this is squarely business hours — the *only* indicator pointing toward aide-assisted authorship. Against that: every stylistic element is unmistakably authentic Trump. The imperative command structure ("Get them FBI, and get them now!"), ALL CAPS labeling, noun-stacking insults ("Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS."), the telegraphic brevity, and the emotional reactivity all match his most unfiltered voice. Aides write announcements; Trump writes commands. **Assessment: authentic**, likely dashed off between rally prep or during media consumption. Confidence: high.

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## Psychological State and Triggers

**Context is critical here.** On the same day, Trump returned to mass rallying just 10 days post-COVID hospitalization, telling thousands he felt "powerful." The surrounding tweets show a man in sustained activation: he posted multiple Portland protest videos in sequence, each with escalating hostility ("Put these animals in jail, now" in one prior post). This tweet is the apex of that sequence — the command to law enforcement.

**Narcissistic trigger:** Exposure to video content of protesters (linked URL), likely framed as threatening or disrespectful to authority, triggered a dominance-display response. The warrior is not defending himself here — he is commanding armies. Post-COVID grandiosity (the "Don't be afraid of Covid" affect) is still present.

**Paranoid features:** The linguistic fusion "Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS." performs a crucial ideological move — it conflates the political opponent (Biden) with a designated enemy group (ANTIFA), constructing a unified conspiratorial threat. This is not rhetorical carelessness; it is structurally paranoid: enemies are networked, coordinated, and exist to harm.

**Critical contextual irony:** The FBI had *just* announced the arrest of 13 right-wing militia members for plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. Trump's simultaneous command to "Get them FBI" against left-wing protesters in Portland, while saying nothing about the Whitmer plot, reveals a highly asymmetric application of law-enforcement authority — ordered against ideological enemies, silent on ideological allies. This asymmetry is a paranoid-narcissistic signature.

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## Defense Mechanisms

- **Splitting (immature):** Reality is binary: Biden/ANTIFA = radical enemy; Trump/law enforcement = righteous order. No complexity is admitted.
- **Projection (immature):** In the same news cycle, a terror plot by right-wing actors against a Democratic governor was announced. Trump projects the "violent radical" label entirely onto the left while producing no response to the right-wing terrorism.
- **Distortion (pathological):** Labeling protesters "Biden fools" and "ANTIFA RADICALS" without evidence in the tweet itself distorts their identity to serve a political-emotional need.
- **Acting Out (immature):** The command "Get them FBI, and get them now!" is a direct expression of dominance impulse, bypassing deliberation — the president of the United States issuing an emotional order on social media to a federal law enforcement agency.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Dehumanization:** "fools" and "RADICALS" function as dehumanizing labels stripping subjects of individual identity. In adjacent posts, Trump uses "animals" for the same individuals.
- **False attribution:** "Biden fools" performs political branding — making protesters into extensions of the opposing candidate, weaponizing their actions against him.
- **Imperative command rhetoric:** "Get them FBI, and get them now!" positions Trump as sovereign authority over law enforcement, treating it as personal instrument. The urgency ("now!") signals that normal institutional process is too slow for his standard.
- **Staccato punctuation rhythm:** Three short declarative units separated by periods create a drumbeat effect — certainty, authority, finality.
- **ALL CAPS emphasis:** "ANTIFA RADICALS" — capitals signal maximal threat-framing for the audience.

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## Danger Assessment

**Rating: HIGH.**

This post exhibits the canonical stochastic terrorism structure:
1. **Target identification:** Specific individuals in the linked video, labeled and demonized ("ANTIFA RADICALS," "Biden fools").
2. **Grievance articulation:** Connection to political enemy (Biden), ideological framing (ANTIFA = existential radical threat).
3. **Call to action:** Explicit directive — "Get them FBI, and get them now!" — issued by a sitting president to a federal law enforcement agency.

Even if no individual acts on this, the pattern of a head of state directing federal police against named targets via social media — using dehumanizing language — is a documented precursor pattern to state-sanctioned persecution. The "now" is not metaphorical; it is an urgency signal that bypasses due process framing entirely. Followers reading this receive permission to view these individuals as legitimate targets deserving federal enforcement action. The adjacent post's "Put these animals in jail, now" compounds the danger signal.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

**Protagonist role:** Warrior/Sovereign — the only figure willing to *command* order while lesser leaders ("very dumb leadership fools") fail. He is not requesting FBI action; he is *ordering* it.

**Contrasting other:** Biden = symbol of permissive disorder, whose "fools" are unleashed on civilization.

**Archetypal configuration:** Warrior + King/Tyrant hybrid. The Warrior fights chaos agents; the Tyrant deploys institutional power against personal enemies. Both are active here. The Hero/Savior undertone: only Trump will restore order. Portland burns because he is not yet in full command.

**Redemption narrative active:** The post-COVID "return" (rally on the same day) scripts as a literal resurrection — he survived the plague and returned to fight. The surrounding tweet cluster reads as a triumphant return to battle.

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## Cognitive Status

Language is consistent with baseline: short declarative sentences, emotional vocabulary, simple syntax, no word-finding anomalies. The telegraphic style ("These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS.") is longstanding pattern, not deterioration. No phonemic or semantic paraphasias. No temporal confusion. Coherence is maintained at the level this register targets. No deviation from baseline warranting clinical concern in this specific post.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Protesters are 'Biden fools' — connected to/representative of Biden" | **Mostly False** | ANTIFA has no organizational affiliation with Biden or the Democratic Party. Biden publicly and repeatedly condemned violence and ANTIFA throughout the 2020 campaign. |
| "Individuals in video are 'ANTIFA RADICALS'" | **Unverifiable** | ANTIFA is not a membership organization. The label is frequently applied to any left-wing street protesters. Without viewing the linked content it is impossible to assess whether even self-identification with ANTIFA was present. |
| "Implicit claim that FBI should immediately arrest the individuals shown" | **Unverifiable** | Depends entirely on what conduct, if any, was captured in the linked video and applicable law. The post provides no factual basis for the arrest demand. |

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Summary

This post is a high-danger example of a sitting president using social media to direct federal law enforcement against politically labeled individuals in real time. The stochastic terrorism structure — target + dehumanizing label + explicit command to act — is complete and unambiguous. The post emerges from a sustained activation state: Trump returned to mass rallying 10 days post-COVID, held a Sanford, FL rally on this same date, and posted a cluster of Portland-focused rage tweets in sequence, escalating to this command. The paranoid conflation of "Biden" with "ANTIFA" — while the FBI simultaneously announced the Whitmer kidnapping plot by right-wing militia — reveals a deeply asymmetric application of threat perception, consistent with paranoid narcissistic filtering: allied violence is invisible, enemy movement is existential. Splitting, projection, and distortion are the dominant defenses. Authorship is authentically Trump — the style, register, and acting-out quality are inconsistent with aide-written content despite the business-hour timing. Cognitive markers are within baseline. The post represents the warrior-tyrant archetype in activated form, weaponizing institutional authority as personal dominance instrument.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis (ANTIFA RADICALS)
- Imperative command structure without institutional framing
- Staccato noun-insult stacking (Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS.)
- Emotional reactivity consistent with real-time media consumption
- Part of a multi-tweet reactive cluster posted in sequence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Video of left-wing protesters in Portland, framed as disorder enabled by political opponent)

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting Portland protesters labeled as ANTIFA/Biden affiliates
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.82

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Post-COVID 'resurrection' grandiosity (same day rally after hospitalization)
- Rapid sequential posting cluster (multiple Portland tweets escalating to FBI command)
- Decreased inhibition — commanding federal law enforcement via tweet without institutional framing
- Elevated energy consistent with rally-day activation

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Commanding 'we' stance positioning followers as part of law-enforcement order
- Validating audience fear of ANTIFA as existential threat
- Performing strength/dominance for post-COVID return narrative

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Sitting president directing named federal law enforcement agency against specific individuals shown in linked video
- Explicit command urgency ('now!') bypassing due process framing
- Dehumanizing labels ('fools,' 'radicals') applied to command targets
- Stochastic terrorism structure complete: target identification + grievance articulation + call to action
- Adjacent post uses 'animals' for same targets — dehumanization escalation pattern
- Asymmetric application of law enforcement: silent on same-day Whitmer kidnapping plot (right-wing), aggressive on Portland protesters (left-wing)
- Pattern of repeated Portland tweets suggests sustained fixation on specific target population

### Gaslighting

- 'Biden fools' — falsely attributes organizational connection between Biden and protesters, manufacturing false reality
- Frames ANTIFA as Biden-affiliated without evidence, inverting actual political relationships
- Implicit reality distortion: Biden is pro-violence/disorder, requiring followers to accept false causal chain as membership test

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Protesters are 'Biden fools' — connected to/representative of Biden

**MOSTLY FALSE**

ANTIFA has no organizational affiliation with Biden or the Democratic Party. Biden publicly and repeatedly condemned violence and ANTIFA throughout the 2020 campaign.

Sources: General knowledge — Biden public statements on ANTIFA and violence, summer-fall 2020

> Individuals in video are 'ANTIFA RADICALS'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

ANTIFA is not a membership organization. The label is frequently applied to any left-wing street protesters. Without viewing the linked content it is impossible to assess whether even self-identification with ANTIFA was present.

> Implicit claim that FBI should immediately arrest the individuals shown

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Depends entirely on what conduct, if any, was captured in the linked video and applicable law. The post provides no factual basis for the arrest demand.

Overall Veracity: 40%

## Tags

- stochastic_terrorism (92%)
- dehumanization (85%)
- paranoid_splitting (88%)
- command_rhetoric (90%)
- false_attribution (82%)
- post_covid_grandiosity (65%)
- asymmetric_law_enforcement (88%)
- authentic_authorship (82%)
- warrior_archetype (85%)
- epistemic_closure (78%)

## That day

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

**The King Returns: Post-COVID Rally Day Unleashes 44-Post Grandiose Blitz with Stochastic Terrorism Cluster**

Trump's first day back on the campaign trail after his COVID hospitalization was a marathon of 44 posts dominated by triumphant energy and economic boasting. The most alarming stretch came late morning, when a rapid-fire cluster of Portland-focused posts escalated from name-calling to dehumanization ("animals") to directly commanding the FBI to arrest protesters — all on the same day the FBI announced arrests in the Whitmer kidnapping plot. He toggled between claiming he was "leading by a lot" and warning the election was "rigged," a contradiction that would define the next three months. The overall mood was a man riding a post-illness adrenaline high, posting past 2:30 AM, flooding the zone with stock market celebrations, and projecting invincibility heading into his Sanford, Florida rally.

Full digest for 2020-10-12: https://trump.fm/date/2020-10-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, October 12). These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS. Get them... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1315618688612159500
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS. Get them FBI, and..." X (Twitter), 12 Oct. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1315618688612159500. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS. Get them FBI, and...," X (Twitter), October 12, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1315618688612159500.

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