# Post x_370635049508429824

- Post ID: `x_370635049508429824`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-22T19:54:16.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> If Stop & Frisk is struck down by the pandering NYC politicians, increases in crime & eventual terrorist attacks will be on them.

## Engagement

- Likes: 50
- Reposts: 91
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T20:07:07.935Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted 10 days after Judge Scheindlin's landmark ruling that Stop and Frisk violated constitutional protections, this post illustrates a pattern that will become structurally central to Trump's political communications: preemptive blame assignment, fear escalation, and enemy identification via a contamination narrative. The post misattributes the ruling to "pandering NYC politicians" (it was a federal court decision; Mayor Bloomberg was defending the program), then escalates from crime to terrorism via an unfalsifiable causal chain. Subsequent empirical data directly falsified Trump's prediction: NYC crime continued to fall as Stop and Frisk was curtailed. Psychologically, the post reflects high agency motivation (seizing narrative control before events unfold), splitting (pro-Frisk = safety / anti-Frisk = pandering), paranoid threat schema, and the grandiose certainty of the knowing prophet role. The "will be on them" formula establishes retrospective interpretive authority — any future crime becomes partial vindication. The terrorism escalation in service of a policing debate is disproportionate to actual stakes and maximally leverages post-9/11 and post-Boston bombing fear. Danger level is elevated: the post articulates the early structure of a "traitor class" responsible for anticipated violence — a rhetorical template that will intensify significantly in subsequent years. Authorship is probable authentic Trump, though 3:54 PM EDT timing (business hours) introduces modest aide-involvement possibility.

## Psychological Analysis: Stop & Frisk Twitter Post — August 22, 2013

### Authorship Attribution

The post was published at **19:54 UTC / 3:54 PM EDT** on August 22, 2013. Same-day tweets about Trump Tower's 30th anniversary place Trump almost certainly at or near **Trump Tower, Midtown Manhattan** on this date — solidly in business hours, which weakly suggests potential aide involvement. However, multiple stylistic indicators argue for authentic Trump: the dismissive "pandering" label, the clipped rhetorical cadence, the characteristic preemptive blame-assignment formula ("will be on them"), and the escalation from proximate danger (crime) to existential threat (terrorism) — a rhetorical signature that recurs throughout his documented authentic posts. Absence of typos is a mild counter-indicator. Balance of evidence: **probable authentic Trump**, medium confidence.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Stop and Frisk is being struck down by pandering NYC politicians" | **Mostly False** | Stop and Frisk was struck down by Federal District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin in Floyd v. City of New York (August 12, 2013) — a federal judicial ruling, not a politician's decision. Mayor Bloomberg was actively defending the program and mounting an appeal. The 'pandering NYC politicians' framing misidentifies both the responsible actor and the direction of political pressure. |
| "Ending Stop and Frisk will lead to increases in crime" | **False** | After Stop and Frisk was curtailed beginning in 2013 and formally ended in 2014, NYC crime continued its long-term decline. Murders fell to 291 in 2014 — the lowest total since the 1950s. The Brennan Center for Justice found no statistical relationship between stop-and-frisk reductions and crime increases. |
| "Ending Stop and Frisk will eventually lead to terrorist attacks" | **Unverifiable** | No causal mechanism between Stop and Frisk policing and terrorism prevention was established in the post or in available research. The claim functions as rhetorical escalation rather than evidence-based prediction. Counter-terrorism and street crime deterrence are operationally distinct functions. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Post time 3:54 PM EDT (business hours) — weak indicator for aide involvement
- Dismissive 'pandering' label is characteristic authentic Trump vocabulary
- Preemptive blame formula 'will be on them' recurs in documented authentic posts
- Fear escalation structure (crime → terrorism) is a Trump rhetorical signature
- Same-day Trump Tower anniversary tweets confirm NYC location and active personal Twitter use

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Floyd v. City of New York ruling (August 12, 2013) and NYC mayoral race debate over Stop and Frisk)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared threat framing — audience implicitly positioned alongside Trump as those who 'see' the danger that politicians ignore
- prophet credentialing — establishing predictive authority for future exploitation when crime events occur
- moral outrage invitation — 'pandering' frames politicians as betrayers the audience should resent

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Preemptive moral responsibility assigned to named class of political actors for anticipated terrorist violence
- Terrorism prediction used as rhetorical weapon against policy opponents without causal evidentiary basis
- Early articulation of 'traitor class' responsible for future harm — a rhetorical template with documented escalation potential
- Fear escalation ladder (crime → terrorism) disproportionate to actual policy stakes

### Gaslighting

- Attributes court ruling to 'pandering NYC politicians' — misidentifying the federal judiciary as politicians to make the decision appear politically illegitimate
- Dismisses documented racial profiling findings (basis of constitutional ruling) by framing opponents as merely 'pandering', erasing the civil rights evidentiary record

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._

> Stop and Frisk is being struck down by pandering NYC politicians

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Stop and Frisk was struck down by Federal District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin in Floyd v. City of New York (August 12, 2013) — a federal judicial ruling, not a politician's decision. Mayor Bloomberg was actively defending the program and mounting an appeal. The 'pandering NYC politicians' framing misidentifies both the responsible actor and the direction of political pressure.

Sources: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/landmark-decision-judge-rules-nypd-stop-and-frisk-practices; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_v._City_of_New_York

> Ending Stop and Frisk will lead to increases in crime

**FALSE**

After Stop and Frisk was curtailed beginning in 2013 and formally ended in 2014, NYC crime continued its long-term decline. Murders fell to 291 in 2014 — the lowest total since the 1950s. The Brennan Center for Justice found no statistical relationship between stop-and-frisk reductions and crime increases.

Sources: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ending-new-yorks-stop-and-frisk-did-not-increase-crime; https://eji.org/news/new-york-crime-falls-as-police-end-stop-and-frisk/

> Ending Stop and Frisk will eventually lead to terrorist attacks

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No causal mechanism between Stop and Frisk policing and terrorism prevention was established in the post or in available research. The claim functions as rhetorical escalation rather than evidence-based prediction. Counter-terrorism and street crime deterrence are operationally distinct functions.

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- Stop and Frisk (100%)
- preemptive blame (90%)
- fear escalation (85%)
- knowing prophet narrative (80%)
- enemy identification (75%)
- terrorism rhetoric (80%)
- contamination narrative (70%)
- law and order schema (85%)

## That day

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

**A Proto-Campaign Day: Fan Q&A, Birther Victory Laps, and the Quiet Emergence of "Make America Great Again"**

Trump spent a busy day cycling between adoring fan interactions and aggressive political positioning. An evening Q&A session gave way to morning media management -- denying coordination with Roger Ailes -- before an afternoon of heavier political combat including attacks on Anthony Weiner, defense of Stop and Frisk, and a triple-burst of birther claims repackaging a conspiracy campaign as heroic achievement. The most historically notable moment was a casual, almost offhand use of "making America great again" two full years before his campaign launch, suggesting the narrative was already deeply internalized. The mood was overwhelmingly self-assured, with brief flashes of grievance when critics surfaced.

Full digest for 2013-08-22: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 22). If Stop & Frisk is struck down by the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_370635049508429824
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If Stop & Frisk is struck down by the pandering NYC..." X (Twitter), 22 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370635049508429824. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "If Stop & Frisk is struck down by the pandering NYC...," X (Twitter), August 22, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370635049508429824.

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