# Post x_667736232831680512

- Post ID: `x_667736232831680512`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-11-20T16:08:18.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_667736232831680512
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_667736232831680512/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_667736232831680512.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Under our President, ISIS is gaining great strength- https://t.co/28VsmV8xng

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,624
- Reposts: 1,803
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.340Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-08T08:24:53.585Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "Under our President, ISIS is gaining great strength"

Brief post attributing ISIS's rise to Obama, posted during the post-Paris attacks period. The linked content likely references a news article about ISIS gains. This is a standard political attack leveraging the heightened fear environment following the November 13 Paris attacks.

### Timing & Authorship
Posted 11:08 AM ET (Trump traveling to South Carolina per earlier post). Business hours, concise, grammatically correct, includes a link — consistent with aide-assisted posting, though the content aligns with Trump's ongoing messaging.

### Psychological Context
This fits within a cluster of ISIS-related posts on this date, all positioning Trump as the voice of strength against a weak incumbent. The framing is simple: Obama is responsible for ISIS growth. This is classic opposition rhetoric amplified by genuine crisis.

### Rhetorical Function
The post exploits the post-Paris fear environment to attack Obama's competence. "Our President" carries subtle distancing — technically inclusive but tonally dismissive. The link serves as evidence-anchoring, lending authority to the claim.

### Clinical Significance
Low. This is routine political messaging — attack the incumbent during a security crisis. The pattern is consistent with Trump's established approach but unremarkable in isolation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "ISIS is gaining great strength under Obama" | **Half True** | ISIS did control significant territory in 2015 and had just conducted the Paris attacks, but the US-led coalition was also conducting airstrikes and ISIS had begun losing territory in some areas. The causal attribution to Obama specifically is political opinion. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (11:08 AM ET)
- Grammatically correct
- Includes formatted link
- Concise and polished
- But content matches Trump's personal messaging themes

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Paris attacks / ISIS crisis as political opportunity)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance framing via 'our President'

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-08._

> ISIS is gaining great strength under Obama

**HALF TRUE**

ISIS did control significant territory in 2015 and had just conducted the Paris attacks, but the US-led coalition was also conducting airstrikes and ISIS had begun losing territory in some areas. The causal attribution to Obama specifically is political opinion.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- ISIS (80%)
- Obama attack (70%)
- crisis exploitation (60%)

## That day

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

**Kasich Ad Buy Triggers 13-Post Attack Salvo as Muslim Database Denial Reveals Reality Distortion Pattern**

November 20, 2015 was dominated by a sustained, perseverative attack on John Kasich, triggered by reports of a $2.5 million negative ad buy. Thirteen of the day's 31 posts targeted Kasich — a remarkably disproportionate response to a candidate polling in low single digits who posed no meaningful competitive threat. The attack cluster began at 8:04 PM ET on the evening of November 19 (01:04 UTC Nov 20) with nine posts in two minutes, escalated through a litigation threat framed as recreational sadism ("sue him just for fun"), and continued with reposted content at 1:04 AM ET — suggesting rumination and an inability to disengage from the perceived slight. The volume and velocity of this response, combined with the triviality of the trigger, represents a textbook narcissistic injury response with perseverative features.

The day's second major psychological thread was damage control around the Muslim database controversy. Two posts (x_667777348029292544 at 1:51 PM ET and x_667777348029292500 at 6:51 PM ET) deployed pathological denial of documented on-camera statements to NBC News, employing a deny-pivot-reframe structure: deny suggesting the database, blame the reporter, then pivot to broadly popular counter-terrorism framing. This DARVO-adjacent pattern — observable in its early, less-refined form — would become a signature communication strategy. The day also featured attacks on a Fox News contributor, Mayor de Blasio, and Hillary Clinton, along with ISIS-related commentary positioning the subject as a strategic authority. The overall pattern is one of reactive, multi-front combativeness sustained across a full waking day, with grandiose self-positioning as the throughline and a brief mixed-state vulnerability emerging only around the database denial.

Post frequency was notably elevated at 31 posts (including approximately 3 duplicate/repost pairs), with posting activity spanning from 8:04 PM ET (Nov 19) through 6:57 PM ET (Nov 20), including late-night activity at 1:04–1:47 AM ET. While not definitively hypomanic, the volume, velocity of the Kasich cluster, and late-night reposting behavior suggest elevated arousal and possible sleep disruption consistent with campaign-trail stress and narcissistic activation.

Full digest for 2015-11-20: https://trump.fm/date/2015-11-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, November 20). Under our President, ISIS is gaining great... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_667736232831680512
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Under our President, ISIS is gaining great strength-..." X (Twitter), 20 Nov. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_667736232831680512. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Under our President, ISIS is gaining great strength-...," X (Twitter), November 20, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_667736232831680512.

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