# Post x_871675245043888128

- Post ID: `x_871675245043888128`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-06-05T10:29:08.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_871675245043888128.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.

## Engagement

- Likes: 72,427
- Reposts: 15,606
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.389Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T13:19:40.723Z (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 post is clinically significant not for cognitive markers but for its self-defeating quality — a sitting president publicly undermining his own DOJ's legal strategy while their case was pending before the Supreme Court. Trump's legal team was arguing the revised ban was a neutral national security measure, not a discriminatory "Muslim ban." By calling it a "watered down, politically correct version" of his original, Trump handed ammunition to opposing counsel and multiple courts later cited his tweets as evidence of discriminatory intent. The post reveals narcissistic grandiosity overriding strategic self-interest: the need to assert his original instinct was correct outweighed the practical consequences. The London Bridge attack two days prior activated this dynamic — the attack validated his worldview, but the ban's legal defeats contradicted his sense of omnipotence, creating a narcissistic injury he resolved by splitting (my vision = strong, DOJ's version = weak) and displacement (anger at courts redirected to his own team). The framing of legal prudence as "political correctness" reflects characteristic anti-intellectualism and the strongman archetype. The elevated danger rating reflects not violent rhetoric but the systematic delegitimization of legal institutions and rule of law by the head of the executive branch.

## Psychological Analysis: Travel Ban Critique of Own DOJ

### Context
This post was published at 6:29 AM ET (Trump was in Washington, DC), part of a morning tweetstorm about the travel ban following the London Bridge attack. The previous posts show an escalating pattern: sympathy → politicization of attack → anti-PC rhetoric → explicit "TRAVEL BAN" declaration → this post criticizing his own Justice Department.

### Authorship
Early morning timing (6:29 AM ET), emotional reactivity, criticism of his own administration's legal team, and informal tone all point strongly to authentic Trump. This is classic reactive morning tweeting.

### Psychological Dynamics
This post is remarkable for publicly undermining his own DOJ's legal strategy while their case was pending before the Supreme Court. The phrase "watered down, politically correct version" reveals several dynamics:

1. **Splitting**: The "original" ban is idealized; the revised version is devalued as weak
2. **Externalization of failure**: The courts blocked HIS ban, but blame is displaced onto DOJ for making it "politically correct"
3. **Grandiosity vs. reality**: He implies his original instinct was correct and lawyers ruined it

The post directly contradicted his legal team's argument that the revised ban was NOT a "Muslim ban" — his own lawyers were arguing it wasn't discriminatory, while he was calling it watered down.

### Rhetorical Analysis
Uses contrast framing (original vs. watered down), the pejorative "politically correct" to frame legal prudence as weakness, and positions himself as the strong leader restrained by weak advisors.

### Danger Assessment
The post itself contains no violent rhetoric, but the pattern of undermining rule of law and legal process is notable.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DOJ submitted a watered down version of the travel ban to the Supreme Court" | **Mostly True** | The revised Executive Order 13780 narrowed the original EO 13769 by removing Iraq from the list, exempting green card holders and existing visa holders, and removing the explicit minority religion preference. DOJ did file this revised version with the Supreme Court. 'Watered down' is Trump's characterization but the revisions were substantive. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### Indicators

- 6:29 AM ET early morning posting
- Emotional reactivity criticizing own administration
- Informal stream-of-consciousness style
- Strategically self-sabotaging (no aide would undermine DOJ's legal case)
- Part of rapid-fire tweetstorm

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Courts blocking travel ban; London attack validating his position while ban remains enjoined)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Department of Justice / own legal team
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.60

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Part of rapid early-morning tweetstorm
- Impulsive posting that damages own legal interests

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- positioning self as strong leader restrained by weak bureaucrats
- inviting audience to share frustration at 'political correctness'

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- President delegitimizing own DOJ and legal process
- Pattern of undermining judicial authority and rule of law

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-11._

> DOJ submitted a watered down version of the travel ban to the Supreme Court

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The revised Executive Order 13780 narrowed the original EO 13769 by removing Iraq from the list, exempting green card holders and existing visa holders, and removing the explicit minority religion preference. DOJ did file this revised version with the Supreme Court. 'Watered down' is Trump's characterization but the revisions were substantive.

Sources: Known events: DOJ Appeals Travel Ban to Supreme Court

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- travel-ban (100%)
- self-sabotage (90%)
- undermining-institutions (80%)
- political-correctness (70%)
- london-bridge-response (50%)

## That day

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

**Trump Sabotages Own Supreme Court Travel Ban Case in Self-Defeating Dawn Tweet Storm**

Trump woke up angry and spent the early morning firing off posts about the travel ban, publicly calling it exactly that — the one term his own lawyers were desperately avoiding in their Supreme Court arguments. He attacked his Justice Department's legal strategy as "watered down" and went after London's mayor by twisting his post-attack comments out of context. The day's rage gradually faded into routine staff-written policy announcements about veterans and air traffic control by late afternoon.

Full digest for 2017-06-05: https://trump.fm/date/2017-06-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, June 5). The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original..." X (Twitter), 5 Jun. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original...," X (Twitter), June 5, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128.

## For agents

- Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt
- API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth)
- This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/x_871675245043888128
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_871675245043888128
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_871675245043888128
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2017-06-05
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_871675245043888128.md?analysis=false

_Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._