# Post x_946210723528572930

- Post ID: `x_946210723528572930`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-12-28T02:46:30.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_946210723528572930
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_946210723528572930/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_946210723528572930.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump”
> https://t.co/70iPHy2Yqn

## Engagement

- Likes: 84,867
- Reposts: 21,176
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.384Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-13T19:16:08.528Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** 9:46 PM EST (Mar-a-Lago, Florida). Falls within the authentic late-evening posting window. However, the post's structure — a verbatim headline in quotation marks followed by a bare URL with zero editorial voice — is unusually passive for Trump's authentic register. Multiple adjacent posts in this holiday period share this identical template, suggesting possible aide curation of content with minimal or no personal editorial input. **Authorship: ambiguous; medium confidence.**

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## Psychological State

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking. No injury, no rage. This is a low-arousal maintenance post harvesting narcissistic supply through vicarious achievement — converting institutional enforcement activity into personal political capital.

**Narcissistic state:** Stable grandiose baseline. The operative schema — *all positive national outcomes credit me personally* — is efficiently encoded in the headline's "Under Trump" attribution. The subject performs no explicit self-praise; the curated source does it for him, providing deniability while delivering the same supply.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- *Rationalization* (neurotic): A complex, multi-variable enforcement trend is reduced to a single self-vindicating percentage.
- *Distortion* (pathological): The causal chain (policy → institutional enforcement → statistical outcome) is collapsed into a personal achievement narrative.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Rhetorical laundering via quoted source.** The speaker makes no direct first-person claim; the headline performs the aggrandizement while the poster maintains superficial passivity. The "Under Trump" framing implies a contrast with the prior administration without naming it. MS-13, as a recurring anchor in Trump's rhetorical ecosystem, imports existing audience associations — gang violence, immigration threat, urban chaos — without requiring explicit articulation. This is pseudo-empirical authority: a percentage without base rate, methodology, or causal attribution.

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## Longitudinal Context

This post fits the holiday-period pattern observable across adjacent posts: metric harvesting via quoted news content (ISIS territory loss, tax bill, MS-13 arrests), low emotional temperature, no visible agitation. The ISIS posts from Dec 27-28 are structurally identical. Consistent with stable grandiose baseline during a period of perceived political success (tax bill just signed). No deviation from baseline.

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## Danger Assessment

**Elevated** (not for this post in isolation but for longitudinal pattern). MS-13 amplification during this period is part of a rhetorical campaign that escalates in subsequent months toward explicit dehumanization of immigrant populations. The current post is not dangerous independently, but contributes to normalization of conflating gang criminality with immigration broadly.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "MS-13 member and associate arrests up 83% under Trump" | **Half True** | Operation Raging Bull (October 2017) and broader DOJ/ICE prioritization of MS-13 enforcement did produce documented arrest surges during this period. An 83% figure is consistent with administration press releases. However, the claim strips away baseline period selection, definitional scope ('associates' broadens the count significantly), and implies causal attribution to Trump personally rather than policy shifts. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- 9:46 PM EST local time at Mar-a-Lago — falls within authentic late-evening window
- Zero personal commentary — passive format more consistent with aide curation
- Matches pattern of other holiday-period quote-and-link posts in this sequence
- No typos, no emotional escalation, no stream-of-consciousness elements

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Law enforcement statistics favorable to self)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Vicarious achievement — follower shares in the 'win'
- Implied contrast with prior administration without naming them

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- MS-13 amplification is part of a longitudinal rhetorical campaign that escalates toward dehumanizing immigrant populations in subsequent years
- Normalizes conflation of gang criminality with immigration as a policy frame

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-13._

> MS-13 member and associate arrests up 83% under Trump

**HALF TRUE**

Operation Raging Bull (October 2017) and broader DOJ/ICE prioritization of MS-13 enforcement did produce documented arrest surges during this period. An 83% figure is consistent with administration press releases. However, the claim strips away baseline period selection, definitional scope ('associates' broadens the count significantly), and implies causal attribution to Trump personally rather than policy shifts.

Sources: DOJ Operation Raging Bull announcement, October 2017; ICE enforcement statistics 2016-2017

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- grandiose-state (60%)
- MS-13 (90%)
- immigration-enforcement (70%)
- stat-amplification (80%)
- holiday-posting-pattern (50%)
- aide-possible (50%)

## That day

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

**Holiday Victory Lap: A Day of Contented Grandiosity from Mar-a-Lago**

A quiet day at Mar-a-Lago spent celebrating accomplishments -- ISIS defeat statistics, MS-13 arrests, retail sales records -- with one brief flash of anger at China for allowing oil shipments to North Korea. Two nearly identical posts gloated over Vanity Fair's perceived humiliation and Anna Wintour's imagined groveling, in an unusually explicit display of satisfaction at an enemy's suffering. The overall mood was relaxed and self-congratulatory, consistent with a post-legislative-victory holiday period.

Full digest for 2017-12-28: https://trump.fm/date/2017-12-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, December 28). “Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83%... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_946210723528572930
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump”..." X (Twitter), 28 Dec. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_946210723528572930. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump”...," X (Twitter), December 28, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_946210723528572930.

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