# Post x_986218870506754048

- Post ID: `x_986218870506754048`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-04-17T12:24:36.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_986218870506754048/analysis
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## Post text

> Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for safety and security along their very porous Border. He cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the Border. The high crime rate will only get higher. Much wanted Wall in San Diego already started!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.403Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-14T20:24:07.734Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Policy-attack post targeting California Governor Jerry Brown for resisting National Guard border deployment under Trump's preferred terms. Psychologically, this is a maintenance/base-mobilization post rather than a narcissistic injury response — distinguishable from the preceding days' Comey rage-attacks by its controlled, prosecutorial tone. The grandiose state is moderate: Trump positions himself as the competent federal authority offering safety that Brown irresponsibly refuses. Defense mechanisms include splitting (Trump = safety, Brown = crime) and projection (structural crime causation attributed entirely to Brown's single decision). The fear-and-resolution rhetorical frame is textbook: threat amplification (porous border, rising crime) followed by reassurance through Trump's agency (wall construction underway). Three fact claims warrant scrutiny: Brown's characterization as indifferent to safety is mostly false (he ultimately deployed National Guard with different scope); California's "high crime rate" claim is mostly false relative to national data; and the San Diego wall announcement is half-true (replacement/reinforcement, not new construction). Authorship leans authentic (65%) based on stylistic markers, with possible light aide polish given 8:24 AM local timing. Danger level is elevated: the post contributes to the ambient threat environment by normalizing the border/crime causal linkage without dehumanizing language or explicit mobilization. Longitudinal note: the calm, prosecutorial tone here compared to contemporaneous Comey posts supports differential reading — Comey triggers genuine narcissistic injury; Brown is a political instrument.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Post — April 17, 2018

## Post Summary
A policy-attack post targeting California Governor Jerry Brown for resisting National Guard border deployment under Trump's preferred terms. Closes with a triumphalist announcement about San Diego wall construction.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Dominant facets this post:**
- **Low Agreeableness** (antagonism facet): Direct public challenge to a state executive, attributing crime consequences to his personal decision. Characteristic interpersonal combativeness.
- **High Extraversion** (assertiveness facet): Confident, declarative sentences with no hedging. Prosecutorial certainty throughout.
- **Low Neuroticism** (relative): This is not a rage post. Tone is controlled compared to contemporaneous Comey attacks. Angry hostility is present but subdued — more contemptuous than frantic.
- **Conscientiousness signal**: The wall announcement ("already started!") performs achievement-striving — delivering on a core promise.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant**: Power and control framing throughout. Trump positions himself as the federal authority offering order; Brown is the obstructionist refusing it. The Wall announcement is a concrete agency-fulfillment display.

**Schema of self**: Competent protector of public safety, builder, deal-offerer whose offer was refused.

**Schema of other (Brown)**: Irresponsible, politically motivated actor who prioritizes ideology over citizen safety.

**Schema of world**: Dangerous by default; safety requires constant enforcement and construction. Without Trump's interventions, crime escalates.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role**: Order-restorer / wall-builder. Trump as the federal father figure managing recalcitrant local authority.

**Contamination sequence (implied)**: California was once manageable; Brown's governance has allowed it to become "porous" and high-crime. The trajectory is deterioration unless Trump intervenes.

**Redemption sequence (in progress)**: Wall construction in San Diego = visible proof the restoration is underway despite local obstruction.

**Identity claim**: "I am building the wall. I am offering safety. The obstruction is theirs, not mine."

**Contrasting other**: Jerry Brown as ideological governor who values political positioning over citizen welfare.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State**: Grandiose (moderate). Trump is the competent authority; Brown is the failure. No vulnerability markers — no wounded-victim positioning in this post, which distinguishes it from the Comey tweets preceding it.

**Trigger**: Preemptive-attack / maintenance. Brown's reported refusal to meet National Guard deployment terms provides a policy hook, but the post functions primarily as base mobilization — attacking a Democratic governor while delivering a supply-reward (wall construction announcement) to supporters.

**Rage**: Absent. The contempt is present but controlled. "He cannot come to terms" is dismissive rather than enraged — different register from "slime ball" or "LEAKER & LIAR" deployed against Comey on April 13-15.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting** (immature): Clear all-good/all-bad structure. Trump's team = safety and security. Brown's California = porous borders, rising crime, willful negligence. No complexity acknowledged.

**Projection** (immature): California's crime is attributed entirely to Brown's governance decision, displacing structural, demographic, and historical factors onto a single political actor. This mirrors the pattern in preceding days' posts attributing DOJ/FBI misconduct entirely to named individuals (Comey, McCabe).

**Rationalization** (neurotic): The federal-state constitutional tension over National Guard deployment is a genuine legal complexity. Here it is reduced to: Brown "cannot come to terms" — framing structural disagreement as personal failure of will or character.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Primary technique: Scapegoating + False Causation**

The logical structure:
- Premise 1: Brown refuses National Guard on Trump's terms
- Premise 2 (unstated): National Guard = crime reduction
- Conclusion: Brown's refusal → rising crime

This is a causal fallacy embedded in fear-escalation rhetoric. The phrase "will only get higher" uses slippery-slope construction to make the consequence feel inevitable and preventable only through Trump's preferred policy.

**Fear-and-resolution frame**: Classic two-part structure. Part 1 (sentences 1-3): threat amplification. Part 2 (sentence 4): reassurance through Trump's action. The audience is brought to anxiety then offered relief through the leader's agency.

**No dehumanizing language** directly targeting immigrants in this post. The "porous Border" / crime linkage does construct immigrant movement implicitly as threat, but the named target is Brown — a politician — not a demographic group.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jerry Brown cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the Border" | **Mostly False** | Brown did resist Trump's preferred terms (which included immigration enforcement) but ultimately approved a more limited National Guard deployment focused on drug trafficking and criminal gangs — not a blanket refusal to engage on border security. |
| "The high crime rate will only get higher" | **Mostly False** | California's crime rates in 2018 were not uniformly 'high' by national standards — violent crime was below several other states. The causal link between National Guard deployment terms and crime trajectory is asserted without evidence. |
| "Much wanted Wall in San Diego already started" | **Half True** | Construction activity was underway in the San Diego sector in early 2018, but this involved replacement and reinforcement of existing barriers using previously appropriated funds — not new wall in unprotected areas. The framing as the campaign-promised 'Wall' overstates the scope. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.65 (moderate lean authentic)**

Stylistic markers strongly consistent with authentic Trump: capitalized "Border" and "Wall" as symbolic proper nouns, named-opponent attack mode, exclamatory triumph at close. The 8:24 AM EDT timing (Trump confirmed in Florida that day) is business hours — mildly inconsistent with the late-night/early-morning authentic pattern — but not disqualifying. Prose is cleaner than raw Trump stream-of-consciousness, suggesting possible light aide polish on a Trump draft. Most probable: authentic sentiment, possibly lightly formatted.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated (not High)**

The post deploys fear-based border/crime rhetoric that functions to heighten threat perception around immigration. The implied causality (open border = rising crime) normalizes anxiety about demographic movement. No direct dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no explicit mobilization call. Danger is structural — this type of post contributes to the ambient threat environment — rather than acute.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Order-Restorer / King**

Trump positions himself as the sovereign offering order (National Guard, Wall) to a resistant vassal (California). Brown plays the obstructionist local lord defying the king's protection. The wall construction announcement is the King's decree made visible — order manifesting in concrete and steel.

**Secondary archetype: Warrior** (subdued): The framing of an ongoing conflict over the border, with Trump's forces (National Guard, wall) arrayed against the chaos that Brown's weakness allows.

**Shadow projection**: The disorder, the "porous" failure, the rising crime — these are projected entirely onto Brown/California. Trump's own administration's policy failures (e.g., family separation controversies, DHS coordination challenges) are absent from the frame.

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## Longitudinal Context

This post follows two days of high-intensity Comey attacks (April 13-16), which showed acute narcissistic injury response with rage markers and criminal-accusation rhetoric. This post represents a return to maintenance mode — policy-attack rather than personal wound processing. The contrast is clinically notable: when Comey is the target, the posts show intense, fragmented emotional activation; when the target is a policy opponent like Brown, the register is more controlled and prosecutorial. This suggests the Comey attacks were driven by genuine narcissistic injury (Comey's book characterized Trump directly), while this post serves strategic-rhetorical rather than defensive-psychological functions.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Characteristic capitalization of 'Border' and 'Wall' as proper nouns — authentic Trump stylistic marker
- Attack-mode framing against named political opponent (Jerry Brown) matches authentic pattern
- Exclamatory final sentence ('Much wanted Wall in San Diego already started!') is classic Trump triumphalism
- Post time 8:24 AM EDT (Florida, UTC-4) is business hours — slightly atypical for late-night authentic posts
- Relatively clean grammar and complete sentences suggest possible light aide polish

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Jerry Brown / California's resistance to National Guard border deployment)

Sentiment: -0.38

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Exclamatory close ('already started!') is mildly pressured — victory announcement without proportionate trigger
- Confident causal assertions without hedging ('will only get higher') suggest inflated certainty

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 20%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 52%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to base ('Much wanted' implies mass desire, audience interpellation)
- Shared enemy construction (Brown/California as collective threat)
- Victory announcement to audience ('already started!') — reward-delivery to supporters

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Fear-escalation framing ('high crime rate will only get higher') normalizes threat perception around border/immigration
- Implied causality between border policy disagreement and public safety failure — scapegoating structure primes hostility toward Brown/California
- Structural contribution to anti-immigrant threat environment through 'porous Border' framing, even without explicit dehumanization

### Gaslighting

- Brown characterized as 'not looking for safety and security' — distorts a legal/policy disagreement about National Guard scope into an indifference to safety claim
- Implies California's crime rate is high and worsening due to Brown's posture, contradicting available crime statistics
- Wall construction framed as 'already started' without distinction between new construction and replacement of existing barriers

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-14._

> Jerry Brown cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the Border

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Brown did resist Trump's preferred terms (which included immigration enforcement) but ultimately approved a more limited National Guard deployment focused on drug trafficking and criminal gangs — not a blanket refusal to engage on border security.

Sources: Historical record of California National Guard deployment negotiations, April 2018

> The high crime rate will only get higher

**MOSTLY FALSE**

California's crime rates in 2018 were not uniformly 'high' by national standards — violent crime was below several other states. The causal link between National Guard deployment terms and crime trajectory is asserted without evidence.

Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reports 2017-2018

> Much wanted Wall in San Diego already started

**HALF TRUE**

Construction activity was underway in the San Diego sector in early 2018, but this involved replacement and reinforcement of existing barriers using previously appropriated funds — not new wall in unprotected areas. The framing as the campaign-promised 'Wall' overstates the scope.

Sources: CBP San Diego sector construction records, 2018

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- border-security (90%)
- jerry-brown (85%)
- california (80%)
- national-guard (75%)
- fear-appeal (70%)
- wall-construction (65%)
- scapegoating (65%)
- maintenance-post (60%)
- splitting (55%)
- grandiose-state (50%)

## That day

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

**The Dog That Didn't Bark: Comey's Book Drops and Trump Looks Everywhere Else**

Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago hosting Japanese Prime Minister Abe, posting at a moderate pace across a normal daytime window. The biggest story of the day — James Comey's tell-all book calling Trump an unethical mob boss — went entirely unmentioned, with Trump instead cycling through economic boasts, border security attacks on California's governor, and a brief flash of anger at media polling. The immigration posts carried the sharpest rhetoric, using dehumanizing language around a Supreme Court ruling, while the notable silence on both Comey and Barbara Bush's death stood out as much as anything he actually said.

Full digest for 2018-04-17: https://trump.fm/date/2018-04-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, April 17). Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_986218870506754048
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for..." X (Twitter), 17 Apr. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_986218870506754048. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for...," X (Twitter), April 17, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_986218870506754048.

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