# Post x_986544648477868032

- Post ID: `x_986544648477868032`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-04-18T09:59:07.000Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept. Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!

## Engagement

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

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-14T20:36:09.957Z (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 at 5:59 AM from Mar-a-Lago, this authentic Trump dispatch activates the immigration-grievance base during an otherwise diplomatically constrained morning. The post's most clinically significant element is 'crime infested & breeding concept' — the term 'breeding,' even when syntactically modifying 'concept,' cannot be semantically quarantined from its biological-contamination register in an immigration context. This echoes classical nativist framing that positions immigrant-sheltering policies as reproductive threats to social order. Three material factual distortions compound the gaslighting pattern: municipal SB 54 opposition was real but geographically limited; Brown restricted rather than withdrew National Guard deployment; sanctuary city crime data contradicts the 'crime infested' characterization. Defense mechanisms include splitting, projection, and rationalization. The narcissistic state is grandiose — Trump positions himself as the uniquely attuned interpreter of California citizens' authentic desires, against their elected governor. No cognitive deviations from 2018 baseline. Danger level is elevated on the basis of dehumanizing language and revolutionary framing rather than direct mobilization indicators. The 'breeding' construction is unusual against Trump's own baseline and warrants longitudinal tracking for recurrence and escalation.

# Psychological Analysis: April 18, 2018 — California Sanctuary Cities

## Authorship Attribution (Confidence: High, Score: 0.88)

This post was made at **5:59 AM EDT** (Mar-a-Lago, Eastern Daylight Time = UTC−4), firmly within Trump's documented early-morning window. The Abe summit was hosted at Mar-a-Lago April 17–18, confirming location. No aide posts before 9 AM. Stylistic markers converge strongly on authentic authorship: the vowel elongation ("Soooo"), ALL CAPS terminal urgency ("NOW!"), stream-of-consciousness pivot structure (sanctuary revolt → Brown → National Guard → public opinion), and the impulsive "ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept" construction — an aide would never produce this phrasing.

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## Psychological State and Triggers

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. The post positions Trump as the uniquely attuned interpreter of Californians' "true" desires — over the heads of their elected governor. This characteristic move (claiming privileged popular-will access) is a Level 2 agency motive expression: power and control asserted against state resistance to federal authority.

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / base maintenance. With the Comey book dominating media (released April 17), the Abe summit requiring diplomatic restraint, and Barbara Bush's death prompting reverential tone in adjacent posts, this early-morning immigration dispatch reads as autonomous grievance-base activation — a separate emotional lane run in parallel to official duties.

**Narcissistic Rage:** Not significantly present. The hostility is performative rather than reactive; this is a mobilization post rather than an injury response. Anger intensity is moderate (0.35/1.0).

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## Personality Profile (McAdams Multi-Level)

**Level 1 — Big Five:**
- *Extraversion*: High (0.72) — assertive, dominant, seeks attention
- *Agreeableness*: Very low (0.15) — antagonistic, zero communal warmth
- *Conscientiousness*: Low (0.28) — impulsive, undeliberated pre-dawn dispatch
- *Neuroticism*: Elevated (0.65) — hostile affect, urgency, threat-sensitivity
- *Openness*: Very low (0.18) — rigid schema on immigration, no epistemic flexibility

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Agency motives dominate (0.88); communion is effectively absent (0.04). Schema: California's government is illegitimate, its people are captive, Trump alone channels authentic popular will. The self-schema is consistent with malignant narcissistic structure: omniscient about others' inner states, contemptuous of contrary evidence.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- *Protagonist role*: Warrior/Herald — champion of suppressed Californians against their own government
- *Narrative sequence*: Contamination (California was safe/orderly → sanctuary policy contaminated it → Trump will restore order)
- *Identity claims*: "I hear what the people truly want"; "I stand against cowardly officials blocking safety"
- *Contrasting other*: Jerry Brown — cowardly, elite obstructionist trying to "back out"

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting (Immature):** California's population bifurcated into virtuous sanctuary-rejectors vs. Brown/sanctuary-concept. No nuance permitted; moral valence is absolute.

2. **Projection (Immature):** Lawlessness attributed entirely to sanctuary policy; the post's own coercive framing toward state governance (characterizing legitimate state law as a revolutionary aberration) goes unmarked.

3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** The "Revolution" framing reframes federal pressure on a sovereign state as a response to popular uprising rather than top-down coercion — providing moral insulation.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Hyperbole**: "There is a Revolution going on in California" — a handful of municipal resolutions reframed as a statewide uprising
- **Populist ventriloquism**: Claiming to speak for "the people of the State" against their elected officials
- **Ad hominem**: Brown reduced to a coward "trying to back out"
- **Contamination metaphor**: "crime infested" — classic fear-activation language
- **Biological dehumanization**: "breeding concept" in immigration context invokes nativist biological-contamination register; this is the most significant rhetorical element in the post
- **False urgency**: "Want Security & Safety NOW!" bypasses deliberative processing
- **Alliterative pairing**: "Security & Safety" — memetically sticky, emotionally resonant

**Propaganda technique:** The RAND Firehose pattern is visible in embryo — revolutionary framing + contamination metaphor + false popular mandate delivered at volume.

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## The "Breeding" Problem

The phrase "ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept" warrants specific attention. Syntactically, "breeding" modifies "concept," but in an immigration policy context the word cannot be semantically quarantined from its biological register. "Breeding" applied to populations — even indirectly via the policies that shelter them — invokes historical nativist framing that positions immigrant communities as reproductive threats to an existing social order. This is consistent with *eliminationist rhetorical patterns* documented in pre-escalation sequences. Whether impulsive or deliberate, the effect is structurally dehumanizing.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous...concept" | **Half True** | Orange County Board of Supervisors voted March 2018 to join DOJ lawsuit against SB 54; several municipalities (Los Alamitos, etc.) passed opposing resolutions. However this represents a minority of jurisdictions in one region, not a broad statewide revolt. |
| "Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border" | **Mostly False** | Brown agreed to deploy up to 400 National Guard troops but with explicit restrictions barring use for immigration enforcement (limited to drug interdiction, human trafficking). Characterizing limitations as 'backing out' is a material distortion of a conditional compliance. |
| "Sanctuary areas are crime infested" | **False** | Peer-reviewed research (Martínez et al., Wong 2017, Gonzalez et al.) consistently finds sanctuary counties have equal or lower violent crime rates compared to matched non-sanctuary counties. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Cognitive Status

No deviations from 2018 baseline. "Soooo" is a documented stylistic affect-amplifier, not a phonemic paraphasia. Syntax is colloquial but internally coherent. The thematic pivot structure (sanctuary → Brown → NG → public approval) reflects characteristically low syntactic integration but is within established Trump pattern. Vocabulary and complexity scores are consistent with prior posts in this period.

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## Jungian / Archetypal Layer

**Primary archetypes activated:**
- **Warrior**: Enemies of the people (Brown, sanctuary policy) must be confronted
- **King-as-Restorer**: The rightful order (security, safety) will be restored against corrupt local power
- **Trickster shadow**: The "Revolution" framing ironically positions the sitting President as a disrupting outsider against an established state government

**Shadow projection**: California's Democratic governance is cast as the chaos agent; the federal executive (itself a source of institutional disruption) is cast as the order-restorer. The asymmetry — order for "real Americans," chaos for sanctuary cities — maps cleanly onto the order/chaos framework: *order is promised to the base, chaos is directed at the designated enemy*.

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## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

Not at stochastic terrorism threshold (no explicit target identification + grievance + action implication against individuals), but elevated due to:
1. Dehumanizing biological language ("breeding") applied to a population group in immigration context
2. Revolutionary framing normalizing escalatory federal-state conflict
3. Fear-based urgency designed to activate threat response without deliberative engagement
4. Three material factual distortions compounding the gaslighting pattern

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## Longitudinal Notes

Consistent with Trump's April 2018 immigration-grievance register and within normal intensity range (0.62). Intensity is below the Comey tweetstorm peak (April 13–15) but elevated above the diplomatic/ceremonial posts flanking it this same morning. The "breeding" language is unusual even against his own immigration rhetoric baseline and should be tracked for recurrence.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 5:59 AM local time at Mar-a-Lago — classic early morning window
- Elongated 'Soooo' vowel affect-amplifier — documented Trump stylistic marker
- ALL CAPS terminal exclamation 'NOW!'
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot structure (sanctuary → Brown → National Guard → public opinion)
- Paired ampersands for breathless pacing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (California resistance to federal immigration enforcement)

Sentiment: -0.68

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Populist ventriloquism — claiming to speak for 'the people of the State'
- Manufactured urgency ('NOW!') bypasses deliberative processing
- Grievance activation on immigration to maintain base engagement

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Crime infested & breeding concept' — dehumanizing biological language ('breeding') applied to immigrants/sanctuary areas in classic nativist register
- Revolutionary framing ('There is a Revolution going on') normalizes escalatory federal-state conflict
- Fear-based urgency ('Want Security & Safety NOW!') designed to bypass deliberative processing and activate threat response
- Contamination metaphor ('crime infested') dehumanizes sanctuary areas and their residents

### Gaslighting

- Mischaracterizes Brown's conditional National Guard deployment as 'backing out' — reverses partial compliance into betrayal
- Claims to speak for 'the people of the State' in opposition to their elected governor — delegitimizes democratic representation
- Frames existing law (SB 54) as aberration against popular will rather than legitimate legislation

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous...concept

**HALF TRUE**

Orange County Board of Supervisors voted March 2018 to join DOJ lawsuit against SB 54; several municipalities (Los Alamitos, etc.) passed opposing resolutions. However this represents a minority of jurisdictions in one region, not a broad statewide revolt.

Sources: General knowledge — California SB 54 controversy, 2018

> Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Brown agreed to deploy up to 400 National Guard troops but with explicit restrictions barring use for immigration enforcement (limited to drug interdiction, human trafficking). Characterizing limitations as 'backing out' is a material distortion of a conditional compliance.

Sources: General knowledge — California National Guard border deployment, April 2018

> Sanctuary areas are crime infested

**FALSE**

Peer-reviewed research (Martínez et al., Wong 2017, Gonzalez et al.) consistently finds sanctuary counties have equal or lower violent crime rates compared to matched non-sanctuary counties.

Sources: Academic literature on sanctuary city crime rates

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- immigration (95%)
- sanctuary_cities (90%)
- california (85%)
- jerry_brown (80%)
- national_guard (70%)
- dehumanizing_language (75%)
- fear_appeal (70%)
- populist_ventriloquism (65%)
- early_morning_authentic (88%)
- base_mobilization (70%)
- biological_contamination_metaphor (72%)

## That day

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

**Diplomatic Hosting of Abe at Mar-a-Lago Brackets a Dawn Grievance Window of Dehumanizing Immigration Language and Comey Rage**

Trump spent the day hosting Japanese Prime Minister Abe at Mar-a-Lago, with golf and a working lunch on the agenda. Between the diplomatic pleasantries, he used his early-morning hours to lash out at Stormy Daniels, James Comey, and California's sanctuary city policies -- the latter drawing attention for unusually dehumanizing language about immigration. The Comey attacks continued a multi-day campaign tied to the former FBI director's book release, while several staff-written posts offered condolences for Barbara Bush and congratulations to Israel. Overall, a day of managed statesmanship with brief but sharp grievance flare-ups at dawn.

Full digest for 2018-04-18: https://trump.fm/date/2018-04-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, April 18). There is a Revolution going on in California.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_986544648477868032
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many..." X (Twitter), 18 Apr. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_986544648477868032. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many...," X (Twitter), April 18, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_986544648477868032.

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