The Cognitive Shield: Media Analysis: Trumps Truth Social Post 1: Following ICE shooting of independent observer today

The Cognitive Shield has the ability to run unbiased media analysis, based on the text, of news post, social post and any written content. The aim of the tool is to look at the behavioural communication tools and techniques being used to influence its readers and frame a narrative.

While I do not like copying his post below, I feel it is important to explain the analysis.

The analysis is a framework I have developed to utilize AI tools for language processing and data analysis, NLP, and behavioural economic persuasion and influence tactics. Audience behavioural, psychographic, and psychometric targeting, and content creators’ psychological profiles and intentions from the post. With an analysis of the Lacanian psychoanalytic analysis of the content and what it aims to tap into within us.

The aim is for people to be able to make informed decisions based on the framing and the intentions of posts from those looking to shape social narratives and behaviours.

Trumps first post following the shooting "This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off? It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do! Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 Million Dollars in her account? And where are the Tens of Billions of Dollars that have been stolen from the once Great State of Minnesota? We are there because of massive Monetary Fraud, with Billions of Dollars missing, and Illegal Criminals that were allowed to infiltrate the State through the Democrats’ Open Border Policy. We want the money back, and we want it back, NOW. Those Fraudsters who stole the money are going to jail, where they belong! This is no different than a really big Bank Robbery. Much of what you’re witnessing is a COVER UP for this Theft and Fraud. The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric! Instead, these sanctimonious political fools should be looking for the Billions of Dollars that has been stolen from the people of Minnesota, and the United States of America. LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!"

Comprehensive Analysis:

Overall Summary:

The text presents a highly aggressive and conspiratorial narrative alleging massive financial fraud (tens of billions of dollars) and systemic corruption within the Minnesota government, specifically blaming Democratic leaders (Mayor, Governor, Ilhan Omar) and their border policies. The intent is to generate outrage, confirm existing partisan biases, and mobilize support for aggressive law enforcement actions by ICE, framing the government as actively concealing grand larceny and inciting chaos.

NLP (AI) Driven Analysis:

Sentiment/Tone: Polarizing, Hostile, Sensationalist, And Accusatory

Key Themes/Keywords: Massive Monetary Fraud, Billions of Dollars stolen, Ilhan Omar, Illegal Criminals, Open Border Policy, ICE Officers, COVER UP, Insurrection, Patriots

Framing Type: Biased Negative, Fear-Based, Conspiratorial, And Manipulative

Political Leaning: Right

NLP (Human) Principles Applied:

Communication Style: Directive, accusatory, and bombastic. It uses rhetorical questions to introduce unverified claims and heavily targets the Kinesthetic sense (feeling urgent danger and anger) and the Visual sense (witnessing the cover-up and the 'gunman's gun').

Values/Beliefs Targeted: Security and Safety (fear of violent criminals), Justice and Retribution (criminals going to jail), Financial Control and Accountability (getting the 'stolen' money back), Patriotism and National Purity

Meta-Programs Engaged: Away From (focus on avoiding theft, crime, corruption), External Reference (relying on the author's narrative as the sole truth), Mismatching (challenging and refuting established political authority), Urgency (demanding action 'NOW')

Behavioral Economics Analysis:

Biases Exploited: Availability Heuristic (using vivid, shocking numbers and imagery, like the loaded gun, to make the threat seem immediate), Confirmation Bias (reinforcing pre-existing distrust of targeted politicians), Loss Aversion (focusing on the massive loss of billions of dollars and safety), Framing Effect (framing opposition as treasonous ‘Insurrection’ and governance as ‘Theft’)

Influence Tactics: Fear-mongering (creating a sense of imminent catastrophic collapse); Scapegoating (targeting Ilhan Omar and Democratic leadership); Creating a false consensus (presuming the audience knows the money was stolen); Nudging towards outrage and retaliatory action.

Audience & Author Analysis:

Psychographic Profile (Audience): Highly conservative, anti-establishment, distrustful of mainstream institutions and media, prioritizing traditional values, national security, and punitive justice.

Psychometric Profile (Audience): High in Neuroticism (anxiety regarding safety and corruption) and Conscientiousness (desire for strict rules and accountability); Low in Openness (resistance to complex, nuanced explanations).

Behavioral Profile (Audience): High consumption of partisan or alternative media; motivated by immediate threats to financial security and order; prone to sharing shocking content and participating in politically charged collective action.

Author's Psychological Profile: Exhibits high conviction, a sense of persecuted righteousness, and a tendency toward viewing political opposition through a lens of grand conspiracy and malicious intent.

Author's Intentions: To discredit political rivals by associating them with severe crime and corruption, motivate supporters through outrage, and establish the author/their allies as the only truthful agents capable of restoring order and accountability.

Lacanian Psychoanalytic Analysis:

Imaginary Engagement: Fosters identification with the pure 'Us' ('ICE PATRIOTS,' the victimized people of Minnesota) against the corrupt 'Them' (the arrogant, stealing politicians). It relies on the mirrored image of a once-perfect, 'Great State' that the audience must fight to restore.

Symbolic Engagement: Attempts to rewrite the symbolic order by establishing new authoritative signifiers ('Massive Monetary Fraud,' 'Insurrection,' 'COVER UP'). It uses definitive monetary figures (Billions, $34 Million) to impose a rigid, binary narrative of guilt and innocence, demanding the ultimate restoration of the Law (jail time, money retrieval).

Real Engagement: Addresses the trauma of the Real—the lack of absolute security and the chaos of financial loss—by providing a tangible, human cause (the criminals, the politicians) for the unsymbolizable suffering, promising absolute control and order once these agents are removed.

Desire/Jouissance Aspects: Appeals to the desire for a complete, corruption-free society. The promise of identifying and punishing the 'Fraudsters' offers a form of jouissance—a paradoxical satisfaction derived from the public persecution and restoration of the 'stolen' object (the 'Great State'), temporarily masking the underlying structural void of political dissatisfaction.

Fact-Checking Analysis:

False/Misleading. The primary claims are unverified or demonstrably false. The claim regarding Ilhan Omar having '$34 Million Dollars in her account' is a widely debunked conspiracy theory. While there have been major fraud cases in Minnesota, the claim of 'Tens of Billions' stolen is grossly hyperbolic and unsubstantiated, as is the assertion that the Mayor and Governor are 'inciting Insurrection.' Most specific figures and linkages presented are used to sensationalize political attacks rather than convey verifiable facts.

Hate Speech Detection:

Not Detected

Overall Explanation:

The text functions as political propaganda, utilizing extreme emotional language and unverified conspiracy theories to achieve maximum polarization. It combines the behavioral strategy of loss aversion with the psychological tactic of scapegoating, targeting core values of security and justice. Lacanian theory highlights how the text engages the audience's desire for symbolic order and idealization of the 'Patriot' self, using hyperbolic claims of theft and chaos to touch upon fundamental societal anxieties (the Real) and demand immediate, punitive action.