# Posts from Friday, August 8, 2014

16 posts on 2014-08-08.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2014-08-08/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-06T08:22:13.162Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**Crises as Canvas: Twin Major Events Fuel Prescience-Claiming Performance While Schneiderman Adversarial Vigil Pulses Beneath the Surface**

August 8, 2014 was defined by two simultaneous international crises — the United States' first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and the WHO's declaration of the West African Ebola outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — both of which Trump immediately harvested not for their humanitarian dimensions but as raw material for constructing a pre-political prophet identity. Across six posts on the Iraq/foreign-policy theme, Trump deployed a consistent prescience-claiming frame anchored in a demonstrably false biographical claim ("as I said from the very beginning"), bipartisan institutional targeting (Bush and Obama simultaneously), and totalizing epistemic attacks on the sitting president. The day documents an early, low-stakes rehearsal of a narrative architecture that would be systematically weaponized at presidential-campaign scale eighteen months later.

Beneath the foreign-policy performance, a quieter but clinically significant adversarial sub-narrative played out in the Schneiderman sequence. Within eight minutes (1:08–1:16 PM EDT), Trump escalated from indirect article amplification to direct personal labeling — "feckless and corrupt" — representing the day's only documented rage event and the sole excursion from an otherwise stable grandiose baseline. The Schneiderman posts are consistent with the documented 18-month perseveration campaign (44+ attacks) associated with the $40M Trump University civil fraud lawsuit, and the micro-escalation pattern — indirect-to-direct attack within a compressed window — is characteristic of narcissistic injury activation breaking through grandiose composure. Brand content (Trump Golf, Trump National Philadelphia, Miss Teen USA) was interspersed throughout without apparent cognitive compartmentalization, reflecting the period-typical fusion of commercial and political identity management.

The day's highest danger moment arrived in the two-minute CDC/Ebola cluster (2:56–2:58 PM EDT): a neutral link share immediately followed by a distorted fear-amplification post characterizing a controlled BSL4 medical evacuation as "bringing Ebola to US" and closing with the parasocial fear-arousal device "Be careful." — a formula that instrumentalizes public health anxiety to position Trump as protective truth-teller against institutional recklessness. No stochastic terrorism pattern was detected, but the elevated-danger rating reflects the measurable harm potential of prominent-figure institutional undermining during an active WHO-declared health emergency. Posting occurred entirely within business hours (11:45 AM–5:50 PM EDT), with no sleep deprivation evidence and no hypomanic threshold met.

- Posts analyzed: 16
- Dominant state: grandiose
- Narrative arc: mixed
- Aggregate rage level: 0.03
- Max danger level: elevated
- Escalation detected
- Theme obsession: Iraq War revisionism and Obama foreign policy — 6 of 16 posts across the full day-arc, anchored by a demonstrably false prescience claim deployed repeatedly
- Claims: 23 (7 false)
- Era: Pre-Campaign

# Daily Digest: 2014-08-08

## Timezone & Location Context

Trump disclosed an upcoming India trip (post **x_497770498374516738**: "will be in India" for Monday's Fox & Friends). August 8 was a Friday; the India travel had not yet commenced. Trump was almost certainly in **New York City (EDT, UTC−4)** on this date. All 16 posts fall between **11:45 AM and 5:50 PM EDT** — solidly within business hours. No sleep-pattern concerns arise.

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## 1. Psychological State Tracking

**Dominant state: Grandiose.** The day opened and closed in a stable grandiose narcissistic configuration, with a single documented excursion into a **mixed state** during the Schneiderman double-tap sequence.

**State transition:** At **x_497793382602014720** (1:16 PM EDT), eight minutes after amplifying a NY Post article about staff departures in Schneiderman's office (**x_497791357877256193**, 1:08 PM EDT), Trump appended direct personal epithets: "Schneiderman is feckless and corrupt." The escalation from indirect article-sharing to personal attack in eight minutes reflects narcissistic injury activation — Schneiderman's $40M Trump University civil fraud lawsuit represents an unresolved and significant wound — breaking through an otherwise comfortable grandiose baseline. By 1:50 PM EDT (**x_497801930509668352**), Trump had pivoted fully to the emotionally safer territory of Iraq War prescience-claiming, and the grandiose state was restored. Recovery was rapid, consistent with ego-syntonic adversarial management (counter-offensive pleasure) rather than anxious rumination.

**Trigger for transition:** Sustained legal exposure (Schneiderman lawsuit, ongoing since 2013) combined with opportunistic monitoring of adversary's organizational difficulty — a combination that activated narcissistic injury despite the grandiose frame.

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## 2. Escalation Detection

**Micro-escalation detected; no day-spanning rage spiral.**

The Schneiderman cluster (**x_497791357877256193** → **x_497793382602014720**, 8 minutes, 1:08–1:16 PM EDT) constitutes a **spike-pattern micro-escalation**:

- **Start:** Indirect attack via NY Post article amplification (intensity 0.18, no rage flag)
- **Peak:** Direct personal labeling — "feckless and corrupt" — appended to a second NY Post editorial (intensity 0.44, rage 0.50)
- **Trajectory:** Spike (compressed, rapid)
- **Duration:** 8 minutes

Rage was **proportionate to the trigger**: Schneiderman's lawsuit is the most significant active legal threat of this period, a public allegation of mass consumer fraud. The adversarial response is calibrated — no incoherence, no threats, no escalation beyond personal epithet. The day does not exhibit a rage spiral; the Schneiderman excursion is contained and resolved.

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## 3. Theme Analysis

**Three primary thematic clusters:**

**Theme 1: Iraq War revisionism and Obama foreign policy (6 posts)**
Posts **x_497771551887228928**, **x_497790517921714176**, **x_497801930509668352**, **x_497806387435823104**, **x_497830436253728768**, **x_497801930509668350** — all activated by the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS on August 8. Trump returned to this theme across the full day-span, employing consistent structural elements: prescience-claiming ("as I said from the very beginning"), bipartisan targeting (both Bush and Obama blamed simultaneously), totalizing epistemic attack ("Don't believe anything he says"), and classical authority borrowing (Sun Tzu). The theme is **event-reactive** rather than internally generated, but 6 of 16 posts constitutes thematic perseveration within a single news cycle.

**Theme 2: Brand/self-promotion (5 posts)**
Posts **x_497770498374516738**, **x_497773563802574848**, **x_497789495321038848**, **x_497805542673620992**, **x_497830138386853890** — Trump Golf LA, Trump National Philadelphia, Miss Teen USA, India travel logistics, and tie compliment absorption were interspersed without apparent cognitive compartmentalization between commercial and political content. Low-intensity, high-authorship-by-aide probability.

**Theme 3: CDC/Ebola institutional distrust (2 posts)**
Posts **x_497818713320861696** and **x_497819123708350464** — a brief but structurally significant cluster. The neutral link share (2:56 PM EDT) immediately followed by distorted fear amplification (2:58 PM EDT) constitutes a deliberate two-step misinformation sequence: establish the crisis frame, then reframe institutional response as recklessness.

**Theme 4: Schneiderman adversarial campaign (2 posts)**
Posts **x_497791357877256193** and **x_497793382602014720** — the most psychologically dense cluster of the day, representing a node within the 18-month documented campaign.

**Obsession verdict:** The Iraq/Obama theme qualifies as abnormal return within a single day — 6 of 16 posts — though event-reactive rather than spontaneous. No single topic dominated to the exclusion of all others.

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## 4. Contradiction Detection

**Internal near-duplicate (behavioral anomaly):**
Posts **x_497801930509668352** (1:50 PM EDT) and **x_497801930509668350** (5:50 PM EDT) are near-identical in content ("Iraq is more dangerous today than any time under Saddam. War was a mistake, as I said from the very beginning. Bush & Obama should apologize"), differing only in the HTML entity encoding of the ampersand. The post IDs are anomalously similar (differing only in the final digit). The 4-hour repetition is either an accidental re-post, a scheduled content duplicate, or compulsive return to a supply-generating theme. This behavioral anomaly is clinically minor but worth flagging.

**Major factual contradiction (post vs. documented record):**
The "as I said from the very beginning" Iraq War opposition claim (both **x_497801930509668352** and **x_497801930509668350**) is definitively contradicted by Trump's September 11, 2002 Howard Stern interview ("Yeah, I guess so") and the absence of any documented pre-invasion public opposition. Earliest documented opposition emerged in 2003–2004. This constitutes a **major contradiction** between stated biographical claim and factual record — characterized in the commentary as either deliberate gaslighting or motivated self-deceptive confabulation.

**Moderate factual contradiction (post vs. external statement):**
Post **x_497806387435823104** — "Obama will send troops back into Iraq combat zone" — directly contradicts Obama's same-day explicit public statement: "American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq." Trump's prediction was incorrect in its stated timeframe and framing.

**Minor factual contradiction (post vs. reality):**
Post **x_497819123708350464** characterizes the medical repatriation of Ebola-infected American aid workers (to Emory University's BSL4 isolation unit) as the CDC "bringing Ebola to US" — a gross distortion of a controlled, purpose-built humanitarian intervention.

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## 5. Hypomanic Indicators (Day-Level)

| Indicator | Finding |
|---|---|
| Post count | 16 posts |
| Active window (EDT) | 11:45 AM – 5:50 PM (6h 5min) |
| Earliest post | 11:45 AM EDT (well within normal hours) |
| Latest post | 5:50 PM EDT |
| Minimum inter-post gap | ~2 minutes (x_497818713320861696 → x_497819123708350464) |
| Maximum inter-post gap | ~63 minutes (x_497806387435823104 → x_497816259267153922) |
| Sleep deprivation evidence | None |
| Flight-of-ideas structure | Absent |
| Hypomanic threshold | **Not met** |

The posting pattern is active but consistent with typical Trump Twitter behavior during major simultaneous news events. The business-hours containment, absence of incoherent threading, and stable intensity profile do not meet criteria for a hypomanic episode.

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## 6. Narrative Arc

**Arc type: Mixed**

Three sub-arcs run in parallel without synthesizing:

1. **Prophet-validation arc:** External crises (ISIS airstrikes, Ebola emergency) are immediately converted into personal vindication and prescience performance. The arc opens at 11:49 AM EDT (**x_497771551887228928**) and closes at 5:50 PM EDT (**x_497801930509668350**) with the near-duplicate Iraq post — a full-day enclosure.

2. **Adversarial-retribution arc:** The Schneiderman cluster (1:08–1:16 PM EDT) runs as a self-contained adversarial sub-narrative, triggered not by new legal developments but by the continuous, ego-syntonic monitoring of a perceived persecutor's organizational weakness.

3. **Commercial maintenance arc:** Brand posts punctuate the day at regular intervals, functioning as identity anchors between substantive content.

The nearest contamination structure would be: the day opened with routine brand content and logistics before being overtaken by dual-crisis political commentary. However, the absence of a prior "victory" being contaminated prevents a clean classification. **Mixed** is the most accurate descriptor.

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## 7. Event Correlation

**U.S. First Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq** → **Offensive reaction**
Trump did not engage the humanitarian rationale (prevention of Yazidi genocide on Mount Sinjar) or the strategic context (protection of American personnel in Erbil). Instead, the event was immediately weaponized as vindication of prior judgments and as an opportunity for totalizing epistemic delegitimization of Obama. Six posts across the full day-arc.

**WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak International Health Emergency** → **Amplifying reaction**
Rather than reinforcing WHO/CDC authority during a declared global health emergency, Trump's response (posts **x_497818713320861696** and **x_497819123708350464**) amplified fear and undermined institutional credibility through distortion-by-juxtaposition — linking the Ebola repatriation to the unrelated June 2014 CDC anthrax lab incident.

**Schneiderman Trump University Lawsuit (ongoing, no new development)** → **Offensive reaction**
The adversarial monitoring of Schneiderman is self-sustaining — no new litigation development triggered these posts. The NY Post articles served as convenient vehicles for attacks that appear to require no external activation, consistent with paranoid grudge-bearing features within the perseveration pattern.

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## 8. Danger Assessment

**Highest danger level: Elevated** — post **x_497819123708350464**

The CDC/Ebola post represents the day's peak danger moment: a prominent celebrity with a large following (1) mischaracterizes a controlled BSL4 medical evacuation as reckless endangerment, (2) links it to an unrelated institutional failure to construct a "pattern of incompetence" narrative, and (3) deploys a parasocial fear-arousal closing device ("Be careful.") that positions Trump as protective authority against institutional recklessness — during an active WHO-declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The documented infodemic amplification effects of celebrity health misinformation during crisis events make the elevated rating appropriate.

**Stochastic terrorism pattern: Not detected.** No dehumanizing language, no named individual targeted in a threatening manner, no explicit incitement across the day's 16 posts.

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## 9. Cognitive Concerns

**Historical confabulation:** The Iraq "from the very beginning" revisionism in posts **x_497801930509668352** and **x_497801930509668350** — whether deliberate gaslighting or motivated confabulation — represents a Level 1 (pathological) defense mechanism involving distortion of biographical reality to serve narcissistic supply needs. Its significance lies not in the 2014 instance but in the 2016 campaign-scale deployment that this post documents in early rehearsal.

**Near-duplicate posting:** The 4-hour repetition of substantively identical content across posts 8 and 16 is unexplained by the available record. Organizational error (aide re-scheduling) is plausible, but compulsive return to a high-yield supply theme cannot be excluded.

**Totalization of distrust:** Post **x_497806387435823104** — "Don't believe anything he says" — deploys categorical epistemological closure rather than specific factual rebuttal. This splitting-based command to the audience is cognitively efficient but functionally corrosive to the information environment.

**Complexity trend: Stable.** Sentence structures are simple and consistent throughout, congruent with the 2014 baseline. No cognitive deterioration detectable.

### Narrative

Three parallel sub-arcs — prophet-validation (foreign policy crisis harvesting), adversarial-retribution (Schneiderman monitoring), and commercial maintenance (brand content) — run simultaneously without synthesizing into a coherent single narrative thread. The day is thematically reactive rather than internally generated, shaped almost entirely by external news events that Trump immediately instrumentalized for identity construction.

### Dominant themes

- Iraq War revisionism and Obama foreign policy criticism (1 post)
- Brand and self-promotion (Trump properties, Miss Teen USA, travel logistics) (1 post)
- Narcissistic supply absorption (compliment amplification and retweet validation) (1 post)
- CDC and Ebola institutional distrust (1 post)
- Schneiderman adversarial campaign (1 post)

### Contradictions that day

- [x_497801930509668352](https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668352): Iraq is more dangerous today than any time under Saddam. War was a mistake, as I said from the very beginning. (1:50 PM EDT)
  vs. [x_497801930509668350](https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668350): Near-identical content reposted 4 hours later (5:50 PM EDT) — behavioral anomaly suggesting compulsive return, accidental re-post, or scheduled duplicate
- [x_497801930509668352](https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668352): War was a mistake, as I said from the very beginning
  vs. [historical_record:howard_stern_interview_2002_09_11](https://trump.fm/post/historical_record:howard_stern_interview_2002_09_11): Trump stated 'Yeah, I guess so' when asked about supporting the Iraq invasion on September 11, 2002; documented public opposition did not emerge until 2003-2004
- [x_497806387435823104](https://trump.fm/post/x_497806387435823104): Obama will send troops back into Iraq combat zone
  vs. [obama_public_statement_2014_08_08](https://trump.fm/post/obama_public_statement_2014_08_08): Obama's same-day explicit statement: 'American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq'
- [x_497819123708350464](https://trump.fm/post/x_497819123708350464): Same CDC which is bringing Ebola to US
  vs. [documented_record:emory_bsl4_evacuation](https://trump.fm/post/documented_record:emory_bsl4_evacuation): The repatriation was a controlled medical evacuation to Emory University's purpose-built BSL4 isolation unit — not reckless endangerment

### Cognitive concerns

- Historical confabulation: Iraq 'from the very beginning' revisionism (posts x_497801930509668352 and x_497801930509668350) represents Level 1 pathological defense mechanism — distortion of biographical reality to serve narcissistic needs, operating as either deliberate gaslighting or motivated self-deceptive confabulation
- Near-duplicate posting anomaly: substantively identical content posted 4 hours apart (posts 8 and 16) — organizational error or compulsive return to high-yield supply theme cannot be distinguished from available data
- Totalization of distrust: 'Don't believe anything he says' (x_497806387435823104) deploys categorical epistemological closure command to audience, bypassing specific factual rebuttal via splitting defense mechanism
- Distortion-by-juxtaposition: CDC anthrax incident linked to Ebola repatriation (x_497819123708350464) to construct unified institutional incompetence narrative from unrelated events — rationalization defense mechanism operating at elevated harm potential

## Posts

### [x_497801930509668350](https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668350)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T21:50:03.000Z (UTC)

> Iraq is more dangerous today than any time under Saddam. War was a mistake, as I said from the very beginning. Bush &amp, Obama should apologize

0 likes · 583 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497801930509668350.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668350/analysis

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### [x_497830436253728768](https://trump.fm/post/x_497830436253728768)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T19:43:19.000Z (UTC)

> “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” -
>   Sun Tzu

258 likes · 278 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497830436253728768.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497830436253728768/analysis

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### [x_497830138386853890](https://trump.fm/post/x_497830138386853890)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T19:42:08.000Z (UTC) · quotes a tweet by @gmannn1983 (the quoted words are theirs, not his)

> "@gmannn1983 @realDonaldTrump best ties anywhere class all the way"  Thanks.

21 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497830138386853890.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497830138386853890/analysis

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### [x_497819123708350464](https://trump.fm/post/x_497819123708350464)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T18:58:22.000Z (UTC)

> Same CDC which is bringing Ebola to US misplaced samples of anthrax earlier this year http://t.co/aX7ihXdcMz  Be careful.

84 likes · 114 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497819123708350464.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497819123708350464/analysis

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### [x_497818713320861696](https://trump.fm/post/x_497818713320861696)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T18:56:44.000Z (UTC)

> "Ebola's spread is 'unprecedented' says CDC chief"  http://t.co/2wE9qVjD17

44 likes · 60 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497818713320861696.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497818713320861696/analysis

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### [x_497816259267153922](https://trump.fm/post/x_497816259267153922)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T18:46:59.000Z (UTC) · quotes a tweet by @scrt22 (the quoted words are theirs, not his)

> "@scrt22 @realDonaldTrump for all of your faults, whole lot of common sense coming from this twitter account." Thanks, sort of!

31 likes · 12 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497816259267153922.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497816259267153922/analysis

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### [x_497806387435823104](https://trump.fm/post/x_497806387435823104)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T18:07:46.000Z (UTC)

> Obama will send troops back into Iraq combat zone. Don’t believe anything he says. Just covering for his mistakes.

271 likes · 293 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497806387435823104.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497806387435823104/analysis

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### [x_497805542673620992](https://trump.fm/post/x_497805542673620992)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T18:04:24.000Z (UTC)

> With 18 beautiful holes, each boasting unique characteristics, Trump Nat’l Philadelphia is a Golf treasure http://t.co/PMStADcVl2

25 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497805542673620992.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497805542673620992/analysis

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### [x_497801930509668352](https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668352)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T17:50:03.000Z (UTC)

> Iraq is more dangerous today than any time under Saddam. War was a mistake, as I said from the very beginning. Bush &amp; Obama should apologize

469 likes · 675 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497801930509668352.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497801930509668352/analysis

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### [x_497793382602014720](https://trump.fm/post/x_497793382602014720)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T17:16:05.000Z (UTC)

> Via @nypost by Editorial Board: “New York’s mute @AGSchneiderman” http://t.co/tH2ptCEA0y Schneiderman is feckless and corrupt.

14 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497793382602014720.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497793382602014720/analysis

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### [x_497791357877256193](https://trump.fm/post/x_497791357877256193)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T17:08:02.000Z (UTC)

> .@nypost: “Dozens of key staffers fleeing @AGSchneiderman’s office” http://t.co/dG79uRFhSi

23 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497791357877256193.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497791357877256193/analysis

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### [x_497790517921714176](https://trump.fm/post/x_497790517921714176)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T17:04:42.000Z (UTC) · quotes a tweet by @dainbramaged_ (the quoted words are theirs, not his)

> "@dainbramaged_ @realDonaldTrump  Surprise only happens when Obama does something right. You can expect no surprises." True.

54 likes · 36 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497790517921714176.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497790517921714176/analysis

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### [x_497789495321038848](https://trump.fm/post/x_497789495321038848)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T17:00:38.000Z (UTC)

> One of @GolfWorldUS’ top public courses, @TrumpGolfLA's course stands as a testament to the greatness of golf http://t.co/L3a3vqaoQc

19 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497789495321038848.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497789495321038848/analysis

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### [x_497773563802574848](https://trump.fm/post/x_497773563802574848)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T15:57:20.000Z (UTC)

> The new winner of the @MissTeenUSA pageant K. Lee Graham http://t.co/x93J9wAEQV

40 likes · 23 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497773563802574848.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497773563802574848/analysis

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### [x_497771551887228928](https://trump.fm/post/x_497771551887228928)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T15:49:20.000Z (UTC)

> What other country tells the enemy when we are going to attack like Obama is doing with ISIS. Whatever happened to the element of surprise?

470 likes · 441 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497771551887228928.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497771551887228928/analysis

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### [x_497770498374516738](https://trump.fm/post/x_497770498374516738)

X (Twitter) · 2014-08-08T15:45:09.000Z (UTC)

> Sorry, I won’t be able to do @foxandfriends at 7 AM on Monday—will be in India.

44 likes · 16 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_497770498374516738.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_497770498374516738/analysis

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