# Post x_1033722550881329152 - Post ID: `x_1033722550881329152` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2018-08-26T14:27:16.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033722550881329152 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1033722550881329152/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1033722550881329152.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ...And it will get, as I have always said, much better from even here! https://t.co/El26RzBjpG ## Engagement - Likes: 77,434 - Reposts: 17,887 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.398Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-15T21:36:55.456Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the day of John McCain's death, with Cohen's federal guilty plea implicating Trump in campaign finance crimes 48 hours old and Pecker/Weisselberg cooperating with prosecutors, Trump closed an economic-boosterism thread with a single clause of upbeat forecasting. The post is psychologically notable less for its content than for its timing and function: a near-perfect demonstration of denial and displacement as load-bearing defenses. The grandiose self-referential construction ("as I have always said") asserts prophetic authority — claiming cognitive dominance over events. The phrase "from even here" implicitly acknowledges external pressure, then immediately neutralizes it via predicted triumphalism — a compressed contamination-to-redemption arc executed in nine words. The seamless pivot from the heaviest legal week of the Mueller period to economic forecasting, with no apparent cognitive dissonance, is consistent with ego-syntonic grandiosity in which internal narrative maintenance takes precedence over engagement with external reality. Authorship is assessed as likely authentic based on stylistic markers and Sunday morning Bedminster timing. No deviation from Trump's established baseline pattern of economic counter-narrative during legal crisis. Danger level: none. # Analysis: x_1033722550881329152 — August 26, 2018 ## Contextual Note The t.co link is no longer resolvable (ECONNREFUSED), and the leading ellipsis marks this as the **tail of a tweet thread**, not a standalone post. Subject matter must be inferred from the surrounding tweet record. The strongest candidate antecedent is the prior-day stock market / US–Mexico trade cluster ("Stock Market hit all time high on Friday"; "Our relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour"), making this most likely a concluding flourish on economic performance. All confidence ratings below are accordingly moderated by this ambiguity. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timestamp conversion:** 14:27 UTC on Sunday, 26 August 2018. Trump spent the August recess at Bedminster, NJ (EDT, UTC−4). Local time: **10:27 AM EDT** — mid-morning on a weekend. This falls in nominally ambiguous territory: not the classic late-night window, but Sunday morning is atypical for aide-driven scheduling operations. Stylistic markers tilt the balance toward **authentic Trump**: - The **ellipsis opener ("...And it will get")** is characteristic thread-continuation syntax Trump used to extend emotional momentum across tweets rather than compose single polished statements. - **"as I have always said"** is a signature self-referential construction establishing retrospective omniscience — a quintessentially personal vanity marker that staffers rarely insert. - The sentence fragment quality (no subject, dangling continuation) is inconsistent with aide-drafted completeness norms. - **No policy content, no event announcement, no scheduling language.** **Conclusion:** Authentic Trump, with medium-high confidence. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers ### Macro context On this single calendar day: John McCain died; Pecker and Weisselberg had both been granted immunity; Cohen's plea implicating Trump in federal campaign finance crimes was less than 48 hours old; Manafort's conviction was 4 days fresh. The legal encirclement was arguably at its densest single-week concentration to date. Trump had issued a pro-forma condolence for McCain earlier the same morning. ### This post in context The pivot to upbeat economic forecasting — **"it will get, as I have always said, much better from even here"** — is psychologically legible as a **displacement and counter-narrative operation**. The phrase "from even here" is particularly revealing: it implicitly acknowledges pressure (a rare concession) while immediately reframing it as a launching pad for further ascent. This is a compressed **contamination-to-redemption pivot** — acknowledging the "here" (legal siege, institutional attack) but insisting on triumph. ### Narcissistic trigger & state **Supply-seeking with a secondary maintenance function.** No direct injury trigger is present in this post itself; the legal siege is the background stressor. The post deploys **grandiose narcissistic state** — expansive, self-confirming, forward-projecting. The "as I have always said" construction is a claim to **prophetic authority**: not merely optimism but the assertion that he predicted this trajectory, therefore validating his superior judgment. This is textbook **narcissistic supply cultivation** — establishing himself as uniquely prescient to an audience primed to validate him. --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Denial** | Pathological | The entire framing elides the Cohen/Manafort/Pecker/Weisselberg cascade entirely; economic boasting substitutes for engagement with documented legal jeopardy | | **Rationalization** | Neurotic | "As I have always said" retroactively converts current circumstances into a predicted, controlled outcome | | **Displacement** | Neurotic | Emotional energy that might be directed at legal crisis is rechanneled into economic triumphalism | --- ## Multi-Level Personality Framework ### Level 1: Traits - **Extraversion:** High — assertiveness and positive-affect performance. - **Neuroticism:** Suppressed/masked in this post; not absent given context. - **Agreeableness:** Very low; the post is self-referential, not other-oriented. - **Conscientiousness:** Moderate; thread continuation shows some compositional effort. - **Openness:** Low; no novel ideas, pure repetition of existing theme. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive dominant:** The claim of predictive authority ("as I have always said") is a pure power/status expression — asserting cognitive dominance over events. - **Communion motive:** Negligible. No warmth, no shared experience framing. - **Schema:** Self as singular economic oracle. World as confirming his predictions. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The Unfailingly Correct Predictor / Returning Winner - **Narrative sequence:** Compressed contamination-to-redemption: "even here" acknowledges low point; "much better" asserts the comeback is both inevitable and predicted. - **Identity claim:** *I am the one who always saw what others couldn't. Even at the nadir, I knew.* - **Contrasting other:** Implicit — the doubters, the critics, those who thought the legal siege would break him. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators The self-referential omniscience construction is consistent with **narcissistic personality features (grandiosity, entitlement to credit)**. The seamless pivot from a day of maximum legal exposure to economic triumphalism without cognitive dissonance or apparent distress is consistent with the **ego-syntonic quality** of the grandiose narcissistic state — external reality is subordinated to internal narrative maintenance. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Prolepsis / anticipatory boast:** Claims future improvement as already ensured. - **Self-citation as authority ("as I have always said"):** Frames speaker as the original, correct source — replaces evidence with personal history of prediction. - **Understatement as emphasis:** "from even here" — the minimization of the "here" paradoxically signals confidence. - **Ellipsis as emotional momentum:** The "..." opener creates the sensation of a thought already in progress, drawing the reader into a conversation they didn't witness the beginning of. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No propagandistic targeting. --- ## Cognitive Status **Insufficient data for reliable assessment.** The post is a single incomplete sentence with no diagnostic surface area for word-finding, syntactic complexity, or temporal orientation markers. No deviations noted within the post, but the brevity prevents any inference. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Minimal in this post specifically. The economic framing is standard boosterism; no documented facts are contradicted within the post itself. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "It will get much better from even here (implicit: economy/markets will continue improving)" | **Half True** | S&P 500 did continue rising through September–October 2018 before a significant December 2018 correction. Short-term partially correct, medium-term misleading. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **None.** No targeting, no grievance articulation against persons, no violent imagery. --- ## Summary On the day of John McCain's death, with Michael Cohen's federal guilty plea implicating him in campaign finance crimes just 48 hours old, and with Pecker and Weisselberg both cooperating with federal prosecutors, Trump posted what appears to be the closing tweet in an economic-boosterism thread — pivoting entirely from legal siege to upbeat economic forecasting. The post is psychologically notable less for its content than for its timing and function: a near-perfect demonstration of denial and displacement as load-bearing defenses, with the grandiose self-referential construction ("as I have always said") serving as the rhetorical backbone. The "from even here" construction implicitly acknowledges pressure while immediately neutralizing it via predicted triumphalism. The post is likely authentic Trump based on stylistic markers and Sunday morning timing at Bedminster. No clinical deviation from his established baseline is evident; this pattern of economic counter-narrative during legal crisis is consistent across the 2018 period. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - Ellipsis opener suggesting organic thread continuation rather than standalone aide-drafted post - Self-referential omniscience construction ('as I have always said') — a signature personal vanity marker rarely inserted by aides - Fragment syntax: no independent subject, dangling continuation style - No policy content, scheduling language, or event announcement - Sunday 10:27 AM EDT at Bedminster — ambiguous timing but weekend relaxes aide-posting norms ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Background legal siege (Cohen plea, Manafort conviction, Pecker/Weisselberg cooperation) as ambient stressor; post functions as counter-narrative supply-seeking) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Retrospective omniscience ('as I have always said') draws audience into confirming his superior judgment - Open-ended optimism ('much better from even here') invites followers to project their own hopes onto the forecast - Ellipsis continuation creates intimacy — reader joins a conversation already in progress ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-15._ > It will get much better from even here (implicit: economy/markets will continue improving) **HALF TRUE** S&P 500 did continue rising through September–October 2018 before a significant December 2018 correction. Short-term partially correct, medium-term misleading. Sources: S&P 500 historical data 2018 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - economic_boosterism (80%) - grandiose_narcissism (60%) - denial_displacement (70%) - self_citation_authority (75%) - counter_narrative (80%) - thread_continuation (70%) - supply_seeking (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Economy as Fortress: A Day of Strategic Silence on McCain, Cohen, and Legal Encirclement** Trump posted just four times on the day after John McCain's death -- an unusually quiet Sunday from Bedminster. A brief, impersonal condolence the previous evening gave way to a morning of relentless economic cheerleading, with no mention of McCain's legacy, Cohen's guilty plea, or the growing cooperator network around the president. The day's mood was defensive grandiosity masked as business-as-usual optimism, with the economy serving as a psychological shield against the most legally dangerous week of the presidency so far. Full digest for 2018-08-26: https://trump.fm/date/2018-08-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, August 26). ...And it will get, as I have always said, much... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1033722550881329152 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "...And it will get, as I have always said, much better from..." X (Twitter), 26 Aug. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1033722550881329152. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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