# Post x_1148559446030921700 - Post ID: `x_1148559446030921700` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2019-07-09T15:48:05.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1148559446030921700 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1148559446030921700/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1148559446030921700.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ....and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger.....Thank you, Mr. President! ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 10,811 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.062Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-17T21:36:48.954Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This continuation tweet — context-incomplete, beginning mid-thought — serves as a textbook supply-seeking post: grandiose, internally consistent, and free of adversarial content. Its primary clinical signal is the illeistic self-congratulation ("Thank you, Mr. President!"), a recurring Trump rhetorical fingerprint in which he thanks himself by presidential title. This maneuver simultaneously enacts grandiosity and performs institutional authority, collapsing the distinction between personal ego and the office itself. The absence of enemy-identification is notable given the contemporaneous Trump-Rapinoe feud and Epstein arrest — both active narcissistic threat contexts on this date — suggesting deliberate emotional compartmentalization or a post timed to a different news cycle beat. Stylistically authentic (multi-ellipsis continuation, illeism), despite business-hours posting timestamp. Cognitive indicators unremarkable; no deviation from established baseline. Danger level: none. Not clinically significant beyond baseline grandiosity maintenance. # Psychological Analysis: x_1148559446030921700 **Platform:** Twitter/X | **Date:** 2019-07-09 | **Subject Age:** 73 --- ## Overview This is a continuation tweet — the leading "....and" signals it follows a prior post not captured in the provided context window. Without the antecedent tweet, the referent of "both" remains ambiguous, though the most contextually probable candidates (given same-day posts about the U.S. economy and trade) are two economic indicators or policy domains. The substantive analytical signal here is not factual content but the rhetorical structure, particularly the closing self-congratulation. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.72 (likely authentic) | Confidence: Medium** Posting time of 11:48 AM EDT (Washington D.C., a weekday) places this squarely in business hours, slightly favoring aide involvement. However, two idiosyncratic markers override this: (1) the multi-ellipsis continuation format Trump characteristically uses to bridge split tweets, and (2) the illeistic self-congratulation — "Thank you, Mr. President!" — which functions as a near-biometric authorship signature. Aides do not routinely write Trump thanking himself by title. Most parsimonious explanation: Trump authored or dictated this directly. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion (High):** Assertive self-display, public celebration - **Agreeableness (Low):** No acknowledgment of others' contributions; sole credit claimed - **Conscientiousness:** Not assessable from this fragment - **Neuroticism (Low in this instance):** No anxiety, threat-response, or hostility present - **Openness:** Not assessable ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Agency/Power.** The post is a status-maintenance ritual: reinforcing Trump's causal role in positive outcomes. - **Schema:** World improves under Trump's stewardship; he is the animating force behind positive trends. - **Goal:** Accumulation of narcissistic supply through audience-witnessed self-congratulation. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Benevolent King / Architect of Prosperity - **Narrative sequence:** Implicit redemption — "getting bigger, better, stronger" implies a prior state of decline now reversed. - **Identity claims:** Competent, effective, deserving of gratitude (even from himself) - **Contrasting other:** Absent in this post — no enemy is invoked, unusual relative to baseline - **Redemption arc:** Upward trajectory framing ("only getting bigger") positions the present as triumphant continuation of a corrective project. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Features:** The illeistic closing is a clinically notable grandiosity marker. Self-referential use of the presidential title to deliver self-congratulation represents a blurring of the distinction between institutional role and personal ego — the presidency becomes an extension of the self rather than a temporary trust. This is consistent with entitlement and grandiosity features of NPD (DSM-5 301.81), though a single post cannot bear diagnostic weight. **Antisocial/Paranoid/Sadistic Features:** Absent in this post. --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Idealization | Immature | Superlative self-attribution ("bigger, better, stronger") with no nuance or qualification | | Rationalization | Neurotic | Third-person framing provides social-acceptability cover for direct self-praise | --- ## Cognitive Status **Complexity score relative to baseline:** Below baseline. The post is syntactically simple, relying on a fragmented structure and stock superlatives. However, as a continuation tweet its assessed complexity is artificially suppressed; the full thought may be more complex. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion is evident. **Ellipsis use:** Consistent with established Trump formatting conventions; not a cognitive marker in isolation. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The architecture is economical: rule of three ("bigger, better, stronger") provides memorability without specificity; the illeistic close ("Thank you, Mr. President!") performs gratitude while simultaneously asserting that gratitude is owed. The absence of any falsifiable specific claim immunizes the post against rebuttal. The fragmented continuation format creates an impression of a larger, ongoing argument even when the antecedent is not visible to casual readers. **No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators.** --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger" | **Unverifiable** | No specific referent identified; 'both' requires antecedent tweet not available in context. Claim is evaluative/vague rather than factual. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No enemy identification, no mobilization language, no dehumanization, no eliminationist rhetoric. This is a purely self-celebratory post with no threat vector. --- ## Contextual Note The July 9, 2019 period was rich with significant events (Epstein arrest, USWNT World Cup victory, California earthquakes, Iran nuclear escalation, Trump-Rapinoe feud). This post conspicuously engages with none of them, suggesting either temporal isolation from those events or deliberate avoidance. The Trump-Rapinoe feud in particular — an active narcissistic injury context — makes the absence of adversarial content in this post notable. The "Thank you, Mr. President!" framing is internally consistent with the July 4th "Salute to America" post-event glow, suggesting this continuation may reference military/national strength metrics celebrated in that context. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Multiple trailing ellipses ('....and', '.....') are a well-documented Trump stylistic fingerprint - Illeistic self-congratulation ('Thank you, Mr. President!') is a recurring authentic Trump pattern not replicated by aides - Fragmented continuation structure (beginning mid-thought with 'and') consistent with Trump's stream-of-consciousness multi-tweet style - Posting time 11:48 AM EDT (business hours) slightly favors aide involvement - However, the self-referential closing is too idiosyncratic for standard aide authorship ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (unspecified policy achievement or economic metric (antecedent tweet not in context)) Sentiment: +0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated self-referential affect - Superlative framing without qualification - Self-congratulatory energy without apparent trigger visible in this post ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Audience enrollment via shared celebration — 'they are both...stronger' positions followers as co-beneficiaries of achievements attributed to Trump ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-17._ > they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger **UNVERIFIABLE** No specific referent identified; 'both' requires antecedent tweet not available in context. Claim is evaluative/vague rather than factual. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - illeism (90%) - grandiosity (70%) - supply-seeking (80%) - self-congratulation (90%) - continuation-tweet (60%) - no-adversarial-content (50%) - rule-of-three (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Ambassador Darroch Becomes Collateral Damage as Trump Converts Diplomatic Criticism into Public Destruction Campaign** Trump spent the day in a mix of diplomatic business and combative counterattacks. The sharpest moment came late morning when he launched a three-post broadside against UK Ambassador Kim Darroch, calling him "wacky," "very stupid," and a "pompous fool" — retaliation for leaked cables that called the administration "inept." The rest of the day was a steady stream of Fox News amplification, economic boasting, and grievance about the Supreme Court blocking his census citizenship question. Notably absent from the entire day's output: any mention of Jeffrey Epstein, whose arrest days earlier was dominating the news cycle. Full digest for 2019-07-09: https://trump.fm/date/2019-07-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, July 9). ....and they are both only getting bigger, better... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1148559446030921700 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "....and they are both only getting bigger, better and..." X (Twitter), 9 Jul. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1148559446030921700. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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