Analysis: Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andre...

7y ago Aug 24, 2019 at 7:24 PM

Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway. Would be extended to East 125th Street in Harlem. Long in the making, they now have the team that can get it done!

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-18. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

10%

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

Post time 21:24 local (Biarritz, France) — evening, outside authentic late-night window
Grammatically complete, no typos or misspellings
Substantive policy specificity (correct project name, correct street/neighborhood)
Collegial tone toward Democratic governor — atypical for Trump
No ALL CAPS, no emotional escalation

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance (Communications staff image management following high-controversy day)

Sentiment

+0.65

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

20%

Antisocial

Paranoid

Sadism

Defense Mechanisms:

displacementreaction formation

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

45%

Fact Checks (3)

"Second Avenue Subway is 'partially built'"

True

Phase 1 (96th–63rd St) opened January 2017; Phase 2 tunneling and partial infrastructure existed at time of posting

"Extension would go to East 125th Street in Harlem"

True

Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway was officially planned to extend from 96th Street to 125th Street in East Harlem

"Implied federal readiness to fund and complete the project"

Mostly False

No formal federal funding agreement for Phase 2 existed at time of posting; the statement is aspirational. Phase 2 remained unfunded and did not enter construction.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Analysis: Second Avenue Subway Post — August 24, 2019

Authorship Attribution

Assessment: Aide-authored (confidence: medium)

Trump was at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France (CEST, UTC+2) on this date. The 19:24 UTC timestamp converts to 21:24 local time — early evening rather than the late-night window associated with authentic Trump posts. This is not dispositive alone, but combined with stylometric evidence, it shifts the attribution substantially toward staff.

Stylometric markers strongly suggest aide authorship:

Grammatically complete sentences, no typos, no misspellings
No ALL CAPS, no emotional escalation
Correct policy detail (project name, extension street, neighborhood)
Collegial, cooperative tone toward a Democratic governor — highly atypical for Trump's authentic voice
Subject matter (NYC transit infrastructure) is incongruous with Trump's demonstrated preoccupations on this date (defending the "chosen one" remark, retweeting King of Israel comparisons, attacking Powell, confronting the Denmark fiasco)

The only residual Trump marker is the closing clause — "they now have the team that can get it done!" — which carries his characteristic implicit credit-claiming: forward positive outcomes are attributed to the arrival of his administration.

Psychological Context

The psychological significance of this post lies not in its content but in its function. August 24, 2019 was an extraordinarily high-controversy day: Trump had defended calling himself "the chosen one," retweeted comparisons to the King of Israel and the Second Coming, accused Jewish Democrats of "disloyalty," ordered American companies out of China, compared Fed Chair Powell to an enemy, and cancelled a state visit over Greenland. This post, appearing mid-afternoon U.S. Eastern time, operates as deliberate tonal counterweight — a mechanism of displacement at the communications-strategy level.

Defense Mechanisms

Displacement (neurotic): The subject of civic infrastructure serves as a clean, positive register that deflects media and public attention from the day's inflammatory outputs.
Reaction formation (neurotic): Cooperation with a Democratic governor (Cuomo) maximally contrasts with same-day divisive, hostile content, performing a brief statesmanlike persona.

Rhetorical Techniques

The post employs a civic-partnership register: collaborative framing ("Looking forward to helping"), historical contextualization legitimizing the project ("Long in the making"), and mild self-aggrandizement in the closing. No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, or violent imagery are present. The post is rhetorically inert by Trump-output standards.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Second Avenue Subway is 'partially built'"	True	Phase 1 (96th–63rd St) opened January 2017; Phase 2 tunneling and partial infrastructure existed at time of posting
"Extension would go to East 125th Street in Harlem"	True	Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway was officially planned to extend from 96th Street to 125th Street in East Harlem
"Implied federal readiness to fund and complete the project"	Mostly False	No formal federal funding agreement for Phase 2 existed at time of posting; the statement is aspirational. Phase 2 remained unfunded and did not enter construction.

Overall Veracity: 73%

Longitudinal Note

This post represents one of the clearest examples in the dataset of a tonal outlier consistent with staff generation. It warrants flagging as a methodological artifact when building longitudinal psychological profiles: applying personality-level analysis to likely aide-authored content risks contaminating the baseline.