# Post x_1181935014709203000 - Post ID: `x_1181935014709203000` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2019-10-09T18:10:41.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1181935014709203000 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1181935014709203000/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1181935014709203000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Crooked Hillary should try it again! https://t.co/UjfIpZp1FA ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 21,726 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:25.053Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-18T18:15:37.583Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted on arguably the most legally acute day of the Ukraine/impeachment crisis, this brief taunt is a textbook example of crisis displacement. Rather than addressing the catastrophes simultaneously closing in — judge orders tax return release, second whistleblower emerges, Giuliani associates arrested, diplomat texts published — Trump pivots to a 2016 adversary who holds no current office. "Crooked Hillary should try it again!" serves three simultaneous functions: displacement of acute anxiety onto a symbolically safe and historically defeatable target; narcissistic supply-seeking by activating base enthusiasm through a familiar rallying cry; and grandiose self-positioning as the unchallengeable incumbent at precisely the moment when his position is most challenged. The pejorative label functions less as political commentary than as tribal signal and self-soothing mechanism — cognitive and emotional rigidity applying the same 2016 schema unchanged to a qualitatively different political landscape. Authorship is stylistically authentic though timing falls in business hours. The post's mild hypomania indicator — a taunting, expansive tone during objective crisis — reflects the grandiose narcissistic pole operating in parallel to the vulnerable pole evident in adjacent same-day tweets about "Dem Hoaxes" and "Scams." No danger indicators present. # Psychological Analysis: "Crooked Hillary should try it again!" ## Context & Situational Framing This post arrives on one of the most legally and politically saturated days of Trump's presidency to that point. Within a 24-hour window: a federal judge ordered his tax returns released; a second whistleblower with firsthand knowledge emerged; Giuliani's associates were arrested at Dulles Airport with one-way tickets; House Democrats released diplomat texts explicitly linking military aid to Biden investigations; and the White House formally refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. The post is, in context, a near-perfect specimen of **crisis displacement** — when existential pressure accumulates, redirect the audience toward a legacy adversary. The linked URL (t.co shortlink, not fetched per protocol) almost certainly references contemporaneous media speculation — significant in October 2019 — that Hillary Clinton might enter the 2020 Democratic primary. The phrase "try it again" makes little grammatical sense without that referent, confirming the link is substantive rather than decorative. The analysis proceeds on the inference that the link concerns Clinton's potential 2020 candidacy. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (high):** The post is assertive, declarative, public-facing, and seeks engagement through provocation rather than information. **Agreeableness (very low):** "Crooked Hillary" signals contempt and rejection of the minimal social contract that would avoid degrading epithets for political opponents. No modesty, no charity, no trust extended. **Conscientiousness (low):** The post is impulsive and stylistically unpolished — no argument, no evidence, no deliberation. It functions as emotional ejection rather than reasoned communication. **Neuroticism (elevated):** The simultaneous posting of multiple hostile, reactive tweets across the same day (Schiff is "a disgrace," ICIG is enabling a "Dem Hoax," etc.) suggests elevated angry hostility and impulsive expression consistent with stress-reactive neuroticism. **Openness (low):** The post recycles a 2016 adversary and 2016 rhetorical patterns. No novelty, no integration of new information. Cognitive closure toward the familiar enemy schema. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals, Motives, Schemas **Agency motive dominant:** The post asserts dominance through the taunt. "Should try it again" implies confidence in a repeat victory — an assertion of power and status over a named adversary. This is supply-seeking behavior calibrated to activate base response (cheering, re-engagement) at a moment when the base needs rallying. **Self-schema:** The implied protagonist is a winner who beat Clinton once and would do so again — the framing positions him as unchallengeable, at precisely the moment he is most challenged. **Other-schema:** Clinton is permanently coded as "Crooked" — a stable, invariant label that forecloses new information. She is not a person but a symbolic object in his narrative architecture. **World-schema:** The political world is an endless contest in which the same enemies keep returning and must be continuously defeated. No resolution is ever final. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The undefeated champion, the inevitable winner. By taunting Clinton to run again, he casts himself as a figure so formidable that his defining adversary would be foolish to face him twice. **Redemption/Contamination:** Redemption sequence implied — the 2016 victory (triumph) is invoked as the normative state to which any future contest will return. The current impeachment crisis is narratively subordinated to this master story. **Identity claims:** "I beat her. I will beat her again. Nothing has changed." **Contrasting other:** Clinton serves as the permanent shadow-other — the avatar of the establishment, the female antagonist, the perennial loser. Her symbolic function is to make him the perennial winner. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury cascade. The simultaneous arrival of multiple legal and political threats (tax returns, whistleblowers, diplomat texts, arrests) constitutes a multi-front assault on grandiose self-image. The post represents supply-seeking and preemptive attack combined — invoking Clinton simultaneously rallies the base and creates a scapegoat narrative. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent in this specific post; the tone is taunting rather than enraged. The rage appears distributed across the same-day tweets (Schiff is "a disgrace"; ICIG enabling "Scam"; references to unfair treatment). This post occupies the grandiose rather than the vulnerable pole. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — the taunt projects confidence and contempt rather than victimhood, though the simultaneous tweets reveal the vulnerable state underneath. ### Defense Mechanisms **Displacement (neurotic):** Primary defense. Redirects anxiety generated by existential legal threats (tax returns, impeachment) onto a safer symbolic target (Clinton) against whom a victory narrative already exists. **Denial (pathological):** The post implicitly denies the severity of the surrounding crisis by treating the political moment as an opportunity to relitigate 2016. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The unstated logic: "The real story isn't impeachment, it's Clinton — she might run, and I'd win again." This restructures a defensive crouch into an offensive taunt. ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** High — grandiosity ("try it again"), contempt via nickname, sense of dominance - **Antisocial features:** Mild — no overt rule violation in this post, but the pejorative label is mild contempt for social norms - **Paranoid features:** Minimal in *this* post specifically; paranoid ideation appears in the adjacent tweets ("Dem Hoax," "Scam") - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild — the taunt has a playful cruelty to it, as though humiliating Clinton is sport --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **"Crooked Hillary":** Pejorative nickname serving as semantic injection — bypasses evaluative cognition in receivers already primed to the label. Functions as a loyalty/tribal signal (in-group recognizes and responds to the code). **Whataboutism:** The post's implicit logic is classic deflection — amid an impeachment inquiry, "look over there at Clinton." This is a rhetorical judo move: redirect scrutiny toward a pre-established villain. **Supply-seeking provocation:** "Should try it again!" invites audience engagement (agreement, enthusiasm, mocking laughter at Clinton's expense). The exclamation point is an emotional engagement marker. **Appeal to past victory:** Implicit nostalgia for 2016 as the baseline emotional state. The post activates positive affective memories in the base. **False framing:** Positions Clinton as the relevant political actor when she holds no office and has announced no candidacy. This is agenda-setting through adversary selection. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 18:10 = 2:10 PM Eastern (Trump was in Washington, DC, dealing with the Syria/Turkey crisis and impeachment responses). This is solidly within business hours. **Style markers:** "Crooked Hillary" is a highly authentic Trump lexical item — stable across years of use. The post is short, punchy, emotionally reactive, and grammatically simple. The exclamation mark is characteristic. The lack of any complex construction or elaboration fits authentic Trump style. **Verdict:** Mixed signals. The timing (2:10 PM ET) points toward aide-mediated posting. The style is deeply authentic. Most likely scenario: Trump dictated or directly composed this and it was posted during staff-monitored hours, or it represents a batch-style authentic post during an active tweeting session (multiple other posts on the same day display similarly authentic characteristics). Confidence: **medium** that this represents Trump's own words; **low-medium** that he personally hit send at that moment. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality. The post is brief to the point of providing minimal data. Syntactic complexity is very low, consistent with Trump's established baseline. No deviation detected. Perseveration on "Crooked Hillary" is noted as a long-running pattern, not acute cognitive change. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** for this specific post. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization beyond the nickname level, no implied calls to action, no violent imagery. The post is psychologically interesting but not behaviorally dangerous. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "'Crooked Hillary' as a characterization of Hillary Clinton" | **Unverifiable** | Pejorative epithet, not a factual claim subject to verification. Represents a stable rhetorical label deployed since 2016. | | "Implied: Hillary Clinton should/might run for president again" | **Unverifiable** | Contemporaneous October 2019 media speculation about Clinton entering the 2020 Democratic primary was real and widely reported, but Clinton had not announced a candidacy. The linked URL likely references this speculation. Claim is a taunt/suggestion, not a factual assertion. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary Posted on arguably the most acute day of the Ukraine/impeachment crisis, this brief taunt is a textbook example of crisis displacement. Rather than addressing the legal and political catastrophes simultaneously closing in — judge orders tax return release, second whistleblower emerges, Giuliani associates arrested, diplomat texts published — Trump pivots to a 2016 adversary who holds no current office. "Crooked Hillary should try it again!" serves three simultaneous functions: displacement of acute anxiety onto a symbolically safe and historically defeatable target; narcissistic supply-seeking by activating base enthusiasm through a familiar rallying cry; and grandiose self-positioning as the unchallengeable incumbent at precisely the moment when his position is most challenged. The use of the stable pejorative "Crooked Hillary" signals cognitive and emotional rigidity — the same schema deployed in 2016 is applied unchanged in 2019, suggesting the label functions more as a tribal signal and self-soothing mechanism than as meaningful political commentary. Authorship is stylistically authentic though timing falls in business hours. No danger indicators present. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Use of established pejorative nickname 'Crooked Hillary' — stable across years of authentic Trump posts - Exclamation mark emotional punctuation consistent with authentic style - Very short, punchy, non-elaborated construction matching authentic Trump baseline - Posted 2:10 PM ET — business hours, slightly favors aide mediation - Part of a dense same-day tweet cluster suggesting an active personal session ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Simultaneous legal and political crises: tax return ruling, second whistleblower, Giuliani associate arrests, diplomat text releases, impeachment inquiry escalation) Sentiment: -0.45 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Dense same-day tweet cluster covering multiple adversaries and topics - Elevated reactive posting frequency consistent with stress-driven hypomanic presentation - Grandiose taunt during acute crisis — affect incongruent with objective circumstances ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Tribal signal activation via established nickname - Invitation to collective mockery of shared adversary - Rally-cry function — invokes 2016 victory memory to generate enthusiasm ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-18._ > 'Crooked Hillary' as a characterization of Hillary Clinton **UNVERIFIABLE** Pejorative epithet, not a factual claim subject to verification. Represents a stable rhetorical label deployed since 2016. > Implied: Hillary Clinton should/might run for president again **UNVERIFIABLE** Contemporaneous October 2019 media speculation about Clinton entering the 2020 Democratic primary was real and widely reported, but Clinton had not announced a candidacy. The linked URL likely references this speculation. Claim is a taunt/suggestion, not a factual assertion. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - displacement (90%) - whataboutism (85%) - crisis_deflection (88%) - crooked_hillary (80%) - grandiose_narcissism (65%) - supply_seeking (75%) - impeachment_context (90%) - tribal_signaling (80%) - epistemic_closure (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Besieged on All Fronts, Trump Mounts a 36-Post Defensive Barrage Through the Night** Trump spent the day under the heaviest simultaneous legal and political pressure of his presidency — associates arrested, a second whistleblower surfacing, damaging diplomat texts released, and a court ordering his tax returns disclosed. He responded with a marathon posting session that began well after midnight and stretched through the evening, cycling between furious attacks on the whistleblower, defenses of his Syria withdrawal, and oddly calm detours into Louisiana politics, California gas prices, and Hillary Clinton taunts. The most striking pattern was the sheer scatter — no single coherent message emerged, just reactive fire in every direction. He also posted the same Obama attack nearly word-for-word fourteen hours apart, apparently without noticing. Full digest for 2019-10-09: https://trump.fm/date/2019-10-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2019, October 9). Crooked Hillary should try it again!... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1181935014709203000 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Hillary should try it again! https://t.co/UjfIpZp1FA" X (Twitter), 9 Oct. 2019. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1181935014709203000. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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