# Post x_1218692649294737400 - Post ID: `x_1218692649294737400` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-01-19T05:32:24.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: yes, 2026-02-01T01:33:24.802Z (UTC) - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1218692649294737400 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1218692649294737400/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1218692649294737400.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > ....BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME! ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 1,335 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.802Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T04:18:39.490Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 05:32 → ~00:32 AM EST (Palm Beach / Mar-a-Lago, Trump's typical January weekend location). This falls squarely in the late-night authentic window. The leading quadruple-ellipsis ("....") is a structural thread connector linking this fragment directly to the immediately preceding Krugman tweet, which closed with "...those are the FACTS....". Read as a unit: *"Sorry, those are the FACTS....BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"* This threading technique, combined with ALL CAPS emphasis and the exclamatory close, are high-confidence authentic Trump markers. Aide-written posts do not typically begin with ellipsis fragments at half past midnight. --- ## Post Context This seven-word fragment is the punctuation-mark conclusion of a multi-tweet early-morning session (five posts within a short window on January 19, 2020). The cluster spans economic self-promotion (stock markets, trade), Democratic primary schadenfreude, and media attacks — all at midnight-to-1 AM local time. This is a characteristic hypomanic tweet-storm pattern: rapid-fire, emotionally reactive, thematically scattered, and temporally compressed. The macro-context is significant: Trump's Senate impeachment trial was effectively underway (articles delivered January 15, senators sworn January 16). The post arrives during a period of maximum political threat. Yet the affective register is pure triumphalism. --- ## Psychological State and Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking combined with preemptive defense. The broader tweet cluster suggests Trump was monitoring media coverage late at night — the Krugman tweet is reactive to an economic critic — and the "BEST IS YET TO COME" coda functions as a self-soothing grandiose affirmation in the face of impeachment anxiety. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. There is zero acknowledgment of adversity, legal jeopardy, or complexity. The post asserts total forward momentum with no hedging. This is consistent with the defensive grandiosity Kernberg describes as a characteristic response to narcissistic injury — the self expands rather than contracts when threatened. **Defense Mechanisms:** The primary defense is *denial* — the impeachment trial is structurally absent from awareness, replaced by an unbounded promise of future greatness. Secondary is *distortion* — reality is shaped entirely around self-aggrandizement. The phrase "THE BEST IS YET TO COME" is a reality-distorting claim that insists the trajectory is only upward, at a moment when the subject faces removal from office. **Parasocial Technique:** Future-promise bonding. By positioning followers as co-beneficiaries of forthcoming triumphs ("the best"), the post sustains parasocial investment. Followers are invited to stay tuned, to remain attached, to anticipate shared victory. This is a maintenance technique that costs nothing (the claim is unfalsifiable) and delivers continuous supply. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) The post is the distilled essence of Trump's redemption narrative architecture: whatever the current conditions, transformation upward is inevitable and imminent. He casts himself as the Promethory protagonist of an ongoing ascent story — the protagonist role is **winner/savior**. The contrasting other is implicit (critics, doubters, the Krugman figure from the prior tweet) against whom the triumphant future is asserted. The narrative sequence is unambiguously **redemption** — the "FACTS" of the prior tweet (stock records) serve as the evidence, and the future promise extends the arc. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Future-promise rhetoric:** "The best is yet to come" is an empirically unfalsifiable claim functioning as perpetual hope-maintenance. It cannot be disproven and renews indefinitely. - **ALL CAPS:** Typographic excitement amplifier; creates urgency and emphasis without substantive content. - **Ellipsis threading:** Structural device borrowing the momentum of the prior evidentiary claim to deliver the emotional payload. - **Hyperbole via superlative implication:** "The BEST" implies a comparative superiority that is asserted without evidence. - **Brevity as punch:** Seven words deliver maximum emotional impact relative to informational content — a compression technique that maximizes shareability. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Cognitive Indicators This fragment is too brief for reliable cognitive assessment. Syntactic complexity is minimal, but this is attributable to the deliberate rhetorical architecture of a thread-closing one-liner rather than a cognitive indicator. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration is detectable. The post's appearance in a rapid multi-tweet cluster is the more clinically informative datum — compressed, reactive late-night posting is consistent with the pressured quality documented across other high-stimulus periods. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No targeting, dehumanization, eliminationist language, mobilization cues, or violent imagery are present. --- ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 00:32 AM local time (Mar-a-Lago EST) — deep in authentic late-night window - Quadruple ellipsis thread connector ('....') linking to prior tweet — authentic threading technique - ALL CAPS construction throughout - Single exclamatory fragment — no polish, no grammatical completeness - Part of rapid-fire multi-tweet cluster typical of authentic late-night sessions ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Impeachment trial stress combined with late-night media monitoring) Sentiment: +0.82 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Five rapid-fire tweets in compressed late-night window - ALL CAPS throughout - Thematically scattered cluster (economics, Democratic primary, media, economic optimism) - Post-midnight posting during high-stress impeachment period ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Future-promise bonding: followers positioned as co-beneficiaries of forthcoming triumphs - Unfalsifiable optimism as perpetual parasocial investment maintenance - Affective contagion via typographic excitement (ALL CAPS, exclamation) ## Tags - grandiosity (75%) - supply-seeking (70%) - denial (72%) - future-promise (85%) - thread-fragment (90%) - late-night-authentic (88%) - impeachment-period (80%) - tweet-storm (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Midnight Displacement: Impeachment Eve Drives Five-Hour Grandiose Posting Marathon** Trump spent the late evening and early morning hours at Mar-a-Lago flooding social media with boasts about approval ratings, stock market records, and attacks on Paul Krugman — all while his Senate impeachment trial was formally underway. The most striking feature was the triple-posting of the same Krugman attack and its "BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME!" closer, suggesting either agitation or compulsive repetition. Impeachment itself was mentioned only once, dismissively, at 2:12 AM — the last post before a long silence. He resurfaced in the late afternoon in a calmer, campaigning mode, announcing a trip to Texas. Full digest for 2020-01-19: https://trump.fm/date/2020-01-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, January 19). ....BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME! [Deleted social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1218692649294737400 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "....BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME!" X (Twitter), 19 Jan. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1218692649294737400. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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