# Post x_1260185657395339300

- Post ID: `x_1260185657395339300`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-05-12T16:30:48.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1260185657395339300
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1260185657395339300/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1260185657395339300.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wisconsin, please get out NOW and vote for Tom Tiffany for Congress. A great guy!

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 23,113
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.825Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T07:08:52.578Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Psychological Analysis: Wisconsin GOTV Endorsement (May 12, 2020)

## Overview

This is a 14-word functional get-out-the-vote post on behalf of Tom Tiffany, who was running in the Wisconsin 7th Congressional District special election held on this date. It represents the floor of analytical interest in Trump's corpus — a minimal, time-sensitive political communication with negligible psychological content.

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Likely aide-written (Scavino), confidence medium.**

Posted at 12:30 PM EDT, this falls in the business-hours window most consistent with staff-authored content. The post is grammatically correct, structurally clean, and serves a clear logistical function tied to election day. These are hallmarks of Scavino's operational style. The lone ALL CAPS "NOW" and the idiomatic "A great guy!" are authentic Trumpian vocal markers, but both are easily imitable and frequently appear in verified Scavino-authored posts. No typos, no stream-of-consciousness drift, no emotional reactivity.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

Extraversion (assertiveness facet) is the only salient Big Five signal — the imperative construction ("get out NOW") reflects habitual dominance framing even in routine contexts. Neuroticism is effectively zero; there is no anxious, hostile, or impulsive content.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The post is driven by **agency motives** — specifically power and status. The act of endorsing a congressional candidate on election day encodes the assumption that presidential attention is electorally determinative. This is consistent with baseline narcissistic entitlement but unremarkable given Trump's actual electoral influence in this period.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

Trump casts himself implicitly as **kingmaker** — the authority whose word can move voters. No redemption or contamination sequence. No contrasting other. The narrative is maximally compressed.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**None observable.** The post is too short and too routine to reveal clinical patterns. No rage, no paranoid ideation, no grandiose decompensation, no cognitive anomalies.

## Rhetorical Analysis

Sparse. The only persuasive mechanism is **appeal to authority** (Trump's endorsement as a credibility transfer vehicle). The urgency marker "NOW" creates mild affective pressure appropriate to election-day context. "A great guy!" is the Trumpian superlative at its most diluted — content-free positive affect.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism signals, no mobilization beyond legal electoral participation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Tom Tiffany is running for Congress in Wisconsin" | **True** | Tom Tiffany ran in the May 12, 2020 special election for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District and won, succeeding Sean Duffy. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Contextual Note

Against the day's other posts — which show engagement with the Flynn DOJ dismissal, "Obamagate" framing, COVID testing claims, and grievance responses to Republican pundits — this post is an island of functional, low-affect political mechanics. The contrast with the same-day posts suggests this was staff-scheduled and deployed independently of Trump's emotional state, which elsewhere on May 12 shows moderate-to-high activation.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 12:30 PM EDT (midday, business hours in Washington DC)
- Polished, grammatically correct sentence structure
- Functional election-day call-to-action format consistent with Scavino scheduling
- No typos or stream-of-consciousness quality
- However, ALL CAPS 'NOW' and 'A great guy!' are characteristic Trumpian micro-superlatives

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Wisconsin special election (Tom Tiffany, WI-7))

Sentiment: +0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct geographic address ('Wisconsin') to mobilize in-group members
- Authority-lending endorsement ('A great guy!') leveraging personal credibility

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Tom Tiffany is running for Congress in Wisconsin

**TRUE**

Tom Tiffany ran in the May 12, 2020 special election for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District and won, succeeding Sean Duffy.

Sources: General knowledge — 2020 Wisconsin special election

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- political-endorsement (90%)
- gotv (90%)
- election-day (85%)
- likely-aide-authored (70%)
- low-intensity (95%)
- routine-maintenance (90%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Pre-Dawn Conspiracy Blitz and Sustained Multi-Front Attack Campaign Mark a Day of Maximal Narcissistic Activation**

Trump ran several attack campaigns simultaneously — a baseless conspiracy theory accusing Obama of unspecified crimes, a repeated accusation that a TV host committed murder, and broad assaults on the press as "enemies of the people." He was posting as late as 3:36 AM and fired off 23 posts in a single three-and-a-half-hour morning window. Mixed in were routine endorsements, COVID testing boasts, and self-congratulatory slogans, but the day's center of gravity was grievance and retaliation. The most alarming posts targeted Joe Scarborough with a fabricated murder conspiracy, continuing even after the victim's widower had publicly begged for them to stop.

Full digest for 2020-05-12: https://trump.fm/date/2020-05-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, May 12). Wisconsin, please get out NOW and vote for Tom... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1260185657395339300
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wisconsin, please get out NOW and vote for Tom Tiffany for..." X (Twitter), 12 May. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1260185657395339300. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wisconsin, please get out NOW and vote for Tom Tiffany for...," X (Twitter), May 12, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1260185657395339300.

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