# Post x_1270700008824803300 - Post ID: `x_1270700008824803300` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-06-10T16:51:05.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1270700008824803300 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1270700008824803300/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1270700008824803300.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > New York State is killing small businesses. Let them properly open! @foxandfriends ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 28,953 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.797Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T08:26:30.578Z (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: June 10, 2020 ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 16:51 UTC = **12:51 PM EDT** (Trump was at the White House, Washington DC, Eastern Daylight Time). This falls in business hours, reducing the probability of a late-night impulsive authentic post. However, the @foxandfriends tag is a strong authentic Trump marker — he routinely used the show as an amplification anchor while watching, which aides rarely replicate. The telegraphic four-word accusation + four-word command format is stylistically consistent with authentic Trump brevity. **Confidence: medium authentic (0.60).** --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, commanding imperative. No hedging whatsoever. **Agreeableness (very low):** Direct attack on a state government with zero diplomatic framing. **Conscientiousness (low deliberation):** No policy specifics, no acknowledgment of phased reopening complexities. **Neuroticism — angry hostility (moderate):** "Killing" is emotionally charged but controlled. Irritation rather than rage. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive — Power/Agency:** The tweet asserts federal moral authority over Democratic state governance, positioning Trump as protector of small business owners. **Schema:** Government (Democratic) = persecutor. Small businesses = innocent victims. Trump = liberator. This three-node schema recurs persistently across his corpus. **Supply-seeking:** The @foxandfriends tag recruits the Fox ecosystem to validate and rebroadcast — parasocial audience maintenance. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Liberator/Protector — casting himself as the force that will free small businesses from governmental oppression. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination → implied redemption. New York has brought destruction ("killing"); Trump's implied intervention or eventual state compliance is the redemption arc. **Contrasting other:** New York State (implicitly Governor Cuomo). Notably, New York is also Trump's home state — the "killing" framing carries a faint undercurrent of personal grievance about perceived rejection by his home territory. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Trigger:** Maintenance + preemptive attack. No specific narcissistic injury is evident. Routine political positioning during the COVID reopening debate. The same-day NASDAQ all-time high tweet reflects grandiose frame; this New York attack is the shadow side — crediting himself for NASDAQ triumph while blaming Democratic governance for economic harm. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Splitting** (immature): New York = all-bad oppressor; no acknowledgment of public health rationale - **Displacement** (immature): Economic harm attributed entirely to state policy, bypassing the pandemic as primary cause - **Externalization:** Suffering of small businesses routed entirely to a political target **Narcissistic rage:** Absent. Controlled irritation consistent with baseline. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post employs a minimal but efficient rhetorical package. "Killing" transforms a regulatory policy dispute into a moral emergency. The Fox tag functions as both audience recruitment and a signal to Fox producers. The imperative "Let them properly open!" positions Trump as the authoritative adult instructing a subordinate state. **Stochastic terrorism:** Absent. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Metaphorical only ("killing"), not eliminationist. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "New York State is killing small businesses" | **Half True** | New York maintained strict COVID-19 restrictions through spring/summer 2020, and small businesses were severely economically harmed. However, the COVID-19 pandemic itself — which hit New York harder than any other state — was the primary driver of economic harm. Attributing the damage solely to state policy obscures the underlying public health emergency the restrictions were designed to address. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### Indicators - Posted at 12:51 PM EDT — business hours, reducing late-night impulsivity signature - @foxandfriends tag is a recurrent authentic Trump behavior, suggesting active viewership - Telegraphic four-word accusation + four-word command is consistent with authentic Trump brevity style - Imperative commanding tone ('Let them properly open!') matches authentic Trump register - No aide-typical features: no event announcement, no schedule, no policy detail ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (New York State COVID restrictions / Fox News segment) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - displacement (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - @foxandfriends tag recruits Fox audience as co-witnesses to grievance - Implied shared indignation with small business owners as core constituency ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > New York State is killing small businesses **HALF TRUE** New York maintained strict COVID-19 restrictions through spring/summer 2020, and small businesses were severely economically harmed. However, the COVID-19 pandemic itself — which hit New York harder than any other state — was the primary driver of economic harm. Attributing the damage solely to state policy obscures the underlying public health emergency the restrictions were designed to address. Sources: General knowledge: COVID-19 economic impact data 2020; General knowledge: New York State reopening phases 2020 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - covid-economic-reopening (90%) - new-york-cuomo (80%) - small-business-populism (70%) - fox-amplification (70%) - maintenance-mode (60%) - splitting-defense (50%) - monocausal-attribution (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Fortress Mode: Trump Defends Confederate Bases While Ignoring the Streets on Fire** Trump spent June 10 in full culture-war positioning mode, largely ignoring the George Floyd protests raging outside the White House fence. He opened the day well after midnight with low-effort retweets, went quiet through the morning, then emerged at midday to celebrate a NASDAQ high as if the country were booming. The afternoon brought a brief flash of anger at Fox News for cutting away from a congressional hearing, but the day's main event was an evening three-part decree refusing to rename Confederate military bases — a direct response to statues falling across the country. The overall mood was controlled and grandiose, with the notable absence of any direct engagement with the protests themselves serving as its own kind of statement. Full digest for 2020-06-10: https://trump.fm/date/2020-06-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, June 10). New York State is killing small businesses. Let... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1270700008824803300 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "New York State is killing small businesses. Let them..." 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