# Post x_1307683647147966500

- Post ID: `x_1307683647147966500`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-09-20T18:10:51.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1307683647147966500
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1307683647147966500/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1307683647147966500.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag. Ratings will only get worse! Didn’t we go through this once before? https://t.co/3FBZLQGY8R

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 21,680
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.826Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T14:55:48.964Z (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: x_1307683647147966500

**Date:** 2020-09-20 | **Age:** 74 | **Platform:** Twitter/X

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### Context
Posted the same day as a Latinos for Trump roundtable in Phoenix and a rally in Fayetteville, NC (where Trump promised to nominate a woman to replace the recently deceased RBG). The post almost certainly links to coverage of renewed NFL/NBA anthem protests during the 2020 season, reinvigorated by the George Floyd killing and BLM movement. This recapitulates the 2016-17 Colin Kaepernick controversy.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Low-salience post. Modest extraversion (assertive voice, speaking for collective). Low agreeableness (dismissive of athletes' grievances). Moderate conscientiousness absent (no deliberative complexity). Neuroticism low — no hostility spike. Openness minimal — values rigidity expressed through symbolic nationalism.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominant.** Power expressed through positioning as spokesperson for an implied majority. Achievement motive (economic/ratings framing). Communion motive conspicuously absent — no empathy for protest motivations.

**Schema revealed:** World is divided between those who properly respect national symbols and those who undermine them. The subject's role is to name and validate this division.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Oracle/prescient defender. "Didn't we go through this once before?" casts the subject as the wise figure who identified this problem before it was fashionable to do so, and whose warnings were not heeded. This is a classic **redemption mini-narrative**: prior conflict → apparent resolution → renewed betrayal → subject vindicated.

**Contamination subtext:** The 2020 sports season (good) has been contaminated by anthem protests (bad), confirming the subject's earlier warnings.

**Contrasting other:** Unnamed athletes and league executives who permit protests, implicitly foreign to "our" values.

**Identity claim:** Authentic voice of the people; their unelected but legitimate spokesman on matters of cultural dignity.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features (mild, routine):** Grandiose spokesperson positioning. Entitlement to speak for "people" without citing evidence. Absence of any acknowledgment of protest motivations — no empathy attempted.

**Splitting (immature defense):** Clean binary — those who want respect (virtuous people) vs. unnamed forces that don't provide it (athletes/leagues). No complexity introduced.

**Rationalization:** Ratings decline attributed to anthem protests; confounding variables (COVID-19 viewership disruptions, streaming, scheduling changes) absent from frame.

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### Cognitive Status
Post is brief, grammatically clean, syntactically simple. No word-finding difficulty, no paraphasia, no tangentiality. Complexity is low but consistent with established baseline for short-form Twitter content. No deviation warranting flag.

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### Authorship Attribution
**Score: 0.65 (lean authentic).** Posted ~11–14:00 local time depending on whether Phoenix or Fayetteville is reference. Business hours weaken authenticity signal, but the casual rhetorical question, nostalgic callback, and conversational brevity are distinctly authentic Trump composition patterns. Not consistent with aide-drafted event announcement or polished professional messaging.

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### Danger Assessment
**None.** Standard culture-war maintenance. No dehumanization, no violent imagery, no eliminationist language, no stochastic terrorism indicators. The economic threat framing ("Ratings will only get worse") is passive-aggressive at most.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag" | **Unverifiable** | Framed as statement of fact but is an opinion claim. 2020 polling showed approximately split public opinion on anthem protests (Gallup, Reuters/Ipsos surveys showed ~50/50 on kneeling specifically). |
| "Ratings will only get worse" | **Half True** | NFL viewership did decline in 2020 (approx. 7-10% vs. 2019). However, multi-causal: COVID schedule disruption, no fans in stadiums affecting broadcast quality/atmosphere, streaming fragmentation, and general pandemic-era viewing pattern changes. Sole attribution to anthem protests contested by sports media analysts. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Informal rhetorical question ('Didn't we go through this once before?') is characteristically conversational Trump
- Short punchy sentences match authentic style
- No typos or misspellings (slightly atypical)
- Posted ~11:10am MST (Phoenix) or ~2:10pm EDT (Fayetteville) — business hours, slightly against late-night authentic pattern
- Nostalgic callback framing is a recurring authentic Trump device

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (NFL/NBA 2020 anthem protest renewal following George Floyd/BLM movement)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Speaks for 'people' — positions self as collective voice validating audience's grievances
- Rhetorical question ('Didn't we go through this once before?') invites audience to nod along as knowing insiders
- Implicit promise: I told you so / I was right in 2016-17

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Framed as statement of fact but is an opinion claim. 2020 polling showed approximately split public opinion on anthem protests (Gallup, Reuters/Ipsos surveys showed ~50/50 on kneeling specifically).

Sources: General polling knowledge 2020

> Ratings will only get worse

**HALF TRUE**

NFL viewership did decline in 2020 (approx. 7-10% vs. 2019). However, multi-causal: COVID schedule disruption, no fans in stadiums affecting broadcast quality/atmosphere, streaming fragmentation, and general pandemic-era viewing pattern changes. Sole attribution to anthem protests contested by sports media analysts.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data knowledge through training cutoff

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- anthem-protest (90%)
- nationalism (80%)
- sports-ratings (70%)
- culture-war (85%)
- maintenance-post (70%)
- nostalgia-callback (60%)
- populist-spokesperson (75%)

## That day

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

**'No Thanks' — Two Days After Ginsburg's Death, a Day of Grandiose Opportunism and Second Amendment Fear-Mongering**

A day of relentless campaign broadcasting, 48 hours after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Trump spent the day projecting triumph and seizing political opportunity — pushing Second Amendment fear messaging, dismissing RBG's dying wish with a curt "No thanks!", and defending the rushed Supreme Court nomination with "I gave no choice." The mood was overwhelmingly upbeat and grandiose, with only fleeting defensiveness when confronted with charges of hypocrisy. Most striking were the absences: no mention of the approaching 200,000 COVID death milestone, the historic western wildfires killing dozens, or any expression of mourning for Ginsburg herself.

Full digest for 2020-09-20: https://trump.fm/date/2020-09-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, September 20). People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1307683647147966500
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag. Ratings..." X (Twitter), 20 Sep. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1307683647147966500. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "People want respect for our Anthem and our Flag. Ratings...," X (Twitter), September 20, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1307683647147966500.

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