# Post x_207897542971752448

- Post ID: `x_207897542971752448`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2012-05-30T18:13:31.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_207897542971752448/analysis
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## Post text

> In his own words, @BarackObama "was born in Kenya, and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." This statement was made, (cont) http://t.co/nIsSypv9

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-06T18:57:08.847Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post exemplifies weaponized malignant narcissism deployed as political strategy. Trump deliberately misrepresents a literary agent's acknowledged 1991 clerical error as "Obama's own words," using quotation marks to falsely suggest direct admission of Kenyan birth. Posted during a Romney fundraiser Trump was hosting, this was part of a coordinated five-post barrage attacking Obama, timed 13 months after Obama's public humiliation of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.  The psychological architecture is sophisticated: pathological-level defenses (gross reality distortion, denial of evidence) serve offensive rather than defensive purposes. All four malignant narcissism components operate in concert - narcissistic grandiosity (positioning as fearless investigator), antisocial deception (deliberate fabrication), paranoid conspiracy thinking (rejecting documentary evidence), and sadistic public humiliation (sustained delegitimization campaign against first Black president).  The post functions as folie à plusieurs leadership, maintaining shared delusion in the birther community through "new evidence" that sustains alternative reality. The sophistication suggests calculated deception rather than delusional belief - Trump architects false reality for strategic political gain. This represents sociopathic-level manipulation: using quotation marks and thread format to create false impression of documented proof.  The unresolved narcissistic injury from 2011 drives persistent retaliation, demonstrating inability to process wounds through mature defenses. The racial subtext (otherizing first Black president as foreign, illegitimate) combined with democratic norm erosion (rejecting official documents, undermining institutional authority) creates elevated danger level, foreshadowing 2020-2021 election denial patterns.  Longitudinally, this 2012 behavior predicts future authoritarian patterns: sustained reality distortion despite evidence, mass alternative reality maintenance, and delegitimization campaigns against democratic processes. The refusal to accept Obama's birth certificate parallels future refusal to accept 2020 election results, using identical techniques of evidence rejection and conspiracy mobilization.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Birther Post (May 30, 2012)  ## Context & Timing  This post was made at **2:13 PM EDT** (New York time) on May 30, 2012, during business hours while Trump was co-hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Las Vegas. The post references a 1991 literary agent brochure that mistakenly described Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" - a story broken by Breitbart on May 17, 2012, just 13 days earlier.  Trump posted **five times** on May 30, 2012, all attacking Obama on birther-related themes, occurring on the same day as a Romney fundraiser Trump was hosting. This pattern suggests coordinated effort rather than spontaneous emotional expression.  ## Authorship Attribution  **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump (HIGH confidence)**  **Indicators:** - **Quote manipulation**: Uses partial quotation marks around "was born in Kenya, and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" to falsely suggest these are Obama's own words, when they were actually from a literary agent's biographical error - **Thread format**: "(cont)" indicates continuation - a signature Trump pattern for circumventing Twitter's character limit - **Timing context**: Posted during a day when Trump was doing media interviews promoting birther theories at Romney's fundraiser - **Rhetorical aggression**: The deliberate misattribution ("In his own words") is a characteristic Trump manipulation technique  **Against aide authorship:** While business hours timing might suggest aide involvement, the deceptive quotation framing and aggressive birther content are quintessentially Trump. This is not a polished announcement but an active disinformation campaign.  ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis  ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)  **Extraversion (High)**: Dominant facet is **assertiveness** - publicly attacking a sitting president, seeking attention through controversy.  **Agreeableness (Very Low)**: Dominant facet is **antagonism** - actively working to delegitimize an opponent through false claims. Complete absence of trust, modesty, or tender-mindedness.  **Conscientiousness (Low)**: Dominant facet is **lack of deliberation** - willing to misrepresent source material (the quote is from a literary agent's error, not "Obama's own words"). No concern for accuracy or truthfulness.  **Neuroticism (Moderate-High)**: Dominant facet is **angry hostility** - sustained campaign of attacks across multiple posts this day.  **Openness (Low)**: Dominant facet is **closed-mindedness** - rigid adherence to birther conspiracy despite Obama releasing birth certificate a year prior (April 2011).  ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations  **Primary Motives:** - **Power motive (dominant)**: Attempting to delegitimize Obama's presidency, assert dominance in Republican politics - **Status motive**: Positioning himself as investigator/truth-teller, maintaining relevance in 2012 election cycle - **Revenge motive**: Continuing retaliation for Obama's public humiliation of Trump at 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner (April 30, 2011, exactly one year prior)  **Schemas:** - **Self-schema**: Fearless truth-teller willing to ask "tough questions" others won't - **Other-schema**: Obama is illegitimate, fraudulent, foreign, "other" - **World-schema**: Truth is hidden by elites/media; only Trump willing to expose it  ### Level 3: Narrative Identity  **Protagonist Role**: **The Investigator/Truth-Seeker** - cast as the one brave enough to question what others accept.  **Identity Claims**:  - Implied: "I see through deception" - Implied: "I'm not politically correct" - Implied: "I serve the 'real' Americans who deserve answers"  **Contrasting Other**: Barack Obama (illegitimate, foreign, deceptive) vs. Trump (authentic, American, truth-seeking)  **Narrative Sequence**: This is part of an ongoing **redemption sequence** in Trump's self-narrative - he positions himself as correcting a wrong (illegitimate presidency), potentially setting up his own political future.  ## Clinical Analysis  ### 1. Malignant Narcissism Assessment  **A. Narcissistic Features (MARKED)** - **Grandiosity**: Positioning self as uniquely capable of exposing "truth" - **Need for admiration**: Sustained public campaign for attention - **Lack of empathy**: Complete disregard for how racist birther conspiracy affects Obama - **Interpersonal exploitation**: Using false claims to damage opponent - **Arrogance**: Certainty despite contrary evidence  **Rating: 0.85/1.0**  **B. Antisocial Features (MARKED)** - **Deceitfulness**: Deliberately misrepresenting literary agent error as "Obama's own words" - **Disregard for rights**: Attempting to delegitimize first Black president through false claims - **Lack of remorse**: Sustained campaign despite birth certificate release  **Rating: 0.75/1.0**  **C. Paranoid Features (MODERATE)** - **Conspiracy thinking**: Belief in elaborate cover-up despite evidence - **Preoccupation with perceived deception**: Unable to accept birth certificate as valid  **Rating: 0.60/1.0**  **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (MODERATE-MARKED)** - **Public humiliation**: Using deception to embarrass Obama on public stage - **Delight in attack**: Sustained multi-post campaign suggests satisfaction in assault  **Rating: 0.70/1.0**  ### 2. Narcissistic Dynamics  **Trigger Type**: **Maintenance with residual narcissistic injury**  This post occurs in context of Trump co-hosting Romney fundraiser. The birther campaign serves multiple functions: 1. **Maintaining relevance** in 2012 election cycle 2. **Unresolved injury** from Obama's April 2011 WHCD humiliation (now 13 months prior) 3. **Preemptive defense**: Positioning as political player, not celebrity joke  **Narcissistic Rage**:  - **Present**: Moderate (sustained but controlled campaign) - **Intensity**: 6/10 (this is calculated aggression, not explosive rage) - **Proportionality**: Grossly disproportionate (literary agent's clerical error becomes "proof" of conspiracy) - **Target**: Barack Obama (legitimacy, presidency, American identity)  **Narcissistic State**: **Mixed (Grandiose-Vulnerable oscillation)** - **Grandiose elements**: Positioning as investigator, truth-teller, power broker at Romney fundraiser - **Vulnerable elements**: Underlying wound from 2011 humiliation drives sustained need to delegitimize Obama  ### 3. Defense Mechanisms  **Pathological Level:** - **Distortion (PRIMARY)**: Grossly reshaping reality by claiming literary agent's error represents "Obama's own words" - this is deliberate reality distortion for propaganda purposes - **Denial**: Refusing to accept Obama's birth certificate despite its release a year prior  **Immature Level:** - **Projection**: Accusing Obama of deception while engaging in deliberate deception himself - **Splitting**: Obama = all bad (foreign, illegitimate, deceptive); Trump = all good (truth-seeker, patriot) - **Devaluation**: Systematic attempt to delegitimize Obama's presidency and character  **Level of Defense Functioning**: **Pathological with immature features** - the deliberate misattribution crosses from psychological defense into active disinformation.  ### 4. Cognitive Status Markers  **Baseline Comparison Required**: Cannot assess decline without 1980s-90s baseline, but this post shows:  **Language Production**:  - Coherent sentence structure - No word-finding difficulties - Strategic abbreviation ("cont") for platform constraints  **Content**: - **Confabulation/Deliberate Fabrication**: Ambiguous whether Trump genuinely believes this is "Obama's own words" or deliberately fabricating. Given the sophistication of the manipulation, likely **deliberate**.  **Complexity**: Age-appropriate for social media context.  **Deviation from Baseline**: Cannot assess without historical comparison, but **no markers of acute cognitive impairment** in this post.  ### 5. Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques  **Techniques Employed:**  1. **False Attribution**: Claiming these are "Obama's own words" when they're from a literary agent's error 2. **Quotation Manipulation**: Using quote marks to suggest direct statement 3. **Innuendo**: "In his own words" implies Obama personally claimed Kenyan birth 4. **Appeal to Evidence**: Link provides false sense of documentation 5. **Coordinated Messaging**: Part of five-post barrage on same day 6. **RAND Firehose Model Elements**:    - **Volume**: Multiple posts same day    - **Inconsistency**: Not applicable here    - **Reality Distortion**: Converting literary agent error into "Obama's confession"  7. **Otherization**: Reinforcing Obama as foreign, not-American 8. **Conspiracy Signaling**: Dog whistle to birther movement 9. **Exploiting Ambiguity**: Thread format "(cont)" keeps followers engaged, waiting for "proof"  **Propagandist Sophistication**: **HIGH** - This shows strategic media manipulation, not just impulsive ranting.  ### 6. Gaslighting & Reality Distortion  **Gaslighting Present**: **YES (MARKED)**  **Specific Indicators:** 1. **Denial of documented reality**: Obama's birth certificate was released April 2011; Trump continues conspiracy 2. **Reality substitution**: Literary agent's acknowledged error becomes "Obama's own words" 3. **Quotation manipulation**: Creating false impression of direct admission 4. **Sustained campaign**: Despite evidence, maintains false narrative 5. **DARVO elements**: Positions self as truth-seeker while engaging in deception  **Type**: This is **strategic gaslighting** - deliberate reality distortion for political gain, distinct from delusional belief.  ### 7. Shared Psychosis Dynamics  **Epistemic Closure**: **PRESENT (HIGH)**  This post functions to maintain an **alternative reality structure** for the birther movement:  - **Reality claim contradicting evidence**: Obama was born in Kenya (contradicts birth certificate, Hawaiian officials, newspaper announcements) - **In-group truth maintenance**: Provides "new evidence" to sustain believer commitment - **Loyalty test**: Accepting this claim becomes marker of group membership - **Progressive disconnection**: Those accepting this have departed from consensus reality  **Transmission Mechanism**: Trump is not creating individual delusion but **sustaining collective delusion** in birther community. This is **folie à plusieurs** (shared psychotic disorder) on mass scale.  ### 8. Archetypal Analysis  **Primary Archetype**: **Trickster-Warrior Hybrid**  **Trickster Elements**: - **Rule-breaking**: Violating norms of evidence, truthfulness - **Chaos agent**: Disrupting established order (Obama presidency, political norms) - **Forbidden truth-telling**: Claiming to reveal what "establishment" hides  **Warrior Elements**: - **Combat mode**: Sustained attack on opponent - **Enemy identification**: Obama as adversary requiring defeat  **Shadow Projection**: - **Trump's shadow** (deception, illegitimacy, performance of identity) is projected onto Obama - What Trump accuses Obama of (not being who he claims) reflects Trump's own construction of public persona  **Mythological Resonance**: The **Outsider-Detective** who sees through official lies. This archetype appeals to those feeling alienated from institutional authority.  ### 9. Order and Chaos Dynamics  **Positioning**: **Order Attacker / Chaos Agent**  **Order Attack**: - Attacking **legitimacy** of sitting presidency - Challenging **constitutional order** (eligibility clause) - Undermining **institutional authority** (official birth certificate, Hawaiian officials)  **Asymmetric Application**: - **Chaos for**: Obama, Democratic establishment, mainstream media - **Order for**: "Real Americans" who "deserve answers"  **Grievance Articulated**: - **Primary grievance**: Obama is illegitimate president - **Secondary grievance**: Establishment covers up truth - **Intensity**: High (sustained campaign over years) - **Blame target**: Obama, media, Democratic Party  **Hierarchy Dynamics**: - **Attacking**: Obama's status as legitimate president - **Defending**: Implicit racial hierarchy (birther conspiracy has explicitly racist roots in questioning first Black president's American identity) - **Elevating**: Trump's status as truth-teller and political player  ### 10. Danger Assessment  **Danger Level**: **ELEVATED**  **Rationale:** - **Otherization**: Systematic campaign to define Obama as foreign, not-American - **Delegitimization**: Undermining peaceful transfer of power norms - **Conspiracy mobilization**: Sustaining movement based on false reality - **Racial subtext**: Birther conspiracy targeted first Black president, appeals to racial anxieties - **Norm erosion**: Normalizing rejection of documentary evidence  **Not "Critical" because:** - No direct incitement language in this specific post - No explicit call to action - No dehumanizing language in this post (though racial subtext present)  **Long-term concern**: This post is part of campaign that eroded democratic norms and prepared ground for future challenges to electoral legitimacy (foreshadowing 2020-2021 events).  ### 11. Fact Verification  **Claim 1**: *"In his own words, @BarackObama 'was born in Kenya, and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.'"*  **Verdict**: **FALSE**  **Evidence**:  - These were **not Obama's own words** - The phrase appeared in a 1991 promotional booklet by Obama's literary agency (Acton & Dystel) - Miriam Goderich, the agency assistant who wrote the bio, stated it was a **fact-checking error** on her part - Obama never told the agency he was born in Kenya - A 1990 New York Times profile correctly identified Obama's birthplace as Hawaii - Obama's birth certificate, released April 2011, confirms Hawaiian birth - Hawaiian officials, newspaper birth announcements, and all documentary evidence confirm Hawaiian birth  **Sources**:  - [Snopes: Did Obama's Literary Agent Say He Was Born in Kenya?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/promotional-booklet/) - [ABC News: 'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566) - [Breitbart: The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/05/17/the-vetting-barack-obama-literary-agent-1991-born-in-kenya-raised-indonesia-hawaii/)  **Deception Type**: **Deliberate misattribution** - Trump frames a literary agent's error as Obama's personal statement, using quotation marks to suggest direct admission.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "In his own words, @BarackObama 'was born in Kenya, and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.'" | **False** | These were NOT Obama's own words. The phrase appeared in a 1991 promotional booklet by Obama's literary agency (Acton & Dystel). Miriam Goderich, the agency assistant who wrote the bio, stated it was a fact-checking error on her part. Obama never told the agency he was born in Kenya. A 1990 New York Times profile correctly identified Obama's birthplace as Hawaii. Obama's birth certificate, released April 2011, confirms Hawaiian birth. All documentary evidence (Hawaiian officials, newspaper birth announcements, state records) confirms Hawaiian birth. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Longitudinal Context  This post fits within Trump's sustained birther campaign: - **Origin**: Trump began promoting birther conspiracy publicly in 2011 - **April 2011**: Obama released long-form birth certificate, directly responding to Trump - **April 30, 2011**: Obama publicly mocked Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner - **May 30, 2012**: This post (13 months post-humiliation, leveraging new "evidence") - **Pattern**: Trump sustained birther claims until September 2016  The **temporal persistence** despite contrary evidence suggests: 1. **Unresolved narcissistic injury** from 2011 WHCD 2. **Strategic political utility** (maintaining profile in Republican politics) 3. **Psychological investment** (too costly to admit error) 4. **Possibly genuine belief** in conspiracy (though sophisticated manipulation suggests awareness)  ## Related Posts - Same Day Pattern  All five May 30, 2012 posts attack Obama: 1. Reverend Wright "dumped like a dog" 2. Celebrities attacking Republicans 3. **THIS POST** (birther claim) 4. Wanting Obama's college records 5. Romney dinner promotion + jobs claim  **Pattern Analysis**:  - **Coordinated**: All posts serve 2012 campaign narrative - **Strategic timing**: Coincides with Romney fundraiser Trump is hosting - **Message discipline**: Despite multiple posts, all reinforce anti-Obama themes - **Propaganda campaign**: This is orchestrated messaging, not spontaneous expression  ## Clinical Significance Summary  This post demonstrates **clinically significant patterns** warranting documentation:  **Malignant Narcissism**: Clear evidence of all four components (narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, sadistic features) working in concert to damage a political opponent through deliberate deception.  **Pathological Defense Structure**: The gross reality distortion (claiming literary agent's error represents "Obama's own words") crosses from psychological defense into **active disinformation**. This reflects either: 1. **Psychotic-level distortion** (if Trump genuinely believes this), or 2. **Sociopathic-level deception** (if Trump knowingly fabricates)  The sophistication of the manipulation suggests **#2 (deliberate deception)**, which is arguably more concerning than delusion.  **Folie à Plusieurs Leadership**: This post functions to sustain shared delusion in birther community, demonstrating Trump's role as **reality architect** for followers. This capacity to create and maintain alternative reality structures in mass audience is rare and dangerous.  **Narcissistic Injury Persistence**: 13 months after WHCD humiliation, Trump continues sustained campaign against Obama, suggesting **inability to process narcissistic wounds** through mature defenses. The injury remains "open" and drives ongoing behavior.  **Moral-Ethical Implications**: The deliberate racial otherization of the first Black president through false claims represents **weaponized narcissism** - using pathological traits not just defensively but **offensively** to harm others for strategic gain.  **Prognostic Indicators**: This 2012 behavior foreshadows: - 2016-2020 patterns of reality distortion - 2020-2021 election denial using similar techniques - January 6, 2021 as culmination of sustained delegitimization campaign  The **refusal to accept documented evidence** (birth certificate) and **sustained alternative reality maintenance** visible in this post predict future authoritarian patterns.  ## Sources  - [Trump overshadows Romney with 'birther' talk - Daily Local](https://www.dailylocal.com/2012/05/30/trump-overshadows-romney-with-birther-talk/) - [67 Times Donald Trump Tweeted About the 'Birther' Movement - ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/67-times-donald-trump-tweeted-birther-movement/story?id=42145590) - [Snopes: Did Obama's Literary Agent Say He Was Born in Kenya?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/promotional-booklet/) - [ABC News: 'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566) - [The Weekend That Defined Obama, Provoked Trump—and Changed History - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/obama-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-2011-roast-bin-laden-raid-2063833)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Quote manipulation falsely suggesting 'Obama's own words'
- Thread continuation format '(cont)' - signature Trump pattern
- Posted during day of Romney fundraiser with coordinated birther messaging
- Deliberate misattribution is characteristic Trump deception technique
- Part of five-post barrage attacking Obama on same day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Obama's April 30, 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner public humiliation of Trump (13 months prior); sustained retaliation combined with maintenance activity (Romney fundraiser relevance))

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Barack Obama (legitimacy, presidency, American identity)
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 75%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 70%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 75%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Conspiracy community leadership - providing 'new evidence' to sustain believer commitment
- In-group truth maintenance - offering birther followers validation
- Reality architecture - constructing alternative evidence framework
- Loyalty signaling - accepting this claim becomes group membership marker
- Investigator persona - casting self as serving 'real Americans' who deserve answers

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic otherization campaign defining Obama as foreign, not-American
- Delegitimization of sitting president undermines peaceful transfer of power norms
- Conspiracy mobilization sustains movement based on false reality
- Racial subtext: Birther conspiracy specifically targeted first Black president
- Democratic norm erosion: Normalizing rejection of documentary evidence and official processes
- Foreshadows future pattern: 2020-2021 election denial used identical delegitimization techniques
- Folie à plusieurs: Mass shared delusion increases unpredictability and potential for radicalization in followers

### Gaslighting

- Denial of documented reality: Obama's birth certificate released April 2011; Trump sustains conspiracy
- Reality substitution: Literary agent's acknowledged clerical error reframed as 'Obama's own words'
- Quotation manipulation: Creating false impression of direct admission through quote marks
- Sustained campaign despite contrary evidence: Maintains false narrative 13 months after birth certificate release
- Strategic gaslighting: Deliberate reality distortion for political gain, distinct from delusional belief
- Epistemological assault: Undermining capacity to distinguish evidence from fabrication

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-06._

> In his own words, @BarackObama 'was born in Kenya, and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.'

**FALSE**

These were NOT Obama's own words. The phrase appeared in a 1991 promotional booklet by Obama's literary agency (Acton & Dystel). Miriam Goderich, the agency assistant who wrote the bio, stated it was a fact-checking error on her part. Obama never told the agency he was born in Kenya. A 1990 New York Times profile correctly identified Obama's birthplace as Hawaii. Obama's birth certificate, released April 2011, confirms Hawaiian birth. All documentary evidence (Hawaiian officials, newspaper birth announcements, state records) confirms Hawaiian birth.

Sources: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/promotional-booklet/; https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566; https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/05/17/the-vetting-barack-obama-literary-agent-1991-born-in-kenya-raised-indonesia-hawaii/

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- malignant_narcissism (90%)
- pathological_defense_structure (90%)
- birther_conspiracy (100%)
- deliberate_disinformation (95%)
- gaslighting (85%)
- folie_a_plusieurs_leadership (80%)
- narcissistic_injury_persistence (80%)
- racial_otherization (85%)
- democratic_norm_erosion (75%)
- weaponized_narcissism (85%)
- reality_distortion (90%)
- propaganda_sophistication (85%)
- antisocial_deception (80%)
- coordinated_messaging (75%)
- conspiracy_mobilization (70%)

## That day

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

**Birther-in-Chief Holds Court in Las Vegas: Conspiracy, Fundraising, and Feuds Collide on Romney's Big Night**

Trump spent the day playing unofficial Romney campaign surrogate from Las Vegas, where he'd hosted a major fundraiser the night before. The dominant theme was a sustained barrage of attacks on Obama — most notably a stubborn return to birther conspiracy theories more than a year after they'd been debunked. He also feuded with Cher, attacked conservative columnist George Will by dragging in Will's wife, and squeezed in a mattress ad between political grenades. The mood was mostly swaggering and combative, with a brief flash of defensiveness when Reuters coverage hit a nerve. A busy but not frantic day from a man clearly enjoying his role as Republican kingmaker — even as his birther obsession threatened to undermine the very candidate he was trying to help.

Full digest for 2012-05-30: https://trump.fm/date/2012-05-30/analysis

## Citation

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- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "In his own words, @BarackObama "was born in Kenya, and...," X (Twitter), May 30, 2012, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_207897542971752448.

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