# Post x_236181800572026884

- Post ID: `x_236181800572026884`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2012-08-16T19:25:03.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_236181800572026884
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_236181800572026884/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_236181800572026884.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Certain Internet sites are like a bad epidemic that won't go away---others are terrific

## Engagement

- Likes: 636
- Reposts: 534
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.269Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T08:27:41.524Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "Certain Internet sites are like a bad epidemic..."

This is a brief, low-intensity post offering a vague generalization about internet quality. It follows a series of posts attacking specific outlets (Huffington Post, Vanity Fair), suggesting this is a summary/cooldown statement in a mini-tirade about media. The epidemic metaphor is notable but conventional.

**Timing:** 3:25 PM ET (Trump likely in NYC). Business hours, but the informal style and context of surrounding posts suggest authentic authorship during a scrolling/tweeting session.

**Psychological Pattern:** The post sits within a cluster of media-devaluation tweets, consistent with routine narcissistic supply maintenance. The qualifier "others are terrific" reveals characteristic splitting—media are either wonderful or epidemic-level terrible, with no middle ground.

**Rhetorical Note:** The disease metaphor ("bad epidemic") for disfavored media is mild dehumanizing language, framing unwanted speech as contagion. This is a recurring pattern worth tracking longitudinally.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- informal tone
- stream-of-consciousness quality
- triple dash punctuation quirk
- fits within rapid-fire tweet cluster

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- arbiter positioning—claiming authority to judge internet quality

## Tags

- media-criticism (70%)
- splitting (60%)

## That day

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

**A Steady Stream of Grandiosity: Trump Plays Pundit, Promoter, and Prophet on a Routine 2012 Campaign Day**

Trump spent the day as a political commentator and self-promoter during the 2012 campaign season, posting steadily through normal business hours. He toggled between praising Mitt Romney, mocking Obama and Biden, congratulating celebrities, and attacking media outlets he dislikes. The one flash of real emotion came late in the day with an angry rant about wind farms near Palm Springs -- likely fueled by his own ongoing fight against turbines near his Scottish golf course. He also falsely claimed to still hold WWE attendance records that had been broken months earlier, a small but revealing example of rewriting facts to protect his self-image.

Full digest for 2012-08-16: https://trump.fm/date/2012-08-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2012, August 16). Certain Internet sites are like a bad epidemic... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_236181800572026884
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Certain Internet sites are like a bad epidemic that won't..." X (Twitter), 16 Aug. 2012. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_236181800572026884. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Certain Internet sites are like a bad epidemic that won't...," X (Twitter), August 16, 2012, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_236181800572026884.

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