Analysis: ...Get along &amp, make deals for the good of the country!

13y ago Nov 29, 2012 at 1:46 AM

...Get along &amp, make deals for the good of the country!

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-02-13. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

10%

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

Posted at 8:46 PM EST on November 28, 2012 (early evening, business hours)
Complete sentence with proper capitalization
Generic, politically safe message with no personal edge
No typos except apparent formatting error with '&amp' HTML entity
Follows promotional tweets about Trump properties (Doral, Trump Tower)

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance

Sentiment

+0.40

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

10%

Antisocial

Paranoid

Sadism

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

30%

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Psychological Analysis: Trump Post (2012-11-29)

Authorship Attribution: HIGH CONFIDENCE AIDE-WRITTEN (Score: 0.15/1.0)

Temporal Context - Posted: 8:46 PM EST, November 28, 2012 (standard business hours) - Trump's Location: Likely New York (Trump Tower/Trump Organization headquarters) - Context: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivered fiscal cliff proposals to Congress on November 29, 2012, proposing .6 trillion in new taxes. Intense negotiations were underway following the 2012 election.

Authorship Indicators

Aide-Written Evidence (HIGH confidence): 1. Timing: Posted during evening business hours, not Trump's authentic late-night/early-morning window 2. Style: Complete sentence with proper capitalization, lacking Trump's characteristic spontaneity 3. Content: Generic bipartisan platitude entirely inconsistent with Trump's authentic voice 4. Technical markers: The '&' HTML entity suggests copy-paste from formatted text rather than organic composition 5. Pattern context: Surrounded by promotional tweets (Doral Miami, Trump Tower Atrium) and inspirational business quotes (Peter Drucker)—classic aide content 6. Contrast with baseline: Trump's authentic 2012 voice (seen in his November 6 election night tweetstorm) was bombastic, emotional, and combative: "This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!" This measured call for cooperation bears no resemblance.

Assessment: This is standard Scavino/aide corporate social media—topically relevant (fiscal cliff), politically safe, brand-protective content. Trump likely never composed or even read this before it posted.

Psychological Analysis: INSUFFICIENT SIGNAL

This post provides no meaningful psychological data due to its aide-written nature. Analyzing it for Trump's personality would be like analyzing a press release for the CEO's unconscious motives—the content reflects institutional brand management, not individual psychology.

What We Can Infer (Meta-Level)

The only psychologically relevant observation is Trump's 2012 relationship to his public persona: he tolerated aides posting bland, uncharacteristic content under his name, suggesting: - Brand/business priorities outweighed authentic self-expression during pre-political phase - Delegation of routine social media to staff (contrast with later presidential period) - No apparent concern that such generic content diluted his brand voice

Narcissistic Analysis: Not Applicable

No narcissistic dynamics present because Trump did not write this. An authentic Trump post about fiscal cliff negotiations would likely feature: - Self-positioning as superior dealmaker ("I could fix this in one hour") - Criticism of specific negotiators as incompetent - Superlatives and grandiosity - Clear identification of winners/losers, us/them dynamics

None of these appear, confirming non-authentic authorship.

Defense Mechanisms: None Observed

No defense mechanisms are deployed because no psychological threat is being processed. This is corporate content, not emotional expression.

Rhetorical Analysis: EMPTY PLATITUDE ARCHITECTURE

Rhetorical Structure - Device: Imperative + vague appeal to unity - Function: Maintain brand visibility in political discourse without taking substantive position - Technique: Universally applicable, inoffensive, zero-risk messaging

What's Absent (Tellingly) Authentic Trump rhetoric features: 1. Superlatives: "Greatest," "worst," "best ever" 2. Concrete enemies: Specific people/institutions to blame 3. Self-aggrandizement: Positioning himself as uniquely capable 4. Transactional framing: Deals, winning, leverage

None appear here. The rhetoric is deliberately generic—designed to keep Trump's name associated with civic engagement without alienating any potential customers, business partners, or political actors.

Incomplete Structure The leading ellipsis ("...Get along") suggests this may be a fragment extracted from longer prepared talking points, further confirming aide composition.

Cognitive Assessment: INSUFFICIENT DATA

Cannot evaluate cognitive functioning from aide-written content. The simple syntax and generic phrasing reflect aide composition, not Trump's language production. The '&' HTML entity is a technical formatting error (likely copied from HTML source), not a cognitive marker.

Cognitive analysis requires authentic Trump-authored content.

Personality Assessment: INVALID (Aide-Written Content)

The personality metrics generated reflect the aide's style, not Trump's. Any Big Five assessment would be measuring Scavino's or another staffer's traits as expressed through corporate social media voice.

Note: The high agreeableness (0.7) and communion motive (0.7) ratings are completely inverse to Trump's authentic personality profile, further confirming this is not his voice.

Clinical Significance: NONE

This post has zero clinical significance. It provides no window into Trump's psychological state, cognitive functioning, emotional dynamics, or personality structure.

Summary (per protocol): NULL—post lacks clinical significance.

Context: Fiscal Cliff Negotiations (November 2012)

The timing suggests aide-generated content responding to major news cycle: - November 16, 2012: Obama met with congressional leaders to discuss fiscal cliff - November 28, 2012: Republicans like Orrin Hatch supported "modifying tax expenditures" - November 29, 2012: Treasury Secretary Geithner delivered formal proposals

A Trump Organization social media manager likely posted generic civic-minded content to keep Trump's name in political conversation during this high-profile negotiation period—brand maintenance, not authentic engagement.

Danger Assessment: NONE

No danger indicators. No targets identified, no grievances articulated, no mobilization language, no dehumanization, no violent imagery.

Danger Level: None

Research Limitations

This analysis demonstrates an important limitation: aide-written content cannot be used for psychological research on the subject. Future analysis should flag aide-written posts (score < 0.3) as unsuitable for inclusion in datasets examining Trump's personality, cognition, or psychological patterns.

For longitudinal cognitive studies particularly, mixing authentic and aide-written content would contaminate the dataset with confounding variables (different authors, different cognitive processes).

Methodological Note

This case illustrates the critical importance of authorship attribution as a first-order screening step in social media psychological research. Posts scoring below 0.3 on authorship should be excluded from psychological analysis or analyzed separately as organizational/brand voice rather than individual expression.