# Post x_305109019746504704

- Post ID: `x_305109019746504704`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-02-23T00:17:13.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_305109019746504704
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_305109019746504704/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_305109019746504704.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I will be on@gretawire tonight at 10 P.M. Now I know she will get great ratings!

## Engagement

- Likes: 34
- Reposts: 51
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.307Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-18T13:51:10.942Z (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: Trump Twitter Post (February 23, 2013)

## Post Content
"I will be on@gretawire tonight at 10 P.M. Now I know she will get great ratings!"

## Contextual Information

**Timestamp Analysis:**
- UTC: 2013-02-23 00:17:13 (12:17 AM)
- EST (New York): 2013-02-22 19:17:13 (7:17 PM)
- The post announces an appearance "tonight at 10 P.M." occurring later that evening

**Contemporary Events (February 22-23, 2013):**
- Lance Armstrong lawsuit by federal government (Trump tweeted about this earlier: "Lance Armstrong is now being sued by Fed Govt-what was he thinkking?")
- Oscar Pistorius released on bail for murder charge
- Chuck Hagel confirmation as Defense Secretary
- NASCAR crash at Daytona injuring 33 spectators
- Dennis Tito announces Mars mission plans

**Subject Context:**
- Age: 66 years old
- Status: Real estate mogul, reality TV star ("The Apprentice"), public figure
- Early Twitter adoption phase (joined Twitter May 2009, ~4 years in)

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion: Very High (0.95)**
- **Assertiveness**: Self-promotional announcement of TV appearance
- **Excitement-seeking**: Engages with media, seeks public platform
- **Positive affect**: Upbeat, confident tone

**Agreeableness: Low-Medium (0.35)**
- **Modesty**: Absent - the post claims credit for Van Susteren's anticipated ratings success
- **Trust**: Neutral in this post
- Pattern shows low modesty, self-aggrandizement

**Conscientiousness: Medium (0.50)**
- **Achievement striving**: Promotes professional engagement
- Post is functional (announces appearance) but contains typo ("on@gretawire" - missing space)

**Neuroticism: Low (0.25)**
- Positive, confident tone
- No anxiety or hostility evident

**Openness: Medium (0.50)**
- Conventional media engagement
- Standard promotional format

**Dominant facet in this post:** Extraversion (assertiveness, positive affect, attention-seeking)

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency Motives (Dominant):**
- **Status**: High - positions self as ratings-driver for established journalist
- **Achievement**: Medium - highlights media booking
- **Power**: Medium - implies he controls Van Susteren's success ("Now I know she will get great ratings!")

**Communion Motives:** Minimal to absent
- No intimacy, belonging, or care themes
- Purely transactional framing of relationship with host

**Schemas Revealed:**

*Self-schema:* 
- "I am a ratings magnet"
- "My presence makes others successful"
- "I am valuable media commodity"

*Others-schema:*
- Media figures benefit from association with me
- Van Susteren needs me for ratings success

*World-schema:*
- Success is measured in ratings, visibility, market value
- Relationships are transactional (what I do for their numbers)

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** **The Star / The Attraction**
- Casts himself as the draw, the commodity that delivers value
- Not merely a guest, but the reason for audience tuning in

**Identity Claims:**
- "I am a ratings-driver"
- "My appearances generate audience interest"
- Implicitly: "I am more important than the platform hosting me"

**Contrasting Other:** 
- Not explicitly present, but implicit positioning above Van Susteren in status hierarchy
- She is the vehicle; he is the content people want

**Narrative Sequence:** 
- Neither redemption nor contamination
- **Maintenance narrative**: Routine affirmation of established status as media draw

**Archetypal Pattern:** **The Star**
- Central to spectacle
- Others orbit around his gravitational pull
- Luminosity metaphor (people watch because he's there)

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Personality Features: Present (Moderate)**

Evidence in this post:
- **Grandiosity**: Claims responsibility for Van Susteren's anticipated ratings - "Now I know she will get great ratings!" (implies: because I'm on)
- **Need for admiration**: Announces appearance, expects audience
- **Sense of entitlement**: Assumes credit for host's success
- **Interpersonal exploitation**: Minimal in this post, though transactional framing present
- **Lack of empathy**: No acknowledgment of Van Susteren's skill, only what she gets from him

**Rating for this post:** 0.60 (moderate grandiose features)

**B. Antisocial Features: Not present**

**C. Paranoid Features: Not present**

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism: Not present**

**Overall Malignant Narcissism Indicators:** Narcissistic features only; no antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic elements in this post.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger Type:** **Supply-seeking (Maintenance)**
- Routine promotion of media appearance
- Opportunity for admiration, validation, audience
- Not reactive to injury; proactive pursuit of narcissistic supply

**Narcissistic State:** **Grandiose**
- Expansive: "I deliver ratings"
- Self-aggrandizing: Takes credit for anticipated success
- Dominant positioning over host

**Narcissistic Rage:** Absent
- No anger, hostility, or attack present
- Positive, promotional tone

**Proportionality:** N/A (no rage present)

### Defense Mechanisms

**Primary Defense: Idealization (Immature - Level 2)**
- Idealizes self as ratings-magnet
- Splits world into those who benefit from him vs. those who don't

**Secondary: Rationalization (Neurotic - Level 3)**
- Provides "logical" reason Van Susteren will get good ratings (because he's appearing)
- Transforms self-promotion into prediction

**Defense Level:** Predominantly Immature with neurotic elements

### Parasocial Techniques

- **Direct address to followers:** Announces where to find him
- **Invitation to connection:** "Watch me here at this time"
- **Shared experience creation:** Invites audience to participate in viewing event
- **Status association:** Followers benefit by watching "winning" content (high ratings)

## Authorship Attribution

**Timestamp Evidence:**
- Posted at 7:17 PM EST on Friday evening
- Announces appearance "tonight at 10 P.M." - same evening, ~3 hours later
- Within primetime announcement window

**Stylistic Evidence:**

*Authentic Trump indicators:*
- **Typo present**: "on@gretawire" (missing space between "on" and "@gretawire")
- **Self-promotional**: Characteristic pattern
- **Casual tone**: Conversational style
- **Grandiose claim**: "Now I know she will get great ratings!" - impulsive, bold assertion
- **Exclamation mark**: Enthusiastic punctuation typical of Trump

*Against aide authorship:*
- Contains error (space missing)
- Tone is personal, not professionally promotional
- Uses "Now I know" - spontaneous-sounding assertion, not scripted

**Location:** Likely New York area (normal business location in 2013)

**Verdict:** **Highly likely authentic Trump**

**Confidence:** High (0.85)

**Authorship Score:** 0.85 (1 = definitely Trump, 0 = definitely aide)

**Indicators:**
1. Typo/formatting error ("on@gretawire")
2. Self-aggrandizing claim about ratings
3. Casual, spontaneous tone ("Now I know")
4. Exclamatory enthusiasm
5. Timing appropriate for personal tweet (early evening, promoting same-night appearance)

**Reasoning:** The combination of formatting error, grandiose self-promotion, and spontaneous-sounding assertion ("Now I know she will get great ratings!") strongly suggests authentic Trump rather than aide composition. Professional media handlers would likely avoid the typo and frame the ratings claim more modestly. The 7:17 PM posting time is consistent with Trump personally promoting an appearance scheduled for 10 PM that same evening.

## Cognitive Status

**Language Production:** Normal
- No word-finding difficulty
- No paraphasias
- No tangentiality (on-topic)
- No perseveration
- No neologisms

**Content:** Normal
- No confabulation
- No temporal confusion
- No name confusion
- Coherent, reality-based content

**Complexity:** Baseline
- Simple sentence structure appropriate for Twitter announcement
- Vocabulary: Standard
- Logical flow: Coherent (I'm appearing → she'll get good ratings)

**Baseline Comparison:** Cannot assess deviation without established baseline from earlier periods (1980s-90s, early 2000s). This post shows no obvious cognitive markers, but 2013 tweets themselves represent the baseline being established for future comparison.

**Complexity Score:** 0.60 (mid-range complexity for Twitter format)

## Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices Employed:**

1. **Hyperbolic assertion**: "Now I know she will get great ratings!"
   - Presents subjective prediction as certain knowledge
   - Amplifies his importance

2. **Implied causation**: Structure implies his appearance causes ratings success
   - "I will be on" → "she will get great ratings"
   - Post hoc ergo propter hoc structure

3. **Self-promotion disguised as prediction**: 
   - Frames self-aggrandizement as neutral forecast
   - Avoids saying "I'm important" while communicating exactly that

4. **Exclamatory enthusiasm**: Creates excited, positive affect
   - Invites audience to share excitement
   - Positions appearance as event worth anticipating

**Propaganda Techniques:** None (not political/persuasive content)

**Dehumanizing Language:** Absent

**Violent Imagery:** Absent

**Persuasion Strategy:** Soft sell
- Invites viewership without explicit demand
- Creates FOMO (fear of missing out) through confident ratings prediction
- Associates self with "winning" (high ratings) content

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting Present:** No

**Reality Distortion:** Minimal
- Ratings claim is unprovable prediction, not verifiable fact
- Minor reality distortion: presents subjective confidence as objective knowledge ("Now I know")

**DARVO:** Absent

**Epistemic Claims:** 
- Claims certain knowledge of future outcome ("Now I know")
- Modest epistemic overreach (prediction as certainty)

## Psychological State Summary

**Emotional Tone:** Positive, upbeat, confident

**Anxiety Level:** Very low

**Hostility Level:** Absent

**Grandiosity Level:** Moderate
- Claims credit for anticipated ratings success
- Positions self as valuable commodity

**Insecurity Markers:** None detected
- No defensiveness
- No compensatory language
- Pure promotional confidence

**Overall State:** **Baseline grandiose narcissism in maintenance mode**
- Not reactive/defensive
- Proactive supply-seeking
- Routine self-promotion
- Stable positive affect

## Danger Assessment

**Danger Level:** None

**Eliminationist Language:** Absent

**Dehumanization:** Absent

**Stochastic Terrorism Indicators:** Absent

**Target Identification:** N/A

**Mobilization Language:** Absent

**Violence Risk:** None

This is a routine promotional tweet with no danger indicators.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I will be on @gretawire tonight at 10 P.M." | **Mostly True** | Trump had regular appearances on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show 'On the Record' during this period. Multiple documented interviews exist from 2013-2015. Cannot independently verify this specific February 23, 2013 date without broadcast archives, but claim is consistent with established pattern. |
| "Now I know she will get great ratings!" | **Unverifiable** | Predictive claim about future ratings, framed as certain knowledge. Ratings data for this specific broadcast not available in current search. Claim is subjective opinion presented as fact. Cannot verify accuracy without Nielsen ratings data from February 23, 2013. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Longitudinal Patterns

**Comparison to Previous Posts (Feb 22, 2013):**

Previous posts that day:
- "@piano807 Thanks!"
- "@Shopgirlusa. Good idea."
- "@JoeQuinn6. Thanks Joe."
- "Lance Armstrong is now being sued by Fed Govt-what was he thinkking?" [sic]

**Pattern Consistency:**
- Mix of brief thank-yous to followers (communion gestures, minimal)
- Commentary on news (Lance Armstrong)
- Self-promotion (this post)

**Typo Pattern:** 
- "thinkking" in Lance Armstrong tweet
- "on@gretawire" (missing space) in this tweet
- Consistent with authentic Trump authorship showing casual, unedited style

**Baseline Behavioral Pattern (2013):**
- Routine media appearances promotion
- Engagement with followers via brief responses
- Commentary on current events
- Grandiose self-presentation in promotional contexts

**This post fits established pattern:** Yes, completely consistent with 2013 baseline.

## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary Archetype Embodied:** **The Star / Celebrity**

Not the Trickster (no disruption), Warrior (no combat), or Hero (no rescue). This is pure celebrity archetype: the famous person whose presence creates value, whose appearance is the event.

**Jungian Function:**
- **Persona:** Highly developed public mask as "ratings draw"
- **Shadow:** Projected onto lesser-known figures (implicitly: Van Susteren needs him)
- **Inflation:** Moderate ego-inflation (overidentification with Star archetype)

**Collective Resonance:**
- Appeals to those who value winners, success, ratings
- Invitation to associate with "winning" content
- Celebrity worship culture activation

**Mythological Parallel:** 
- Helios (sun god) - others benefit from his light/presence
- Not Zeus (authority) or Hermes (trickster) - purely luminous celebrity

## Order/Chaos Positioning

**Primary Positioning:** **Order Maintenance**

- Not attacking or defending order
- Not introducing chaos
- Maintaining established celebrity hierarchy
- Reinforcing status quo of Trump as media commodity

**Asymmetric Application:** Not applicable (no political content)

**Grievance Articulation:** Absent

**Hierarchy Dynamics:** 
- Reinforces existing hierarchy (Trump above host in terms of draw/value)
- Status maintenance rather than status seeking (assumes position already established)

## Comparative Analysis: Early vs. Later Trump

**2013 Trump Characteristics (this post):**
- Pure celebrity/business figure
- Non-political content
- Routine media promotion
- Grandiosity present but within "normal celebrity" range
- Transactional framing of relationships
- No grievance, victimhood, or persecution themes
- No enemies identified
- Positive, promotional tone

**Trajectory Note:** This represents **baseline grandiose narcissism** before political radicalization. Useful comparison point for tracking:
1. Intensification of narcissistic features
2. Introduction of persecution themes
3. Enemy identification patterns
4. Grievance development
5. Chaos-agent emergence

**2013 = Celebrity Narcissism; 2015+ = Political Narcissism with authoritarian features**

## Summary Assessment

**Clinically Significant?** **No**

This post represents routine celebrity self-promotion with moderate grandiose narcissistic features typical of Trump's baseline personality structure in 2013. 

**Key Features:**
- Grandiose self-presentation (claims credit for anticipated ratings)
- Transactional relationship framing (Van Susteren benefits from his presence)
- Supply-seeking behavior (promotes appearance, invites viewership)
- Immature defenses (idealization of self, rationalization)
- High extraversion, low modesty
- Authentic authorship (typo, spontaneous tone, bold claim)

**No clinical significance requiring detailed summary.** This falls within Trump's established baseline narcissistic personality pattern circa 2013: confident, self-promoting, grandiose within "celebrity normal" range, non-political, non-aggressive, supply-seeking rather than injury-reactive.

**Baseline Marker:** Useful reference point for longitudinal tracking of potential intensification or deterioration.

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## Research Sources

- [Portal:Current events/2013 February 23 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2013_February_23)
- [10 things you need to know today: February 23, 2013 | The Week](https://theweek.com/articles/467344/10-things-need-know-today-february-23-2013)
- [10 things you need to know today: February 22, 2013 | The Week](https://theweek.com/articles/467365/10-things-need-know-today-february-22-2013updated)
- [Trump Campaign Press Release - Trump Discusses Business and Politics with Greta Van Susteren](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/trump-campaign-press-release-trump-discusses-business-and-politics-with-greta-van-susteren)

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Typo/formatting error (on@gretawire missing space)
- Self-aggrandizing claim about ratings
- Casual, spontaneous tone (Now I know)
- Exclamatory enthusiasm typical of Trump
- Timing appropriate for personal promotion (7:17 PM EST, promoting 10 PM appearance)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Upcoming TV appearance opportunity)

Sentiment: +0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 60%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct announcement of where to find him (time and show)
- Invitation to shared viewing experience
- Association with 'winning' content (high ratings)
- Creates excitement and anticipation

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-18._

> I will be on @gretawire tonight at 10 P.M.

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump had regular appearances on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show 'On the Record' during this period. Multiple documented interviews exist from 2013-2015. Cannot independently verify this specific February 23, 2013 date without broadcast archives, but claim is consistent with established pattern.

Sources: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-van-susteren-fox-august-20-2013/; https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/trump-campaign-press-release-trump-discusses-business-and-politics-with-greta-van-susteren

> Now I know she will get great ratings!

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Predictive claim about future ratings, framed as certain knowledge. Ratings data for this specific broadcast not available in current search. Claim is subjective opinion presented as fact. Cannot verify accuracy without Nielsen ratings data from February 23, 2013.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- grandiosity (70%)
- need_for_admiration (60%)
- lack_of_empathy (40%)
- supply_seeking (80%)
- grandiose_state (75%)
- extraversion (95%)
- low_modesty (85%)
- status (85%)
- idealization_of_self (65%)
- celebrity_star (90%)
- self_promotion (95%)
- media_announcement (90%)
- authentic_trump (85%)

## That day

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

**A quiet Saturday of self-promotion, fan replies, and a gentle nudge at the GOP**

Trump had an unremarkable Saturday spent mostly engaging with fans and promoting his TV appearances. The evening began with a flurry of brief thank-you replies and a boast about holding WWE ratings records, followed by a quip about Lance Armstrong's Oprah interview. After a long midday silence, he resurfaced in the early evening with a few more replies and closed the day with a directive that Republicans should respect the Tea Party -- the sharpest post of an otherwise flat and routine day.

Full digest for 2013-02-23: https://trump.fm/date/2013-02-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, February 23). I will be on@gretawire tonight at 10 P.M. Now I... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_305109019746504704
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I will be on@gretawire tonight at 10 P.M. Now I know she..." X (Twitter), 23 Feb. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_305109019746504704. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I will be on@gretawire tonight at 10 P.M. Now I know she...," X (Twitter), February 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_305109019746504704.

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