# Post x_314055774617878500 - Post ID: `x_314055774617878500` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-03-19T20:48:26.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_314055774617878500 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_314055774617878500/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_314055774617878500.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > l still think @Boeing should just bite the bullet &, get rid of the new batteries in the 787. Those batteries will always be a problem! ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 21 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.915Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-19T06:00:35.036Z (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 Tweet — March 19, 2013 (Boeing 787 Battery Controversy) ### Contextual Trigger Boeing issued a detailed press release on March 14, 2013 — five days before this tweet — announcing its solution to the 787 Dreamliner battery grounding crisis: rather than replacing the lithium-ion batteries (as Trump advocates here), Boeing would keep them and add thermal containment, electrical insulation, and tighter voltage management. The FAA had grounded the entire 787 fleet since January 16, 2013. This tweet is a direct, unsolicited rebuttal to Boeing's announced engineering decision. ### Authorship Attribution **High confidence: authentic Trump.** Several convergent indicators: 1. **Typo — "l still think"**: The lowercase "l" in place of capital "I" is a distinctive mobile-keyboard artifact. On standard phone keyboards, lowercase "l" and uppercase "I" are visually and positionally similar. This class of error appears in numerous documented authentic Trump posts and is not replicated in aide-composed content. 2. **"&," artifact**: The ampersand character ("&") has been HTML-entity-encoded as "&" — a database/API storage artifact — followed immediately by a comma, revealing the original read: *"bite the bullet &, get rid of the new batteries."* The "&" as casual shorthand for "and" is consistent with Trump's informal register. 3. **Timing**: UTC 20:48 = 4:48 PM EDT (DST took effect March 10, 2013). Trump in March 2013 was based primarily at Trump Tower, Manhattan. Mid-afternoon self-posting is consistent with his documented pre-2015 Twitter behavior, when he regularly authored his own tweets throughout the day. 4. **Style**: Colloquial idiom ("bite the bullet"), declarative certainty, exclamatory close, no subordinate clauses, no complex grammar — all consistent with authentic Trump register. ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits The post activates a familiar trait cluster: - **Low Agreeableness** (antagonism facet): Prescriptive toward a major corporation's engineering experts — *they* are wrong, *he* knows better. - **High Extraversion** (assertiveness facet): Voluntarily enters a specialized technical debate as a public authority figure. - **Low Openness** (values rigidity facet): "Will *always* be a problem" — absolute predictive certainty; no epistemic hedging, no acknowledgment of engineering complexity. - **Low Neuroticism** in this instance: The post is confident, not anxious or agitated. Tone is declarative rather than reactive. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals and Motives) **Dominant motive: Agency/Status** — specifically expert-positioning as a form of narcissistic supply. Trump inserts himself into a technical aerospace dispute not as an interested layperson, but as an implicit authority whose judgment supersedes that of Boeing's engineering teams. The schema revealed: *"My business judgment is superior and publicly applicable to any domain."* There is no communion motive present. The tweet is not an expression of public safety concern (no mention of passengers, fatalities, or broader risk); it is a business strategy prescription directed at a corporation, delivered with confidence about a domain (lithium-ion battery chemistry and aircraft systems) in which Trump has no documented expertise. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: The clear-eyed business oracle who perceives what expert insiders cannot or will not admit. - **Identity claim**: *"I see the obvious solution that the experts are too timid or invested to adopt."* - **Contrasting other**: Boeing executives — implicitly characterized as equivocating, avoiding hard choices (hence "bite the bullet"). - **Narrative sequence**: Neither redemption nor contamination; this is a *maintenance* narrative — routine reinforcement of the "I know better" persona. ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features (mild, subclinical in isolation):** - Grandiosity: self-insertion as strategic advisor to a Fortune 50 aerospace company based on no disclosed expertise. - Entitlement schema: implicit assumption that Boeing executives should heed unsolicited public criticism. No antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic features are present. No narcissistic rage. Narcissistic state is **grandiose** (expansive, instructive, dominant) rather than vulnerable. **Trigger classification**: *Supply-seeking/maintenance* — no narcissistic injury is evident. This is proactive expert-positioning, not defensive reaction to criticism. ### Defense Mechanisms **Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3)**: The prescriptive certainty ("will always be a problem") functions as rationalization — a confident assertion without evidentiary basis, experienced by the subject as self-evident business insight. No pathological or immature defenses mobilized; the stakes for Trump here are low. ### Cognitive Status No markers of concern. Sentence structure is simple but internally coherent. The "l" typo is a mechanical keyboard error, not a word-finding or phonemic paraphasia error. Vocabulary is age-appropriate and register-appropriate for an informal business opinion. No tangentiality, perseveration, or temporal confusion. **Baseline-consistent.** ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Absolute predictive claim**: "will *always* be a problem" — converts a probabilistic engineering question into a categorical certainty. - **Colloquial idiom as authority**: "bite the bullet" frames Boeing's continued iteration on the lithium-ion design as cowardice or avoidance, implying moral weight (bravery vs. timidity) in what is actually an engineering trade-off decision. - **Prescriptive brevity**: The compressed format ("just bite the bullet & get rid of") enacts decisiveness as a style — mimicking the persona of a deal-maker who cuts through complexity. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Boeing 787 batteries are a genuine, serious problem" | **True** | FAA grounded entire 787 fleet January 16 2013 following lithium-ion battery fires at Boston Logan and aboard ANA flight; grounding was active at time of posting | | "Those batteries will always be a problem" | **Mostly False** | Boeing's containment-based fix (announced March 14 2013, approved by FAA April 19 2013) proved effective; no comparable recurring battery incidents documented in subsequent years of 787 operation | | "Boeing should replace the batteries entirely" | **Unverifiable** | Boeing explicitly evaluated and rejected full battery replacement as impractical; their iterative containment solution succeeded. Trump's preferred approach was never implemented, so its efficacy cannot be assessed | Overall Veracity: 57% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - Lowercase 'l' substituted for capital 'I' in opening word — characteristic mobile keyboard typo documented across multiple authentic Trump posts - '&,' is HTML-entity encoding of '&' — consistent with authentic tweet capture; reveals casual '&' shorthand typical of Trump's informal register - 4:48 PM EDT timing on weekday consistent with Trump Tower self-posting patterns circa 2013 - Colloquial register ('bite the bullet'), no subordinate clauses, exclamatory close — matches authentic Trump stylometric baseline - Prescriptive, unsolicited corporate advice aligns with pre-2015 authentic Trump Twitter persona ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Boeing's March 14 2013 press release announcing containment-based battery fix) Sentiment: -0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Expert-positioning as audience authority figure - Confident prescription mimicking insider access to correct answers ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-19._ > Boeing 787 batteries are a genuine, serious problem **TRUE** FAA grounded entire 787 fleet January 16 2013 following lithium-ion battery fires at Boston Logan and aboard ANA flight; grounding was active at time of posting Sources: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-787-battery-issues/; https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lithium-ion-batteries-grounded-the-dreamliner/ > Those batteries will always be a problem **MOSTLY FALSE** Boeing's containment-based fix (announced March 14 2013, approved by FAA April 19 2013) proved effective; no comparable recurring battery incidents documented in subsequent years of 787 operation Sources: https://crankyflier.com/2013/03/19/boeings-fix-for-the-787-battery-problems-is-ready/; https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/19/177977589/faa-oks-boeings-787-battery-fix; https://www.flightglobal.com/one-year-later-no-issues-for-boeing-787-battery-redesign/112127.article > Boeing should replace the batteries entirely **UNVERIFIABLE** Boeing explicitly evaluated and rejected full battery replacement as impractical; their iterative containment solution succeeded. Trump's preferred approach was never implemented, so its efficacy cannot be assessed Sources: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2013-03-14-Boeing-Provides-Details-on-787-Battery-Improvements; https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/possible-solutions-for-the-battery-problem-on-the-boeing-787/ Overall Veracity: 57% ## Tags - Boeing 787 (90%) - expert-positioning (85%) - supply-seeking (70%) - absolutist-cognition (75%) - aviation-safety (80%) - authentic-authorship (85%) - business-opinion (90%) - grandiose-state (55%) - low-intensity (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Cuban Derangement Syndrome: 22 Attacks in 24 Hours Over a Billionaire Rivalry** Trump spent nearly the entire day locked in an obsessive one-sided feud with Mark Cuban, unleashing more than twenty insults about Cuban's golf game, physical strength, appearance, and basketball team. The sharpest attacks came first thing in the morning, including a gendered insult and an implied threat directed at a random bystander who sided with Cuban. Between volleys, he weighed in on the Iraq War's 10th anniversary, rejected the Republican Party's new reform blueprint on immigration, and took shots at CNN and MSNBC hosts. Despite agreeing with a follower mid-afternoon that he was "wasting time" on Cuban, he kept circling back — ending the day with a profane warning dressed up as a truce. Full digest for 2013-03-19: https://trump.fm/date/2013-03-19/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, March 19). l still think @Boeing should just bite the bullet... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_314055774617878500 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "l still think @Boeing should just bite the bullet &, get..." X (Twitter), 19 Mar. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_314055774617878500. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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