# Post x_314454552596344832 - Post ID: `x_314454552596344832` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-03-20T19:13:02.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_314454552596344832 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_314454552596344832/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_314454552596344832.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > @bburt2367 Trump, by far! ## Engagement - Likes: 1 - Reposts: 0 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.304Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-19T06:28:08.840Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: "@bburt2367 Trump, by far!" (March 20, 2013) ### Contextual Overview A three-word Twitter reply posted on a Wednesday afternoon. At the time, Trump was headquartered in New York City as a celebrity businessman and television personality — *The Apprentice: All-Stars* was mid-season (confirmed by the adjacent Apprentice tweet the same day). The surrounding posts form a coherent portrait of brand-and-fan management: thanking followers, promoting his show, and taking a swipe at a struggling paper. This reply fits that pattern. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local timezone reconstruction:** Post timestamp 19:13 UTC. March 20, 2013 falls after the DST transition (March 10, 2013), so New York was on EDT (UTC−4). **Local time: 3:13 PM EDT** — business hours. **Competing signals:** - *Against authentic Trump:* Business-hours timing is the primary indicator associated with aide-managed posting. - *For authentic Trump:* The stylistic fingerprints are unusually strong for three words. Third-person self-nomination ("Trump," not "I" or "me"), the signature "by far" superlative, and the compressed, blunt delivery are consistent hallmarks of Trump's authentic voice across thousands of verified posts. Aide-written content in this period skewed toward polished promotional copy and event announcements — not impulsive fan Q&A replies with this syntactic structure. **Assessment:** Medium confidence, leaning authentic. The stylometric evidence outweighs the timing concern. This reads as Trump personally fielding a fan comparison question. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post's brevity limits robust inference, but visible facets are clear: - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive self-promotion, no hedging, direct public engagement. - **Agreeableness (low):** Zero modesty, zero acknowledgment of any competitor's merit. The self is the only subject. - **Conscientiousness:** Indeterminate from this post. - **Neuroticism (low):** No anxiety, hostility, or vulnerability present — this is a relaxed grandiosity. - **Openness (low):** Rigid, unqualified self-concept; no nuance or qualification. **Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (Extraversion subscale). --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Status.** The response exists entirely to register supremacy in a comparative frame. There is no communal content — the fan is acknowledged only instrumentally through the @reply mechanism. The goal is not connection; it is placement at the top of an implied hierarchy. **Schema:** The self is the obvious, default superlative. The answer to "who is the best?" does not require argument, evidence, or qualification — it is simply announced. This reflects a deeply embedded schema in which Trump's superiority in any relevant domain is treated as axiomatic rather than arguable. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Undisputed winner / self-evident best. Trump does not present himself as a contestant in comparison — he presents himself as the answer. **Identity claim:** "Trump" as a proper-noun category unto itself. The third-person phrasing performs a specific psychological function: it elevates the self from a personal subject ("I") to an objective, external, publicly recognized entity. The implicit logic: "Trump" is so universally understood as the correct answer that the pronoun is unnecessary. **Contrasting other:** Present but unnamed — whoever the comparison implied. The dismissal is structural rather than explicit. **Narrative sequence:** Neutral. No redemption or contamination arc is legible in a three-word post. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features (baseline):** - Third-person self-reference is a documented narcissistic communication pattern, appearing across Trump's speech across decades - Unqualified grandiosity without epistemic hedging ("by far" — not "I think" or "arguably") - Entitlement framing (the question is treated as already answered) No elevated clinical concern relative to Trump's established baseline. The post is psychologically unremarkable within his behavioral repertoire. --- ### "By Far" — Lexical Signature Note "By far" is among Trump's most statistically over-represented phrases across his full corpus. It functions as comparative hyperbole without specificity: it asserts supremacy while remaining free of falsifiable content. No claim about *how* or *in what way* can be checked or refuted. --- ### Cognitive Status Post is too brief (three content words) for any meaningful cognitive complexity assessment. No anomalies detectable at this resolution. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis Minimal rhetorical machinery is deployed, appropriate to the conversational register: - **Superlative/comparative hyperbole:** "by far" — intensity without evidence - **Third-person self-reference:** functions as implicit self-aggrandizement - **Implied false dichotomy:** the question presupposed a comparison; the answer forecloses all alternatives No propaganda techniques, no dehumanization, no violent imagery. --- ### Danger Assessment None. Routine fan-engagement post. --- ### Summary *Not clinically significant relative to Trump's baseline behavioral pattern. Omitted.* ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Third-person self-reference ('Trump') is a verified Trump stylometric signature across decades of authentic posts - 'By far' is a statistically over-represented phrase in Trump's confirmed authentic corpus - Response brevity and bluntness matches authentic fan-engagement style, not polished aide copy - Business-hours timing (3:13 PM EDT) is the sole indicator suggesting possible aide involvement - No promotional/event-announcement structure typical of aide-written content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan follower @bburt2367 soliciting a comparative judgment) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 42% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - direct reply engagement with follower - self-nomination as the obvious superlative answer - third-person self-objectification as public brand ## Tags - third-person self-reference (85%) - supply-seeking (75%) - by far (signature phrase) (90%) - fan engagement (60%) - grandiosity (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Routine Day of Brand Maintenance Punctured by Two Brief Defensive Flare-Ups** Trump spent the day promoting his businesses and Celebrity Apprentice while fielding fan messages, fitting the profile of a busy media personality in self-promotion mode. A sharp attack on MSNBC's Chris Matthews stood out as the day's angriest moment, calling him "very very dumb" in what read as payback for a perceived slight. The evening brought a rapid-fire burst of tweets defending his bankruptcy record against unnamed critics, briefly shifting from confident to defensive before snapping back to promotional mode. Overall, a calm and largely unremarkable day dominated by brand-building and light audience management. Full digest for 2013-03-20: https://trump.fm/date/2013-03-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, March 20). @bburt2367 Trump, by far! [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_314454552596344832 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@bburt2367 Trump, by far!" X (Twitter), 20 Mar. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_314454552596344832. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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