# Post x_317012200038494200 - Post ID: `x_317012200038494200` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-03-28T00:36:12.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_317012200038494200 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_317012200038494200/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_317012200038494200.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > @slainsview Blackdog folks are very smart--their home values &, lives will be destroyed. ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 1 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.914Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-19T11:02:17.499Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This March 2013 tweet captures a characteristic Trump schema in unusually transparent form: self-serving commercial opposition is rhetoricized as community protection. Posted in the immediate aftermath of the Scottish Government's planning consent for the Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm — a direct threat to Trump's Menie Estate golf resort — the post addresses Blackdog residents whose village hosts the wind farm's substation. The flattery-fear structure ('very smart... lives will be destroyed') is a textbook persuasion sequence: validate audience, deliver fear payload, manufacture alliance. The post's clinical interest lies in its near-complete displacement of Trump's own financial stakes onto the wellbeing of others. His property values and commercial investment are what will be destroyed; the Blackdog residents are recruited as proxies. The certainty ('WILL be destroyed') reflects grandiose epistemics rather than genuine risk assessment, consistent with his documented pattern of absolute pronouncements. Authorship is assessed as highly authentic: informal reply format, double-dash stylistic marker, HTML encoding artifacts, and intensely personal subject matter all point to Trump directly. Danger level is none; this is fear-mongering in a planning dispute. This post is most valuable as a baseline example of Trump's instrumental community-advocacy schema — a pattern that becomes considerably more sophisticated and consequential in later political contexts. # Analysis: @slainsview Reply — March 28, 2013 ## Contextual Framing This reply tweet ("@slainsview Blackdog folks are very smart--their home values & lives will be destroyed") was posted on March 28, 2013 UTC — coinciding precisely with the Scottish Government's granting of planning consent for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, a Vattenfall-operated offshore wind project that Trump had fiercely opposed since 2006. The wind farm's export cable substation was planned for **Blackdog village**, a small community south of Trump's Menie Estate golf course (Trump International Golf Links, Scotland). The post is a direct reply to @slainsview, an Aberdeenshire-area account, likely anti-wind or local community-focused. The surrounding tweets establish an unambiguous operational context: Trump had spent the prior day tweeting at Scottish First Minister @alexsalmond, directing journalists to "follow the money" regarding Vattenfall dealings, and defending the Aberdeenshire coastline's "historic value & wildlife." This post is the capstone reply in an active influence campaign directed at mobilizing local Scottish opposition to the wind farm. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits **Dominant facets active in this post:** - **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Elevated — the phrase "lives will be destroyed" projects a high-certainty catastrophic outcome onto a planning dispute, indicating agitated arousal beneath a superficially calm warning. - **Extraversion (assertiveness):** Moderate — direct, pointed engagement with specific community members through a named third-party account. - **Agreeableness (trust/modesty):** Very low — the flattery opener ("Blackdog folks are very smart") is instrumental rather than genuine; it serves as a softening mechanism before a fear payload. - **Conscientiousness (achievement striving):** Moderate — persistent, coordinated multi-day engagement on this issue displays goal-directed behavior. - **Openness:** Very low — rigid, categorical opposition to wind energy; no nuance, no acknowledgment of tradeoffs. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals and Motives) **Agency motive dominance is pronounced.** The tweet is operationally oriented toward **control of a property rights outcome** — specifically, preserving the unobstructed ocean view from Trump International Golf Links. However, this self-interest is **completely absent from the surface text**, which exclusively frames the message as concern for the Blackdog community. This displacement of self-interest into community-advocacy language is a hallmark schema: *I am not protecting my investment; I am protecting you.* **Schema of Others:** Blackdog residents are cast as **potential instruments** — smart enough to understand the threat, therefore recruitable as political allies. Vattenfall and the Scottish Government are the implicit threat actors, unnamed in this post but heavily present in adjacent tweets. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist Role: Protector/Sentinel.** Trump is not warning Blackdog residents about something he caused or can prevent — he is delivering knowledge of an impending catastrophe to innocent people. The framing positions him as uniquely informed and generously sharing that knowledge. This is the classic "I alone can see the truth" prototype. **Contamination Sequence:** The underlying narrative is a classic contamination arc — Scotland's coastal heritage and community life (good, intact) will be **ruined** by corporate/governmental wind energy overreach (corrupting force). Trump's surrounding tweets ("Aberdeenshire coast is spectacular. Its historic value & wildlife will be tarnished") make the mythic structure explicit. **Identity Claim:** By extension, Trump is asserting himself as a steward of Scottish natural heritage — a remarkable identity claim for an American real estate developer whose primary stake is commercial. **Contrasting Other:** Vattenfall (Swedish energy corporation), Scottish Government/Parliament, and Alex Salmond are the antagonists constructed across the surrounding posts. In this post, the antagonist is implicit; "will be destroyed" implies an agent without naming one. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Features (mild-moderate in this post):** - The declarative certainty — "WILL be destroyed" rather than "could be" or "may be" — reflects grandiose epistemics: he knows the outcome with absolute conviction. - The concern for Blackdog residents is instrumentally structured. There is no evidence of genuine empathy; the residents are positioned as means to an end (wind farm opposition coalition-building). - The flattery opener ("very smart") is the classic supply/recruitment move: validate the target, prime them for the fear message, bind them to your alliance. **Antisocial Features (present, mild):** - The instrumentalization of community welfare to advance a personal commercial interest constitutes a low-grade antisocial schema — rules of disclosure and transparency around conflicts of interest are bypassed without apparent conflict. **Paranoid Features (moderate, distributed across surrounding posts):** - The prior day's tweets ("Follow the money," direction to investigate Vattenfall financial dealings of Scottish Parliament members) suggest a persecution/conspiracy schema in which political and corporate forces are aligned against him. **Sadistic Features:** Absent in this post. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Rationalization (neurotic):** Trump's opposition to the wind farm is financially motivated by the threat to his golf resort's aesthetic and commercial value. This is rationalized — across the entire posting cluster — as environmental stewardship and community protection. **Displacement (neurotic):** Concern for personal property values and business viability is redirected to concern for Blackdog residents' property values. The displacement is nearly seamless — "home values" is the exact category of harm Trump himself would suffer. **Projection (immature, mild):** The "lives will be destroyed" framing may reflect an unconscious projection of how Trump experiences the wind farm threat to his own Scottish enterprise — existential, destructive — onto the Blackdog community. --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis **Flattery-Fear Sequencing:** A two-move structure. Move 1: "Blackdog folks are very smart" — validates the audience, establishes alliance, lowers defenses. Move 2: "their home values & lives will be destroyed" — delivers the fear payload to a now-primed recipient. This sequencing maximizes persuasive impact. **Appeal to Fear:** "Lives will be destroyed" is dramatically amplified language for a wind substation and offshore turbines. Property values near wind infrastructure can be affected, but "lives destroyed" is an existential escalation serving to maximize emotional arousal and mobilization. **False Certainty / Hyperbole:** "Will be destroyed" — not "may be at risk," not "could suffer." Absolute prediction expressed as accomplished fact, giving Trump authority as a prophet of the outcome. **Coalition-Building via Naming:** By addressing the Blackdog community specifically and publicly validating their intelligence, Trump creates a public group identity (Blackdog = smart = threatened = on Trump's side) that is difficult for residents to resist without implicitly identifying themselves as either foolish or complicit. **Implied Agency:** "Lives will be destroyed" — passive construction. Who destroys them? Vattenfall and the Scottish Government, per the surrounding tweet cluster. The passive construction in this tweet allows the fear to land without triggering the community's potential reflexive defense of the government. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC timestamp:** 2013-03-28T00:36:12Z **Location inference:** Trump was almost certainly in New York City at this time. His base of operations in early 2013 was Trump Tower, Manhattan. There is no documented trip to Scotland around this date. BST (British Summer Time) had not yet begun (it started March 31, 2013), so Scotland was UTC+0. - **If New York (EST = UTC−5):** Local time = **7:36 PM on March 27, 2013** — early evening. - **If Scotland (UTC+0):** Local time = 12:36 AM March 28 — late night, a stronger authentic indicator. **Authorship indicators favoring authentic Trump:** - Direct, informal reply to a specific third-party account (not a broadcast) - Characteristic double-dash ("--") syntactic marker, a well-documented Trumpian stylistic tic - The HTML entity artifact "&," (instead of "&") is consistent with early Twitter behavior and Trump's un-curated posting - Stream-of-consciousness compactness — two assertions, no rhetorical polish - No salutation, no closing — clipped, reactive - Subject matter is intensely personal (his own golf course) - The sentiment is emotionally authentic to his documented rage about the Aberdeen wind farm **Aide authorship indicators:** None significant. There is no polished formatting, no event announcement structure, no complete syntactic sentences in the formal sense. **Verdict:** High confidence authentic Trump. The post reads as an impulsive evening engagement with a Scottish community member, consistent with Trump's personally invested, emotionally reactive posture on the Aberdeen wind farm dispute. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion **Mild reality distortion present.** "Lives will be destroyed" exceeds the documented harm spectrum of offshore wind development. This is not straightforward gaslighting (no denial of documented events, no DARVO), but it is fear-amplification that could lead Blackdog residents to a distorted understanding of their actual risk profile. **Conflict of interest concealment:** The post contains zero disclosure that Trump is an interested party with direct financial stakes in blocking the wind farm. The framing makes him appear as a disinterested community advocate. This is a subtle form of reality manipulation — not lying about facts, but manufacturing a false impression of motivational alignment. --- ## Danger Assessment **Danger level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. "Lives will be destroyed" is hyperbolic but refers to quality-of-life and economic harm, not physical violence. This is standard fear-mongering in a property-rights/planning dispute context. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive decline. The post is syntactically coherent and contextually appropriate. Vocabulary is simple but consistent with Trump's documented baseline. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, or temporal confusion. The terseness is stylistic and consistent with a direct reply format. Baseline deviation: none. --- ## Longitudinal Notes This post belongs to an active multi-day campaign cluster focused on the Aberdeen wind farm. The surrounding posts show coordinated thematic discipline (unusual for Trump, who typically scatters across topics) suggesting either: (a) an unusually focused Trump due to intense personal stake, or (b) some organizational scaffolding from staff that Trump then executes personally. The reply to @slainsview, however, has the hallmarks of personal initiative — it's too specific and informal for aide-direction. The conflict between personal financial interests and performed community concern will become a macro-pattern across Trump's public career. This 2013 example is an early, unusually transparent instance — the conflict of interest is obvious to anyone aware of the Menie Estate situation — which makes it analytically valuable as a baseline for later, more sophisticated versions of the same schema. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Home values [of Blackdog residents] will be destroyed" | **Mostly False** | Research on property values near offshore wind farms and associated substations shows mixed and modest effects. Some studies find small localized decreases near onshore substations; offshore turbines at 3.5km distance have minimal documented impact on inland property values. 'Destroyed' is a dramatic exaggeration of the documented risk. | | "Lives [of Blackdog residents] will be destroyed" | **False** | The wind farm (EOWDC) was ultimately built, with first power in July 2018 and full commissioning in September 2018. No documented destruction of lives in Blackdog resulted. The project has operated normally as a 93.2MW offshore facility. | Overall Veracity: 10% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - Double-dash syntactic marker ('--') characteristic of authentic Trump style - Direct informal reply to specific community account — not broadcast format - HTML entity artifact '&,' consistent with unedited early Twitter behavior - No polished formatting, event-announcement structure, or complete formal sentences - Subject matter is intensely personal to Trump's direct financial interests ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Scottish Government granting planning consent for Aberdeen Bay wind farm in March 2013, directly threatening the aesthetic and commercial viability of Trump's Menie Estate golf resort) Sentiment: -0.42 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 25% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Public flattery of a named community group to manufacture alliance and group identity - Certainty-projection (prophet framing) to position self as uniquely informed authority - Fear payload delivery to primed audience after validation softening ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-19._ > Home values [of Blackdog residents] will be destroyed **MOSTLY FALSE** Research on property values near offshore wind farms and associated substations shows mixed and modest effects. Some studies find small localized decreases near onshore substations; offshore turbines at 3.5km distance have minimal documented impact on inland property values. 'Destroyed' is a dramatic exaggeration of the documented risk. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre; https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete > Lives [of Blackdog residents] will be destroyed **FALSE** The wind farm (EOWDC) was ultimately built, with first power in July 2018 and full commissioning in September 2018. No documented destruction of lives in Blackdog resulted. The project has operated normally as a 93.2MW offshore facility. Sources: https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete; https://www.lawscot.org.uk/news-and-events/legal-news/trump-loses-uksc-appeal-over-offshore-wind-farm-near-golf-resort/ Overall Veracity: 10% ## Tags - wind-farm-opposition (100%) - scotland-aberdeen (90%) - self-interest-concealment (85%) - fear-appeal (80%) - coalition-recruitment (75%) - community-advocacy-schema (80%) - authentic-trump (82%) - vattenfall-opposition (70%) - property-rights (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Letterman Afterglow: 50+ Fan Retweets Fuel a Grandiose Marathon, Punctuated by Petty Media Vendettas** Trump spent most of the day basking in praise after his Late Show appearance, retweeting dozens of fan compliments with brief thank-yous in what amounted to a prolonged self-congratulation session. Several followers urged him to run for president in 2016, which he warmly acknowledged without committing. The good mood was interrupted twice — first by a sharp insult aimed at MSNBC's Chris Matthews, and then by a sustained four-post attack on New York Magazine, which he declared "lifeless and dead" and warned its employees to update their resumes. Earlier in the evening before, he'd been amplifying Scottish locals opposed to wind turbines near his golf resort, continuing a years-long personal grievance dressed up as community advocacy. Full digest for 2013-03-28: https://trump.fm/date/2013-03-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, March 28). @slainsview Blackdog folks are very smart--their... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_317012200038494200 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@slainsview Blackdog folks are very smart--their home..." X (Twitter), 28 Mar. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_317012200038494200. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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