# Post x_317116186817077248

- Post ID: `x_317116186817077248`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-03-28T03:29:25.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @THE_OBM
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_317116186817077248
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_317116186817077248/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_317116186817077248.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @THE_OBM, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @THE_OBM's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@THE_OBM: @realDonaldTrump I am a local Aberdonian. The coast is beautiful - it will be totally ruined with these vile, ugly turbines."

## Engagement

- Likes: 10
- Reposts: 13
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.304Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T19:55:18.863Z (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 post is one of five anti-wind-energy retweets Trump issued in a single session, all targeting the EOWDC offshore project near his Aberdeenshire golf resort. The clinically notable element is not the post itself but the pattern it reveals: a late-night supply-seeking behavior in which Trump amplifies sympathetic voices to counterbalance a sustained narcissistic injury — his legal and political defeat in opposing wind turbines he claimed would damage his resort. The dominant defense is rationalization: a commercial property-protection campaign is consistently framed as aesthetic and civic advocacy ('beautiful coast' vs. 'vile, ugly turbines'), with the actual commercial stake never mentioned. A secondary projection is notable — the charge of environmental destruction is leveled at a renewable energy project while Trump's own construction required excavating protected sand dunes of national scientific importance. The retweeting strategy itself is rhetorically economical: local voices provide geographic credibility, borrowed emotional language ('vile') circulates affect without requiring Trump's direct authorship, and volume across five posts generates manufactured consensus without argumentative development. Authorship is likely authentic given the 11:29 PM EDT timing and the self-interested, emotionally motivated content. No danger indicators are present. This post is best treated as a longitudinal marker in Trump's documented wind energy obsession — a grievance that would persist well into his presidency.

# Psychological Analysis — x_317116186817077248\
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## Contextual Frame\
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This post is not intelligible in isolation. It is one of at least five anti-wind-energy retweets Trump posted on March 28, 2013, all referencing or implicitly targeting Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project planned off the Aberdeenshire coast near Trump's golf resort. Trump had been in an active legal and political campaign against the wind farm for approximately two years at this point, claiming turbines visible from Trump International Golf Links would destroy the resort's commercial viability.\
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## Authorship Attribution\
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**Likely authentic.** UTC 03:29 converts to approximately 11:29 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time; DST had been active since March 10). This sits in Trump's documented late-night posting window. The zero-commentary retweet format — pure signal boost with no original text — matches his minimalist amplification behavior. Aide-authored content on this account in this period tends toward polished announcements or event scheduling; this is neither. Confidence: **medium** (no original language limits stylometric analysis).\
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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits\
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The post is too thin for robust trait inference, but the broader same-day pattern reveals:\
- **Low agreeableness**: Sustained combative engagement with government policy\
- **Elevated neuroticism (angry hostility)**: Personally motivated, sustained retweeting suggesting emotional investment rather than policy interest\
- **Agency-dominance**: Fighting institutional power (Scottish government) over perceived threat to his domain\
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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations\
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**Dominant motive: Power/Control.** The wind farm dispute is not abstract policy disagreement; it is a direct threat to Trump's property, view, and brand prestige. The motive is property defense expressed as aesthetic advocacy.\
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**Schema: World as adversarial.** Salmond and the Scottish energy establishment are cast as antagonists threatening something beautiful Trump created. The victim framing (beautiful coast being 'ruined') positions Trump's commercial interest as aligned with civic good.\
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## Level 3: Narrative Identity\
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- **Protagonist role**: Defender of beauty against industrial desecration — an unusual self-cast for Trump, who is more typically the builder than the preservationist\
- **Contamination sequence**: Beautiful Scottish coast (Good) → wind turbines imposed by reckless government (Bad). Trump positions himself as the one who recognized the threat\
- **Contrasting other**: Alex Salmond — ideologically reckless, aesthetically blind, indifferent to local opinion\
- **Identity claim**: Man of taste and discernment who sees what technocrats cannot\
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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators\
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### Narcissistic Dynamics\
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State: **Vulnerable**. Trump is not in grandiose expansion mode here; he is defending territory. The narcissistic injury is multi-layered: (1) the Scottish government rejected his objections despite his investment; (2) he lost in court; (3) Salmond publicly dismissed his concerns. Retweeting a local supporter at 11:30 PM is consistent with a wound that won't close — supply-seeking from sympathetic voices to counterbalance institutional rejection.\
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### Defense Mechanisms\
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**Rationalization (neurotic):** The primary defense is framing a commercial self-interest dispute as aesthetic and civic concern. Trump's resort economics are never mentioned; only the coast's beauty is invoked. This is sophisticated rationalization — not conscious deception necessarily, but the psychological conversion of 'this hurts my business' into 'this violates something beautiful.'\
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**Projection (immature):** The charge of environmental destruction aimed at the wind farm is particularly notable given that Trump's own golf course construction required excavating protected sand dunes at Balmedie — dunes described by Scottish Natural Heritage as among the most scientifically important in Britain. The projected destroyer is the one actually defending the project that protected the natural landscape.\
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## Rhetorical Analysis\
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The retweeting strategy here is rhetorically efficient:\
1. **Local authority**: An Aberdonian resident's voice carries geographic credibility Trump lacks\
2. **Emotional proxy**: 'Vile, ugly turbines' is affect Trump can circulate without authoring\
3. **Manufactured consensus**: Five or more similar retweets in a session creates volume without requiring argumentative depth — a low-grade version of the firehose model\
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## Fact Check\
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| Claim | Verdict | Notes |\
|---|---|---|\
| Aberdeen coast is 'beautiful' | Unverifiable (aesthetic) | Balmedie is genuinely scenic; the dune system was nationally designated |\
| Turbines will 'totally ruin' the coast | Unverifiable (aesthetic prediction) | Contested; wind farm supporters dispute aesthetic impact claims |\
| Trump lost the legal battle | True | Scottish courts and subsequently UK Supreme Court upheld approval |\
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## Danger Assessment\
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**None.** No violent imagery, no dehumanization, no mobilization language. This is a low-intensity property-interest campaign conducted through social media amplification.\
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## Summary Assessment\
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A thin but contextually informative post. Its significance lies less in what it says than in what the broader same-day pattern reveals: a man nursing a genuine narcissistic wound (institutional rejection of his objections, legal defeat) who is seeking validation through social media echo construction at nearly midnight. The rationalization defense — converting commercial grievance into aesthetic advocacy — is the clinically interesting element, particularly when juxtaposed with the actual environmental record of his golf course construction.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Aberdeen coast is beautiful" | **Unverifiable** | Aesthetic judgment; Balmedie beach and dune system are genuinely scenic and were nationally designated for scientific importance prior to Trump's golf development |
| "Wind turbines will 'totally ruin' the coast" | **Unverifiable** | Aesthetic prediction; contested by renewable energy supporters and Scottish government planners who approved the EOWDC project. Trump ultimately lost all legal challenges, with courts finding environmental assessment adequate. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- UTC 03:29 = ~11:29 PM EDT (DST active since March 10, 2013) — late-night window consistent with authentic Trump posting
- Simple retweet/amplification format with zero added prose — matches Trump's minimalist retweeting behavior
- Fits sustained same-day pattern of anti-wind energy retweeting, suggesting personally motivated engagement rather than aide scheduling
- No polished language, scheduling language, or event announcement — absence of Scavino markers

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Scottish government/Alex Salmond wind farm approval threatening Trump International Golf Links, Aberdeenshire)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Retweeting supportive locals to manufacture appearance of grassroots opposition
- Building echo chamber by selectively amplifying only anti-turbine voices across multiple consecutive posts
- Using constituent voice as emotional proxy — borrowed language ('vile, ugly') carries affect without requiring Trump to expose himself

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> The Aberdeen coast is beautiful

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Aesthetic judgment; Balmedie beach and dune system are genuinely scenic and were nationally designated for scientific importance prior to Trump's golf development

Sources: Scottish Natural Heritage site designations; General geographic knowledge

> Wind turbines will 'totally ruin' the coast

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Aesthetic prediction; contested by renewable energy supporters and Scottish government planners who approved the EOWDC project. Trump ultimately lost all legal challenges, with courts finding environmental assessment adequate.

Sources: Scottish court records on Trump International Golf Links Ltd v. Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- wind-energy-opposition (100%)
- scotland-aberdeen-golf-resort (95%)
- rationalization-defense (75%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (65%)
- projection (60%)
- manufactured-consensus (70%)
- late-night-authentic (75%)
- vulnerable-narcissistic-state (55%)

## 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). "@THE_OBM: @realDonaldTrump I am a local... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_317116186817077248
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@THE_OBM: @realDonaldTrump I am a local Aberdonian. The..." X (Twitter), 28 Mar. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_317116186817077248. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@THE_OBM: @realDonaldTrump I am a local Aberdonian. The...," X (Twitter), March 28, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_317116186817077248.

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