# Post x_323557742407200768

- Post ID: `x_323557742407200768`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-04-14T22:05:51.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @peterjsteele
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_323557742407200768
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_323557742407200768/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_323557742407200768.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@peterjsteele: @realDonaldTrump Love to hear your thoughts on idiot Alex Rodriguez. I hope he gets run out of New York." He will be!

## Engagement

- Likes: 4
- Reposts: 16
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.302Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-22T02:01:50.725Z (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: April 14, 2013 — Alex Rodriguez Endorsement of Fan Attack

### Contextual Background

This post occurs during the early phase of the Biogenesis PED scandal. In January 2013, the *Miami New Times* published records linking Alex Rodriguez to the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic in Florida, triggering an MLB investigation. At the time of this post, A-Rod was on the 60-day disabled list recovering from hip surgery and had not yet played a game in 2013. The scandal was a live, intensifying story in the New York sports press. Trump was already engaged in a sustained anti-A-Rod campaign on Twitter — he had called A-Rod a "druggie" on Opening Day (April 1, 2013), and would escalate three days after this post (April 17) to: *"Druggie A-Rod, @MLB's biggest fraud, is lucky George Steinbrenner is no longer with us."* This post sits within a multi-month, 60+-tweet pattern of Rodriguez devaluation that constitutes one of the most sustained targeted social media campaigns in Trump's early Twitter history.

### Authorship Attribution

**UTC timestamp:** 22:05:51, April 14, 2013.
**Likely location:** New York City (Trump was a Manhattan-based real estate developer and television personality in 2013, with Trump Tower as his operational headquarters).
**Local time (EDT, UTC−4):** **6:05 PM** — late afternoon, within Trump's personal engagement window.

The style is unmistakably authentic Trump. The post consists of a quoted fan message followed by a two-word affirmation with exclamation mark — the minimal-effort, maximum-confidence format that defines Trump's early Twitter engagement. There is no aide polish, no event-announcement structure, no formal grammar. The quote-tweet-plus-brief-commentary format was Trump's dominant interaction mode in 2013. The surrounding post cluster on this same date shows identical structural patterns: rapid-fire fan quotes each answered with a terse, affirming punch (*"You are too kind!" / "That is correct, thank you!" / "He is looking good!"*), confirming Trump was personally engaged in high-frequency audience interaction that evening.

**Confidence: High (0.80) that this is authentic Trump.**

### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
The post's most salient trait expression is **low agreeableness**: Trump endorses calling a public figure an "idiot" and predicts his expulsion from the city. High assertiveness (extraversion facet) is evident in the confident, unqualified prediction. Neuroticism is notably *low* here — there is no distress or victimhood, only cool contempt and certainty. This is the grandiose pole, not the vulnerable.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
The post is best read as **supply-seeking with status performance**: a fan invites Trump's opinion, Trump obliges by positioning himself as an authoritative New York voice with the standing to pronounce on the fate of a prominent city figure. Agency motives dominate — Trump asserts predictive power and implicitly claims superior moral and civic judgment. Communion motives are incidental (bonding with a fan through shared antipathy).

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
Trump casts himself as **judge/prophet** — the decisive authority whose verdict on Rodriguez requires no elaboration or evidence. The contrasting other is Rodriguez: the disgraced cheater who violated the implicit covenant of New York sports loyalty. Trump positions himself as the inverse: a straight-dealing, straight-talking New Yorker of integrity. The narrative sequence in Trump's self-framing is **neutral** (he is not narrating his own journey), while the sequence *imposed on Rodriguez* is contamination — a great talent corrupted by fraud.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose. Trump speaks from a position of elevation, not injury.
**Trigger:** Classic supply-seeking. The fan solicits Trump's opinion, and Trump delivers with maximal confidence and zero qualification. No narcissistic injury is visible; this is Trump performing competence and authority for an approving audience.
**Rage:** Absent as an acute affect. The tone is dismissive contempt — the narcissistic register of *devaluation* — rather than hot anger. The escalation to "Druggie A-Rod, @MLB's biggest fraud" three days later suggests the hostility was building toward a hotter expression.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting** is the primary mechanism: Rodriguez is rendered entirely blameworthy ("idiot," to be expelled) with zero acknowledgment of due process, complexity, or the fact that MLB's formal investigation was still ongoing and no suspension had yet been issued. The moral verdict is absolute and instant. **Projection** is absent here — this is not Trump attributing his own failings to Rodriguez; the PED allegations against Rodriguez were real and documented.

### Rhetorical Techniques

The post's rhetorical power derives from *brevity as forcefulness*. By reducing his position to two words and an exclamation mark, Trump signals that his judgment is self-evidently correct — explanation would be beneath him. He outsources the aggressive framing ("idiot") to the quoted user, maintaining one degree of deniability while amplifying the attack. This pattern — laundering hostility through fan quotes while adding prophetic confirmation — is a recurring Trump Twitter technique. The effect is authority without accountability: Trump didn't call Rodriguez an idiot; he merely agreed that someone will be run out.

### Longitudinal Context

The surrounding posts on April 14, 2013, form an important behavioral context. In rapid succession, Trump responded to fans urging him to run for president in 2016 ("You are too kind!"), confirmed his support for John McCain, commented on golf at The Masters, and then endorsed the A-Rod attack. The tonal uniformity — brief, affirming, audience-validating — confirms this is a high-supply-acquisition session. Trump is collecting and reciprocating admiration at high frequency. The A-Rod post is the single combative outlier in an otherwise flattery-absorption pattern that day, suggesting it required little additional energy to produce: devaluing A-Rod had become reflexive by this point in 2013.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Alex Rodriguez will be 'run out of New York'" | **Mostly False** | Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 2014 MLB season (162 games after arbitration reduced the initial 211-game penalty) following the Biogenesis investigation. However, he returned to the New York Yankees for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, retiring after 2016 in New York. He was not permanently expelled. Notably, Trump later called Rodriguez for COVID-19 policy advice in 2020, and Rodriguez joined the investor group that purchased Trump's Washington D.C. hotel in 2022. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Two-word response with exclamation mark — signature minimal-effort, maximum-confidence format
- Posted at 6:05 PM EDT from likely NYC location — within personal engagement window
- Quote-tweet-plus-brief-commentary is the dominant Trump Twitter format in 2013
- No aide polish, event-announcement structure, or formal grammar present
- Structurally identical to four surrounding posts from same date showing rapid-fire fan engagement session

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan (@peterjsteele) soliciting Trump's opinion on Alex Rodriguez amid the Biogenesis scandal)

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 32%
- Antisocial: 18%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 12%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 8%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Fan-validation exchange — soliciting and rewarding shared antipathy as audience bonding
- Positioning self as authoritative judge of prominent public figures to elevate personal status
- Prophecy performance — confident prediction creates impression of superior knowledge and standing

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-22._

> Alex Rodriguez will be 'run out of New York'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 2014 MLB season (162 games after arbitration reduced the initial 211-game penalty) following the Biogenesis investigation. However, he returned to the New York Yankees for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, retiring after 2016 in New York. He was not permanently expelled. Notably, Trump later called Rodriguez for COVID-19 policy advice in 2020, and Rodriguez joined the investor group that purchased Trump's Washington D.C. hotel in 2022.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis_scandal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rodriguez; https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11311335/biogenesis-line-2009-2014

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- sports-commentary (90%)
- baseball (85%)
- alex-rodriguez (92%)
- biogenesis-scandal (70%)
- fan-engagement (80%)
- supply-seeking (75%)
- splitting (60%)
- grandiose-prediction (65%)
- devaluation (62%)
- hostility-laundering (58%)
- new-york-identity (50%)

## That day

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

**A Lazy Sunday of Narcissistic Maintenance: Fan Praise, Masters Golf, and the Savior Narrative Taking Shape**

A quiet, self-satisfied Sunday spent retweeting fan praise, watching the Masters, and promoting Celebrity Apprentice. The overwhelming majority of posts were single-word replies to compliments -- "Thanks!" "True!" "Best!" -- with one brief flash of anger when a follower falsely accused him of supporting Obama in 2008. Most notable were several fans urging him to run for president in 2016, which he amplified warmly -- an early signal of the savior narrative that would define his candidacy two years later.

Full digest for 2013-04-14: https://trump.fm/date/2013-04-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, April 14). "@peterjsteele: @realDonaldTrump Love to hear... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_323557742407200768
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@peterjsteele: @realDonaldTrump Love to hear your thoughts..." X (Twitter), 14 Apr. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_323557742407200768. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@peterjsteele: @realDonaldTrump Love to hear your thoughts...," X (Twitter), April 14, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_323557742407200768.

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