# Post x_325418813409591296 - Post ID: `x_325418813409591296` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-04-20T01:21:05.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @jschmeezz23 - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_325418813409591296 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_325418813409591296/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_325418813409591296.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @jschmeezz23, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @jschmeezz23's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@jschmeezz23: @realDonaldTrump in my opinion you are the best human being ever!" I like that better-thank you! ## Engagement - Likes: 102 - Reposts: 44 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.298Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-22T05:29:34.615Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 9:21 PM EDT on April 19, 2013 — the evening of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture — this authentic Trump post is a narcissistic supply receipt event embedded in a high-arousal Boston-bombing commentary session. Its clinical significance lies in a single phrase: "I like that better." Minutes earlier in the same session, Trump had responded to a user declaring him "the worst human being ever" with a performed ironic "Thank you!" — a defensive maneuver suggesting managed indifference. When a second user declares him "the best human being ever," Trump responds: "I like that better-thank you!" The comparative disclosure is unguarded. In stating a preference between the two evaluations, Trump inadvertently documents what the prior ironic deflection was designed to conceal: the positive supply lands differently — better. The defense drops when the adulation arrives. This constitutes a rare candid window into the narcissistic supply preference structure. The grandiose self-state is further confirmed by the absence of any qualification in accepting "best human being ever" as an agreeable approximation — not excessive, not embarrassing, merely pleasing. An aide would be unlikely to draft this disclosure; it has the fingerprint of unfiltered self-revelation. Within the session's broader arc — combative Boston commentary, media attacks, fan engagement oscillation — this post illustrates the rapid cycling between agency-driven outrage and supply-seeking validation that characterizes Trump's early Twitter period. No danger indicators; no defenses; no rhetorical complexity. The post's value is diagnostic, not rhetorical. # Psychological Analysis: Trump/X Post — April 19, 2013 (9:21 PM EDT) ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (High Confidence, 0.95)** UTC timestamp `01:21:05` on April 20, 2013 converts to **9:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time on April 19** — late evening in New York City, Trump's confirmed primary residence and operational base throughout 2013 (Trump Tower, Midtown Manhattan). In April 2013, Trump was a real-estate/media personality running The Apprentice franchise and the Trump Organization; no evidence of travel on this date. Late evening personal fan engagement is Trump's signature posting window. The stylometric profile is unambiguously authentic: characteristic dash typography without spaces ("I like that better-thank you!"), direct conversational register, retweet-with-comment format he frequently used for fan reciprocity, and — critically — the candid personal disclosure "I like that better," which would be highly unlikely to originate from an aide. No polish, no grammatical correction, no structured messaging. --- ## Contextual Frame This post was composed on the evening of April 19, 2013, the day Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured hiding in a Watertown, MA boat following a region-wide lockdown, a dramatic gunfight, and the death of his brother Tamerlan. Trump's other posts that day reflect high engagement with the Boston events, combining inflammatory commentary ("Is the Boston killer eligible for Obama Care?"), sharp media criticism (".@CNN should stop apologizing"), and combative responses to critics ("Read my tweets you dopes"). The analyzed post is a brief positive interlude within this hyperactivated session. The **immediately preceding post** is analytically essential to this one: Trump had just retweeted a user (@MattWeaver_21) who wrote "You are, quite literally, the worst human being ever" — and responded only with "Thank you!" The analyzed post retweets a user (@jschmeezz23) calling him "the best human being ever" — and responds "I like that better-thank you!" This post-pair is the unit of psychological analysis. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) Within this isolated post: - **Extraversion (High, ~0.85)**: Proactive public fan engagement; positive affect on display; attention-seeking through amplification of adulation. - **Agreeableness (Moderate-Low, ~0.40)**: Momentarily warm; atypical given day's dominant hostile register. The agreeableness here is selective — directed at admirers, not interlocutors. - **Neuroticism (Low in this post, ~0.25)**: No anxiety, hostility, or impulsiveness visible. A calm, pleased state — sharply contrasting with the anger-inflected Boston posts. - **Conscientiousness (Low, ~0.20)**: Impulsive, unplanned, unpolished. No deliberation. - **Openness (Very Low, ~0.15)**: Reflexive rather than reflective; no ideational content. **Dominant facet**: Extraversion / positive affect-seeking. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals and Motives) **Dominant motive: Validation (communion-adjacent, agency-light)** The post is not about power, achievement, or control. It is purely about receiving and publicly enjoying positive evaluation. The **communion score** is elevated (for Trump) because the post involves genuine relational warmth toward an admirer, even if this warmth is entirely contingent on the flattery supplied. **Schemas revealed**: - *Self-schema*: "I am worthy of being called the best human being ever." The absence of irony, modesty, or deflection in accepting this maximal claim is notable. The compliment does not feel excessive to him — it lands as recognition. - *World-schema*: The social environment is divided into those who appreciate his value and those who do not. The former are welcomed; the latter can be managed with performed indifference. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role**: The admired figure accepting deserved recognition. **Micro-redemption sequence**: Within the span of a single Twitter session, Trump moves from being declared "the worst human being ever" (contamination threat) → deflecting with irony → receiving the mirror-positive claim ("the best") → explicitly endorsing the better narrative. The phrase "I like that better" is the pivot of this micro-arc. **Identity claim**: Implicitly, that "best human being ever" is the correct, or at least preferred, evaluation — not an absurd hyperbole to be deflected, but an enjoyable approximation. **Contrasting other**: The prior critic (@MattWeaver_21) who supplied the negative pole. The fan (@jschmeezz23) functions as the redemptive counter-voice. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **This post is a textbook narcissistic supply receipt event**, but its clinical significance lies in what it *reveals* rather than what it *displays*. The critical phrase is **"I like that better."** This is a rare moment of **unguarded psychological transparency**. The performed indifference in responding to the insult ("Thank you!") required a defense — ironic detachment. No defense is deployed here. The positive supply lands cleanly and is openly preferred. In disclosing this preference publicly, Trump inadvertently documents the psychological architecture that the ironic response was designed to obscure: he cares. Validation feels better than dismissal of an insult. The grandiose narcissistic state is confirmed by the **absence of qualification** in accepting "the best human being ever." This is not a superlative that embarrasses him or requires humorous deflection — it is simply pleasing. Grandiose self-structure experiences maximum positive valuation as confirmation rather than as excess. **Narcissistic State: Grandiose (stable, receiving supply).** **Trigger: Supply receipt** — no injury precedes this post directly (the injury in the "worst human being" post was managed separately and apparently successfully via ironic deflection). **Rage: Absent.** This is among the lower-arousal posts in this session. ### Defense Mechanisms **None actively deployed in this post.** This is itself notable. The defenses visible elsewhere in the session (rationalization, reaction formation / ironic inversion in the "Thank you!" response to the insult) are absent here. Unguarded positivity. ### Malignant Narcissism Sub-scores (post-specific) - **Narcissistic features**: 0.65 (accepting maximal positive valuation without qualification; supply-seeking behavior) - **Antisocial features**: 0.05 (no deception, exploitation, or rule-violation in this post) - **Paranoid features**: 0.00 (no suspicion or threat perception) - **Ego-syntonic sadism**: 0.00 (no cruelty or humiliation) --- ## Cognitive Status Post is too brief (nine words of original Trump content) for robust cognitive assessment. Syntax is clear and appropriate. Dash usage is stylistically consistent with the established register. No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or temporal confusion are detectable. Complexity is inherently low; this cannot be meaningfully compared to baseline. **Baseline note**: Trump's 2013 Twitter output is itself an early-period benchmark. No deviation from this period's baseline is visible. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Minimal rhetorical apparatus. The post functions primarily as: 1. **Parasocial display** — publicly receiving and endorsing fan flattery, which in turn invites further supply from the audience 2. **Implicit comparative signal** — "I like that better" positions the positive evaluation as more correct than the negative one, without directly engaging the critic No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, fear appeals, or violent imagery. No hyperbole originating from Trump (the "best human being ever" hyperbole belongs to the fan). --- ## Authorship Note on the Post-Pair The two posts — "worst human being ever → Thank you!" and "best human being ever → I like that better-thank you!" — likely share an authorship origin (both authentic Trump) but serve different psychological functions. The first is a defensive maneuver (ironic co-optation of the insult). The second is supply receipt without defense. The back-to-back timing suggests Trump was scanning @ mentions, selecting for retweeting, and the pairing was deliberate: the juxtaposition served an implicit rhetorical purpose (see how my fans respond to the haters). --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No threat indicators, no dehumanizing language, no targets, no violence-adjacent content. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 95%) ### Indicators - Posted 9:21 PM EDT — late evening in New York City, Trump's primary authentic posting window - Characteristic dash typography without spaces ('I like that better-thank you!') - Personal emotional disclosure ('I like that better') inconsistent with aide drafting conventions - Conversational, impulsive, unpolished register; no structural formatting - Retweet-with-comment format favored in authentic Trump fan interactions ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@jschmeezz23 fan compliment ('the best human being ever')) Sentiment: +0.82 **Mildly Hypomanic** - High-volume posting day across multiple unrelated topics within a compressed timeframe - Rapid affect oscillation: outrage (Boston commentary) → combativeness (critic responses) → positive fan engagement within single session - Elevated reactivity visible across session's other posts ('you dopes,' zero-chance-innocent certainty) ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 12% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct public acknowledgment of fan flattery by name/handle - Amplification of maximal positive valuation ('best human being ever') via retweet - Comparative preference signaling ('I like that better') that invites further supply from audience - Public display of enjoyment of praise as parasocial reward signal to followers ## Tags - narcissistic-supply-receipt (92%) - supply-preference-disclosure (90%) - grandiose-state (72%) - fan-engagement (85%) - defense-absent (78%) - post-pair-unit-of-analysis (88%) - boston-bombing-context (65%) - authentic-authorship (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Boston Bombing Capture Triggers Punitive Evening Blitz, Morning Returns to Routine Ego Maintenance** Trump spent the evening reacting to the capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, calling for a swift trial and death penalty while declaring the suspect's guilt a certainty. Critics pushed back on his inflammatory rhetoric, which he dismissed with contempt before pivoting to collecting praise from fans. By morning, the tone shifted entirely to ego maintenance — retweeting compliments, promoting his Macy's brand, and fielding softball questions about politics and business. The day revealed a characteristic split: national tragedy as a stage for authoritative posturing in the evening, seamless transition to personal brand cultivation by dawn. Full digest for 2013-04-20: https://trump.fm/date/2013-04-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, April 20). "@jschmeezz23: @realDonaldTrump in my opinion you... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_325418813409591296 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@jschmeezz23: @realDonaldTrump in my opinion you are the..." X (Twitter), 20 Apr. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_325418813409591296. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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