# Post x_335041781370589184 - Post ID: `x_335041781370589184` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-05-16T14:39:20.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_335041781370589184 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_335041781370589184/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_335041781370589184.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > @MikeFromTN @mcuban @JeremyPage3011 Thanks Michael. ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 0 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.295Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T04:51:49.065Z (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: @MikeFromTN @mcuban @JeremyPage3011 — "Thanks Michael." (2013-05-16) ### Overview This post represents one of the most content-sparse entries in the corpus: a single social acknowledgment directed at three Twitter handles. Substantive psychological or rhetorical analysis is severely constrained by the minimal linguistic material. The value of this post lies primarily in what it reveals about Trump's Twitter behavior patterns and social engagement style in 2013, and as a longitudinal data point. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time determination:** Trump's primary residence and office (Trump Tower, Manhattan) places him in EDT (UTC−4). The post timestamp of 14:39 UTC converts to **10:39 AM EDT** — solidly within business hours, which is a mild indicator of aide authorship in later periods. However, the 2013 Twitter context complicates this: Trump in this era was demonstrably and heavily personally engaged on Twitter, including reply chains to individual supporters. The surrounding posts from the same day form a coherent session of personal engagement — rapid-fire replies to followers ("Thanks!", "True and thanks.", "True!") interspersed with substantive political commentary on Obama scandals. This is a behavioral signature consistent with Trump personally scrolling through his @mentions and replying in real time. The informal construction, extremely brief register, and the social directness ("Thanks Michael.") are consistent with authentic Trump personal replies rather than aide-drafted content, which tends toward polish and announcement-style wording. However, confidence remains **low** due to the extreme brevity — the post is simply too short to permit reliable stylometric differentiation. **Assessment:** Lean authentic (score ~0.55), low confidence. --- ### Psychological State The post offers essentially no psychological signal in isolation. In the broader context of May 16, 2013, Trump was actively monitoring and commenting on the trifecta of Obama administration scandals (IRS targeting, AP phone records seizure, ongoing Benghazi fallout). His substantive tweets from this session reveal a grandiose, supply-seeking engagement with current events — framing Obama's electoral victory as contingent on scandal suppression. This "Thanks Michael." sits within that same engagement session, suggesting Trump was in a socially activated, audience-tending mode: simultaneously performing political commentary and cultivating his supporter network. The acknowledgment of supporters is consistent with **communion motives** at a surface level, but in the narcissistic personality framework, such replies also function as **narcissistic supply maintenance** — reinforcing the follower-audience relationship that feeds the central dynamic. --- ### Cognitive Indicators No assessable markers from three words of content. The broader session's tweets ("If these scandals happened before the election, Obama could not have won." / "Obama & his people did a brilliant job of delaying these scandals...") show coherent, if tendentious, political reasoning. Syntax is simple but not disordered. No perseveration or paraphasia evident in the session overall. **Baseline deviation: none.** --- ### Rhetorical Techniques None. The post is a social acknowledgment with zero rhetorical architecture. --- ### Note on Handle Resolution The three recipients are @MikeFromTN, @mcuban (Mark Cuban), and @JeremyPage3011. The salutation "Thanks Michael" — directing to the name Michael rather than Mark — almost certainly refers to @MikeFromTN (Mike from Tennessee), not Cuban. Trump was apparently individually acknowledging a specific commenter while looping in Cuban and Page as recipients, a common Twitter convention suggesting the original thread involved all three. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - 10:39 AM EDT falls within business hours (mild aide indicator) - Extremely brief informal register consistent with personal Trump replies - Embedded in a same-session pattern of rapid personal reply tweets - No typos present but text too short for meaningful stylometric analysis - 2013-era Trump was heavily personally active on Twitter replies ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (@MikeFromTN and supporters) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Personal reply to named individual follower reinforces parasocial bond ## Tags - social-reply (90%) - supply-maintenance (30%) - low-signal (100%) - authentic-probable (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grandiose Supply-Harvesting Day Punctuated by Two Flashes of Defensive Rage During Active Litigation** A busy but psychologically unremarkable day dominated by retweeting fan praise, promoting The Apprentice, and commenting on the Obama administration's triple-scandal week. The only real heat came from two separate targets: an angry outburst against the elderly woman suing him in Chicago federal court, and a late-night attack on a documentary filmmaker who had made an unflattering film about him. Both flared and faded quickly, bookended by hours of routine self-congratulation and brief "Thanks!" replies. The mood was expansive and self-satisfied throughout, with normal sleep and no signs of distress beyond the two defensive outbursts. Full digest for 2013-05-16: https://trump.fm/date/2013-05-16/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, May 16). @MikeFromTN @mcuban @JeremyPage3011 Thanks... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_335041781370589184 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@MikeFromTN @mcuban @JeremyPage3011 Thanks Michael." X (Twitter), 16 May. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_335041781370589184. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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