# Post x_337455577204682752

- Post ID: `x_337455577204682752`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-05-23T06:30:53.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @leeboggs
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_337455577204682752
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_337455577204682752/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_337455577204682752.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@leeboggs: @realDonaldTrump Turbines in US have killed many bald eagles w/o penalities."

## Engagement

- Likes: 9
- Reposts: 11
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.294Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T07:28:19.594Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis

### Authorship Attribution

The UTC timestamp (06:30:53) converts to **2:30 AM EDT** in New York, where Trump was almost certainly based in May 2013. Late-night posting is a primary authentic-Trump signal. This post appears within a cluster of same-day anti-wind-energy retweets, consistent with active late-night browsing on a topic of intense personal interest. The absence of appended commentary (elsewhere on this date Trump adds "True!" and "Our Country needs help, and fast!") is a mild counter-indicator, but plain retweets without commentary were common in 2013 Twitter usage. **Authorship confidence: moderately high for authentic Trump.**

### Critical Context: The Scottish Golf Course Litigation

This post is unintelligible without its business context. In March 2013, the Scottish government approved the Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm—11 turbines approximately 3.5 km from Trump International Golf Links, Aberdeenshire. By **May 2013**—the exact month of this tweet—Trump had launched a formal legal challenge. He had already publicly rechristened the RSPB the "Royal Society for the Killing of Birds" in 2012 for its failure to oppose the wind farm. The bald eagle retweet is the American instantiation of this identical rhetorical strategy: reframing a concrete financial and aesthetic grievance as principled environmental concern.

This is a textbook **displacement** defense mechanism in action: the authentic locus of grievance (a Scottish regulatory decision threatening his golf course views and commercial investment) is transposed onto a national narrative that reads as principled environmental stewardship.

### Psychological State and Trigger

Operating in low-affect **maintenance/supply-seeking mode**. Trump is amplifying content that confirms his pre-existing anti-wind position while cultivating a truth-teller persona with his follower base. No acute narcissistic injury is discernible in this specific post, though the broader anti-wind campaign is clearly downstream of a concrete narcissistic wound: a foreign government's approval of a project he perceived as defiling his property.

No rage markers present. No ALL CAPS, no derogatory language, no escalation. The post's affect is flat—functionally informational within a partisan frame.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Displacement** (primary, neurotic level): The genuine trigger—loss of control over his Scottish golf course's visual environment—is displaced onto a national bald eagle conservation narrative, which is both more sympathetic and more politically portable than "a foreign government approved something I don't like near my hotel."

**Rationalization** (secondary, neurotic level): Appropriating environmentalist logic (bird mortality) to oppose a nominally environmentalist technology constitutes a motivated-reasoning posture dressed as principled concern. The rhetorical move is sophisticated: the opponent cannot easily deploy environmental counter-arguments without acknowledging the bird-kill data.

### Rhetorical Analysis

The bald eagle is America's national symbol—a vessel for patriotism, natural majesty, and sovereign identity. Invoking it against wind energy converts a prosaic regulatory-policy complaint into a matter of national honor. The "without penalties" framing introduces the **fairness/double-standard template** that will become one of Trump's most durable rhetorical instruments: *different rules apply to different groups*. The implicit argument—that fossil fuel companies would be prosecuted for equivalent eagle deaths, while wind energy companies received de facto immunity—is factually substantiated for the 2013 period, making this a rare instance of his grievance rhetoric landing on accurate ground.

The post requires no Trump labor: the follower does the argumentative work; Trump merely endorses and amplifies. This is characteristic of his social media persona at this stage—a curation function that builds ideological coherence while maintaining plausible informational deniability.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Turbines in US have killed many bald eagles without penalties" | **Mostly True** | Wind turbines were killing eagles in 2013. As of May 2013, no criminal penalties had been imposed on wind operators for eagle deaths — the Duke Energy Renewables case was the first-ever MBTA criminal conviction for a wind project, and sentencing occurred November 2013. The Obama administration subsequently issued 30-year 'take' permits explicitly authorizing wind farms to legally kill eagles, further supporting the asymmetric-enforcement narrative. 'Many' is imprecise but directionally accurate. 'Without penalties' overstates by implying total regulatory vacuum but was substantially accurate at time of posting. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- 2:30 AM EDT posting time strongly suggests authentic late-night activity
- Part of a sustained same-day cluster of anti-wind energy retweets consistent with personal preoccupation
- Anti-wind content aligns precisely with active Scottish golf course litigation (May 2013)
- No added commentary unlike several same-day posts ('True!', 'Our Country needs help, and fast!') — mild counter-indicator

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Anti-wind energy follower content (@leeboggs))

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Selective amplification of follower-submitted content validating pre-existing position
- Curation-as-endorsement: building ideological coherence without direct argumentative labor
- Truth-teller persona cultivation via factually grounded but contextually motivated content

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-23._

> Turbines in US have killed many bald eagles without penalties

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Wind turbines were killing eagles in 2013. As of May 2013, no criminal penalties had been imposed on wind operators for eagle deaths — the Duke Energy Renewables case was the first-ever MBTA criminal conviction for a wind project, and sentencing occurred November 2013. The Obama administration subsequently issued 30-year 'take' permits explicitly authorizing wind farms to legally kill eagles, further supporting the asymmetric-enforcement narrative. 'Many' is imprecise but directionally accurate. 'Without penalties' overstates by implying total regulatory vacuum but was substantially accurate at time of posting.

Sources: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/utility-company-sentenced-wyoming-killing-protected-birds-wind-projects; https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind/obama-allows-wind-turbines-legally-kill-eagles/; https://www.wind-watch.org/newsarchive/2013/05/16/the-latest-wind-energy-outrage/

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- wind-energy-opposition (90%)
- scotland-golf-litigation (85%)
- double-standard-fairness-framing (75%)
- displacement-of-business-grievance (70%)
- bald-eagle-patriotic-framing (65%)
- anti-renewable-energy (70%)

## That day

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

**Post-Victory Sadism and Decades-Old Grudges Dominate a 44-Post Day**

Trump had two main fixations today: a long-running feud with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and a courtroom win against an 87-year-old woman in Chicago. The Carter attacks recycled insults dating back 25 years, while the lawsuit victory produced an unusually cruel string of posts, including open delight in "beating these two terrible human beings." In between, he pushed his opposition to Scottish wind farms, floated presidential ambitions through fan retweets, and stayed up past 2:30 AM. The overall mood was triumphant but gratuitously aggressive — even by his standards, the post-victory gloating stood out for its intensity and target.

Full digest for 2013-05-23: https://trump.fm/date/2013-05-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, May 23). "@leeboggs: @realDonaldTrump Turbines in US have... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_337455577204682752
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@leeboggs: @realDonaldTrump Turbines in US have killed..." X (Twitter), 23 May. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_337455577204682752. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@leeboggs: @realDonaldTrump Turbines in US have killed...," X (Twitter), May 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_337455577204682752.

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