# Post x_337707839256678401

- Post ID: `x_337707839256678401`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-05-23T23:13:17.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The so called 87 year old "lady" was a vicious and skilled investor who was trying to rip me off with made up facts and a blowhard lawyer.

## Engagement

- Likes: 42
- Reposts: 59
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.294Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T07:50:54.607Z (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 hours after a federal jury ruled in his favor against 87-year-old Jacqueline Goldberg, this tweet is clinically significant precisely because it is strategically unnecessary. Having fully prevailed, the subject continues offensive operations — stripping Goldberg of sympathetic identity ('so called... "lady"'), positioning himself as the real fraud victim ('trying to rip me off'), and attacking her counsel as a 'blowhard.' The post-victory attack pattern is among the more reliable behavioral markers of narcissistic injury that legal outcome cannot fully remediate: the wound was the challenge itself, not the risk of losing. Defense mechanisms include splitting (Goldberg as pure villain), projection (attributing fabrication to the plaintiff), embedded DARVO (defendant as true victim), and ego-syntonic devaluation through scare quotes — pleasure-driven humiliation of a figure already defeated, consistent with Kernberg's sadism component. The same framing ('trying to rip me off') was used by Trump in statements to reporters eight days before the verdict, indicating this is not reactive but chronic narrative maintenance. Authorship is attributed with high confidence to Trump himself: the reputationally reckless quality — publicly attacking an elderly woman after winning — would not be generated by an aide independently. No cognitive deviation from 2013 baseline. Danger level: none. Longitudinally, this post provides a clean 2013 baseline illustration of post-victory narcissistic attack behavior that would recur with greater frequency and escalating political intensity post-2015.

## Post Analysis: May 23, 2013 — Post-Verdict Attack on Goldberg

### Context

This tweet was posted at approximately **7:13 PM EDT** on May 23, 2013 — the same evening a federal jury in Chicago returned a verdict in Trump's favor against 87-year-old **Jacqueline Goldberg**. Goldberg, a financial planner with a master's degree, had alleged a bait-and-switch scheme: Trump purportedly induced her to purchase two condominiums at Trump International Hotel & Tower (~$1M each) with profit-sharing promises, then canceled the arrangement. After five-plus hours of deliberation, the jury sided with Trump. Her attorney had publicly called Trump "villainous and greedy" during proceedings. Trump, by contrast, had been calling her conduct "trying to rip me off" to reporters as early as May 15 — eight days *before* the verdict — and repeats that exact framing here post-victory.

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time: 7:13 PM EDT.** Evening hours fall within the moderate-confidence authentic range — not the signature 1–4 AM pattern, but consistent with documented authentic reaction posts. Style markers strongly indicate Trump himself: punchy combative construction, scare quotes deployed as devaluation instruments ('lady'), stream-of-consciousness syntax, ad hominem against opposing counsel ('blowhard'), and the reputationally reckless act of publicly attacking an 87-year-old woman *after* fully prevailing in federal court. An aide would not generate this content without explicit authorization and would typically moderate the framing given obvious optics risk. The bifurcated same-day posting pattern is telling: inspirational and promotional posts (likely aide-drafted) versus this raw personal attack. **Confidence: High — authentic Trump.**

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

**Dominant: Low Agreeableness + High Neuroticism (Angry Hostility)**

- **Low Agreeableness (0.07)**: Zero magnanimity in victory; zero acknowledgment of Goldberg's subjective experience or the reputational cost of targeting an octogenarian. Pure antagonism.
- **High Neuroticism / Angry Hostility (0.79)**: Continued offensive after full legal vindication indicates the court outcome has *not* resolved the underlying affective state.
- **Low Conscientiousness (0.28)**: Impulse over deliberation — no strategic gain accrues from this post; real reputational risk is ignored.
- **Low Openness (0.18)**: Categorical, rigid framing; no ambiguity tolerated.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

Pure **agency motives** (power, status, control = 0.92). A purely achievement-oriented actor would be satisfied by the verdict; the continued attack signals that the *act of being challenged* — not merely the risk of losing — constitutes an unresolved narcissistic wound. The organizing schema: sympathetic-seeming challengers are actually predators; perceived vulnerability (age, gender) is a weapon directed against him; total victory requires destroying the adversary's legitimacy, not merely prevailing legally.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Discerning victim-turned-victor — one who sees through false sympathy
- **Contrasting other**: Goldberg reframed from sympathetic elderly woman into 'vicious' predator concealed within a sympathetic demographic identity
- **Identity claims**: 'I cannot be deceived by manipulative use of sympathy'; 'I am the real potential victim here'; 'I expose false sympathetic figures for what they truly are'
- **Narrative sequence**: Contamination (predatory lawsuit intrudes on Trump's world) → Redemption (verdict exposes and removes the predator, order restored)
- **Scare quotes** around 'lady' do specific narrative work: they strip her gender identity of legitimacy as the primary rhetorical act. The construction 'so called... "lady"' dissociates her from the sympathetic frame her gender/age combination would otherwise confer.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Narcissistic Dynamics

The **post-victory attack pattern** is among the more diagnostically reliable behavioral markers for narcissistic injury that exceeds what legal outcome can remediate. Having fully prevailed in federal court, the subject continues offensive operations against a defeated opponent — suggesting the wound was the *challenge itself*, not merely exposure to risk of loss.

**Mixed narcissistic state**: Grandiose framing ('I won, I exposed her') coexists with a vulnerable undertone ('she was *trying to rip me off*' — self-positioning as the true victim despite being the prevailing defendant). The oscillation between these positions within a single sentence is characteristic.

#### Ego-Syntonic Sadism

The public stripping of Goldberg's sympathetic identity immediately after her public legal defeat is consistent with Kernberg's ego-syntonic sadism construct. No strategic benefit accrues from this post — it risked reputation for no gain — indicating the devaluation serves a *pleasure function* rather than an instrumental one.

#### Defense Mechanisms

- **Splitting** (immature): Goldberg is entirely malevolent ('vicious') — no recognition that a losing legal claim is distinct from a fabricated one
- **Projection** (immature): 'Made up facts' attributed to the party who had *alleged fraud by Trump*; own veracity questions redirected outward
- **Devaluation** (immature): Scare quotes around 'lady' systematically strip her of legitimate identity markers
- **DARVO** embedded throughout: prevailing defendant positions himself as the intended fraud victim
- **Rationalization** (neurotic): 'Vicious and skilled investor' — intellectualized justification for treating the challenge as a genuine threat, and for continued post-verdict attack

### Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a concentrated devaluation sequence against a single target. Scare quotes perform the heavy lifting: 'lady' is the key term, questioning her gender legitimacy and respectability in a single stroke. The DARVO structure is embedded in the factual framing. Ad hominem against the lawyer ('blowhard') is retaliatory — Goldberg's attorney had publicly called Trump 'villainous and greedy' during proceedings.

The 'vicious and skilled investor' construction is rhetorically layered: it elevates the opponent (as a worthy adversary) to magnify Trump's victory while simultaneously dehumanizing her (stripping away the sympathetic elderly-woman frame). This double move — inflate enemy to elevate self — is characteristic.

### Cognitive Status

No deviation from 2013 baseline. Sentence structure is coherent; vocabulary is simple but deliberately deployed. The layered dismissal construction ('so called 87 year old "lady"') reflects rhetorical intent, not cognitive slippage. Complexity score (0.28) reflects Trump's characteristic simple syntax, consistent with this period. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, perseveration, or confabulation detected.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The woman was 87 years old" | **True** | Jacqueline Goldberg's age of 87 is confirmed across all contemporaneous trial coverage including NBC News, Seattle Times, CNBC, and Chicago Tribune. |
| "She was 'trying to rip me off with made up facts'" | **Mostly False** | Goldberg had documented legal allegations (profit-sharing promise later canceled) adjudicated before a federal jury. A verdict against her on the preponderance-of-evidence standard does not establish that her factual claims were fabricated. Notably, Trump made this identical claim to reporters during the trial on May 15 — eight days before the verdict — suggesting it is narrative maintenance rather than a response to courtroom evidence. Goldberg's attorney described Trump as 'villainous and greedy,' indicating the factual dispute was genuine and contested. |
| "She was a 'vicious and skilled investor'" | **Mostly True** | Trump's own defense team characterized Goldberg as a sophisticated investor who understood the contract terms she signed, and emphasized this was not a David-versus-Goliath scenario as both parties were wealthy. 'Skilled investor' is largely corroborated by the defense's own trial characterization; 'vicious' is a subjective characterization unsupported by public record. |

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Evening posting (7:13 PM EDT) — within authentic range, not aide business hours
- Scare quotes used as devaluation device ('lady') — personally charged, punitive
- Stream-of-consciousness syntax with layered dismissal construction
- Ad hominem against opposing counsel ('blowhard') — unfiltered personal hostility
- Reputationally reckless content (mocking elderly losing litigant) inconsistent with aide restraint

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jacqueline Goldberg fraud lawsuit against Trump International Hotel and Tower condo profit-sharing arrangement)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Jacqueline Goldberg and her attorney
- Proportionality: 8%

Sentiment: -0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 62%
- Sadism: 68%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Victory broadcast inviting follower validation of enemy characterization
- Insider framing: sharing 'real story' behind a sympathetic-seeming adversary, bonding audience around shared suspicion of false vulnerability

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- DARVO: prevailing defendant characterizes himself as the party being defrauded ('trying to rip me off') despite being the accused party in the litigation
- 'Made up facts' dismisses documented legal allegations reviewed by a federal jury as pure fabrication
- Scare quotes around 'lady' implicitly gaslight audience into questioning the legitimacy of Goldberg's identity markers rather than engaging her factual claims

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The woman was 87 years old

**TRUE**

Jacqueline Goldberg's age of 87 is confirmed across all contemporaneous trial coverage including NBC News, Seattle Times, CNBC, and Chicago Tribune.

Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/87-year-old-woman-loses-donald-trump-civil-case-flna6C10057091; https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/jury-rules-for-trump-over-87-year-old-woman-in-chicago-hotel-dispute/

> She was 'trying to rip me off with made up facts'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Goldberg had documented legal allegations (profit-sharing promise later canceled) adjudicated before a federal jury. A verdict against her on the preponderance-of-evidence standard does not establish that her factual claims were fabricated. Notably, Trump made this identical claim to reporters during the trial on May 15 — eight days before the verdict — suggesting it is narrative maintenance rather than a response to courtroom evidence. Goldberg's attorney described Trump as 'villainous and greedy,' indicating the factual dispute was genuine and contested.

Sources: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2013-05-15-chi-donald-trump-trial-20130515-story.html; https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/87-year-old-woman-loses-donald-trump-civil-case-flna6C10057091

> She was a 'vicious and skilled investor'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump's own defense team characterized Goldberg as a sophisticated investor who understood the contract terms she signed, and emphasized this was not a David-versus-Goliath scenario as both parties were wealthy. 'Skilled investor' is largely corroborated by the defense's own trial characterization; 'vicious' is a subjective characterization unsupported by public record.

Sources: https://www.cnbc.com/2013/05/24/trump-beats-the-rap-from-87yearold-grandma.html; https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/87-year-old-woman-loses-donald-trump-civil-case-flna6C10057091

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Tags

- post-victory devaluation (92%)
- DARVO (88%)
- splitting (78%)
- projection (72%)
- devaluation (85%)
- victimhood inversion (88%)
- ad hominem (82%)
- ego-syntonic sadism (68%)
- authentic Trump (82%)
- Goldberg v Trump Chicago 2013 (98%)
- ageism and gendered dismissal (82%)

## 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). The so called 87 year old "lady" was a vicious... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_337707839256678401
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The so called 87 year old "lady" was a vicious and skilled..." X (Twitter), 23 May. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_337707839256678401. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The so called 87 year old "lady" was a vicious and skilled...," X (Twitter), May 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_337707839256678401.

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