Analysis: Additionally, two executives @VattenfallGroup are under majo...

13y ago May 28, 2013 at 7:37 PM

Additionally, two executives @VattenfallGroup are under major investigation &amp, they are unable to get the many permits necessary.

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-02-23. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

33%

This Memorial Day 2013 post is the second in a coordinated two-tweet attack on Vattenfall Group's Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm — a project Trump opposed on personal grounds (proximity to his Scottish golf course). The post is of moderate clinical interest not for intensity but for the quality of its distortions: it flatly inverts a documented regulatory outcome (permits had been granted in March 2013, not denied), inflates one executive's unrelated bribery investigation into "two executives under major investigation," and misattributes a Dutch corporate scandal to Aberdeen project failures. These are not ambiguous spin or emphasis choices but direct factual inversions. The post exemplifies an early, controlled instance of what becomes a more pervasive pattern: weaponizing public communications in private business disputes, recruiting loosely related negative news to build a narrative of opponent collapse, and relying on audience ignorance of underlying facts to make distortions stick. Authorship leans toward aide-written on Trump's direction (business hours, formal structure, no typos). Psychological state is grandiose-triumphant rather than agitated. No rage, no dehumanization, no danger indicators. For longitudinal purposes, this post should be treated as part of the 2013 baseline — a period when the reality-distortion pattern was present but relatively contained and transactional rather than ideological.

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

Posted at 3:37 PM EDT — solidly within business hours
Formal connector 'Additionally' explicitly linking to preceding tweet suggests planned multi-tweet structure
No typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness fragmentation
Coordinated two-tweet volley structure is aide-characteristic
Identical '&amp,' encoding artifact in both Vattenfall tweets suggesting same author/tool

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Scottish Government approval of Aberdeen wind farm (March 2013) / upcoming Court of Session litigation)

Sentiment

-0.45

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

50%

Antisocial

45%

Paranoid

20%

Sadism

Defense Mechanisms:

distortionrationalization

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

33%

Parasocial Techniques:

Shared grievance mobilization (anti-wind farm protesters cited in preceding tweet)Public-interest framing to recruit audience sympathy for private business battle

Danger Assessment

None

Gaslighting Detected:

Inverts documented reality on permits: Scottish Government had approved the Aberdeen wind farm in March 2013; post frames this as ongoing permit denial, potentially misleading followers who lacked access to the underlying regulatory record
Implies Aberdeen-specific relevance of an executive investigation that concerned an unrelated 2009 Dutch corporate acquisition

Reality Distortions:

Permit status inverted: approved permits reframed as unobtainable
Unrelated CEO bribery investigation presented as indicative of Aberdeen project failure
Numerical inflation: 'two executives' when one was documented as under investigation

Fact Checks (2)

"Two executives @VattenfallGroup are under major investigation"

Mostly False

In April–May 2013, one Vattenfall executive — CEO Øystein Løseth — was under internal investigation for an alleged bribe received during Vattenfall's 2009 acquisition of Dutch company Nuon. This investigation was unrelated to the Aberdeen wind farm. 'Two executives' appears to be numerical inflation beyond the documented record, and the implied relevance to Aberdeen project failures is spurious.

"They are unable to get the many permits necessary"

False

The Scottish Government granted planning permission for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (EOWDC) in March 2013 — six weeks before this tweet. Vattenfall had obtained the required permits. Trump was actively fighting against those approved permits via litigation; he lost at the Court of Session (2014), Court of Session appeal (2015), and unanimously at the UK Supreme Court (December 2015).

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Psychological Analysis: Trump on Vattenfall Group (May 28, 2013)

Contextual Frame

This post is the second in a coordinated two-tweet sequence targeting Vattenfall Group's Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre / EOWDC). Trump's opposition to the project was openly personal: the offshore turbines would be visible from his Trump International Golf Links Scotland course approximately two miles away. The sequence appeared on Memorial Day 2013 — roughly six weeks after the Scottish Government granted planning permission for the wind farm (March 2013), and approximately one month after a Vattenfall CEO bribery investigation emerged. Trump had filed legal challenges against the approved permits and was building toward a November 2013 Court of Session hearing (which he ultimately lost, along with every subsequent appeal through the UK Supreme Court in December 2015).

Authorship Assessment

Posted at 19:37 UTC — approximately 3:37 PM EDT, solidly within business hours for Trump's likely New York location on Memorial Day 2013. The formal connector "Additionally" explicitly linking this tweet to the preceding one, the coordinated two-tweet structure, and the complete absence of typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness fragmenting all lean toward aide-written or aide-assisted composition. The "&," encoding artifact (an HTML ampersand entity rendered without closing semicolon) appears identically in both Vattenfall tweets, suggesting a consistent authorial tool or source. That said, the content direction — targeting Vattenfall specifically, weaponizing the CEO bribery story, inverting the permit status — almost certainly originated with Trump given the intensely personal stakes. Probable attribution: aide-authored on Trump's explicit direction, with possible Trump edits. Confidence: medium.

Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals, 2006)

Level 1 — Dispositional Traits The post foregrounds markedly low agreeableness (adversarial framing, zero-sum characterization of opponent), high extraversion expressed through public combat assertiveness, and highly goal-directed conscientiousness in service of a private business objective. Low openness is apparent in the binary framing (Vattenfall = corrupt/failing; Trump's opposition = validated). Neuroticism is relatively suppressed here — this is a triumphant rather than an agitated post, suggesting momentary grandiose state rather than reactive anger.

Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations The dominant motive is unmistakably agency: power, control, and defeat of a specific threat to Trump's business and aesthetic interests. The schema revealed is purely zero-sum and adversarial — opponents are to be delegitimized through allegation-stacking and regulatory-failure framing. Communion motives are completely absent. The world-view embedded in the post treats public communications as a legitimate tool of private business warfare.

Level 3 — Narrative Identity Trump casts himself as the prescient exposer of corporate malfeasance: he knew this project was wrong, and now reality confirms it. The narrative sequence is redemptive: Vattenfall drops out (victory), executives face investigation (justice), permits fail (order restored). The contrasting other is Vattenfall as a corrupt, permit-blocked, economically unviable failure. Trump is implicitly the vindicated prophet. Identity claims: investigator of wrongdoing, defender of legitimate economic judgment, opponent of industrial blight.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Two executives @VattenfallGroup are under major investigation"	Mostly False	In April–May 2013, one Vattenfall executive — CEO Øystein Løseth — was under internal investigation for an alleged bribe received during Vattenfall's 2009 acquisition of Dutch company Nuon. This investigation was unrelated to the Aberdeen wind farm. 'Two executives' appears to be numerical inflation beyond the documented record, and the implied relevance to Aberdeen project failures is spurious.
"They are unable to get the many permits necessary"	False	The Scottish Government granted planning permission for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (EOWDC) in March 2013 — six weeks before this tweet. Vattenfall had obtained the required permits. Trump was actively fighting against those approved permits via litigation; he lost at the Court of Session (2014), Court of Session appeal (2015), and unanimously at the UK Supreme Court (December 2015).

Overall Veracity: 10%