# Post x_344851336921219074

- Post ID: `x_344851336921219074`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-06-12T16:19:00.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_344851336921219074
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_344851336921219074/analysis
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## Post text

> If @VattenfallGroup dropped out of the economically unfeasible wind farm development in Aberdeen, who is (cont) http://t.co/1kEFq9Kgmb

## Engagement

- Likes: 1
- Reposts: 12
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.293Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T16:29:58.583Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: June 12, 2013 — Vattenfall / Aberdeen Wind Farm

### Context and Background

This truncated post employs the Twitter "twitlonger" convention prevalent in 2013, with the full text continuing at the now-inaccessible linked URL (a format Trump used regularly for extended personal tweets during this period). The post is one dispatch in a sustained multi-year campaign against the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) — a joint venture led by Vattenfall to construct 11 offshore turbines approximately 3.5 km from Trump's Trump International Golf Links resort on the Menie Estate near Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. By June 2013, Trump had filed a formal legal challenge against the Scottish government's planning consent (May 2013), testified before the Scottish Parliament, and reportedly sent First Minister Alex Salmond 16 personal letters opposing the project. The Scotland legal battle would ultimately be lost at the UK Supreme Court in 2015; Trump was later ordered to pay ~£225,000 in legal costs.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Vattenfall dropped out of the Aberdeen wind farm development" | **Mostly False** | Vattenfall reduced its ownership stake in the EOWDC consortium in early 2013 but did not withdraw. The company subsequently acquired partner AREG's 25% share, becoming the sole owner. The wind farm achieved first power in July 2018 and full commissioning in September 2018. Trade outlet 4C Offshore published 'Vattenfall goes all in with Aberdeen wind farm.' The claim that Vattenfall 'dropped out' is the opposite of what occurred. |
| "The Aberdeen wind farm development is economically unfeasible" | **Mostly False** | The EOWDC was completed in 2018 and is fully operational. While it received government support and subsidies (standard for offshore wind demonstration projects in this era, as the name 'European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre' indicates), the project was feasibly completed and generates electricity. Trump's legal challenge to block it was rejected at every level including the UK Supreme Court in December 2015. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- UTC 16:19 = 12:19 PM EDT (New York) — solidly business hours, raises probability of aide involvement
- Aberdeen wind farm was Trump's most sustained personal business crusade of 2011–2015, strongly supporting direct authorship
- Twitlonger (cont) format was routinely used in Trump's personally authored extended tweets circa 2013
- Slightly elevated register ('economically unfeasible') relative to typical Trump casual tweet lexicon — mild aide signal
- No typos, misspellings, or ALL CAPS passages — deviates from reactive authentic-Trump style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (EOWDC / Vattenfall / Scottish Government — ongoing threat to Trump International Golf Links' aesthetics, property value, and commercial viability)

Sentiment: -0.32

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Mobilizing public Twitter audience against wind energy project to build political support for a personal business interest
- Framing private commercial grievance as shared public concern about government waste and economic mismanagement

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Vattenfall dropped out of the Aberdeen wind farm development

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Vattenfall reduced its ownership stake in the EOWDC consortium in early 2013 but did not withdraw. The company subsequently acquired partner AREG's 25% share, becoming the sole owner. The wind farm achieved first power in July 2018 and full commissioning in September 2018. Trade outlet 4C Offshore published 'Vattenfall goes all in with Aberdeen wind farm.' The claim that Vattenfall 'dropped out' is the opposite of what occurred.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre; https://www.4coffshore.com/news/vattenfall-goes-all-in-with-aberdeen-wind-farm-nid4210.html; https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete

> The Aberdeen wind farm development is economically unfeasible

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The EOWDC was completed in 2018 and is fully operational. While it received government support and subsidies (standard for offshore wind demonstration projects in this era, as the name 'European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre' indicates), the project was feasibly completed and generates electricity. Trump's legal challenge to block it was rejected at every level including the UK Supreme Court in December 2015.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_Scotland_Ltd_v_The_Scottish_Ministers; https://www.lawscot.org.uk/news-and-events/legal-news/trump-loses-uksc-appeal-over-offshore-wind-farm-near-golf-resort/

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- wind_energy (92%)
- aberdeen_golf_resort (88%)
- scotland (82%)
- rationalization (80%)
- personal_interest_as_policy (85%)
- vattenfall (75%)
- false_premise (78%)
- anti_renewable_energy (72%)
- twitlonger_format (45%)
- business_grievance (80%)

## That day

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

**Compulsive Combat and Curated Flattery: A 34-Post Grandiose Day Collapses Into a Sustained Celebrity Feud — Then Recovers Through Fan Supply Amplification**

June 12, 2013 presents a high-volume, multi-domain posting day anchored by a persistent grandiose narcissistic baseline that survives a significant destabilization event with its defensive architecture intact. The day's 34 posts span approximately 23 hours of local time (8:08 PM EDT June 11 through 7:02 PM EDT June 12), with a plausible ~6.5-hour sleep window between 12:05 AM and 6:35 AM EDT, confirming adequate sleep and ruling out overnight posting as a hypomanic indicator. Thematically, the day divides into three overlapping registers: supply-seeking maintenance (fan engagement, golf course aggrandizement, motivational quotes), political prophet positioning (China prescience narrative, Snowden adjudication, Obama–Middle East scapegoating, ObamaCare criticism), and a sustained narcissistic rage cycle directed at Danny Zuker that dominates the 2:12–4:11 PM EDT window across nine posts. The 34-post volume is estimated at 2–3x the period baseline, constituting the day's most notable hypomanic-adjacent indicator, though the absence of overnight posting and thematic diversity prevent threshold confirmation.

The Zuker sequence — the day's clinically dominant event cluster — constitutes a textbook narcissistic injury response cycle. Trump's China prescience claim (x_344843316917059584, 11:47 AM EDT) invited public hypocrisy exposure from Zuker regarding Trump's China-manufactured branded clothing. Unable to engage the substantive contradiction, Trump deployed motive assassination, credibility attacks, and direct devaluation ('total loser,' x_344898458169257984, peak rage 0.58), before systematically retweeting follower-sourced proxy insults and status comparisons to restore grandiose equilibrium. The DARVO inversion is explicit: x_344905633579012097 frames Trump as the reluctant reactor ('I can't resist… when he starts up') despite having initiated the China prescience claim that provoked the rebuttal. Rage was grossly disproportionate to provocation and unresolvable through substantive engagement — a proportionality failure and disengagement inability consistent with narcissistic injury response to an unanswerable public exposure.

A notable within-day contradiction is detectable between x_344777108846952448 ('far worse than anybody could have predicted') and a documented May 2013 post characterizing the military sexual assault epidemic as entirely predictable — rhetorical impact superseding logical consistency across time. Most longitudinally significant is the day's systematic amplification of #Trump2016 retweets (x_344908599195209731, x_344952423862894594, x_344952813723451392) without original commentary, documenting systematic proto-campaign identity construction through selective fan amplification three full years before formal candidacy.

Full digest for 2013-06-12: https://trump.fm/date/2013-06-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, June 12). If @VattenfallGroup dropped out of the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_344851336921219074
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If @VattenfallGroup dropped out of the economically..." X (Twitter), 12 Jun. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_344851336921219074. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "If @VattenfallGroup dropped out of the economically...," X (Twitter), June 12, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_344851336921219074.

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