# Post x_351121237713494017 - Post ID: `x_351121237713494017` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-06-29T23:33:21.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_351121237713494017 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_351121237713494017/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_351121237713494017.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > @spsmith78 So how is he allowed to get away with the crap he says? ## Engagement - Likes: 1 - Reposts: 1 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.292Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T21:48:27.962Z (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: Reply to @spsmith78 — Double-Standard Grievance (June 29, 2013) ### Authorship & Timing The UTC timestamp 23:33:21 converts to **19:33 EDT** (UTC−4). In June 2013, Trump was almost certainly based at Trump Tower, New York — no campaign obligations or documented travel exist for this date. A 7:33 PM post falls in the ambiguous evening zone, but the surrounding tweet cluster strongly anchors this as an **authentic Trump session**: adjacent posts employ signature markers — "haters and losers," "big league," defensive wealth-origin rationalization, and stream-of-consciousness validation-seeking (retweeting supporters). Style is informal, reactive, and unpolished ("crap" as an expletive substitute). Authorship confidence: **medium-high authentic**. ### Contextual Ambiguity The post's central analytical limitation is the unresolved referent: "he." Without access to the @spsmith78 reply chain, the target is opaque. Given the news density of June 29, 2013 — DOMA struck down June 26, Prop 8 dismissed June 26, Snowden stranded in Moscow, Senate immigration bill passage June 27 — multiple plausible targets exist: - **Obama** (Trump's dominant 2013 Twitter fixation): DOMA, immigration reform, and the Snowden diplomatic standoff were all live - **A media figure** who had recently criticized Trump directly (coherent with the surrounding defensive wealth-posts) - **Snowden** (permitted to "get away with" NSA leaks without immediate prosecution) The psychological schema is consistent regardless of target: an unnamed party operates under more permissive rules than Trump perceives himself to face. ### Session Arc: Narcissistic Injury → Displacement The broader June 29 tweet cluster traces a recognizable wound-response sequence: 1. **Wound** (implicit, not posted): External criticism about Trump's inherited wealth 2. **Rationalization**: "I multiplied it many, many times to over $10 billion" 3. **Rationalization + grandiosity**: "What my father really gave me is a good (great) brain" 4. **Validation-seeking**: Retweeting "People are just jealous" 5. **Supply-seeking**: Retweeting admiration ("It's called genes!") 6. **Pivot/Displacement** — *this post*: "So how is HE allowed to get away with the crap he says?" After four posts defending his own statements and drawing validation, Trump abruptly pivots to complaining that someone else isn't held accountable for *their* statements. This is psychologically transparent: Trump was being criticized for what *he* says; he projects "getting away with crap" outward and displaces the narcissistic wound energy onto an external target. ### Core Schema: Double-Standard Grievance The construction "how is he **allowed** to get away with" encodes an entitlement-based accountability schema: *I am held to standards others are permitted to evade.* This simultaneously inflates Trump's self-importance (he merits special scrutiny) and externalizes culpability. This schema will become one of Trump's most persistent and escalating psychological patterns — visible here in 2013 as casual ambient grievance, amplified into systematic persecution narrative by 2015–2020. The emotional architecture is identical; the rhetorical weaponization scales dramatically. ### Narcissistic State & Rage The broader session is **vulnerable** narcissistic state — wounded pride about wealth origins requiring repeated validation. This post represents a partial transition, casting Trump as the aggrieved truth-teller who notices inequities others ignore. No marked rage; the rhetorical question form conveys exasperation rather than attack. Intensity is low. ### Rhetorical Profile Minimal rhetorical machinery: - **Rhetorical question**: Performs indignation while inviting co-conspiratorial agreement from @spsmith78 - **Informal register** ("crap"): Signals authenticity and unfiltered reaction - **Double-standard appeal**: Implicit argument that "he" operates under more permissive discursive rules - **Vague referent** ("he"): Creates conspiratorial in-group framing — shared outrage over a shared implicit target No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no propaganda techniques of note. Ambient grievance, not weaponized rhetoric. ### Cognitive Status (2013 Baseline) Simple syntax, clear construction, no word-finding difficulties. Platform-appropriate register. This post is valuable as **early baseline data** for longitudinal cognitive comparison. No markers of concern. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are unremarkable but context-consistent with Twitter norms of the period. ### Danger Assessment None. Vague rhetorical complaint, no specific target named, no call to action, no violent imagery. ### Longitudinal Significance The double-standard grievance schema documented here in embryonic form will become central to Trump's political identity. Tracking its emergence in 2013 at low emotional intensity provides a useful baseline for measuring subsequent escalation in rhetorical force, specificity of targets, and mobilization potential. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Evening post at 19:33 EDT — not late-night but within Trump's personal engagement window - Informal register: 'crap' as expletive substitute is characteristically Trumpian - Terse, reactive single-sentence construction consistent with impulsive reply behavior - Seamlessly embedded within clearly authentic surrounding session (haters/losers, big league, retweeting supporters) - No spelling errors but grammatically complete — atypical for aide posts which tend toward formal announcements ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Critics of Trump's inherited wealth and public statements) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Co-conspiratorial framing with @spsmith78 through shared outrage at unnamed 'he' - Vague referent creates in-group bonding around presumed shared target ## Tags - double-standard-grievance (90%) - displacement (75%) - projection (70%) - narcissistic-injury-response (65%) - authentic-trump (72%) - 2013-baseline (85%) - ambient-grievance (80%) - unidentified-target (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Saturday Evening Identity Defense Marathon: Inheritance Criticism Triggers Full Narcissistic Regulatory Cycle** Trump spent a quiet Saturday that ended with a dense hour of Twitter combat. After a lone late-night shot at Bill Maher, he went dark for most of the day, then fired off fifteen posts in under an hour defending his wealth, his intelligence, and his business record against online critics. The mood was mostly self-congratulatory -- amplifying fans, teasing a presidential run, brushing off moral challenges -- but the session ended on its angriest note when a troll called him bankrupt and got called a "moron" in return. The through-line was a man who couldn't stop relitigating whether he earned his fortune or inherited it. Full digest for 2013-06-29: https://trump.fm/date/2013-06-29/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, June 29). @spsmith78 So how is he allowed to get away with... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_351121237713494017 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@spsmith78 So how is he allowed to get away with the crap..." X (Twitter), 29 Jun. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_351121237713494017. 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