# Post x_351639679357042690 - Post ID: `x_351639679357042690` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-07-01T09:53:27.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @carson_evans1 - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_351639679357042690 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_351639679357042690/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_351639679357042690.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @carson_evans1, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @carson_evans1's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@carson_evans1: @realDonaldTrump You were right back in January when you said Boeing was the stock to buy..." Thank you! ## Engagement - Likes: 19 - Reposts: 11 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.291Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T22:53:02.778Z (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: July 1, 2013 — Boeing Validation Retweet (x_351639679357042690) ### Overview Trump retweeted a follower's praise of his January 2013 Boeing stock recommendation and appended a two-word response: "Thank you!" This minimal original contribution constitutes one of the most archetypal narcissistic supply-seeking posts in his Twitter corpus — maximum validation extraction with minimum rhetorical investment. ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely Authentic Trump | Confidence: Medium** The post was published at 09:53 UTC on July 1, 2013. Trump's most probable location was New York City, placing the post at approximately **5:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)**. This falls squarely within his well-documented early-morning posting window (roughly midnight–7 AM local time), a strong indicator of authentic rather than aide-written content. Stylistic indicators further support authentic authorship: the response is functionally terse ("Thank you!"), reactive in character, and follows the classic pattern of retweeting flattering mentions — a behavioral signature consistent with Trump's verified authentic posts from this period. Aide-written posts from 2013 characteristically involved polished event announcements, speech excerpts, or scheduled promotional content. No such features are present here. The post's brevity limits stylometric analysis, hence medium rather than high confidence. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post alone provides minimal trait data, but viewed in the context of the day's documented posts, a profile emerges: - **Extraversion (High, ~0.75):** Broadcasting received validation to a large audience; repeated social engagement throughout the day - **Agreeableness (Low, ~0.30):** "Crazy!" (Obama/Africa), "Who cares?" (Cuban/NBA), sharp critique of Sandberg's "ego" — dismissiveness as a consistent register - **Conscientiousness (Moderate, ~0.50):** Achievement-orientation expressed through public tracking of correct predictions - **Neuroticism (Low in this post, ~0.25):** Calm, positive valence; no anxiety or hostility here specifically - **Openness (Low, ~0.20):** Formulaic, no intellectual complexity or curiosity evident **Dominant facet:** Assertiveness — the post asserts financial acumen by proxy through a follower's testimony. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Status** The functional purpose of this post is status maintenance through the amplification of evidence for financial prescience. By retweeting rather than directly claiming, Trump deploys a social proof mechanism: the validation appears to come from an outside witness, lending it greater persuasive credibility than self-proclamation. The "Thank you!" is performative graciousness — the social minimum required to broadcast the compliment while maintaining a veneer of humility. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role: The Prescient Dealmaker/Winner** This retweet reinforces a core identity claim: Trump as the man who sees market realities others miss, whose financial calls are vindicated by time. The implicit narrative arc is mildly redemptive: *I made a call → markets proved me right → the record is now public.* This is consistent with his broader narrative identity construction across hundreds of posts — the winner who accumulates a documented track record of being correct. **Identity claims:** 1. "I possess superior investment insight" 2. "My recommendations are worth following" 3. "I was right when it mattered" **Contrasting other:** Implicitly, those who lacked the foresight to follow his advice or who doubted his market judgment. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Supply Dynamics — Moderate** This is a textbook narcissistic supply-seeking post. Rather than generating new supply through fresh claims, Trump *harvests* supply from a past prediction — extending its shelf life by broadcasting it retroactively to his full audience. The mechanism is efficient: low effort, high validation yield, with social plausible deniability ("I'm just thanking a follower"). **Same-Day Projection Pattern (Noteworthy)** The day's post corpus reveals a psychologically significant juxtaposition: Trump criticizes Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg for spending time "on her ego" rather than improving the stock price — while simultaneously retweeting a follower's praise of his own stock-picking genius. This is textbook **projection**: the trait one disowns in oneself is attributed to and criticized in another. The temporal proximity (both posts on the same day) makes the parallel unusually transparent. **Malignant Narcissism Subscores (This Post):** - Narcissistic features: Moderate (0.55) — supply-seeking, status broadcasting - Antisocial features: Minimal (0.10) - Paranoid features: Minimal (0.05) - Sadism: Absent (0.00) — positive valence throughout **Narcissistic State: Grandiose** — receiving validation, not under perceived threat. --- ### Cognitive Status This is a **2013 baseline period** post. Insufficient text for meaningful language complexity analysis. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasia, tangentiality, or other production anomalies detected. This post is archived as a reference data point for longitudinal comparison. Complexity score is very low (1.5/10), but this is entirely consistent with tweet format and does not represent deviation from expected output. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Devices employed:** - **Social proof:** Follower testimony functions as third-party validation of Trump's financial authority - **Appeal to authority (self-constituted):** The retweet reinforces Trump's positioning as a reliable investment voice - **Performative modesty:** "Thank you!" frames self-amplification as gracious acknowledgment, not boasting No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, propaganda techniques, or gaslighting present. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump recommended Boeing (BA) as the stock to buy in January 2013" | **Unverifiable** | The original January 2013 tweet or post containing this Boeing recommendation was not located for direct verification. However, Boeing (BA) stock rose approximately 35–40% between January 2013 (~$74–75/share) and July 1, 2013 (~$100–105/share), continuing to approximately $135 by year-end 2013. The follower's characterization of any such recommendation as correct is entirely consistent with documented market performance. The unverifiable rating applies specifically to the existence and content of Trump's original recommendation, not to Boeing's 2013 stock performance, which was objectively strong. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - 5:53 AM EDT local time — falls within documented early-morning authentic posting window - Terse reactive response format ('Thank you!') characteristic of authentic Trump posts - Validation amplification via follower retweet is a well-documented authentic behavioral signature - No polished grammar enforcement, event announcements, or scheduled-content formatting typical of aide-written posts - Brevity and reactive quality inconsistent with aide-drafted professional content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@carson_evans1 follower validation of Boeing prediction) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - validation broadcasting — retweeting follower praise creates impression of spontaneous third-party endorsement - performative gratitude — 'Thank you!' rewards followers who supply validation, conditioning further supply-seeking behavior - social proof deployment — follower testimony used to establish financial authority with wider audience ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-23._ > Trump recommended Boeing (BA) as the stock to buy in January 2013 **UNVERIFIABLE** The original January 2013 tweet or post containing this Boeing recommendation was not located for direct verification. However, Boeing (BA) stock rose approximately 35–40% between January 2013 (~$74–75/share) and July 1, 2013 (~$100–105/share), continuing to approximately $135 by year-end 2013. The follower's characterization of any such recommendation as correct is entirely consistent with documented market performance. The unverifiable rating applies specifically to the existence and content of Trump's original recommendation, not to Boeing's 2013 stock performance, which was objectively strong. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - narcissistic-supply-seeking (90%) - validation-amplification (85%) - grandiosity (60%) - self-promotion (75%) - financial-prediction (70%) - projection (55%) - parasocial-engagement (65%) - social-proof-deployment (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Proto-MAGA Blueprint: Forty-Four Posts Weave Birtherism, Continental Dehumanization, and America-First Economics Into the Ideological Architecture of a Future Campaign** On July 1, 2013, Donald Trump produced a 44-post day spanning from approximately 8:07 PM EDT (June 30) through 7:51 PM EDT (July 1) — a marathon session anchored by a 7:00 AM Fox & Friends television appearance and organized around nine distinct anti-Obama attacks, a multi-tweet Mark Cuban devaluation spiral, a racially coded Paula Deen defense, and the day's most alarming assertion: that "every penny" of the $7B Power Africa initiative "will be stolen" by African corruption (x_351642052854951936, intensity 0.60, rage 0.55). The dominant psychological state was grandiose throughout, consistent with the established 2013 baseline, with a single brief mixed-state interruption following the Arizona wildfire tragedy. No acute clinical dysregulation was observed, but the day's aggregate danger profile is elevated by the cumulative dehumanizing rhetoric targeting African nations, undocumented immigrants, and the constitutional legitimacy of the sitting president. The day's most clinically instructive feature is its ideological coherence across ostensibly disparate attacks. Nine anti-Obama posts operating across fiscal, racial, and identity axes form a synchronized delegitimization campaign: the Africa trip is attacked as fiscal waste, Power Africa is pre-condemned as inevitably corrupt, Obama's Mandela-Washington comparison is questioned as dishonest performance, the Morsi-Mubarak treatment is framed as inconsistent, and birtherism is sustained through cool two-word dismissal ("Doubt it," x_351505671851737089). Simultaneously, the Paula Deen whataboutism posts (x_351498163175178240, x_351506384111665153), the continental corruption stereotype, and the "illegals" dehumanization in x_351790270137892864 form an early, fully recognizable skeleton of the racial-nationalist messaging that would define the 2015–2016 campaign. The Snowden "terrible traitor" narrative (x_351783207013859329), which in its Fox & Friends context implied execution via nostalgic framing, constitutes the day's most acute stochastic terrorism adjacency. Clinical indicators remain consistent with the 2013 baseline: no significant cognitive deviation, a characteristic narcissistic injury-devaluation cycle in the Cuban thread (aggressive devaluation across five posts contradicted by "I don't hate him at all," x_351535962955841537), and a mild stock ticker error ("F" rather than "FB" for Facebook in x_351490159444901900). Sleep reduction is notable — an estimated 6.5-hour window between approximately 11:01 PM and 5:30 AM EDT — but contextually explained by the Fox & Friends scheduling obligation rather than hypomania. The hypomanic threshold is not met, and approximately 8 posts carry authorship scores below 0.30, suggesting staff inflation of the total count. The day's primary research value is longitudinal: the zero-sum nationalist schema, racial grievance framework, and presidential delegitimization pattern documented here in casual 2013 tweets appear as stable dispositional features rather than adopted political calculations, suggesting deep pre-political ideological consolidation approximately 24 months before the campaign announcement. Full digest for 2013-07-01: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 1). "@carson_evans1: @realDonaldTrump You were right... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_351639679357042690 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@carson_evans1: @realDonaldTrump You were right back in..." X (Twitter), 1 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_351639679357042690. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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