# Post x_352795564930383873

- Post ID: `x_352795564930383873`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-04T14:26:31.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_352795564930383873
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_352795564930383873/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_352795564930383873.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and don't worry, they will be around long after we are gone.

## Engagement

- Likes: 922
- Reposts: 1,002
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.291Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T00:16:06.480Z (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 4, 2013 — "Not a Fan of Sharks"

### Contextual Background

This post is a direct, if oblique, response to @4everSharkie's July 3 challenge calling out Trump Casinos for serving shark fin soup and urging Trump to act as a conservation "hero." The prior tweet is the essential trigger; without it, the post reads as unprompted whimsy. With it, it reads as a defensive repositioning. Trump had posted from Miami on July 3 ("Leaving Miami-Trump National Doral will be GREAT!"), placing him likely in transit or already returned to New York by the morning of July 4. Post time: ~10:26 AM EDT on Independence Day.

### Trigger and Narcissistic Dynamics

The trigger is a mild narcissistic injury — public criticism of his business practices framed in a moral/conservation register. Injury type: criticism with secondary exposure (naming his casinos specifically). The response is notably low-intensity: no rage, no escalation, no devaluation of the critic. This is Trump's dismissive-grandiose mode — brushing off external pressure from a position of perceived imperviousness — rather than his wounded-vulnerable mode.

"Sorry folks" functions as a pseudo-apology: it performs awareness of the controversy while communicating that it does not merit a substantive response. The apology signals social competence to followers without conceding anything to critics.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Primary — Displacement (neurotic):** The actual challenge concerned Trump's *business decision* (serving shark fin soup). The response pivots entirely to his *personal feelings about sharks as animals*, substituting a sympathetic but unanswerable proposition (being told to like an animal) for the genuine ethical challenge (profiting from a practice driving species toward extinction). The locus of accountability is relocated to an unchallengeable position: private preference.

**Secondary — Rationalization (neurotic):** "I'm just not a fan of sharks" implicitly frames the conservation criticism as an emotional appeal — asking him to change policy for animals he dislikes — rather than as an ethical obligation to minimize ecological harm. The "just" minimizes and naturalizes the dismissal.

**Tertiary — Denial (pathological register, mild):** "They will be around long after we are gone" offers confident, unfounded reassurance that forecloses further concern. In 2013, CITES was actively listing shark species under Appendix II due to population collapse; oceanic shark populations had already declined approximately 71% since 1970. The claim refuses an external reality with breezy certainty.

### Rhetorical Analysis

- **Pseudo-apology** ("Sorry folks"): Performs contrition, diffuses tension, concedes nothing
- **Personal preference framing**: Converts an ethics question into a matter of private taste, removing the moral obligation dimension
- **False reassurance**: Confident empirical assertion ("they will be around long after we are gone") deployed to dismiss conservation concern — stated with certainty, contradicted by science
- **Parasocial address** ("folks"): Direct, casual invocation of follower community as confidants in a personal matter
- **Brevity as dismissal**: One-sentence treatment signals the topic is beneath serious engagement

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "They [sharks] will be around long after we are gone" | **Mostly False** | Oceanic shark and ray populations have declined approximately 71% since 1970 due to an 18-fold increase in fishing pressure. In 2013 — the year of this post — CITES listed 17 shark and ray species on Appendix II due to trade-driven population collapse. Roughly 100 million sharks are killed annually, substantially driven by the fin trade. One-third of shark, ray, and chimaera species are currently classified as threatened with extinction under IUCN criteria (121 Endangered, 90 Critically Endangered, 180 Vulnerable). The claim of long-term resilience contradicts documented trajectory. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Casual 'Sorry folks' opener consistent with authentic Trump parasocial register
- Direct response to prior day's criticism in his mentions, suggesting personal Twitter engagement
- Posted ~10:26 AM EDT on Independence Day — holiday reduces likelihood of aide management
- Pithy, single-thought structure consistent with authentic 2013 Trump Twitter style
- No aide-characteristic elements: no event announcements, no formal language, no structured prose

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (@4everSharkie July 3 tweet calling out Trump Casinos for serving shark fin soup)

Sentiment: -0.22

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as 'folks' — intimate, conspiratorial inclusion in a personal matter
- Self-deprecating framing ('Sorry') that performs relatability while asserting independence from external pressure

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-24._

> They [sharks] will be around long after we are gone

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Oceanic shark and ray populations have declined approximately 71% since 1970 due to an 18-fold increase in fishing pressure. In 2013 — the year of this post — CITES listed 17 shark and ray species on Appendix II due to trade-driven population collapse. Roughly 100 million sharks are killed annually, substantially driven by the fin trade. One-third of shark, ray, and chimaera species are currently classified as threatened with extinction under IUCN criteria (121 Endangered, 90 Critically Endangered, 180 Vulnerable). The claim of long-term resilience contradicts documented trajectory.

Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03173-9; https://iucn.org/press-release/202412/third-sharks-rays-and-chimaeras-are-threatened-extinction-new-report-narrows; https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/shark/

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- shark fin soup (85%)
- conservation dismissal (80%)
- deflection (75%)
- pseudo-apology (70%)
- false reassurance (65%)
- personal preference framing (60%)
- Independence Day 2013 (20%)

## That day

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

**Independence Day Ego Maintenance: Sharks, Critics, and a $5M Victory Lap**

Trump spent the Fourth of July afternoon on a leisurely Twitter binge, toggling between oddball shark commentary, snapping at critics, and celebrating a legal win against a former Miss Pennsylvania contestant. The mood was consistently self-assured and combative, with one brief flash of anger directed at a follower he called a "little puppy, moron." Most of the day was spent retweeting praise and batting away challenges to his self-made-man narrative. A quiet holiday by his standards — no political targets, no major provocations, just routine ego upkeep.

Full digest for 2013-07-04: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 4). Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_352795564930383873
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and don't..." X (Twitter), 4 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_352795564930383873. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and don't...," X (Twitter), July 4, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_352795564930383873.

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