# Post x_354634441223708672

- Post ID: `x_354634441223708672`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-09T16:13:34.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> With Spitzer & Anthony Weiner running for office, New York  is pervert central!  Pathetic

## Engagement

- Likes: 1,300
- Reposts: 1,508
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.291Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T08:40:15.787Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Reactive post triggered by the simultaneous political comeback campaigns of Eliot Spitzer (NYC Comptroller, announced July 7) and Anthony Weiner (NYC Mayor, ongoing since May 2013), both running on rehabilitation narratives following sexual scandal resignations. Trump occupies the position of disgusted moral arbiter, generating narcissistic supply through shared contempt rather than direct admiration — a communion-through-condemnation dynamic. Primary defense mechanisms are devaluation and splitting: both candidates are reduced to the single label "pervert," collapsing complex political figures into pure stigmatized caricature. The post's most clinically notable feature in longitudinal perspective is its projective quality. Trump's documented pattern of aggressively condemning sexual misconduct in others — across multiple posts and years — stands in substantive tension with later evidentiary record: the Access Hollywood tape (2016) and E. Jean Carroll liability verdict (2023). Projecting disowned conduct onto visible, punishable targets is a textbook immature defense operation. The terminal "Pathetic" is an authenticating stylistic marker. Timing (12:13 PM EDT) falls within business hours but is outweighed by stylistic evidence pointing to authentic authorship. No cognitive anomalies relative to 2013 baseline. Danger level: none. A routine supply-seeking post dressed as moral commentary, executed in grandiose narcissistic register with characteristic rhetorical compression.

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at 16:13:34 UTC = **12:13 PM EDT** — squarely within business hours for New York City, where Trump almost certainly was located (Trump Tower) on this Tuesday. Timing is a mild indicator of aide composition. However, the stylistic profile strongly overrides: colloquial geographic coinage ("pervert central"), the reactive news-hook construction, absence of links or formal formatting, and most distinctively the terminal single-word dismissal **"Pathetic"** — a documented authenticating marker across verified Trump posts across multiple years. The tone is impulsive, punchy, and morally indignant in the manner consistent with authentic Trump rather than polished aide output. **Assessment: likely authentic Trump, medium confidence.**

## Contextual Background

The post arrives at the precise intersection of two major New York political comeback stories dominating media:

- **Eliot Spitzer** announced his NYC Comptroller bid on **July 7, 2013** — exactly 48 hours before this post — after resigning as Governor in 2008 amid a prostitution ring scandal involving a high-end escort service. His announcement was front-page news and a dominant conversation topic.
- **Anthony Weiner** had announced his NYC Mayoral campaign on **May 21, 2013**, running on a rehabilitation narrative after his 2011 congressional resignation over explicit sexting. Notably, a *second* wave of sexting revelations would surface on July 23, 2013 — two weeks after this post — making the situation considerably worse.

Trump's post capitalizes on the remarkable simultaneity of both scandals re-entering public life, framing it as a categorical indictment of New York City's political class.

## Trigger & Narcissistic Dynamics

**Type: Supply-seeking / opportunistic status assertion.** This is not a defensive post — Trump is not responding to a personal attack or narcissistic injury. He is exploiting a news event to occupy the elevated position of moral arbiter, inviting followers into shared contempt as a form of communion-through-condemnation. The supply mechanism here is not admiration but *agreement in disgust*, which also serves narcissistic needs.

**Narcissistic State: Grandiose.** Trump positions himself entirely above the fray — the observer who sees clearly what the disgusting spectacle of New York politics represents. No vulnerability or defensiveness is evident.

## Defense Mechanisms

- **Devaluation**: Reducing both Spitzer and Weiner to the single stigmatizing label "pervert" is a textbook splitting-devaluation operation. The category collapses complex individuals — one a serious policy reformer, one a legislator with genuine constituent relationships — into pure caricature. The label renders them cognitively non-threatening by making them contemptible rather than formidable.

- **Splitting**: A clean moral binary is constructed: they are all-bad (perverts, pathetic), Trump is the righteous, clear-eyed observer. No ambiguity about rehabilitation, context, or proportionality is permitted.

- **Projection** *(clinically notable in longitudinal context)*: Trump's intensity in condemning others' sexual conduct deserves flagging. The Access Hollywood tape (October 2016) documented Trump's own account of sexual predation. The E. Jean Carroll civil verdict (May 2023) found Trump liable for sexual abuse. Multiple other credible allegations span decades. The psychodynamic pattern of aggressively and publicly condemning in others the very transgression category one engages in privately is a textbook projective defense. This is *description*, not diagnosis — but it is a longitudinal pattern with documented evidentiary basis that warrants annotation.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Big Five Traits:**
- **Extraversion** (high): Assertive public declaration, dominant commentator stance, broadcast mode
- **Agreeableness** (very low): Contemptuous, zero empathy for political rehabilitation or human complexity, devaluing
- **Conscientiousness** (low): Impulsive, reactive; no deliberation about fairness or nuance
- **Neuroticism** (moderate): Hostile affect present; contempt-disgust blend at mild-to-moderate intensity
- **Openness** (low): Moralistic, reductive framing; simplistic categorical thinking, no engagement with complexity

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Dominant **agency motive**: status assertion and dominance through moral condemnation. Power motive expressed via public shaming. Schema: self as legitimate judge of others' fitness for public life; others are either admirers or targets for devaluation. Communion motive nearly absent — even the shared contempt dynamic is instrumentalized for status.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- *Protagonist role*: Disgusted moral commentator / superior observer
- *Contrasting other*: Spitzer and Weiner — men who were exposed, humiliated, and shamed for sexual conduct
- *Identity claim*: Implicit but unmistakable — "I am not like them"; fitness for public life asserted through contrast with the unfit
- *Narrative sequence*: **Contamination** — New York City's political environment corrupted by the return of the morally unworthy

## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Hyperbole + geographic stigmatization**: "Pervert central" is vivid, memorable, designed for social transmission — a coinage that packages complex political commentary into a single shareable insult
- **Collective shaming**: Implicates all of New York City by association, not merely the two individuals — a totalizing judgment consistent with Trump's rhetorical pattern
- **Ad hominem reduction**: Both candidates are discussed solely through the lens of their worst moments; no policy, qualifications, or platform is acknowledged
- **Single-word dismissal** ("Pathetic"): Functions as rhetorical punctuation — the impression of effortless contempt, the suggestion that the subject matter is beneath further engagement. A consistent, documented Trump authenticating signature
- **Dehumanizing label**: "Pervert" reduces individuals to a single transgression, a category that forecloses empathy and political legitimacy simultaneously

## Cognitive Status Assessment

Post shows no markers of cognitive difficulty relative to 2013 baseline. Simple, reactive, punchy construction is normative for this period. Vocabulary is accessible but intentionally colloquial — this reads as stylistic choice rather than limitation. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, tangentiality, or temporal confusion. **Baseline deviation: none.**

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No violent imagery, no eliminationist language, no mobilization call, no identified targets presented alongside articulated grievances with implied action. Standard political contempt within normal parameters.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Spitzer running for office" | **True** | Eliot Spitzer announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy on July 7, 2013 — 48 hours before this post — after resigning as Governor in 2008 over a prostitution ring scandal. He ultimately lost the Democratic primary to Scott Stringer. |
| "Anthony Weiner running for office" | **True** | Anthony Weiner announced his NYC Mayoral campaign via YouTube video on May 21, 2013, following his 2011 congressional resignation over sexting revelations. A second wave of sexting allegations would surface July 23, 2013 — two weeks after this post. He received 4.9% of the vote in the Democratic primary. |
| "New York is 'pervert central'" | **Unverifiable** | Opinion and hyperbole characterizing New York City's political environment through the lens of two concurrent sexual scandal-adjacent candidacies. Not a factual claim subject to empirical verification. |

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Terminal single-word dismissal 'Pathetic' is a documented authenticating Trump stylistic marker across verified posts
- Colloquial geographic coinage ('pervert central') consistent with impulsive authentic Trump style
- No links, no event-announcement structure, no formal grammar or professional formatting
- Reactive news-hook construction triggered by Spitzer announcement 48 hours prior
- Business hours timing (12:13 PM EDT) is a mild aide indicator — outweighed by cumulative stylistic evidence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Spitzer NYC Comptroller announcement (July 7) and Weiner NYC Mayor campaign (ongoing) — simultaneous scandal-adjacent political comeback stories dominating New York media)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared contempt invitation — positioning followers as fellow moral judges united in disgust
- Geographic collective identity ('New York') marked as degraded space, implying Trump's observational superiority
- Memorable coinages ('pervert central') designed for social transmission and follower repetition

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Spitzer running for office

**TRUE**

Eliot Spitzer announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy on July 7, 2013 — 48 hours before this post — after resigning as Governor in 2008 over a prostitution ring scandal. He ultimately lost the Democratic primary to Scott Stringer.

Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/five-years-after-scandal-eliot-spitzer-announces-new-run-for-office-in-new-york/2013/07/08/a90d49d2-e7f2-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/7/eliot-spitzer-comeback-disgraced-ex-gov-launches-n/

> Anthony Weiner running for office

**TRUE**

Anthony Weiner announced his NYC Mayoral campaign via YouTube video on May 21, 2013, following his 2011 congressional resignation over sexting revelations. A second wave of sexting allegations would surface July 23, 2013 — two weeks after this post. He received 4.9% of the vote in the Democratic primary.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/22/185978331/anthony-weiner-jumps-into-race-to-be-nyc-mayor; https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/24/politics/weiner-timeline/index.html

> New York is 'pervert central'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Opinion and hyperbole characterizing New York City's political environment through the lens of two concurrent sexual scandal-adjacent candidacies. Not a factual claim subject to empirical verification.

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Tags

- moral-condemnation (90%)
- projection (75%)
- devaluation (85%)
- splitting (80%)
- supply-seeking (75%)
- grandiose-state (75%)
- political-commentary (95%)
- geographic-stigmatization (70%)
- single-word-dismissal (85%)
- ad-hominem (80%)
- dehumanizing-label (65%)
- Spitzer (90%)
- Weiner (90%)
- sexual-misconduct (80%)
- authentic-trump (75%)
- New-York (70%)
- moral-superiority (80%)

## That day

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

**BBC Panorama Wound Triggers Eleven-Post Defensive Evening; Daytime Returns to Grandiose Baseline With One Isolated Rage Spike Against a Private Citizen**

July 9, 2013 was a psychologically reactive day organized around a single primary wound: the BBC Panorama documentary "The Trouble with Trump," which aired July 8–9 and documented the gap between Trump's economic promises to Scottish authorities and the actual performance of his Aberdeenshire golf course. This narcissistic injury generated the day's most concentrated behavioral cluster — eleven posts between 8:00 and 9:22 PM EDT (00:00–01:22 UTC) — following a textbook three-stage wound-response sequence: DARVO reframing (x_354389627601289218, x_354390922064179201), then an abrupt pivot to fan-amplification as narcissistic supply recovery (x_354404474980282370 through x_354410149454155777). The rapid oscillation from media-attacker to admiration-collector within approximately 55 minutes is clinically legible as automatic equilibrium restoration: wound → defend → gather supply.

The daytime hours (8:16 AM–7:56 PM EDT, 12:16–23:56 UTC) operated at stable grandiose baseline, with content dispersing across political devaluation of Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner (x_354634441223708672, x_354634441223708700), premature aviation-disaster verdicts with implicit ethnic framing on the Asiana crash (x_354731820144791556, x_354740632180359169), geopolitical truth-teller performance on Pakistani intelligence and bin Laden (x_354673952389464064), and a block of quote and promotional posts assessed as likely staff-generated. One discrete exception disrupted this stability: x_354576890612285442 (8:24 AM EDT) represents the day's highest-danger event — an unprovoked public character assassination of a private citizen who had merely said they were "tired," met with a command to "say the rest, that you're lazy and dumb." The post reveals ego-syntonic sadism operating against a powerless target at a moment of ambient irritability, disconnected from any proportionate stimulus.

The 29-post total is elevated but explicable as reactive stimulus-concentration rather than hypomanic pressuring. A 10h54m gap between 9:22 PM and 8:16 AM EDT is consistent with normal sleep, and no pre-dawn activity was recorded. Two near-duplicate post pairs — the Spitzer/Weiner "pervert central" dyad and the "Kill the Bill" endorsement dyad — suggest systematic staff re-amplification of afternoon content for evening audiences. Cognitively, the day is consistent with Trump's 2013 baseline: short declarative sentences, false certainty as rhetorical stance, near-zero agreeableness. Longitudinally, the unguarded "True but thanks!" endorsement of genius (x_354405075021602816) and amplification of "God's gift to America" (x_354408208942632960) are early documented instances of messianic self-framing that would become a dominant identity narrative in later years.

Full digest for 2013-07-09: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 9). With Spitzer & Anthony Weiner running for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_354634441223708672
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "With Spitzer & Anthony Weiner running for office, New..." X (Twitter), 9 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_354634441223708672. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "With Spitzer & Anthony Weiner running for office, New...," X (Twitter), July 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_354634441223708672.

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