# Post x_354740632180359169 - Post ID: `x_354740632180359169` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-07-09T23:15:32.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_354740632180359169 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_354740632180359169/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_354740632180359169.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The San Fran crash was totally the pilot's fault - may be too late for drug testing, RIDICULOUS! ## Engagement - Likes: 43 - Reposts: 70 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T08:48:49.516Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A routine maintenance post in which Trump uses a three-day-old aviation disaster to perform superior analytical authority. He delivers a premature verdict ('totally the pilot's fault') before the NTSB had completed preliminary investigation, and expresses outrage about a drug-testing gap that was real — but caused by NTSB jurisdictional limitations over foreign carriers, not investigator negligence. The NTSB's 2014 findings partially vindicated the crew-error hypothesis; no substance impairment was found. Post is consistent with 2013 baseline: colloquial register, false certainty, caps outrage, supply-seeking through demonstrated insight. The complete absence of empathic acknowledgment of victims — three days post-crash — is consistent with characterologically low agreeableness but not a pattern deviation. No clinical significance beyond what is already established in subject's behavioral baseline. ## Asiana Crash Attribution Post — July 9, 2013 (19:15 EDT) ### Contextual Framing Posted at **19:15 EDT** (UTC 23:15) on July 9, 2013 — three days after Asiana Flight 214 struck the seawall at SFO, killing 3 and injuring 187. This is the second of two Trump tweets on the same crash that day. The first read: *"What took investigators so long to interview the pilots of Asiana San Fran crash? WHY NO DRUG TESTS FOR PILOTS-they were really 'off'."* This post represents an escalation from suspicion to verdict within a single day's posting sequence, before the NTSB had completed even its preliminary investigation. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Assessment: High confidence authentic Trump.** Trump in July 2013 was a private citizen and reality television host for whom Twitter served as his primary public megaphone. He was almost certainly at Trump Tower (NYC) or his Bedminster, NJ golf club — both EDT. The 7:15 PM local time falls outside the classic late-night authentic window but is entirely consistent with his 2013 personal posting patterns, when he tweeted actively throughout the day without staff intermediation. Stylistic fingerprints strongly favor authenticity: - **"San Fran"** — casual, colloquial geographic shorthand characteristic of his informal register - **"totally"** — emphatic adverb deployed as false-certainty signal (a recurrent Trump marker) - **"may be too late"** — mid-thought aside inserted parenthetically, unpolished stream-of-consciousness - **"RIDICULOUS!"** — caps-lock outrage exclamation, characteristic terminal flourish - The post is thematically tethered to his own earlier tweet, indicating personal, sustained engagement with the news story rather than staff-drafted content --- ### Psychological State and Trigger **Trigger type: Maintenance / supply-seeking.** This is not a post arising from narcissistic injury; no personal attack or unfavorable comparison is present. Rather, Trump is using a high-profile disaster as an opportunity to perform superior analytical insight to his audience — a recurrent behavioral pattern across this period. **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** He positions himself as the clear-eyed truth-teller who perceives what investigators have either missed or failed to act on. The framing implies his judgment supersedes the ongoing NTSB process. The word "totally" eliminates all epistemic uncertainty; there is no hedge, no "it appears" or "the evidence suggests" — only declarative verdict. **Agency motive dominant.** The post is almost entirely about demonstrating status through superior knowledge. There is no communion motive whatsoever — no acknowledgment of the dead or injured, no expression of care for the victims of a crash that had occurred 72 hours prior. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization**: Packages an impulsive, pre-evidential verdict as though it follows from logical observation ("totally the pilot's fault"). The causal chain is asserted, not demonstrated. - **Acting out**: Impulsively broadcasts a definitive conclusion about an ongoing federal investigation with no stated evidential basis beyond his prior tweet's characterization of the pilots as "really 'off'." - **Projection (mild)**: Implicitly attributes investigator negligence or evasiveness to the drug-test gap, when the actual cause was a jurisdictional limitation (NTSB lacked authority to compel testing of foreign carrier crews). --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **False certainty via superlative**: "totally the pilot's fault" — pre-evidential absolute attribution - **Implied expertise claim**: Frames himself as knowing what should have been done procedurally - **Outrage performative**: "RIDICULOUS!" functions as tribal solidarity signal rather than substantive argument - **Speculative implication**: The drug test concern casts suspicion on the pilots without evidence — a form of reputational attack by insinuation --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Totally the pilot's fault" | **Half True** | NTSB final report (June 2014) found crew error — specifically mismanagement of airspeed and autothrottle during visual approach — was the primary cause. However, contributing factors included Boeing documentation deficiencies and inadequate Asiana training programs. The 'totally' attribution was asserted three days into what became a year-long investigation. Crew error was ultimately primary but not sole cause. | | "May be too late for drug testing" | **Half True** | Asiana Flight 214 crew was indeed not drug-tested post-crash. However, not because of investigator tardiness — the NTSB has no statutory authority to compel drug/alcohol testing of foreign air carrier employees. The decision rests with the carrier's home country. South Korean authorities did not conduct testing. Trump's concern had inadvertent factual grounding but his framing mischaracterizes a jurisdictional limitation as investigator negligence or evasion. Final NTSB report found no evidence of substance impairment. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - Casual geographic shorthand 'San Fran' consistent with informal register - Emphatic adverb 'totally' as false-certainty signal — recurrent Trump marker - Mid-sentence parenthetical aside ('may be too late for drug testing') — stream-of-consciousness, unpolished - Caps-lock outrage exclamation 'RIDICULOUS!' — characteristic terminal flourish - Thematically connected to his own earlier same-day tweet, indicating personal sustained engagement ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Asiana Flight 214 crash news coverage) Sentiment: -0.48 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 18% - Paranoid: 28% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - acting out (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Superior-insight performance - Outrage solidarity signaling via 'RIDICULOUS!' - In-group vernacular ('San Fran') to signal relatable authenticity ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-24._ > Totally the pilot's fault **HALF TRUE** NTSB final report (June 2014) found crew error — specifically mismanagement of airspeed and autothrottle during visual approach — was the primary cause. However, contributing factors included Boeing documentation deficiencies and inadequate Asiana training programs. The 'totally' attribution was asserted three days into what became a year-long investigation. Crew error was ultimately primary but not sole cause. Sources: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1401.pdf; https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06/24/325209092/ntsb-too-much-technology-too-little-training-caused-asiana-crash > May be too late for drug testing **HALF TRUE** Asiana Flight 214 crew was indeed not drug-tested post-crash. However, not because of investigator tardiness — the NTSB has no statutory authority to compel drug/alcohol testing of foreign air carrier employees. The decision rests with the carrier's home country. South Korean authorities did not conduct testing. Trump's concern had inadvertent factual grounding but his framing mischaracterizes a jurisdictional limitation as investigator negligence or evasion. Final NTSB report found no evidence of substance impairment. Sources: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1401.pdf Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aviation_commentary (90%) - premature_verdict (85%) - superior_insight_performance (80%) - supply_seeking (70%) - outrage_signaling (65%) - drug_impairment_speculation (75%) - asiana_flight_214 (95%) - 2013_baseline (60%) ## 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). The San Fran crash was totally the pilot's fault... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_354740632180359169 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The San Fran crash was totally the pilot's fault - may be..." X (Twitter), 9 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_354740632180359169. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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