# Post x_354951569076273153

- Post ID: `x_354951569076273153`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-10T13:13:43.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_354951569076273153
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_354951569076273153/analysis
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## Post text

> With the two wacko perverts--Spitzer and Weiner--NYC politics has become a joke all over the world.

## Engagement

- Likes: 389
- Reposts: 550
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T09:36:39.537Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: July 10, 2013

### Contextual Frame

Posted two days after Eliot Spitzer announced his bid for NYC Comptroller (July 7–8, 2013) and roughly two months after Anthony Weiner launched his mayoral campaign (May 2013), this tweet is the rhetorical capstone to a same-day salvo of at least three prior anti-Spitzer posts. Trump had already attacked Spitzer's record as Governor and AG, invoked personal knowledge of Spitzer's father, and denied Spitzer had business acumen—then delivered this collective verdict. The tweet functions as a closing argument in a prosecutorial Twitter session, escalating from biographical critique to categorical moral labeling.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 13:13 → **9:13 AM EDT** (Trump almost certainly at Trump Tower, New York, in July 2013). This is early business hours—borderline for the authentic-vs.-aide distinction. However, the stylistic fingerprints strongly suggest authentic Trump:
- Double-dash construction (`--Spitzer and Weiner--`) is a signature Trump punctuation habit
- `"wacko"` is a recurrent Trump insult term appearing across decades of his communications
- The one-sentence declarative punch is characteristic of his authentic voice
- The tweet fits organically within a stream-of-consciousness session; aide-written content would be unlikely to produce four rapid, escalating, personally-inflected Spitzer attacks across a single morning

**Assessment:** Medium-high confidence for authentic authorship. The timing is not ideal for this attribution but the stylistic evidence is compelling.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Low Agreeableness** is the most salient feature. The term "perverts"—a clinical/stigmatizing label used pejoratively—and "wacko" together reflect contempt, hostility, and an absence of tender-mindedness or compassion for individuals navigating public disgrace. There is no acknowledgment of proportionality, redemption, or due process.

**High Extraversion:** The assertive, declarative stance, the implicit casting of himself as public moral commentator, and the attention-seeking quality of the framing all reflect high assertiveness.

**Low Openness:** Rigid categorical moral judgment; no nuance distinguishing Spitzer's conduct (patronizing a prostitution ring) from Weiner's (consensual adult sexting). Both collapse into a single undifferentiated moral category.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate.** The post functions as status assertion and social positioning within New York's elite power ecosystem. By publicly labeling two prominent figures "wacko perverts," Trump claims the position of moral arbiter—enhancing his own status by contrast. The prior tweets that day reveal a personal network connection (Spitzer's father as "a friend of mine"), indicating this is not disinterested commentary but involves a competitive interpersonal dimension. Branding a rival's son a pervert before an audience of followers is an act of dominance.

**Schema of contempt:** Both subjects are reduced entirely to their sexual transgressions; their prior governmental accomplishments are expunged. This reflects a schema in which people who have fallen from grace have forfeited all complexity—they are now simply what their worst act reveals them to be.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Clear-eyed establishment observer; the sober New Yorker surveying a degraded political landscape with appropriate disgust.

**Contrasting others:** Spitzer and Weiner serve as foils—they are what Trump is not. The implicit identity claim is: *I am serious, substantive, and worthy of public attention; they are clowns.*

**Contamination sequence (projected):** The implicit narrative is that NYC politics was once respectable and has been contaminated by these figures. Trump positions himself as witness-archivist of this degradation.

**Identity claim embedded:** By inserting himself as commentator on a national-news political moment, Trump asserts relevance and authority in a domain (politics) he had not yet formally entered.

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### Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features:** The collective derogatory labeling reflects **splitting**—two distinct individuals with distinct situations are collapsed into a single binary moral verdict. There is visible pleasure in the public shaming, consistent with mild **ego-syntonic sadism** per Kernberg's formulation. The tweet functions simultaneously as dominance display and supply-seeking (the labeling invites agreement from followers, generating validation).

**Antisocial features:** The willingness to deploy the clinical term "perverts" as a public insult against individuals seeking political redemption reflects disregard for norms of proportionality. The labeling exceeds what the rhetorical situation requires; it is not merely critical but contemptuous.

**Projection (retrospective note):** Viewed from the retrospective vantage of Trump's own documented conduct (Access Hollywood tape, 2019; E. Jean Carroll civil finding, 2023), the use of "perverts" carries potential projective dimensions. This inference must be flagged as retrospective and not contemporaneous evidence—it cannot be established from this post alone.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- *Splitting* (pathological-immature): Both subjects reduced to single moral category
- *Projection* (immature, retrospective inference only): Sexual stigma attributed to others
- *Displacement* (neurotic): Broader competitive/status anxieties displaced onto convenient public targets

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### Rhetorical Techniques

**Collective derogatory labeling:** Bundling two individuals under "the two wacko perverts" annihilates individuality and amplifies stigma. The definite article ("the two") implies settled, obvious fact.

**Ad hominem:** The entire argument rests on character degradation; no policy, governance, or electability argument is made.

**Hyperbole:** "a joke all over the world" inflates local political embarrassment to global scope—a signature Trump amplification technique. The claim is unverifiable and almost certainly false as stated, but functions rhetorically to signal that the embarrassment is total and universal.

**False equivalence:** Patronizing a prostitution ring (Spitzer) and consensual adult sexting (Weiner) are legally and morally distinct acts. The tweet collapses the distinction, maximizing the rhetorical payload by doubling the targets.

**Dehumanizing language:** "Perverts" reduces the subjects entirely to their sexual transgression, stripping them of political identity, prior public service, and human complexity.

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### Danger Assessment

No violence indicators. The language is contemptuous and stigmatizing but not eliminationist; there are no calls to action and no target-grievance-action stochastic structure. **Danger level: none.**

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Spitzer and Weiner are active in NYC politics at time of posting" | **True** | Spitzer announced NYC Comptroller bid July 7–8, 2013; Weiner had been running for NYC Mayor since May 2013. Both campaigns confirmed across multiple contemporary news sources. |
| "NYC politics has become a joke all over the world" | **Half True** | International media did cover the simultaneous comeback attempts of two scandal-tainted politicians, but 'all over the world' overstates global attention and 'joke' is a subjective characterization. The claim functions as rhetorical hyperbole rather than verifiable fact. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- double-dash punctuation construction is signature Trump stylistic habit
- 'wacko' is a recurring Trump insult term across decades
- punchy declarative one-liner format typical of authentic posts
- organic fit within same-morning stream-of-consciousness Spitzer session
- 9:13 AM EDT is early but plausible for authentic posting; not late-night but not midday business hours either

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Spitzer's July 7–8 Comptroller announcement; ongoing Weiner mayoral campaign)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Spitzer and Weiner collectively
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.78

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- rapid-fire Twitter session targeting same subject across multiple posts within a single morning
- escalating rhetorical intensity across the session (biographical critique → collective moral verdict)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 32%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (pathological)
- displacement (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- positioning as authoritative NYC insider
- inviting audience agreement through declarative moral verdict
- signaling access to elite social networks (Spitzer's father 'a friend of mine')

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Spitzer and Weiner are active in NYC politics at time of posting

**TRUE**

Spitzer announced NYC Comptroller bid July 7–8, 2013; Weiner had been running for NYC Mayor since May 2013. Both campaigns confirmed across multiple contemporary news sources.

Sources: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0713/Eliot-Spitzer-Anthony-Weiner-stage-political-comebacks.-Redemption-overload; https://business.time.com/2013/07/08/after-sex-scandal-eliot-spitzer-makes-a-comeback/

> NYC politics has become a joke all over the world

**HALF TRUE**

International media did cover the simultaneous comeback attempts of two scandal-tainted politicians, but 'all over the world' overstates global attention and 'joke' is a subjective characterization. The claim functions as rhetorical hyperbole rather than verifiable fact.

Sources: https://www.timesofisrael.com/spitzer-weiner-make-nyc-political-comeback-city/

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- eliot_spitzer (60%)
- anthony_weiner (40%)
- derogatory_labeling (90%)
- hyperbole (70%)
- false_equivalence (65%)
- splitting (80%)
- ego_syntonic_sadism (50%)
- status_dominance (75%)
- nyc_politics (85%)
- likely_authentic (78%)

## That day

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

**A Day of Grandiose Supply Collection Punctuated by Stored-Grievance Counter-Punches Against Spitzer and Snowden**

Trump spent most of the day doing what he does best on Twitter: retweeting compliments and replying "Thanks" to fans, mixed with business promotions for properties in Vancouver and India. The sharpest moments came in a morning burst attacking Eliot Spitzer over his political comeback bid, branding him and Anthony Weiner as "wacko perverts" turning New York into "pervert central." He also called Edward Snowden a "lying traitor" and continued weighing in on the Asiana plane crash from days earlier, including a flash of name-calling when a follower questioned his expertise. The overall mood was buoyant and self-satisfied, with no signs of distress or unusual behavior.

Full digest for 2013-07-10: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 10). With the two wacko perverts--Spitzer and... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_354951569076273153
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "With the two wacko perverts--Spitzer and Weiner--NYC..." X (Twitter), 10 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_354951569076273153. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "With the two wacko perverts--Spitzer and Weiner--NYC...," X (Twitter), July 10, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_354951569076273153.

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