# Post x_355126303311147008

- Post ID: `x_355126303311147008`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-11T00:48:03.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @J__Perc
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_355126303311147008
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_355126303311147008/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_355126303311147008.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @J__Perc, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @J__Perc's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@J__Perc: I thought @mcuban was a closer... #guessnot I think I'll be listening to @realdonaldtrump he's a closer"

## Engagement

- Likes: 5
- Reposts: 6
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T09:58:59.121Z (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: Trump Twitter, July 11, 2013 (00:48 UTC)

### Post Overview
This is a manual retweet of follower @J__Perc's tweet praising Trump as "a closer" while dismissing Mark Cuban via the hashtag "#guessnot." In 2013 Twitter convention, placing a tweet in quotation marks was a common manual-retweet format. The psychological data point of primary interest is not the retweeted content itself but Trump's *editorial selection* of this specific message from among the many incoming mentions he would have received that day.

Importantly, this post occurs against an established backdrop: Trump and Cuban had engaged in a documented public Twitter feud in March 2013, triggered by Cuban's Tonight Show appearance and subsequent Twitter exchanges about their respective reality TV shows (*The Apprentice* vs. *Shark Tank*). That rivalry context gives the "closer" framing its charged competitive weight — "closer" being a culturally coded term in sales and dealmaking culture for one who wins when others fail.

### 1. Authorship Attribution
**Local time calculation:** UTC 00:48:03 on July 11 converts to **8:48 PM EDT (July 10)** for Trump in New York, where he was almost certainly based in mid-July (not yet Mar-a-Lago season). Evening timing is squarely within the plausible authentic-Trump posting window. More critically, the *content* strongly indexes authenticity: selectively amplifying a tweet that simultaneously praises Trump and diminishes a specific peer rival reflects personal motivation of a kind communications aides do not typically generate. Aide-produced posts trend toward polished institutional language, event announcements, and ideologically generic content. A Scavino-type aide would not comb through fan mentions to select and broadcast competitive peer put-downs — that requires the personal animus. **Confidence: High that this is authentic Trump.**

### 2. Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
The editorial selection of this specific tweet illuminates several trait dimensions:
- **Extraversion (high):** Compulsive public broadcast of praise; seeking maximum audience exposure for flattery directed at self.
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Endorsing a third party's dismissive put-down of a peer without discomfort; zero communal concern for Cuban.
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, undeliberated content amplification; no deliberation about social cost.
- **Neuroticism (moderate):** The *compulsive* need for comparative validation — not just "Trump is great" but "Trump is greater than Cuban" — suggests underlying fragility that constant supply-seeking is managing.
- **Openness (low):** Rigid adherence to a pre-existing self-narrative identity ("the closer, the dealmaker"); the incoming tweet maps cleanly onto a slot already prepared in his self-schema.

### 3. Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominate completely.** Status, dominance, and the need for relative superiority over comparable others are the driving forces. The "closer" frame is psychologically over-determined: it maps directly onto Trump's cultivated self-brand as the ultimate dealmaker, central to *The Art of the Deal* (1987), *The Apprentice* brand identity, and his public persona for decades. By retweeting this particular language, he is not merely accepting praise — he is endorsing specific identity terminology that he has consciously constructed as a brand asset.

**Schema:** The social world is a hierarchy ranked by closing ability; closers are dominant and worthy; non-closers are pretenders. Trump occupies the apex; Cuban has been revealed as not belonging there.

**Communion motives: absent.** There is no relational warmth, no empathy, no communal orientation in this post.

### 4. Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** The Closer — the one who wins when others cannot; the ultimate dealmaker who proves himself by others' failures.
- **Contrasting other:** Mark Cuban, explicitly positioned as a failed closer — a pretender to the throne.
- **Identity claims (implicit):** "I am the real closer"; "Those who know recognize my superiority"; "Peer competitors fall short by comparison."
- **Narrative sequence:** Mild **contamination** arc for Cuban (perceived equal revealed as lesser); **redemption/maintenance** arc for Trump (winner status confirmed and broadcast).

The use of a *proxy voice* is a recurrent and psychologically sophisticated Trump rhetorical technique: aggressive competitive claims are broadcast via a follower's words, allowing Trump to receive the full psychological benefit of the attack while maintaining plausible deniability ("I'm just sharing what someone else said"). This is not likely a conscious strategy — it is more probably an intuitive behavior that happens to provide psychological cover.

### 5. Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting (immature):** Binary world of closers vs. non-closers, winners vs. losers — no nuance, no middle ground.
- **Idealization/Devaluation (immature):** Classic narcissistic dynamic; self is elevated via simultaneous peer diminishment. The two moves (Trump-as-great, Cuban-as-not) are psychologically fused.
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** The proxy format provides a thin logical cover — "I'm not attacking Cuban, I'm amplifying a fan's observation."

### 6. Clinical Indicators
Pattern is consistent with **narcissistic personality features**: supply-seeking, grandiosity through comparative superiority, use of others' apparent failures to confirm self-worth, need for admiration delivered in relative terms. The Cuban rivalry is especially psychologically meaningful because Cuban represents a specific threat archetype — a wealthy, media-prominent peer operating in overlapping cultural space (entrepreneurship, television personality). Competition with this archetype, specifically requiring *their diminishment* as confirmation of self-worth, is a classically narcissistic dynamic. No significant antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic features are prominently activated here. This is routine narcissistic maintenance behavior.

### 7. Rhetorical Analysis
- **Third-party endorsement:** Using a follower's voice to make competitive superiority claims; amplifies the message's apparent credibility ("even random people see it").
- **Indirect self-aggrandizement:** The praise lands without the full social cost of stating it directly.
- **Hashtag dismissal (#guessnot):** The hashtag functions as casual editorial contempt — breezy, effortless dismissal, which is rhetorically more devastating than earnest attack.
- **Competitive comparison:** The implied comparison elevates Trump by depressing Cuban rather than requiring Trump to make any positive case.

### 8. Archetypal Patterns
- **King archetype (dominant):** "The closer" maps onto sovereign authority — the one who commands outcomes when others cannot.
- **Trickster (mild):** The indirect attack via proxy has a trickster quality — achieving aggressive competitive goals through indirection and plausible deniability.

### 9. Longitudinal Context
The surrounding same-day posts show the characteristic 2013 Trump Twitter pattern: retweeted fan praise ("huge fan and admirer"), political opinions stated flatly (Snowden as traitor), historical trivia. This post is fully consistent with his 2013 baseline. The Trump-Cuban comparison has documented roots in the March 2013 Twitter feud over whose TV show and business acumen was superior. This July post is a continuation or echo of that established competitive thread. **No deviation from baseline detected.**

### 10. Danger Assessment
**None.** Routine competitive narcissistic social media behavior. No dehumanization, no violent imagery, no eliminationist language, no stochastic terrorism markers.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump is a closer" | **Unverifiable** | Evaluative opinion framed as identity attribute; not a falsifiable factual claim. Historically, Trump's business record includes both successful deals and numerous bankruptcies and failed ventures. |
| "Mark Cuban is not a closer (#guessnot)" | **Unverifiable** | Evaluative opinion; no specific incident identified in available sources that directly triggered this follower's tweet in July 2013. The Trump-Cuban feud was documented from March 2013, providing the broader context. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- Evening timing (8:48 PM EDT) consistent with authentic Trump posting window
- Competitive peer comparison too personally motivated and idiosyncratic for communications aide selection
- Manual retweet format of fan praise is a recurring authentic Trump behavior pattern
- Content reflects personal animus toward established rival (Cuban) requiring insider knowledge of emotional investment
- Unpolished, reactive quality — no institutional purpose served by this broadcast

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Mark Cuban — established peer rival from March 2013 Twitter feud; fan tweet offering comparative superiority framing)

Sentiment: +0.30

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- active supply-seeking retweeting across multiple same-day posts
- elevated competitive affect toward peer rival

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 62%
- Antisocial: 6%
- Paranoid: 4%
- Sadism: 14%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 12%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplification of fan praise to create mutual validation loop
- identity confirmation through follower selection and endorsement
- implicit in-group construction around 'closers who listen to Trump'

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Trump is a closer

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Evaluative opinion framed as identity attribute; not a falsifiable factual claim. Historically, Trump's business record includes both successful deals and numerous bankruptcies and failed ventures.

> Mark Cuban is not a closer (#guessnot)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Evaluative opinion; no specific incident identified in available sources that directly triggered this follower's tweet in July 2013. The Trump-Cuban feud was documented from March 2013, providing the broader context.

Sources: https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/03-15-13-entertainment-mark-cuban-donald-trump-twitter-feud; https://heavy.com/news/2015/09/mark-cuban-donald-trump-feud-twist-not-running-for-president-dallas-rally-net-worth/

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- supply_seeking_comparative (92%)
- peer_devaluation (78%)
- proxy_attack_via_retweet (85%)
- competitive_comparison (80%)
- closer_dealmaker_self_schema (76%)
- trump_cuban_feud_continuation (70%)

## That day

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

**Brand Maintenance and Applause-Harvesting: Trump's Psychologically Stable Pre-Campaign Baseline on Full Display**

The July 11, 2013 posting record presents one of Trump's psychologically quietest days in the observable dataset — a study in narcissistic homeostasis rather than turbulence. Fourteen posts spanning roughly 21.5 hours (8:08 PM to 5:45 PM EDT) consist overwhelmingly of low-intensity fan retweets functioning as structured narcissistic supply harvesting and clearly automated brand-maintenance posts, with authorship scores as low as 0.10 on three posts signaling scheduled or staff-managed content. The sole original political assertion — a confident, binary-framed verdict on Edward Snowden as "a traitor who fled" (post x_355119266317615105, intensity 0.52) — arrives at 8:20 PM EDT and constitutes the day's only authentic rhetorical effort of substance. Its certainty-without-evidence structure is consistent with Trump's established splitting defense, but it neither escalates into a rage spiral nor triggers follow-on engagement, leaving it as an isolated political salvo rather than a symptom of acute distress.

The posting rhythm, converted to EDT (Trump inferred at Trump Tower, NYC on this Thursday), reveals a rational and psychologically stable pattern: an evening cluster of five posts (8:08–8:48 PM), a single late-night post at 12:05 AM (the Spitzer/Weiner proxy retweet, x_355176062096916480), an inferred sleep window of approximately seven to eight hours, a morning cluster of five posts (8:01–8:39 AM), and two midday promotional posts followed by an automated end-of-day inspirational quote. The ~8-hour sleep window decisively rules out sleep deprivation. No pressured speech, no flight of ideas, no hyperconnected thematic leaping — the hallmarks of hypomanic states are entirely absent.

Thematically, the day orbits narcissistic supply collection: seven of fourteen posts are retweets of fan admiration, functioning as a curated highlight reel of adulation requiring minimal emotional labor. The Snowden and Spitzer/Weiner posts represent opportunistic political positioning — staking out "common sense patriot" stances against easy cultural targets without meaningful engagement risk. No internal contradictions, no escalation trajectory, no elevated danger indicators, and no hypomanic markers are detected. Trump engaged exclusively with domestic controversies offering clear binary framing while ignoring all international and humanitarian events occurring simultaneously. This day represents the subject's 2013 resting state: grandiose, self-reinforcing, substantially automated, and psychologically unremarkable — valuable primarily as baseline documentation against which more acute days can be benchmarked.

Full digest for 2013-07-11: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 11). "@J__Perc: I thought @mcuban was a closer...... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_355126303311147008
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@J__Perc: I thought @mcuban was a closer... #guessnot I..." X (Twitter), 11 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_355126303311147008. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@J__Perc: I thought @mcuban was a closer... #guessnot I...," X (Twitter), July 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_355126303311147008.

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