# Post x_355835548390260736

- Post ID: `x_355835548390260736`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-12T23:46:20.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @rfhoganjr
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_355835548390260736
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_355835548390260736/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_355835548390260736.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@rfhoganjr: New Trump International Scotland was better than advertised.Thanks @realdonaldtrump. It & Royal Dornoch gems.

## Engagement

- Likes: 4
- Reposts: 8
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T10:27:13.795Z (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: x_355835548390260736

**Post Type:** Manual retweet (old-style `@username:` prefix format) of third-party fan praise
**Timestamp:** 23:46 UTC → **7:46 PM EDT** (New York, July 2013)

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### Authorship Attribution

The UTC timestamp converts to 7:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time in New York — Trump's near-certain location in mid-July 2013. This falls in a transitional window: late enough to be plausibly authentic, but well within staffed business hours. However, the **content type** is the stronger authorship signal here. Amplifying fan praise of a Trump property via manual retweet is among the most behaviorally-distinctive authentic Trump posting patterns from this era. The old-style `@rfhoganjr:` manual RT format reflects direct platform engagement rather than scheduled or scripted content. Aide-written posts from this period tend toward event announcements, polished statements, and promotional copy — not the rebroadcast of individual fan feedback. **Assessment: likely authentic (confidence: medium).**

The post arrives almost exactly one year after Trump International Golf Links Scotland's opening (the course opened July 10, 2012), making this early-evening timing consistent with passive monitoring of anniversary-adjacent social media sentiment.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump International Scotland was 'better than advertised'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective personal assessment by a golfer (@rfhoganjr). Early reviews of the course (opened July 10, 2012) were mixed to positive; some noted greens still establishing in the first year. No objective benchmark for 'as advertised.' |
| "Royal Dornoch is a 'gem' / elite course worthy of comparison" | **True** | Royal Dornoch is ranked #2 in the world by Golf Digest (behind only Royal County Down), awarded Royal status by King Edward VII in 1906. Tom Watson called it 'the most fun he'd ever had playing golf.' Widely regarded as one of the world's finest links courses. |
| "Trump International Scotland is 'new'" | **True** | The course opened July 10, 2012, making it approximately one year old at the time of this tweet (July 12, 2013). |

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Manual retweet format (old-style @username: prefix) consistent with authentic direct platform engagement
- 7:46 PM EDT timing is plausible for authentic early-evening posting
- Content type — amplifying fan praise of a Trump property — is a documented authentic posting signature
- No scheduling, event-announcement, or polished-statement format typical of aide-authored posts
- Subject of praise (Scotland golf course one-year anniversary window) aligns with personal stake and monitoring motivation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@rfhoganjr's unsolicited praise of Trump International Scotland)

Sentiment: +0.78

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party validation broadcasting
- status elevation by association with elite institution

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Trump International Scotland was 'better than advertised'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective personal assessment by a golfer (@rfhoganjr). Early reviews of the course (opened July 10, 2012) were mixed to positive; some noted greens still establishing in the first year. No objective benchmark for 'as advertised.'

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links,_Scotland; https://www.ukgolfguy.com/trump-international-golf-links

> Royal Dornoch is a 'gem' / elite course worthy of comparison

**TRUE**

Royal Dornoch is ranked #2 in the world by Golf Digest (behind only Royal County Down), awarded Royal status by King Edward VII in 1906. Tom Watson called it 'the most fun he'd ever had playing golf.' Widely regarded as one of the world's finest links courses.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dornoch_Golf_Club; https://www.top100golfcourses.com/golf-course/royal-dornoch-championship; https://www.golfdigest.com/courses/scotland/royal-dornoch-golf-club-championship

> Trump International Scotland is 'new'

**TRUE**

The course opened July 10, 2012, making it approximately one year old at the time of this tweet (July 12, 2013).

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links,_Scotland

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Tags

- business-promotion (92%)
- narcissistic-supply-acquisition (82%)
- golf (95%)
- scotland (88%)
- third-party-validation (85%)
- routine-maintenance (78%)
- manual-retweet (70%)
- brand-management (80%)
- prestige-transfer (65%)

## That day

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

**Golf Adulation and Legal Grievance: Trump's Stable Friday of Brand Harvest and Contained Lawsuit Fury**

July 12, 2013 presents a psychologically stable Friday in Trump's pre-campaign social media life, dominated by narcissistic supply-harvesting across two distinct sessions. The morning (10:40–12:44 EDT) featured brand maintenance—news of the D.C. Old Post Office Pavilion advancing toward Trump Hotel and a "bumper first year" report on Trump International Golf Links Scotland at Menie Estate—while the evening (19:27–19:59 EDT) compressed eight posts into 32 minutes, largely devoted to retweeting fan praise for the Scotland course. The dominant psychological state was grandiose throughout, with a brief mixed excursion at midday, and all activity fell within normal waking hours for a New York City location with no sleep-deprivation indicators.

The day's single psychologically significant event was post x_355729418687217664 (12:44 EDT), a DARVO-structured response to the active Makaeff v. Trump University class action, revitalized by a 9th Circuit ruling in April 2013. Trump deployed a plaintiff testimonial to frame the suit as contradictory while denouncing the legal system as "a mess"—a mild but recognizable early iteration of his institutional delegitimization pattern. Rage intensity was 0.28, proportionate to the trigger and unescalated; the day returned to grandiose supply-seeking within approximately seven hours without further agitation or amplification.

No hypomanic indicators, no danger signals, and zero engagement with major world events—Malala Yousafzai's UN address, the California prison hunger strike involving 29,000 inmates, Napolitano's DHS resignation—characterized a day of complete self-referential focus. Cognitive complexity was uniformly low, no contradictions emerged between claims, and the narrative arc was stable with a minor contained perturbation. This is a textbook low-activation day reflecting 2013-era baseline narcissistic functioning: brand building, systematic supply extraction, and episodic defensive activation when business interests were challenged.

Full digest for 2013-07-12: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 12). "@rfhoganjr: New Trump International Scotland was... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_355835548390260736
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@rfhoganjr: New Trump International Scotland was better..." X (Twitter), 12 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_355835548390260736. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@rfhoganjr: New Trump International Scotland was better...," X (Twitter), July 12, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_355835548390260736.

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