# Post x_356183611537498114 - Post ID: `x_356183611537498114` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-07-13T22:49:25.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_356183611537498114 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_356183611537498114/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_356183611537498114.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Spitzer failed as A.G., failed as Governor in disgrace, and was fired on all T.V. shows (boring and zero ratings), and he's at it again! ## Engagement - Likes: 32 - Reposts: 77 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T11:19:47.899Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post represents a textbook competitive devaluation strike timed precisely to Eliot Spitzer's July 8, 2013 NYC Comptroller announcement — Trump's response to a rival's reemergence in shared New York media/elite territory. Style markers (comma-driven failure tricolon, parenthetical TV-ratings dismissal, exclamatory closure) strongly indicate authentic Trump composition, despite an early-evening timestamp that is slightly ambiguous. The post's most psychologically informative element is the parenthetical "(boring and zero ratings)" — not merely a rhetorical flourish but a diagnostic window into Trump's stable cognitive schema: television audience size as the master metric of human worth and validity. This framework, fully operative by 2013, operates as a genuine belief system rather than rhetorical strategy. Narcissistic dynamics are grandiose rather than vulnerable — Trump as confident arbiter pronouncing on a rival's career from a position of assumed authority, showing no anxiety. The tricolon of Spitzer's failures ("failed as A.G., failed as Governor in disgrace, fired on all T.V. shows") reveals an actively maintained internal ledger of competitor failures across domains and time. The exclamation point registers evident pleasure in the delivery. Defense mechanisms include devaluation and splitting; possible projective displacement of Trump's own unacknowledged failure history cannot be excluded. No danger indicators. Factual record is mixed: the "failed as A.G." claim is mostly false (Spitzer had an effective, acclaimed AG tenure); the gubernatorial disgrace and TV cancellations are accurate. This post serves as a useful 2013 calibration point for longitudinal cognitive and affective baseline analysis. ## Psychological Analysis: Trump on Eliot Spitzer, July 13, 2013 ### Contextual Background Eliot Spitzer announced his candidacy for New York City Comptroller on July 7–8, 2013 — five days before this post — marking his first attempt at elective office since resigning the New York governorship in March 2008 following exposure as "Client-9" in a federal prostitution investigation. Spitzer had also hosted two CNN programs (*Parker Spitzer*, Oct 2010–Feb 2011; *In the Arena*, Feb–Aug 2011), both cancelled amid poor ratings. This post is a direct competitive strike timed precisely to Spitzer's re-emergence. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** UTC 22:49:25. In July 2013 Trump was based in New York (EDT, UTC−4), placing this post at **6:49 PM local time** — early evening, neither the deep late-night window most characteristic of authentic Trump nor standard business hours for aide-managed posting. **Style indicators overwhelmingly favor authentic Trump:** - Comma-driven accumulative structure cataloguing failures in a rhythmic list - Parenthetical aside revealing self-referential value schema: "(boring and zero ratings)" — TV ratings as ultimate moral metric is a Trump cognitive signature already fully formed by 2013 - Exclamatory closure ("at it again!") — punchy, reactive, informal - No hashtags, no links, no formatting — pure stream-of-consciousness attack - Slightly loose hyperbole ("all T.V. shows") consistent with unedited composition **Assessment:** High-confidence authentic Trump. Timing is slightly ambiguous but the stylistic fingerprint is unmistakable. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, dominant, no hedging — zero social diffidence - **Agreeableness (very low):** Contemptuous attack without qualification or acknowledgment of shared humanity - **Conscientiousness (low-moderate):** Reactive rather than deliberative; impulsive strike triggered by Spitzer's five-day-old announcement - **Neuroticism (moderate-high):** Hostile reactivity; monitoring rivals and counterattacking upon their reemergence - **Openness (low):** Rigid binary evaluative schema — success/failure, with TV ratings as the organizing variable --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power.** This is near-pure status preservation and dominance display. Communion motive is functionally absent. **Key schema revealed:** The parenthetical "(boring and zero ratings)" is psychologically diagnostic beyond its rhetorical function. It reveals that Trump's operative framework for evaluating human worth and achievement is *television audience size*. A person who draws audiences is real; one who does not is nullified. This schema — fully present in 2013 — will remain a stable cognitive organizing principle for years, applied to everything from inauguration crowds to cable news segments. It represents not merely rhetorical strategy but apparent genuine belief. **Internal rival ledger:** The tricolon structure ("failed as A.G., failed as Governor in disgrace, and was fired on all T.V. shows") reveals Trump actively maintains tracking of competitors' failures across domains and time. The precision of the list suggests rehearsed familiarity, not spontaneous recollection. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Arbiter/Prophet. Trump does not cast himself as a direct actor here; rather he positions himself as a credentialed observer whose role is to recognize and announce the inevitable failure of others. The implied subtext is: *I see patterns others miss. I called it before. Watch.* **Contrasting other:** Spitzer as exemplary serial failure — across law, politics, media — as comprehensive a failure arc as possible. **Narrative sequence applied to Spitzer:** Pure contamination — whatever Spitzer initiates turns to disgrace. The phrase "he's at it again!" functions as prophecy: a new contamination sequence is beginning, and Trump recognizes it before others do. **Identity claims:** By contrast, Trump implicitly asserts: *I am successful across domains. I have the authority to recognize and name failure. I am watching this city.* --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Trigger:** Mixed — primarily **supply-seeking** (punchy attack generates engagement and positions Trump as a witty, competent observer) combined with **preemptive attack** (neutralizing Spitzer's nascent comeback before it gains narrative momentum). Spitzer occupies competitive territory with Trump in the New York media/elite ecosystem. **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** No vulnerability, no wounded quality — purely expansive, dominant, evaluative. Trump is the judge; Spitzer is the defendant. **Narcissistic features in this post:** - Grandiosity: self-positioning as authoritative career judge - Contempt: "disgrace," "boring," "zero ratings" - Entitlement: casual assumption that public pronouncements on a rival's career arc are appropriate - Absent empathy: no acknowledgment of Spitzer's humanity at a moment of personal vulnerability **Antisocial features (mild):** The post is delivered with evident pleasure — the exclamation point registers enjoyment, not merely information delivery. The attack exploits a vulnerable moment (a new candidacy requiring public support) with no apparent discomfort. **Ego-syntonic quality:** No ambivalence, no hedging, no qualification. The attack is delivered as self-evident fact. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Devaluation (primary):** Spitzer is reduced to a pure failure object with no redeeming history - **Splitting:** Binary categorization — complete failure across all domains, no complexity allowed - **Possible displacement/projection:** Trump's own record includes multiple business bankruptcies and at least one television cancellation (*The Apprentice* spinoffs varied in quality); cataloguing a rival's failures may carry projective displacement of disavowed vulnerability --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Tricolon of failure:** "failed as A.G., failed as Governor in disgrace, and was fired on all T.V. shows" — the rhythmic three-part structure gives the attack rhetorical momentum. Each beat lands harder than the last ("disgrace" → "fired"). **Parenthetical dismissal:** "(boring and zero ratings)" — structurally presented as an aside but functionally the sharpest devaluation; "boring" attacks charisma, "zero ratings" attacks social proof via Trump's own master-value. **Ad hominem:** No policy argument, no substantive criticism — pure character and track-record attack. **Hyperbole:** "all T.V. shows" — Spitzer had two CNN programs, not a multi-network career. **Prophetic framing:** "and he's at it again!" positions Trump as pattern-recognizer, implying Spitzer's current effort will reproduce prior failures. **No dehumanizing language.** No violent imagery. No mobilizing or eliminationist rhetoric. Attack is competitive, not threatening. --- ### Cognitive Status (2013 Baseline) This post represents competent, characteristic 2013-era Trump communication. The tricolon is intentionally structured. The parenthetical shows rhetorical calculation within the stream-of-consciousness style. Vocabulary is simple but functional. Logical flow is coherent. No markers of word-finding difficulty, temporal confusion, or perseveration. This post is consistent with Trump's established 2013 baseline and useful as a calibration point for longitudinal comparison. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Spitzer failed as A.G." | **Mostly False** | Spitzer served as NY AG 1999–2006 and was broadly regarded as effective, pursuing landmark enforcement actions against Wall Street mutual fund abuses, insurance industry bid-rigging, and corporate fraud. His AG tenure propelled him to a 2006 gubernatorial landslide. | | "Failed as Governor in disgrace" | **True** | Spitzer resigned in March 2008 after approximately 14 months in office following federal investigation exposing his use of a prostitution service as 'Client-9'. | | "Fired on all T.V. shows (boring and zero ratings)" | **Half True** | Spitzer hosted two CNN programs — Parker Spitzer (Oct 2010–Feb 2011) and In the Arena (Feb–Aug 2011) — both cancelled amid poor ratings. In the Arena averaged ~545,000 total viewers, well behind competitors. 'All' is hyperbolic (two shows, one network); the poor-ratings failure pattern is factually grounded. | | "He's at it again (re-entering public life)" | **True** | Spitzer formally announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy July 7–8, 2013, five days before this post, collecting over 27,000 signatures. He ultimately lost the Democratic primary to Scott Stringer. | Overall Veracity: 68% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 77%) ### Indicators - Comma-driven accumulative failure tricolon — characteristic Trump list structure - Parenthetical aside with self-referential value schema (TV ratings as moral arbiter) - Exclamatory closure with informal 'at it again!' — punchy reactive energy - No hashtags, no links, no structured formatting — unpolished stream-of-consciousness - Loose hyperbole ('all T.V. shows') consistent with unedited composition ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Eliot Spitzer) Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Positioning as credentialed arbiter of public careers, inviting audience to share his contempt - Prophetic framing ('at it again!') inviting followers to recognize Trump's superior pattern-recognition ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-24._ > Spitzer failed as A.G. **MOSTLY FALSE** Spitzer served as NY AG 1999–2006 and was broadly regarded as effective, pursuing landmark enforcement actions against Wall Street mutual fund abuses, insurance industry bid-rigging, and corporate fraud. His AG tenure propelled him to a 2006 gubernatorial landslide. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer > Failed as Governor in disgrace **TRUE** Spitzer resigned in March 2008 after approximately 14 months in office following federal investigation exposing his use of a prostitution service as 'Client-9'. 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 > Fired on all T.V. shows (boring and zero ratings) **HALF TRUE** Spitzer hosted two CNN programs — Parker Spitzer (Oct 2010–Feb 2011) and In the Arena (Feb–Aug 2011) — both cancelled amid poor ratings. In the Arena averaged ~545,000 total viewers, well behind competitors. 'All' is hyperbolic (two shows, one network); the poor-ratings failure pattern is factually grounded. Sources: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/why-cnn-axed-eliot-spitzers-208446/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Arena > He's at it again (re-entering public life) **TRUE** Spitzer formally announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy July 7–8, 2013, five days before this post, collecting over 27,000 signatures. 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.cbsnews.com/news/disgraced-ex-gov-eliot-spitzer-re-enters-politics-in-nyc-comptroller-bid/ Overall Veracity: 68% ## Tags - competitive-devaluation (90%) - tv-ratings-schema (85%) - preemptive-attack (80%) - new-york-politics (70%) - rival-monitoring (75%) - 2013-baseline (90%) - splitting (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A 51-Post Saturday: Supply Harvesting, Snowden Brand Plays, and a Late Rosie O'Donnell Flare-Up** Trump spent a high-volume Saturday toggling between fan engagement and political commentary, firing off 51 posts across three distinct sessions. The bulk of the day was cheerful and self-promotional, with a sustained riff linking the Snowden asylum saga to his upcoming Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. The mood darkened only in the final hour of the evening, when attacks on Eliot Spitzer, a departing follower, and Rosie O'Donnell produced the day's only real flashes of anger -- particularly a forceful denial that O'Donnell has "any talent at all." Early-morning posts around 4 AM suggest a short sleep window, though this appears consistent with his known habits. Full digest for 2013-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 13). Spitzer failed as A.G., failed as Governor in... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_356183611537498114 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Spitzer failed as A.G., failed as Governor in disgrace, and..." X (Twitter), 13 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_356183611537498114. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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