# Post x_357316677567922177 - Post ID: `x_357316677567922177` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-07-17T01:51:49.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @flebotomy - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_357316677567922177 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_357316677567922177/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_357316677567922177.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @flebotomy, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @flebotomy's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@flebotomy: @realDonaldTrump How does this make you feel? #BoycottRollingStone http://t.co/9leT9c1Szu" Rolling Stone Magazine sucks! ## Engagement - Likes: 117 - Reposts: 169 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.290Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-24T15:31:00.459Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Contextual Background The post engages the **Rolling Stone / Tsarnaev cover controversy**, one of the most explosive media incidents of mid-2013. On July 17, 2013 — the same day as this post — Rolling Stone's forthcoming August 1 issue was revealed to feature Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a soft-focus, romanticized photograph typically reserved for rock icons. The cover immediately sparked the hashtag **#BoycottRollingStone**, with major pharmacy and convenience chains (CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Tedeschi) refusing to stock the issue. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino wrote a public letter condemning it. User @flebotomy solicited Trump's emotional reaction ("How does this make you feel?"), and Trump amplifies the user's post while appending his own verdict. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timezone resolution:** UTC 01:51:49 on July 17, 2013 = **9:51 PM EDT on July 16, 2013**. In summer 2013 Trump maintained his primary base at Trump Tower (Midtown Manhattan); late-summer weekends could involve Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ (also EDT). Either way, the timezone is Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). **9:51 PM EDT** falls within Trump's well-documented late-evening posting window — post-dinner, pre-midnight. This is his most prolific authentic time slot. **Style markers overwhelmingly indicate authentic Trump:** - The contribution is a single colloquial sentence ("Rolling Stone Magazine sucks!") — no aide would reduce a corporate editorial contribution to "sucks!" - The pattern of quoting a follower's question verbatim and appending a one-liner verdict is a signature authentic Trump move, documented across hundreds of posts from this era - No professional polish, no hedging, no compound clauses - Exclamation point as terminal punctuation — characteristic baseline **Confidence: High (authentic)** --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Signal | Salience | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | Publicly broadcasting strong opinion on trending controversy | High | | **Agreeableness** | Dismissive, contemptuous register ("sucks") | Very Low | | **Conscientiousness** | No deliberation; impulsive, unfiltered | Very Low | | **Neuroticism** | Hostile affect; emotional reactivity to media stimulus | Moderate | | **Openness** | Rigid evaluative binary (magazine is simply bad) | Very Low | The vocabulary token "sucks" is diagnostic of Trump's **low deliberation / high impulsivity** facet — a maximally evaluative, maximally colloquial, zero-nuance dismissal. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Schemas) **Agency motives:** Moderate. Trump positions himself as cultural arbiter — his verdict ("sucks") carries implicit authority. The act of reposting and commenting is an **authority-claiming move** within the existing outrage cycle. **Communion motives:** Elevated for this post type. By aligning with #BoycottRollingStone, Trump signals **in-group solidarity** with an outraged public. This is proto-populist communion — "I'm with the people against the corrupt media institution." **Schema revealed:** Media = adversary; popular culture gatekeepers (like Rolling Stone) are enemies of authentic American sentiment. This schema is **consistent with and predictive of** his later systematic anti-media campaign. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Voice of the People — validating mass outrage with authoritative brevity. Mild **Trickster** register: he speaks in blunt, rule-breaking vocabulary ("sucks") that official commentators would avoid. **Contrasting other:** Rolling Stone Magazine, representing the cultural/media elite that glamorizes terrorists. **Identity claims:** Implicitly: "I say what everyone is thinking." "I don't mince words." "I stand against the corrupt media." **Narrative sequence:** Contamination-adjacent — Rolling Stone has done something corrupting (elevating a terrorist to celebrity status); Trump's dismissal is a rhetorical cleansing gesture. **Archetypal resonance:** Primarily **Order Restorer/Warrior** — speaking against an institution perceived to have violated moral order by aestheticizing mass violence. Mild **Trickster** in the register (says "sucks" where others say "misguided editorial judgment"). --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger type: Supply-Seeking / Maintenance.** User @flebotomy actively solicited Trump's emotional reaction, creating a classic **validation loop** structure: follower asks → Trump pronounces → follower is validated → Trump receives engagement. There is no evidence of narcissistic injury here; this is **opportunistic supply acquisition** via alignment with popular sentiment. **Narcissistic state: Mildly Grandiose** — he casts himself as the authoritative voice whose brief verdict settles the matter. **Rage assessment:** Not present as clinical rage. The dismissal is contemptuous but low-arousal — this is casual disdain, not the hot rage pattern ("Crooked," "Sleepy," "LOSER") that appears in injury-triggered posts. ### Malignant Narcissism Components (Kernberg) - **Narcissistic features:** Mild (grandiosity in claiming arbiter role; no entitlement display) - **Antisocial features:** Minimal (no deception, no harm directed at individuals) - **Paranoid features:** Latent (anti-media schema implies conspiratorial media culture, but not explicitly stated here) - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Minimal-absent (contempt for the magazine, not pleasure in suffering) ### Defense Mechanisms **Minor displacement:** The broader cultural horror at media glorifying terrorism is compressed and redirected into a simple brand-dismissal. The complexity of the ethical issue (editorial freedom vs. terrorism glorification) is evacuated and replaced with a one-word verdict. **Splitting:** Rolling Stone is simply "bad" — no acknowledgment of journalistic complexity. Characteristic all-or-nothing evaluative style. --- ## Cognitive Status **Assessment:** Extremely limited data point (7 words of Trump's own contribution). No anomalies detectable. - Vocabulary: "sucks" — baseline colloquial; consistent with established 2013 Trump register - Syntactic complexity: Single declarative sentence — baseline for authentic tweets - Coherence: Perfect — the post is coherent if simple - No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, tangentiality, or temporal confusion visible **Baseline deviation: None.** This is textbook baseline Trump — brief, impulsive, evaluative, colloquial. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Ad hominem (institutional):** Attacks the magazine's character rather than engaging the substantive editorial question - **Social proof borrowing:** By re-posting the #BoycottRollingStone hashtag, Trump inherits the moral authority of a mass grassroots movement without having originated it - **Punchy verdict as authority claim:** The brevity is itself rhetorical — no elaboration needed because the verdict is self-evident (to the audience) - **Colloquial register as authenticity signal:** "Sucks" performs anti-elitism — he speaks like the people, not like an editorial board **Propagandistic elements:** Minimal. This is more opportunistic alignment than systematic propaganda. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Absent. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Not present. The Rolling Stone cover was real and publicly documented. Trump's reaction does not involve distortion of facts, denial of events, or manipulation of his audience's perception of reality. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post participates in a civic boycott movement against a media institution over an editorial decision. No dehumanizing language, no individual targeting, no eliminationist framing, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post is notable as an **early and relatively pure specimen** of Trump's anti-media schema in its pre-campaign form. In 2013, media criticism of this type was populist performance without systematic political weaponization. The same structure — solicit/validate outrage, deliver punchy verdict, position as voice-of-the-people — will evolve by 2015-2016 into a systematic, sustained anti-press campaign with far higher clinical intensity and danger indicators. This post represents the **benign baseline** of what becomes a more pathological pattern. --- ## Sources - [Rolling Stone Boston Bomber Controversy — WBUR](https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/07/17/tsarnaev-rolling-stone-cover) - [CBS News — Rolling Stone defends Tsarnaev cover](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rolling-stone-defends-cover-featuring-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/) - [NBC News — CVS, Walgreens drop the issue](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rolling-stone-boston-bomber-suspect-photo-stirs-online-controversy-cvs-flna6c10663498) ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Rolling Stone Magazine published a cover featuring the Boston Marathon bomber" | **True** | Rolling Stone's August 1, 2013 issue featured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover in a romanticized photograph, sparking the #BoycottRollingStone movement. Retailers including CVS, Walgreens, and Rite-Aid refused to stock the issue. | | "Implicit claim: public opinion was broadly against the Rolling Stone cover" | **Mostly True** | A Facebook boycott page generated 170,000+ likes rapidly; major retail chains pulled the issue; Boston's mayor publicly condemned it. However, the issue paradoxically sold 145% above the prior year's August issue at stores that carried it. | Overall Veracity: 90% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 9:51 PM EDT — within authentic late-evening posting window - Single colloquial sentence ('sucks!') — no aide editorial voice - Quote-a-follower-then-add-one-liner pattern is signature authentic Trump - No professional polish, no hedging, zero compound clauses - Terminal exclamation point — baseline authentic marker ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@flebotomy solicitation) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 12% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Validation loop: follower asks question, Trump pronounces verdict, follower is validated - Alignment with mass movement to perform communion with 'the people' ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-24._ > Rolling Stone Magazine published a cover featuring the Boston Marathon bomber **TRUE** Rolling Stone's August 1, 2013 issue featured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover in a romanticized photograph, sparking the #BoycottRollingStone movement. Retailers including CVS, Walgreens, and Rite-Aid refused to stock the issue. Sources: https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/07/17/tsarnaev-rolling-stone-cover; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rolling-stone-defends-cover-featuring-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/ > Implicit claim: public opinion was broadly against the Rolling Stone cover **MOSTLY TRUE** A Facebook boycott page generated 170,000+ likes rapidly; major retail chains pulled the issue; Boston's mayor publicly condemned it. However, the issue paradoxically sold 145% above the prior year's August issue at stores that carried it. Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rolling-stone-boston-bomber-suspect-photo-stirs-online-controversy-cvs-flna6c10663498; https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/08/rolling-stone-august-bomber-issue-a-hit Overall Veracity: 90% ## Tags - anti-media (85%) - supply-seeking (75%) - populist-alignment (70%) - media-criticism (90%) - boycott-solidarity (65%) - authentic-voice (88%) - splitting (60%) - terrorism-adjacent (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Quiet Day of Brand Maintenance and Sports Talk, Punctuated by Flashes of Cultural Sentinel Rhetoric** A high-volume but low-intensity day mostly spent watching the MLB All-Star Game, thanking fans, and promoting his books and golf courses. The mood was relaxed and self-congratulatory throughout, with only brief flashes of anger directed at Rolling Stone for putting the Boston Marathon bomber on its cover. Trump also weighed in on the Zimmerman verdict aftermath with a moderate "time to move on" take, and took a shot at Karl Rove's campaign spending record. The day's most notable feature was its sheer volume -- over 60 posts -- driven largely by real-time sports commentary and staff-assisted fan engagement. Full digest for 2013-07-17: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 17). "@flebotomy: @realDonaldTrump How does this make... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_357316677567922177 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@flebotomy: @realDonaldTrump How does this make you feel?..." X (Twitter), 17 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_357316677567922177. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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