# Post x_359111265228034048

- Post ID: `x_359111265228034048`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-22T00:42:52.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_359111265228034048
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_359111265228034048/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_359111265228034048.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing fantastically well-check out the new designs and low prices-nothing better!

## Engagement

- Likes: 18
- Reposts: 33
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.289Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T22:10:57.989Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: Trump–Macy's Promotional Tweet (2013-07-22)

### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Calculation:** Trump was almost certainly in New York City in late July 2013 (standard base of operations during summer). New York observed EDT (UTC−4) on this date. Converting 00:42:52 UTC → **8:42 PM EDT on July 21, 2013**. This falls in early evening, a plausible window for authentic Trump tweeting but also overlapping with normal business hours.

**Stylometric Assessment:** The post contains several markers consistent with authentic Trump: characteristic absolute superlatives ("fantastically well," "nothing better!"), hyphenated dashes used informally (–not em-dashes), direct consumer-imperative phrasing ("check out"), and exclamatory sentence-final punctuation. However, the subject matter (product promotion) and clean grammar lower confidence in authentic attribution; promotional brand content was frequently handled by staff. The surrounding-day posts — casual retweet replies in Trump's characteristic low-effort validation style — suggest he was personally active on the platform on July 21, making an authentic evening post plausible. Overall: **borderline, slight lean toward authentic**, given the superlative vocabulary fingerprint and evening timing.

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### Psychological State and Triggers

**Trigger Type:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No narcissistic injury is evident. The post is a straightforward brand-promotion vehicle, leveraging Trump's Twitter audience as a commercial asset — a behavioral pattern consistent with his long-standing conflation of self-worth with commercial performance metrics.

**Narcissistic State:** Mildly grandiose. The framing ("doing fantastically well," "nothing better") positions Trump-branded goods as categorically superior, which mirrors his broader self-conception. However, grandiosity here is diffuse and non-reactive; it reads as habitual rather than injury-driven.

**Rage:** Absent. No hostility indicators.

**Level 2 (Characteristic Adaptations):** Agency motives are dominant — specifically status and achievement expressed through commercial success. Communion motives are absent; this is purely transactional.

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### Defense Mechanisms

No significant defensive activity is observable. The post is emotionally flat and promotional. If anything, there is mild **rationalization** implicit in presenting a commercial interest as a consumer benefit ("low prices — nothing better!"), but this is a rhetorical rather than psychological defense in this context.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Hyperbole / superlatives:** "fantastically well," "nothing better!" — characteristic Trump rhetorical ceiling-setting
- **Direct imperative:** "check out the new designs" — consumer call to action
- **Self-authorization:** The tweet leverages Trump's personal brand credibility to drive Macy's foot traffic, collapsing the distinction between persona and product
- No propaganda techniques, dehumanization, or adversarial framing present

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### Cognitive Status

Language is simple, coherent, and unambiguous. Vocabulary is at Trump's typical register for this period. No word-finding difficulty, no tangentiality, no perseveration. Fully consistent with 2013 baseline. No deviation warranting notation.

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### Danger Assessment

**None.** The post contains no violent imagery, no target-identification, no eliminationist language, no dehumanization. Entirely commercial in character.

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### Clinical Significance

**Below threshold for summary.** This post is a routine brand-promotion tweet with mild habitual grandiosity. It offers minimal clinical signal beyond confirming the persistent pattern of commercial identity-fusion (self = brand = success). No summary generated.

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### Contextual Note

The post was made during a period of significant national news (Obama's Trayvon Martin remarks, Detroit bankruptcy), yet Trump elected to tweet product promotion rather than engage politically. This absence of political engagement in a charged moment is itself consistent with his pre-2015 Twitter behavior, where commercial self-promotion dominated political commentary — a baseline that makes the later shift to inflammatory political content more analytically legible by contrast.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing fantastically well" | **Unverifiable** | Sales performance of Trump-branded Macy's merchandise in July 2013 is not independently verifiable from this post alone. Macy's did carry the Trump menswear line at this time. |
| "new designs and low prices" | **Unverifiable** | Specific design releases and pricing claims cannot be independently verified without contemporaneous retail records. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Characteristic superlatives 'fantastically' and 'nothing better!' match Trump lexical fingerprint
- Informal hyphenated dashes (no spaces) consistent with authentic Trump style
- Evening posting time (8:42 PM EDT) plausible for authentic Trump
- Promotional subject matter commonly handled by staff (Scavino or brand team)
- Clean grammar and complete sentences reduce authentic confidence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Trump-branded Macy's merchandise line)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Leverages personal Twitter audience as commercial distribution channel
- Collapses distinction between personal endorsement and product promotion

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing fantastically well

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Sales performance of Trump-branded Macy's merchandise in July 2013 is not independently verifiable from this post alone. Macy's did carry the Trump menswear line at this time.

> new designs and low prices

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific design releases and pricing claims cannot be independently verified without contemporaneous retail records.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- brand_promotion (95%)
- commercial_identity_fusion (70%)
- habitual_grandiosity (45%)
- supply_seeking (60%)
- macy's_merchandise (90%)
- pre_political_phase (80%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Evening of Presidential Fantasy and Morning Brand Maintenance**

A calm, low-key day split into two posting sessions -- a late evening burst of retweeting fans urging him to run for president, and a morning routine around a Fox & Friends appearance. No anger, no conflict, no engagement with the day's major news (including the birth of Prince George and a crash-landing at LaGuardia). The only notable moment was a claim that he personally advised Apple to make bigger iPhones and was ignored -- classic unverifiable self-mythologizing.

Full digest for 2013-07-22: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 22). The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_359111265228034048
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing..." X (Twitter), 22 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359111265228034048. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The ties, shirts and suits at Macy's are doing...," X (Twitter), July 22, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359111265228034048.

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