# Post x_359756256791117827

- Post ID: `x_359756256791117827`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-23T19:25:50.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_359756256791117827
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_359756256791117827/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_359756256791117827.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> This is the summer of box office bombs.  Who is green lighting this garbage? The scripts are terrible.

## Engagement

- Likes: 233
- Reposts: 325
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.289Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T22:40:30.549Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Twitter — July 23, 2013

## Post
> "This is the summer of box office bombs. Who is green lighting this garbage? The scripts are terrible."

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## Authorship Attribution

**UTC 19:25 → ~3:25 PM EDT (New York).** Business-hours timing mildly favors aide-written, but the register does not. The post lacks the polished complete-sentence construction typical of Scavino-era output. Entertainment industry criticism is one of Trump's most durable authentic interests, predating Twitter by decades. **Moderate lean: authentic.** Confidence: medium.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
- **Extraversion**: Assertive cultural pronouncement; low threshold for public opinion-expression.
- **Agreeableness (low)**: Contemptuous framing; no acknowledgment of any film's merit.
- **Openness (low-facet: values)**: Aesthetic rigidity — "garbage" and "terrible" leave no room for nuance; tastes are treated as objective standards.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
The dominant motive is **status/agency**: by indicting Hollywood's decision-makers publicly, Trump positions himself as a taste authority above the green-lighter class. The rhetorical question presupposes that a competent observer (himself, implicitly) would never have approved these projects. This is consistent with a recurring schema in which he occupies the role of the qualified adult in rooms full of incompetents.

**Supply-seeking component**: Aligning with mass audience frustration about underperforming summer films generates low-effort social affirmation.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Cultural critic / taste-arbiter
- **Contrasting other**: Anonymous Hollywood executives ("who is green lighting")
- **Narrative sequence**: Neutral — no redemption or contamination arc; purely declarative
- **Identity claim**: Implicit — "I have the judgment to recognize garbage; they do not"

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators
None activated. This post is well within normal variation for opinionated cultural commentary. No rage, no paranoia, no dehumanization, no grandiose break from reality.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "This is the summer of box office bombs" | **Mostly True** | Summer 2013 saw multiple high-profile failures: The Lone Ranger (~$190M estimated loss for Disney), R.I.P.D., After Earth, White House Down, and Turbo all underperformed significantly against budgets. Entertainment media widely characterized it as a poor summer for studios. |
| "The scripts are terrible" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective aesthetic judgment; not a factual claim subject to verification. Critics were mixed-to-negative on several of the underperforming films' screenplays, but 'terrible' is opinion. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization** (neurotic): Aesthetic displeasure is framed as systemic institutional failure, lending pseudo-analytic weight to what is simple personal opinion.

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## Danger Assessment
**None.** No targets, no grievances tied to persons, no mobilization language.

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## Longitudinal Note
This post is unremarkable against baseline. The same-day posts show Trump operating across several registers simultaneously: gracious sports commentary (Mickelson), promotional content (Trump Panama), moral condemnation (Weiner), and economic commentary (Detroit). The box office post fits the pattern of casual cultural opining that populated his feed throughout 2013. No deviation warranting clinical flag.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Casual, opinionated cultural commentary consistent with authentic Trump voice
- Rhetorical question format ('Who is green lighting this garbage?') matches his informal interrogative style
- Mid-afternoon EDT timing (19:25 UTC ≈ 3:25 PM EDT) falls within business hours, slightly favoring aide-written
- No typos but brevity and simplicity don't require correction
- Entertainment industry criticism is a recurring authentic Trump interest predating his political career

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (General Hollywood/entertainment industry)

Sentiment: -0.25

### Clinical

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

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Positions self as relatable populist voice sharing audience's frustration with Hollywood

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> This is the summer of box office bombs

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Summer 2013 saw multiple high-profile failures: The Lone Ranger (~$190M estimated loss for Disney), R.I.P.D., After Earth, White House Down, and Turbo all underperformed significantly against budgets. Entertainment media widely characterized it as a poor summer for studios.

Sources: General entertainment industry knowledge, summer 2013

> The scripts are terrible

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective aesthetic judgment; not a factual claim subject to verification. Critics were mixed-to-negative on several of the underperforming films' screenplays, but 'terrible' is opinion.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- entertainment-commentary (90%)
- cultural-criticism (70%)
- supply-seeking (40%)
- implicit-grandiosity (30%)
- authentic-likely (65%)
- low-intensity (95%)

## That day

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

**Moral Arbiter Mode: Trump Spends Day Condemning Weiner's Sins While Celebrating His Own**

Trump's day was dominated by two threads: morning complaints about American decline (China's airports, Iraq's chaos, Detroit's bankruptcy) and an extended afternoon-into-evening fixation on Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal. The mood was consistently self-assured and judgmental, with Trump casting himself as the person who saw it all coming. The most revealing moment came when he dismissed an accusation that dating much younger women was "perverted" by calling it "talent" -- hours before labeling Weiner an incurable "sick pervert" for his own sexual misconduct. A quiet but notable false denial of his documented support for the Iraq War also slipped through during the morning burst.

Full digest for 2013-07-23: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 23). This is the summer of box office bombs. Who is... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_359756256791117827
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This is the summer of box office bombs. Who is green..." X (Twitter), 23 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359756256791117827. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "This is the summer of box office bombs. Who is green...," X (Twitter), July 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359756256791117827.

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