# Post x_359849620672753665

- Post ID: `x_359849620672753665`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-07-24T01:36:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @CraftMonroe
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_359849620672753665
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_359849620672753665/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_359849620672753665.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@CraftMonroe: @realDonaldTrump You were very right about Weiner as always."

## Engagement

- Likes: 13
- Reposts: 5
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.289Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T00:48:43.504Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A bare retweet of follower praise requiring minimal composition but revealing through curation. The selected message encodes a claim of constitutional infallibility — "very right about Weiner as always" — which Trump amplifies without asserting directly, a characteristic proxy-assertion maneuver. The Weiner 'Carlos Danger' scandal, breaking in real time, provided an ideal supply substrate: a rival publicly humiliated by the moral failure Trump had previously criticized, enabling a vindication narrative that elevates Trump as oracle and degrades Weiner as foil. Most significant in longitudinal context: this post is one node in a sustained same-day cluster spanning praise for his buildings, his golf course, and his Weiner prescience — a multi-vector grandiose supply-harvesting session consistent with a 67-year-old operating in evening leisure hours across his personal account. No cognitive concerns are assessable from this unit. No danger indicators. Clinically, the post illustrates the passive supply loop in which followers learn — through observing what gets retweeted — that infallibility praise will be amplified, conditioning an increasingly idealized follower discourse. The "as always" framing is a mild reality distortion, retroactively recasting prior moral condemnation as prophetic accuracy.

# Psychological Analysis: x_359849620672753665
**Platform:** Twitter/X | **Date:** July 23, 2013, 9:36 PM EDT | **Age:** 67

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## Authorship Attribution
**Score: 0.72 (lean authentic) | Confidence: Medium**

Trump was almost certainly in New York at this date; converting UTC 01:36:49 yields **9:36 PM EDT** — squarely within his evening leisure window. The surrounding posts demonstrate a sustained, personally-engaged session of retweeting and responding to Weiner-related praise, building praise, and golf-course praise across a single day, consistent with personal curation rather than aide scheduling. The absence of appended commentary (unlike adjacent posts that add "Thank you!" or similar) is the only mild counter-indicator, but the completeness of the follower's flattery may have rendered embellishment unnecessary.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
The post is content-sparse but trait-revealing through selection:
- **Extraversion (high, ~0.82):** Active cultivation of public admiration and social validation
- **Agreeableness (low, ~0.18):** No empathic acknowledgment; the RT implicitly savors Weiner's disgrace
- **Conscientiousness (low, ~0.25):** Impulsive, reactive engagement with flattery rather than deliberate communication
- **Neuroticism (elevated, ~0.65):** Need for external validation signals underlying insecurity
- **Openness (low, ~0.2):** Rigid moral framework; Weiner confirms a pre-existing worldview

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Validation/Status (agency cluster)**

The trigger is unambiguous supply-seeking. The renewed Weiner scandal creates a perfect supply substrate: a rival's public humiliation serves simultaneously to elevate Trump's moral standing (by contrast) and to validate his prior assessments. Agency motives thoroughly dominate; there is no communion dimension present.

**Schema activated:** *I am a uniquely perceptive judge of character whose assessments are later vindicated.* This oracle schema is endemic across Trump's posting history and is directly reinforced by the "as always" framing the follower provides.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Infallible oracle / vindicated prophet

The narrative structure is compact but coherent:
- **Prior state:** Trump criticized Weiner (2011 resignation scandal)
- **Contamination threat:** Others dismissed or attacked Trump's judgment
- **Redemption:** Weiner re-disgraces himself under the "Carlos Danger" alias, vindicating Trump's prior assessment
- **Contrasting other:** Weiner — morally compromised, predictably self-destructive, incapable of reform

The phrase "as always" is the narrative linchpin. It encodes a claim not merely to correctness in this instance but to *constitutional, recurring correctness* — an identity claim asserting that being right is Trump's natural condition. By retweeting rather than asserting this himself, Trump achieves the grandiose claim with deniability.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**State:** Grandiose | **Trigger:** Supply-seeking (vindication variant)

This is narcissistic supply collection in its most passive and structurally elegant form. Rather than asserting his own infallibility, Trump outsources the assertion to a follower and then amplifies it. The psychological goal — broadcasting "I am always right" to his entire audience — is fully achieved while formally maintaining the appearance of merely sharing someone else's view.

**Supply loop mechanics:** By retweeting praise, Trump signals to his broader follower network which type of content receives amplification. This conditions future praise output, creating a self-reinforcing supply loop without requiring Trump to explicitly solicit flattery.

**Schadenfreude dimension:** The Weiner reference carries a sadistic undertone — Weiner's humiliation is not just backdrop but substrate. Trump's vindication is only as elevated as Weiner's disgrace is deep. This reflects the ego-syntonic pleasure in rivals' failures characteristic of the malignant narcissism cluster (Kernberg), though at low intensity here.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Idealization (immature):** Amplifying the "very right... as always" framing constructs an idealized self-image through proxy
2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Prior criticism of Weiner — likely opportunistic and moralistic — is retroactively reframed as prescient analysis

### Malignant Narcissism Components
- **Narcissistic features (moderate, ~0.55):** Supply-seeking, grandiosity via proxy
- **Antisocial features (low, ~0.10):** No direct rule violation; implicit delight in rival's downfall
- **Paranoid features (absent, ~0.00):** No suspiciousness or grievance in this unit
- **Sadism (mild, ~0.15):** Schadenfreude toward Weiner's renewed disgrace

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## Rhetorical Analysis
**Primary technique:** Amplification via curation — the rhetorical work is entirely accomplished through selection, not composition.

The proxy assertion device is particularly notable: *"as always"* is an infallibility claim that would be risible if self-asserted, but gains legitimacy when voiced by a follower and merely "shared." This is a structurally sophisticated rhetorical move, likely intuitive rather than calculated.

**Implied moral hierarchy:** Weiner's disgrace implicitly elevates Trump by contrast without Trump having to articulate the comparison directly. The ad hominem (against Weiner) is outsourced.

No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.

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## Longitudinal Context
Viewed within the day's posting cluster, this unit is one node in a multi-vector grandiose supply-harvesting session:
- Multiple RTs about being right on Weiner → oracle/prophet narrative
- RT about buildings in every major city → global empire narrative  
- RT about naming the royal baby after Trump → cultural centrality narrative
- RT about greatest golf course in the World → superlative achievement narrative

The coherence of this cluster suggests a sustained, personally-engaged session in which Trump systematically amplified his own myth across multiple domains simultaneously. This is consistent with a grandiose state rather than a reactive or vulnerable one.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump was 'very right about Weiner as always'" | **Unverifiable** | Trump had made public comments critical of Weiner during his 2011 resignation scandal. Whether those comments constituted a specific, accurate prediction versus general moral condemnation is unclear from available context. The 'as always' framing implies consistent prophetic accuracy, which is the unverifiable superlative element. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: None** — No eliminationist language, dehumanization, mobilization calls, or stochastic terrorism indicators. Standard supply-harvesting unit.

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## Summary
A bare retweet of follower praise that reveals psychological dynamics through selection rather than composition. The "as always" encoding of infallibility — outsourced to a follower but amplified by Trump — exemplifies the proxy-assertion maneuver characteristic of his grandiose supply-seeking behavior. The Weiner scandal context provides dual psychological utility: vindication of prior judgment and vicarious satisfaction in a rival's disgrace. Most clinically significant in longitudinal context as one node in a sustained same-day supply-harvesting cluster spanning oracle, empire, and achievement narratives. No danger indicators; no cognitive concerns assessable from this unit.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- 9:36 PM EDT (UTC-4 in New York summer) — evening leisure hours consistent with personal Twitter engagement
- Bare retweet with no appended commentary — unusual relative to adjacent posts which add 'Thank you!' or brief reactions, but may reflect the completeness of the flattery
- Pattern of rapid-fire RT of praise across the day is consistent with Trump personally curating his validation feed rather than aide-managed scheduling
- No typos or misspellings to confirm authentic composition, but format is consistent with personal curation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Anthony Weiner 'Carlos Danger' sexting scandal (renewed))

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 15%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Selective RT of follower praise to model desired behavior (flattery) for the broader audience
- Validation loop: follower praises Trump → Trump amplifies → other followers learn the praise template

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> Trump was 'very right about Weiner as always'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Trump had made public comments critical of Weiner during his 2011 resignation scandal. Whether those comments constituted a specific, accurate prediction versus general moral condemnation is unclear from available context. The 'as always' framing implies consistent prophetic accuracy, which is the unverifiable superlative element.

Sources: Weiner 2011 Twitter scandal (prior); Weiner 'Carlos Danger' revelations, July 2013

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply (90%)
- proxy-assertion (75%)
- vindication-narrative (80%)
- schadenfreude (60%)
- supply-harvesting-session (70%)
- infallibility-claim (65%)

## That day

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

**99-Post Victory Lap: Weiner Scandal Fuels a Marathon Vindication Session and Proto-Campaign Brand-Building**

Trump had one of his highest-volume Twitter days on record, firing off nearly 100 posts in a sustained mood of cheerful self-congratulation. The Anthony Weiner "Carlos Danger" sexting scandal was his favorite topic, and he returned to it repeatedly to remind everyone he had predicted the relapse months earlier. Between Weiner mockery, he retweeted dozens of fans calling him a genius and urging him to run for president in 2016 -- an early prototype of the "reluctant savior" narrative. He also squeezed in attacks on wind energy projects near his Scottish golf course, a dismissive Obama critique, and a brief late-night innuendo about a Fox News anchor. The overall mood was expansive and pleased, with almost no detectable anger, but the posting pace -- stretching past midnight and resuming before dawn -- suggests a very short night's sleep.

Full digest for 2013-07-24: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 24). "@CraftMonroe: @realDonaldTrump You were very... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_359849620672753665
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@CraftMonroe: @realDonaldTrump You were very right about..." X (Twitter), 24 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359849620672753665. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@CraftMonroe: @realDonaldTrump You were very right about...," X (Twitter), July 24, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_359849620672753665.

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