# Post x_360717938178801664 - Post ID: `x_360717938178801664` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-07-26T11:07:12.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @TWIWRadio - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_360717938178801664 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_360717938178801664/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_360717938178801664.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @TWIWRadio, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @TWIWRadio's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@TWIWRadio: @realDonaldTrump Will we ever see Trump run in 2016? #AskDonaldTrump" ## Engagement - Likes: 12 - Reposts: 14 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.288Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T00:55:04.766Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Retweet of 2016 Run Question — July 26, 2013 ## Overview This post consists entirely of a retweet of a fan/listener question — no original text from Trump. The `#AskDonaldTrump` hashtag situates this within a structured Twitter Q&A session, a format that was popular in 2013. The absence of any appended commentary (unlike surrounding posts which carry brief authentications: "So true!", "Thanks!", "I try!") makes this analytically thin but behaviorally legible. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 11:07 = 7:07 AM EDT (Trump almost certainly in New York in late July 2013). Early morning by most standards, but Trump was a notably early riser and active tweeter during this era. The surrounding posts suggest a burst of retweet activity throughout the morning — consistent with a curated Q&A session. The `#AskDonaldTrump` format implies some degree of aide coordination (selecting which questions to surface, organizing the hashtag campaign), but individual retweet selections during such sessions were often made by Trump personally. The lack of any appended response distinguishes this from the other posts in the cluster, where Trump consistently added a brief validation tag. **Assessment:** Likely semi-authentic — aide-organized session, but the selective retweet of this specific question (about a presidential run) is consistent with Trump's personal appetite for political speculation about himself. --- ## Psychological Significance The psychological weight here lies not in what is said but in what is *selected for amplification*. From dozens of `#AskDonaldTrump` questions, Trump (or a proxy operating under his direction) chose to surface this one — a question about a 2016 presidential run. This is supply-seeking behavior of a particular kind: **prospective supply**, amplifying speculation about future power rather than present accomplishments. It keeps the political option public and visible without requiring commitment. The retweet-without-comment is a well-documented Trump technique: the question does the rhetorical work while Trump maintains plausible deniability ("I just shared what people are asking"). This is classically **passive-aggressive** in structure — communicating a desire without owning it. --- ## Narrative Identity This post is a small but legible data point in Trump's **pre-political positioning narrative**. By 2013, he had already floated a 2012 run and withdrawn. Retweeting 2016 speculation maintains the identity claim of *potential president* without the vulnerability of a formal declaration. The protagonist role here is the **reluctant savior** — the figure whose potential return the public yearns for. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques Minimal but present: **strategic ambiguity** (neither confirming nor denying), and **social proof by proxy** (letting the questioner voice the aspiration so Trump need not). No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Cognitive Assessment Insufficient original text to assess language production, complexity, or deviation from baseline. Post is analytically inert on cognitive markers. --- ## Summary No clinically significant patterns warrant a formal summary. This is a routine, low-intensity supply-seeking retweet within a structured fan Q&A. Its primary interest is archival: it marks a 2013 data point in Trump's sustained cultivation of presidential identity prior to his 2015 formal announcement. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 50%) ### Indicators - Early morning local time (7:07 AM EDT) consistent with Trump's personal Twitter habits - Part of structured #AskDonaldTrump Q&A session suggesting aide coordination - No appended comment unlike all surrounding posts which have brief authentic-sounding tags - Selection of presidential run question consistent with Trump's personal political appetite ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan/listener speculation about presidential run) Sentiment: +0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - passive aggression (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Q&A format creates illusion of direct access and dialogue - Selective amplification of flattering speculation ## Tags - supply-seeking (60%) - presidential-positioning (70%) - passive-amplification (50%) - ask-donald-trump-qa (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Quiet Day of Self-Congratulation, With Opportunistic Shots at Weiner and A-Rod** Trump spent most of the day retweeting praise from followers and promoting his business projects, including a $250 million renovation at Trump National Doral in Miami. The mood was uniformly self-congratulatory, broken up by a couple of opportunistic jabs at Anthony Weiner during the "Carlos Danger" sexting scandal and at Alex Rodriguez over the Biogenesis PED saga. A brief morning burst of rapid-fire retweets gave way to a calmer afternoon — an unremarkable day with no real flashes of anger or instability. Full digest for 2013-07-26: https://trump.fm/date/2013-07-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, July 26). "@TWIWRadio: @realDonaldTrump Will we ever see... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_360717938178801664 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@TWIWRadio: @realDonaldTrump Will we ever see Trump run in..." X (Twitter), 26 Jul. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_360717938178801664. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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