# Post x_364475688515936260 - Post ID: `x_364475688515936260` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-05T23:59:10.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_364475688515936260.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Take your work seriously, take yourself less seriously. It’s a great recipe for some good times &, great memories. ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 447 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.902Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:20:40.888Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Psychological Analysis — Twitter/X Post, 2013-08-05 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** The post was published at 23:59:10 UTC, which converts to approximately **7:59 PM EDT** in New York — Trump's almost certain location in early August 2013 (pre-political era, based at Trump Tower). This falls squarely within business/staff hours rather than the late-night/early-morning window associated with authentic Trump posting behavior. Substantively, the content is the single strongest authorship signal: the counsel to *"take yourself less seriously"* is antithetical to Trump's documented narcissistic baseline, which consistently foregrounds grandiosity, self-importance, and status maximization. This aphorism would represent a remarkable psychological reversal if authentic. The same-day posting of a Mark Twain attribution and two Old Post Office promotional tweets suggests a mixed content day — the branded real-estate posts are plausibly authentic; the inspirational material reads as curated staff output. ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals) Given the near-certain aide-authorship, trait-level inferences from this post are not attributable to Trump's personality but to a staff member's content strategy. Catalogued for completeness: - **Level 1 (Traits):** High agreeableness, low neuroticism — inconsistent with Trump's authenticated baseline. - **Level 2 (Motives):** No agency or power motives detectable. Mild communion framing (shared positive experience). - **Level 3 (Narrative):** No protagonist role, no redemption/contamination arc, no identity claims. Purely ambient. - **Level 4 (Clinical):** No clinical indicators present. ## Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive disruption. Language is simple, syntactically clean, and coherent. Not diagnostically useful given aide authorship. ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no targets, no mobilization cues. ## Contextual Note The malformed HTML entity (`&,` rather than `&`) visible in the raw post content is likely a rendering artifact; the prior-post context shows the correct `&` form. This is not a meaningful authorship or cognitive signal. ## Summary Not clinically significant. No summary generated. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp converts to ~7:59 PM EDT in New York (Trump's likely location in August 2013) — within normal business/staff hours - Grammatically polished with no typos, misspellings, or ALL CAPS - Self-deprecating tone ('take yourself less seriously') is sharply inconsistent with Trump's documented narcissistic baseline - Part of a same-day cluster of curated inspirational/aphoristic content (Mark Twain quote also posted), suggesting scheduled staff content - Absence of any personal pronoun anchoring ('I', 'me', 'my') is uncharacteristic of authentic Trump posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.75 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - generic inspirational framing to maintain audience warmth ## Tags - aide-written (95%) - motivational-content (90%) - low-clinical-significance (90%) - brand-maintenance (85%) - prosocial-framing (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Quiet Day of Fan Service Culminates in the Old Post Office Deal Signing** Trump spent a calm, self-promotional Monday retweeting fan praise, dispensing motivational quotes, and plugging his businesses. The mood was upbeat and steady throughout, with no flashes of anger or combativeness. The day's highlight came in the evening when he announced signing the deal to convert the historic Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue into a luxury hotel. Despite major news breaking elsewhere -- Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post, A-Rod's historic MLB suspension -- Trump showed no interest in engaging with any of it. Full digest for 2013-08-05: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 5). Take your work seriously, take yourself less... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Take your work seriously, take yourself less seriously...." X (Twitter), 5 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Take your work seriously, take yourself less seriously....," X (Twitter), August 5, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/x_364475688515936260 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_364475688515936260 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_364475688515936260 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-05 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_364475688515936260.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._