# Post x_365339525267996673 - Post ID: `x_365339525267996673` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-08T05:11:45.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @McLeanGolf - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_365339525267996673 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_365339525267996673/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_365339525267996673.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @McLeanGolf, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @McLeanGolf's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@McLeanGolf: Drove around the new "Blue Monster" again tonight. Saving photos. What Donald Trump has done here will shock golf world! ## Engagement - Likes: 18 - Reposts: 16 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:23:14.277Z (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 Retweet of @McLeanGolf Praise — August 8, 2013 ## Post Overview This is a retweet (quote-post) of @McLeanGolf's comment about Trump's renovation of the iconic "Blue Monster" course at Doral Golf Resort in Miami, which Trump acquired in 2012. The retweeted author predicts that Trump's renovation work "will shock golf world." Trump adds no original text — the entire post is amplified third-party praise. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Timestamp conversion:** UTC 05:11:45 → **1:11 AM EDT** (Trump's likely location: New York/Tri-State area or possibly New Jersey; August is not a Mar-a-Lago period). **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump.** The 1:11 AM local posting time falls squarely within the documented Trump late-night Twitter window. The behavior — monitoring social media for flattering mentions and retweeting them without comment — is a well-documented authentic Trump pattern distinct from aide-managed content, which typically involves event announcements or polished statements during business hours. No typos or misspellings are present, but the post requires none (it is pure retweet). Confidence: **medium-high**. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion (High):** Public amplification of self-relevant praise; excitement about the project being witnessed. - **Agreeableness (Low):** Zero reciprocal interest in @McLeanGolf; the retweet is instrumentally self-serving. - **Conscientiousness (Moderate):** Achievement orientation evident indirectly through pride in the renovation project. - **Neuroticism (Low):** No emotional dysregulation evident; this is a calm, pleasurable supply moment. - **Openness (Low):** Domain-specific — golf course aesthetics, business achievement — no intellectual exploration. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Dominant motive: Agency — Status and Achievement.** The Doral Blue Monster renovation is a high-status business monument. Retweeting praise about it serves dual purposes: (1) status display to followers, (2) reinforcement of the self-schema as visionary transformer of iconic properties. **Communion motives: Absent.** No interpersonal warmth, no acknowledgment of the McLean Golf account's humanity. They are a vehicle for supply, not a person being engaged. **Schema revealed:** Self as singular agent capable of shocking elite domains ("golf world"). The hyperbolic prediction frames Trump as category-disrupting — not merely good, but shocking. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Visionary builder / transformer of iconic spaces. - **Narrative sequence:** Implicit redemption arc — Doral was a declining property pre-acquisition (contamination); Trump's renovation restores and exceeds prior glory (redemption). The word "shock" positions the outcome as exceeding all expectation. - **Identity claim:** "I transform the ordinary into the extraordinary" — applied here to the golf world specifically. - **Contrasting other:** Absent in this post, but implicit: the golf establishment that did not see this coming. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **State:** Grandiose — expansive pride in a business achievement, no vulnerability markers. - **Trigger:** Supply-seeking (maintenance). No narcissistic injury present. This is routine ambient admiration-amplification. - **Rage:** Absent. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Minimal defenses required** in a post this affectively positive. Mild **idealization** of self-as-builder implicit in the framing. ### Malignant Narcissism Subcomponents - **Narcissistic features:** Moderate activation (supply-seeking, grandiosity). - **Antisocial features:** Not activated. - **Paranoid features:** Not activated. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Absent. ### Cognitive Status Insufficient original text to assess language production. No baseline-relevant markers extractable from a pure retweet. No concerns flagged. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Hyperbole:** "will shock golf world" — superlative framing without qualification. - **Third-person self-reference by proxy:** McLean uses Trump's name; Trump amplifies it — a distancing technique that maintains plausible modesty ("I'm not saying it, they are") while achieving the same supply effect. - **No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators.** --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion None present. This post makes no factual truth claims that could be assessed for distortion. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No targets, no grievances, no mobilization language. Purely self-promotional. --- ## Contextual Note Surrounding posts from this period (August 7–8) show a mixed pattern: inspirational quote-posting ("Definiteness of purpose…"; "Patience is the greatest of all virtues") alongside retweets of flattery ("My favorite person on twitter"). This is classic Trump social media maintenance behavior — alternating between ambient wisdom-signaling and narcissistic supply collection. No deviation from baseline evident. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "What Donald Trump has done at Doral will shock the golf world" | **Unverifiable** | This is a forward-looking opinion/prediction made in August 2013 about an ongoing renovation project. The Blue Monster renovation at Doral was real and completed. Whether it 'shocked' the golf world is subjective and unverifiable. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 1:11 AM EDT posting time matches Trump's documented late-night Twitter window - Behavior of retweeting self-flattering mentions is an established authentic Trump pattern - No aide-typical features: no event announcement, no polished prose, no business-hours timing - Pure retweet with no added text — minimal signal but consistent with authentic monitoring of self-mentions ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@McLeanGolf praise about Doral Blue Monster renovation) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Supply amplification via retweet — followers receive praise as if Trump is sharing exciting news rather than self-promoting - Third-person reference by proxy maintains plausible modesty while achieving grandiosity effect ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > What Donald Trump has done at Doral will shock the golf world **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a forward-looking opinion/prediction made in August 2013 about an ongoing renovation project. The Blue Monster renovation at Doral was real and completed. Whether it 'shocked' the golf world is subjective and unverifiable. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - narcissistic-supply-seeking (80%) - self-promotion (75%) - golf-doral (90%) - retweet-praise (90%) - late-night-post (70%) - grandiose-state (50%) - low-intensity (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Quiet Day of Brand Polish and Praise Collection, With a Brief Scottish Grudge Flare** Trump spent a routine day retweeting compliments, promoting his product lines, and quoting his own books. The only flash of real feeling came in a brief mid-afternoon cluster about Scottish wind farms, where he called politician Alex Salmond a "moron" who is "killing" the Scottish people -- a long-running personal grievance dressed up as populist concern. He stayed up past 2 AM replying to fans, plugged his upcoming Iowa political event, and pushed Macy's tie sales twice. A low-energy, brand-maintenance kind of day. Full digest for 2013-08-08: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 8). "@McLeanGolf: Drove around the new "Blue Monster"... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_365339525267996673 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@McLeanGolf: Drove around the new "Blue Monster" again..." X (Twitter), 8 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_365339525267996673. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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