# Post x_365697404898512897

- Post ID: `x_365697404898512897`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-09T04:53:50.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @brodie7878
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_365697404898512897
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_365697404898512897/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_365697404898512897.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @brodie7878, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @brodie7878's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@brodie7878: @realDonaldTrump @arcuate We will have electric and people will make money but birds will be extinct in 20 years."

## Engagement

- Likes: 6
- Reposts: 25
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:39:43.568Z (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 Bird Extinction Claim — August 9, 2013

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** UTC 04:53:50 converts to **12:53 AM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly in New York in early August 2013, standard EDT = UTC−4). This is solidly within the late-night authentic Trump posting window (10 PM–6 AM local). The act of manually retweeting and engaging with a follower thread at 12:53 AM is consistent with his documented nocturnal Twitter behavior. No aide would be curating follower-thread amplification at this hour.

**Confidence: High** — authentic Trump.

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## Content and Context

This post is a bare retweet of a follower's claim that wind turbines will drive birds to extinction within 20 years. It must be read within the thread context: Trump had just retweeted `@big1john`'s claim that wind turbines will "slice 14 million birds and bats to death in mid-flight during the next decade," and retweeted `@arcuate`'s enthusiastic response. He is actively curating a collection of follower voices to amplify a single thesis: wind energy is an ecological catastrophe.

The wind turbine obsession in 2013 is well-documented as personally motivated — Trump was simultaneously fighting a proposed offshore wind farm near his Menie Estate golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a legal and political battle that consumed considerable personal energy from approximately 2011–2016. This is not abstract policy concern; it is ego-syntonic grievance laundering through ostensible environmentalism.

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## Psychological State and Triggers

**Primary trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. There is no acute narcissistic injury visible here. Instead, this represents *validation amplification* — Trump selects follower tweets that confirm his existing worldview and re-broadcasts them, receiving reflected agreement as narcissistic supply. The selection is not random; he curates only those voices that agree, creating an echo-chamber performance for his audience.

**Secondary trigger:** The wind turbine issue activates a characteristic schema collision — Trump simultaneously holds (a) climate skepticism and (b) environmentalist framing when it serves anti-wind arguments. This instrumental environmentalism reveals the underlying motive is not ecological concern but opposition to a technology he personally dislikes and is financially threatened by (the Scottish golf course context).

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose-maintenance. No vulnerability indicators present. The tone is confident, agenda-setting.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Projection (Immature, Level 2):** By retweeting others' alarming claims, Trump outsources the assertion while retaining deniability. He is not *saying* birds will go extinct — he is merely *showing you* someone who said it. This is a structurally passive-aggressive information delivery mechanism that insulates him from accountability while fully transmitting the message.

**Rationalization (Neurotic, Level 3):** The use of environmental framing ("birds will be extinct") for what is essentially a property-interest and aesthetic objection to wind turbines represents rationalization — a socially acceptable justification (bird mortality) substituted for the actual motive (opposition to a specific development near his Scottish course).

**Splitting (Immature, Level 2):** Wind energy is cast as wholly destructive (birds extinct, no mitigation possible). No nuance, no acknowledgment of the comparative data showing wind turbines kill vastly fewer birds than cats, buildings, or cars. Classic black-and-white framing.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Appeal to consequence / fear:** "Birds will be extinct in 20 years" is an apocalyptic framing designed to trigger emotional response rather than rational evaluation.
- **Laundering through follower voice:** By retweeting rather than asserting directly, Trump employs a form of *testimonial* propaganda — using an ostensibly independent third-party voice to lend credibility to his position. The curation is invisible to casual observers.
- **Hyperbole/superlative:** "Extinct in 20 years" is a maximalist claim that far outstrips available evidence.
- **False dichotomy (implicit):** The thread constructs wind energy as categorically destructive — no trade-off acknowledged, no alternative framing permitted.

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## Level 1: Big Five Trait Expression

- **Low Agreeableness:** No intellectual charity toward wind energy proponents; purely adversarial framing.
- **High Extraversion (assertiveness facet):** Active curation and amplification; agenda-setting behavior.
- **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation facet):** No fact-checking before amplifying an empirically extreme claim.
- **Low Openness (values rigidity):** Fixed anti-wind schema; counter-evidence would not be amplified.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant:** The wind turbine obsession maps onto control and autonomy — a specific external development threatens his preferred environment (the golf course). Opposition is framed in universalized terms but the motive structure is personal sovereignty/property.

**Schema revealed:** The world is full of people who can see what *he* sees, if you just show them the evidence. His role is to surface suppressed truths (bird mortality statistics, in this instance) that the mainstream ignores.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Lone truth-teller / underdog against the green-energy establishment. He and his followers possess knowledge the elites suppress.

**Identity claim:** "I am the one who notices what others ignore." The wind-turbine-bird-death argument functions as a badge of anti-establishment cognition.

**Contrasting other (implicit):** Wind energy advocates, environmentalists who support turbines, the Obama administration's clean energy agenda.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination — something that presents as good (clean energy) is actually destructive. The rhetorical move is to corrupt the opponent's moral claim.

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## Cognitive Status

Insufficient linguistic material for meaningful complexity assessment (this is a one-sentence retweet). No word-finding difficulties, paraphasia, or confabulation detectable. **Baseline comparison not applicable at this granularity.**

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Birds will be extinct in 20 years due to wind turbines" | **False** | No ornithological basis for extinction-level claims. Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000–500,000 birds annually in the US — significant but orders of magnitude below cats (~1.3–4B/yr), buildings (~600M/yr), and vehicles. Extinction of bird species attributable to wind turbines within 20 years is not supported by any scientific literature. |
| "Wind turbine blades will slice 14 million birds and bats to death in mid-flight during the next decade (prior RT context)" | **Mostly False** | US estimates of ~1–1.5M birds/year from wind turbines would yield ~10–15M per decade, making the order of magnitude loosely plausible for North America, but the figure is selectively framed without comparative context and likely inflated for rhetorical effect. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** This post involves environmental hyperbole with no targeting of individuals, no dehumanizing language, and no mobilization indicators.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Shadow Projection:** Trump channels legitimate ecological concern (birds do die from turbines) but amplifies it to absurdist extremes, projecting onto wind energy the same existential threat he refuses to acknowledge from climate change. The shadow content is the denied environmental concern: he performs environmentalism only in the service of opposing something he dislikes.

**Trickster:** Minor activation. He is disrupting the progressive consensus on clean energy by weaponizing ecological framing — speaking a "forbidden" environmentalist critique *against* renewable energy, inverting the expected valence.

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## Summary

Clinically, this post is **below threshold for a standalone summary** — it is a routine late-night follower-amplification post consistent with Trump's 2013 baseline behavior. The wind turbine obsession is well-established and documented as personally motivated by his Aberdeenshire golf course dispute. The pattern of selecting and retweeting validating follower voices rather than asserting claims directly is a characteristic passive-aggressive information-delivery mechanism that insulates him from direct accountability. The claim being amplified (bird extinction in 20 years) is empirically false, but the post itself reflects maintenance-level narcissistic supply-seeking rather than acute psychological stress. Authorship is confidently authentic based on 12:53 AM local timing.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 12:53 AM EDT local time — within authentic late-night posting window
- Manual follower-thread curation behavior
- Engagement with ongoing personal obsession topic (wind turbines/Scottish golf course)
- No polished formatting or event announcement structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (follower validation thread)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Follower amplification creating sense of shared discovery
- Curation of validating voices to perform consensus

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Birds will be extinct in 20 years due to wind turbines

**FALSE**

No ornithological basis for extinction-level claims. Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000–500,000 birds annually in the US — significant but orders of magnitude below cats (~1.3–4B/yr), buildings (~600M/yr), and vehicles. Extinction of bird species attributable to wind turbines within 20 years is not supported by any scientific literature.

Sources: USFWS bird mortality estimates; Loss et al. (2013) Nature Communications bird mortality meta-analysis

> Wind turbine blades will slice 14 million birds and bats to death in mid-flight during the next decade (prior RT context)

**MOSTLY FALSE**

US estimates of ~1–1.5M birds/year from wind turbines would yield ~10–15M per decade, making the order of magnitude loosely plausible for North America, but the figure is selectively framed without comparative context and likely inflated for rhetorical effect.

Sources: USFWS wind turbine mortality estimates

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- wind_turbines (95%)
- anti_renewable_energy (85%)
- follower_amplification (80%)
- environmental_instrumentalism (75%)
- late_night_authentic (85%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- scottish_golf_course_subtext (65%)

## That day

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

**Grandiose Stability With Targeted Bursts: Chuck Todd Devaluation and Scottish Wind Turbine Obsession Define the Day**

A routine day of self-promotion and fan engagement was punctuated by two sharp but brief attack sequences — one targeting a TV host for insufficient deference, the other targeting Scotland's leader over wind farms near Trump's golf course. Trump spent much of the day retweeting praise, thanking followers, and promoting his brand while mixing in Obama criticism and gleeful mockery of Anthony Weiner's political collapse. The wind energy topic surfaced repeatedly throughout the day, always framed as environmental concern while concealing a direct financial interest. Overall mood was confident and combative without any sustained escalation.

Full digest for 2013-08-09: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 9). "@brodie7878: @realDonaldTrump @arcuate We will... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_365697404898512897
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@brodie7878: @realDonaldTrump @arcuate We will have..." X (Twitter), 9 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_365697404898512897. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@brodie7878: @realDonaldTrump @arcuate We will have...," X (Twitter), August 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_365697404898512897.

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