# Post x_365902801169166336

- Post ID: `x_365902801169166336`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-09T18:30:00.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_365902801169166336
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_365902801169166336/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_365902801169166336.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Re: hiring contractors, remember the cheapest isn't always the best. Their work may have to be redone & they may not be reliable.

## Engagement

- Likes: 69
- Reposts: 189
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:38:10.310Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: August 9, 2013 — Contractor Advice Tweet

## Authorship Attribution
Trump was almost certainly in New York on this date (he was scheduled to speak at Bob Vander Plaats' Family Leader Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa the following day, suggesting travel had not yet begun). Local time: **14:30 EDT**. This falls squarely within business hours, the primary indicator for aide-produced content. Combined with the grammatically clean, affect-free, impersonal advisory tone, the post reads as scheduled social media content — likely part of a deliberate brand-building campaign positioning Trump as a business sage. The counter-argument is that contractor management is genuine Trump domain expertise; he has referenced this type of operational knowledge authentically elsewhere. Assessed as **probably aide-produced or heavily edited**, confidence medium.

## Personality Profile (Level 1–3)
At the dispositional level, the post weakly reflects **conscientiousness** (achievement-striving, practical competence) and **low agreeableness** in a detached, advisory mode — not warm, but instructional. At the motive level, this is mild **agency motivation** expressed as status maintenance through demonstrated expertise. The narrative identity element is minimal: Trump is implicitly cast as the experienced builder who has learned hard lessons, a modest invocation of the **wise mentor** role rather than the warrior or victim archetypes dominant in his politically charged posts.

## Clinical Indicators
None. No narcissistic injury trigger, no rage, no splitting, no paranoid ideation, no dehumanizing language. This is the quietest category of post in the corpus — filler content with negligible psychological signal.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The cheapest contractor isn't always the best and their work may have to be redone" | **Unverifiable** | This is a normative heuristic / practical opinion rather than a falsifiable empirical claim. Research on contractor quality does generally support a correlation between bid price and reliability, but as stated this is folk wisdom, not a specific factual assertion. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment
**None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification, no mobilization cues.

## Longitudinal Note
Compared to same-day posts — including the vivid "whacko sicko sexter" characterization of Anthony Weiner and the upcoming Iowa speech — this tweet represents the low-affect, professionally managed end of Trump's 2013 Twitter output. It is useful as a **baseline artifact** for the business-persona register: polished, impersonal, brand-consistent. No deviation from expected pattern for this content category.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 14:30 EDT (New York local time) — squarely within business hours, consistent with aide or social media team scheduling
- Grammatically complete, no typos, no ALL CAPS, no misspellings
- Polished, impersonal advisory tone atypical of Trump's spontaneous voice
- No emotional reactivity, no named targets, no self-reference
- Counter-indicator: contractor/real-estate wisdom is deeply on-brand for Trump's builder persona and he was actively cultivating a business-sage Twitter identity in 2013

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- authority positioning — implicit claim to expertise in contractor management

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The cheapest contractor isn't always the best and their work may have to be redone

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a normative heuristic / practical opinion rather than a falsifiable empirical claim. Research on contractor quality does generally support a correlation between bid price and reliability, but as stated this is folk wisdom, not a specific factual assertion.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- brand-maintenance (90%)
- business-persona (85%)
- aide-written (65%)
- low-affect (90%)
- scheduled-content (70%)

## 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). Re: hiring contractors, remember the cheapest... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_365902801169166336
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Re: hiring contractors, remember the cheapest isn't always..." X (Twitter), 9 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_365902801169166336. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Re: hiring contractors, remember the cheapest isn't always...," X (Twitter), August 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_365902801169166336.

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