# Post x_366647823770861568

- Post ID: `x_366647823770861568`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-11T19:50:27.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> I can't believe that in New York we can't watch the PGA Championsip on CBS. How    .much discount is Time Warner giving its customers?

## Engagement

- Likes: 35
- Reposts: 94
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:41:16.085Z (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 11, 2013 — PGA Championship / Time Warner Complaint

## Authorship Attribution

**High confidence: Authentic Trump.**

UTC 19:50:27 converts to **3:50 PM EDT** in New York (UTC−4 in August). While mid-afternoon falls outside the classic late-night authentic window, the textual fingerprints are unmistakably Trump's own hand:

- Misspelling: *"Championsip"* (missing 'h') — a casual, uncorrected keystroke error
- Structural accident: *"How    .much"* — multiple spaces followed by a period before the word, consistent with a mobile typing fumble (period key hit accidentally, no backspace)
- Stream-of-consciousness construction: frustration expressed as it arises, no polish
- No aide would publish this level of typographic disorder for a brand-managed account

The surrounding posts are retweets of audience praise (classic supply-seeking), while this stands alone as an impulsive personal grievance fired mid-afternoon, likely from his office or residence while the tournament aired.

## Contextual Grounding

The CBS/Time Warner Cable carriage blackout dispute began in late July 2013, pulling CBS from TWC subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas. The PGA Championship (won by Jason Dufner at Oak Hill) was CBS-broadcast. Trump's frustration is therefore topically coherent and confirms he was attempting to watch the tournament in real time. The complaint carries no political content whatsoever.

## Psychological State & Trigger

This is a **consumer frustration** post — a quotidian grievance. The trigger is situational: denied access to entertainment he wanted. No narcissistic injury from rivals, no political threat. The psychological state is mildly irritable, low arousal. The *supply-seeking* retweet cluster preceding this post (audience praising his ABC interview) suggests a generally elevated, self-satisfied mood earlier in the day; this complaint represents a minor deflation — a petty inconvenience intruding on an otherwise gratifying Sunday.

The sarcastic rhetorical question (*"How much discount is Time Warner giving its customers?"*) reveals the characteristically **transactional schema**: all relationships — even between corporations and consumers — are zero-sum exchanges where value must be extracted or denied. Disruption of expected value triggers public complaint rather than private acceptance.

## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals)

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five):**
Salient facets are low agreeableness (complaint rather than patience), moderate extraversion (public venting of private frustration), and low conscientiousness (careless execution). Neuroticism is mildly elevated (irritability), but far below baseline rage-level posts.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Agency motive lightly expressed: demanding institutional accountability ("how much discount?"). The *"we"* framing briefly invokes communion — positioning himself as spokesman for all New Yorkers — but this is perfunctory rather than empathic; it amplifies the grievance rather than expressing solidarity.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
Protagonist role: **aggrieved consumer/everyman.** The narrative is contamination-lite: a simple pleasure (golf on a Sunday afternoon) ruined by corporate incompetence or greed. No redemption arc; the post just ends in sarcasm. This is a minor, fleeting contamination sequence — unremarkable at the narrative level.

## Defense Mechanisms

Minimal defensive activity required for this content.
- **Acting out (mild):** Direct expression of frustration via public platform rather than private acceptance
- **Rationalization:** The sarcastic question frames personal irritation as principled consumer advocacy

## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Rhetorical question:** *"How much discount is Time Warner giving its customers?"* — sarcasm implying the answer is "none," weaponizing the question against TWC without making a direct accusation
- **Inclusive "we":** Appropriates communal voice to amplify personal grievance
- **Hyperbolic incredulity:** *"I can't believe"* — registers mild shock to dramatize a trivial inconvenience

No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric.

## Cognitive Status

The typos and spacing errors are consistent with casual mobile input, not cognitive anomaly. Sentence structure is simple but complete. No word-finding difficulty, no tangentiality, no temporal confusion. Complexity is low but appropriate to the genre (casual complaint tweet). No clinically notable markers.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** This is a consumer complaint about cable television. No targets, no grievance amplification, no mobilization language.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "In New York we can't watch the PGA Championship on CBS" | **True** | Time Warner Cable dropped CBS in a carriage fee dispute beginning late July 2013, affecting New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas markets. The blackout was active during the PGA Championship weekend (Aug 8-11, 2013). |
| "PGA Championship was broadcast on CBS" | **True** | CBS held broadcast rights to the PGA Championship and aired the 2013 tournament at Oak Hill Country Club, won by Jason Dufner. |
| "Time Warner owes customers a discount for lost channels" | **Unverifiable** | A normative/legal claim. Standard subscriber agreements do not automatically require refunds during carriage disputes, though some customers negotiated credits. No universal legal obligation established. |

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Summary

*Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. This is a routine, mildly irritable consumer complaint with no psychologically notable features beyond the characteristically transactional worldview and reflexive use of public platform for private grievance.*

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Misspelling 'Championsip' (missing 'h') — uncorrected, consistent with rapid mobile typing
- Structural typing accident: 'How    .much' with multiple spaces and misplaced period, classic mobile fumble
- Stream-of-consciousness consumer complaint, no polish or editorial review
- No aide would publish this typographic disorder for a brand account

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Time Warner Cable / CBS carriage blackout)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- acting out (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'we' to appropriate communal voice and amplify personal grievance

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> In New York we can't watch the PGA Championship on CBS

**TRUE**

Time Warner Cable dropped CBS in a carriage fee dispute beginning late July 2013, affecting New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas markets. The blackout was active during the PGA Championship weekend (Aug 8-11, 2013).

Sources: CBS/Time Warner Cable carriage dispute, July-October 2013

> PGA Championship was broadcast on CBS

**TRUE**

CBS held broadcast rights to the PGA Championship and aired the 2013 tournament at Oak Hill Country Club, won by Jason Dufner.

Sources: PGA Championship 2013 broadcast record

> Time Warner owes customers a discount for lost channels

**UNVERIFIABLE**

A normative/legal claim. Standard subscriber agreements do not automatically require refunds during carriage disputes, though some customers negotiated credits. No universal legal obligation established.

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Tags

- consumer-complaint (90%)
- authentic-trump (90%)
- sports (80%)
- corporate-grievance (70%)
- low-intensity (90%)
- transactional-schema (60%)
- supply-seeking-adjacent (30%)

## That day

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

**Sunday Morning Victory Lap: ABC Interview Draws a Flood of Curated Praise**

Trump spent a quiet Sunday basking in the afterglow of two appearances -- an ABC "This Week" interview that morning and a speech to The Family Leader in Iowa the night before. The day followed a predictable arc: early anxiety about whether the interview would be "fairly edited" gave way to satisfaction once it aired favorably, followed by hours of retweeting supporters who called him "the only candidate" and praised his performance. The only flash of irritation came when someone questioned his finances. Otherwise it was a low-key day of self-promotion, cable TV complaints about the PGA Championship blackout, and the quiet cultivation of a political brand still two years from its formal launch.

Full digest for 2013-08-11: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 11). I can't believe that in New York we can't watch... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_366647823770861568
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I can't believe that in New York we can't watch the PGA..." X (Twitter), 11 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_366647823770861568. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I can't believe that in New York we can't watch the PGA...," X (Twitter), August 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_366647823770861568.

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