# Post x_367115406710173696 - Post ID: `x_367115406710173696` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-13T02:48:28.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @PHLBaseballNsdr - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_367115406710173696.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @PHLBaseballNsdr, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @PHLBaseballNsdr's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@PHLBaseballNsdr: .@realDonaldTrump @ForeverMcIn I'm voting for you whether you officially run or not! Trump for Prez and Christie for VP." ## Engagement - Likes: 28 - Reposts: 26 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:43:48.575Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Twitter/X · 2013-08-13 · Post x_367115406710173696 ## Overview A simple retweet of a fan pledging unconditional support and proposing a Trump/Christie 2016 ticket. No appended commentary. Low intensity, no clinical alarm signals. This post is primarily of interest as a data point in Trump's early pre-campaign supply-harvesting behavior and in the implicit status positioning relative to Chris Christie. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 02:48 converts to **10:48 PM EDT**, New York. Trump was almost certainly in New York or New Jersey in mid-August 2013. This falls squarely in his authentic late-evening posting window. The surrounding session posts — all brief, reactive, fan-directed, grammatically informal — form a cluster highly consistent with Trump personally curating his Twitter feed. **Confidence: Medium-High for authentic Trump.** --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Salience | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | High | Active public audience cultivation, seeking and broadcasting admiration | | **Agreeableness** | Neutral | No hostility, but also no genuine reciprocity — parasocial transaction, not relationship | | **Conscientiousness** | Low | Impulsive, curated session; no strategic messaging discipline | | **Neuroticism** | Low | Stable, supply-satisfied state; no irritability or anxiety markers | | **Openness** | Low | No novel ideas; pure social reinforcement loop | --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Status via audience.** The post is a pure agency motive expression — amplifying content that positions Trump as presidential, with Christie as subordinate. No communion motive visible. The schema revealed: *I am destined for leadership; the public is beginning to recognize this; my role is to harvest and redistribute these signals.* --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The-man-the-people-want — a reluctant savior being called to serve by organic popular demand. - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption-adjacent: political establishment has failed → citizen demands the outsider businessman → Trump as restorative hero waiting in the wings. - **Identity claim implicit in RT:** *I am presidential-caliber; even my fans know who should be VP.* - **Contrasting other:** Christie is subtly positioned as the second-tier figure, useful as a supporting character in Trump's story but not the protagonist. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic supply mechanics are operating smoothly.** The retweet is a supply transaction: fan offers unconditional loyalty ("whether you officially run or not"), Trump amplifies it. The "whether you officially run or not" phrasing is particularly potent supply — it removes any conditionality, offering pure, performance-independent devotion, which is precisely what the narcissistic personality structure craves. No narcissistic injury, no rage, no paranoid features, no antisocial content. **Malignant narcissism composite score is low for this post** — this is the pleasant grandiose surface, not the injury-reactive underbelly. **Defense mechanisms:** Mild idealization in content selection (amplifying unconditional loyalty while other session posts show Trump engaging selectively with flattering content). --- ## Cognitive Status The surrounding posts ("PLENTY," "We will see, thanks!", "You sound great!") offer a brief but coherent baseline snapshot for 2013: telegraphic, emotionally reactive, informal. Vocabulary and syntax are consistent with Trump's established register. No markers of word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion. **Baseline-consistent for this period.** --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Organic endorsement amplification:** Retweet launders self-promotion as citizen expression. - **Social proof:** A named constituent's unconditional pledge, broadcast to Trump's full audience, manufactures the impression of broad popular demand. - **Positional dominance:** Christie is assigned VP without Trump asserting it — the fan does the hierarchical work. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No threat language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinically significant or baseline-deviating content.* --- ## Notes This post is best understood as one data point in a documented pre-campaign pattern: Trump systematically retweeted fan presidential endorsements from 2011–2015, using Twitter as a low-cost mechanism for both supply intake and political trial-balloon testing. The Christie VP framing recurs in this period and is worth tracking longitudinally — it reflects Trump's early tendency to position himself above rival political figures through fan-generated content rather than direct assertion. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp converts to 10:48 PM EDT (New York) on August 12, 2013 — late evening, consistent with authentic Trump posting window - Surrounding posts in same session show telegraphic, stream-of-consciousness fan engagement ('PLENTY', 'We will see, thanks!', 'You sound great!') — characteristic authentic style - Retweeting fan endorsements without added commentary is a common authentic Trump supply-harvesting behavior - No polished prose or event-announcement structure that would suggest Scavino authorship ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan base / Twitter followers) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Retweet creates the illusion of intimate dialogue between Trump and individual fan — the named fan feels personally acknowledged by a quasi-celebrity - Public amplification rewards loyalty display, conditioning followers to produce similar content - Christie VP framing implicitly positions Trump as the senior, dominant figure in any hypothetical ticket without Trump having to assert it directly ## Tags - supply-seeking (90%) - pre-campaign-signaling (70%) - parasocial-amplification (80%) - grandiose-state (50%) - status-positioning (60%) - retweet-no-comment (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Huffington Obsession Consumes a 60-Post Day as Trump Oscillates Between Rage Bursts and Supply Harvesting** Trump spent the day locked in a prolonged feud with Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post, firing off personal attacks across multiple sessions from late evening through the following afternoon. Between rage bursts, he enthusiastically retweeted fans floating a 2016 presidential run, collecting flattery with brief, warm replies. An early-morning session before 6 AM included disproportionate attacks on anonymous users -- calling one a "LOSER" and warning another that "HE HITS BACK REALLY HARD" -- before the day settled into calmer promotional and political content. The Huffington Post grudge never fully resolved, resurfacing in the afternoon with fresh jabs hours after the initial provocation. Full digest for 2013-08-13: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 13). "@PHLBaseballNsdr: .@realDonaldTrump @ForeverMcIn... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@PHLBaseballNsdr: .@realDonaldTrump @ForeverMcIn I'm..." X (Twitter), 13 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@PHLBaseballNsdr: .@realDonaldTrump @ForeverMcIn I'm...," X (Twitter), August 13, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696. ## 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_367115406710173696 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_367115406710173696 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_367115406710173696 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-13 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_367115406710173696.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`._