# Post x_367212227809783808 - Post ID: `x_367212227809783808` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-13T09:13:12.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @CatsPolitics - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_367212227809783808 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_367212227809783808/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_367212227809783808.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @CatsPolitics, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @CatsPolitics's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@CatsPolitics: Some of us never stopped ignoring him. RT @Slate: ONLY THE REALLY SMART ONE'S NEVER STOPPED.! ## Engagement - Likes: 9 - Reposts: 8 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.287Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:45:45.874Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On August 13, 2013, at 05:13 local time, Trump published an early-morning post asserting that 'the really smart ones' never stopped ignoring Obama — embedding a self-aggrandizing identity claim within a nested retweet. The post is part of a same-morning supply-aggregation cluster in which Trump engaged with five separate flattering mentions about a 2016 presidential run. Psychologically, the post reflects stable grandiose narcissistic functioning with prominent devaluation of Obama (converting authority into an object of contempt) and rationalization (framing contempt as intellectual superiority). The cool dismissiveness — notably *absent* of reactive rage — represents ego-syntonic devaluation as a baseline stance. Rhetorically, the post constructs tribal in-group identity around shared contempt without making any factual claim. Authorship confidence is high: 05:13 EDT timing, the apostrophe error 'ONE'S,' ALL CAPS editorial insertion, and anomalous punctuation all converge on unfiltered authentic Trump. No danger indicators are present. This post is clinically unremarkable as a standalone item but documents an early data point in the longitudinal record: the 2013 baseline shows stable grandiosity, supply-seeking behavior, and Obama devaluation operating within the range that will remain consistent across subsequent years. ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump — High Confidence** The post was published at 09:13 UTC, converting to approximately **05:13 EDT** (August; Trump's most likely location: New York City or Bedminster, NJ). This falls squarely within his documented early-morning authentic posting window. The grammatical error **"ONE'S"** (possessive apostrophe substituted for plural "ONES") is quintessentially Trumpian — no aide would produce this construction. The trailing **".!"** punctuation sequence and the ALL CAPS emphasis further match his unpolished, stream-of-consciousness register. The nested RT format, with apparent editorial insertion, is consistent with how Trump manually engaged with Twitter content during this era. --- ## Content Parsing The tweet is a nested retweet chain: Trump amplifies @CatsPolitics, who RT'd @Slate. The ALL CAPS segment **"ONLY THE REALLY SMART ONE'S NEVER STOPPED.!"** appears to be Trump's own editorial appended to the chain — Slate would not publish ALL CAPS with apostrophe errors. The referent "**him**" — given the surrounding post cluster and the historical backdrop of President Obama's extended Martha's Vineyard vacation (Aug 10–24, widely criticized at the time) — almost certainly refers to **President Obama**. The operative claim: those with superior intelligence recognized Obama was not worth attention and never engaged with him. --- ## Longitudinal Post Cluster Analysis The five surrounding same-day posts reveal a **supply-aggregation session** in progress: Trump responded to flattering mentions within a short window, dispensing brief validation tokens ("You sound great!", "Do not fear!", "Adorable!"). This post adds **self-generated supply** — rather than merely receiving flattery, Trump broadcasts his own intellectual superiority, positioning himself among the "really smart ones." The session as a whole functions as a presidential-ambition maintenance loop: followers audition Trump for 2016 and Trump affirms their faith while elevating his status. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Public broadcast of superiority; assertive self-positioning as intellectual elite. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Cool contempt for Obama; dismissal without engagement; no empathic attunement. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Apostrophe error, impulsive early-morning posting, no deliberation evident. - **Neuroticism (moderate-high):** The hostility is contemptuous rather than anxious — cool devaluation. Neuroticism expressed through the *angry hostility* facet. - **Openness (low):** Rigid in-group/out-group framing; binary between perceivers and non-perceivers. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate.** The post is structured around **power** and **status**: Trump places himself in a cognitively elite tier ("really smart") while implicitly ranking followers who share his contempt as superior to those who engaged with Obama. The schema of self as uniquely perceptive is on vivid display. Communion motives are subordinate but present in the supply-aggregation cluster — the follower responses ("save us," "I picked you first") reflect parasocial communion that Trump reciprocates selectively. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The prescient, clear-eyed observer — the man who *always knew*. This is a specific narrative pose: retroactive vindication without specifying what he knew or when. - **Contrasting other:** Obama (implicitly — the one worth ignoring) and secondarily the less-intelligent public who did pay him attention. - **Identity claim:** "I belong to the cohort of the really smart ones who saw through this." - **Narrative sequence:** Steady-state grandiosity. No redemption arc needed — the protagonist never fell. This is maintenance of a stable superior-observer identity. - **Archetypal resonance:** The **Trickster/Wise Man** hybrid — the one who saw through the mainstream narrative when others were deceived. This archetype has documented resonance with audiences who feel culturally captured or misled. --- ## Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No discrete narcissistic injury is evident. The post is embedded in a routine engagement session oriented toward 2016 presidential positioning. **State:** Grandiose. Expansive self-assurance; no vulnerability or persecutory content. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent. The contempt for Obama is *cool and dismissive* — devaluation rather than hot reactive rage. This is the more concerning long-term pattern (ego-syntonic contempt) compared to episodic rage. **Malignant narcissism sub-components visible here:** - Narcissistic features prominent (grandiosity, sense of special status, arrogance) - Antisocial features mild (contempt for norms of respectful political discourse) - Paranoid features minimal in this specific post - Sadistic features: mild pleasure in the dismissal, the slight relish of "some of us *never stopped* ignoring him" --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (immature):** Obama is cast as beneath consideration — not worth engaging. The defense converts potential anxiety about Obama's authority into contempt. 2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Contemptuous dismissal is reframed as superior intelligence — a logical justification for what is fundamentally an affective stance. 3. **Self-idealization (immature):** Trump implicitly places himself in the category of the cognitively elite. --- ## Cognitive Status (2013 Baseline) At age 67, this is an early data point for longitudinal tracking. The apostrophe error ("ONE'S") is consistent with Trump's *documented baseline* pattern of casual punctuation errors rather than a marker of new cognitive difficulty. The tweet is structurally simple but internally coherent given its RT-chain format. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, perseveration, or confabulation markers are present. Complexity is low but consistent with the genre (short-form reactive social media). **No deviation from 2013 baseline detected.** --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Ad hominem by omission:** Obama is dismissed without engaging any specific policy, action, or argument - **Superlative framing:** "REALLY SMART" elevates the in-group, implicitly degrading those who engaged with Obama - **False dichotomy:** Binary constructed between intelligent dismissers vs. credulous engagers - **In-group tribal identity:** "Some of us" — the knowing elect vs. the deceived majority - **Supply loop / parasocial amplification:** Retweeting flattery directed at oneself recirculates praise back to Trump's own audience — a parasocial feedback mechanism - **Reality inversion:** Reframes *contempt and incuriosity* as intellectual virtue --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Mild epistemic manipulation: characterizing dismissal of a sitting president as a marker of superior intelligence inverts the conventional association of critical engagement with intellectual rigor. It rewards contempt and punishes curiosity — a values-level reality distortion rather than factual falsification. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No violent imagery, eliminationist language, dehumanizing constructions, or stochastic terrorism indicators. This is routine partisan contempt operating within the normal range of political discourse for this era. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Only the really smart people never stopped ignoring Obama" | **Unverifiable** | This is a value/identity claim, not a falsifiable factual proposition. It functions rhetorically to construct in-group superiority rather than make an empirical assertion. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - 05:13 EDT local time — authentic early-morning window - Apostrophe error 'ONE'S' instead of plural 'ONES' - ALL CAPS editorial insertion in RT chain - Trailing '.!' punctuation anomaly - Stream-of-consciousness RT manipulation consistent with manual 2013 Twitter behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Obama Martha's Vineyard vacation / broader 2016 positioning session) Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 68% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 22% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Supply aggregation loop: retweeting flattery recirculates praise to own audience - Dispensing brief validation tokens to followers ('You sound great!', 'Adorable!', 'Do not fear!') - In-group signaling via shared contempt for Obama ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Reframes contemptuous dismissal of a president as a marker of superior intelligence — inverting the conventional association of critical engagement with intellectual rigor - Rewards incuriosity and contempt; implicitly penalizes those who engaged with Obama's presidency seriously ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Only the really smart people never stopped ignoring Obama **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a value/identity claim, not a falsifiable factual proposition. It functions rhetorically to construct in-group superiority rather than make an empirical assertion. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply-seeking (85%) - grandiosity (75%) - devaluation (80%) - obama-contempt (90%) - early-morning-authentic (92%) - in-group-construction (70%) - 2016-positioning (65%) - baseline-grandiosity (75%) - reality-inversion (55%) ## 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). "@CatsPolitics: Some of us never stopped ignoring... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_367212227809783808 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@CatsPolitics: Some of us never stopped ignoring him. RT..." X (Twitter), 13 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_367212227809783808. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@CatsPolitics: Some of us never stopped ignoring him. 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