# Post x_367370663956185089 - Post ID: `x_367370663956185089` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-13T19:42:46.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_367370663956185089 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_367370663956185089/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_367370663956185089.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Re @TWC TimeWarner, I am going to be switching many of my buildings to another service—this is ridiculous! ## Engagement - Likes: 54 - Reposts: 79 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.284Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T01:46:24.987Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Trump Twitter Post — August 13, 2013 ## Overview A low-complexity consumer grievance tweet, one of two same-day posts targeting Time Warner Cable following Trump's apparent inability to watch the PGA Championship (won by Jason Dufner at Oak Hill that day). Post sits near the bottom of clinical significance thresholds but offers a clean illustration of entitlement schema in action. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Extraversion (high, ~0.75):** Immediate public externalization of a private inconvenience; assertive and dominant tone. - **Agreeableness (low, ~0.2):** Confrontational, zero acknowledgment of nuance or TWC's perspective. - **Conscientiousness (low-moderate, ~0.3):** Reactive, undeliberated; no apparent pause between grievance and public threat. - **Neuroticism (moderate, ~0.45):** Angry hostility facet activated over a missed sports broadcast — disproportionate to the stimulus. - **Openness (low, ~0.25):** No complexity; rigid evaluative frame (service is bad → punish with defection). --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Power.** The post's emotional grammar is: *I was denied something I wanted → I will deploy economic force.* There is no communion motive present. The schema revealed here is consistent with a worldview where interactions are dominance transactions: those who fail to deliver face consequences proportional to the subject's power. **Entitlement schema:** A missed golf broadcast does not typically warrant a corporate ultimatum. The fact that it does here — and is broadcast publicly — suggests ego-syntonic entitlement: the subject experiences no gap between "I was inconvenienced" and "I am owed corrective action, immediately and publicly." --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Power-holder / economic punisher. - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination micro-arc — anticipated pleasure (PGA coverage) → corporate failure → subject reasserts control. - **Identity claim:** "I am a man of significant real estate holdings whose business is worth competing for." - **Contrasting other:** TWC as incompetent/exploitative service provider. The move from victim (denied coverage) to grandiose (threatening business withdrawal) in adjacent tweets is structurally typical: vulnerability is briefly acknowledged then immediately overwritten by a power assertion. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism subscores (all low):** - Narcissistic features: 0.35 — entitlement and status-signaling present but mild in context - Antisocial: 0.05 — no deception or rights violation - Paranoid: 0.05 — no conspiratorial attribution - Sadism: 0.0 — no pleasure in harm **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (post-injury rebound). The prior tweet ("Why aren't they giving subscribers major discounts?") reveals the brief vulnerable moment; this post reasserts dominance. --- ## Authorship **Likely authentic (medium confidence).** Despite the 3:42 PM EDT timestamp falling in business hours, several markers favor authentic authorship: the informal register, the exclamatory dismissal, the direct emotional sequencing from the adjacent post, and the personal real-estate branding that lacks the polished distance of aide-drafted content. Aide involvement cannot be excluded given the time, but the reactive quality argues against it. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of concern for 2013 baseline. Sentences are syntactically complete, vocabulary unremarkable but appropriate, logical flow coherent (grievance → consequence threat). This should serve as a useful baseline data point for longitudinal comparison. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This is a consumer complaint. No violence indicators, no dehumanization, no political targets. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump missed the PGA Championship because Time Warner Cable did not broadcast it" | **Mostly True** | CBS (PGA Championship broadcaster in 2013) was pulled from TWC in multiple major markets including New York and Los Angeles beginning August 2, 2013 during a high-profile retransmission consent dispute. The blackout was ongoing through the August 8-11 PGA Championship weekend, meaning TWC subscribers in affected markets did lose access to CBS coverage of the event. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet clinical significance threshold for summary. Routine consumer grievance with mild entitlement and status-signaling features; no deviation from 2013 baseline patterns.* ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Informal, reactive register ('this is ridiculous!') - Direct first-person ownership branding ('my buildings') - Companion post pattern — previous TWC tweet sets up this escalation, suggesting authentic sequential grievance - Em-dash usage consistent with authentic Trump typing patterns - Impulsive consumer complaint unlikely to be aide-drafted ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Time Warner Cable / missed PGA Championship) Sentiment: -0.38 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - acting out (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience to perceive his consumer status as extraordinary - Signals wealth and real estate empire as proof of punishing leverage ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Trump missed the PGA Championship because Time Warner Cable did not broadcast it **MOSTLY TRUE** CBS (PGA Championship broadcaster in 2013) was pulled from TWC in multiple major markets including New York and Los Angeles beginning August 2, 2013 during a high-profile retransmission consent dispute. The blackout was ongoing through the August 8-11 PGA Championship weekend, meaning TWC subscribers in affected markets did lose access to CBS coverage of the event. Sources: CBS-TWC carriage dispute, August 2013 (widely reported) Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - consumer_grievance (90%) - entitlement_display (70%) - status_signaling (65%) - economic_threat (60%) - golf (80%) - media_corporations (70%) - 2013_baseline (85%) ## 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). Re @TWC TimeWarner, I am going to be switching... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_367370663956185089 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Re @TWC TimeWarner, I am going to be switching many of my..." X (Twitter), 13 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_367370663956185089. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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