Analysis: For all of those who have been asking about online sales, th...

13y ago Aug 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM

For all of those who have been asking about online sales, the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties &amp, shirts are sold @Macys.com

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-23. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

Post time is 8:09 PM EDT — business-adjacent evening hours, not late-night authentic Trump window
Commercial promotional content with brand/retail focus
Polished, structured sentence with no stream-of-consciousness
Near-duplicate of same post appearing in the 2013-08-16 log, suggesting scheduled/repeated aide post
Encoding artifact ('&amp,' vs '&') consistent with copy-paste staffer error, not Trump's typical word-level typo pattern

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance

Sentiment

+0.10

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

Antisocial

Paranoid

Sadism

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

25%

Parasocial Techniques:

Brand extension into follower consumer behavior

Fact Checks (1)

"Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties and shirts are sold at Macys.com"

True

Trump had an active licensing and retail arrangement with Macy's for his menswear line as of August 2013. The relationship remained in place until December 2015 when Macy's terminated it following Trump's remarks about Mexican immigrants during his presidential campaign announcement.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Analysis: Trump Twitter — 2013-08-17T00:09:35Z

Authorship Attribution

The UTC timestamp of 00:09:35 on August 17, 2013 converts to 8:09 PM EDT on August 16 in New York City, where Trump was almost certainly based. This falls within early evening hours — well within the business-adjacent window associated with aide-authored content. Combined with the commercial, promotional nature of the post, polished formatting, and the near-identical replication of a post from the same day (the previous posts list shows an identical message from 2013-08-16 with "&" rather than "&,"), this is almost certainly aide/social-media-team authored, likely scheduled or manually posted by staff.

The minor encoding artifact ("&," with a comma instead of the proper semicolon "&") is the only imperfection — this is consistent with a copy-paste error from a staffer, not an authentic Trump typo pattern (which tends toward word-level rather than HTML-entity-level errors).

Psychological State

This post offers no psychologically meaningful content. It is a routine commercial promotion for the Trump Signature Collection at Macy's. There is no narcissistic trigger, no emotional activation, no supply-seeking beyond routine brand maintenance. The post is functionally indistinguishable from standard promotional social media output of the era.

Longitudinal Context

The surrounding posts are a cluster of generic motivational aphorisms (Dale Carnegie quote, "never give up" framing) that are entirely consistent with scheduled, aide-managed content typical of brand-building social media strategies circa 2013. No deviation from that baseline is present here.

Clinical Significance

None. This post is below the threshold for clinical analysis.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties and shirts are sold at Macys.com"	True	Trump had an active licensing and retail arrangement with Macy's for his menswear line as of August 2013. The relationship remained in place until December 2015 when Macy's terminated it following Trump's remarks about Mexican immigrants during his presidential campaign announcement.

Overall Veracity: 100%