# Post x_369926270814924801

- Post ID: `x_369926270814924801`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-20T20:57:50.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_369926270814924801/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_369926270814924801.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I will be doing Greta Van Susteren @gretawire tonight at 10 PM on Fox News, talking about China & Mitt's failed campaign team.

## Engagement

- Likes: 17
- Reposts: 25
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.284Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T02:08:06.719Z (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 Tweet — August 20, 2013 (Fox News Appearance Announcement)

## Overview

This is a low-intensity, functionally routine media appearance announcement. The post serves a logistical purpose — notifying followers of a scheduled Fox News segment with Greta Van Susteren — but embeds a characteristic micro-devaluation in the phrase "Mitt's failed campaign team." Read against the day's prior posting pattern, this throwaway phrase is the post's only psychologically noteworthy element.

## Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 20:57:50 → **EDT (UTC−4):** 4:57 PM local time.

Trump was almost certainly in New York on August 20, 2013, a Tuesday. 4:57 PM is solidly within business hours. The post is grammatically clean, free of typos, uses the @-mention correctly, and employs the "&" entity correctly. Format and timing are consistent with aide (Scavino) authorship for the logistical scaffolding. However, the editorial insertion "Mitt's *failed* campaign team" — unnecessary for a scheduling announcement — carries Trump's personal voice and preoccupation visible across the day's posts (attacks on Stuart Stevens, Karl Rove). Most likely scenario: aide drafted the appearance announcement; Trump injected or approved the "failed" characterization, consistent with his practice of personalizing boilerplate scheduling posts.

**Confidence:** Medium.

## Psychological State

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking (media exposure, audience building) with a secondary maintenance function (consistent with the day's agenda of delegitimizing Romney's advisors). The Romney campaign team attacks across August 20 suggest an active grievance cycle — possibly triggered by media coverage of Romney alumni — with this TV segment as a platform to extend it.

**Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose. Positioning himself as the authoritative commentator on Republican failure and China policy reinforces the "I told you so" narrative identity pattern.

**Rage:** Absent. The tone is flat and transactional.

## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

Extraversion is salient (media-seeking, assertiveness in framing Romney's team as failed). Agreeableness is low (devaluation embedded without warrant). No strong neuroticism signal in this particular post; it is controlled relative to the day's other posts.

## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant:** self-promotion, status maintenance. The Fox News appearance positions him as political authority figure worthy of national commentary on two distinct policy domains (China, Republican strategy). The "failed" tag devalues a potential rival frame (Romney-era Republicanism) while elevating Trump's implicit counter-narrative.

## Level 3 — Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Expert commentator; insider with superior judgment.
- **Contrasting other:** Romney's campaign team (incompetent, failed); implicitly, the Republican establishment.
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — Romney's 2012 campaign was a good thing (Republican presidential run) corrupted by bad advisors.
- **Identity claim:** I am the one who sees clearly what went wrong; I have insight others lack.

## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

No acute clinical signals in this post. The devaluation is mild and consistent with the day's baseline pattern rather than representing escalation. Cognitive production is clear, syntactically simple but appropriate for platform. No word-finding difficulties, no tangentiality, no perseveration beyond what the day's thematic focus already establishes.

## Defense Mechanisms

- **Devaluation** (immature): "failed campaign team" — applied to Romney's advisors without elaboration; consistent with the splitting pattern dominant across the day's posts (Rove as disaster, Stevens as horrible, ObamaCare as absolute disaster).

## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Ad hominem by label:** "failed" applied as categorical dismissal without argument.
- **Authority positioning:** Self-presentation as expert commentator invited onto major cable platform.
- **Topic clustering:** Pairing China (geopolitical credibility) with Republican post-mortem (political insider credibility) — breadth claim.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** Routine media announcement with embedded but mild devaluation. No eliminationist language, no target identification beyond public figures in established political discourse.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I will be doing Greta Van Susteren tonight at 10 PM on Fox News" | **Unverifiable** | Greta Van Susteren's 'On the Record' aired at 10 PM ET on Fox News during this period. Trump was a frequent Fox News guest in 2013. |
| "Mitt's failed campaign team" | **Half True** | Romney lost the 2012 presidential election (206 vs 332 electoral votes; 47.2% popular vote). The electoral failure is factual. Attributing failure solely to the campaign team is contested; multiple structural factors contributed. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Note

This post is low-signal in isolation but contextually meaningful: it is one of at least five posts on August 20, 2013 attacking Romney-world figures (Stevens, Rove) and Democratic/Obama positions (ObamaCare, Stop & Frisk, welfare). The clustering suggests a high-volume day consistent with either a media cycle about Romney's legacy or a specific trigger (possibly anniversary coverage or political punditry Trump encountered). The TV appearance likely functioned as both culmination and amplification of this day's grievance broadcast.

**Summary not generated** — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance; logistical announcement with minor embedded devaluation consistent with established baseline trait expression.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Business hours post (4:57 PM EDT) — aide-consistent timing
- Grammatically clean, no typos, correct @-mention formatting
- Logistical scheduling content — aide-typical function
- Embedded 'failed campaign team' characterization carries Trump's personal evaluative voice
- Consistent with day's thematic preoccupation (Romney team attacks) suggesting Trump editorial input

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Media appearance opportunity; ongoing Romney-team grievance cycle active on this date)

Sentiment: -0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 8%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as informed insiders being given advance notice
- Self-positioning as media authority figure

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> I will be doing Greta Van Susteren tonight at 10 PM on Fox News

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Greta Van Susteren's 'On the Record' aired at 10 PM ET on Fox News during this period. Trump was a frequent Fox News guest in 2013.

Sources: General knowledge — Fox News programming history

> Mitt's failed campaign team

**HALF TRUE**

Romney lost the 2012 presidential election (206 vs 332 electoral votes; 47.2% popular vote). The electoral failure is factual. Attributing failure solely to the campaign team is contested; multiple structural factors contributed.

Sources: General knowledge — 2012 US presidential election results

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- media-appearance-announcement (90%)
- devaluation-romney-team (50%)
- status-maintenance (70%)
- fox-news (80%)
- republican-intraparty (50%)
- china-policy (40%)
- aide-mixed-authorship (50%)

## That day

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

**Stop-and-Frisk Crusade Anchors a Day of Confident GOP Power-Positioning**

Trump spent the day aggressively defending stop-and-frisk policing, brushing off civil rights critics with breezy one-liners and calling for Chicago to adopt the practice — all just days after a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. Between bouts of law-enforcement cheerleading, he took shots at Republican establishment figures like Karl Rove and Mitt Romney's former strategist Stuart Stevens, positioning himself as the party's real talent evaluator. The mood was uniformly confident and combative but never angry — a businessman publicly auditioning as a political authority figure.

Full digest for 2013-08-20: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 20). I will be doing Greta Van Susteren @gretawire... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_369926270814924801
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I will be doing Greta Van Susteren @gretawire tonight at 10..." X (Twitter), 20 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_369926270814924801. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I will be doing Greta Van Susteren @gretawire tonight at 10...," X (Twitter), August 20, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_369926270814924801.

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