# Post x_370028393255149568

- Post ID: `x_370028393255149568`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-21T03:43:38.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @pellscuse11
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## Post text

_Quotes @pellscuse11, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @pellscuse11's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@pellscuse11: @realDonaldTrump Who plays more golf, yourself or the President? My money is on POTUS."  You win!

## Engagement

- Likes: 7
- Reposts: 14
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T18:57:23.252Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: Golf Reply — August 20, 2013 (11:43 PM ET)

### Overview

This is a two-word reply — "You win!" — appended to a quoted follower tweet asking who golfs more, Trump or Obama. The post is among the lowest-intensity outputs in Trump's 2013 Twitter record, functioning primarily as routine follower engagement with an embedded, deniable anti-Obama gesture. Its clinical significance lies almost entirely in contrast with the surrounding posts on the same evening, which reveal a markedly more activated psychological state.

### Authorship Attribution

UTC 03:43:38 converts to **11:43 PM Eastern Time on August 20, 2013**. Trump's primary residence was Trump Tower, Manhattan. This places the post squarely in the late-night window (10 PM–2 AM ET) that is the signature temporal fingerprint of authentic Trump tweeting. The format — verbatim quotation of a follower tweet followed by a brief, punchy, unpunctuated reply — is one of the most consistent stylistic patterns in his authenticated 2013 output. No aide-authored characteristics are present (no event announcements, no polished grammar, no professional formatting). Confidence: **high**.

### Psychological Analysis

**Trigger:** Routine supply-seeking with anti-Obama narrative maintenance. There is no narcissistic injury present; this is not a reactive post. Rather, it is a brief, opportunistic engagement that reinforces Trump's standing anti-Obama brand while collecting follower validation.

**Core Dynamic:** By conceding "You win!" — ostensibly an act of self-deprecation — Trump implicitly frames Obama as the golf-obsessed, duty-neglecting president. The surface reading (Trump is humble and good-humored) and the operative reading (Obama is a slacker) coexist in two words. This rhetorical efficiency is characteristic of Trump's more intuitive Twitter moments.

**Narcissistic State:** Mildly grandiose in the status-positioning sense, though too brief to classify with confidence. The "You win!" functions as a concession that is actually a reversal — by acknowledging Obama's golf-playing, Trump positions himself implicitly as the more serious, less leisurely figure.

**Contrast with Same-Session Posts:** The Bryant Gumbel cluster from the same evening is dramatically more clinically significant. In those posts, Trump: (1) initiates an unprovoked attack on Gumbel as "one of the dumbest racists around — an arrogant dope with no talent"; (2) perseveratively replies to multiple followers amplifying the same antagonism across at least four posts; (3) deploys racially charged language with evident relish. The impulsive, fixated quality of those posts — published in the same late-night session — indicates an activated emotional state that this golf tweet does not capture. The golf reply is likely sandwiched into a stream of Gumbel hostility, representing a momentary tonal shift rather than a different psychological register.

**Defense Mechanisms:** Rationalization (neurotic level) — the humorous framing of "You win!" provides cover for what is effectively a political attack. The post is so minimal that deeper defense structures are not legible.

### Narrative Identity (Level 3)

Even in two words, the narrative positioning is detectable. Trump casts himself as the straight-talking, relatable observer who can laugh at himself while implicitly holding a mirror up to Obama's perceived deficiencies. The "contrasting other" is POTUS — the over-privileged golfer. This is a micro-expression of the broader 2013 Trump persona: successful private citizen, truth-teller, foil to Obama.

**Irony / Longitudinal Note:** This post has retrospective significance. Trump would campaign in 2016 on the promise that he would never golf as president ("I'm not going to have time to play golf"), and would subsequently play approximately 261–308 rounds during his presidency (2017–2021) — a rate exceeding Obama's over a full two-term presidency. The implicit claim embedded in this 2013 tweet ("POTUS golfs more than me") would be dramatically inverted by Trump's own presidential behavior.

### Rhetorical Analysis

The two-word reply is deceptively efficient: it validates the follower, amplifies the anti-Obama message to Trump's significantly larger audience, maintains plausible deniability of attack intent, and generates parasocial warmth. The follower quote-plus-punchy-reply format functions as a force multiplier: Trump takes a message from an account with limited reach and broadcasts it to hundreds of thousands of followers while appearing to merely be responding to a fan.

### Cognitive Status

Insufficient material to assess. "You win!" provides no data on vocabulary, syntactic complexity, or coherence. The broader session's posts are consistent with the 2013 Trump baseline: short declarative sentences, colloquial register, no word-finding indicators. No deviation detected.

### Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilizing content. The political attack embedded in this post is among the most benign in Trump's documented output.

### Summary Note

Post does not meet threshold for a clinical summary. It is a low-intensity routine interaction. The Bryant Gumbel posts from the same session, particularly the opening "one of the dumbest racists around — an arrogant dope with no talent," would warrant closer analysis for patterns of racially motivated hostility and perseverative antagonism.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Obama (POTUS) plays more golf than Trump" | **Half True** | In August 2013, Obama had played approximately 130-150 rounds of golf during his presidency. Trump was a private citizen and lifelong avid golfer, making apples-to-apples comparison difficult. The claim was a standard Republican talking point in 2013 and had surface plausibility given Obama's documented rounds. However, as president (2017-2021) Trump played an estimated 261-308 rounds in a single term — a rate exceeding Obama's per-year average — while having campaigned on a promise to never play golf as president. The 2013 claim thus has limited validity as a persistent character comparison. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Late-night posting: 11:43 PM Eastern Time — falls squarely in Trump's authenticated late-night tweeting window
- Verbatim-quote-plus-punchy-reply format is a consistent 2013 Trump Twitter signature
- Two-word casual response ('You win!') — unpolished, reactive, emotionally immediate
- No aide characteristics: no event announcements, no complete polished sentences, no professional formatting
- Fits within cluster of authenticated late-night posts on the same evening (Bryant Gumbel series)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Follower tweet @pellscuse11 asking comparative golf question about Trump vs. Obama)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 28%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Follower quote amplification — validating follower while broadcasting their anti-Obama framing to Trump's much larger audience
- Brief punchy reply creates illusion of personal accessibility and warmth
- Apparent self-deprecation builds perceived humility while the operative message is a political attack

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._

> Obama (POTUS) plays more golf than Trump

**HALF TRUE**

In August 2013, Obama had played approximately 130-150 rounds of golf during his presidency. Trump was a private citizen and lifelong avid golfer, making apples-to-apples comparison difficult. The claim was a standard Republican talking point in 2013 and had surface plausibility given Obama's documented rounds. However, as president (2017-2021) Trump played an estimated 261-308 rounds in a single term — a rate exceeding Obama's per-year average — while having campaigned on a promise to never play golf as president. The 2013 claim thus has limited validity as a persistent character comparison.

Sources: https://trumpgolfcount.com; https://www.golf.com/news/features/2019/04/24/trump-vs-obama-golf-by-the-numbers/

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- anti-Obama (72%)
- golf (95%)
- follower_engagement (85%)
- late_night_tweet (90%)
- deniable_attack (75%)
- supply_seeking (70%)
- whataboutism (65%)
- low_intensity (90%)

## That day

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

**Nine Tweets, One Journalist: Trump's All-Day Gumbel Obsession Anchors a Racially Charged Posting Marathon**

Trump spent the day locked onto a personal grudge against journalist Bryant Gumbel, attacking him across nearly a dozen posts as a "racist," "dope," and failure -- likely triggered by Gumbel's criticism of Trump's Scottish golf operations. The other major thread was a full-throated defense of New York's Stop and Frisk policing program, recently ruled unconstitutional, paired with pointed comparisons between the Chris Lane murder and the Trayvon Martin case. Between feuds, he promoted a Fox News appearance, defended Roger Ailes against a magazine profile, taunted Scotland's First Minister over wind turbines, and retweeted flattering fans. The mood was overwhelmingly combative and self-assured, with the sheer volume of Gumbel posts standing out as the day's most striking feature.

Full digest for 2013-08-21: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 21). "@pellscuse11: @realDonaldTrump Who plays more... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_370028393255149568
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@pellscuse11: @realDonaldTrump Who plays more golf,..." X (Twitter), 21 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370028393255149568. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@pellscuse11: @realDonaldTrump Who plays more golf,...," X (Twitter), August 21, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370028393255149568.

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