# Post x_370721135614513152

- Post ID: `x_370721135614513152`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-23T01:36:21.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_370721135614513152
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_370721135614513152/analysis

## Post text

> @Marilynn555 Thanks!

## Engagement

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

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T20:14:22.894Z (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: "@Marilynn555 Thanks!"

### Overview
This post is analytically minimal — a two-word @reply acknowledging what was presumably a compliment or supportive message from a follower. It provides almost no independent psychological, rhetorical, or cognitive signal and is included here primarily for completeness within the longitudinal record.

### Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Likely authentic (medium confidence)**

The UTC timestamp of 01:36:21 on August 23, 2013 converts to approximately **9:36 PM EDT** (UTC−4) on August 22 — Trump's local time, as he was almost certainly at Trump Tower in New York. This late-evening window falls squarely within his documented pattern of personal Twitter activity. A nearly identical "Thanks!" reply to @RobertBurnand appears in the same day's post history, suggesting a pattern of brief, casual acknowledgments to flattering mentions. This brevity and informality is more consistent with authentic Trump than aide-drafted content, which trends toward announcements and polished prose.

### Psychological Analysis
At Level 2 (characteristic adaptations), this post represents routine **narcissistic supply reception** — a follower has offered positive attention and Trump briefly acknowledges it. The perfunctory nature of the response ("Thanks!" with no elaboration) suggests the supply was registered but not particularly salient. No rage, injury, grievance, or defensive dynamics are visible.

Surrounding same-day posts are considerably richer in psychological content: birtherism self-aggrandizement ("I got Obama to release his birth certificate"), early "Make America Great Again" framing, and Stop & Frisk advocacy all display characteristic patterns absent here.

### Clinical Significance
Negligible for this post in isolation. No markers of concern. Summary omitted per protocol (not clinically significant).

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- Late evening local time: 9:36 PM EDT (UTC-4, NYC)
- Casual two-word brevity inconsistent with aide-drafted style
- Matches companion 'Thanks!' reply to @RobertBurnand from same date
- Direct @reply format typical of personal engagement
- No polished grammar, event announcement, or professional formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@Marilynn555 (follower compliment))

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct @reply acknowledgment maintains follower parasocial bond

## Tags

- routine_reply (100%)
- supply_reception (50%)
- likely_authentic (75%)
- negligible (100%)

## That day

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

**Brand Custodian Mode: Supply-Seeking, a Durable Oprah Confabulation, and Total Silence on a World in Crisis**

August 23, 2013 presents one of the psychologically quietest days in this dataset — eight posts across a 20-hour UTC window that reveal Trump operating in pre-political brand-custodian mode, oriented almost entirely toward narcissistic supply harvesting and commercial messaging. The dominant state is mild grandiosity throughout, with zero rage events, no acute clinical markers, and a remarkably flat average intensity of 0.09. Activity clusters into three local-time segments (New York/EDT): four late-evening supply-seeking retweets from 9:36–10:28 PM EDT (August 22 local), one early-morning retweet at 7:16 AM EDT, and three business-hours aide-authored posts between 1:42–5:45 PM EDT. No state transitions occur; the day's psychological register is uniformly stable and self-reinforcing.

The clinically significant finding is a verifiable confabulatory claim embedded in the #FlashbackFriday post (x_370964330382385152): Trump's characterization of a February 7, 2011 Trump family Oprah interview as having aired during 'the final week of @Oprah's show,' when it in fact preceded the May 25, 2011 finale by approximately 3.5 months. Fact-checkers have documented Trump repeating this specific false claim for at least 11 subsequent years, suggesting genuine autobiographical memory distortion — the mental migration of a midseason appearance to the culturally maximal finale moment — rather than purely tactical fabrication. This post also captures the pre-political Trump persona: Oprah is called 'terrific' without qualification, indexing social aspiration to elite cultural inclusion rather than the populist opposition that would define his post-2015 identity. A near-duplicate Macy's merchandise post (x_370965030813966336 and x_370965030813966340), separated by approximately 4 hours and featuring a minor textual discrepancy, suggests a staff coordination error rather than any psychological disturbance.

Perhaps most revealing is what Trump did not post on August 23, 2013. A day that saw twin mosque bombings in Tripoli kill 47 people, a Baghdad park suicide bombing kill 26, the Rim Fire grow into one of California's largest recorded wildfires, Steve Ballmer announce his surprise Microsoft retirement (the dominant business story of the day), and the New York City Council override Bloomberg on stop-and-frisk — a direct local civic event — produced zero reactive engagement from Trump. His attentional field in this period was tightly bounded by his own brand ecosystem. The external world, including catastrophic humanitarian events and significant business developments a self-described mogul might be expected to address, registered as background noise. This pattern of selective engagement — intense focus on personal supply loops, near-total disengagement from world affairs — is a consistent feature of the 2013 Twitter record and a defining characteristic of Trump's pre-political public persona.

Full digest for 2013-08-23: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 23). @Marilynn555 Thanks! [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_370721135614513152
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@Marilynn555 Thanks!" X (Twitter), 23 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370721135614513152. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "@Marilynn555 Thanks!," X (Twitter), August 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370721135614513152.

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