# Post x_370867251064623104 - Post ID: `x_370867251064623104` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-23T11:16:57.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @MistRusso - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_370867251064623104 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_370867251064623104/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_370867251064623104.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @MistRusso, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @MistRusso's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@MistRusso: @realDonaldTrump those are the ppl that can't handle the truth. Great job at forcing his hand like only The Trump can do!!!" ## Engagement - Likes: 11 - Reposts: 18 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T20:17:29.163Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This retweet exemplifies Trump's well-documented supply-seeking behavior: by amplifying a fan's praise rather than self-proclaiming, he achieves grandiose self-validation with social plausibility. The endorsed phrase "The Trump" — treating himself as a mythologized category apart from ordinary persons — reflects grandiose narrative identity construction consistent with Level 3 of the McAdams framework and narcissistic personality features at Level 4. The binary framing ("ppl that can't handle the truth") embedded in the fan's message and tacitly endorsed through retweet reveals characteristic splitting: Trump supporters perceive truth; opponents are cognitively or morally deficient. The post represents maintenance/supply-seeking mode rather than an injury-triggered attack, consistent with the surrounding cluster of hotel compliments and brief fan acknowledgments. Early-morning timing (7:16 AM EDT) supports authentic authorship. No danger indicators, violent imagery, gaslighting patterns, or cognitive anomalies are present. Clinically notable primarily as documentation of indirect narcissistic supply consumption as a recurring behavioral feature of Trump's 2013 Twitter usage — the behavioral pattern of harvesting others' flattery as a substitute for, or supplement to, direct self-proclamation. ## Analysis: Trump Twitter Post — August 23, 2013 ### Authorship & Timing UTC 11:16:57 converts to **7:16 AM EDT** (Trump's presumed location: New York City, August 2013). This falls outside the peak late-night authentic window (10 PM–2 AM) but within the early-morning range documented in authentic Trump posts. The casual retweet-of-praise format, combined with the surrounding cluster of similar fan interactions (hotel guests, individual replies), suggests an active personal social media session — not aide-scheduled content. Aide-driven posts typically involve event announcements, business communications, or polished promotional copy; none of those features are present here. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic Trump authorship.** --- ### Post Type & Function This is a retweet amplifying a fan's unsolicited praise. Structurally, it functions as **vicarious self-aggrandizement**: Trump achieves narcissistic supply consumption without the social cost of overt self-proclamation. The fan does the boasting; Trump's retweet signals endorsement. This indirect structure recurs throughout his 2013 Twitter corpus and is analytically consistent with a behavioral pattern of supply-seeking with plausible social deniability. --- ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance mode. No narcissistic injury is evident; the surrounding post cluster (hotel compliments, brief fan acknowledgments) confirms a sustained supply-harvesting episode. **"The Trump" Formulation:** By retweeting content that designates him as "The Trump" — a mythologized proper-noun category rather than a person — Trump tacitly endorses a grandiose narrative identity placing him outside ordinary human classification. This is Level 3 narrative identity construction (McAdams): the self as archetype rather than individual. **State:** Grandiose. No vulnerability markers present. Positive affect, dominance framing. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Idealization (immature):** Endorsement of mythologized self via amplification of fan's framing. - **Splitting (immature):** "Those are the ppl that can't handle the truth" — binary division of the social world into truth-perceivers (Trump supporters) vs. truth-deniers (opponents). No middle ground; no engagement with substantive disagreement. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post deploys several techniques through the borrowed fan voice: 1. **Third-person grandiose self-reference** ("The Trump") — mythological distancing from ordinary personhood. 2. **Borrowed credibility** — fan's voice achieves what direct self-praise cannot. 3. **Ad hominem by implication** — opponents are not wrong; they are psychologically deficient ("can't handle the truth"). 4. **Populist register** ("ppl," triple exclamation marks) — parasocial intimacy signaling. --- ### Contextual Note The preceding day's Stop & Frisk tweet ("eventual terrorist attacks will be on them") represented ideologically charged attack mode. This post cluster marks a shift to maintenance/supply-seeking mode — a behavioral oscillation documented across Trump's Twitter corpus. --- ### Clinical Significance Low individual intensity; moderate longitudinal significance as documentation of the supply-seeking behavioral pattern. No danger indicators, violent imagery, gaslighting, or cognitive anomalies are present. The post is consistent with the 2013 baseline. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump 'forced his hand' (unspecified person/entity)" | **Unverifiable** | No specific referent identified in post. Context suggests possible connection to Stop & Frisk debate (see previous day's tweet) or a contemporary business/media confrontation, but insufficient specificity to evaluate. | | "Opponents are 'ppl that can't handle the truth'" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective characterization of unnamed persons; not a verifiable factual claim. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 7:16 AM EDT — early morning, within authenticated Trump posting window - Casual retweet-of-fan-praise format inconsistent with aide-scheduled content - Adjacent posts show same pattern: brief fan replies and hotel compliment retweets suggesting active personal session - No polished grammar, event-announcement structure, or professional formatting characteristic of aide posts - Spontaneous reactive quality aligns with documented Trump personal-use behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@MistRusso unsolicited fan praise) Sentiment: +0.75 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 62% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Retweeting individual fan praise to simulate personal relationship with followers - Implied shared identity between Trump and followers who 'can handle the truth' — us-vs-them group membership signal ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._ > Trump 'forced his hand' (unspecified person/entity) **UNVERIFIABLE** No specific referent identified in post. Context suggests possible connection to Stop & Frisk debate (see previous day's tweet) or a contemporary business/media confrontation, but insufficient specificity to evaluate. > Opponents are 'ppl that can't handle the truth' **UNVERIFIABLE** Subjective characterization of unnamed persons; not a verifiable factual claim. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - narcissistic-supply (92%) - supply-seeking (90%) - maintenance-mode (85%) - grandiosity (70%) - vicarious-self-aggrandizement (80%) - splitting (62%) - third-person-self-reference (70%) - borrowed-credibility (72%) - authentic-trump (72%) - parasocial-engagement (65%) ## 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). "@MistRusso: @realDonaldTrump those are the ppl... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_370867251064623104 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@MistRusso: @realDonaldTrump those are the ppl that can't..." X (Twitter), 23 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370867251064623104. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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