# Post x_370965030813966336 - Post ID: `x_370965030813966336` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-23T17:45:30.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_370965030813966336.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > For all of those who have been asking about online sales, the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties & shirts are sold @Macys.com ## Engagement - Likes: 27 - Reposts: 38 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T20:18:12.767Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Psychological Analysis ### Overview This is a routine commercial post promoting the Trump-branded clothing line at Macy's. It falls into the lowest-intensity category of Trump tweet: a product advertisement. The post exhibits virtually no clinically salient psychological content and warrants only a brief analysis proportionate to its minimal signal. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC:** 17:45:30 — **Local (EDT, New York):** 13:45 (1:45 PM) In August 2013, Trump was based at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. The post was sent at 1:45 PM local time — squarely within business hours. Multiple indicators converge strongly on aide-written content: - **Business hours timing** (1:45 PM EDT) - **Grammatically correct, complete sentence** — no typos, no fragmentation - **Formal brand name usage** ("Donald J. Trump Signature Collection") — Trump rarely deploys his own full formal name in ostensibly first-person posts; this is professional copywriting convention - **Standard soft-sell marketing construction** ("For all of those who have been asking") — implies pre-existing demand without quantifying it, a technique characteristic of professional commercial writing rather than spontaneous self-expression - **Correct @mention formatting** for Macys.com - **Complete absence of emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness elements** The third-person brand reference embedded in a nominally first-person post is a particularly diagnostic indicator. Authentic Trump posts from this period tend to be reactive, informal, and emotionally charged. This is none of those things. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** The post is too constrained and aide-mediated to yield meaningful trait inference. The commercial self-promotion reflects baseline extraversion (public self-presentation) and modest status/achievement striving, but these are attributable to marketing function rather than spontaneous emotional expression. Neuroticism indicators are entirely absent. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** The dominant motive is commercial agency — specifically status maintenance through brand association and retail presence. The post reinforces the Trump brand identity as an aspirational product. Communion motives are absent. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** The post implicitly frames Trump as a successful businessman whose products are in demand. Use of his full formal name functions as an identity claim asserting commercial prestige. The protagonist role is the *dealmaker/brand* — neither warrior, victim, nor savior. The narrative sequence is strictly neutral. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis Minimal rhetorical complexity, no propagandistic content: - **Implied social proof**: "For all of those who have been asking" presupposes significant demand — a standard marketing device creating the impression of popularity - **Brand name repetition**: Full formal name reinforces commercial identity - No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or manipulation techniques present --- ### Cognitive Status Post is aide-written. No cognitive markers are evaluable from this text. --- ### Clinical Indicators None. This is commercial filler. No narcissistic injury, rage, defensive operations, or clinical patterns of any kind are present or inferable. --- ### Contextual Note The surrounding posts on this date show a consistent pattern: Trump retweeting compliments about his hotel properties (Trump Chicago, Trump Las Vegas), responding positively to supporters, and sharing nostalgic brand content (Flashback Friday with Oprah). This is routine brand-management social media activity entirely consistent with the Trump Organization's commercial approach in the pre-political period. The Macy's relationship would later collapse in June 2015 when Macy's terminated the Trump line following his immigration remarks during his presidential campaign announcement — lending this otherwise mundane post a small measure of historical irony. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** No indicators of any kind. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties & shirts are sold @Macys.com" | **True** | Trump's clothing line was sold at Macy's from approximately 2004 until July 2015, when Macy's terminated the relationship following Trump's remarks about Mexican immigrants during his presidential campaign announcement. As of August 2013, the line was actively sold at Macy's. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 8%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (1:45 PM EDT, New York) - Grammatically correct, complete sentence with no typos or fragmentation - Formal brand name usage ('Donald J. Trump Signature Collection') — third-person brand reference in nominally first-person post - Standard soft-sell marketing construction ('For all of those who have been asking') implies pre-existing demand - Professional @mention formatting for retail partner ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 5% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implied social proof ('For all of those who have been asking') ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._ > Donald J. Trump Signature Collection ties & shirts are sold @Macys.com **TRUE** Trump's clothing line was sold at Macy's from approximately 2004 until July 2015, when Macy's terminated the relationship following Trump's remarks about Mexican immigrants during his presidential campaign announcement. As of August 2013, the line was actively sold at Macy's. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/business/macys-drops-trump-merchandise-after-his-remarks-on-mexican-immigrants.html Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - commercial-promotion (97%) - aide-written (92%) - brand-management (90%) - pre-political-period (85%) - macys-relationship (80%) - low-psychological-signal (95%) ## 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). For all of those who have been asking about... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "For all of those who have been asking about online sales,..." X (Twitter), 23 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "For all of those who have been asking about online sales,...," X (Twitter), August 23, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/x_370965030813966336 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_370965030813966336 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_370965030813966336 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-23 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_370965030813966336.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._