# Post x_371732587896901632 - Post ID: `x_371732587896901632` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-25T20:35:30.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @robertlbuchsr - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_371732587896901632 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_371732587896901632/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_371732587896901632.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @robertlbuchsr, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @robertlbuchsr's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@robertlbuchsr: @realDonaldTrump ,Mr.Trump I just wanted u 2 know I agree w/ u.Respect you 2."Thanks. ## Engagement - Likes: 5 - Reposts: 7 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T20:52:53.454Z (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: x_371732587896901632 **Date:** August 25, 2013 | **Platform:** Twitter/X | **Age:** 67 --- ### Overview This post is a quote-retweet of fan praise — a supporter writing "I just wanted u 2 know I agree w/ u. Respect you 2." — with a single-word acknowledgment appended: *"Thanks."* In strict isolation, it carries minimal psychological content. Its analytical significance is almost entirely contextual: it is one of at least five similar posts on the same day, forming a documented intraday behavioral cluster. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timestamp conversion:** UTC 20:35:30 → **4:35 PM EDT** (Trump was based in New York / Trump Tower in August 2013; EDT = UTC−4). This falls squarely within business hours, a moderate indicator of aide (Scavino) involvement. However, several factors pull toward authentic authorship: 1. **Same-day engagement pattern**: Surrounding posts show Trump personally and aggressively tweeting about AG Schneiderman ("dopey," "very stupid & ineffective") — consistent with an individual, not a comms operation, running the account at that moment. 2. **Style congruence**: The single-word "Thanks." with the period is tonally identical to multiple other confirmed-authentic Trump acknowledgment tweets across the 2012–2016 period. 3. **Behavior type**: Retweeting fan praise during a reputational crisis is a well-documented authentic Trump Twitter pattern — aides tend to post schedules, events, and polished statements, not curated fan mail. 4. **Informality of source material**: The fan's message uses "u 2" and "w/ u," and Trump is selectively amplifying it, which is consistent with personal browsing of mentions. **Assessment:** Moderately likely authentic. Medium confidence. The business-hours timing introduces genuine uncertainty. --- ### Psychological Context: The Day's Behavioral Cluster This post cannot be properly understood outside its intraday context. August 25, 2013 was an active and psychologically loaded day: the New York AG's Trump University investigation was in the news, and Trump was clearly in a reactive state. The day's posts reveal a textbook **narcissistic defensive cycling pattern**: **Attack phase (devaluation):** > "dopey Eric Scheiderman," "our very stupid & ineffective A.G." Trump attacks Schneiderman with contemptuous diminutives — this is splitting/devaluation deployed as a defense against narcissistic injury (the legal threat). Notably, he also dangles an implicit counter-threat ("what did he tell me about President Obama?"), a preemptive attack move. **Supply-collection phase (validation-seeking):** > This post, plus "@anthonyjmyers," "@Chowes247," "@SusanSkeldon" testimonials Trump publicly curates and amplifies fan praise and pro-Trump University testimonials. This is narcissistic supply-seeking as psychological counter-ballast. The visible message to followers: *many people support me and agree with me.* The internal function: restoration of grandiose self-image threatened by the lawsuit narrative. This oscillation — attack/devalue the threat, then collect/display admiration — is a recurring and clinically consistent pattern in the public record. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** - **Extraversion (high):** Even a simple "Thanks." is broadcast publicly; validation is performed outward, not received privately. - **Agreeableness (surface, low authenticity):** The reciprocal acknowledgment is formulaic; in context of same-day contemptuous posts, the underlying agreeableness score is low. - **Neuroticism:** Latent — the underlying stress of the day is visible in surrounding posts; this specific post is a regulatory behavior. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - **Agency motive (dominant):** Status maintenance. The curation of fan respect is fundamentally about status reinforcement, not genuine connection. - **Communion motive (minimal):** The "Thanks." is transactional, not connective. Followers function as mirrors, not relationships. - **Schema — self:** "I am respected; people agree with me." This post is a self-schema maintenance operation. - **Schema — others:** Followers are supply sources; critics (Schneiderman) are enemies to be destroyed. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - **Protagonist role:** The publicly-supported figure — "even ordinary people see my value." - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc in micro-form: *lawsuit attacks me → but real people stand with me.* - **Identity claim:** "I am someone worthy of respect from regular Americans." - **Contrasting other:** Implicit — the out-of-touch AG who "has no case" versus the people who "agree with" Trump. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting (immature):** Visible in the day's cluster — Schneiderman is all-bad, fans are all-good. - **Rationalization (neurotic):** The volume of supportive posts implicitly argues "the lawsuit is wrong because the public supports me." - **Reaction formation:** Contempt in attack posts; warmth in fan posts — affective register flips sharply between posts. --- ### Rhetorical Function For a one-word post, the rhetorical work is performed by *selection and amplification*. By choosing to retweet this particular message and making it public, Trump deploys: - **Social proof:** "Others agree with me and respect me." - **Testimonial amplification:** Fan approval is displayed as counter-evidence to the AG's narrative. - **Parasocial reinforcement:** Followers see Trump personally reading and acknowledging their messages — intimacy simulation at scale. --- ### Cognitive Assessment The post is too brief for meaningful independent cognitive assessment. One-word responses are not informative about language production complexity. The surrounding same-day posts show no notable cognitive markers — vocabulary is coarse but internally consistent, sentences are grammatically simple but coherent, tangentiality is absent. No deviation from 2013 baseline detectable. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** No threat indicators, no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism markers. --- ### Summary *Not generated — post is not clinically significant in isolation. Contextual significance is moderate: it is one element in a well-documented narcissistic supply-seeking cycle triggered by the Trump University/Schneiderman legal threat.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Single-word 'Thanks.' acknowledgment matches documented authentic Trump reply style - Business hours posting (4:35 PM EDT) introduces uncertainty favoring aide involvement - Same-day posts show heavy personal Twitter engagement on Schneiderman/Trump University - Curation of fan praise testimonials is a well-documented authentic Trump Twitter behavior - Informality of the source tweet (text-speak 'u 2', 'w/ u') consistent with personal mention-browsing rather than aide curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (fan expressing agreement and respect) Sentiment: +0.42 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - personal acknowledgment of individual follower creating intimacy simulation at scale - public display of gratitude reinforcing follower investment ## Tags - supply-seeking (80%) - fan-curation (70%) - narcissistic-defensive-cycling (60%) - trump-university-context (50%) - parasocial-reinforcement (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **A Lawsuit Lands and an All-Day Defensive Operation Reveals the Anatomy of Narcissistic Injury** Trump spent the entire day in damage-control mode after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University. A late-night session of retweeting supporters gave way to an afternoon barrage of personal attacks -- calling Schneiderman "lightweight," "dopey," and "sleazebag" -- mixed with conspiratorial claims that the lawsuit was coordinated with President Obama. Between the insults, Trump cycled through testimonials from satisfied students and generic fan praise, toggling between rage and reassurance-seeking in a pattern that consumed nearly every post of the day. Full digest for 2013-08-25: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 25). "@robertlbuchsr: @realDonaldTrump ,Mr.Trump I... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_371732587896901632 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@robertlbuchsr: @realDonaldTrump ,Mr.Trump I just wanted u..." X (Twitter), 25 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_371732587896901632. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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