# Post x_372499029261049856 - Post ID: `x_372499029261049856` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-27T23:21:03.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @curryslap - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_372499029261049856 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_372499029261049856/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_372499029261049856.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @curryslap, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @curryslap's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@curryslap: Hey @realDonaldTrump .. your getting bashed by @TheRevAl about the lawsuit! RevAl is just conning his way through life! ## Engagement - Likes: 36 - Reposts: 32 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T21:51:07.417Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary During a coordinated defensive posting cluster responding to the NY AG Schneiderman's $40M Trump University fraud lawsuit (August 2013), Trump retweeted a follower who dismissed Al Sharpton — who had hosted Schneiderman on MSNBC's *Politics Nation* — as a lifelong "con man." The post exemplifies narcissistic injury response: faced with public exposure as a fraudster, Trump seeks supply restoration through follower amplification and deploys a proxy attack via the retweet mechanism. Most clinically notable is the projection: the "con man" label applied to Sharpton precisely mirrors the fraud allegations against Trump himself, broadcast without direct ownership. Operating alongside same-day posts attacking Schneiderman as a "lightweight hack" politically coordinated with Obama, the retweet reveals a multi-vector defensive architecture — discrediting the prosecutor, recruiting credentialed media allies, and mobilizing the follower base. Defense mechanisms of projection, splitting, and passive aggression are all active. Local time is approximately 7:21 PM EDT; authorship is medium-confidence authentic based on the reactive, supply-seeking behavioral signature and unedited grammar error in the retweeted text. ## Analysis: Retweet of @curryslap — August 27, 2013 ### Overview This post is a verbatim retweet of a random follower (@curryslap) who defends Trump against Al Sharpton's amplification of the Trump University lawsuit. Context is essential: on this date, NY AG Eric Schneiderman appeared on Al Sharpton's MSNBC program *Politics Nation* to publicize his newly filed $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University. Sharpton thereby acted as a media amplifier for the prosecution narrative — drawing Trump's indirect counterattack via this retweet. The post is one node in a dense defensive cluster of same-day tweets all responding to the lawsuit: Schneiderman is labeled a "lightweight hack," Kimberly Guilfoyle is praised for attacking the suit on Fox, and now a follower who calls Sharpton a lifelong "con man" is amplified to Trump's full audience. --- ### Authorship Attribution UTC 23:21 converts to approximately **7:21 PM EDT** (New York, August 2013). This early evening window falls outside the peak authentic-posting band of 10 PM–6 AM, yet the behavioral signature is strongly consistent with authentic Trump. Retweeting anonymous followers who provide unsolicited validation during a live PR crisis was a defining feature of Trump's authentic Twitter engagement throughout this period — aide-written content in this era typically comprised event announcements, polished policy statements, or scheduled promotional material, not amplification of a grammar-defective fan tweet ("your getting bashed"). The informal, reactive quality of the engagement, the presence of a possessive/contraction error in the retweeted text left uncorrected, and the fit within an emotionally activated same-day cluster all support authentic authorship. Confidence: **medium** (retweet format limits certainty). --- ### Psychological State & Triggers The surrounding post cluster establishes unambiguous context: Trump is in **active narcissistic injury response** following Schneiderman's lawsuit filing. The injury is layered — not merely legal jeopardy but public exposure as a fraud, precisely the category of threat most destabilizing to narcissistic architecture. When Sharpton then hosted Schneiderman on national television, the injury expanded: an additional prominent figure was now propagating the exposure narrative. The retweet serves a **supply-restoration function**. Rather than confronting the substance of the lawsuit allegations, Trump harvests a follower's dismissal of Sharpton and broadcasts it to his platform, converting humiliation into the appearance of vindicated contempt. The mechanism is economical: zero original content, full amplification of a desired narrative. The narcissistic state at this moment is **mixed** — grandiose posturing ("she destroyed the suit," "hack," "con man") coexists with the vulnerability of a defendant rallying every available ally. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Projection** (immature, prominent): The follower's characterization of Sharpton as someone "conning his way through life" directly mirrors the core allegation against Trump University — that it was a sustained, systematic fraud. Trump amplifies this characterization, unconsciously (or strategically) redirecting the "con man" label onto a critic. This is projection of uncommon precision: the accused fraudster calls his accuser's ally the real fraudster. **Splitting** (immature): The same-day post cluster demonstrates rigorous splitting. Guilfoyle is "very sharp"; Schneiderman is a "lightweight hack"; Sharpton is a lifelong con man. No target is ambivalent; no critic possesses any legitimate standing. Splitting here is a systemic defense architecture across the full posting cluster, not an isolated instance. **Passive aggression** (immature): The retweet mechanism operationalizes passive aggression structurally — Trump broadcasts the insult while the words technically belong to @curryslap. The aggression is fully transmitted; direct ownership is withheld. --- ### Narrative Identity Trump casts himself as the **targeted fighter** whose grassroots supporters spontaneously recognize the persecution and rally to his defense. The retweeted content serves to externalize validation — it is not merely Trump claiming innocence but "ordinary people" seeing through the con. The **contrasting other** in this narrative cluster is the corrupt establishment axis: a politically motivated AG, a civil rights celebrity who provides cover for the attack, and by implication Obama (a same-day post notes that Schneiderman "Meets with Obama & then files one day later" — conspiratorial framing establishing political orchestration). The narrative sequence is **contamination**: success (Trump University, legitimate business) → betrayal (politically motivated prosecution amplified by media enablers). --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The retweet format functions as a **proxy attack** — the insult circulates under Trump's platform while formal attribution rests with the follower. The core rhetorical move is **ad hominem + tu quoque**: Sharpton is a lifelong fraud, therefore any criticism he voices or amplifies is invalid. This deflects from substantive lawsuit allegations by attacking the credibility of a secondary figure rather than engaging the primary accuser. The sweeping generalization ("conning his way through *life*") is a character assassination that forecloses the possibility of any legitimate role for Sharpton — it is total, not limited. --- ### Cognitive Assessment This is a retweet; Trump's own language production is not directly assessable. Surrounding same-day posts show coherent, on-topic language with characteristic hyperbole and epithet deployment. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are consistent with Trump's established 2013 baseline. No cognitive anomalies detected. --- ### Danger Assessment No danger indicators. Standard adversarial political rhetoric. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Al Sharpton was publicly criticizing Trump over the Schneiderman lawsuit" | **Mostly True** | Schneiderman appeared on Sharpton's MSNBC program Politics Nation to discuss the Trump University lawsuit following the August 2013 filing. Sharpton served as a media platform amplifier. The 'bashing' framing slightly overstates Sharpton's personal role (he hosted the prosecutor rather than independently attacking Trump) but the general dynamic is accurate. | | "RevAl is 'conning his way through life'" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion-based character attack, not a falsifiable factual claim. Functions as ad hominem rhetoric rather than an evidential assertion. | Overall Veracity: 65% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 7:21 PM EDT local time — early evening, outside peak late-night authentic window but plausible for reactive engagement - Retweeting an anonymous follower's unsolicited defense during an active PR crisis is a behavioral signature of authentic Trump - Retweeted text contains grammatical error ('your getting') left uncorrected — aide-written posts typically undergo polish - Reactive fit within emotionally activated same-day defensive cluster - Aide-written posts in this era were typically announcements or polished statements, not amplification of fan tweets ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Al Sharpton hosting Schneiderman on MSNBC Politics Nation to publicize $40M Trump University fraud lawsuit) **Rage:** Intensity 30% targeting Al Sharpton - Proportionality: 40% Sentiment: -0.38 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 38% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 22% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - passive aggression (immature) **Parasocial Techniques:** - Retweeting anonymous supporter converts follower into proxy attacker and validates crowd-sourced defense - Implies grassroots recognition of persecution — 'ordinary people see through the con' ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._ > Al Sharpton was publicly criticizing Trump over the Schneiderman lawsuit **MOSTLY TRUE** Schneiderman appeared on Sharpton's MSNBC program Politics Nation to discuss the Trump University lawsuit following the August 2013 filing. Sharpton served as a media platform amplifier. The 'bashing' framing slightly overstates Sharpton's personal role (he hosted the prosecutor rather than independently attacking Trump) but the general dynamic is accurate. Sources: https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-donald-trumperic-schneiderman-tv-food-fight/; https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding > RevAl is 'conning his way through life' **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an opinion-based character attack, not a falsifiable factual claim. Functions as ad hominem rhetoric rather than an evidential assertion. Overall Veracity: 65% ## Tags - retweet_proxy_attack (92%) - narcissistic_injury_response (88%) - projection (85%) - trump_university_lawsuit (95%) - al_sharpton (87%) - supply_seeking (78%) - splitting (75%) - delegitimization_of_critics (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Schneiderman Siege: Trump Deploys Full DARVO Arsenal in Seven-Post Crisis Response to $40M Fraud Suit** The dominant event of August 27, 2013 is a concentrated narcissistic crisis response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's $40 million civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, filed three days earlier on August 24. Between 11:30 AM and 12:12 PM EDT, Trump executed a four-post attack cluster combining criminal accusation, conspiracy framing, familial grievance, and media ecosystem mobilization — followed by near-identical duplicate reposts at 3:32 and 4:12 PM EDT. Seven of the day's twelve posts directly address the lawsuit, constituting thematic obsession at 58% concentration. The day exhibits a clear contamination arc: a routine late-evening maintenance reply yields abruptly to sustained attack, which oscillates with normalization attempts (Ivanka magazine promotion, charity plug) before settling into proxy attacks via Sharpton retweet in the evening. The psychological architecture follows textbook acute narcissistic injury response. At peak intensity (x_372380500406448128, 0.80), Trump deploys the accusation-as-question technique — "Has AG Schneiderman been extorting his targets and their lawyers?" — planting a felony allegation while maintaining technical deniability through interrogative form, then converting it to threatened counter-investigation with "We will find out." DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) organizes the entire cluster: the investigating official becomes the criminal, the accused becomes the political martyr, and a legitimate fraud proceeding is recast as Obama-orchestrated persecution by analogy to the IRS Tea Party targeting controversy. Strikingly, two mutually incompatible conspiracy theories operate simultaneously — Schneiderman as autonomous extortionist (x_372380500406448128) and Schneiderman as Obama political puppet (x_372381431021846528) — a logical inconsistency revealing emotional rather than strategic composition. The day's most clinically significant feature is the compulsive duplicate posting: x_372381158303993858 and x_372381158303993860 are near-identical reposts separated by roughly four hours; x_372391133109698561 and x_372391133109698560 repeat the same pattern. This recirculation of attack content without apparent awareness of the repetition suggests preoccupation severe enough to override normal editorial monitoring. The posting window (11:30 AM–7:30 PM EDT) falls entirely within business hours with a ~13.5-hour gap before the crisis cluster onset, indicating normal sleep and ruling out hypomanic episode. The 2013 cognitive baseline remains intact and coherent throughout, establishing a valuable longitudinal reference point. Full digest for 2013-08-27: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-27/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 27). "@curryslap: Hey @realDonaldTrump .. your getting... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_372499029261049856 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@curryslap: Hey @realDonaldTrump .. your getting bashed by..." X (Twitter), 27 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_372499029261049856. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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