# Post x_372827791441420288 - Post ID: `x_372827791441420288` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-28T21:07:26.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_372827791441420288 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_372827791441420288/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_372827791441420288.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > @sonnset2 So true, not even close. ## 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 2026-02-25T22:53:22.820Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: @sonnset2 — "So true, not even close." (2013-08-28) ### Overview This post is a minimal two-fragment reply affirming an unspecified claim by follower @sonnset2. Without the original tweet being replied to, substantive psychological or rhetorical analysis is severely constrained. The post functions as follower validation and routine social maintenance within an active Twitter session. ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 5:07 PM EDT (17:07) on a Wednesday — late-afternoon, business-adjacent hours — with Trump most likely in New York. While this window overlaps with typical aide activity, the stylistic fingerprint strongly favors authentic authorship: fragment sentence structure ("So true"), zero polish, no salutation beyond the handle, and the colloquial intensifier "not even close," which is a recurrent authentic Trump idiom appearing across interviews and speeches for decades. Aide-generated posts in this period tend toward complete sentences and structured phrasing. The surrounding same-day posts ("Thanks La Toya!", "Thanks.", "I will!") mirror the same unmediated, low-effort reactive pattern characteristic of a personal Twitter session rather than a managed communications effort. **Estimated probability of authentic authorship: 65–70%.** ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits Minimal trait signal. Active follower reply-behavior reflects extraversion (audience engagement). Agreeableness is superficially elevated but contextless. Conscientiousness is low: no elaboration, no substantive content. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations Behavioral function is *maintenance supply-seeking* — routine audience engagement that sustains follower validation loops. "Not even close" adds performative certainty, projecting unqualified conviction without evidential burden — a characteristic micro-expression of the broader Trump communication pattern. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity No narrative construction discernible. The post is reactive, not generative. It positions Trump subtly as a *validator* — someone whose agreement confers value — which reinforces a status asymmetry between subject and follower without requiring explicit assertion. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators No clinically notable indicators. Brevity and fragmentation are within-baseline for this period's casual reply behavior. ### Rhetorical Techniques Bare agreement ("So true") paired with an absolute intensifier ("not even close") that forecloses nuance and signals unambiguous conviction — a rhetorical gesture that performs confidence rather than demonstrating it. ### Cognitive Assessment Insufficient text volume for meaningful assessment. Two fragments provide no basis for baseline comparison. ### Contextual Note The same-day post "Have the Arab League do it and pay for it" — almost certainly a Syria response given Secretary Kerry's strong public warnings that day — is analytically richer. The current post does not interact with any identifiable major event from the known context. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 68%) ### Indicators - Fragment sentence structure ('So true') consistent with authentic Trump shorthand - Colloquial intensifier 'not even close' is a recurring authentic Trump idiom across decades of speech - No polish, no complete sentence — inconsistent with aide-drafted communication style - 5:07 PM EDT on a Wednesday — business-adjacent but surrounded by equally casual personal replies - Same-day posts share identical reactive, low-effort engagement pattern characteristic of personal Twitter sessions ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (@sonnset2) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct follower reply reinforcing parasocial intimacy loop - Agreement-as-validation: Trump's assent framed implicitly as worth having ## Tags - follower-engagement (85%) - supply-seeking-maintenance (65%) - authentic-trump-probable (68%) - low-salience-post (95%) - performative-certainty (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **On MLK's Anniversary, Trump Quietly Builds the MAGA Blueprint While Dehumanizing Syrian Rebels** A busy but emotionally flat day of 34 posts, mostly spent replying to fans and retweeting praise. The most notable moments came when Trump appropriated Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" phrasing to push an early version of his "Make America Great Again" message — on the exact 50th anniversary of the speech. He also claimed he predicted the Iraq War would be a disaster (he didn't), dismissed the $40 million Trump University fraud lawsuit as "ridiculous," and warned that Syrian rebels all "want to fly planes into our buildings." No anger or meltdowns — just steady brand construction with a few dark edges. Full digest for 2013-08-28: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 28). @sonnset2 So true, not even close. [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_372827791441420288 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@sonnset2 So true, not even close." X (Twitter), 28 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_372827791441420288. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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