# Post x_373159546526924800 - Post ID: `x_373159546526924800` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-29T19:05:43.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_373159546526924800 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_373159546526924800/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_373159546526924800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > #TrumpVine A message for my hotel guest, @MileyCyrus- https://t.co/XcdyhWQI3d ## Engagement - Likes: 281 - Reposts: 416 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T23:46:31.495Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Four days after Miley Cyrus's viral VMA twerking performance, Trump — then 67 — publicly champions the 20-year-old via a personally-created Vine video while simultaneously placing a private phone call to her hotel room expressing that he "loved" the performance. The tweet's possessive "my hotel guest" framing subordinates Cyrus's agency to Trump's proprietary relationship to the physical space. Psychologically, the post is driven by narcissistic supply-seeking: Cyrus's performance generated 306,000 tweets per minute, and Trump's insertion as her public defender captures cultural attention while positioning him as an insider with privileged access. The Vine's message — "they're jealous" — replicates Trump's standard interpretive schema: all criticism is reducible to envy of greatness. Notably, this tweet inaugurates a documented eight-tweet sequence about Cyrus over subsequent weeks, shifting from idealization ("a really good person") to late-night paternalistic criticism and warnings that she needs "GUIDANCE" — a compressed idealization-to-devaluation cycle. The private phone call to a 20-year-old female hotel guest combined with public enthusiasm for her sexualized performance is consistent with documented patterns in Trump's conduct toward young women in contexts where he holds positional power. Defense mechanisms employed: idealization of Cyrus, projection of jealousy onto critics. Clinical significance is moderate — not in the individual post, but in the behavioral cluster it represents and the arc it initiates. ## Post Analysis: #TrumpVine / Miley Cyrus (August 29, 2013) ### Contextual Reconstruction Four days after Miley Cyrus's widely-criticized twerking performance with Robin Thicke at the August 25, 2013 MTV VMAs — a performance that generated 306,000 tweets per minute — Trump posts a personally-created Vine video captioned "A message for my hotel guest." Per Cyrus's own contemporaneous account to the New York Times, she was in fact staying at Trump Hotel and Trump **personally called her hotel room** to say: *"I know everyone's talking about it, but I loved it."* The Vine itself delivers the message: *"Miley, don't let them get you down. They're jealous."* This tweet must be read as the public-facing surface of a dual-channel intervention: the private phone call establishes intimacy and access; the Vine and tweet capture the cultural moment's attention for Trump's own brand. --- ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 19:05 UTC = **3:05 PM EDT** — solidly within business hours, a conventional aide-authorship indicator. However, multiple factors argue for at least partial authentic Trump involvement: 1. Trump **personally created the Vine video**, requiring hands-on device engagement 2. The phrase *"my hotel guest"* is characteristic Trump possessive idiolect 3. The private phone call to Cyrus's room corroborates personal, unmediated engagement with this episode 4. Celebrity impulsive response behavior (inserting into viral cultural moments) is a well-documented authentic Trump pattern 5. The subsequent 1:48 AM tweet about Cyrus's "outfit" (September 24) — classic late-night authentic timing — confirms his sustained personal investment **Assessment:** Trump likely authored the Vine and initiated the action; the tweet itself may have been composed with aide assistance but reflects direct instruction. Confidence: medium. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (very high):** Trump inserts himself as the pivot of a major cultural controversy, seeking to become *the* notable public figure defending Cyrus. Assertiveness, excitement-seeking, and positive affect are all present. **Agreeableness (surface-elevated, functionally low):** The post appears prosocial (he's defending her) but the mechanism is proprietary and self-serving rather than genuinely other-oriented. The "hotel guest" frame subordinates Cyrus to Trump's domain. **Conscientiousness (low):** On a day featuring the 50th anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, Syria chemical weapons developments, and debt ceiling warnings, Trump devotes multiple tweets to celebrity gossip and twerking commentary. Deliberation and impulse-control are absent. **Neuroticism:** Not markedly evident in this post; mood state is expansive rather than dysphoric or hostile. **Openness (low-moderate):** Surface engagement with pop culture without genuine aesthetic or intellectual curiosity. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate.** The possessive construction — *"my hotel guest"* — is psychologically significant. Trump does not say "Miley Cyrus, who is staying in New York" or even "a guest at Trump Hotel." He says *my* hotel guest, converting her person into a possession associated with his property, his brand, and his magnanimity. This is consistent with Trump's documented schema of treating people as assets within his domain rather than autonomous agents. **Supply-seeking as primary driver.** Cyrus's performance was the most viral cultural event of the week. By inserting himself as her defender, confidant, and public champion, Trump captures a share of that attention economy. The Vine format was itself a platform Trump was actively using for brand-building (#TrumpVine hashtag) — the celebrity controversy is raw material for self-promotion. **Schemas revealed:** Critics of Cyrus are "jealous" — Trump's universal explanatory schema for criticism is projected automatically onto her situation. This reveals a deeply entrenched cognitive framework: all attacks originate in envy of greatness. The world consists of those who succeed (Trump, Cyrus) and those who resent them (everyone else). --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The benevolent patron and wise protector — the powerful older figure who shelters an embattled younger woman, sees through the mob's jealousy, and provides private counsel unavailable to others. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination-into-redemption: Cyrus's triumph (VMA performance) is contaminated by public criticism → Trump intervenes to restore the correct narrative (the critics are jealous, not her). **Identity claims:** "I am a person of cultural importance whose properties host celebrities"; "I have insight others lack about who is really jealous and why"; "I have access to powerful people at their most vulnerable moments." **Contrasting other:** The anonymous mass of jealous critics — small, resentful, wrong. **Archetypal resonance:** Trump casts himself in the **King/patron** archetype: the host who welcomes, protects, and grants access to his domain. There is secondary **Trickster** energy in the impudence of publicly defending a 20-year-old's twerking against the cultural consensus, which signals his freedom from conventional propriety. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic supply-seeking (primary):** The behavioral cluster — making a personal Vine video, placing a private hotel room call, and publicly posting about a 20-year-old's sexualized performance — constitutes aggressive supply acquisition. Trump is not a neutral defender; he is inserting himself as the most notable adult male publicly validating Cyrus's sexuality. **Idealization-devaluation cycle (documented):** This tweet initiates what reporting confirms became an eight-tweet sequence. Trump begins in idealization ("don't let them get you down"), subsequently praises her as "a really good person," and by September 24 — at 1:48 AM — pivots to criticism of her outfit and warnings that she is "on a very triky and slippery path" requiring "GUIDANCE." The capitalization and late-night timing of the criticism tweets confirm authentic Trump authorship, and the arc is a textbook idealization-to-devaluation sequence. **Boundary dynamics:** The private phone call to a 20-year-old female hotel guest to express that he personally "loved" her sexualized performance is a behavioral boundary crossing that warrants documentation as part of Trump's broader documented pattern of seeking private access to young women in contexts where he holds positional power (building owner, employer, host). **Defense mechanisms:** - *Idealization:* Cyrus's performance is unambiguously good; critics are simply wrong - *Projection:* "They're jealous" — envy is attributed to the critics, a motive Trump himself frequently enacts and which his self-schema requires him to externalize **Malignant narcissism component scores:** Narcissistic features are moderately present (proprietary framing, supply-seeking, belief in special access/insight). Antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic features are not meaningfully evidenced in this specific post. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Hashtag branding** (#TrumpVine): converts the moment into branded content, attaching Trump's name to the cultural phenomenon - **Possessive framing** ("my hotel guest"): subtle proprietary claim over person and context - **Celebrity alliance for status transfer**: association with Cyrus's viral moment confers cultural relevance - **@-mention strategy**: notifies Cyrus's followers, driving traffic and attention to Trump - **"They're jealous"**: efficient dismissal of criticism by attribution to envy — no engagement with actual critiques required No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. --- ### Order/Chaos Dynamics Trump here positions himself as a **stabilizing force for Cyrus** against the chaos of public criticism — the calm, powerful patron who provides order (validation, protection) while the mob provides chaos (judgment). This is a relatively benign application of the patron archetype rather than a politically mobilizing use of order/chaos rhetoric. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Miley Cyrus was Trump's hotel guest at the time of posting" | **True** | Cyrus confirmed to the New York Times: 'I was staying at the Trump Hotel and Donald Trump literally called and said, basically, I know everyone's talking about it, but I loved it.' | | "Trump's Vine message told Cyrus 'they're jealous'" | **True** | Confirmed by multiple outlets: Vine content was 'Miley, don't let them get you down. They're jealous.' | | "Trump personally called Cyrus's hotel room to express approval of her VMA performance" | **True** | Cyrus's direct first-person account to NYT: Trump called and said he 'loved' the performance | | "Cyrus's VMA performance generated 306,000 tweets per minute" | **True** | Confirmed in known events documentation for this period | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Personal Vine video creation requiring direct device/app engagement - Possessive 'my hotel guest' phrasing consistent with Trump idiolect - Private phone call to Cyrus's room confirms personal unmediated involvement - 3:05 PM EDT falls within business hours — conventional aide indicator - Celebrity impulsive insertion pattern is well-documented authentic Trump behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Miley Cyrus 2013 MTV VMA controversy generating maximum cultural attention) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Celebrity alliance for reflected cultural relevance - Positioning as insider-confidant via hotel access and private call - Public championship of controversial figure to capture audience attention - Hashtag branding converts the moment into Trump-attributed content ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._ > Miley Cyrus was Trump's hotel guest at the time of posting **TRUE** Cyrus confirmed to the New York Times: 'I was staying at the Trump Hotel and Donald Trump literally called and said, basically, I know everyone's talking about it, but I loved it.' Sources: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-loves-miley-cyrus; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-creepy-obsession-with-miley-cyrus-twerking-mtv-vmas-performance/ > Trump's Vine message told Cyrus 'they're jealous' **TRUE** Confirmed by multiple outlets: Vine content was 'Miley, don't let them get you down. They're jealous.' Sources: https://www.eonline.com/news/454003/donald-trump-sends-message-to-miley-cyrus-they-re-jealous; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-creepy-obsession-with-miley-cyrus-twerking-mtv-vmas-performance/ > Trump personally called Cyrus's hotel room to express approval of her VMA performance **TRUE** Cyrus's direct first-person account to NYT: Trump called and said he 'loved' the performance Sources: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-loves-miley-cyrus; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miley-cyrus-donald-trump-loved-my-2013-vmas-performance/ > Cyrus's VMA performance generated 306,000 tweets per minute **TRUE** Confirmed in known events documentation for this period Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - supply-seeking (88%) - idealization (75%) - idealization-devaluation-cycle (70%) - possessive-framing (80%) - celebrity-insertion (85%) - boundary-crossing (65%) - miley-cyrus-vma-2013 (95%) - patron-protector-archetype (72%) - young-women-power-differential (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **44-Tweet Day: Late-Night Gumbel Attack, All-Day Syria Punditry, and Early 'America First' Architecture** Trump posted heavily — around 44 unique tweets — in a day dominated by two fixations: the Syria intervention debate and a personal grudge against HBO journalist Bryant Gumbel. A late-night session kicked off with Trump calling the Black journalist "racist" and "dumb" over a critical segment, then pivoted into extended armchair-general commentary on Obama's Syria strategy, including a call to "shoot first and talk later." By afternoon, the mood settled into routine brand promotion, fan engagement, and a calculated counter-attack on the New York Attorney General who had just sued Trump University. The tone was confident and combative throughout, with no emotional spiral — just a high-output day of multi-front positioning from Trump Tower. Full digest for 2013-08-29: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-29/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 29). #TrumpVine A message for my hotel guest,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_373159546526924800 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "#TrumpVine A message for my hotel guest, @MileyCyrus-..." X (Twitter), 29 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_373159546526924800. 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