# Post x_374677676025712641

- Post ID: `x_374677676025712641`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-02T23:38:13.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has ever done, and now he wants to be comptroller. Thrown out of politics and off of TV, CRAZY!

## Engagement

- Likes: 25
- Reposts: 31
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.282Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T02:42:53.748Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion**: UTC 23:38:13 on September 2, 2013 = **7:38 PM EDT** (Trump Tower, New York City; Trump's primary residence in September 2013 was New York, and this is EDT/UTC-4). This is early evening — not the definitive late-night window but consistent with personal posting activity outside business hours.

**Stylistic fingerprint strongly indicates authentic Trump**: (1) ALL CAPS terminal label ("CRAZY!") — one of Trump's most consistent signature devices; (2) hyperbolic totalization ("failed at *everything* he has ever done") — absolute categorical negation; (3) paratactic compression — two short declaratives followed by exclamatory dismissal; (4) no event announcement, scheduling, or organizational function; (5) emotionally reactive, contemptuous register without grammatical refinement. The post reads as reactive political commentary on a topical NYC story, not planned aide-driven messaging. **Confidence: High**.

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## Context & Trigger

Eliot Spitzer resigned as NY Governor in March 2008 following the "Client-9" prostitution scandal. He co-hosted CNN's *Parker Spitzer* / *In the Arena* (2010–2011, cancelled due to poor ratings), then briefly hosted *Viewpoint* on Current TV (2012–early 2013, departed January 2013). On July 8, 2013, he announced a surprise late-entry Democratic primary candidacy for NYC Comptroller. He ultimately lost the primary to Scott Stringer on September 10, 2013 — eight days after this post.

**Trigger classification**: Primarily **supply-seeking/preemptive attack** — Trump inserting himself as authoritative political commentator on a newsworthy NYC political story. No documented direct prior antagonism between Trump and Spitzer makes a narcissistic injury trigger unlikely; this appears opportunistic. A secondary motive is **devaluation as status display** — cataloguing Spitzer's failures implicitly elevates Trump as the arbiter of success. Notably, this post mirrors the same-day tweet attacking Anthony Weiner (also a disgraced NY Democratic politician), suggesting a **recurring rhetorical template**: disgraced NY Democrat + failure inventory + terminal dismissal label.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five — post-level inference)

- **Extraversion (high)**: Assertive, dominant, pronouncing public judgment without invitation
- **Agreeableness (very low)**: Contemptuous, dismissive, devaluing — zero prosocial register
- **Conscientiousness (low — deliberation facet)**: Impulsive commentary, factually imprecise ("everything," "thrown out"), no hedging
- **Neuroticism (moderate — angry hostility facet)**: Contemptuous hostility present but controlled; purposeful rather than dysregulated
- **Openness (low)**: Binary good/bad sorting, values rigidity, no nuance invited or expressed

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate overwhelmingly** (0.82). Trump positions himself as the supreme arbiter of others' worth — controlling the reputational narrative of a public figure in the author's own social milieu (NYC elite). By cataloguing Spitzer's failures, Trump implicitly claims the opposite position without explicit self-aggrandizement: a structurally elegant supply-seeking move.

**Communion motives**: Effectively absent (0.04). No empathy, affiliation, or prosocial signal is present.

**Schema revealed**: The social world is a zero-sum meritocratic arena in which individuals are permanently sorted into winners and losers. Failure in one domain (political scandal) constitutes failure across all domains ("everything"). Attempted comebacks are inherently illegitimate and comical.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Supreme judge/arbiter of merit — Trump pronounces from elevated remove
- **Contrasting other**: Spitzer as comprehensive, multi-domain failure — political, televisual, general
- **Contamination narrative**: Spitzer's arc is framed as unambiguous decline. No redemption is acknowledged or permitted.
- **Identity claims (implicit)**: "I am one who correctly identifies and publicly names failure" — authority claimed through the act of pronouncement itself
- **Narrative function**: The post is not about Trump's own story but about maintaining a reality in which fallen figures stay fallen, reinforcing the permanence of status hierarchy

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features** (moderate, 0.55 in this post): Grandiosity via proxy — self-elevation through contemptuous devaluation; lack of empathy; devaluation as entertainment.

**Mild ego-syntonic sadism** (0.40): The pleasurable inventory of Spitzer's failures — "failed... Thrown out... off of TV" — reads as a catalogue delivered with relish. Each failure is a separate item in an enumeration, suggesting enjoyment in the act of totaling the losses.

**Paranoid and antisocial features**: Minimal in this specific post (0.05 and 0.25 respectively). Contempt is present but not paranoia; the attack is contemptuous rather than persecutory.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Devaluation (immature)**: Primary mechanism. "Failed at everything he has ever done" — total categorical negation of a multi-decade career that included landmark Wall Street prosecutions as AG and a 70-point gubernatorial electoral victory. Converts a complex figure into a pure failure-object.

2. **Splitting (immature)**: All-bad framing forecloses nuance. No acknowledgment of Spitzer's documented pre-scandal successes. The binary is complete and enforced.

3. **Distortion (mild, pathological)**: "Thrown out of politics" — Spitzer resigned voluntarily under political pressure following revelation of the scandal. Reshaping voluntary resignation into external ejection maximizes the failure narrative.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The structure is compressed and rhythmically punchy: two declarative sentences cataloguing failures, followed by ALL CAPS terminal verdict. **Hyperbolic totalization** ("everything") functions as a foreclosure device — no counterargument is structurally possible when the claim is total. "CRAZY!" operates as Trump's characteristic **single-word verdict**, collapsing complex evaluation into contemptuous dismissal. The **presupposition** embedded in "and now he wants to be comptroller" implies the comeback attempt is inherently absurd, positioning incredulity as the only reasonable response. No explicit propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, or violent imagery are present — this is interpersonal political mockery within normative rhetorical bounds for the period.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has ever done" | **Mostly False** | Spitzer served as NY Attorney General 1999–2006, prosecuting landmark Wall Street fraud cases and earning national reform reputation. Won 2006 gubernatorial election by approximately 70 percentage points. Career includes substantial documented successes prior to 2008 resignation scandal. |
| "Thrown out of politics" | **Half True** | Spitzer resigned the NY governorship in March 2008 under intense political pressure following the prostitution scandal revelation. He was not defeated, impeached, or externally removed — he resigned voluntarily, though under duress. |
| "off of TV" | **True** | CNN cancelled Spitzer's show 'In the Arena' (formerly 'Parker Spitzer') in July 2011, effective August 2011. He subsequently hosted 'Viewpoint' on Current TV but departed in January 2013, leaving him off television by September 2013. |
| "now he wants to be comptroller" | **True** | Spitzer announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy on July 8, 2013, entering the Democratic primary. He lost to Scott Stringer in the September 10, 2013 primary. |

Overall Veracity: 68%

## Archetypes & Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Primary archetype (King/Tyrant shadow)**: Trump pronounces judgment from assumed authority, sorting individuals into worthy/unworthy categories. The post functions as a royal decree about status hierarchy: Spitzer belongs to the permanently fallen category and his attempted re-entry is illegitimate.

**Secondary archetype (Trickster)**: Gleeful puncturing of Spitzer's rehabilitation narrative with mock incredulity.

**Order/Chaos positioning**: This post **enforces the existing post-scandal status quo** — it defends the hierarchy in which Spitzer's fall was permanent and legitimate comebacks require more than audacity. Trump positions himself as enforcer of proper status hierarchy, not as chaos agent.

**Grievance**: No personal grievance articulated. Trump is the observer/judge, not the wronged party. The post is an assertion of positional authority rather than a grievance resolution.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None**. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization beyond dismissive labeling, no stochastic terrorism indicators, no mobilization language, no violent imagery. This is conventional political mockery within normative bounds of American political discourse for the period.

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## Longitudinal Notes

Consistent with Trump's documented 2013 Twitter baseline: punchy, contemptuous, binary, focused on NYC public figures. The same-day Weiner attack follows an identical template (disgraced NY Democrat + failure catalog + dismissal label), suggesting this is a deliberate or habitual rhetorical strategy rather than reactive rage. No cognitive markers of concern relative to period baseline. Syntactic complexity and vocabulary are at the low register characteristic of authenticated Trump tweets from this era.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS terminal label ('CRAZY!') — signature recurring Trump device
- Hyperbolic totalization ('everything') — consistent with authenticated Trump tweet style
- 7:38 PM EDT — evening hours, outside business-hours aide posting window
- No event announcement, scheduling, or organizational function
- Paratactic compression: punchy declarative + exclamatory terminal verdict

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Eliot Spitzer NYC Comptroller campaign announcement (July 2013))

Sentiment: -0.64

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 40%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 17%

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._

> Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has ever done

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Spitzer served as NY Attorney General 1999–2006, prosecuting landmark Wall Street fraud cases and earning national reform reputation. Won 2006 gubernatorial election by approximately 70 percentage points. Career includes substantial documented successes prior to 2008 resignation scandal.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/five-years-after-scandal-eliot-spitzer-announces-new-run-for-office-in-new-york/2013/07/08/a90d49d2-e7f2-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

> Thrown out of politics

**HALF TRUE**

Spitzer resigned the NY governorship in March 2008 under intense political pressure following the prostitution scandal revelation. He was not defeated, impeached, or externally removed — he resigned voluntarily, though under duress.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer

> off of TV

**TRUE**

CNN cancelled Spitzer's show 'In the Arena' (formerly 'Parker Spitzer') in July 2011, effective August 2011. He subsequently hosted 'Viewpoint' on Current TV but departed in January 2013, leaving him off television by September 2013.

Sources: https://theweek.com/articles/483509/why-cnn-canned-eliot-spitzer-6-theories; https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-cancels-eliot-spitzer-talk-show-28836/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Arena

> now he wants to be comptroller

**TRUE**

Spitzer announced his NYC Comptroller candidacy on July 8, 2013, entering the Democratic primary. He lost to Scott Stringer in the September 10, 2013 primary.

Sources: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/08/politics/eliot-spitzer-return/index.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/five-years-after-scandal-eliot-spitzer-announces-new-run-for-office-in-new-york/2013/07/08/a90d49d2-e7f2-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

Overall Veracity: 68%

## Tags

- political attack (92%)
- devaluation (88%)
- NYC politics (80%)
- Eliot Spitzer (95%)
- hyperbole (82%)
- labeling (78%)
- fallen rival (72%)
- supply-seeking (65%)
- status display (70%)
- splitting (75%)
- 2013 baseline (60%)
- grandiose state (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Reluctant Savior in Waiting: Syria Fury and 9-Post Presidential Brand-Building Define a Day of Systematic Grandiose Supply Harvest**

On September 2, 2013, Trump posted 25 times across two primary behavioral sessions — a late-night Syria cluster extending from 10:15 to 10:48 PM EDT (and further to a 1:42 AM EDT outlier) and an evening supply-harvest burst of 12 posts in 25 minutes (7:32–7:57 PM EDT) — against the backdrop of President Obama's Rose Garden announcement that he would seek Congressional authorization before striking Syria. The dominant psychological state was consistently grandiose, interrupted by a single brief mixed-state episode triggered by anticipated exclusion from Arsenio Hall's relaunched talk show. Four posts were flagged for rage at moderate levels (0.30–0.38), and no danger indicators were detected across any post. Sleep deprivation is likely, with authenticated posting extending to at least 1:42 AM EDT and a possible early-morning outlier at 5:42 AM EDT.

The day's most diagnostically significant behavioral pattern was the systematic amplification of nine distinct follower calls for a 2016 presidential candidacy — a frequency and consistency suggesting active curation of the presidential inevitability narrative rather than incidental fan selection. Trump's Syria commentary exhibited an internally contradictory logic (simultaneously anti-intervention and critical of intervention execution), unified not by policy coherence but by a consistent reputational goal: positioning Obama as incompetent and Trump as the implicit corrective. The Arsenio Hall episode (x_374680057438294016) offered a diagnostic window into the entitlement schema and punitive loyalty enforcement that would recur at scale: a preemptive public grievance deploying intimate knowledge as a dominance instrument, capped by vehement reaction-formation ("No Interest!") that inverted and betrayed the underlying investment.

Cognitive presentation was consistent with Trump's 2013 baseline — binary framing, hyperbolic absolutes, accessible vocabulary — with elevated late-night affect markers consistent with arousal without deterioration. The day's narrative arc is contamination: America under Obama is being degraded across military, political, and reputational dimensions, with Trump's reluctant candidacy positioned as the available restorative. The September 2, 2013 archive is longitudinally significant as a clean prototype — the transactional foreign policy schema, reluctant-savior construction, proxy-voice self-aggrandizement, and Scavino content coordination loop are all fully formed; only the scale and institutional support of the presidential era differ.

Full digest for 2013-09-02: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 2). Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_374677676025712641
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has ever done,..." X (Twitter), 2 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_374677676025712641. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Eliot Spitzer has failed at everything he has ever done,...," X (Twitter), September 2, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_374677676025712641.

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