# Post x_375742327689453568

- Post ID: `x_375742327689453568`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-05T22:08:46.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_375742327689453568
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_375742327689453568/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_375742327689453568.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “If you plan for the worst – if you can live with the worst – the good will always take care of itself.” – The Art of the Deal

## Engagement

- Likes: 155
- Reposts: 299
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.282Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T05:45:05.576Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: *Art of the Deal* Quote (September 5, 2013)

### Context and Overview

This post is a curated quotation attributed to Trump's 1987 book *The Art of the Deal* (substantially written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, though Trump consistently claims sole authorship). Posted at **6:08 PM EDT** in New York—squarely within business hours—it exhibits formal characteristics of scheduled brand-maintenance content rather than spontaneous reactive posting.

The post occupies a psychologically interesting contextual position: it appears on the same day Trump announced the death of his long-time executive assistant Norma Foerderer ("a truly magnificent woman"). The subsequent pivot to stoic risk-management philosophy creates an unintentional emotional juxtaposition—whether by deliberate compartmentalization or simply pre-scheduled pipeline content is unresolvable from text alone.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

Limited Big Five signal is extractable from a curated quotation. What surfaces:

- **Achievement-striving** (conscientiousness facet): self-citation functions as status maintenance and brand promotion
- **Low agreeableness**: communication is unidirectional and self-referential rather than relational or warm
- **Low openness**: the closed aphoristic form signals preference for simple axioms over exploratory ideas
- **Neuroticism absent**: no emotional dysregulation, hostility, or anxiety visible

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate**: positioning himself as a source of quotable, enduring wisdom satisfies status and achievement drives at maintenance level. No communion motive is visible—this is a broadcast, not an exchange.

**Schema revealed**: The *self-as-sage* schema is operative. By attributing a philosophical statement to his own book, Trump casts his own words as worthy of formal citation and preservation—consistent with grandiose self-concept in a non-activated, low-intensity state.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role**: Sage/mentor — the wise dealmaker whose hard-won insights others should internalize.

**Identity claims**: (1) possessor of enduring practical wisdom; (2) author of a philosophical text that transcends its transactional origins and merits quotation.

**Narrative sequence**: Neutral in isolation. No redemption or contamination arc within this single post.

**Contrasting other**: Absent. The post defines Trump by elevation (self-citation) rather than by contrast with an adversary — notably different in structure from the day's Syria posts, which define him against Obama.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features (mild, maintenance level)**: Self-citation as a wisdom authority is consistent with grandiose self-concept — treating one's own published words as a philosophical canon worthy of broadcast. This is routine supply maintenance, not a reactive injury response. Low intensity relative to baseline.

**Defense mechanisms**: Viewed in the longitudinal context of the day's sequence (death announcement → geopolitical alarm → stoic wisdom), a mild **rationalization/intellectualization** dynamic is plausible — the stoic framing functions as philosophical containment of an emotionally charged day. Confidence in this inference is **low**; pre-scheduling remains the more parsimonious explanation.

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### Authorship Attribution

Post time in Trump's local timezone (New York EDT, UTC−4): **18:08 (6:08 PM)** — business hours.

Additional indicators favoring aide-managed content:
- Polished formatting with formal attribution dash ("– The Art of the Deal")
- No typos, grammatical errors, or stream-of-consciousness fragments
- No ALL CAPS, no emotional reactivity
- Evergreen brand-promotional character (this quote is as usable in any week as this one)

**Assessment**: More likely aide-authored or pre-scheduled. The stoic sentiment aligns with Trump's self-constructed persona, leaving non-trivial authentic authorship probability. **Medium confidence: aide-leaning (0.3 on 0→1 scale toward Trump).**

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### Rhetorical Analysis

The quote employs a **conditional logic structure** ("if... if... then") that conveys earned wisdom — the implication being that psychological resilience must be built through deliberate rehearsal of worst-case scenarios. This is structurally coherent risk-management philosophy. The **self-citation** simultaneously promotes *The Art of the Deal* and positions Trump as a quotable authority whose insights warrant preservation.

Notably, the substantive content here is among the more philosophically defensible in Trump's corpus — stoic risk tolerance (negative visualization enabling equanimity) is a legitimate framework with roots in Stoic philosophy and modern cognitive behavioral therapy. No inflammatory, dehumanizing, or manipulative elements are present.

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### Danger Assessment

**None.** No inflammatory, mobilizing, dehumanizing, or eliminationist elements.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Quote attributed to 'The Art of the Deal'" | **Mostly True** | The Art of the Deal (1987) contains risk-management philosophy thematically consistent with this quote. Exact verbatim match is unverifiable without full text access. The book was substantially written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, making sole attribution to Trump contestable, though the quote appears in Trump's name as published author. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Post time 6:08 PM EDT falls within business hours (aide-typical window)
- Polished formatting with formal attribution dash — no typos, errors, or fragmentation
- Evergreen brand-promotional character; content is equally usable any week
- No ALL CAPS, no emotional reactivity, no stream-of-consciousness markers
- Formal quote attribution style ('– The Art of the Deal') suggests deliberate curation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (brand promotion / routine book citation)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 25%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Broadcasting self-attributed wisdom to invite aspirational identification — follower internalizes Trump as philosophical guide

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Quote attributed to 'The Art of the Deal'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Art of the Deal (1987) contains risk-management philosophy thematically consistent with this quote. Exact verbatim match is unverifiable without full text access. The book was substantially written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, making sole attribution to Trump contestable, though the quote appears in Trump's name as published author.

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- self-promotion (80%)
- book-promotion (75%)
- aphorism (90%)
- stoicism (70%)
- risk-management (70%)
- brand-maintenance (80%)
- aide-likely (65%)
- narcissistic-supply-maintenance (45%)
- low-reactivity (80%)

## That day

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

**Oracle and Avenger: Midnight Leno Devaluation Spiral, 15-Post Syria Campaign Deploys First MAGA Volleys, and a Rare Grief Rupture Reveals Genuine Object Constancy**

September 5, 2013 presents a psychologically dense, multi-phase day that begins—in local New York time—on the evening of September 4 (EDT) with a complete narcissistic idealization-to-devaluation cycle targeting Jay Leno, triggered by Leno's failure to defend Trump against Bill Maher's mockery on the prior day's program. The nocturnal Leno sequence (posts x_375365504405229600 through x_375476664756875264, 9:11 PM–12:33 AM EDT) constitutes the day's only genuine rage spiral and contains a clinically significant internal contradiction: within 26 minutes, Trump claims both to have appeared on Leno's show "many times" and to have "always" declined invitations—assessed as confabulation under narcissistic stress rather than deliberate deception. A compressed maximum sleep window of approximately 4.6 hours separates this midnight cluster from a 5:11 AM EDT resumption of low-intensity supply-seeking, consistent with early insomnia secondary to unresolved emotional activation.

The day's dominant narrative engine is a sustained 15-post Syria anti-intervention campaign (7:07 AM–7:41 PM EDT) driven by the G20 Summit's Syria crisis debate. Trump positions himself as a prescient civilian oracle superior to the President, Secretary of State, and the entire national security apparatus, commanding Obama in ALL CAPS (x_375609403376144384) and deploying five distinct rhetorical registers: raw emotional activation, graphic atrocity amplification, strategic critique, catastrophizing, and transactional framing. Most clinically notable is the complete absence of humanitarian framing across all 15 Syria posts—1,400+ sarin casualties were the central fact of concurrent Senate testimony, yet they appear nowhere in Trump's moral calculus. The Syria cluster contains the day's four elevated-danger posts: a casual Iran nuclear-strike suggestion (x_375600015714316288), dual organ-eating atrocity amplifications (x_375600452882423808), and blanket terrorist labeling of all Syrian opposition (x_375759718251503616). Three deployments of "Make America great again" on this single day—nine months post-trademark filing—establish this session as a key anchor point in the slogan's organic pre-political crystallization.

Two ruptures punctuate the oracle performance. The first is genuine: the death of Norma Foerderer (x_375650504778346496) produces one of the rarest unguarded grief expressions in the full corpus—post centers the deceased rather than Trump's own loss, self-aggrandizement is notably absent, representing a rare marker of genuine object constancy. The second is instrumental: four anti-wind-turbine posts advance Trump's undisclosed active litigation against the Aberdeen Bay wind farm adjacent to his Menie Estate golf resort, their calculated low-affect register contrasting sharply with the emotionally reactive Syria cluster and revealing two distinct psychological operating modes calibrated by financial self-interest vs. identity performance. The day's 50-post volume, compressed sleep, and sustained intensity yield a moderate hypomanic concern classification that does not clear clinical threshold but warrants documentation as above-baseline activity.

Full digest for 2013-09-05: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 5). “If you plan for the worst – if you can live with... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_375742327689453568
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“If you plan for the worst – if you can live with the worst..." X (Twitter), 5 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_375742327689453568. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“If you plan for the worst – if you can live with the worst...," X (Twitter), September 5, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_375742327689453568.

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