# Post x_376112156527587328

- Post ID: `x_376112156527587328`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-06T22:38:20.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @GarryGreiner
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_376112156527587328
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_376112156527587328/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_376112156527587328.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @GarryGreiner, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @GarryGreiner's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@GarryGreiner: @realDonaldTrump We should send Obama and Congress to Syria!"

## Engagement

- Likes: 58
- Reposts: 95
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.282Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T06:10:54.206Z (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: Twitter Retweet, September 6, 2013

### Post Classification
This is a **retweet amplification** of follower @GarryGreiner's suggestion that Obama and Congress be "sent to Syria"—a mechanism of endorsement without direct authorship. This communication pattern was characteristic of Trump's authentic 2013 Twitter behavior: using a follower's voice as a proxy to express sentiments he wished to amplify while technically maintaining authorial distance.

### Authorship Attribution
**Timing**: UTC 22:38:20 converts to **18:38 EDT** in New York (a Friday in September 2013). Trump's likely location was New York or NJ—his home base when not on a property visit. Early evening is ambiguous territory, but several factors point toward authentic Trump: (1) retweeting supporter comments was a hallmark of his pre-political-office Twitter persona—aides generated scheduled content, not follower quote amplifications; (2) the thematic content integrates seamlessly with his confirmed self-authored Syria posts from the same day; (3) the spontaneous, reactive nature of surfacing a follower's quip mid-evening fits his browsing/responding style. **Moderate-to-high confidence: authentic Trump**.

### Contextual Integration
This retweet sits at the tail of a sustained burst of anti-Syria-intervention messaging throughout September 6, 2013—a day when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7 to authorize limited strikes and Kerry was testifying before Congress. Trump's through-line across all posts: Obama lacks genuine leadership, Syrian rebels include radical jihadis, U.S. involvement would be reckless. The retweeted comment extends this argument via the classical **chickenhawk rhetorical device**—those who send others to war should face its consequences themselves.

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
- **Extraversion (elevated)**: Public performance via follower amplification; attention-harvesting
- **Agreeableness (low)**: Antagonistic framing; contempt for Obama and Congress implicit in the chosen retweet
- **Conscientiousness (low)**: Reactive, opportunistic—no deliberation evident
- **Neuroticism (moderate)**: Frustration with establishment channeled through irony rather than overt rage
- **Openness (low)**: Rigid anti-intervention stance; no acknowledgment of moral complexity re: chemical weapons use

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
Dual motive structure visible here: **power/status** (positioning as legitimate populist voice against out-of-touch establishment) combined with **supply-seeking** (follower tagged Trump specifically; retweeting creates a validation feedback loop while showing Trump as responsive to his audience). The schema revealed: political leaders are hypocrites who sacrifice others while protecting themselves.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Populist truth-teller; the sensible outsider above political cowardice
- **Contrasting other**: Obama and Congress—cast as hypocrites unwilling to face the consequences of their own hawkishness
- **Identity claim**: Implicit—Trump as the voice of common sense in contrast to feckless institutional leadership
- **Narrative sequence**: Contamination—America's leadership class has deteriorated into self-serving, consequence-free warmongering

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Passive aggression (immature)**: Hostility toward Obama expressed through a proxy—the attack originates from "a citizen," technically not Trump. Classic deniability structure.
- **Displacement (neurotic)**: Underlying contempt for Obama redirected through the vehicle of a follower's quip

### Rhetorical Analysis
- **Tu quoque / chickenhawk argument**: The implicit logic—those advocating intervention should face it themselves—is a legitimate logical device deployed for populist effect
- **Populism by proxy**: Amplifying an "ordinary citizen" voice creates parasocial authenticity; Trump appears to be listening to and validating regular Americans
- **Ironic violence framing**: "Send them to Syria" invokes a war zone as rhetorical punishment—satirical in register, not literally inciting
- **Ad hominem by selection**: Choosing to retweet this specific criticism functions as endorsement of the underlying characterization of Obama/Congress as cowards

### Cognitive Status
As a retweet of another person's text, this post provides no meaningful window into Trump's own language production. No baseline deviation is assessable from this post type.

### Danger Assessment
The violent framing (war zone as implicit consequence) is directed at named political figures but registers within a clearly satirical rhetorical register. No mobilization language, no target-plus-grievance-plus-implied-action stochastic structure. Elevated (rather than none) due solely to the normalization of hostile violent framing toward specific political leaders—a cumulative concern across multiple posts rather than an acute risk from this post alone.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- 18:38 EDT timing (early evening, ambiguous but within authentic range)
- Retweeting supporter comments was a documented authentic Trump behavior pattern in 2013
- Thematic alignment with confirmed self-authored Syria posts from same day
- Spontaneous follower amplification inconsistent with scheduled aide content style
- No polished formatting or event announcement structure typical of aide-generated posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Follower @GarryGreiner tagging Trump directly)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- passive aggression (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Follower amplification as validation feedback loop
- Positioning as listener and conduit of common-person sentiment
- Crowd-sourced attack allowing deniability of direct authorship

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Violent imagery (war zone) directed at named political figures including sitting President
- Normalization of hostile framing toward political leadership via humor/irony—cumulative desensitization effect across repeated posts

**Violent Imagery Present**

## Tags

- Syria intervention (90%)
- anti-Obama (85%)
- retweet-amplification (100%)
- chickenhawk-argument (80%)
- populism-by-proxy (75%)
- supply-seeking (50%)
- passive-aggression (65%)

## That day

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

**The Audition: Trump's Syrian Theater Constructs an Embryonic Presidential Identity in 21 Posts**

September 6, 2013 represents one of the most ideologically coherent and strategically constructed single days in the pre-political Trump archive. Against the backdrop of the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg — where Obama and Putin clashed openly over Syria — and Senate Majority Leader Reid's formal filing of Syrian military authorization, Trump generated 21 posts across approximately 21.5 local hours (EDT). The day's architecture reveals a deliberate, layered identity construction: three evening retweets of fans urging a presidential run established the "reluctant hero called to duty" frame; a sustained morning cluster of Syria-opposition commentary positioned Trump as the geopolitically superior outsider; a peak-intensity afternoon post deployed civilizational-religious framing at its earliest documented intensity; and an evening wind-down combined dark humor, isolationist grievance, and aphorism. The structural logic of the day is an audition — Trump demonstrating presidential-caliber judgment to an audience that is, within this very day's posts, explicitly demanding he run.

The dominant psychological state was grandiose for 20 of 21 posts, with a single brief vulnerable inflection at 6:41 PM EDT (x_376113053903126528 — the false-premise isolationist grievance post) resolving within eight minutes. A gradual escalation arc ran from procedural contempt (8:35 AM) through paranoid Russia insinuation and authoritarian admiration to a peak at 2:44 PM EDT (x_376053255245008896 — "radical jihadi Islamists who are murdering Christians"), the day's only rage-positive post at 0.35. Four posts registered elevated danger, none reached high or critical. The stochastic terrorism threshold was not met as a day-level pattern, though x_376112156527587328 — a retweet broadcasting a follower's suggestion to send Obama and Congress to Syria — represents an early data point in a pattern of government-figure targeting that intensifies markedly in subsequent years.

Cognitively, no concerns are detectable relative to Trump's 2013 baseline; authentic-authored posts show specific factual engagement, syntactic integrity, and characteristic rhetorical precision. Sleep deprivation is not indicated: an 11-hour overnight gap (9:39 PM to 8:35 AM EDT) is fully consistent with normal sleep. Posting frequency (21 posts) is elevated but contextually accounted for by the peak news cycle. Hypomanic episode threshold is not met. Two substantive contradictions emerge: an 18-minute Russia incoherence (insinuating corrupt U.S.-Russia dealing immediately before praising Russian leadership superiority) and a near-duplicate post published four hours apart. This day is most significant as a longitudinal calibration point: the authoritarian admiration schema, religious-civilizational framing, and implicit presidential self-nomination all appear in early, baseline form.

Full digest for 2013-09-06: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 6). "@GarryGreiner: @realDonaldTrump We should send... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_376112156527587328
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@GarryGreiner: @realDonaldTrump We should send Obama and..." X (Twitter), 6 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_376112156527587328. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@GarryGreiner: @realDonaldTrump We should send Obama and...," X (Twitter), September 6, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_376112156527587328.

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