# Post x_376899188837347328

- Post ID: `x_376899188837347328`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-09T02:45:43.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_376899188837347328
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_376899188837347328/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_376899188837347328.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Also, great comeback by the New York Jets. That game was over until a really dumb defensive play by Tampa. Amazing.

## Engagement

- Likes: 55
- Reposts: 76
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.282Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T07:15:28.075Z (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 02:45:43 on September 9, 2013 = **10:45 PM EDT** on Sunday evening, September 8, 2013. Trump was almost certainly at Trump Tower, New York City, watching NFL Week 1 prime-time coverage. Late-evening posting is a well-documented authentic Trump signature.

**Stylometric analysis**: The post opens with "Also," — a colloquial connector signaling this message is one node in a live-tweeting stream, not a composed standalone. The phrase "a really dumb defensive play" is characteristically blunt, informal, and evaluative. "Amazing." as a terminal exclamation matches Trump's 2013 vocabulary patterns. The five surrounding posts confirm a sustained multi-game NFL commentary session covering the Giants, Patriots, Cowboys, Bills, and now Jets — all within a few hours. No professional formatting, no event announcement structure, no polished grammar. High confidence: **authentic Trump**.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Great comeback by the New York Jets" | **True** | Jets trailed Tampa Bay and won 18-17 on a last-second 48-yard Nick Folk field goal with 2 seconds remaining in regulation, capping a dramatic late-game comeback. |
| "That game was over" | **Mostly True** | After Rian Lindell's field goal gave Tampa Bay a 17-16 lead with 38 seconds remaining, the Jets had essentially exhausted their options — until Lavonte David's penalty gifted them the winning field goal attempt. The characterization of the game as 'over' is hyperbolic but reflects the genuine improbability of the Jets' subsequent win. |
| "A really dumb defensive play by Tampa" | **True** | Linebacker Lavonte David committed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty — an unnecessary shove of Geno Smith while he was already out of bounds — with 38 seconds remaining while Tampa Bay was leading. The 15-yard penalty advanced the Jets into field goal range and directly enabled the game-winning kick. The play was immediately and widely condemned as an inexplicable lapse of discipline. |

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Psychological Analysis

This post is of **minimal clinical significance**. It represents routine recreational engagement — live-tweeting an NFL game on a Sunday evening — with no activated narcissistic dynamics, no identifiable ego threats, and no defensive operations of note.

Notably, this post is **other-focused rather than self-focused**, a marked departure from Trump's typical high self-referential baseline. He narrates external events (the Jets' comeback, Tampa's blunder) without inserting himself as protagonist, claiming neither credit nor grievance. The emotional valence is mild positive affect: the simple pleasure of watching a dramatic sports finish.

**Dispositional traits**: Extraversion is moderately expressed through enthusiastic public commentary. Neuroticism is essentially absent — there is no anxiety, irritability, or instability. Agreeableness is neutral; the mild criticism of Tampa ("really dumb") is standard sports-fan discourse, not psychological aggression.

**Motives**: Light communion motive dominates — sharing a communal sports experience with followers. Agency motivation is negligible. No power, status, or achievement themes are present.

**Narrative identity**: Trump adopts a pure narrator/commentator role, briefly recounting the Jets' redemption arc (comeback from near-defeat) without identifying with it or grafting his own narrative onto it. The contrasting other is Tampa Bay's defense — rendered foolish by their own undisciplined conduct, not attacked by Trump.

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## Cognitive Status

Clear, coherent, contextually appropriate. Simple sentence structure is consistent with the 2013 Twitter baseline and the informal register of sports commentary. Causal reasoning is accurate: personal foul penalty → Jets advance into field goal range → Jets win. No word-finding difficulties, no perseveration, no temporal confusion. Post is consistent with established early-Twitter-era baseline.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical footprint is minimal. Mild hyperbole ("That game was over") functions to heighten the dramatic quality of the comeback — a standard sports-narrative device. No propaganda techniques, no us-vs-them framing, no manipulative appeals. The evaluation of Tampa's play as "really dumb" is sports-fan vernacular, not psychological dehumanization. The post is essentially devoid of persuasion mechanics beyond enthusiastic sharing.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- 10:45 PM local EDT — late-evening posting fully consistent with authentic Trump pattern
- Opens with colloquial 'Also,' indicating continuation of live-stream commentary, not a composed standalone message
- Informal blunt evaluative phrasing: 'really dumb defensive play'
- Part of a sustained multi-game NFL live-tweeting session (5 surrounding posts same evening)
- Terminal 'Amazing.' matches Trump's documented 2013 vocabulary patterns

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (NFL Week 1 Sunday evening broadcast — Jets vs. Buccaneers)

Sentiment: +0.38

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 5%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Great comeback by the New York Jets

**TRUE**

Jets trailed Tampa Bay and won 18-17 on a last-second 48-yard Nick Folk field goal with 2 seconds remaining in regulation, capping a dramatic late-game comeback.

Sources: https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/330908020; https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201309080nyj.htm

> That game was over

**MOSTLY TRUE**

After Rian Lindell's field goal gave Tampa Bay a 17-16 lead with 38 seconds remaining, the Jets had essentially exhausted their options — until Lavonte David's penalty gifted them the winning field goal attempt. The characterization of the game as 'over' is hyperbolic but reflects the genuine improbability of the Jets' subsequent win.

Sources: https://www.bucsnation.com/2013/9/8/4707414/buccaneers-vs-jets-final-score-tampa-bay-loses-on-last-second-field

> A really dumb defensive play by Tampa

**TRUE**

Linebacker Lavonte David committed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty — an unnecessary shove of Geno Smith while he was already out of bounds — with 38 seconds remaining while Tampa Bay was leading. The 15-yard penalty advanced the Jets into field goal range and directly enabled the game-winning kick. The play was immediately and widely condemned as an inexplicable lapse of discipline.

Sources: https://www.bucsnation.com/2013/9/8/4707414/buccaneers-vs-jets-final-score-tampa-bay-loses-on-last-second-field; https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1766285-buccaneers-vs-jets-takeaways-from-tampa-bays-18-17-loss-to-new-york

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Tags

- authentic-trump (87%)
- sports-commentary (95%)
- nfl-week-1-2013 (90%)
- low-clinical-significance (92%)
- late-evening-local (85%)
- mild-positive (65%)
- baseline-consistent (88%)
- not-activated (90%)

## That day

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

**America First in Prototype: Syria Rejection and Proto-MAGA Language Surface on a Clinically Flat, Historically Significant Day of Fan Supply and NFL Commentary**

September 9, 2013 (spanning 8:05 PM EDT September 8 through 5:52 PM EDT September 9) presents a psychologically stable, uniformly grandiose day with no rage, no vulnerability, and no escalation across all 31 posts. The day's clinical signature is flat-line grandiosity maintained through three overlapping behavioral channels: narcissistic supply extraction from fan praise directed at the Trump brand and presidency speculation (x_376858785270468608 through x_376961765567123456), authentic high-authorship sports commentary functioning as social bonding during NFL Week 1 Sunday Night Football (x_376896522388254720 through x_376904593692950528), and politically substantive Syria opposition statements that constitute the day's only historically significant content. Average intensity across all posts (0.13) reflects the lowest observable maintenance-level functioning — this is a day without threats to self-image, without targets of rage, and without acute psychological events.

Posts x_377037314389966848 and x_377038618407493632, appearing in a 5-minute window at 7:54–7:59 AM EDT immediately following a Fox & Friends appearance, are the day's most clinically and historically notable content. These posts encode in prototype the full 'America First' ideological architecture: isolationism, populist anti-elitism, zero-sum national-interest calculus, structural empathy absence toward foreign civilian casualties, and the phrase 'strong and great again' — predating the formalized MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN slogan by approximately 21 months. With authorship confidence of 0.90 and 0.68 respectively, these posts represent genuine conviction rather than staff positioning. The September 2013 Syria crisis, at its peak congressional and media intensity, functioned as an organic political laboratory in which Trump tested isolationist messaging with a real-time mass audience from a celebrity bully pulpit — a significant longitudinal data point in the emergence of his political identity.

The afternoon and evening content (post-12:25 PM EDT) transitions almost entirely to low-authorship staff-managed promotional material — The View appearance recap, Trump SoHo hotel endorsement, charitable amplification, climate denial, and political commentary — with authorship scores as low as 0.08–0.35, consistent with Trump's known practice of delegating routine social media to staff during business hours. A mildly anomalous posting cluster at 2:47–2:54 AM EDT, sandwiched between a 3.5-hour gap from prior activity and a ~3.4-hour window before an early Fox & Friends announcement, suggests fragmented sleep but falls well short of a clinical hypomanic threshold. The day registers zero danger across all posts, presents no internal contradictions, and reveals no cognitive deviation from the 2013 baseline. Its primary clinical interest is longitudinal rather than acute: the proto-political identity formation visible in embryo on this day would become explicit electoral strategy within 24 months.

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

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 9). Also, great comeback by the New York Jets. That... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_376899188837347328
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Also, great comeback by the New York Jets. That game was..." X (Twitter), 9 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_376899188837347328. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Also, great comeback by the New York Jets. That game was...," X (Twitter), September 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_376899188837347328.

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