# Post x_377635513051922433

- Post ID: `x_377635513051922433`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-11T03:31:37.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Wow, Eliot Spitzer has lost - great news for New York City!

## Engagement

- Likes: 100
- Reposts: 140
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T08:55:44.803Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A brief but psychologically revealing late-night post capturing Trump's unguarded schadenfreude at Eliot Spitzer's defeat in the 2013 NYC Comptroller primary. Posted at 11:31 PM EDT on election night — within the authentic Trump posting window — the text displays the characteristic rationalization move of converting private pleasure at an enemy's fall ("Wow... great news") into ostensible civic concern ("for New York City"). This is ego-syntonic satisfaction expressed without hedging or self-awareness. The post reflects mild-to-moderate narcissistic features — specifically the grandiosity of appointing oneself arbiter of what benefits an entire city — and mild ego-syntonic sadism, with rival's defeat serving as uncomplicated narcissistic supply. No injury trigger is present; this is the comfortable, savoring variant rather than rage. Contextually notable: the post arrives on September 11, a date of national mourning, with no acknowledged incongruity — the affective indifference to the solemn occasion is consistent with the controversial "haters and losers" 9/11 tweet posted earlier that same day. The post does not deviate markedly from Trump's 2013 baseline but reinforces the longitudinal pattern of enemy-defeat celebrations and rationalized civic framing that appears consistently across his public communications.

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** UTC 03:31:37 converts to **11:31 PM EDT on September 10, 2013** (New York City, Trump's home base). This falls squarely in the authentic Trump posting window (10 PM–6 AM local time). Election results for the NYC Comptroller Democratic primary were coming in live on the evening of September 10, making this a reactive, real-time response to unfolding news.

The post exhibits all hallmarks of authentic Trump: the exclamatory opener ("Wow"), emotional brevity, the absence of any formal grammar complexity, and the personal investment in New York City political dynamics. No aide would frame a municipal primary result this way. **Verdict: High confidence authentic.**

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## Contextual Background

Eliot Spitzer, former New York Attorney General (1998–2006) and Governor (2007–2008), resigned from the governorship in March 2008 following exposure of his patronage of a high-priced prostitution ring. In 2013 he mounted a political comeback bid for NYC Comptroller. He lost the Democratic primary to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by approximately 4 percentage points (52–48%), with results trickling in on the night of September 10.

Trump's contempt for Spitzer predates this post and appears contextually rooted in Spitzer's role as a scourge of the New York financial establishment during his AG years — a constituency Trump identifies with. Trump subsequently invoked Spitzer as a benchmark of disgrace (e.g., comparing NY AG Eric Schneiderman to "Spitzer or Weiner"). This post should be understood against that backdrop of deep class and cultural contempt rather than any documented direct personal conflict.

**Critical contextual note:** This post was published on **September 11**, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks, at nearly midnight. Trump had already posted a widely criticized "haters and losers" 9/11 tweet earlier that day. The celebratory, politically partisan framing of this Spitzer post — on a date of national mourning — is contextually incongruous and reflects the affective indifference to solemn norms that characterizes several posts from this same evening.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Salience | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Extraversion** | High | Public emotional declaration; assertive framing of civic judgment |
| **Agreeableness** | Very Low | Open celebration of rival's defeat; zero modulation or compassion |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low | Impulsive, reactive; zero contextual sensitivity to the date |
| **Neuroticism** | Mild-Moderate | Hostile affect toward Spitzer, but expressed from grandiose rather than anxious position |
| **Openness** | Low | Binary win/lose worldview; no nuance acknowledged |

**Dominant facet:** Low agreeableness / hostile assertiveness. The post is structured as a verdict delivered from a position of superiority.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate completely.** The post is organized around power, status, and the satisfying resolution of a status contest. Spitzer represents not just a political opponent but a class of New York figure — moralistic, once-powerful, now-disgraced — whose failure Trump derives visible pleasure from.

**Communion motives:** Absent. There is no warmth, no acknowledgment of shared experience with any group.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *World schema:* Divided sharply into winners and losers; losers who attempted comebacks deserve double rejection.
- *Self schema:* Trump as legitimate arbiter of who belongs in New York City's civic life.
- *Other schema:* Spitzer as emblematic of the hypocritical elite whose moral failures invalidate their public aspirations.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Civic sentinel and cultural gatekeeper — the one who voices what "New York City" already knows.
- **Contrasting other:** Spitzer — the fallen moralist, the scandal-tainted would-be-returner, the personification of elite hypocrisy.
- **Narrative sequence (applied to Spitzer):** Classic contamination arc — powerful AG/Governor → shameful exposure → audacious comeback attempt → second public rejection. Trump is narrating Spitzer's contamination sequence with visible satisfaction.
- **Identity claims:** "I speak for New York City. I know what's good for it. This is my verdict."
- **Mythological resonance:** The fallen king who dared return; Trump as the crowd that denies re-entry.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Components

**A. Narcissistic features (mild-moderate, 0.42):**
Grandiosity is present in the claim to speak for "New York City" as a whole — Trump positions himself as arbiter of collective civic benefit. The entitlement to render and broadcast this verdict publicly, without qualification, reflects the characteristically narcissistic conflation of personal feeling with universal truth.

**B. Antisocial features (minimal, 0.08):**
No deceitfulness or rule-violation evident here.

**C. Paranoid features (absent, 0.04):**
None. This is a grandiose, not a threatened, post.

**D. Ego-syntonic sadism (mild, 0.35):**
The pleasure in Spitzer's defeat is unmodulated, public, and unashamed. "Great news" does not hedge or acknowledge complexity — it broadcasts satisfaction. This is the comfortable, satisfied variant of schadenfreude that functions as dominance display: the rival has fallen; I am pleased; I say so openly. The ego-syntonic character is clinically notable — there is no apparent awareness that public celebration of another's political defeat requires any justification.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Opportunistic supply event — a rival's public defeat provides narcissistic gratification without Trump needing to act. Enemy's failure as gift.

**State:** Grandiose. Expansive, satisfied, dominant. No vulnerability markers present.

**Rage:** Absent. This is the comfortable, savoring variant — contempt without urgency. The post lacks the compressed aggression of injury-triggered rage posts; it is leisurely.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Rationalization (neurotic level):** The core move of "great news for New York City" converts a private schadenfreude response into an ostensible expression of civic concern. Trump's pleasure is real and primary; the civic framing is the rationalization — it provides a morally acceptable wrapper for the enjoyment of an enemy's defeat. This is a characteristic and consistent Trump rhetorical pattern.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices employed:**
- **Hyperbole:** Characterizing a municipal primary result as "great news for New York City" overstates the civic significance while signaling personal satisfaction.
- **False consensus / in-group appeal:** "New York City" as implicit collectivity — Trump speaks for the city, inviting followers to align with his verdict as the city's verdict.
- **Public schadenfreude as solidarity builder:** Broadcasting the pleasure of an enemy's defeat functions to consolidate in-group identity among those who share the antipathy toward Spitzer.
- **Exclamatory register:** "Wow" and the closing exclamation point signal emotional authenticity and invite contagious affect.

**No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.**

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## Cognitive Status Assessment

The post is brief and syntactically simple. This is fully consistent with Trump's 2013 Twitter baseline — punchy, reactive, minimal subordinate clauses. No word-finding difficulties, no tangentiality, no temporal confusion. Complexity is low by design, not disability. **No deviation from period baseline. No clinical markers.**

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Eliot Spitzer has lost" | **True** | Spitzer lost the NYC Democratic Comptroller primary to Scott Stringer approximately 52–48% on September 10, 2013. Results were coming in on election night when this post was made. |
| "great news for New York City" | **Unverifiable** | Value judgment and opinion; public reaction was mixed. Stringer went on to serve two terms as Comptroller. Whether the outcome was categorically 'great news' is not a falsifiable claim. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Longitudinal Context

The surrounding posts from this same day reveal Trump engaged in extended, multi-tweet Syria/foreign policy commentary — complete argument sequences, conditional reasoning ("may have given him an out"), engagement with retweets. The cognitive register across all September 10–11 posts is consistent. The Spitzer tweet is an interlude of personal satisfaction embedded in a sustained news-cycle response session — a characteristic pattern of Trump's 2013 Twitter usage, mixing political commentary with personal score-settling in real time.

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** Political commentary celebrating an electoral result. No eliminationist language, no target identification, no implied action, no dehumanization.

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## Sources

- [Eliot Spitzer Loses To Scott Stringer In NYC Comptroller Race | HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/eliot-spitzer-scott-stringer-nyc-comptroller_n_3894238.html)
- [Scott Stringer defeats Eliot Spitzer in New York City comptroller race | ABC7](https://abc7chicago.com/archive/9241413/)
- [Trump called AG Schneiderman 'worse than Spitzer or Weiner' | TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/that-time-when-trump-called-eric-schneiderman-worse-than-spitzer-or-weiner/)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- 11:31 PM EDT posting — squarely in authentic late-night window
- Exclamatory opener ('Wow') characteristic of reactive authentic posts
- Extreme brevity with emotional punctuation (exclamation point)
- Personal investment in NYC political dynamics
- Stream-of-consciousness reactive framing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Eliot Spitzer's electoral defeat)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 42%
- Antisocial: 8%
- Paranoid: 4%
- Sadism: 35%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- false consensus construction (speaking for 'New York City')
- public schadenfreude as in-group solidarity building
- contagious affect via exclamatory register

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Eliot Spitzer has lost

**TRUE**

Spitzer lost the NYC Democratic Comptroller primary to Scott Stringer approximately 52–48% on September 10, 2013. Results were coming in on election night when this post was made.

Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/eliot-spitzer-scott-stringer-nyc-comptroller_n_3894238.html; https://abc7chicago.com/archive/9241413/

> great news for New York City

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Value judgment and opinion; public reaction was mixed. Stringer went on to serve two terms as Comptroller. Whether the outcome was categorically 'great news' is not a falsifiable claim.

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- schadenfreude (92%)
- ego-syntonic sadism (68%)
- rationalization (78%)
- grandiose state (65%)
- authentic Trump (92%)
- late-night post (88%)
- NYC politics (85%)
- enemy defeat as supply (80%)
- false consensus (72%)
- 9/11 anniversary incongruity (60%)

## That day

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

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Trump Celebrates Political Enemies' Defeats, Praises Putin, and Targets His Own Investigator**

Trump spent the 12th anniversary of September 11 live-tweeting Obama's Syria speech, celebrating the primary defeats of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, and launching repeated attacks on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — who had just sued him over Trump University. Genuine 9/11 commemoration was minimal and arrived late in the day, sandwiched between political score-settling and relentless fan engagement. The mood was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory, with Trump casting himself as a lone prophetic voice who predicted his enemies' downfalls. A sustained thread of anger surfaced in attacks on Schneiderman, whom he called a crook, a lightweight, and predicted would be next to fall — transparently retaliating against the man investigating his business.

Full digest for 2013-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 11). Wow, Eliot Spitzer has lost - great news for New... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_377635513051922433
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, Eliot Spitzer has lost - great news for New York City!" X (Twitter), 11 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377635513051922433. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, Eliot Spitzer has lost - great news for New York City!," X (Twitter), September 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377635513051922433.

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