# Post x_377646458872553473 - Post ID: `x_377646458872553473` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-11T04:15:06.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_377646458872553473 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_377646458872553473/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_377646458872553473.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Thank you to all of my Twitter followers for helping to defeat Weiner and Spitzer. Remember, in the beginning they said it couldn't be done! ## Engagement - Likes: 167 - Reposts: 132 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T09:07:59.147Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Victory-lap post following the September 10, 2013 defeats of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer in their respective NYC Democratic primaries. Posted at 12:15 AM local time, consistent with authentic late-night Trump authorship. The post is a textbook illustration of grandiose narcissistic supply-seeking: claiming disproportionate causal credit for electoral outcomes primarily driven by each candidate's own prior scandals, and positioning himself as a vindicated lone voice who succeeded where skeptics predicted failure. The "they said it couldn't be done" construction is among Trump's most durable narrative templates — the against-all-odds underdog arc that recurs throughout his communications as a core identity structure. Defense mechanisms include pathological distortion (overstating causal agency) and rationalization. Parasocial follower engagement functions to bind the audience to his victory narrative while reinforcing their identity as members of a powerful political collective. Contextually notable: posted on the 9/11 anniversary without any acknowledgment of the date's significance, on the same day Trump posted a separate 9/11 tweet widely criticized for its "haters and losers" framing — suggesting systematic prioritization of self-celebration over situational propriety. No danger indicators present. Cognitively unremarkable. Clinically significant as a clean baseline specimen of the grandiose supply-acquisition mode — the narcissistic system in reward state, uncomplicated by injury, rage, or vulnerability. ## Authorship Attribution Posted at **04:15 UTC = 12:15 AM EDT** (New York City, Trump Tower). Late-night posting is a strong marker of authentic Trump authorship. The style — gratitude fused with grandiose self-credit, casual two-sentence rhythm, the characteristic "they said it couldn't be done" underdog framing — is inconsistent with aide-written communications, which trend toward business hours, event announcements, and polished prose. **Confidence: High (authentic Trump).** --- ## Contextual Background On September 10, 2013, Anthony Weiner finished a distant fifth in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary (4.9% of the vote), and Eliot Spitzer lost the NYC Democratic comptroller primary narrowly to Scott Stringer (48%-52%). Both were figures undone primarily by their own conduct: Weiner's second sexting scandal under the alias "Carlos Danger" erupted in July 2013; Spitzer had resigned from the governorship over a prostitution scandal in 2008. Trump had been publicly and vocally opposing both campaigns. This post is a late-night victory lap. Critically, this post was made on the **12th anniversary of September 11, 2001**. The complete absence of any acknowledgment of the date — while posting a self-congratulatory victory tweet about political opponents — reflects either low situational awareness or a deliberate prioritization of supply-acquisition over contextual propriety. Known events confirm Trump also posted a separate, widely criticized 9/11 tweet that same day invoking "haters and losers." --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (High):** Assertive public credit-claiming; openly dominant and celebratory framing. - **Agreeableness (Very Low):** Zero-sum "defeat" framing; opponents are adversaries to be overcome, not simply candidates who lost. - **Conscientiousness (Low):** Late-night impulsive posting with no deliberation evident; no recognition of the 9/11 context despite having tweeted about the date earlier that same day. - **Neuroticism (Low, in this instance):** Triumphant rather than defensive — narcissistic supply is being received, not threatened. - **Openness (Low):** Rigid, familiar narrative template recycled across Trump communications. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Dominant motive: Power/Status.** The explicit claim that his Twitter following *helped defeat* sitting political candidates is an assertion of concrete electoral power — the ability to mobilize a constituency to change outcomes. This is not a peripheral assertion; it is the post's entire purpose. **Secondary motive: Validation.** Thanking followers superficially gestures toward communion but functions primarily to bind them to *his* victories — casting them as instruments of his efficacy and deepening their parasocial investment. **Schema:** The world divides into those who doubted Trump and those vindicated by events. External outcomes serve as retrospective proof of Trump's superior judgment. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Vindicated lone voice / political kingmaker. Trump casts himself as someone who *fought* against conventional wisdom (the unnamed "they"), succeeded where skeptics predicted failure, and now leads a powerful constituency capable of toppling disgraced figures who attempted political rehabilitation. **Narrative sequence: Redemption.** The arc is classical — initial skepticism → Trump persists → opposition defeated → vindication. "In the beginning" performs significant narrative work, constructing a temporal struggle with Trump as the persistent actor who saw what others could not. **Identity claims:** - *I am a political force capable of materially influencing elections.* - *I lead a powerful constituency that achieves what experts declare impossible.* - *I was prescient when conventional wisdom was wrong.* **Contrasting other:** The unnamed "they" — skeptics, political establishment, conventional wisdom — who said the defeats couldn't be achieved. This is a structurally recurring element: Trump defines himself against unnamed, unspecified doubters, ensuring the foil can never rebut. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) - **Narcissistic features (Moderate-High, 0.62):** Grandiose attribution of causal agency for complex multi-factor electoral outcomes is textbook grandiose distortion. Both candidates' losses were primarily driven by their own conduct; Trump's public opposition was contributory at most. The overclaiming is disproportionate. - **Antisocial features (Low, 0.08):** No deception or rule-violation evident in this post. - **Paranoid features (Low, 0.05):** No persecution or suspicion markers. - **Sadism (Low, 0.12):** The "defeat" framing carries minor adversarial pleasure, but there is no dwelling on suffering — this is primarily a victory celebration, not a cruelty display. ### Trigger Analysis External validating event (election results aligned with publicly stated positions). This is the narcissistic system in **reward/supply-acquisition mode** — not injury-reactive. The trigger is positive external confirmation, not threat. ### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose** Expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. No vulnerability markers. Classic supply-acquisition post. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (Pathological):** Claims Twitter followers "helped defeat" both candidates, dramatically overstating causal contribution. Weiner's collapse was driven by fresh "Carlos Danger" revelations; Spitzer's narrow loss reflected residual scandal damage and voter ambivalence — neither outcome primarily caused by Trump's Twitter campaign. 2. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Constructs a clean causal narrative ("I fought → they lost") around messy, multi-factor political outcomes to claim personal efficacy. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Parasocial bond activation:** "Thank you to all of my Twitter followers" — followers are not merely addressed but positioned as *co-agents* in a shared political project, deepening identification and investment. - **Collective victory framing:** "Helping to defeat" — the victory is nominally shared, reinforcing in-group solidarity and making each follower feel personally effective. - **Underdog triumph narrative:** "In the beginning they said it couldn't be done" — one of Trump's most durable rhetorical structures, generating emotional resonance through the against-all-odds arc with universal psychological appeal. - **Vague antagonist construction:** "They said" — no specific attribution, allowing each listener to project their own doubters and establishment figures onto the foil. - **Hyperbole / Credit overclaiming:** The causal attribution to his personal campaign is dramatically inflated relative to plausible actual contribution. No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators present. --- ## Cognitive Status No significant markers. Two-sentence post, simple syntax, coherent and targeted. Vocabulary accessible but not impoverished. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, perseveration, or confabulation. Minor orthographic inconsistency across same-day posts: this post spells "Weiner" correctly; a prior post in the thread uses "Wiener" — a common confusion given the name, not clinically significant. Complexity appropriate to the platform and post type. --- ## Jungian Archetype Analysis **Primary: Hero/Kingmaker.** Trump positions himself as the actor who waged a campaign others deemed impossible, succeeding through force of will and loyal following. **Secondary: Trickster.** The implicit claim that an entertainer-businessman's Twitter following toppled two major-party Democratic candidates carries the Trickster's signature — power flowing through unorthodox channels, disrupting the expected political order. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Order Restoration.** Disgraced politicians who attempted to return to power have been defeated; natural moral order has been restored. Trump positions himself as the instrument of restoration — not a chaos agent in this post, but an enforcer of proper hierarchical outcomes (the unworthy cast back down). --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No threatening language, dehumanization, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. A victory lap with no actionable threat content. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Weiner has lost" | **True** | Anthony Weiner finished fifth in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary on September 10, 2013, with 4.9% of the vote (34,192 votes), behind de Blasio, Thompson, Quinn, and Liu. His campaign had collapsed following fresh sexting revelations under the alias 'Carlos Danger' in July 2013. | | "Spitzer has lost" | **True** | Eliot Spitzer lost the NYC Democratic comptroller primary to Scott Stringer 48%-52% on September 10, 2013. Spitzer had entered the race late (July 2013) and initially led polls before narrowing into a close race. | | "Trump's Twitter followers helped defeat Weiner and Spitzer" | **Mostly False** | Weiner's primary collapse was overwhelmingly driven by the 'Carlos Danger' sexting revelations in July 2013, which caused his polling to crater from frontrunner to single digits. Spitzer's loss reflected persistent voter wariness about his prostitution scandal rehabilitation. Trump's public opposition may have contributed marginally to anti-Spitzer sentiment among some voters but cannot plausibly be characterized as a primary causal factor in either result. | | "In the beginning they said it couldn't be done" | **Unverifiable** | Sufficiently vague that it cannot be specifically verified. Some public skepticism about both candidates' attempted rehabilitations was documented, but 'they' is unspecified and the claim cannot be tested against a defined referent. | Overall Veracity: 68% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 83%) ### Indicators - Posted at 12:15 AM EDT — consistent with late-night authentic Trump posting pattern - Characteristic 'they said it couldn't be done' underdog framing is a documented Trump rhetorical signature - Gratitude-fused-with-self-aggrandizement style inconsistent with aide-written content - Short punchy two-sentence structure without professional polish - Credit overclaiming for complex political outcomes — no aide would frame a victory tweet in this register ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (NYC Democratic primary results — Weiner finished fifth (4.9%), Spitzer lost to Stringer (48%-52%)) Sentiment: +0.73 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Late-night posting (12:15 AM local time) - Expansive self-credit claiming for distal political outcomes - Elevated celebratory affect on 9/11 anniversary without contextual modulation ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 62% - Antisocial: 8% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 12% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 27% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct follower address and gratitude ('Thank you to all of my Twitter followers') - Collective agency framing ('helping to defeat') — assigns followers co-ownership of the victory - Shared underdog narrative binds followers to Trump's self-story as vindicated outsiders who defeated the unworthy ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Weiner has lost **TRUE** Anthony Weiner finished fifth in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary on September 10, 2013, with 4.9% of the vote (34,192 votes), behind de Blasio, Thompson, Quinn, and Liu. His campaign had collapsed following fresh sexting revelations under the alias 'Carlos Danger' in July 2013. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_New_York_City_mayoral_election; https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/politics/nyc-mayoral-primary > Spitzer has lost **TRUE** Eliot Spitzer lost the NYC Democratic comptroller primary to Scott Stringer 48%-52% on September 10, 2013. Spitzer had entered the race late (July 2013) and initially led polls before narrowing into a close race. Sources: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/eliot-spitzer-scott-stringer-nyc-comptroller_n_3894238.html > Trump's Twitter followers helped defeat Weiner and Spitzer **MOSTLY FALSE** Weiner's primary collapse was overwhelmingly driven by the 'Carlos Danger' sexting revelations in July 2013, which caused his polling to crater from frontrunner to single digits. Spitzer's loss reflected persistent voter wariness about his prostitution scandal rehabilitation. Trump's public opposition may have contributed marginally to anti-Spitzer sentiment among some voters but cannot plausibly be characterized as a primary causal factor in either result. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandals; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer > In the beginning they said it couldn't be done **UNVERIFIABLE** Sufficiently vague that it cannot be specifically verified. Some public skepticism about both candidates' attempted rehabilitations was documented, but 'they' is unspecified and the claim cannot be tested against a defined referent. Overall Veracity: 68% ## Tags - narcissistic-supply-seeking (88%) - grandiosity (78%) - credit-overclaiming (84%) - underdog-vindication-template (82%) - parasocial-bonding (74%) - late-night-authentic (83%) - victory-lap (92%) - 9-11-anniversary-context (65%) - political-influence-overclaim (80%) - grandiose-state (75%) ## 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). Thank you to all of my Twitter followers for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_377646458872553473 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you to all of my Twitter followers for helping to..." X (Twitter), 11 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377646458872553473. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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